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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 10/09/2026
It will be hard but it may be possible
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 22/07/2026
I dated a computer scientist for a while and it became clear to me that these AGI worriers were really high modernists: they assume there is Reason and Rationality and that those are law-like, solvable, unique, etc. Turns out you can study these things and those assumptions are pretty shoddy work
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
sideburns?!!
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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Merch for the 2026 Pacific Division meeting of the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social is up! I designed the image to highlight the accessibility of a virtual conference. The link is open to anyone, whether you're attending the Pacific this year or not.
tote bag with black handles and a black print design that says "philosophy is for all of us"white shirt with a black logo that says "philosophy is for all of us"white mug with black inside and a black logo that says "philosophy is for all of us"
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 18/03/2026
influensewer.
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 17/03/2026
this is the point at which even david hume gives up skeptical reflections in order to go to the pub for a pint with some friends. unfortunately for andreessen, you need friends for that
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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I think every single day about “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 05/03/2026
Thinking more frequently these days about this bit from Rawls TJ about how the sense of justice most often works in the background and is revealed in what people won't tolerate
"A community's sense of justice is more likely to be revealed in the fact that the majority cannot bring itself to take the steps necessary to suppress the minority and to punish acts of civil disobedience as the law allows. Ruthless tactics that might be contemplated in other societies are not entertained as real alternatives. Thus the sense of justice affects, in ways we are often unaware of, our interpretation of political life, our perception of the possible courses of action, our will to resist the justified protests of others, and so on.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13/01/2026
I added captions to this video of people heckling Greg Bovino leaving a Target in Minneapolis, and there's so many people yelling things at him it's like a comedy skit
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 31/12/2025
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
by Michael Ward
      
 
MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com

MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com

Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com

AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com

One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Here’s the thing: Any internal candidate who wanted to serve well would have asked to delay. Why burden yourself with that baggage? Darden students — put revealed preference to work: what did you just learn about this leader?
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Read: Full Spectrum Resistance 🏴🍉🌹 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Jaysus fuck! I have never seen this and it goes so fucking hard I love it 😍
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our latest forum is now online. @leaypi.bsky.social opens with a critique of our broken politics of immigration, with responses from @pochoaespejo.bsky.social, @daralind.bsky.social , @danieldenvir.bsky.social, Alex Aleinikoff, Chandran Kukathas, and Ayelet Shachar:
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The Real Border Crisis - Boston Review
The problem isn't immigration. It's the failure of liberal democracy itself.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation: Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Shamelessly nicked from Kris McDaniel over on Facebook: the book review that will make your weekend.
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Watch Honest Review of Perspectives on Pragmatism Book on Amazon Live
Dive into the world of pragmatism with The Munro’s! Discover why this book's unique perspective, from classical to contemporary, is a must-read for curious minds and project seekers.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account. 'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said." Welp www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Ryan and Sheridan provide full accounts of Ryan’s resignation. They differ significantly
“I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,” former Board Rector Robert Hardie said.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A fine day to remember Jim Harbaugh's unique relationship with "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" and the remarkable interpretive work that his and other football brains have done on this important text. (This is a gift link; I believe this news must be shared widely.) defector.com/the-edmund-f...
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The Edmund Fitzgerald Is Inspiring Jim Harbaugh And Michigan Football To Achieve "Lake Mindset" | Defector
The popular culture of the 1970s is almost impossible to parse in retrospect. The people making the movies and music and television of the era were horny and ambitious and earnest, they were ingesting...
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#NoKings Charlottesville. Look at this amazing turnout.
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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.
 “[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning: “To Follow a Rule Blindly” | Reviews | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | University of Notre Dame buff.ly/tJO97oP
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Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning: “To Follow a Rule Blindly”
Interest in the thought of the later Wittgenstein was hugely revived by Saul Kripke’s groundbreaking Wittgenstein On Rules and Private Langua...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 01/09/2025
Startin to get that Innsmouth look
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'll stop reposting this when it stops helping us understand why so many Democratic politicians are failing to rise to the occasion:
A table with three headings at the top which read: Friend-Enemy Politics, Pluralist Politics, and Technocratic Politics. The first row is titled "social ontology of politics (what is the political world made of?), the second is titled "task of politics (what do we think we're doing in politics?), the third is titled "goal of politics (what does politics generate?):"

The social ontology of politics in friend-enemy politics is a "world made up of friends and enemies. No neutrality or fairness. Identity overriding," in pluralist politics it is a "world made up of innumerable groups who must find ways to live together. Identity is central," in technocratic politics, the "world [is] composed of individuals who experience common problems. No groups, no identity." 

The task of politics in the friend-enemy mode is "for the virtuous 'Us' to defeat the evil 'Them,'" in pluralist politics it is "conciliation of different groups and their competing interests," in technocratic politics it is "solving social problems." 

The goal of politics in friend-enemy politics is "public tokens of 'our' domination or of enemy's defeat;" in pluralist politics it is "fair compromise;" in technocratic politics it is "effective policy." 

A red arrow points to the column titled "friend-enemy politics" with text above it reading "Politics as practiced by the Republican Party in the age of Trump." 

A blue arrow points to the column titled "pluralist politics" with text above it reading "Politics as practiced by the Democratic Party."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 23/07/2025
Having just submitted my tenure file and really looking forward to just taking it easy, then being completely unable to do so for more than a few days at a time, it occurs to me that the last decade of professionalization has mainly made writing psychologically necessary for me
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...
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Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down the U.Va. President
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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A statement by 400+ UVa faculty members:
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A statement by 401 concerned faculty regarding the crisis of President Ryan’s forced resignation
We call on the Board to collaborate closely with faculty in appointing an Interim President to guide the university through this perilous time.
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New Dig: @socialists.nyc co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo & Grace Mausser on how DSA & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign won this historic victory. A behind scenes look at how DSA built most powerful socialist org in USA—and how we replicate the victory everywhere. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/how-...
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How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA
Featuring NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser on how Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC DSA spent years building an electoral juggernaut that has now made history ...
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A great post by Elizabeth Barnes on the value of conversations across serious disagreement: dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...
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The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I know that people are reluctant to voice objections to things I’ve said, not because I’ve given a convincing argument, but because I’m a person with a disability making claims about disability, and ...
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ID4 in Real Time @1996id4.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
WASHINGTON: THE WELCOME WAGON HELICRAFT HAS BEEN SHOT DOWN BY THE ALIEN SPACECRAFT OVER WASHINGTON WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION!
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 27/06/2025
Bow or bend, resist or roll over, Trumpistas are coming for higher ed
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University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!
a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense:

“Doltclous”
“A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram”
“bood food is bood mood”
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 28/05/2025
An anti-popularist slogan from GA Cohen: "Electoral success is to a large extent a by-product of commitment to something other than electoral success"
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