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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚨"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 · 09/10/2026

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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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Loitering with their kids aka… going outside to play with their children??

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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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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve officially made “Amish Paradise” the “your jokes are getting inappropriate” music and it’s oddly effective

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I got hit by a car as a kid, the fire truck was the first of the first responders.

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A lot of times fire is the first thing sent to an accident or emergency, because the truck is equipped to handle most situations (medical, certain safety, etc).

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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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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Which was, I think, the right level of traumatic for 14 year olds.

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The kids did not know Osama bin Laden or how anything happened. I was a little afraid Falling Man would show up in the vid we watched, but he did not; I ended up telling them about him tho.

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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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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’d be interested! I do our phonics interventions in high school.

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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One of the benefits of living in LP was all the “free” concerts. Why pay to go to rock the garden when I can just take a walk and hear the music just fine??

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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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Mars Octavian @northofnow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Extremely confusing moment bc we have a random guy running for local office whose last name is Pelikan and whose only campaign promise / platform is that he travels with a giant inflatable pelican. And I wondered what terrible thing he did and also when he came out as nonbinary for a minute there.

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