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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A death at the hands of ICE. While he didn’t die in ICE custody, his loss can absolutely be attributed to their evil work. And in the onslaught of news, I want to make sure his story is not lost. His name was Rev Ben Madu, of Nigeria. And of Massachusetts. 🧵 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/03/m...

bostonglobe.com

North Shore communities mourn death of beloved Nigerian priest who was ordered to return home - The Boston Globe

The Rev. Ben Madu expressed fears about going back during remarks to parishioners last month at St. Joachim Church in Rockport.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It's Friday...so let me share one of the more ridiculous bits of eel history I have. In 1796, the famous comedic actor Richard Yates wanted eels for dinner. When his housekeeper was unable to get him any, Yates threw a huge fit & promptly died of "rage and disappointment." 1/2 🗃️🧪

Meme. Black and white engraving entitled ""Mr. Yates of the Adelphi Theatre." (1826). It shows a man seated at a table for his portrait, leaning casually on one arm. He has a high collar, a cravat, and a heavy dark coat. He has wondrously curly hair, and immaculate sideburns that come 1/2 way down his jowls. His face is rounded, and his lips are pursed. He does not have strong features, but his eye hold you like a hawk holds a mouse. His raised eyebrow says that he knows something secret and prurient about you and your dark desires, but he's not telling. Oh no. He's going to use it for motivation later on. Actors, man.

This stately fellow is not actually Richard Yates, but rather Fredrick Yates, a slightly earlier London actor and theater manager. He was a much more controlled man than Richard, and did not rage himself to death over eels. Even so, I am using his portrait because it's classy, and I am making the case that any dead Yates is interchangeable with another.

Meme text reads:
"Rage agains the machine?
Only if it's out of eels"

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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline #SomethingBeautiful

Tree with red leaves against a startlingly blue sky.

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Joseph Chouinard @joechoui.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I've now made 500 pages of a comic book about crime-fighting clowns, because who else was gonna

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Alt text: a colorful round ‘I Voted’ sticker with the words framing a noble turkey who could even be said to have a subtle Mona Lisa-ish smile.

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

It turns out a monthly Prime membership is almost exactly the same price as supporting the Guardian. It’s an easy swap, especially this week!

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The Dark Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 09/10/2024

I remember when MA had to smuggle in PPE on the Patriots owner’s jet because the Trump admin was stealing PPE that the state paid for.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Yikes. NCDOT’s office in Asheville, NC just posted this photo with the following caption: “You're standing on I-40, looking down at U.S. 74.”

A flooded highway that looks like a river. Original message:

⬇️ You're standing on I-40, looking down at U.S. 74.
❗ The Blue Ridge Parkway bridge is in the distance.
⚠️ Don't go out today. It's not safe.
#Helene #ncwx

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🇵🇸 Elmira ☭ (need help $ See pinned post.) @elmiramarx.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

this was taken by a person i'm in a discord with if you need to know how bad it's looking

it a fucking boarded up waffle house for the hurricane

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

that reminds me, I never shared the illustration of Rowling @bitterkarella.bsky.social asked me to provide for Midnight Pals

B&W illustration of J. K. Rowling as a naga in a forest, surrounded by snakes who are beating a hasty retreat from her

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

🧀 The Cheese Riot of 1764 🧀 In 1764 the people of Nottingham were so angry about cheese prices that they gatecrashed the city Goose Fair & knocked the mayor over with a massive piece of cheese. The military were drafted in. 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

18c news report reading as follows: At the Goose-fair in 1764, there was a tumultuous riot, on account of the high price of cheese, which was selling at from 28s.
to 30s. per cwt.
The violence of the people burst forth like a tor-
rent in the open fair; cheeses were rolled down Wheeler-gate and Peck-lane in abundance, and the mayor, in his attempt to restore the peace, was knocked down with one in the Market-place. The riot act was read, a detachment of the 15th Dragoons was called out, many of the rioters were taken prisoners, and one innocent man was shot by the military.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Anyway, CBS New York just got video of NYPD barging into a homeless shelter without a warrant and beating the shit out of an employee who wouldn't open the door for them: www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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Video shows NYPD officers punching Brooklyn shelter worker

Surveillance video exclusively obtained by CBS News New York Investigates shows NYPD officers repeatedly punching a man working at a Brooklyn homeless shelter last February.

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Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

If a tree were to snatch you up and suck your blood...how would it do it? Oh, there's a way! Tree spirits (kodama), bloodthirsty jubokko and tabu no ki, as well as bewitching camellia trees all in the most recent episode of #uncannyjapan 🌳 Here🌲: uncannyjapan.com/podcast/supe... #Japan #yokai

forest with rough sketch of temple, some trees with skulls in them, little blood splatters here and there, Written: Bloodthirsty Yokai Trees Uncanny Japan ep. 156

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/09/2024

This is horrific.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 09/08/2024

Hey @lizlincoln.bsky.social was it you asking about eShakti recently? I saw an update in one of my costume groups.

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

It’s wild that WorldCon and the Fringe are happening so close to each other this year. In terms of travel time it’s like if Bonnaroo was in Staten Island the same week Burning Man took place in Queens.

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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Michelle Obama: When they go low, we go high. Harris War Room: When they go low, we kick them square in the nuts.

Trump: Crazy Kamala is saying she's Indian, not Black. This is a big deal. Stone cold phony. She uses everybody, including her racial identity.

Harris War Room:
Donald,
Kamala Harris is both Black, and Indian. You can be two things at once.
Kind of like how you are both a rapist and a racist.

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 31/07/2024

IT'S GRITTY

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tim coe @shakespeherian.myatproto.social · 22/07/2024

NYT editors tonight

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

A hand holding four shrunken styrofoam cups the size of shot glasses. Two with jellyfish colored on them and two with black and white lines

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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

And if you need some context here: California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Its electrical grid seems to be on a very short path to being 100% renewable. If they can do it—adding grid stability also!—others can too. If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 07/07/2024

I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

losing it at this part of a lawsuit brought by a former reporter at the marion county record (the kansas newspaper raided by cops last yr) against the former police chief and county attorney

On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, at 8:37 a.m., Chief Cody sent County Attorney Ensey a lengthy e-mail, titled “Crimes?” In his e-mail, Chief Cody floated all sorts of bizarre theories about laws that had been violated, including (1) The federal Driver Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), under which the Marion County Attorney’s Office has no jurisdiction to charge; (2) wire fraud; (3) abuse of office/abuse of power; and (4) an entire section on “vicarious liability” and “co- conspirator liability.”

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/05/2024

“You! Boy! What day is it?” “Why it’s verdict day, sir!” “Then run to the store and buy the fattest sentence you can find!”

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Simon @hungryhatter.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

This election campaign, it's like the entire medium of photography itself has put a curse on Sunak personally.

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Check out my new original character, Guy Around the Office Who's 100% Noticed That Clark Kent Is Superman

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/05/2024

DO IT EVERYWHERE DO IT FAST FUCK YEAH

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わはは @mrbowers.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:

The following year, Darden sold Red Lobster to Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm, for $2.1 billion. To help fund the deal, Red Lobster spun off its real estate assets in a transaction known as a sale leaseback agreement. Red Lobster had long owned its own real estate but would now be paying rent to lease its restaurants.

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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

steve albini mastered both the arts of producing and posting

Steve Albini twitter thread from 2023:

I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan

Christ the amount of human effort wasted to sound like an SNL band warm up.

"They spent three weeks on the guitar solo..." Three weeks of watching guitar players give it their all while doing bumps and hitting the talkback, "More *Egyptian* but keep it in the pocket..."

"Their engineer invented a machine to play the bass drum..." Did he now. And yet it sounds like this.

Look at yourselves. Calling them "the Dan." Go trim your beard.

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

I was watching the CCNY instagram live feed and they filmed riot cops badge numbers and viewers looked up and shared their complaints/settlements history then asked the cops face to face about it I'm fucking dying

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Patrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

The most unethical social science study you’s never heard of: some number of twins were separated from birth without their knowledge, until some found each other themselves www.statnews.com/2019/02/07/t...

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Crypt Echo @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Today I learned that there were smaller walrus ancestors and I am extremely happy to report that the researcher speaking about this did indeed refer to them as the “smallrus.”

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Here’s #LeverageRedemption writer Jamey Perry, waiting in the airport because American Air lost BOTH her wheelchairs. This problem is endemic, systemic, and bullshit. All the airlines lose and break mobility devices with startling casualness.

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Root Beer Baron @rootbeerbaron.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

This was submitted to the new flag commission last year

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Missing the eclipse? For $19 come to my Wonka Eclipse Experience, where I open a black umbrella over your head.

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

For a sudden serotonin rush, I highly recommend listening to someone with a thick Boston accent say the word ‘carpentry.’ More vowels than an Enya song. Just glorious.

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Ooo, an email from the people I auditioned for, just an hour after auditions ended: “Based on what we saw tonight, we do not need you to come for callbacks.” Soooo I made such a big impression that they already know what part I’m right for! Winning!

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oakenguy.bsky.social @oakenguy.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Overheard at intercon: “I played a character who was a mash-up of the souls of Tiny Tim the Dickens character and Tiny Tim the musician.”

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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 01/03/2024

You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.

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