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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Surprise fall gift from me to me! I forgot I preordered this after reading an excerpt in the July @harpers.bsky.social . She writes about the problems with trying to use willpower to change one’s self. Very excited to have it!

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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You are allowed to change your mind. About what you want. About what you believe. About who you want to become. Growth doesn’t owe consistency to the person you used to be. Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙 28 days until we take our country back. #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry

A poem about changing your mind when experience teaches you something new, framing growth as learning rather than weakness or inconsistency.

New Information

I changed my mind.

Not because
I was weak.

Because Tuesday
taught me something

Monday
didn’t know.

I refuse
to spend Wednesday

pretending
I didn’t learn it.

A poem about giving yourself permission to release an old dream when it no longer belongs to the person you have become.

Old Dreams

You are allowed
to stop wanting

the thing
you once begged for.

That dream belonged
to someone

who hadn’t lived
your life yet.

Thank them.

Then let them
want something else.

A reflective poem about growing older, recognizing past mistakes, and finding the courage to admit that experience has changed what you believe.

Wrong

I have been wrong

about people,
about love,
about myself,

with astonishing
confidence.

Growing older
has mostly been

learning to say,

I know better now,

and meaning it.

A poem about treating your younger self with compassion without feeling obligated to follow plans made before you had the knowledge and experience you have today.

No Contract

You owe
your younger self

compassion,

not obedience.

They made plans
with half the facts

and called them
forever.

You know more now.

Choose again.

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Buffy the Vagina Displayer @tibbittz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gene Roddenberry was the Zeframe Cochrane we got in Star Trek: First Contact: wonderful, terrible, brilliant, flawed, horny, and a literal hero. Gene Roddenberry was exuberantly human.🍀

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“…political idealism born of extreme suffering contains the seeds of its own perversion and decay”. @harpers.bsky.social , October 2026, p.7

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TIL that “Ad Aspera Per Aspera” is the official motto of Kansas. There’s probably a few people on Bluesky that would find that interesting. Thanks, @harpers.bsky.social

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H-O-T-T-O-D-D! @klookloo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yup, here in the twin cites, ACE on Nicollet had a gasmask & whistles endcap bsky.app/profile/pegk...

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Let’s just start naming other countries “America” to flex on them.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The climax of the cat cafe visit:

Mrs Rainhall leaning forward with a cat on her shoulders

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s been a good day. 1. Cat Cafe 2. Local bookstore. 3. Local restaurant with homemade desserts.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The manager at my local Taco Bell is a good one. When his young employees screw up, he guides them with patience and acts like he believes in them.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“A desolation where even the tumbleweed does not tumble.” —great line by Padgett Powell in this month’s @harpers.bsky.social

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sometimes peak design can’t be improved upon. Fire exit signage has not changed in three centuries.

A scene from Wrath of Khan. Kirk stands under a contemporary 20th-century “EXIT” sign, asking Spock, “Aren’t you dead?”

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Me, an NFL person, watching everyone do takes on why the US is mid at soccer

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

There’s a fantastic piece in @harpers.bsky.social this month titled “American Ephemera.” William Vollmann has collected quotes from the USA’s founders that speak to the moment we’re in now. Some of the quotes are the ones you’ve heard before. Others, I wouldn’t have imagined they existed.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Saw this golden oldie at the local record store today.

A record jacket featuring “The Chuck Wagon Gang” singing earnestly at the camera.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“‘Progress’ … ruthlessly deletes industries and traditions and makes redundant whatever it is you learned to do when you were in school.” -Thomas Frank in @harpers.bsky.social July, page 7.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“Magenta” by Ro Morrissey, on display at the Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

An image of sea oats, water, and sky, quilted in purples, greens, and blues.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Maybe the #Orioles need more hitters batting over .199.

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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Mason Miller's 25 Strikeout Pitches This Year 👀

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

@oriolesreview.bsky.social , any thoughts on having Beavers bat 4th? I know things are awkward with injury now, but that really surprised me.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A male Eastern Bluebird scanning the leaf litter from his perch before diving down to hunt insects.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 28/01/2026

Which games accumulated the most yards and had the fewest points? We calculated combined yards/point for FBS games this year and ranked the games. Congrats to Wyoming and Akron who combined for 654 yards in their matchup but only got 10 points out of it!

YES...
HA HA HA
Sickos Ask: Which games had the highest combined yards per point scored?
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Yards per Point
Yards
Combined Combined
Points

1 Wyoming v. Akron
65.4
654
10
2
San Diego St v. N. Illinois
48.6
437
9
3
Coastal Carolina v. Charleston So.
41.3
534
13

4 Kentucky v. Auburn
37.0
481
13

Purdue v. Northwestern
35.2
669
19
6
Kennesaw St. v. Wake Forest
34.5
655
19
7
Kansas St. v. Oklahoma St.
32.9
657
20
8
Toledo v. Central Michigan
30.6
734
24

Colorado St. v. Washington St.
29.6
681
23

10 Ohio State v. Indiana
28.8
662
23

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Post something beautiful to combat the awful.

An orange butterfly on a background of yellow, purple, and orange flowers.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/12/2025

The turn to slop is something we actually have a lot of power over. We choose what art we engage with and whose art we engage with. We have the ability to choose films based on original ideas, to read books instead of just doom scroll, to talk about poetry instead of just Vanderpump.

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I've got a dad back @dadback.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I don't need to use chatGPT because as a cis white man, I already say things with 100% confidence and 60% accuracy

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Larry Nemecek — Dr. Trek! @larrynemecek.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yes! Before this universe spins even further away from the good feels of #StarTrekDay, give a listen to our Season 14 premiere with "#Sulu"— and the 60th anniversary summer of his debut, and first day on the job. 🖖😎🏳️‍🌈🚀

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

“Iran will have a nuclear weapon in three to five years (1992) Iran was probably only one or two years away (2009) Iran is 70 percent of the way there (2012)” From statements made since 1992 by Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Nuclear Reactions, by Harper’s Magazine

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 28/07/2025

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have."
I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame?
I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green.
I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue?
I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti.

“I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?”
Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!”

“It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.”
I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…”
Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.”
His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying.
“No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel.
“It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’m going to say this again: there is a wide variety of opinion on this website, much of it very annoying. There’s just no tolerance for “opinions” like “Jews control the weather” and “vaccines are causing heart disease” and “there’s actually a lot of evidence that whites are smarter than blacks.”

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Just started playing a roguelite called Vellum and I’m hooked. If you like the character-building aspect of games, this is for you.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I feel like this item from the “Life Hacks Calendar” doesn’t need the exclamation point.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Bluesky needs a sticky post at the top with the original skeet/source/whatever of the thing is you are all clowning on today. Most days I can’t keep up.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’ll be there in a minute. I’m making a list of the subreddits that *didn’t* repost the feud tweets from today.

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

You should subscribe to this. I most enjoy the articles I don’t agree with, because they’re high-quality, thoughtfully presented perspectives that differ from mine.

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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A male Baltimore Oriole taking off to pick another spot to sing from.

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Matthew (Normal) @normalchillmatthew.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Love when people call a Pope “globalist” yea bud that’s the idea

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Rainhall @rainhall.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Human Torch knows what’s up. From FF: Life Story by @manruss.bsky.social

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 08/05/2025

COMING OCTOBER 7! in hardcover, eBook & digital audiobook = STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS – RING OF FIRE = Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the Enterprise come to the aid of a civilian research station whose secret mission is threatened by murder and sabotage. davidmack.pro/writing/ring...

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David Mack - Ring of Fire

Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the Enterprise come to the aid of a civilian research station whose secret mission is threatened by murder and sabotage.

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