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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Major yn Englisshe: • focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge • research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet • meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir • it ys awesome • books!

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

And I always thought they called it an X-wing because of the shape

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Remember: if it’s in the Midwest, it’s New Jefst!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates. Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire. You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My “I did not shoot the deputy” t-shirt…

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

That’s exactly what the heavily indebted children will do. Which also solves the problem of caring for the elderly. Win-win!

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LastQuake @lastquake.emsc.eu · 01/07/2025

#Earthquake (#sismo) possibly felt 26 sec ago in #California. Felt it? Tell us via: 📱https://m.emsc.eu/#app 🌐https://m.emsc.eu 🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org ⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I took a picture of this cat on the job, patrolling a neighborhood park

A brown cat with stripes outlined by the sun (not visible), sitting outside on tanbark next to a shed

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

You grew up in a Hunter S. Thompson book?

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 14/05/2025

The bar is high, but this might be the most batshit insane thing I’ve ever seen in the AWS documentation. “To find the address of the facility, google it.”

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Terminal facility physical address

The physical address for the Data Transfer Terminal facility will not be provided. Instead, the Process owner and Data transfer specialists specified in the reservation will receive an email with the searchable public name of the Data Transfer Terminal facility. AWS Data Transfer Terminal uses the same location identification system as AWS Direct Connect so you can search for the public name on the internet to locate the Data Transfer Terminal facility. If you do not have an email with this information, confirm with your AWS Data Transfer Terminal account manager that you are included in the Transfer team and that your email information is correct.

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

They’re definitely big! Taken today at Yellowstone, from behind a fence as a group of them lounged by one of the hot pools.

A bison sitting on dirt, body facing away from the viewer but head turned to look back at the viewer. It’s a very large animal.

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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her. tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Yes, this is all about phones and the vices they supposedly inculcate, and has nothing to do with the fact that K-12 education has been forced to teach to tests for decades and constant messaging that the humanities are useless indulgences.

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 26/03/2025

Nobody who thinks empathy is a weakness should be a parent, or go anywhere near government

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“We can’t even do some eugenics for tax reasons” is certainly a take.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

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Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library

The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 26/01/2025

America has plenty of territory and the urge to empire is maybe the most reprehensible urge there is, the provence of wretched men who mistakenly fancy themselves magnificent. Those who desire conquest should be condemned and shamed.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 25/01/2025

It's not that money is bad, it's that it should not accumulate in stagnant pools and it must not be allowed to control the means of production or levers of government, because then it becomes a high score in a game where the points are also the cards you play.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 20/01/2025

When I look at the fear this man thrives on. What he wants to project and sow onto so many. The fear and anger that his supporters want to sow into everyone, I immediately relax. They want fear. More fear. Fear keeps people under control. And I won’t be under their control

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Flo Mask @flomask.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Every superhero has an origin story. Designing a better mask due to California wildfires was ours. Today, we're supporting our community in SoCal by offering @flomask.bsky.social at cost with discount code CaliStrong30. Please help us spread the word.

Image of adult and kids Flo Masks with the line "Supporting our Community 30% off Discount Code CaliStrong30"

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🧵On the Broligarchs' Hostile Takeover of the US Government And why this is the logical endpoint of 40+ years of marinating American minds in the anti-democratic dogma of "everything should be run like a business." We're citizens, not customers; firms exist to produce profits, not public goods.1/x

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Pitch Black Manor @pitchblackmanor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Not gonna be sharing any "wraps" for the years but we will share our Bandcamp. This is where it matters. This is where bands benefit. This is where fan support counts. The only streams that matter are the streams of dollars that directly flow to the artists. Wrap that! pitchblackmanor.bandcamp.com

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Pitch Black Manor

Reanimated after 25 years. We're the right creeps for you! Merch: pitch-black-manor.creator-spring.com/

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I wrote about the societal diseases of billionairism and narcissism that our country is suffering to a terminal degree, the reasons why building communities is the most effective treatment for it, and what that means for The Reframe. www.the-reframe.com/we-cant-affo...

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We Can't Afford Billionaires

Fighting back against a grotesque perversion of our shared humanity; doing so by building community in a nation built to accommodate community-destroying narcissists. Read to the end for an invitation...

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 13/11/2024

I’ve been saying this since forever! Running from values and abandoning the most vulnerable in our communities won’t be the win folks try to paint it to be. If this election taught us nothing else, it should be this. Lean into values harder!

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Jared Hutchins @pablohutch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization." This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This was the motto of every allegedly responsible institution in this nation when confronted with the task of applying the clear rule of law to Trump for the past eight years.

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Because “Manifest Destiny” just sounds cooler and less judgy?

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Neal @nealkaplan.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Just imagine the bidding war for that last potato

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 23/10/2024

I have long thought that these elections will answer an old question: does democracy serve people or billionaires? I fear that we are already stuck, on a global scale, in a dystopia that sci-fi has already warned us about many times. My kids deserve better. I deserve better.

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