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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Me: Michaels sucks now, Joanne's is gone, ac Moore is gone, local art shop is gone. Where can I shop for art supplies now? Person: Hobby Lob- Me: I will make art from my own sinew and bones first.

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neotoma.bsky.social @neotoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve seen this before, but Hegdeth’s remake is terrible.

Charlie Chaplin as Hynkel in The Great Dictator

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Weirdy the Sad Bisexual Cat Dad @weirdybeardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People like making music, and they like listening to music that has been made by people who like making music. Encountering people who don't understand this always feels like the cognitive equivalent of walking into a lamppost

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Aaron Hedge @aaronhedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧵 I don’t think I’ve ever come across documents that told a story about cops covering their tracks so clearly before. The text messages below tell the story better than any exposition. They sent most of these messages less than a day after they’d killed a man in a mental health crisis with AR-15s.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/10/2026

I have never actually seen the original series and I feel like just sporadically catching these screenshots is the best possible way I could be experiencing it for the first time.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I found this video after my husband stepped on the rattlesnake and there are 100 reasons to watch it, not least because this scientist made a fake leg and foot to see what rattlers do when people step on them. Spoiler alert: they rarely strike. youtu.be/s_GtpGyChlw

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What happens if you step on a rattlesnake??

YouTube video by Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary

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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Kids just be doing shit

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Booksky Amazon is keeping the lion’s share of the cover price for THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT, which means our amazing authors get paid less and we get paid less (and have to wait 2 months for it), which is why we’re asking folks to buy direct! queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

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Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just call the later machine learning. AI is the slop machine, machine learning is the useful tools.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Y E S

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Single payer that covered luxury face bones (and eyes and ears) would remarkably both offload that cognitive load from households AND from employer HR. While reducing costs and providing a human right. No data scraping presumptuous sand required.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 01/10/2026

If the law is unjust, then disobeying the law is justice.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are TWO worlds in the solar system that have rivers. This is the other one. But that ain’t water!!! (Photo is black and white because it’s taken with radar. Visible light does not pass through Titan’s atmosphere in either direction).

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Cranky McCrankymom @marag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm glad I'd finished drinking my hot cocoa before reading this or my laptop would be extremely messy.

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fun story: the treasurer for Brenda Diaz’s campaign is one of the plaintiffs in Mahmoud v. Taylor. That’s right! Brenda hangs out with the people who sued MCPS over books with LGBTQ+ themes. And she wants to oversee our schools? Nope. Vote for Omar Lazo!

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026

This 💩 was wildly unpopular because girls can do math

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve noticed there seems to be a disconnect between what people understand Carney to be doing and what his policies actually do in practice. And I think I know why. Rather than telling you, I’m going to show you:

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Kat the Lore Mistress @loremistress93.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is exactly the news I’ve been hoping to hear about UKGE, kinda wish they’d announced it on their comms, but this just proves that change CAN happen if you shout loudly and proudly about something. 💛

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 24/09/2026

Of all the things that give me pause about ICE's draft ERO ONE statement of work, a section titled "Network, Link, and Relationship Analysis" is the most eyebrow-raising. I spent close to 20 years as an intel analyst. Here's what section 4.6 says and means, paragraph by paragraph.

Cover page of the ERO ONE statement of work. The Department of Homeland Security seal sits in the center, under the heading "U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)." Below the seal, three lines read: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)," "Office of Enforcement and Removal (ERO)," and "ERO Overwatch and National Security Enforcement (ERO ONE)."

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 23/09/2026

Email from @draft2digital.bsky.social actively promoting a Spotify offer to create slop audiobooks with AI voices. I do not want offers of slop trained on stolen work from a publishing service, and particularly not in an email that carefully says "digitally narrated" throughout, rather than AI.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

"my schedule controls now" is bars, this whole order is incredible

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Claire (derogatory) @clarissakickass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Next year will be 50 years since the Voyagers were launched. Think about that. 1970s technology still operating and they’re outside the solar system now. They both use tape recorders, for fuck’s sake. When they die, they probably won’t erode and vanish until after Earth is destroyed by the sun.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Undercaffeinated Eel @caffeinatedeel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I swear to God if you wrote all this shit into a book or movie people woildn't believe you.

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neotoma.bsky.social @neotoma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was this accompanied by the smell of chiles roasting nearby?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not asking you to change the world. Just make a grapefruit's worth of change.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

I've had a bunch of people ask "why aren't judges like this more often?" For reference, the judge's order filed on September 8th set forth a VERY STRICT schedule on these matters. (storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

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Order – #618 in Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney (S.D.N.Y., 2:22-cv-02435) – CourtListener.com

ORDER: The Court is in receipt of Defendants' reply in support of their motion for an award of attorneys' fees and costs, in which Defendants ask the Court to allow them to conduct limited discovery i...

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fundraiser for Scarleteen, which is still going strong after nearly 30 years of providing free “inclusive sex, health, identity, and relationships education” online. pro.gofundme.com/campaign/sca...

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Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK. I mentioned this before, won't belabor it, but this paragraph is art. I would wager a not-inconsiderable sum that Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Augustine, and Lon Chaney have never been cited in a single paragraph before. (And hopefully never will again.)

Plaintiff has sued Wizards for $10M because he believes he created and exclusively owns the
idea for a “wereshark” and that Wizards has infringed upon his creation. By way of relevant
background, lycanthropic monsters – werewolves and the like – have been found in folklore and
fiction since antiquity. Hundreds of years before the Common Era, Herodotus wrote of the Neuri, a
tribe northeast of Scythia that would reportedly transform into wolves for several days once a year.
Herodotus, The Histories, 4.105 (circa 440 BCE). Werewolves continued to appear in folklore from
antiquity through modern times, and across a wide range of cultures. See, e.g., Pausanias, Description of
Greece, 8.2 (circa 160-180 CE); Ovid, The Metamorphoses, I 219-239 (circa 8 CE); Pliny the Elder,
Natural History, VIII.34 (circa 77 CE); Augustine, The City of God, XVIII.17 (circa 426 CE); King
Canute, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, c. 26 (circa 1020 CE); Anonymous, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (circa
late 1100s) (Slavic folklore); Marie de France, Bisclavret (circa 1200); Völsungasaga, ch. 8 (circa 1250
CE) (Nordic folklore). Bram Stoker depicted Dracula as a werewolf in Dracula’s Guest. Werewolves
1 Plaintiff Lap-Sun Chan named “Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast LLC” as the Defendant, but Dungeons
and Dragons is a game published and owned by Wizards of the Coast, LLC, not a distinct entity.
2 See Chan v. Ramdhaney, Case No. 1:22-cv-03708 (S.D.N.Y 2022) 3 See Eng v. Podolnick, No. 1:14-cv-04675 (S.D.N.Y 2014) (dismissed for failure to comply with order requiring Plaintiff to
“file an amended complaint not containing the stricken portions or any other racist, anti-Semitic, or insulting language”).

came to the silver screen first in Werewolf of London (1935) and then Lon Chaney’s definitive
performance in The Wolf Man (1941), and have essentially never left it since. And animal
shapeshifting has not been limited to wolves. Greek mythology is replete with humans (or humanshaped gods) who transform into animals or monsters. In Tlingit folklore, Kóoshdaa are wereotters. Celtic mythology includes selkies (were-seals) and kelpies (shape-shifting water-horses that
live in lochs). DC Comics has featured numerous shark-human hybrids since its Silver Age,
including Guppy (a small-time criminal in Nightwing’s rogues’ gallery, first appearance in 2018),
King Shark (the son of a shark god and a human mother, first appearance in 1994), and Karshon (a
mutated shark, first appearance in Green Lantern 24, October 1963). Other examples abound.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This summer a series of unsigned, unattributed gold-plated reliefs appeared in...a newer Kennedy Center annex that is slated to remain open during the main building’s closure. The images depicted include Mr. Trump raising his fist after he survived a 2024 assassination attempt..."

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“no one wants to date you, the women who pretend to like you actually also hate you” haha

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026

And then she says: This shit was so rank that I'm gonna demand that the attorney who pulled this show cause why I shouldn't make him personally pay for the extra cost to re-depose Lynne Freeman.

Counsel for Ms. Freeman who attended the last session of her deposition must show
cause, within five business days, why he should not personally bear the cost of ( 1) the court
reporter's attendance at the deposition and the cost of the resulting transcript, and (2) the cost for
the attendance of two (2) attorneys for Defendants at said deposition, including the cost of travel,
if any.

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

San Diego Sun Saturday, August 01,1908

P1- MR. TRUE GOES OUT IN THE YARD TO SPEAK WITH HIS WIFE , WHO IS WATERING THE GRASS WITH A GARDEN HOSE

MR. TRUE:MRS. TRUE. CAN'T YOU STOP PLAYING WITH THAT HOSE LONG ENOUGH TO GET SOME SUPPER ON THE TABLE?"
EVERY EVENING YOU ---

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MRS.TRUE :IF IT'S PLAY WHY DON'T YOU SPRINKLE THE LAWN WHEN I ASK YOU TO. INSTEAD OF BARKING LIKE A SEA LION ?" PLAY! PLAY! YES.! TAG." YOU'RE IT!!
MRS. TRUE TURNS THE GARDEN HOSE ON MR. TRUE,SOAKING HIM COMPLETELY

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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A member of the Braves Triple-A affiliate, the Gwinnett Stripers, rescued a kitten from traffic in late August, and the team called on fans to help name the cute kitty. ChipPurr Jones was the runaway answer and the kitten (with the help of treats) threw out the first pitch

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

49 years ago, on the 18th of September 1977, space probe Voyager I took the first long distance photograph of earth and the moon together from 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometres) away. #otd #history #space 🗃️

This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon -- the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft -- was recorded September 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth. The Moon is at the top of the picture and beyond the Earth as viewed by Voyager. In the picture are eastern Asia, the western Pacific Ocean and part of the Arctic. Voyager 1 was directly above Mt. Everest (on the night side of the planet at 25 degrees north latitude) when the picture was taken. The photo was made from three images taken through color filters, then processed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Image Processing Lab. Because the Earth is many times brighter than the Moon, the Moon was artificially brightened by a factor of three relative to the Earth by computer enhancement so that both bodies would show clearly in the print. Voyager 2 was launched Aug. 20, 1977, followed by Voyager 1 on Sept. 5, 1977, en route to encounters at Jupiter in 1979 and Sa

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026

As it happens, I was approached by the private equity firm in this article about a year ago, sounding me out about acquiring my backlist. I declined.

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neotoma.bsky.social @neotoma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wildland firefighters need them for transport, resupply, and evacuation, at least some of the time.

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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know there are many things to be righteously, importantly angry about, and many of them are more important than this decision (!) …and yet, I hope you all will still find it in yourselves to save just a little anger to deploy on behalf of science and scientists, too.

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