Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry 391979394
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it” I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it 21230212
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialLuke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A highly recommended longreadtexasmonthly.comMillions Depend on the Rio Grande for Water. Some Could Run Out as Early as Next Year.The Colorado River crisis has been in the headlines this year, but our diminishing border river is in an even more severe state of collapse. This is the story of a water crisis without precedent in Am... 54322
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165485089
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialPatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026⚠️XOM RESTARTING: big price relief coming to the states hardest hit by the power outage at the ExxonMobil refinery in Joliet, IL last week. Gasoline seeing a large 23c/gal drop and diesel down even more significantly. Price relief coming to MI, IN, OH, IL, WI soon. 35513
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.popsci.comA chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreadingNew formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields 7313167
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com 8634001216
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialRightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Politico cartoon 0133
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No shit, 100% agree here. 238208025611
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialDiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP 285169371488
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialMike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A friend of mine says that a reasonably clean-cut guy in a blue blazer and tie can go almost anywhere without being challenged. 5480116
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialno brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026this is a great thread with some incredible Canadian art. 021
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2026NEW: Netanyahu was warned about the 10/7 attack ten days before it happened. apnews.com/article/isra...apnews.comUAE warned Netanyahu of major Hamas operation days before Oct. 7 attack, news report saysAn Israeli newspaper says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was directly warned by the president of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a major offensive just days before the militant gro... 19622841009
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialno brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My late night ponderings landed on a question for all the #science folks out there: Since Dr Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker are terrible at it, which muppet would be the best at laboratory safety? Whose guide would you read and use?static.klipy.comMuppet Show: Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker's Lab MishapAlt: Muppet Show: Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker's Lab Mishap. Beaker is alarmed and moving away from building smoke and flame as it engulfs the lab bench from right to left. He first reacts with alarm and then runs to hide behind Dr Bunsen Honeydew as everything gets engulfed in smoke. Dr Honeydew keeps jovially talking through most of the scene. 6238
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026never surrender 351626307
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialSave Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“Daylight Saving” and “Sunshine Protection” are deceits. Restore permanent Standard Time for more honest time-keeping. 1713150639
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialOhio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it. 1834411030
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialLuke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 31/08/2026New etymology visual to share a pet peeve: It’s helico-pter, not heli-copter. Spiral wing. 2326054
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialNina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The idea that entities can charge a **payment fee** is the opposite of fair dealing, it’s pretty terrible that legislators haven’t taken steps to make it illegal If there are fees/costs associated with collecting payment for goods or services rendered That Is The Cost of Doing Business 24811
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Here is a kind of sign of the times in AI slop studies. Today I was trying to find the best version of a performance Jerry Lee Lewis and Keith Richards did on a TV special in 1983 of Chuck Berry's Little Queenie and when doing that I got served a video of Mick Jagger reminiscing ... 1925160
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialAlyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I feel like people don’t know about the looming catastrophe in the crafting world that is private equity, or at least don’t understand the extent to which it’s a problem. Private equity owns a large chunk of places people get crafting supplies, particularly yarn, and we are heading for a cliff. 7414146
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/08/2026my 5yo said she was making a sign for her fort and I was expecting like "no boys allowed" or whatever, but in fact it said: 452871341
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume 4466071564
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialBebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026💔 357138
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialKJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy 34104292557
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The idea that vaccination should be a personal lifestyle choice is one of the most destructive legacies of both COVID and MAGA 235173
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialSnitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I've watched this like eight times now and it's good every time 081
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026While you may remember her as Becky, part of the support crew in the 1985 road racing flick American Flyers, actress Alexandra Paul has been a competitive cyclist and triathlete in real life. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Alexandra! Born July 29, 1963 26711
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialRightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A superbug that hides in the hair.iflscience.comA Deadly Fungal Superbug Spreading In Over 20 US States Hides In Hair Follicles To Evade Immune SystemsThis sneaky superbug has found a loophole. 3209
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is grotesque and fascist. 601063420
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialcliffdubya.bsky.social @cliffdubya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better. 566116564363
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialHelen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The box I normally store my lox in Had its lock spinned and its stocks in- Vaded by a sock-shinned dachshund (Loud and pox-thin, like a coxswain). (@luxalptraum.com doesn’t allow quotes so my dumb quatrain gets a screenshot sorry) 81298
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialTana Weingartner @tanaweingartner.wvxu.org · 02/08/2026In Blue Ash, Ohio (suburban Cincinnati), supporters have been rallying Sunday morning in support of Haitian migrants from Springfield, Ohio, who've been summoned to meetings with ICE. 092
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.futurism.comThe Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced LaborThe lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak. 380112476089
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 01/08/2026This is Pepe le Pew. He has been to the beach many times over the years, but still gets just as excited about it. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: pepedog808) 305101901046
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29/07/2025In Rad (1986), Christian Hollings (Lori Loughlin) chooses Cru Jones (Bill Allen) as her new Bicycle Boogie partner, and it's both the best and worst thing imaginable. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Lori Loughlin! Born July 28, 1964 3339
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions. 5153121379
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag... 112924458
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Listening to @zannymb.economist.com interview Elon Musk and she’s just (smartly) reading him his tweets and he’s denying it. 441326243
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The most shocking thing is when musk says NO ONE DIED from his cuts to USAID 1435434
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialStreetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 23/07/2026We went on a bike ride with @aoc.bsky.social youtu.be/s1-jM1SuZR0?...youtu.beWe went on a bike ride with AOCYouTube video by Streetsblog NYC 325165
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialWill Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Realizing we're living in the 4th panel now 0358
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her. 686293596614
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...climatecoloredgoggles.comResearchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health. 16175152808
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories 11529631156
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialAndrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...nytimes.comFaced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food StampsArizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties. 561640804
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialMeredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026My favorite quote from a Dutch traffic engineer: if you need a sign, it’s a bad design. Photo: @urbancyclinginstitute 327367
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialFrank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 19/07/2026“The problem is getting worse for airlines because passengers are increasingly traveling with more electronic devices—typically four to five each, regulators say. That means more than 2,000 fire-prone items could be on board a high-capacity long-haul flight.” www.wsj.com/business/air...wsj.comThe Fastest-Growing Risk to Air Travel Is Probably in Your PocketPhones, power banks and vapes are spontaneously catching fire on planes, injuring passengers and disrupting flights. 056
Reposted by @offcycle.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Real AF 448544
