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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This, from Gary B. Ruvkun, is great: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

“Another fun memory is from when we were in Stockholm. During a lull, my wife, our daughter, and I were at a little dive restaurant, and a group of 25-year-old men at a bachelor party came over and said hi. They got increasingly drunk and came every 20 minutes to talk some more, and then eventually one of them asked me to write a letter of recommendation for his unborn son. I wrote in pencil a letter of recommendation. You can’t make this up.”

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know this is alarming people, but it looks to me like someone just restated the terms of NATO membership to him

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PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Suspiciously Christopher Walken

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have an announcement.

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

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PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Recipe didn't say to add water"

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PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YYYYEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

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MISTER FILM STOCK @misterfilmstock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Inde Navarrette will star in sci-fi thriller THE WAFFLE HOUSE INDEX. It tells the story of a Waffle House waitress whose night shift becomes chaotic as it involves a gunman, a flood, killer crocodiles, a nuclear explosion, a magical bunker and aliens (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

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Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It feels strongly like this is going through a lot of people's heads right now lol

A screenshot of white text on a black background that reads: should I get an MLIS or am I just in my late twenties

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night

As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It is wild that Mattis once testified that if the State Department wasn't properly resourced then the Department of Defense would need more ammo and now we have neither.

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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The average future social sciences professor between 1940 and 1945

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GuyD @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The only really meaningful statistic to come out of the Clacton by-election

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James Taub @taubhistory.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

How I feel talking about history/How I look

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

fwiw I always rec taking a break between undergrad and grad school. doing so can help you realize later, if you do get a faculty gig in academia, that all workplaces are sort of hellscape microcosms of broader social issues and that higher ed isn't really unique in this regard.

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And please spare me the arguments that there is an inexorable progression from, say, Goldwater to Reagan to Trump. If you can’t see the difference between the conservative or libertarian or fusionist philosophies and the formless dreck that currently comes out of Republican mouths, I can’t help you.

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PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm genuinely curious if more police have been arrested for using Flock cameras to stalk women then actual criminals have been caught/arrested solely due to Flock cameras?

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...

A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution

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Franki @franki23.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This one speaks to me

A yellow and black warning sign with two icons of a running human crossed out in red and a walking human circled in green. Text reads

Don't chase your dreams!
Humans are persistence hunters.
Follow your dreams at a sustainable pace until they get tired and lie down.

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PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yes, Claude, that's why you're doing it and not me.

Screen grab of text. "Reality Check This task is enormous"

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 07/08/2026

My brother’s dog is growing on me.

A fluffy black-and-white puppy with large, expressive eyes sits on a wooden floor, looking up at the camera with its mouth open in a happy expression. A small pink bow sits on top of her head, and a wagging tail visible behind it.

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New from 404 Media: around the country, cities are ditching Flock. But in many cases, immediately replacing Flock with Axon cameras. These clamp to an existing streetlamp so harder to spot. May be harder for public to know what cops are using the cameras for www.404media.co/cities-are-d...

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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers

Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

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Glaxton T. 49ersWolf @8stringandsushi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This war is now a Teams meeting.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We made our own entertainment in the old days

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Absolutely stone cold dedication to a work of popular history

Dedication page which simply reads: ‘To my parents / who never read my doctoral thesis’

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Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

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Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas

The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

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Cartoon Beardy @cartoonbeardy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I think I’m done with graphics. Saw this and I’m convinced. I think it’s time to change careers.

Poster saying “want a new challenge? Retrain as a swan”

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Cover of Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir

Cover of Even a Dog Enlists, Why Not You? Family, History, and the First World War.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 29/07/2026

aside from anything else, “i need ammunition, not a ride” is just the coolest fucking thing to say

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PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two things can be true: 1 - This movie will be terrible relative to the 1999 Brosnan version. 2 - I still can't wait to see this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnm4...

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The Thomas Crown Affair | Official Teaser Trailer

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A frustrating pattern in news coverage of AI (etc.) in soc sci & humanities: articles that focus on those critical of AI often quote women (and they should! it's great work!), but when it's about AI as a (serious) method, no/few women quoted. Maybe don't repeat patterns of the past this time? 🙏

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 27/07/2026

Penguin Random House (@transworldbooks.bsky.social) is set to expand the Jack Reacher series with the launch of an all-new thriller series set in the world of Reacher and centred on Frances Neagley. The first novel, Zero Margin, from Lee Child and Yasmin Angoe, launches March 2027👇

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Penguin Random House acquires new thriller series by Lee Child

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

spotted: Dachshund out and about with a filmy hairnet on his face. I’m assuming he’s being deterred from eating stuff off the sidewalk, but he looks like a short and hostile beekeeper and he’s clearly mad about it

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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