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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The folk protest music scene is back

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binp @binp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa. The first scientific report

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We talk a lot about the importance of voting but in doing so, we romanticize it, and I've come to believe that's a mistake. It's not romantic, it's not glorious, it's not an expression of your ideals or your identity. It's selecting the best outcome for the most people. That's all it is. Do that.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I unironically love that Dropout currently has a playlist called “Episodes Featuring Brennan’s Tim Curry Impression” 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ah, yes, every educator’s favorite back to school game: “Where TF Did I Stash My Lanyard?”

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Something about the local NPR station using the opening of Venus in Furs as background music for a teaser about water emergencies broke my brain this morning. I need coffee.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hugo voting is officially over, so now I can start the book that I’ve had waiting patiently on my bedside table for months! @chucktingle.bsky.social

A hand holds up a paperback copy of Chuck Tingle’s novel Lucky Day

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/07/2026

I have run into situations where people want to set duress passwords on things and there are really three possibilities.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Husband tried to get me to admit that I have a Book Addiction earlier today, on our way to Local Independent Bookstore. I refused - and left with ZERO books for me, and four plus a book-related tote bag for the incoming NeighborBaby we’ll be celebrating tomorrow.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/07/2026

this is why keeping corruption out of government is not some sideshow, it’s fundamental to effective governance if you cannot trust the people in charge of public health because “they changed their story due to bribes” is a legitimate inference, that is a crisis all on its own

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Rental car has been returned, but my vacation isn’t REALLY over until I unpack my suitcase, right? So if I just leave it in the corner staring at me for a month I’m still on vacation, right???

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

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Violence in Blue

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Farewell to the extraordinary Sam Neill. Among his brilliant highlights, we'll remember him for his wonderful social media updates about his farm and his many brilliantly-named animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaK...

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Sam Neill's farm animals have celebrity names: The Graham Norton Show 2016 - BBC

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

any way, if you don't want people to celebrate when you die, try to leave the world in a better place when you leave instead of making it worse for everyone idk

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

khōréō is at $12035 out of their $16500 goal with FOUR DAYS left! Donate and share! Let's get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Please enjoy this black-tailed prairie dog I met today at Devil’s Tower.

A prairie dog is sitting back on his haunches, making lovely folds in his butt skin. He is looking over his left shoulder toward the camera.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Today I am a Good Daughter because I took us down the scenic route between Hermiston OR and Missoula MT (down US 12), acquired BBQ for dinner, fixed the motel remote so it actually talks to the TV, and figured out which channel has baseball.

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Independence Day, from the god Jack Handey.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Waiting outside the Made in Oregon store like a couple of vultures waiting to swoop in on some marionberry jam 👀

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I was at a pizza place with my mom, uncle, and two aunts and they were debating how this pizza had anything to do with London and I said “maybe they think the flavors clash” and they all just looked at me My art is unappreciated here (Pizza was good, though)

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“New Pizza! London Calling
Artichoke hearts, pepperoncini peppers, chicken and crumbled bacon on garlic-ranch sauce, then drizzled with Hot Honey!”

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 27/06/2026

I found out that the sea drone the Houthis used is called the Blowfish. Come on. Houthis and the Blowfish

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Something just feels viscerally right about using this old article from the NYT to start our worm bin. The ts;dr (too soggy; didn’t read) is “taxing ultra rich bad ☹️”

A dampened newspaper covering the beginnings of a worm composting bin. The headline reads, “Rift Between Senator and Son Shows Challenges of Taxing the Ultra Rich”

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An 8yo “problem child” at school today saw me walking with purpose and said, “walking that hallway like it’s a runway, queen!” And that is one of many small interactions that made this year bearable. ❤️

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

SONIC TEMPLE DAY!!! Bonus of getting here early: Public Enemy soundcheck!

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just got called out by one set of neighbors for mopping the lawn 👀 OTOH met a neighbor I hadn’t met before (“Oh, are you the one that bought the house with the dead body?”) and learned even more tea about the immediate neighborhood.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

With Miso- only, patients tend to experience more nausea, vomiting, / diarrhea + a longer duration of cramping + bleeding. Mife is clinically and statistically safer than Tylenol and Viagra, has been FDA approved for over 20 years. This ban is bullshit.

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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

The defense, increasingly, is a single habit: when an email tells you something alarming about an account, don't respond to the email. Go to the service directly, on your own, the way you always do. If something is really wrong, you'll see it there. If you don't see it there, the email was lying.

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is really the absolutely worst time of year to be an educator working with special education students. The kids are great! The timing of state testing, district progress monitoring, first (parent or teacher) referrals to the intervention support process… all of that SUCKS.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

1/ We're experiencing an unusually high tick season this year, and with that, they’re bringing something a lot people haven’t heard of: #alpha-gal syndrome. We’ve gotten a lot of questions about this lately, so today I'm doing a deep dive into all things alpha-gal🧵

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Also I completely tore up my soft office/school job hands doing Manual Labor at home (trying to retrofit at least some of the leaky hardware from the hose hook-up) but tbh I’d rather deal with cut-up hands than that school situation

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sometimes one of your department supervisors texts you after hours to let you know that she is going full mama bear on someone you work with before you have to deal with it yourself... And that’s the sign of good management. ❤️

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

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WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A little birdy told us that Premee Mohamed and Darcie Little Badger are going to be speaking at a feminist science fiction and fantasy convention...The bird is us! WisCon is the convention. Memorial Day Weekend, May 21-25 2026. Online. Exciting! @littlebadger.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com #WisCon

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 15/04/2026

The Minneapolis Dildo Brigade asked protestors across the country to participate in a Dildo Day of Action outside of ICE facilities and it went about as well as you can imagine 🥲 in Portland, Chicago, and L.A. There was juggling, cornhole, drumming, frogs: the works. 🫣

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/04/2026

Democrats need to stop pushing away Democrats and then getting mad that after months of saying "shut up, you don't have a voice, you don't matter to us" the people being told that take them at their word.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/03/2026

every day's a beautiful day to go to "Settings" > "Content and media" and turn off "Autoplay videos and GIFs"

screenshot of a bluesky preference panel showing "Autoplay videos and GIFs" turned off

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Rachael @r1v3tk1tt3n.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hummingbird? Woodcock? Unholy bastard child of both?

A small statue for sale in a wildlife supply store. It has the body shape of a woodcock, but the coloration of a ruby-throated hummingbird.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This has been a project of the ruling class in both ruling political parties for decades if not since the birth of this stupid nation. We are doing what we can and also not broadcasting intentions on social media bc of aforementioned technocratic police state. But I'm sure you've got a cool plan

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