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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

a Mouse King. is there one under your desk??

drawing of a bunch of computer mice with their all cords tangled together

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

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a hybrid signal @unknown.garden · 31/03/2026

so i don't live there now but i am From Philly, it's meaningfully part of me even 20+ years out and i'm not into hockey but this guy has transcended mere hockey mascot, imo. i've been thinking about this kind of treatment for him basically since go & especially since they doubled down on the flag-

scan of a gouache painting of Philly's mascot Gritty, a furry orange muppet with wild eyes, as a wrathful deity crowned with gold flames, dancing on modern imps of ignorance and cruelty, on the Columbia bridge over the Schuylkil, in front of a burning Cybertruck in the river, flanked by offerings of pretzels and Tastykakes. It holds up a progress flag on a hockey stick, a middle finger, a sprig of ginkgo, a big cup of Wawa coffee, one empty blessing hand, and a molotov cocktail ready to throw. The sky is pastel dawn colors over Fairmount Park.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Finally caught up on #GBBO in advance of the finale ... goodbye my sweet princes 😭

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

They should invent a femininity that doesn't involve mangling your feet constantly.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hahaha yes! I have heard that one! As you correctly discerned it is ridiculous and not true. Any cat with visible tabby markings can have an “M”. Has nothing to do with Maine Coon lineage.

Photo collage of seven pictures. They are cats of all different shapes and sizes and breeds and colors, but all of them are tabby, and all of them have a vague letter M shape on their forehead in the tabby pattern.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Cooking methods have changed too Far less braising, stewing, cooking to well done Why? Lots of changes to sanitation/hygiene We worry about pork because we KNEW that was a heat issue. Funny thing is the US hasn't had a case of trichinosis from commercial port in ~70 years. We could eat it rare.

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Magic Bird Peddler @dfeldman.org · 04/09/2025

SO MANY KIDS used to die Improvements in sanitation and vaccines were big, but pasteurization had a big impact too Pasteurization wasn't mandatory in the US until after WWII (exact year depends on the state)

Chart of childhood mortality ages 0-5, going from 450 per 1000 to close to 0 today

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales from Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ IS OUT NOW! Grab your copy! Come see me at the Bangor launch tonight at 6 or next Tues at Brookline Booksmith at 7! (Book shown on the boat heading up north now!) I can’t believe I got to do this! Ahhh! amzn.to/3V58t70

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

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pedanticnarwhal @pedanticnarwhal.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

🧵 on the unique American Protestant approach to dress

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

not enough people are talking about how Freya has short little legs and is very close to the ground

a gray cat has short little legs and is very close the ground

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Jett @jettstrange.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"Good morning!!😇 NOW GET UP AND FEED ME."

A photo of Dave the tuxedo cat taken from several feet above. He is laying on the floor and looking toward the camera and seems to look cheerful.

A photo of Dave the tuxedo cat taken from several feet above. He is laying on the floor, and looking towards the camera. Dave looks to be meowing loudly and looks slightly grumpy.

(He was not grumpy, he just looks like this when he's meowing loudly)

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Beautiful Tessa. She lives here with her daughter Rumi in the stall right next to her and they spend time out in the pastures together every day. It makes us so happy to be able to keep families together. 💕

Photo of a beautiful white horse with dark eyes, grey and pink on her muzzle, and black and white mane.

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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’m not staring. I’m manifesting tuna. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Color photograph. A gray, black and tan tabby cat sits inside a wicker basket that is shaped like a giraffe and atop a white pillow. She looks innocently at the camera as if waiting for instructions.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There's this cycle with American reactionaries where they are so desperate for a national purity that has never existed in the United States, not even at the first founding (let alone the second), we've always been the dumping ground for all the unwashed masses of the world (laudatory)

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pedanticnarwhal @pedanticnarwhal.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

My great aunt’s DAR application was rejected the first time because the ancestor she named turned out to be a British loyalist but accepted the second time. My most recently immigrated ancestor came to the US in the 1840s. JD Vance can go fuck himself. The couch doesn’t want him.

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emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 @baseballmad.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

i'm a daughter of the American Revolution and I think JD Vance should be fired out of a cannon directly into the sun

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𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 @felinaria.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Contemplating… 🌴🐈‍⬛😽🌴 #cats

Gata sentada em um muro, árvores no fundo

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Dreamy bean. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white cat lying on a lawn with a white house visible but very blurry in the background. Everything in the photo has a hazy, dreamy look.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/07/2025

What transit experts generally tell you is: the highest use of scarce resources is making transit service more *frequent & reliable*. That's what actually boosts ridership. Everything else -- free point-of-use fare, electric buses, fancy new trolleys, architecturally fancy stations -- matters less.

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𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 @felinaria.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Good Morning Vakinya! ✨😽💫🌞 #cats

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𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 @felinaria.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Hi Brunhilde! 🐈‍⬛🐾😽🫶 #cats

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Ag is a real job. It takes real skills, knowledge, & people who gaf about what they're doing. Stop treating agriculture like society's dumping ground.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

But berries, fruit, tomatoes, etc that are eaten fresh can't be automated w current technology. I know because I worked for a lot of the startups that tried! There's no way to pick fast enough by machine to be commercially viable, without bruising so they rot before they get to the store.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2025

Oh, hmm, turns out in the years it took you to get the damn harvester to market—and yes, it would take years, multiple, even with the magic memo—all the farmers went under because their crops rotted in the fields because harvesting is not unskilled labor, and now watermelons cost $100 a piece!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2025

Robotics is hard! Robots are not delicate! They are hard on the plants. Any crop that doesn’t ripen all at once, like melons or peppers, is usually hand-harvested. The vast majority of fruits are hand-harvested. But sure, pretend for a minute that Trump COULD write a memo inventing a harvester.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thread, up; then down.

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Mousecow @mousecow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Chimken tax day seems to come around quicker and quicker. #EverybodyLovesMousecow

A poor starving angel, begging for sustenance.

A young wampa beast, focused on its prey

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

she's one frustrating news story away from breaking out the canned margaritas

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I know they don't want to call it a concentration camp because PR is telling them to keep pretending they're not Nazis. But literally calling it Alligator Alcatraz & giggling happily about people getting eaten by fucking alligators on TV is worse? Surely it's clear that's worse...

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Do I think it’s possible to get some “moderate” House Republicans to flip? It’s highly unlikely. Is it worth trying? Always. The calls need to come from their constituents though. www.5calls.org

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

New York plants 400 chestnuts in effort to restore near-extinct native tree. Once dominant in eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly wiped out by blight a century ago. The project marks a shift toward urban ecosystems as active sites of species recovery buff.ly/BrPZeqE #ShareGoodNewsToo

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‘This isn’t a gimmick’: the New Yorkers trying to restore the American chestnut

More than 120 years after billions of the trees were wiped out, blight-proof seeds are being planted

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/07/2025

We can stop this!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/07/2025

List with numbers (reproducing image so I can add alt text.)

AZ-06, Juan Ciscomani
(202) 225-2542

IA-03, Zach Nunn
(202) 225-5476

PA-01, Brian Fitzpatrick
(202) 225-4276

CA-22, David Valadao
(202) 225-4695

MI-07, Tom Barrett
(202) 225-4872

PA-07, Ryan Mackenzie
(202) 225-6411

CA-40, Young Kim
(202) 225-4111

MI-10 John James
(202) 225-4961

PA-08, Rob Bresnahan
(202) 225-5546

CA-41, Ken Calvert
(202) 225-1986

MN-01 Brad Finstad
(202) 225-2472

PA-10, Scott Perry
(202) 225-5836

CO-08, Gabe Evans
(202) 225-5625

MO-02, Ann Wagner
(202) 225-1621

TN-05, Andy Ogles
(202) 225-4311

CO-03 Jeff Hurd
(202) 225-4676

NJ-07, Tom Kean Jr.
(202) 225-5361

TX-15, Monica De La Cruz
(202) 225-9901

FL-07, Cory Mills
(202) 225-4035

NY-17, Mike Lawler
(202) 225-6506

VA-01, Rob Wittman
(202) 225-4261

FL-13, Anna Paulina Luna
(202) 225-5961

OH-07, Max Miller
(202) 225-3876

VA-02, Jen Kiggans
(202) 225-4215

FL-27, Maria Elvira Salazar
(202) 225-3931

OH-10, Mike Turner
(202) 225-6465

WI-01, Bryan Steil|
(202) 225-3031

IA-01, Mariannette Miller Meeks
(202) 225-6576

OH-15, Mike Carey
(202) 225-2015

WI-03, Derrick Van Orden
(202) 225-6730

OR-02, Cliff Bentz
(202) 225-6730

IA-02, Ashley Hinson
(202) 225-2911

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/06/2025

Firework deaths are up. Firework injuries are up. If you are using fireworks this July 4th, use them safely. Don't let kids play with sparklers. Never launch fireworks off your body. www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/New...

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CPSC Urges Fireworks Safety Ahead of July 4th Holiday

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