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Matt Norlander @norlander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the most revered and celebrated albums in music history was released on Sept. 28, 1976 — 50 years ago today. Songs in the Key of Life tracks, ranked:

1. Sir Duke
2. As
3. Contusion
4. Another Star
5. Have a Talk With God
6. I Wish
7. Love’s in Need of Love Today
8. Summer Soft
9. Black Man
10. Pastime Paradise
11. Ordinary Pain
12. Isn’t She Lovely
13. Ngiculela
14. Village Ghetto Land
15. Joy Inside My Tears
16. Knocks Me Off My Feet
17. If It’s Magic

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like all (okay, most of) the musics, but jazz is the best and it's not even close hit send

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

whoever greenlit this Harrelson-McConaughey buddy show on Apple TV definitely got high with them, that's the only way this could have happened

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I were a Chicagoan with Welsh heritage that I liked to celebrate by doing Welsh cultural stuff with other Welshish-Americans, it would bother me to be represented in public by an account that posts mean-spirited and ignorant transphobia on the regular.

Account page for the Chicago Tafia Welsh Society, which apparently doesn't like trans people.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[standing up clapping] God dammit, Dewey Decimal System jokes are exactly what this platform is for!!! (you gotta read through the thread)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just observationally it's striking how much of a predictor for "I didn't leave the left, the left left me" heel turns having something obviously wrong with your brain is

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god, this whole thread is so funny

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lol, moderation list abuse is the dumbest thing about this platform.

@graveyardslug.bsky.social has added you to the "likely bot accounts" moderation list

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do we have a term for when reading comprehension flies out the window when someone feels threatened or otherwise worked up?

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The best martinis are served in glasses with wide, shallow bowls, because the constant danger of spilling is an integral part of the experience.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My windows are open and either someone is doing something unexpectedly sublime with barbecue in south London, or the most delicious house in the world is burning down right now.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Whatever your feelings on dogpiling, you could scroll through the comments here and do a lot of productive blocking.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There's just no other reasonable explanation: the mainstream political media, and reactionary-centrist types in general, are, to various nonzero degrees, sympathetic to the fascist cause. This is even more true of the tankie (and tankish) left, but they are far less powerful and far fewer in number.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I love it that people post their tomatoes.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I can't pretend to understand the "clanker" discourse atm and I'm sure a fair part of it is in corners of the internet I dare not enter. But it sure *looks* like a situation where people are seeing/using it in very different kinds of conversations, and assuming theirs is the REAL one.

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DirtyV3gas @dirtyv3gas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Police Officers at the Stonewall Inn

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Nobody uses the word "gradu" anymore. (gradew? gradeu?) That was a fun word, we should have kept it.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Most of the people on here who I follow for political insight or catharsis have been arguing for the past 2 days about things I either don't understand or don't give a shit about. I wonder if that means anything.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For reasons that, uh, might be related to the players' uniforms, I've recently become curious abt Aussie rules football. Just tried and failed to read the wikipedia entry to learn the rules. As an unsported person, there's really no substitute for going to a game with a fan who'll explain it to you.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A real ethicist would kick my ass for this, but I find it a useful test to ask whether an animal would be as happy to eat me as I'd be to eat it. I don't mean dogs & cats trapped in the house with you after you've died. I mean pigs. Humboldt squid. They look at you and wonder what you taste like.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hello London: it's 2:30AM and the temperature in my bedroom is still 32°C (it's cooler outside but see, these buildings, they hold it in) and the UK gov't has been terrorising us since before dinnertime w/emergency fire hazard warnings that apparently (?) override the volume settings on one's phone.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here are some useful infographics on Russian propaganda.

NAFO
OFAN
Know Your Western Genocide Apologist
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NAFO
NAN educational resource
A. The communist
Thinks Russia is still com-munist, & is standing up for the little guy against the evil corporate west.
Has absolutely no grasp of the reality of the modern world.
Denser than a neutron star.
B. The lefty antifascist (subtype of A)
Thinks a country having issues with neo-nazis (as many countries do), means that the whole society and it's Government are fascist.
Ignores polls showing how false that is, & evidence that there are just as many tas-cists in Russia. Thinks he/she is really clever.
C. The hard-right
Likes the fact that Russia is quite fascist. Attracted to the ultra-macho, racist, sexist Russian military culture.
Hasn't yet grasped that Russia's military is actually quite rubbish at fighting. Usually homophobic. Always an arsehole.
D. The contrarian
"Does own research", and doesn't trust the MSM.
Thinks saying the opposite of whatever Western media is saying is really clever, but swallows Russian propaganda like it's the jizz of the Gods. Thinks you're a stupid sheeple.
E. The peacenik
Thinks the war is NATO'S fault. Thinks Ukraine should surrender the occupied land to end the
"NATO-proxy-war". Brain explodes when asked if they would surrender if it were their country being invaded. Logic disabled.

RUSSIA'S WAR PROPAGANDA strategic/tactical narratives and their audiences
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Russian domestic audience
1. "The Ukrainian nation does not exist"
2. "Ukraine was granted existence by Russia"
3. "Sovereign Ukraine is a project of 'anti-Russia*"
• Russia's war against Ukraine is not a war but a
'special military operation**
• "Ukrainians opposing Russian rule are Nazis"
"NATO uses Ukraine to attack Russia"
• "Ukraine's leaders are Satanists" etc
02
Ukrainian audience
1. "Russians and Ukrainians are brotherly nations"
2. "Ukraine is part of the Russian civilization"
3. "Ukraine can only be successful together with Russia"
• "Ukraine's leadership betrays ordinary
Ukrainians"
• "West will fight Russia 'to the last Ukrainian"
"Gayropa: The West is degenerate etc
04
The West
1. "Russia is a global power with a right to its own sphere of influence, and Ukraine belongs there"
2. "Ukraine as part of the West poses an existential threat to Russia"
3. "The West is using NATO to encircle Russia"
• "The West attacks Russia because of "Russophobia"
• "Ukraine has an immense Nazi problem"
"Ukraine is very corrupt, cannot be part of West"
"Sanctions are very damaging" etc
03
The Global South
1. "Russia is the leader of the global anti-imperialist and anti-colonial front"
2. "The West is using the Ukraine war to reclaim global domination"
3. "Ukraine is part of the Russian legitimate sphere of influence"
• "Western support for Ukraine is driven by anti-Russian racism"
• "Ukraine endangers global food security"
• "Ukraine is developing biological weapons in secret
US-funded biolabs" etc
Classification by Anton Shekhovtsov; infographic by Euromaidan Press

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reacher is a super dumb show but I have to admit that scene where he smushes a guy between mobile library stacks scratched an itch that's been with me since my own long library nights in grad school.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

First Hugh Laurie and now this, jfc. TERF Island rot keeps spreading.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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John Nomiddlename Iser @johniser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thread of the day. (Very long, but essential reading.)

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Well that is quite disappointing about Hugh Laurie. Though I DID think he had really found his niche playing villains in recent years. More right than I realised.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Man, I second-screened House of the Dragon too much this season; I don't know wtf is going on anymore.

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Scromitin' Jay Hawkins 🇺🇦 @silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This weird economy of ideas, where the right believes nonsense and the center-left believes the right must have *some* valid points, has grown ever more absurd over the last five decades. Why? Why should we engage with "facts" that we can disprove with our own eyes and elementary school reasoning.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This thread is funny but makes an important point well. And "the proverbial hyper traumatised cis woman who cannot visit a petting zoo without fainting at the sight of a billy goat" is pure gold.

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Emtcub @cumpigcub.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Star Trek Crossover Pictures and Videos

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

christinapagel.substack.com

We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures

A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Much of the criticism aimed at food companies ends up helping them. Railing against high-fructose corn syrup led not to healthier food, but to companies using "made with real sugar" as an ad slogan. The problem with GMOs has nothing to do with whether the modification is harmful to health: it's not.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is the only Cyclops I'm interested in.

The painting, "Le Cyclope" by French Symbolist painter Odilon Redon, depicting Polyphemus peering over a hill crest at the nude nymph Galatea while she sleeps.

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Believe it or not we have addressed this! Here you go: single gar = gar multiple gars, same species = garrison multiple gars, different species = garmada

Graphic showing the different terminology for a single gar, a group of gar of the same species, and group of gar of multiple species. They are called the following, respectively: gar, garrison, garmada.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There is no evidence for a lab leak. There is no evidence of a coverup of a thing that never happened. Asserting that it has been proven doesn't make it so. It hasn't even been substantiated, let alone proven.

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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm starting to feel like I'm going to have to read this Emily Wilson LRB piece just so I can get in on the fun of complaining about it.

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.

Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to ‘our civilisation’ from ‘the sea peoples’ – a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture. ‘Our civilisation is under attack,’ Penelope wails. Odysseus comforts her by saying that ‘Bronze Age civilisation’, including literacy, will rise again from the ashes. The current consensus, as Nolan clearly knows, is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’, and that the Greek-speaking world’s shift away from the more centralised, literate palace culture of the Mycenaeans in the 11th century BCE towards the fragmented social formations of the early Greek Iron Age was caused by a range of factors, including climate change, earthquakes and internal unrest. Nolan uses these competing historical theories to create a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples’, which I will not spoil, though you can probably guess it.

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There is something genuinely perverse about contemporary Labour's embrace of these senseless, retrograde policies.

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