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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19h

If you’ve never seen a SPENCER TRACY movie, this John Sturges classic is a great starting point. BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A baby giraffe's first zoomies are just what I needed to see tonight. I hope it brings you joy, too.

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Jeff Kelley @jeff-a-kelley.bsky.social · 18h

On this day in 1919 was born the amazing Donald Pleasence. Donald was an English actor who began his career on stage in the West End before moving to film and television. He was in classics such as The Great Escape (1963), You Only Live Twice (1967), and Halloween (1978). #OnThisDay #botd

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 19h

57 years ago today, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam changed comedy forever with the BBC debut of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

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ajmpol #FBPE @ajmpolite.bsky.social · 22h

“Brexit has done immense harm and absolutely no good”would have been nearer the mark. #Brexit #Burnham

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 05/10/2026

A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today

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A plaque honouring a Polish man who devised a scheme that provided relief to 200,000 children during the Great Famine will be unveiled in Glenties, Co Donegal later today.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's how it's done 👇

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 21h

My morning wander starts in Manchester Cathedral, one of the best of the medieval collegiate churches later given Cathedral status, I think.

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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Proud to cast my ballot today using a drop box at Burbank, CA City Hall for Dems up & down the ballot! Don’t delay! Early vote safely & securely! I recommend voting by drop box. Posting my ballot as a resource! Make your voice heard by voting! This is how we fight back against the corrupt Trump/GOP!

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 22h

The book is Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett. His description here perfectly prefigures the recruitment process for ICE agents :

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026

Last week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani stands in a sukkah with Brad Landwr under warm lights and strings of pomegranates.

Mayor Mamdani and Asm Claire Valdez and Sen Jabari Brisport join New Yorkers for Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani visits New Yorkers for Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani sits in a sukkah with New Yorkers.

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Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The world premiere of Blazing Saddles (1974) took place at Pickwick Drive-In Theater, Burbank, CA. All 250 invited guests, including Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, watched Mel Brooks' beloved film on horseback.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Engineer, pilot & European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot is the first French woman to conduct a spacewalk, 47 days ago. #WorldSpaceWeek 🚀 The lead astronaut for the ESA Epsilon mission, which launched to the ISS in Feb 2026 & is scheduled to return to Earth this week. #WomenInSTEM #France

Split-image composition with two distinct photographs showcasing French engineer, military pilot, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot (born 1982), the first French woman to conduct a spacewalk. The image highlights her historic role in modern space exploration during the 2026 Epsilon mission. In the top photograph, a formal studio portrait frames Adenot from the chest up against a deep blue background. She looks directly into the camera with a bright, welcoming smile. She wears a bulky white Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, which features a circular European Space Agency (ESA) patch on the center console and a prominent French tricolor flag patch on her left shoulder. The French national flag is also visible on the far left of the frame. The bottom photograph captures a candid, action-oriented moment inside the International Space Station's Cupola module. Adenot is positioned horizontally in the microgravity environment, her long brown hair floating upward toward the station ceiling. Smiling enthusiastically, she holds a large professional camera equipped with a long telephoto lens up to her eye, pointing it out through one of the large windows. The curved pane of the window reveals a spectacular, bright view of the Earth's blue surface and swirling white clouds against the blackness of space. The background is filled with the intricate mechanical interior of the station, including brackets, labels, switches, and support gear.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 17h

#Poetry #Art #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 16h

Physical chemist Ruth Benerito died #OTD in 2013. She pioneered a key chemical process, cross-linking, which led to wrinkle-resistant cotton fabrics. It transformed the cotton industry & helped save it from competition w/synthetic fibers. #WomenInSTEM She held >50 patents. #inventor

Color photograph of scientist Ruth Benerito in a chemistry laboratory. She is an older woman with curly white hair, wearing large round gold-framed glasses, subtle makeup, small black earrings, a silver ring, and a light blue lab coat over a collared shirt. She sits or stands thoughtfully with her chin resting on her hand, gazing slightly off-camera with a serious, contemplative expression. Behind and beside her is complex scientific glassware apparatus, including a round-bottom flask labeled "BUCHI PLASTIC-GLAS," green-tinted tubing, a distillation setup with clamps, connectors, and other lab equipment mounted on stands. The background shows more blurred lab instrumentation, evoking a professional research environment at the USDA Southern Regional Research Center where she conducted her groundbreaking work on cotton chemistry.

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/04/0 Darrell suspected someone had once again slipped him a trick spoon with the concave side reversed.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21h

The first episode of seminal comedy series MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS (subtitled 'Whither Canada?') was broadcast just before 11pm 57yrs ago today.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not running to bow to a corporation. I'm not running to raise your utility rates or help them do it. I'm not running so that your premium goes up and everybody looks the other way. I'm running to fight for you.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17h

Vibrate a shallow pool at just the right frequency and the surface erupts into geometric Faraday waves, a resonance trick physicists have studied since 1831.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

📌It is absolutely appalling that OUR tax money is being used by the President of the United States to take to the airways to celebrate himself and attack US. This is clearly against the law, but what would you expect from a woman-attacking and America-attacking convicted felon?

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Corrine Conorino @suburbantimewaster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is my dog, Harley, who I am sad to say has now passed away at the age of sixteen. While I have had dogs before her, she was the first dog who was truly mine. She loved me fiercely, she was very protective and, while she could be high strung, her heart was always in the right place. RIP Harley.

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Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I took my mom out to lunch today, to a restaurant I'd really been wanting to take her to for a few years now, it's so Topanga Canyon-y. It was nice. She liked it. Within half an hour of leaving the house, she didn't remember that she lives with me and has for four years. Totally new information.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Slander is spoken; libel is written. But this isn't either of those. It's detailed reporting from a respected outlet with damning evidence. And "most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history" is as impressive as "shortest NBA player from Luxembourg"

Speaking on behalf of Lutnick, the White House said: "The BBC's pathetic and desperate attempt to slander Secretary Lutnick will do nothing to change the fact that he has been the most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history."

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Ade Turner @adesturner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From last night, M27 the Dumbell Nebula. Taken from my garden under the light polluted skies of Wolverhampton. That’s 53x3 minute images welded together. I need around 5 hours more to bring out finer details 😁

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#ResistanceRoots Henrietta Lacks died on this day in 1951 in Baltimore, Md. She only became well-known for what she contributed after her death. However, she deserves to be remembered as a beautiful young mother who was much more than her immortalized human cell line used in medical research. /1

Henrietta Lacks, ca. late 1940s. Lacks is the unwitting mother of modern medical research whose exploitation forced the world to reinvent medical ethics. As the source of the HeLa cell line, she unknowingly gave humanity its first “immortal” human cells, enabling medical advances that have touched millions of lives worldwide. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is the stark reality of paternalistic, Jim Crow-era medicine, where a poor Black woman’s body could be harvested without her knowledge or informed consent. For decades, Henrietta was reduced to an anonymous laboratory code. Today, her descendants, artists and global communities have fought to ensure she is remembered as a person. Her final resting place is marked with a granite headstone honoring her not just as a medical miracle, but as a mother who loved to cook, wear bright red lipstick, and take care of her family.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste. We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.

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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 18h

Hey maggots 💥🙄

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ru1g.bsky.social @ru1g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Voting prevents unwanted presidencies" Photo: Concord, CA-October 3, 2026- Immigration court demonstration. @indivisible.org @indivisresistcoco.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social bring-maureen-home.vercel.app

Photo: Concord, CA-October 3, 2026- Immigration court demonstration.

Community members gathered at the Federal Immigration Court location to raise awareness and support of those that have been wrongfully detained by ICE. The community also raised voices in opposition to unwarranted military actions as well as other unjust and violent acts by ICE and other federal government agencies. This event was organized by Indivisible Resisters Contra Costa, a grassroots, nonpartisan group advocating for policies to support immigration reform, campaign finance reform, universal healthcare, racial justice, and to protect our environment.

Come join us next week and make your voice heard!
Check @indivisresistcoco.bsky.social‬ or https://indivisibleresisters.org for additional information.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jack Nicholson & William Shatner in a 1966 episode of “Dr. Kildare.”

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(Debbie)🐕🐈🐘🐼☕️🎶⚖️🌊 @felicianmitzi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some of us were barely t women Some of us told someone Some of us were quiet Some were told we were lying Some were told to forget about it and smile. I'm Jane Doe I'm the woman you don’t know I'm the girl who froze I'm the girl who said no I'm the one who spoke I'm every woman We're All Jane Doe

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 20h

"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero." via Amazing Maps

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Jennifer Kelly @jenpkelly.bsky.social · 18h

The important thing is that i made it to another Knicks season

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Keep The Republic 🏳️‍🌈 @keeptherepublic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the President’s Men is playing on Turner Classic Movies if anyone cares to revisit a nostalgic time in American history when the Constitution and the rule of law meant something. It’ll be followed tonight by The Manchurian Candidate. No further comment needed.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 19h

No matter how educated, talented, rich or important you believe you are, how you treat animals tells me everything I need to know about you.

Jinx the green eyed tabby bobtail displaying her glorious whiskers from her black Halloween blanket.

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