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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump take chips
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants | Houston Public Media
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An illustration done mostly with digital colored pencils. Ok, so we have a wooden coffin in the classic top-heavy hexagon shape. The coffin is propped up at an angle on nothing against a background of gray-blue paint splatters as a spooky sheet ghost rises out of it. Although it’s not a real sheet as it’s translucent and there’s nothing inside of it except a gape-mouthed green skull in the approximate head position within the sheet. The ghost is wearing a big. floppy, black witch’s hat and there’s a little brown bat hanging down from the wide brim. The ghost’s arms are extended holding a jack o’ lantern with a one-toothed frowny face carved into it. Popping out of the jack o’ lantern is a a black cat with green eyes balancing the cap of the pumpkin on his head. And on the stem of the pumpkin cap is a very serious-looking brown speckled owl. A series of spooky speech balloons is chained together around all this , each balloon containing one word and associating back tot he spooks and creatures named in the reverse order listed. The lettering in the balloons is red and drippy and reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026
I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 29/09/2026
A win on fair use: court rejects fair use defense of AI training
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?
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Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Never posted a RIP for a tree before, but; farewell to The Major Oak. I only ever saw it once, and on a VERY misty, autumnal day, when the trees were more or less bare. Walking through Sherwood and THAT monster suddenly coming out of the fog was memorable! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Major Oak: Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say
The Major Oak is thought to have stood for more than 1,000 years in the heart of Nottinghamshire's Sherwood Forest.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is your sign to browse a lit mag this weekend. ✏️ 📖
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/09/2026
Mass layoffs kill people. Thousands of quiet tragedies follow every billionaire's predatory decision. Never forget.
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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I HAD A STALKER WHILE FILMING A MOVIE IN SPAIN LAST YEAR. SHE STOOD OUTSIDE MY APARTMENT EVERY DAY FOR WEEKS - ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.
I WAS SO BORED AND LONELY THAT I WENT OUT AND HAD DINNER WITH [HER]. I JUST COMPLAINED ABOUT EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE AND SHE NEVER CAME BACK.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here’s one! If anybody wants to welcome this sweet South Carolina pup into their home, I will personally deliver her to you at no charge: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Daz...
A skinny light brown hound girl with a purple bandanna 
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The sky in NYC right now. It was nice knowing all of you.
Orange? Purple? and LOW and HEAVY. Pretty, but also a portal of hell.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 24/09/2026
I love this so much
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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have you checked out our "Ode to the Orange Seats" exhibit yet? Meet some of the artists involved in the show and hear from the Museum's curator Jodi Shapiro in this new video piece from @abc7ny.bsky.social: abc7.com/videoClip/19...
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As their last stop nears, NYC's orange subway seats get artsy sendoff
The New York City subway will never look the same.
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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You write book after book thinking, maybe this is the one. Maybe this is the one. And it never is. Until it is. :)
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every other cow seeing this shit jealous as hell. This is a once in a generation opportunity for a cow.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one more fabulous.
Edward Gorey in a black pullover with his cat like a boa. My large son will do the same with me. 😭Edward Gorey at his desk with cat boa.The cut of this sweater is so perfect I can't stand it.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 19/09/2026
Theo (@Theodore1jensen) on X: "bitterns are naturally predisposed to looking like freaks. they walk like perverts too"

[a bittern looking like a freak]
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Zoooooom! #bluegrosbeak #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky
Blue grosbeak with bright blue and orange and black stripes on its wings in flight with its wings at its sides past blurred green plants.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/09/2026
Hey friends, if you have any books in the Anthropic settlement, please go read @courtneymilan.com & @victoriastrauss.com's timelines! There are some publisher hijinks afoot including multiple publishers "accidentally" claiming 100% of a book's settlement, or claiming 50% on reverted titles.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨
Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.
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Oona Island @oonapatrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Memoir: trying very hard to remember something which has not yet taken shape.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/09/2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission’s Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and dusty disks around nearby stars. #NASARoman 🔭
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NASA Roman's Planet Imager Has Powered On - NASA Science
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission's Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 01/09/2026
"Ida is precisely the day we stopped primarily worrying about coastal flooding and started worrying about stormwater."
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5 Years After Ida, NYC Is Still Struggling To Deal With Extreme Rain and Deadly Flooding
Heavy rain and flooding is expected to become more common and intense in the city due to climate change.
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MA Drinkwater @madrinkwater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#ColorADay #PinkMon #MagentaMonday #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsUpClose alt #BirdNameC #birds #hummingbirds #backyardphotography #photography #wck 📷 🪶
A male Costa's Hummingbird perched on the silver hanger for a blue feeder. I was underneath the bird and captured his throat patch (gorget) lit up in green, pink, and purple iridescence. the flare on our left is yellow and the flare on our right is purple. Its underside is white with a green vest, and his wings are black. He's looking down on me.
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Carl, But Gnomepire 🎃 @carldoonan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This image and caption on the Wikipedia page for “Deely Bobber” is filling me with life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deely_b...
Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for “deely bobber” with photo captioned “This cat's head is too small for this deely bobber.”

The pic depicts a hand holding a headband, which has a pair of silver balls on antennas, being held up in front of a untrusting cat.
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JaneSlainLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This simply must happen. That is all.
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RSC's My Neighbour Totoro | 2025 West End trailer
YouTube video by OfficialLondonTheatre
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
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Oona Island @oonapatrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Awesome if it happened on my birthday.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“A former military officer now working for a navy contracting company, who has been briefed on the shortfalls, said: ‘They’re fucked. They shot all their weapons; they trashed all their ships; they ran out of their money.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal
Exclusive: Experts and former officials say accounts are running dry, and funding a war with no clear endgame is the main challenge
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 29/08/2026
Unexpected affirmations
An open pair of bulkhead doors on a city street. On the exposed wall ahead, above the steps, we see a light and below it the word YES.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never change, Minnesota!
Food truck is offering “cheese curd flights.”
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Toni Reitter @tonichelle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Mica Miller was failed by everyone.
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Alex @a1extimmons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s so fucking infuriating to see this shit happening to anyone but how the fuck does this happen in 2024? How the fuck have these states never learned or updated their policies? It was literally a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. South Carolina got Mica Miller killed.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Mica Miller Documentary ‘Death of the Pastor’s Wife’ Tells a Marital Horror Story #VanityFair
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How the Lindsay Clancy and Gabby Petito Cases Unlock Mica Miller Documentary ‘Death of the Pastor’s Wife’
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The sustainable midlist creates multigenerational artistic communities.
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