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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remembering Groucho Marx, born on this day, 1890.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy little accidents
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...
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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY
School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Y’all have seen the viral short clip. Here’s the full original. The energy we need when somebody tries to push disinformation down our throats.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putting your principles first.
In September 1964, the Beatles refused to play the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, when they learned the crowd would be segregated.
The city backed down.
The show went ahead - integrated.
Bringing that up this week for no reason in particular...
Music has always
been bigger than just music.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💚 HCR
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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍🌈
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/09/2026
A cycle of frescoes by Italian 14th-century master Giotto, depicting key moments in the life of St. Francis of Assisi, has been unveiled after a four-year restoration.
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Giotto's famed fresco cycle depicting St. Francis of Assisi restored in Florence
A cycle of frescoes by Italian 14th-century master Giotto, depicting key moments in the life of St. Francis of Assisi, has been unveiled after a four-year restoration.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE, PLEASE........
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/08/2026
‘It’s the story of what happens when the music stops’: bringing tormented jazz legend Bill Evans to life
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‘It’s the story of what happens when the music stops’: bringing tormented jazz legend Bill Evans to life
Having directed documentaries about David Bowie, Radiohead and Joy Division, Grant Gee takes on a biopic of the turbulent and tragic American pianist
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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
More lying per the usual. In this case, grifting credit for things done by others.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Milo ❤️ loves the happy baby 🥰
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Marion Stokes was afraid people would rewrite history, so she recorded over 800,000 hours of TV over 35 years. Original post
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fostering is a good thing
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JoanKay @joankay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Temwa Chawinga and Malawi have done what only weeks ago seemed impossible 🇲🇼 They came in as debutants, the lowest ranked team at 153rd, were drawn into the group of death. A 78th minute goal against Ghana sends the Scorchers, not just to the WAFCON semi-final, but to the 2027 World Cup.
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Bauhaus Milhaus
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tarantino's PULP FICTION (1994) meets Edward Hopper's ‘Nighthawks’ (1942).
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Cow helps his Dog pal get his stuffy and they play
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 08/08/2026
The NBA and NBPA should be showing solidarity with the WNBA players by condemning Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
💖 all animals deserve freedom 🌿❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🤍🌿
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Everyone should have a hype man like this in their life 🙌🏼 Might change my name to Franklin and play this on loop 😂
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
RP or like if you are too.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/07/2026
Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU…
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026
Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 27/07/2026
Josh Johnson investigates the real reason behind America's war with Iran: an underground stargate
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Puy du Fou France 🇫🇷 is one of the most unique theme parks in Europe park focuses on grand-scale live historical shows, immersive walkthrough villages, and cinematic special effects.
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Are you researching your Irish roots? 🇮🇪 The National Library of Ireland welcomes queries from the diaspora. Our free family history service is on hand to assist you and can provide advice on family history research: www.nli.ie/family-history
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/07/2026
Nothing can last forever. When the sun has shone brightly, it returns to the Ocean. The moon wanes, though just now she was full. The fierceness of love often becomes a gentle breeze. - Graffiti, Pompeii, shortly before AD 79
Graffiti from Pompeii
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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thxchef.bsky.social @thxchef.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Americans cannot allow this. 💯👇💯👇 Repost Please 💙
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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Symbiotic: a close, long-term biological or social relationship between two different species or entities.😍
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