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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Crew of HMS Resolution c. 1779:

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 07/10/2026

Canadian comedy North Of North, about a young Inuk woman seeking a new life, returns to Netflix on November 5. tinyurl.com/3754wp57

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 02/10/2026

Took a (very) rainy walk through the Loop tonight. I was absolutely soaked, but my camera stayed dry enough.

The pavement in Chicago is wet from a day-long rain. Street and traffic lights reflect on the stored in vivid colors. In the foreground, a person with an umbrella is an out-of-focus silhouette

Calder's Flaming - an orange, abstract metal sculpture in Chicago stands in a wet, reflective plaza. The sculpture is reflected in the rain coating the plaza's stone pavers in the evening with buildings in the background

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway, if you are a beginner and are like "EEEEP! LIVING THING!" just remember that a birb with wonky proportions is a cute birb. Birds are extremely forgiving subjects. Ball for body, ball for head, triangle wing, triangle beak, little feets, cute, done

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For #OliveArtClub, please make art based on this sparrow so well-fed by tourists in Tallinn that it could barely fly. Birds are a good start for drawing animals as they are so poofy and this is the poofiest. All skill levels & mediums welcome, no AI. I took the picture, feel free to share

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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is pretty cool, Audobon picked one of my photos for their top 100 as part of their 2026 photography awards! It’s an incredible honor to be showcased alongside these phenomenal photos

audubon.org

The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards: The Top 100

These jaw-dropping images and behind-the-scenes stories showcase the photographers’ artistry and the beauty of birdlife from Canada to Chile.

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Charles Le Brun, before 1685

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Everyone needs to understand the Hugging Face hack. It’s natural for us to worry that AI will kill jobs and make high school essays even more lame. But we also should worry about AI enslaving the whole human race.

nytimes.com

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

writing tip: when in doubt, read

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

A young woman in a Garfield inspired outfit with a Garfield headdress

The young woman from the first photo is holding a lasagna that says “lasagna my love language”

missinteenusa Tonight, Indiana is going Garfield!
My state costume celebrates one of Indiana's most iconic creations-Garfield, created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Davis turned an orange cat with a big personality into a character recognized and loved around the world.
But this costume represents more than a famous Hoosier.
The hand-painted comic panels on my skirt share messages inspired by my initiative, Captivating Confidence:
"Our differences are what make us beautiful."
"If we don't have love, we have nothing."
"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."
To me, true confidence is found in embracing what makes each of us different and recognizing that our greatest beauty comes from within. I am so excited to bring a little Hoosier humor, creativity and confidence to the Miss Teen USA stage tonight!
This one-of-a-kind costume was inspired by my vision and brought to life by Indianapolis-based costume designer, Jess West. @jesswestcostumes

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For this week’s #OliveArtClub, please make art based on this sunflower. All mediums welcome, no AI. All levels, special hello to beginners (the participants are really supportive!) I took the photo, feel free to share or sell any human-made art.

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Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) @apgenealogists.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Records we lose today cannot be researched tomorrow. NARA is considering a proposal that could allow some federal civilian personnel files to be destroyed after 65 years. For background on this issue, visit www.apgen.org/news_manager... #APG #Genealogy

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The sunset tonight was particularly spectacular. These photos have no filter and no edits. Just Mother Nature showing off and reminding us that there’s beauty everywhere. We just have to stop and see it.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They do NOT make prayer books like they used to

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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I found this post box at Knockrome on Jura in 2013. Never seen anything better.

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Londonist: Time Machine @londonist.com · 14/08/2026

A map and guide to Tudor buildings in London (outside the centre, which was covered in a previous article) londonist.substack.com/p/the-comple...

londonist.substack.com

The Complete Tudor Part 2: Tudor Buildings Beyond Central London

Hampton Court, obviously... but where else?

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm really curious what people think of this article I wrote. Give it a read and let me know. Thanks.

motherjones.com

I asked AI to write a novel. It’s not so bad.

What does this tell us about the future of writing?

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12/08/2026

The giveaway was initially intended to just be for 2,500 fans who bought special tickets, but soon expanded to the entire stadium of nearly 41,000. As for making it an annual tradition? “We’ll see,” says Brooks Boyer, White Sox Executive Vice President.

chicago.suntimes.com

White Sox Pope Leo night draws out thousands for pope hats and Catholic fanfare

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠

An image of a boom box, a cd wallet, a travel atlas, business cards, dictionarjes a pay phone and various things people used before cellphones

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/08/2026

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

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Medium Dave Lillywhite @cursed.monster · 04/08/2026

Finally hit his last tooth, figured I might as well circle back

Handwritten note, reading as follows:

[redacted]

(in blue cursive) According to our records, this is your last baby tooth. So far, we’ve kept most of them out of the hands of the Evil Tooth Fairy; good job, Santa sends his
sincere thanks.

Anyway, I wanted to give you this- Wait. What's that sound? Oh no. No no no, they fou~ (trails off)

(big spatter of dark red)

(in black print, all capitals) HA HA HA, THANKS FOR THE TOOTH, SUCKER!

- THE EVIL TOOTH FAIRY
(DON'T WORRY, THE REGULAR TOOTH FAIRY IS FINE, SHE’LL JUST HAVE A HEADACHE)

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/07/2026

Another opportunity tonight to get Crows In Front Of Moon!

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One of my favorite midcentury buildings in Chicagoland is this unusual storefront + house in Evergreen Park, constructed in the early '60s as a personal project of real estate developer Wayne Bekta. His wife's flower shop faced 95th Street, with the family home attached behind it as one structure.

A photo of a big midcentury building clad in cream-colored brick and gray stone bricks. Facing a commercial street is a big angular storefront with floor to ceiling glass windows and business signage that says "Evergreen Door & Window", while facing a side street the angled roofline reaches its lowest point and then rises back up along the roofline of a split-level '60s ranch house.

A photo of the commercial side of the structure, featuring neon signs for windows, doors, awnings, and siding and various displays visible through two story tall windows.

A photo of the side of the building shows a clear transition from the commercial to residential portion of the structure, both the same height but the house featuring an actual upper floor and move private windows than the storefront. The garage is open, and an old red truck sits inside the opening.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

write the book you want to read because you will have to read it over and over and over when revising

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Swimming, yawning, blinking, & staring at the human taking the video. A peaceful moment from a snapping turtle in the pond this evening. 💚

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

great World Cup for bluesky. it was a good time yet again

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Cry more, Argentina The truth is you're only Messi All through your wild games Your fouls and pretense You showed some promise Now keep your distance

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thank you for your opinion on waffles but we're talking about pancakes little buddy.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2026

my unholy creation. its actually working, it hasnt been an hour yet and the air quality in my place is noticeably better. i can breathe in comparable comfort, and my eyes dont hurt! link to build ur own here: engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science... beware walmart, they overprice their filters

instructions for making a corsi-rosenthal box. too many to print, so see the link i give

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs (1976-1981): Sweetened puffed corn & oat cereal shaped like smiling faces. The gimmick was that this cereal was made by the Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs cereal company, using a grumpy robot named Cecil. But oh boy is there more to it. You like cereal lore? A 🧵

An orange and red cereal box with the cereal's name spelled in a very Schoolhouse Rock-esque font. There is a picture of a yellow atomic-era robot being tickled and fussed over by a group of people in suits

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Most of the Sora feedings seem to happen deep in the cover of the reeds. But this time, mom, I think, decided to distribute the snacks out in the open! #Birds 🪶

An adult Sora, I think the female, feeds one of her chicks while another chick impatiently waits its turn! The chicks are all black and very fuzzy, with a bit of red and orange on their beaks. The adult has a brilliant yellow beak and a black mask and stripe down its neck. Otherwise she’s mottled brown. All three are in front of densly packed reeds.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

the sports app is really sports apping tonight. well done all.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

📂 Version 1.0 — June 20, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_DO_NOT_EDIT.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Initial copy-paste from my Mason_VA_Rights_Notes.txt and VA_Constitution_V2.docx scratchpads. Confine your review to grammar and typos, and do not redline, only leave comments."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
Line 14: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable..."
Comment from t_jefferson_33: "Certified banger."
📂 Version 1.1 — June 24, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_comments_JA_BF.docx
Editors: b_franklin_GrittyOG and JA_redsoxfan (obo Committee, w/ Sherman and Livingston)
Commit Message: "First pass by the Committee of Five. Modest style changes."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
47 revisions (redlined), three full new paragraphs
Deleted: "sacred & undeniable" * Inserted: "self-evident"
Comment from b_franklin_GrittyOG: "250 years from now, people will think you wrote that banger. You’re welcome."
📂 Version 2.0 — June 28, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Committee_Review_FINAL.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Incorporated Ben and John's very minor edits of my excellent first draft into a clean copy. Ready for the Continental Congress to approve verbatim."

📂 Version 2.1 to 2.8 — July 2 – July 4, 1776
File Name: Declaration_CONGRESS_REVISED2_redline_NEW_v4_approved..docx
Editors: Continental_Congress Group Chat (50+ active users)
Commit Message: "Line-by-line review by committee. Light trimming, a mere 20% of the original text. Optimizing for colonial unity."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
❌ CRITICAL DELETION: 300 word imprudent diatribe against KG III for transatlantic slave trade (“waging cruel war against human nature”).
Comment from dunkin_delegate: “Jefferson wrote that? He always struck me as a smug hypocrite. #IYKYK”
Comment from SC_delegation_delegate: "I thought we agreed this issue was off the table for now. It can be amicably settled later."
❌ DELETION: Large sections complaining about the ordinary British public being "deaf to the voice of justice."
Comment from NY_delegation_hub: "Guys, let's keep the finger pointed strictly at King George. If we trash the British citizens, we ruin any chance of future trade partnerships or alliances. Keep it professional."
➕ INSERTION: Added "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world" and "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence" to the closing paragraph.
Comment from Middlesex_Conservative: "Marketing requested more religious claptrap to ensure maximum buy-in from the zealots."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 reacted 👎(39 instances).
📂 Version 3.0 (Production) — July 4, 1776 (Late Morning)
File Name: Declaration_of_Independence_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE_SIGNED.docx
Editors: john_hancock_big_font
Commit Message: "Approved. Shipped to the printers. John Hancock didn't realize his zoom level was at 200% when he signed. Committee unable to find the one intern who can resize images, shipping anyway."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 has left the chat.

The draft of the Declaration was revised first by Adams and Franklin, and then by the full committee. A total of 47 alterations, including the insertion of three complete paragraphs, were made to the text before it was presented to Congress on June 28. After voting for independence on July 2, Congress continued to refine the document, making 39 additional revisions to the committee draft before its final adoption on the morning of July 4.

The draft shows the multiplicity of corrections, additions and deletions that were made at each step. Although most of the alterations are in Jefferson's handwriting (Jefferson later indicated which changes he believed were made by Adams and Franklin), he felt slighted by the way Congress rewrote the manuscript. In a consoling letter of July 21, 1776, the state's senior delegate, Richard Henry Lee, wrote to Jefferson that he wished that "the manuscript had not been mangled as it is." In an 1823 letter to Madison, Jefferson wrote that, at the time, "during the debate, I was sitting by Dr. Franklin and he observed that I was writhing a little under the acrimonious criticisms" of Congress. In fact, as Congress neared completion of the document by altering nearly all of his last paragraph, Jefferson could only write in the margin "a different phraseology inserted." Jefferson remained bitter about the changes made to the Declaration of Independence right up to his death. His autobiography was a major effort to set the record straight on its writing.

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In 1978, when we took this 12th-century chapel into our care, it was on the verge of collapse, with leaning walls and a virtually non-existent roof. 1/10 📷 Historic photograph before the initial structural repairs c.1978

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Dance in the Country, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883 (flipped)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Bluesky consensus...

A social media thread features multiple users praising a Cabo Verde football team's performance, calling it unforgettable, wonderful, and full of heart. Several users express admiration and emotional impact from the match.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cabo Verde wins the World Cup in the round of 32, 2-3 to Argentina

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 04/07/2026

Cabo Verde, absolutely a world class team. Losing sucks but I hope they and their fans (the ones who predate June 2026) can appreciate what they just did. One of the most remarkable sports stories of my lifetime.

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