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Surviving all of it.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 23h
i keep saying this but if the *AMERICAN POPE* was on the conservative side of the pope spectrum, we'd barely hear about anything else
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All of these responses are tinged with himpathy, implying that rapists can be healed by empathy and education. You cannot educate someone who does not respect you. Men getting more empathy than their victims is why rape is so common in the first place.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 28/09/2026
"This year’s El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You need to appease your abusive parents. You need to be friends with people who don't care whether you live or die. You need to listen to this song that's so popular no one has heard of it or else you're a snob. Why don't people read the news anymore?
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Connecticut Sun's final game is tonight. Connecticut and its fans bought into the WNBA at its low point, turning a profit when the NBA's owners saw the league as a moneypit, only to lose their team now that everyone sees big bucks in women's sports. Some thoughts on the setting of the Sun:
Surprisingly, moving the team to Connecticut worked. In 2010, the Sun became the first WNBA team to turn a profit — during a global recession, and during the league’s nadir of popularity. The casino in the middle of nowhere became a fortress. The Sun has won 64.5 percent of its home games. It developed a real fanbase and made four WNBA Finals. 

The Connecticut Sun is not the first WNBA team to die. (Enjoy this haunting image of the mascots for the Sacramento Monarchs, Utah Starzz, Detroit Shock, and yes, the Houston Comets, hanging out, smiling, not realizing that death will soon come for them.)

But it’s the first WNBA team to die for this reason: Not because nobody cared, not because it couldn’t make money, not because it couldn’t find fans or win games, not because the league is shrinking … but actually because the league is growing. The Sun helped the WNBA survive, but the period of mere survival is over. The league is moving on to bigger markets and bigger money and leaving Connecticut behind.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Among those at the NYC protest against Netanyahu, risking arrest: — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, Adam Hamawy, Chi Osse, Emily Gallagher — Hannah Einbinder, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon — Caleb Hearon, Mary Beth Barone — Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker — Chelsea Manning
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the thing is we...softly had that coup after J6 & before Biden's inauguration, with Mark Milley telling Pelosi he'd taken Trump out of the nuclear chain of command. The all the institutions of democracy & those in power failed to jail Trump & prevent Trump 2. Whoops! www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...
nbcnews.com
Milley acted to prevent Trump from misusing nuclear weapons, war with China, book says
The book also revealed a previously unreported call between then-Vice President Mike Pence and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
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The Cure @thecure.com · 18/09/2026
'BOYS DON’T CRY | THE MUSIC BOX' IS AVAILABLE NOW FROM THE OFFICIAL MUSIC BOX COMPANY OR PRE-ORDER AT MERCH TRAFFIC VIA thecure.stick.site MUSIC BOX ARTWORK BY ANDY VELLA PROCEEDS OF THIS MUSIC BOX WILL BE DONATED TO @doctorswithoutborders.org
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Max Read @maxread.info · 17/09/2026
unabomber clippy
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today's theme of #BirdOfTheDay is #Mamas&Papas Here's a mated pair of Agami Herons gettting ready for nesting season. #CostaRica #herons #birds #nature
Two colorful herons with long pointed bills and blue-gray, maroon, and white plumage perch among dense green foliage.
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A man in Bangladesh harbored an eel in his colon for more than a day, after it swum into his rectum while the man was fishing. He held off on seeking medical attention immediately, hoping the fish would find its own way out. Reader, it did not.
livescience.com
Diagnostic dilemma: Fisher's colon punctured by eel that snuck in through his rectum
A man's intestines were perforated in an "exceedingly rare" medical case involving a live eel.
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Hourly Twin Peaks @hourlytwinpeaks.bagpuss.org · 13/09/2026
I want to go scuba diving.
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S03E09 The Return, Part 9: This Is the Chair July 9 2017
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Sarah @prairiesky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I made fucking amazing enchiladas tonight.
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Geirdís Björnsdóttir @geirdis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Russian guy my property manager sent to fix my shower's water temp asked my Bf if "the girlfriend" wanted the water hotter (I wasn't home). Bf said yes. Russian guy replied
"The women, they prepare for Hell"
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 11/09/2026
Volunteers are working to clean Alex Pretti's memorial after a vandal poured motor oil, which is not flammable, over the site early this morning. Caretakers have maintained the memorial daily ever since federal agents shot and killed Pretti.
minnesotareformer.com
Caretakers clean Alex Pretti memorial site after vandalism • Minnesota Reformer
Early Friday morning, caretakers arrived at Alex Pretti’s memorial, finding it doused in two gallons of synthetic motor oil. Motor oil is not flammable, and much of the memorial remains unharmed. Volu...
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com · 11/09/2026
Increasing emissions from permafrost, wetlands, lakes & wildfires will add an extra 20-30% of global warming that we haven’t been factoring in www.newscientist.com/article/2588...
newscientist.com
Natural feedbacks will warm world an extra 20 per cent this century | New Scientist
Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20 to 30 per cent more than anticipated
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Examples of 19th-century “ikat” from Central Asia. It is a bit like tie-dying a T-shirt while the shirt has yet to be made: instead of creating designs in the finished cloth, you do it on small bundles of the unwoven fibres: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c…
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Alison @gothblairwaldorf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think it’s possible there are people on here unaware of the Inland Empire seed art at the MN State Fair
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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
personifying something that was made in a deliberate mockery of such systems completely stripped from any natural or living context is a perversion of the idea as I see it
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kaoly Her wasted so much time, money, and good will to get the result that every expert told her would happen, but at least she got to show everyone who is mayor while inflicting needless pain on our neediest neighbors.
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might've heard about the Save Our Bacon Act. Turns out that the main group lobbying for it--Natl. Pork Producers Council--has taken $66M from a farmer fund intended to promote pork, & which legally cannot be used for lobbying. 40% of the $66M hasn't been previously reported. (Gift link below.)
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Sarah @prairiesky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I really dislike most baseball announcers. MLB is constantly trying to get people to watch games and the worst commentary is never in consideration of change. The national broadcasts are always the worst.
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Sarah @prairiesky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Seeing garden shots so here is today's bounty.
Counter full of peppers Red bell peppers(red fish, turbo s10), ancho pablonos, red jalapeños, green jalapeños, annahiems, corno del toro, Jimmy Nardello's, Sargento.Counter full of tomatoes (giant garden paste, opalaka,early girls, rose de Berne, Hungarian heart, Andiamo, Zenzei).
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 30/08/2026
The study found blueberry seeds digested by wolves and then deposited in their scat were between 5 and 27 percent more likely to successfully germinate and sprout into new blueberry plants. That's significant when put in the context of how many berries wolves eat.
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From poop to plants, how wolves help blueberries grow and spread in northern Minnesota
A new study shows how wolf digestion in northern Minnesota helps accelerate the growth of blueberries, and may help spread their seeds across the landscape.
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Jason Gore @jasongore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Nine years ago today, I convinced David Crosby to call into The Best Show. One of my favorite moments of my time on the show.
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Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gen X Hemingway:
Twitter pic: Butthole Surfers t-shirt, never worn
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Sarah @prairiesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Got some walking onions to plant today.
A bag of walking onion heads
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 27/08/2026
i suppose it's better than when people had to distance themselves from that radical, Markos Moulitsas
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Jeff Singer @jeffsinger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
GOP strategist in June: "If the Republicans are smart, they’ll make Platner the poster boy for the 2026 midterms." Two months later, Republicans in tough races in Ohio and across the country aren't even distancing themselves from Max Miller especially hard.
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Republicans embrace Platner as midterm boogeyman
Republicans are embracing Graham Platner, the controversial Democrat aiming to oust Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), as a new boogeyman in their fight to hold on to the Senate this fall. Platner, a pr…
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
if youre a democrat folding on hasan piker bull shit, why should i think you are going to push through on the hard stuff? do you have any idea the propaganda campaign you will be facing when you try to investigate trump corruption? the ice killers and rapists? court expansion?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
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ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Acclaimed Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama — known for her signature polka dots, repetitive patterns and immersive "Infinity Mirror Rooms" — has died at 97, her company said in a statement Thursday. 👉 ebx.sh/rg6Co4
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This pollster was 15 points off in 2024 so let's have some cooler heads prevail for a bit, shall we?
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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry on the set of Poirot for the episode 'Appointment with Death' (2009)
Tim Curry filming Agatha Christie's Poirot S11E4
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/08/2026
GRAPHIC WARNING: This video contains sensitive footage that may disturb some viewers. A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet washed away villages while damaging roads, bridges and power projects in a region bordering Tibet, authorities said
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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Someone’s excited! An Iron Age (c.600 BC) figure carved from oak and found in 1880 in Broddenbjerg bog near Viborg, Central Jutland. Now in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. #WoodWednesday (literally)
A photo of a roughly hewn wooden figure, with a penis so large it looks look like a third leg being lifted up.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin. The rupture occurred just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior on August 25, 2026. According to Enbridge, an unoccupied semi-truck rolled into an excavation site and struck the pipeline.
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postpunkandnewwave.bsky.social @postpunkandnewwave.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Siouxsie And The Banshees Monitor 1981 youtube.com/watch?v=IBat...
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sean pagliacci aka doctor dog with a gun @ghosthardware05.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"one day the sadness will end but i dont think todays the day" david lynch
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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JUJU SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
21 years ago, Sayer’s Old Meadow in Norfolk, England, grew just one monoculture crop. Now a remarkable 150+ wild native plant species grow there, none of which came from 'wildflower' seed packets, or suchlike. All it took was an annual hay cut. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself
Farmer Derek Sayer let a boggy field run wild and just one annual hay-cut has led to remarkable biodiversity
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Tuesday Adams ™ 🌹 @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Beauty. 🌹
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Hourly Twin Peaks @hourlytwinpeaks.bagpuss.org · 24/08/2026
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S03E16 The Return, Part 16: No Knock, No Doorbell August 27 2017
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Karen teens learn traditional weaving in St. Paul, helping preserve a cultural practice passed down through generations in Southeast Asia. By Shubhanjana Das
sahanjournal.com
From refugee camps to Minnesota, Karen weavers pass on their craft
At a St. Paul youth camp, teens in Minnesota’s Karen community learn the patience and persistence of traditional weaving from three master weavers.
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Antakya, ancient Antiochia on the Orontes, is the find location of the largest surviving example if a geometric mosaic in the world. The mosaic is 1,050m² in size and dates to the 4th century AD. It was discovered in 2009. Photo: the Museum Hotel Antakya. #MosaicMonday
Archaeologist conserving the mosaic ( thee people sitting)
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Sarah @prairiesky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Tonight I'm either watching The Master or Inherent Vice.
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