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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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dafnap @dafnap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i can finally talk about what we've been working on...even better...you can finally *read* it....
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A yes, the infinite personalized music problem, a scourge that has plagued humanity since the dawn of time! AMAZING!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Slab Graveyard xkcd.com/3303/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.
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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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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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transylvan(ian) 🧛🏼 @illpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imagine being 40 points underwater on "people wanting you to stay alive"
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it’s so beautiful
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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." -H.G. Wells, (21 Sep 1866-1946)
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Crater Site Plan with Survey Net by James Turrell, 1986 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Purchased with funds contributed by the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President, 1986

© James Turrell
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stop saying “Ed Sheeran Should Have The Courage” and Start saying “Stadium Owners Should Not Have Concentrated Market Power to Pick Winners and Losers in the Concert Market.”
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Souvenirs of Perfect Doom @perfectdoom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was 16 at the time and it was incredibly eye opening to see adults behaving in such an immature and emotional way. Incredibly naive to think we could bomb the rest of the world for the best part of a century and not expect anyone to ever hit us back in a meaningful way.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
Osama bin Laden's great hope for the attack was that the US would overreact -- tear itself apart, destabilize the post-war international order, & sacrifice its moral standing. The Republican Party obliged him, beyond his wildest dreams. (And let him get away!)
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/09/2026
It’s time for me to make my yearly 9/11 repost about jokes and memory
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Open world Mr Bean game
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I started this painting today. Let me tell you a little about it... [A thread...] Over 30 years ago, I was researching the mutiny against Lt. William Bligh on His Majesty's Armed Vessel 'Bounty', in 1789. No portrait of mutineer Fletcher Christian survives, so I was determined to fill the gap...
Painting in progress of a swarthy young naval officer of the 1780s.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.
Post on X Remember in early 2000s thousands of Polish men immigrated over to UK cause their economy crashed but no one said fuck all cause they came to work, minded their own buisness an left our kids alone.....

Response Most Poles who emigrated to the UK in the early 2000s remember something completely different and photo of xenophobic graffiti
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Souvenirs of Perfect Doom @perfectdoom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The idea that humans are color coded by quality is just so absurd on its face if you’ve met a few humans that I don’t understand how it doesn’t get believers laughed out of any room they enter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
missouri republicans have a level of contempt for the people of that state that is truly remarkable. but then, why wouldn’t they after successfully insulating themselves from any political accountability?
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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Creating a 4x strategy game based in the Redwall universe. Entire tech trees dedicated to pastry development.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/08/2026
The Trump administration has been quietly selling thousands of wild mustangs to slaughterhouses for as little as $25 a horse — more than doubling sales since taking office, according to a Times analysis of government records
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Trump secretly sends thousands of horses to their deaths: 'Slaughter in plain sight'
Wild horses couldn't keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered, the New Y...
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mesut-ausil.bsky.social @mesut-ausil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
[Jonah doing stand up] and then there was Covid. Remember Covid ? Yep. This guy remembers Covid. I spent a lot of time inside during Covid. Yeah. Inside a whale!
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Jonas Salk refused to patent the polio vaccine, as he didn't want credit for this horrific massacre.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 13/08/2026
Losing my fucking mind over this Jim Haggerty Show fake ad for "Boner Bullets"
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Shearwater @shearwaterband.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Our new album 'The New World' is out now and has been met with high praise from critics and fans (we kind of can’t believe it!) ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ MOJO 9/10 Uncut 8/10 Classic Rock Magazine ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ The Morning Star See all of our tour dates and get tickets now: shearwatermusic.com/tour-dates/
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this is a dead kennedys album cover
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So the emerging tech policy of the united states is you should have a data center in your backyard polluting every aspect of your life, at your cost, whether you want it or not, and you will have to biometrically register/age verify to be online, but having a roomba is a bridge too far
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Robot vacuums are getting banned in the United States — here’s what you need to know
Plus, how you’re affected if you already own a robot vacuum.
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VeX @vexdigest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What's the optimal order to experience Woke. Someone was telling me I should do Woke 4 and 5 first, then go back to Woke 1.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/08/2026
if you need a guide for a book you are not reading anymore
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I don’t know if this really happened. But if it did, I salute you Alan.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Not wanting to attend a large public event in the presence of a Muslim man isn’t a valid opinion, even if something terrible and tragic happened to you. You are free to feel it, but not free to have it treated as acceptable
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Like a series of angry volcanoes. From NWS Spokane.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”.
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A disproportionate number of Gen Z females are affected by vague syndromes and may be victims of social contagion
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NEW: Top LA prosecutor Bill Essayli hired his former state assembly chief into leadership team of US attorney’s office despite him being on probation for 3rd DUI conviction. New hire was charged w/ battery & theft week before 1st day on job. With Mitch Black: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Top LA Prosecutor Essayli Hires Ally With Multiple Arrests
The top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles hired his former senior state legislative aide who faces potential imminent jail time for violating a drunk-driving probation due to new battery and grand the...
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"AUDIOBOOKS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE" Okay well they've slashed the price for 'No Giant Crabs' audiobook preorders through the 10th, for audible premium plus subscribers it's like twelve bucks for what some are calling the greatest novel ever written, probably www.amazon.com/There-Giant-...
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today marks a very special day in science fiction literature. May I present to you, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury:
THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
By Ray Bradbury

The computer house buzzed awake. “Good morning, everyone,” it said. 

Mr. Raynes woke up. He gave a big stretch. His wife was a robot and said “It’s a beautiful day today, my dear.”

“Yes, Mrs. Raynes” said he.

A program ran inside of her cybernetic brain, or “cy-brain”. It calculated the weather and other things.

“It may rain tonight, darling,” the robot mistress of the household said to her master.

He was scrolling through his phone, which was not just a telephonic device, but one with a video screen that could broadcast information from any corner of the earth. There was one application called, ironically, “Blue sky” he was looking at. 

“Goodness me,” he intoned, “today is a date of great import. I must be the first to virally post that a story about soft rains coming mentioned this very date!”

He continued to intone. “August 4, 2026. That is the date of today.”

“You will collect hundreds or maybe even … calculating, calculating … thousands of likes, my husband.”

“Oh, look,” he splurted out, walking to the window. A rain began to fall.

“Let us thank God the Father and Christ the Son at His right hand,” said his faithful electronic wife.

“In gratitude, Lord, we look to Thee as our protector. Guide us through dark times and fair. Lead us as a shepherd past the temptations of iniquity and sin, and shelter us your devoted from the wickedness of others until we may join Thee again at the Great Reunion in your kingdom of Heaven. Of Thee, this we pray. Amen,” said Mr. Raynes.

“Amen,” said his robot wife, whose “cy-brain” was connected to the computer house through a “wireless” information relay protocol.

They were both Episcopalian.
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