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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 17/04/2026

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme? 3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice” Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 16/04/2026

this week's column is entirely the project of how badly I needed a break from the prologue discourse, the imported Threads drama, the phrase "performative reading," and ... just so many other things

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The Book News Isn't All Bad - Reactor

Some bookish headlines can be dire — but it’s important to note the good stuff, too.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 13/04/2026

The SciArt Feed here on Bluesky is gated so I can keep Gen AI out. If someone posts AI, I boot them and it disappears. I think it’s happened twice in 2.5 years. A worry-free feed. Pin & Like here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/04/2026

walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Artemis knocked us into a whole new universe ❤️🌓

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/04/2026

If there was an article that said Average Blue Dem had engaged in pay-for-play legislation, people would generally be like "gross, don't like it, not voting for him." Almost nobody would respond to those people with "but what about due process! Innocent until proven guilty!"

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Imagine all the qualified women who never ran because they were driven out of politics by the male abusers we chose to protect instead.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Boy is that thread giving my block function a workout.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 10/04/2026

BREAKING: my sister's groundhog is back and he has TWO adorable friends 🥰

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QuikTripSushi @quiktripsushi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Not only as these glorious books back in print for the first time in something like 25 years, but your gentle reminder that creator Edward Packard is Superman's grandfather. (Specifically, current Superman David Packard Corenswet)

An image of the Choose Your Own Adventure Book, "The Cave of Time"

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 09/04/2026

i always take a moment to appreciate good book cover design

Cover of Michael Shermer’s book CONSPIRACY, in which the word is spelled out as jumbled letters connected by thin red lines against a white background, evoking notes and clippings strung together on a board

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.

Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).

An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.

An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Witness the elegance of the swimming Feather Star, a crinoid that dates back to the Ordovician era, over 480 million years ago. A true marvel of evolution in our oceans.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

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Rachel Figueroa @jewyorican.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In the Torah the Hebrew word for frog is used in the singular and not the plural which means there is a valid biblical interpretation that the frog plague was just one giant frog terrorizing Egypt. I argue in favor of this interpretation at every opportunity btw lol

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 31/03/2026

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

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Rutherford County Library Board fires director after she refuses to relocate 132 children's books

Dr. Lu-anne James called the board's order to move books with LGBTQ+ themes to the adult section an unlawful act of viewpoint discrimination.

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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE: "When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I can't stop

It's four T-shirts with ai gibberish that seems English like

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I have new chickens! The Ayam Cemanis (black) are Wednesday and Morticia, and the zombies (white) are Elvira and Vampira. #chickens

Me smiling and holding a teenage all-black chicken.

Three teenage chickens in a coop. A white one stands on a stump with its neck stretched high, while a white one and a black one peck below

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Iran regime is heinous but this is a very good cartoon.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

IDA PEARL
AGE 20
LIVED AT 355 e 4th St
Died 3/25/1911
Triangle Factory Fire

Lizzie Adler
Age 24
Lived Here
324 e. 6th St.
Killed 3-25-1911
Triangle Fire
We Remember

Gussie Bierman
Age 22, Lived here at
8 rivington st & died
March 25th, 1911 in the
triangle factory fire

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

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Miscellanea: The War in Iran

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 24/03/2026

If you entered a claim and didn't get an email with the subject "Your claim #XXXXXXXXXX has been received" from info@anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com with a claim number it might not have gone through.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Yes, we definitely want the guys who murdered a mom, a nurse, and hundreds of immigrants in charge of every passenger at our airports.

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A cure for sickle cell! This is incredible news.

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak. Here is my daughter fending off a Beirut cat who belongs to the cafe but wanders in and out depending on the menu. If you celebrate, may your meal be as tempting as the makdous bi labneh was to this kitty.

Large tabby cat dives for the plate, held off only by my daughter's arm.

Daughter gently lifts the cat off the table, the cat still very much in "let me at that food" mode.

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Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

what if I told you that if you went blind, a doctor could pull out your tooth, drill a hole in it, and stick it in your eye to help you see again? Yes your actual tooth. In your actual eye. Don't believe me?

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I would do a US tour trying most of those.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The year is 2026. Researchers at The Museum of English Rural Life have pushed rural heritage to the brink. They asked: what would happen if we got some toy rats and dressed them in beautiful, handmade clothes inspired by heritage crafts?

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Proof that some things are still right in the world.

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Capybara. I'll lure it out with carrots. Or not, I'd love to have a bookshop capybara.

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Fuck this asshole. All else aside, once trans people are banned from sports, then that is no longer an issue that can be used to whip up hate, and suddenly the hot issue will be banning trans people from something else. And Newsom will be in favor of banning them from that too.

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TV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

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Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Handbuilt porcelain dish (sold). Laguna Frost porcelain.

A porcelain dish, glazed deep brick red with light, almost glowing streaks of blue-white at the edges and a spiral pattern of indents at the center.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The human-made geometry of spacecrafts meets the amorphous organic form of a nebula 🌌

Teapot featuring NGC 1929 nebula and mug featuring Psyche and geostationary spacecrafts flying toward the scene.

Teapot featuring NGC 1929 nebula (left).

Mug featuring Psyche and geostationary spacecrafts.

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