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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When my apartment went up for sale last fall, we had less than 48 hours notice, that a realtor was coming to take photos. Already not thrilled that those detailed photos of my home are up on the internet but this make the lack of privacy even worse.

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Go on, then. Automate parent-teacher meetings. Automate book club. Automate answering your mother's email. Automate setting up a coffee date with friends. Automate answering their messages. Automate responding to your coworkers over chat. Automate taking your dog for a walk.

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tell your councilors you are opposed to 8.19a, the "anti-camping ordinance". Nicole's write up summarizes how ineffective and heartless this ordinance is. “Exceptions shall only apply to emergency situations…” — let me assure you, if you’re sleeping your car, it’s an emergency."

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Nessun dorma

On tomorrow night’s city council agenda, the city manager is proposing a new (or perhaps expanded) ordinance about camping on public property, item 8.19A. It is an act of bravery (maybe folly…

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My pal @niqfury.com needs extra help due in part to the unjust changes to SNAP. Give them a few dollars if you can. Or hire them for website design and/or writing work.

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You start at Oak Grove. You end at Oak Grove. You are Charlie on the MBTA. You never return.

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The abundance of this place, the songs of its people and its birds, will be health and wisdom and indwelling light. This is no paradisal dream. Its hardship is its possibility" RIP Wendell Berry

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672. A Vision - Wendell Berry

. If we will have the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow-growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it, if we will make our sea...

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L. Stephen @lydiastephen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

why aren't we using the fancy new citywide text alert system for election days? it seems like a new citywide text alert system would be helpful for reminding folks to vote? we didn't even have signs out on the sidewalk or road at my polling place :/

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Voted today and continued my dad's tradition of a writing in a candidate when you don't support anyone for the office. Here's to "No New Prisons." www.justiceashealing.org/nonewwomensp...

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No New Women's Prison — Families for Justice as Healing

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without. Or you can be Dolly. All these things are choices. She made good ones.

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's been so fun to watch @kaytiburt.bsky.social work on this story because Boy Throb is so fun and the fandom's support of Darshan is amazing.

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🏳️‍🌈 zel⁷: impregnating yoongi 🏳️‍🌈 @agustdyke.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

also nas being at that show is going to make me cry. i love you namjoon you deserve every nice thing ever

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A manly, charismatic and highly electable political candidate who is not a rapey bigot is not a unicorn, actually. Stop betting on very bad horses because of your pathetic scarcity mindset.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Living up to the post office’s motto, my mail carrier just delivered the mail despite a tornado warning.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 04/06/2026

What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?

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Lacy Baugher Milas @lacymb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"It's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and... everybody lives happily ever after." 💔

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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/06/2026

#OtD 2 Jun 1863 the Combahee River raid took place, Harriet Tubman led 150 Black Union soldiers. The only woman-led military operation during the American civil war. 750 slaves were freed and the estates of several slaveowners were looted and burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9200...

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“However, before Boy Throb can perform together in its complete, corporeal form, Magdum needs a work visa.” Overall great article by @kaytiburt.bsky.social but this sentence in particular is gold.

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Bluesky

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

College students booing AI-loving CEOs gives me hope for the future. We should all be baseline rude to the people who are cheering for a worse world!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Cutting through the bullshit and making these people say they don’t want more housing.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/04/2026

initially i thought it extremely inappropriate for jd vance to travel to another country and try to meddle in their elections and now i think he should go stump on behalf of every right wing reactionary party in europe, give him a special budget for it, i don't care, get him on the local news

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

It’s weird how people think space travel is what makes the Star Trek utopia It is who humanity chooses to be, how it chooses to distribute power, that is what produces the utopian elements

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I will always find things like this awe inspiring. Few things give me childlike wonder like outer space exploration.

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Wild seeing folks be pro-TSA all of a sudden.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 14/03/2026

It's #PiDay – which means it's time for our annual report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 🥧 Last year, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased again. But why? We answer that & bust the biggest myths of the carceral system🧵

Pie chart showing that nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S.

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I’m on top of checking these sorts of things to the point that I’m the one letting friends know. I discovered that they had rescheduled recycling AGAIN as I watched the truck pull away from my apartment. I can be flexible I need actual notifications.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless

Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Do you hate winter or do you hate the system that expects you to treat every day of the year the same way, ignoring cycles of nature?

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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Warren Frey🇨🇦 @freyburg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’m not at #Gally1 this year, but I did put together a video for Fan Video Happy Hour! #fvhh youtu.be/86bBlpYKs7c?...

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Lord of the Rings for Fan Video Happy Hour

YouTube video by Warren Frey

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The “do you think I care for you so little” line will always destroy me. Whouffaldi forever. #FVHH #Gally1

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I always impressed when an editor who includes a range of characters and eras like they did with this Star Trek fanvid. #FVHH #Gally1

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Jen @ourownstrings.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The best of #gally1 even if it’s virtual for me this year. #FVHH

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CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Some wonderful organizers and historians at Harvard have been digitizing the archives about when prisoners ran Walpole - you can access them here in the "Walpole Prison 1973 Digital Archive": walpole1973npradigitalarchive.omeka.fas.harvard.edu This is radical abolitionist #mapoli history.

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Home · Walpole 1973 NPRA Digital Archive

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/01/2026

Jeffries needed a weatherman to tell him which way the wind blows, but at least he got there

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Call Congress tomorrow and remind them that ICE is more than one guy.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I guess I am a bit of a chaos bisexual but it’s in less of an Ilya Rozanov way and more of a “Beaker from the Muppets” way

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

i don't understand why so many people are so adamant that what ICE is doing is not the same as law enforcement. i disagree and i think a lot of the arguments ring very hollow, but more to the point: what's behind the desperate need to protect police legitimacy right now?

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

THREAD: ICE violence is powered by millions of dollars in funding for surveillance. ICE is buying cell phone location data, leveraging Flock and Ring cameras and playing with terrifying spy toys from Palantir. We have a rare chance this week to fight back. Plz share punchbowl.news/article/hous...

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After ICE outcry, Dems turn on DHS funding bill

House Dems are turning against the Homeland Security funding bill en masse in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

MA, if you don’t have LUCE in your phone contacts, please add them.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Here is a useful resource to find ICE rapid response numbers near you. Check your state on the map, see how you can help, write down the telephone numbers for your area so you can report ICE activity. ICErr.com

icerr.com

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes. If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.

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