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George C Scott famously refused to film the flag-backdrop speech because he knew if it opened the film, the scene would overshadow the story about General Patton - a batshit, antisemitic, squeaky-voiced, warmonger. The director lied and told him the speech would appear later in the movie.

George C Scott appears in battle uniform, wearing a full regalia of fruit salad and sashes plus helmet, riding crop and sidearm. This is the opening scene of the 1970 film "Patton".

He stands before an enormous 48-star US flag that has been painted on the back wall of a stage.

It's a hell of scene and a hell of a performance and it's dramatic, battle-loving message absolutely overshadowed what was intended to be an anti-war film about a pompous lunatic who was eventually relieved of command.

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Actually, my favorite moment is when Eric Schmitt couldn't handle Jack Smith taking notes. "What are you writing down there?"

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've watched 2.5 hours of this Jack Smith hearing. The republican's big idea that having access to his personal phone records would finally pay off, so far, has not. I've seen enough.

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Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

☕ Happy National Coffee Day! Today we’re celebrating with Cornish craftsmanship: this Newlyn copper pyramidal coffee pot (c.1890–1950), with cormorants, rocks and a fish motif, is stamped NEWLYN. A beautiful blend of function, artistry and Cornish heritage. 🐟🌊

A tall, tapered copper pitcher featuring embossed designs of a heron and a fish, with a wrapped handle and a pointed spout against a white background.

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 28/09/2026

Now hiring: We're seeking a paid intern to cover the 2027 Texas Legislature. If you're finishing your schooling and want hands-on experience in political/policy journalism, apply by October 30. 20/hours per week and located at our Austin office: www.texasobserver.org/2027-legisla...

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2027 Legislative Internship

The Texas Observer is hiring for an intern to help cover the 2027 Texas legislative session, running from January through early June. The Observer’s Legislative Internship program is for student…

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Posting “Should you play Ella Langley’s ‘Choosing Texas’ at full blast during a job interview?” and then disabling replies to see if this site just explodes.

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think Disney should sue him

Baymax from Big Hero 6. This robot is white and round with a kawaii face. I think Disney should sue Mark Zuckerberg for IP theft.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this and biking to the most beautiful Taco Bell in the world are probably the best things I've done this year

a painting of a chicken after René Magritte,
The Healer (Le Thérapeute), 1937

a bird cage on chicken legs with a businessman inside next to a golden egg on the beach

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The first weekend of autumn brings not only a nor’easter, but also a great reason to stay hunkered down: my 295th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the scholarly storm, all! 🗃️ +

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#ScholarSunday Thread 295 (9/27/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

The first weekend of autumn brings not only a nor’easter, but also a great reason to stay hunkered down: my 295th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forth...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Talisman Heinz Hajek-Halke, c. 1930

a cat outline of wet and fogged up glass, behind long exposure light trails of vehicles in a night time street scene

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I may be a lifelong Texan but when it comes to country music, I am not the one. However, when it comes to the finest country song about TX, ain't a dang one of em better than this

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London Homesick Blues

YouTube video by Jerry Jeff Walker - Topic

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I thought about the best way to bring an iced coffee to a job interview and discovered a whole universe of crossbody tumbler slings. I am now sketching patterns to make my tumbler holder from a stack of faux leather sheets I bought to make phone bags. New project! Thanks, discourse. 🫡

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 25/09/2026

Bonus: (in the middle is a kid-friend she first met when said kid was about 5 years old; now the girl introduces Lucy to her little brother - who she was walking to kindergarten ❤️)

Fluffy black and tan husky mix greeting a girl in leggings and a sweater, and meeting a little boy in a blue shirt and a checkered backpack.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sagae City’s mascot is Cherrin, a cherry fairy with cherries on her head. Her scarf is made of soba noodles, and on her belly is the city flower, the azalea.

A mascot with big eyes, rosy cheeks, and two giant cherries on her head, is standing in a convention centre.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/09/2026

"Well, this shit just got real, didn’t it? Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Photographer: Annabelle Gordon/CNP/Bloomberg

President Trump Hosts State Visit For Chinese President Xi Jinping

Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., left, and Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during a state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping, not pictured, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to maintain a trade truce until early 2027, with neither ready to upend relations between the world's biggest economies even as tensions persist over rare earths, technology curbs and Taiwan. Photographer: Annabelle Gordon/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

If these two assholes can't have personalities, then NOBODY can have personalities.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A carved "pillar-biter" from the church of St. Bavo in Haarlem, from 1509-1517. With roots in Medieval iconography, pillar-biters represented hypocrisy and false piety. More here: www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/dev...

A polychrome wooden carving of a man in pilgrim's garb with a priminent rosary grotesquely gnawing on a church column

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 23/09/2026

“The truth is, nobody wants to cut Social Security benefits except for a handful of Republicans & the billionaires on Wall Street who tell them what to do. That’s why it’s no surprise that this farce of a hearing was all for the benefit of billionaire donor Harlan Crow.” Read Alex’s new op-ed here:

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House Republicans Pitch a Plan to Cut Social Security to Billionaire Donor Harlan Crow | Common Dreams

If Republicans want to cut our earned benefits, the American people deserve for them to tell us that to our faces, rather than weaseling around the job they were elected to do, and for which they earn...

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‼️ Weeks before midterms, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications havent been processed due to an error by the DPS. The Texas Association of County Elected Officials say number could be "tens of thousands" - much of them in urban areas.

votebeat.org

Error means unknown number of Texas voter registrations haven’t been processed yet

It’s unknown how many prospective voters have been affected.

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Martha Pskowski @psskow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Inside Climate News is hiring an editor to lead coverage in the Western U.S. Come work at one of the best newsrooms in the land 🤠 insideclimatenews.org/about/jobs/

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Job Openings - Inside Climate News

Job opportunities in our award-winning newsroom

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!

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Donate to Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland, organized by Tobias Buckell

Hi, I'm author Tobias S. Buckell, and these are my two cats, P… Tobias Buckell needs your support for Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 22/09/2026

ICYMI: Coming this April from Hachette's new novella imprint, Union Station - SHOUTING DISTANCE, which you can read more about and maaaybe click through for a preorder (if you are so inclined) 👇👇👇 www.cheriepriest.com/blog/coming-...

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Shouting Distance: Coming This April — The Haunt*

As some of you no doubt saw on the ol’ socials: I’ve got something new coming out in April, from Hachette’s new novella imprint Union Station! Shouting Distance is… well, let’s call it a weird sout...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21/09/2026

Miroslav Myska Liptovska Teplicka 1971 - 1973

Traditional earthen potato cellars built into a grassy hillside in Liptovská Teplička, Slovakia, with two children loading the contents of a wicker basket into a sack and then onto a wooden cart.

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🎶 You've got to pick up every stitch... 🧹✨ Thanks for bringing out that perfect lyric, NEAGLEY

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Donovan - Season of the Witch (Official Audio)

YouTube video by DonovanVEVO

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🖼️ Jean Dunand

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🖼️ Else Wenz-Viëtor #FrogForFriday

Frog on lily pad attempting to catch a dragon fly, five frogs surround the lily ad singing or laughing? Reeds in background. Illustration.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3447 was born at the wrong time

A bunny sits on the roof of a dilapidated building, the wooden roof destroyed, staring at a ruined clock tower in the distance under a smoky sky. A cloth tent is tied around a board on the roof, as a makeshift shelter

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like to consider myself an “enthusiastic tech realist,” and currently we’re being sold magic beans

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

gonna be thinking about this tiny baby all weekend

Leopardus tilcayo - a Bolivian wild cat that was recently classified as a new species.

It's smaller than a domestic cat with slightly rounded ears, gold and black fur that's spotted like a Leopard, a wide, short face and the biggest orange eyes you've ever seen.

PHOTO by Alessandro Verniani

Creative Commons License @ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This middle school science classroom near me needs help buying nitrile gloves to keep kids safe during labs. Can you help out? 🧤🔬

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.

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✨🌜Kaz Rowe 🌛✨ @kazrowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW VID! In the 18th century, a mysterious beast began killing French peasants of the Gévaudan region. A ton of peasants, in fact. The beast evaded all attempts to kill it and seemed to be not only visually monstrous but demonic in nature. Was it really a monster? youtu.be/F-lGKOGfc8g?...

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Was There Really A Monster Terrorizing 18th Century Rural France?

YouTube video by Kaz Rowe

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're looking for a new Customer Access Supervisor to join our team! This role manages the customer service side of our archive and our remote enquiry service. For more information and to apply, head to jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...

Leatherbound records of Buckinghamshire on a shelf, with 'We're Hiring! Customer Access Supervisor' overlaid.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026

New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.

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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game

An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's North Texas Giving Day and I would be so grateful if you can support Apprentice Creative Space. For the last three years it has provided a vital third space to literary, creative, and civically engaged Dallasites. Help make it three more years! www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization...

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Support Apprentice Creative Space on North Texas Giving Day!

Apprentice Creative Space is a nonprofit third-space in Dallas, serving communities at the intersection of literary arts, creative arts, and civic engagement. We foster connections across literary ar...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An entire patchwork carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium at Anglesey Abbey a few days ago, looking for all the world like spring. Today’s botanical dopamine for your brain 🌿:

A carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium at Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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Nona Moss @nonamoss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

❤️❤️❤️ REACHER ❤️❤️❤️

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Never seen a fried egg bollard? YOU HAVE NOW. #WorldBollardAssociation 🍳

A bollard painted to look like a fried egg.

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