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Carol

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So very, very confused by it all. But, heck, that keeps it interesting.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 14h
A memorable moment from today’s Jack Smith Senate hearing, feat. Chuck Grassley
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 14h
Simplify your life by hibernating from now until spring
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 14h
Breaking: Eric Schmitt to resign from Congress to join ESPN. #Satire
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
“Data centers are gonna be very popular”🤔 Trump again makes it clear his loyalty is to the tech oligarchs (who enrich him and his family), not to regular Americans
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 18h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Stephen R. Smith @stephensmith.bsky.social · 15h
This. Consequences, and specifically the lack of them are at the root of so much that is wrong with the world right now.
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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
It’s so satisfying to know how to vote for judges instead os skipping or voting without information. This guide has been a game changer.
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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 16h
As much as I will always love quartz, in this moment when generative AI companies are doing their best to make all my art valueless, I have to choose graphite. Give me a graphite stick and some paper, and I can make something wonderful that no one’s ever seen before.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 14h
MY BRAIN: hey here's that time you were thoughtlessly rude to a friend. remember that embarrassing gift you gave to your first girlfriend. once you ran into someone ME: please..I am begging you. Can we remember some fucking French. why did I come into this room MY BRAIN: nope. once when you were 4
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14h
IMEU
POLICY PROJECT
The following Senators voted YES on a resolution that would require the State Department to investigate and report on Israel's rampant human rights abuses against Palestinians in the illegally-occupied West Bank, as well as Israel's killing of 9 US citizens since 2022:
• Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)

• Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
• Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

• Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
• Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

• Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
• Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)

• Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)

• Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
• Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

• Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) • Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)


• Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
• Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)

• Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
• Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

• Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

• Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
• Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

• Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
• Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)

• Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

• Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
• Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

• Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
• Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

• Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ)
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

• Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
• Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)




• Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)
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Owen Missen @scimissionowen.bsky.social · 16h
Famously versatile and flaky! Graphite's structure is in the high school chemistry curriculum. It conducts electricity and is very soft, leading to its uses in grey 'lead' pencils and as a solid lubricant. Carbon has 5 polymorphs: graphite, diamond, lonsdaleite, chaoite and tartarosite.
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Owen Missen @scimissionowen.bsky.social · 16h
Ten years after Mineral Cup began, the mineral that began it all, quartz, is into the semi finals. Quartz is the most common SiO2 polymorph, but there are 8 other known polymorphs of SiO2 (cristobalite, tridymite, coesite, lechatelierite, moganite, seifertite, stishovite and xiexiandeite).
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 15h
Also Eric Schmitt's dumbass conspiracy theory was based on the idea that the Fulton County DA and the special counsel, both well-known public figures, said "We must discuss our nefarious plan to get Trump. No, a phone call won't do - let's meet in the stands at an NBA game, with cameras everywhere."
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17h
I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...
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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
BREAKING NEWS
GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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ROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEL, WHO MET PRITELY WITH TRUMP.F
8:23 PM • 9/29/26 • 23K Views
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 15h
Mola Cult x Pizzamas
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18h
🚨 5 WEEKS TO GO! W/THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT GUTTED, FLIPPING *STATE LEGISLATIVE SEATS* JUST BECAME EVEN MORE IMPORTANT. #SOUTHCAROLINA Dems need help! This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts. Donate today! #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/sc26h...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026
Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]
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Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks
“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Carol @pinkgodzilla2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For fuck’s damn sake @netflix @primevideo @hbomax and even @appletv: stop with the damn auto play in the fucking background. I can’t fucking think while trying to choose what to watch with all that shitty damn fucking movement going on.
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KTVU FOX 2 @ktvufox2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Golden State Valkyries earned their first playoff win at Chase Center, defeating the Dallas Wings 104-80. A roaring Ballhalla crowd celebrated the historic night with Too $hort and fans from across the Bay Area.
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Golden State Valkyries make history with first playoff win at Chase Center
The Golden State Valkyries earned their first playoff win at Chase Center, defeating the Dallas Wings 104-80. A roaring Ballhalla crowd celebrated the historic night with Too $hort and fans from across the Bay Area.
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is tomorrow!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Art by Erika De Luca
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Reecy Pontiff @reecypontiff.com · 28/09/2026
A little bit of Glasgow in East Sussex
A statue of Queen Victoria on the Hastings seaside... wearing an orange traffic cone on her head
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
Star Trek: The Next Generation started 39 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point.
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Murderbot made The Beat! www.comicsbeat.com/murderbot-gr...
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MURDERBOT DIARIES becoming a graphic novel
Cosmic Lighthouse will launch a Kickstarter for a graphic novel based on the first book in Martha Wells's Murderbot series in October.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
some pretty prominent dudes lost their jobs (with massive payouts, of course) and it made the executive class absolutely furious and determined that there never be consequences for them again
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whether you like #graphite or #pyromorphite, we all know: Hexagons are the bestagons.
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Circles Waste Space. Hexagons Don't.
YouTube video by CGP Grey
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"it's WHOOOO, steve." "fuck off." "seriously... it freaks everyone out when you scream 'WHYYYY' at 4am."
a great grey owl on a branch looking slumped over and exasperated. (john blumenkamp)
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Save The Tick 💙 @savethetick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ARTHUR: John… Wu? WALTER: Yes. THE TICK: Walter is… not a Walter? WALTER: No. THE TICK: My feet don't feel so good. #TheTick #NowStreaming #Netflix
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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'The Wicker Man' (acrylic on paper, 2024) by Barnaby Edwards £465 Today's painting (from my current exhibition on fantasy cinema) is a dive into the glorious folk horror movie, The Wicker Man (1973). Please share with interested parties! barnabyedwards.co.uk/myth-and-mag...
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wakefield was a fraud who engaged in deliberate data falsification. Investigations revealed that he had altered patient medical histories, fabricated data, and reported false onset times. He lost his license to practice medicine in the UK in 2010. www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Texans, time to vote like our lives depend on it! Early VOTING in Texas begins October 19. Please check your registration now! Vote in person if you can.
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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new Orca calf born to the T-137 pod!🐋 Port Susan, Washington 📸Audrey Gao
A baby Orca
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You ever think about how between the end of USAID, the Iran War, and whatever horrid plague RFK Jr. unleashes, the backlash to Me Too will probably kill more people than the backlash against the actual literal act of war on 9/11?
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guillotines: the Moderate Solution™
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sorry if Low Traffic Neighbourhoods made you "flee" Britain, then maybe it's on you
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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'The Shape of Water' (acrylic on oil paper, 2026) by Barnaby Edwards £465 Today's painting (from my current exhibition on fantasy cinema) is inspired by Guillermo del Toro's 2017 reimagining of The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Domain Expansion: Joyful Chaos Dimension @pricethecreator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHIMSY AND JOY DESTROYS THE DARKNESS
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all “but what if it takes over the station’s systems and kills everybody” and Pin-Lee told them “if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now,” which in hindsight was probably not the best response.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi…
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2026
British police have arrested five men on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism and explosives offenses outside RAF Fairford, a base in western England operated by the U.S.
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Air base at the center of a UK terror probe has been used by the US Air Force during the Iran war
British police have arrested five men on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism and explosives offenses outside RAF Fairford, a base in western England operated by the U.S.
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joycelynngarrett, phd @jlg1017.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Silent Spring" was required reading in my Park/Rec program at University of Oregon. Still, after almost 60 years, the book impacts the way I think about and act with regard to the environment.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bluesky's originally envisioned user base was *literally* meant to be all the sex pests at the Silicon Valley orgies @faineg.com has been talking about. Jack Dorsey *left* when trans people showed up instead of the expected Harry Potter sex cultists.
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