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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16h

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

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The January 6 Memory Project

A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 07/10/2026

we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

9,500 years old! And still intact! A Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry. Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000. 🧵/1/2 📷 me

Woven cylindrical basket displayed against a black background, with a wide rim and rounded base illuminated by a spotlight.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Frosted Flakes. Tooth-achingly sweet, and they melted immediately in milk. But they were my father's favorite, so that's what we had. I'm a Grape-Nuts fan, cold or hot.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh yes, of course! I'm familiar with that military usage. Oh well; it was a fun possibility to contemplate. :-D

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First I've heard of, for sure. The unabridged OED might hold the answer to this one.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Elle is always a riot, but this one really lands hard.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Suffragette colors are a classic: purple, green, and white.

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Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On Sept. 8th, I'll celebrate #StarTrek 's 60th Birthday as well as its long friendship with #ThePlanetarySociety , which #GeneRoddenberry himself initiated in 1980 ! I am proud of my long association with both!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🎯 confirmed jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/bill-maher...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Roman clay hot water bottles in the shape of human body parts used for therapeutic purposes some 2,000 years ago! Found in a building which may have been a healing centre. Paphos Archaeological Museum, Cyprus 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a museum display at Paphos Archaeological Museum of ancient Roman red clay vessels shaped like human body parts each of which has a spout with a handle either side, allowing it to be filled with hot water or oil. The clay walls of the vessels are only 3 mm thick so that heat would be conducted to the body. They are comparable in size to the corresponding human parts of the body including ears, torso, groin, hands, thigh, knee, shin, and feet. They are mounted for the display over a simple outline of a human figure, illustrating their possible therapeutic use around 2,000 years ago.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

lollllllll

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I love a good yarn bombing!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/08/2026

🧵 Nearly half of recorded history lives on fragile 78rpm discs. 🎙️🎶 From music & comedy to speeches & firsthand accounts of world events, these recordings shaped what future generations could know about the past. 📚 Read “On 78s” by George Blood in VANISHING CULTURE 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...

Greenish-black graphic quoting George Blood, Audio Preservation Expert, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the question "Why preserve 78rpm recordings?" and the quote "78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world."

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One of my favorite #Roman objects: World's oldest known "Swiss army knife", including a hinged knife, fork, spoon, spike, prick, sieve, spatula. Unfortunately, there is no provenance of this multi-tool, but it’s not a unique item: There are a few more examples, e.g. one was...🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

The folding multi-tool, it is built around a silver handle and a set of folding, pivoted implements. Its most visible feature is the broad oval spoon at the left; additional utensils fold from the opposite end and beneath the handle. A dark, heavily corroded piece along the top is the original iron knife blade.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness. Lance and Andy.

Two men in a British field using metal detectors to look for archaeological treasures.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Clearly she drank unicorn blood.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Verify your age" Attended a Led Zeppelin concert.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Elizabeth I of England, age 13 (long before she was queen). Those eyes are so much older than thirteen.

Princess Elizabeth Tudor, later Queen Elizabeth I of England, at the age of 13 in 1546. Posed standing against curtains, three-quarters toward viewer, face solemn and composed. She wears a red damask gown with trumpet sleeves over a gold looped velvet undergown, with a lot of pearl-studded jewelry and a matching red cap covering most of her red hair. She is holding a small book, closed on one finger that marks a page inside; beside her on a stand is a larger book, open.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

On America's 150th anniversary, Kahlil Gibran sent a message to young Americans of Levant origin that, at its core, applied to all immigrants: "And what is it to be a good citizen? It is to acknowledge the other person's rights before asserting your own, but always to be conscious of your own."

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

On this day in 1924, Rosalind Walter, the woman who inspired the character of Rosie the Riveter was born. These stunning photos of real "Rosies" from the U.S. Office of War Information are in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/j…

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. Alfred T. Palmer, photographer. Feb. 1943.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif. Alfred T. Palmer, photographer. Oct 1942.

This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass production of Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers. Alfred T. Palmer, photographer. Feb. 1943.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This was good for half an hour of laughter and derision on my family's group chat! "blueberry lemonade fizzy soup noooo"!

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in the U.S. on a boat, in pieces. The Library’s Historic American Engineering Record collection has some amazing photos of Lady Liberty from odd angles, taken in 1984 and 1985 during a major restoration project ahead of her centennial celebration.

View of forearm and hand holding torch - Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York County, NY. Photo by Jet Lowe. 1984. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Detail of tablet with inscription "JULY IV. MDCCLXXVI" - Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York County, NY. Photo by Jet Lowe. 1984. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Detail looking down on left foot and lights at base of statue - Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York County, NY. Photo by Jet Lowe. 1984. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If you want to see Loser Trump’s name removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts under a judge’s order, here’s a webcam where you can watch every letter yanked and trashed. You can also sign up for an email alert for when it happens. www.youtube.com/live/BslwLBR...

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Take the Name Down: Kennedy Center Live Cam

YouTube video by Hands Off the Arts

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I posted the text of my speech on my website. It's slightly different bc I adlibbed a lot and did some hand-edits at the last minute, but it's pretty close to what I actually said. nkjemisin.com/2026/06/text...

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Text of my Grand Master speech - Epiphany 2.0

Hi, all. It’s been a while since I updated this blog! Figured now was a good time, since I just became SFWA’s newest Grand Master! I got an award for it at the Nebula Conference this past weekend, but...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting lively stylised octopuses with writhing arms. All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Top L - Minoan storage jar decorated in ‘Marine Style’ with a wide-eyed octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded body which tapers to a narrow circular base. Short cyclindrical neck with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders. Height 55 cm. From Zakros, 1500-1450 BC

Top R - The iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ flask. Rounded body with short cyclindrical neck out-flared at rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the flask. An almost cartoon-like octopus, with wide eyes and sucker-lined arms. Other motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC.

Bottom L - Minoan alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck with flat rim. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC.

Bottom R - ‘krater’ with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a front facing stylised octopus with wide eyes and tentacles which loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

An adorable late Roman/early Byzantine infant's sock or bootee (length 11,5cm). It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate. Made of wool, nalbinding technique (single needle looping). Found in #Egypt dating 4th/5th c. AD. 📷Royal Ontario Museum

A close-up of a brown beige infant's sock. With the exception of a small part at the heel, it is completely preserved.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

hi did you know in addition to TheGamer, Valnet owns Screenrant Movieweb Collider CBR Polygon and more? They treat writers like trash and are a major force in making the internet worse

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 27/04/2026

In J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit: on 27th April, T.A. 2941, Gandalf and 13 Dwarves arrive at Bag End to meet their new "Burglar". An Unexpected Party! Image: "An Unexpected Party" by Alan Lee #BookSky

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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a man in armor riding a horse with a flag in his hand

ALT: a man in armor riding a horse with a flag in his hand

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Everybody I talked to about it argued, said "wait, no what?" and went back to the text, just like me. And the text supports his theory, which kind of blew everybody's minds.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I've looked and looked and can't find where I read it. It was a book I read about five years ago by a kabbalist, possibly a Renewal one. His take was that the Job story was a psyop by Satan, who mucked Job's life up by bringing him hearsay about all these terrible, remote things happening to him.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast and a willow handle, dating back some 7000 years ago. Lime bast fibre is a strong and flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for example, used to make textiles or ropes. Found in a well in Eythra, dating 5100-5000 BC. 🧵1/2 📷 me

A display of a well preserved object resembling a bucket, with a triangular handle and rough, decayed texture. The object is mounted upright in a glass case within a modern museum setting.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'm not even a sewing machine collector, just someone who uses old Singers for heavy sewing because they have metal (not plastic) gears. But I'm definitely triggered.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The Mouse and the Motorcycle!

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Repost with your first crush As my father used to call them, "those stewpid Beatles." Specifically this guy.

Paul McCartney in 1964, singing at a standing microphone while playing his left-handed Hohner bass.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I see Saja on the bottom, but I don't see Sugar.

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

My favorite part of that trip is the red rock canyons in Colorado, but it's all gorgeous. Enjoy!

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I had the same reaction!

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 03/04/2026

Great photo of the whole Earth taken from NASA's Artemis II spacecraft. "There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun." Wow. [kottke.org]

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This Is Us

The commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon, Reid Wiseman, took this photo of the Earth as the spacecraft speeds away our planet. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 22/03/2026

Tolkien Reading Day 2026 This year's theme is "Unlikely Heroes". This year we are holding a free online event to share our favourite #Tolkien readings. Please join in! For more info, and to sign up, visit our website! www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolki... #tolkienreadingday #lotr #Booksky

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Harold Feld @haroldfeld.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

You are correct. It is NOT the law. You can get the actual version of the law here: publicknowledge.org/equal-time-u... Which also predicts this will be used as an *excuse* by those who want to appease Trump, and this gives them political cover. /1

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Equal Time, Unequal Enforcement: The Latest Move to Weaponize the FCC Against Trump Critics

As the 2026 election season approaches, FCC Chair Brendan Carr seems to be seeking new ways to weaponize the law on Trump's behalf.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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IAmHere @nisstrah.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Recall, if you can, the sixth of Jan-- the riot and treason and plot. I know of no reason why the riot and treason should ever be forgot.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/12/2025

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

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