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Literature and history are important. So are TV and movies.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Imagine the product designer at some factory in China looking at a book on marine biology and trying really hard to capture the essence of gastropod weirdness, then just giving up and saying: "sure, rib-bones go on the head."
A Halloween octopus with way too many bones.  Like, vertebrae on the arms, and a ribcage above the eyes.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nobel Prize winning poet Anne Carson on pain
Short Talk on Pain
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Anne Carson
1950 –
Lawns  and  fields  and  hills  and  wide  old   velvet
sleeves, green things.  They stretch, fold, roll away,
unfurl  and  calm the  eye.  Look  lush  in paintings.
Battles are fought on greens.  Or  you could spread
a meal  and  sup.  How  secretly  they  lie,  floors  of
distant forests.  Next  comes  the grave,  in  many a
poem about green. But this is not a poem. This is a
billboard for frozen green peas.  Frozen green peas
are good for pain.

Copyright © 2023 by Anne Carson. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on August 25, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just a reminder, if you're seeing crochet on clothes at fast-fashion stores and you're not paying a lot for it, the person who did that crochet is not getting paid a lot either. There is no machine-made crochet, unlike knits. A human is doing that with their hands.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To celebrate Anti-Prime Day, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good day to repost creature splish splashing in the mud
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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway you should read Steve Kandell’s beautiful piece www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stev...
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The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
Nearly 13 years after my sister’s death, a reluctant Sunday visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together.
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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026
It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…
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Brendon Boo-zard 🎃 @brendonbouzard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This exchange is so good.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Never forget
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reminder that the lies of white women have cost innocent Black and brown people everything. They are not bystanders in white supremacy, but active participants.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this is terrific 🌸
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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lauren benet @laurenbenet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Steve Way's thoughtful, hilarious performance is one of many reasons to check out Furious on Hulu. "Maybe more people will realize that caregiving is not just putting food in a disabled person’s mouth... I think more people would realize they themselves are caregivers, and maybe recipients of care."
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every mom's Facebook group I've ever joined to learn about local happenings features a significant number of people asking about docs who are open to "vaccine hesitant" families. It's a real bummer.
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
6 year old, watching Adventure Time for the first time: "Mom, is everybody in this show weird?"
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is High Art.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Derek Faraci @whwoolhat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
An ad for Morton Salt that shows the Little Morton Salt Girl with her umbrella. The text reads "She was there when life was created."
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
UGH
There's nothing like teenage diaries for putting momentous historical events in perspective (Banalities and bathos, 31 December). This is my entry for 20 July 1969. "I went to arts centre (by myself!) in yellow cords and blouse. Ian was there but he didn't speak to me. Got rhyme put in my handbag from someone who's ap-parently got a crush on me. It's Nicholas I think. UGH. Man landed on moon."

Dinah Hall

Lustleigh, Devon
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.
Bill and Ted in the parking lot of the circle K in full Whoa
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you live near Spokane, WA, need an air purifier, and are on a budget, the local Goodwill has a working Coway AirMega 1215HH with a brand new HEPA filter you can bid on: shopgoodwill.com/item/270721988
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Used Coway Airmega AP-1512HH White Home Appliance Air Purifier
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
pointing out the hypocrisy of people who are lying about what they actually want will never get you anywhere. smugly owning them for the gaps in their logic. it's an exterminationist project, not a rhetorical one
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Go Fund Me for the sister who was surrounded by white supremacists on the Metro in that viral photo. If you shared the photo, consider actually making a material donation.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This podcast is so good.
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Was planning on skipping the new Little House on the Prairie, but now...maybe not.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 08/07/2026
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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I was told by Nickelodeon Execs that my Paw Patrol script about a tornado that flings pies was way too scary for midwesterners and that it presented (and this is an exact quote) "A DIRECT THREAT TO MIDDLE AMERICA."
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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
C.M. Galdre

@CMGaldre

Wild bee: just getting snack

Me: no prob bee

Mason bee: just make house

Me: build a way b

Honey bee:jus sampling the lavenders

Me: you know I got an assortment

Bumble bee: hey *bonk* I jus *bonk* I h

Me: *holds flower still*

Wasp: I'LL SEE U IN HELL

Me: U TELL THEM WHO SENT U
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This rule is currently in the notice and comment period. And while the Trump administration can’t be trusted to respond to those comments in good faith, they are required to respond to each and every one, which can slow adoption of the rule until after a federal election.
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Supergirl was fine? Acting was solid, script was ok. Could have used more specificity in its characters. It's not a fair comparison, but having just watched The Furious, I found Supergirl's fight scenes pretty meh. If she's seeking oblivion, lemme see that in how she fights!
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This cake is the one to make if you ever want to get on my good side. Will I question your motives? Maybe. But I'll be eating cake. Also, how does this recipe for bundt cake also fill a 9"x13" cake pan?! It's baffling. The Best of Bridge cookbooks truly are Canadian gems.
A dark chocolate bundt cake resting on a plate while it cools down from the oven. Popped out of the pan so fast I almost dropped it.The recipe (from Best of Bridge Winners):
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
1/4 cup (50ml) butter
1/2 cup (125 ml) vegetable oil (hahaha oops I used 1/4)
1 3/4 cups (425 ml) sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp  (5ml) vanilla
1/2 cup (125 ml) buttermilk or sour milk
2 1/2 cups (625 ml) flour
4 tbsp (60ml) cocoa
1/2 tsp (2ml) baking powder
1 tsp (5 ml) baking soda
1/2 tsp (2 ml) cinnamon
1/2 tsp (2 ml) cloves
2 cups (500 ml) grated zucchini
1/4 cup (50ml) chocolate chips.
Cream butter, oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk.
Sift dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture.
Mix in zucchini and chocolate chips.
Bake in a greased and floured bundt pan or a 9" x 13" (4L) greased pan at 325 F (160C) for 45 minutes.
Delicious!
A joke in the marginalia:
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it!"
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teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Easily one of my favorite stories about the production of #YoungFrankenstein. #TCMParty
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Really appreciate David sharing the gift link here - everyone should read this, especially anyone who drives an SUV or truck.
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Absolutely love to have my medical devices explained to me by a TSA agent.
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 18/06/2026
I fucking love the World Cup
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Adam J. Morris @lonestarball.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I just learned that the creator of Widow’s Bay is the person who was dressed as the Babadook at the adults drinking Halloween party
The Babadook costume at the grown-ups drinking wine Halloween party tweet
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Can't wait to see this--it looks GREAT.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
honestly, it would be a really good bit to take one of these and put sour patch kids in
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 03/06/2026
for the last world cup, i decided to rank every single national team nickname by how cool i found them, personally. since the field has expanded this year and we have so many teams making their debut or return to competition, i knew i had to do it to em again
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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
JSK Machinery ice cream sandwich machine.
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Moth-spider stand off!
A jumping spider perched on a flower faces off a large brown moth on the side of a yellow pot. It looks like they are about to duel.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is...breathtakingly xenophobic. "NIH officials are telling grantees...to remove papers that name co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions if NIH had not previously approved a foreign component for the grant." www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It's a solid list.
How to be a kid and to teach adults about kids
1. Kids rule
2 Always have snacks to car bloed on [carbo load, I believe was the intent]
3  Always listen to kids
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Science is so cool!!
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!
Uggi the dog next to my hand, holding a copy of Dead Weight Two copies of Dead Weight with teethmarks
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Erin @pryorack.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
My husband trained our youngest to shout "Witness me!" when they want one of us to watch them do something and it's funny every time.
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Witness Rage - Mad Max
Alt: Witness Rage - Mad Max
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