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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 04/10/2026

Banned Book Week includes manga, too. Here's Coop Bicknell's discussion with librarians last year about the swath of titles targeted by interest groups.

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Manga in The Crosshairs: The State of Manga Bans in 2025

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Found out yesterday that one of the first pet cats whose name we know belonged to Crown Prince Thutmose of the 18th dynasty pf Egypt. She was named Ta-Miu, which translates, roughly, as "Miaow Girl".

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People aren't more rude. They're just more frequently in situations were rudeness is tolerated or positively encouraged. People who yell on the Internet become sweet little pussycats when you're privately hanging out.

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 02/10/2026

What if English never adopted Latin names for months? From @StarkeyComics.bsky.social

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too shy shy boy @imochin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

J'adore cette case de Shimeji Simulation

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October Country by Ray Bradbury. (for @tomsbrown.bsky.social & all others who love this month)

OCTOBER COUNTRY
... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain....

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As long as British voters are not able to cope with trade-offs of Euro and Schengen then the healthiest option for the EU is a UK in the Single Market with a Customs Union but not a full member. The Brits have a choice between being a rule taker with benefits or a rule taker with nothing.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They've lost a fifth of their mass in five years. You can almost watch it happening in real time here.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I talk about this a lot in "Lost Worlds" - the world didn't begin with people alive today, and it won't end with people today. Apocalypticism is a wonderful way of making it so you don't have to think about the real long-term consequences of your actions. If it's all going to end, why think further?

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 29/09/2026

There are a few European languages in which the word for 'world' comes from words and roots to do with light – the world being the place lit by the sun. Lithuanian pasaulis 'world' is especially etymologically nice, as literally the under-sun (pa-saulė).

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TIL from @wapolicygreen.bsky.social about the super-useful term “ultracrepidarians”: people who think that since they're experts in one area, they're experts in all areas. E.g.s include scientists and businesspeople who opine on subjects out of their domain (physicists who decry population growth...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the 1990s, Ru didn’t hold clean elections; the oppo rejected democracy; the constitution-writing process ended in a shootout; it leveled Chechnya, occupied parts of Moldova/Georgia, supported the aggressor in the Yugoslav wars. Still some fantasize about how it could've joined the EU. Laughable.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A defensible analysis of early modern European history, IMO, but you want to lead with that in an essay rather than finishing with it

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is why an absolute Brandmauer against the AfD or isolating the Linke are not workable long term strategies. It is more viable and sensible for CDU/CSU, Greens and SPD to set tough conditions any party that wants cooperation must fulfil. If they do great! If not, tough luck.

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Daniel ／妥仁得 @kaihat.su · 23/09/2026

Things that we got within six months of each other in 1889 - Nintendo - Van Gogh’s Starry Night - Hitler

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 22/09/2026

The etymologies of a few different endonyms and exonyms of different regions, from Starkey Comics starkeycomics.com/2025/10/31/e...

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i hate that i can’t enjoy cute animal videos without wondering if they’re AI. i’m getting better at checking, but damn, way to ruin one of the few good things on the internet.

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K4TCH @katch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Of course, you can borrow my umbrella! As they say, "mi 𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘢 es tu 𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘢."

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Ano Natsu Ano Natsu De Matteru: Kanna, Ame no Naka

ALT: Ano Natsu Ano Natsu De Matteru: Kanna, Ame no Naka

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Enjoyed this article about the growing number of men adopting cats, bucking gender stereotypes. Apparently Mamdani is allergic to cats, but has been getting allergy shots because his wife wants to adopt one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

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Dave Franco, Jordan Poole and Other Everyday Cat Dads Are Redefining Gender Stereotypes (Gift Article)

We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.

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too shy shy boy @imochin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Le jour où les gens comprendront qu'ils n'ont pas besoin de hurler quand ils sont au téléphone, l'humanité aura fait un grand bond en avant.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is an important new meta-study that shows that "ingroup love" does not necessarily link to "outgroup hate". I have long thought that, at least at the mass level, both "nativism" and "populism" are primarily about the "hate" of the Other and, hence, are more xenophobia and anti-establishment.

The co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across
121 societies

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n an increasingly interconnected world, prosociality across group boundaries becomes ever more important. Yet, a common premise in the behavioral and social sciences is that people are prosocial mainly toward their ingroup and not outgroups. So far, evidence for this premise comes mostly from studies in which people must choose between ingroup and outgroup prosociality, thereby precluding positive associations between the two types of prosociality. We study situations in which people make separate decisions regarding the ingroup and outgroup, allowing us to examine how ingroup and outgroup prosociality are related. Across six large-scale and cross-societal datasets spanning 743,402 individuals in 121 societies, we find a robust positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality. This relationship holds across societies, different group categorizations, and a diverse range of prosociality measures, including
prisoner’s dilemmas, public good dilemmas, dictator games, and survey items on trust and tolerance. Although people are slightly more prosocial toward their ingroup than the outgroup, those who are prosocial toward the ingroup also tend to be prosocial toward the outgroup. The results offer an optimistic message for prosociality across group boundaries. When people are not made to choose between the ingroup and outgroup, they are generally prosocial toward both.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 20/09/2026

In pre-Christian Slavic tribes, Dożynki was an autumn equinox festival, one celebrating the gifts of the earth and the hope of renewal next year, when the gifts would come once again. Holdovers from these celebrations include the baking of massive pancakes. #FolkloreSunday

A painted photo of from the early 20th century showing two traditionally dressed Russian women with the last sheafs of fall.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Western Balkans watching Canada swoop in for EU associate membership

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@tedgioia.bsky.social making the case that Philip K Dick's "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," one of his most bonkers novels when it came out in 1965, is now a work of social realism. www.honest-broker.com/p/my-favorit...

Gioia on Dick: What a crazy book! Or at least that’s how it seemed back in 1965, when Philip K. Dick published The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. It was a strange book in a strange year.

But not anymore. The most demented things in this story are now a reality. Just consider….

A ruthlessly ambitious CEO who wants to relocate to Mars, and gets caught up in a fierce rivalry with another space-traveling technocrat.

All this is financed by the sale of addictive technology, which now becomes the focal point of people’s leisure hours.

Unwary citizens find themselves addicted to tech platforms, where users are represented by avatars. But the real goal of powerful tech enterprises is to lure users into compulsive behavior that can be monetized. And not just once—but day after day.

As a result, huge numbers of people waste their free time and spend all their money inside these make-believe platforms. They want to escape reality, not live in it.

Can you blame them. Global warming is out of control, and beyond any point where it can be fixed.

Meanwhile, a few wealthy elites are obsessed with transhumanist technologies for extending life—which often backfire.

In their struggles to maintain sanity in a dystopian world, people now get therapy from a chatbot—accessed via a device they carry with them wherever they go.

But some heavy users are so deranged by the emerging technology…..

Cover of 1980s paperback version of the book features a bonkers, industrialist-looking guy with bulging fish eyes and light beams emerging from his head in the shape of a Greek cross while he gesticulates meaningfully. His suitcoat is transforming itself into batwings in a creepy fashion.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🇷🇸🇺🇸 Somebody on the Polish internet described Sydney Sweeney as "an actress with the eyes of a retired Serbian infantry major" and from now on I'll probably always think of war crimes when looking at her.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 16/09/2026

Ancient Mesoamericans imagined the night's sky like that of a cave, with light glistening from each stalactite from far above. Rain is water rushing into our cave, and for that rain gods are given much prominence in Mayan and Aztec mythos. #WyrdWednesday

A Mesoamerican cave full of glow worms, which looks suspiciously like a night's sky reflecting on the cave's water.

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Berlin: City of Decay www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlin-city-...

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This new landscape was a nightmare marriage between reason and fantasy.

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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The more shit you store in the cloud, the more data centers they will build. Get an external hard drive and secure your own data. Stop paying them to destroy the country. How many cat videos do you need?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026

No one ever said, "Oh, great, they replaced their customer service department with AI chatbots!" My teenager and her friends use "That's so AI" as a shorthand for "That's low-effort shit."

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