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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 17h

🚨"Where's the governor, Kathy Hochul? Where's mayor Mamdani? Where's AOC? Where are the people that are supposed to protect us!?" - Protesters CALL OUT politicians who are allowing ICE to rampage across NYC LIVE NOW ⬇️

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19h

I feel terrible asking this, but my debit card got stolen and I don’t currently have the funds in my account to cover some upcoming payments while I sort the dispute out with the bank. If anyone could help spot me, I would really appreciate that! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on. **updated PDF link** PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I came into this meeting ignorant and will be leaving deeply confused. Who is Jim? Why are we mad? Why is there war between the board and the workers? Is this entire conflict stemming from a disconnect in communication styles and low tolerance for conflict?

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Too many feelings in the community meeting.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow imagine if there were whole institutions that people attended daily from an early age to practice using their brains in different ways, sometimes extending into adulthood, staffed by experts in particular ways of using brains and training others in such brain usage? Real sci fi shit.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/10/2026

which of my mutuals are in Elk Mound DSA and can you sell me your local merch, which I assume is elite

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I once interviewed Bill Hicks who talked about the pornography of doom. I refuse the pornographers of doom. I refuse to turn the terror of the now into a spectacle, into engagement farming. We can be engines of kindness, connectivity and wonder online, so forgive me for concentrating on that.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/10/2026

There's a new edition of THE HOBBIT & it's the one illustrated by Tove Jansson which has never been published in English before. (It was pub'd in Sweden where Astrid Lindgren picked her to do the illustrations!) Read more: tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolki... 📖 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Tove Jansson's cover for THE HOBBIT with a very Jansson-esque Bilbo holding a shield and axe with mountains behind, Smaug flying overhead, and the line of riding dwarves as tiny silhouettes behind.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

It is bizarre to watch people use the words "restorative justice" to center the need of someone who assaulted someone else. You simply cannot talk about restorative justice in this context without centering his victim.

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

I was just about to post this! Ask JAN is very helpful in looking up what accommodations you can ask for. You can actually ask for a lot and the ADA is fairly strict in what an employer can say is "unreasonable" under the law.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of my favourite anniversaries today: the 19th of Ken Russell announcing his second-last film…

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yard skels 4 DFL @dclxvives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If your giant yard skeleton is already up, the Ellison campaign will send over a tall goth chick* with a stepladder! If you’re putting up a seasonal yard skeleton soon, a sturdy woman** with tools is available to assist with attaching the sign and getting the whole thing standing. *me **also me

The Bernie Sanders “once again I am asking you… “ meme, except it’s asking if I can put a DFL lawn sign in the outstretched arms of your giant yard skeleton

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

mitch actually can’t die until someone finds his heart, which is hidden in a needle which is hidden in an egg which is hidden in a duck which is hidden in a hare which is hidden in a chest which is at the bottom of the sea

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the children is discovering the glory of Ursula K Le Guin and I’m so pumped!!

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really riley @rly-riley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

my goal in talking about the ice occupation a bunch is not to get people to recognize my own pain because, all things considered, im okay. i REALLY NEED people to know what happened here and, most importantly, YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE HURTING PEOPLE IN YOUR CITIES TOO AND YOU CAN DO SOMETHING!

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The list of detained and raided here is all the LGBTQ movement groups I can think of at least, which despite everything have been working in Turkey for decades

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

buying books is a perverse act of hope. that i might find time to read yet another.

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The speakers with the unst has long since gone out of ear range, and the lights of the @wedge.live emergency bike ride show no signs of ceasing.

A view from the top of the midtown greenway. An unending stream of bikes, white front lamps illuminated, stream onwards.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you watch one video today... Dr James Makokis speaking at the historic announcement by Saddle Lake Cree Nation that they are establishing a safe haven for gender affirming care... Is that video. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Was gonna make some dal with my Rancho Gordo lentils, but this recipe for vegan "ground beef" using lentils and mushrooms came up in my feed and now the curiosity is overwhelming me www.youtube.com/watch?v=eco-...

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Vegan Ground Beef 4 Ways

YouTube video by Thee Burger Dude

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The Disaster 👻 HAUNTist 🎃 @beerz4yearz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Steller's jays and blue jays can hybridize. The result I would say looks like a very hungover blue jay

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links

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an animated image with the words did you say free stuff

ALT: an animated image with the words did you say free stuff

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Noiseman Sound Insect" is back on Youtube for a limited time (with subs). Directed in 1997 by Koji Morimoto at Studio 4°C (1997). feat. Masaaki Yuasa. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjN...

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This one’s been on my mind after listening to the dorky Steller’s jays in my backyard try to do the red-tailed hawk call… A LOT. They’ve been cracking me up and I can only imagine what the neighbor hawks are thinking. 🪶 #TerribleComicTuesday

sketchy comic, Panel 1: jay open mouth “SQUEEAA!”, Panel 2: second jay “lol what even was that? It’s more like… KREEEARR!”, Panel 3: both jays, first one “AHHAHAHA! That’s so bad! I got it… SKEEARREE!”, Panel 4: hawk in foreground looking down on a forest, the two jays are dots in the trees in the background, laughing and attempting the call more, hawk says “wtf.”

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gonna share this with the kids at school.

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you for getting this information out. Sharing widely now.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Spent a heavenly afternoon at La Capitolare di Verona - 1,509 years old & the oldest library in the world still in operation today 🕯️

Hundreds of very old and very large books richly illuminated on ornate wooden shelves (ground floor and wraparound mezzanine level)

Hundreds of very old and very large books richly illuminated on ornate wooden shelves (ground floor and wraparound mezzanine level). This picture is a wide view and also depicts the marble flooring and a large chandelier hanging in the centre of the room.

On 1 August 517, in the Veronese scriptorium, the scribe Ursicino completed, signed and dated a manuscript which still stands today as the earliest certain record of its history.

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The kids were asking me about this yesterday; love to teach A Child a whole new way to be difficult on Monday.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Minnesotans will organize an entire science fiction convention to avoid cleaning their living room and inviting their friends to their house.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don’t know who needs this but here’s the entire 1980 PBS movie version of The Lathe of Heaven which goes far harder than it has any right to

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The Lathe of Heaven

YouTube video by kliljedahl

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wyoming's Republican governor says DOJ sent election monitors to his state's primary without telling him, the attorney general, or the county clerk. His words: "I don't like the federal government coming in and taking our guns. I don't like them taking our votes, either."

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 28/08/2026

Sucks that the Univ of Minnesota libraries are closed to the public. If the past several years have taught us anything, it’s that knowledge is necessary to fighting stupid bad fascists. So here’s a helpful doc on how to assist good U people who want knowledge freed: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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UMN Libraries Public Access

THE CONTEXT After slowly closing parts of campus off to the public over a handful of years, in January of 2026 amidst Operation Metro Surge, the University of Minnesota’s upper administration decided...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fun fact when Milo yiannopoulos was an editor at Breitbart he ran a story about me under this headline 😆

Leading net neutrality activist campaigned on behalf of Al-Quaeda supporter

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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