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The legendary Nickelodeon game show Double Dare made its debut 40 years ago today, October 6th, 1986. It would become one of the cornerstones of the early cable channel days of Nickelodeon and help the channel become a giant not just for children's television but for cable as a whole.

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 1h

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ratstick @ratsstick.bsky.social · 23m

My GI tract has been beset by foul demons and evil wizards whose only goal in life is to make me suffer

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I just learned that my 2017 painting was the basis of the Anchiornis design from the Netflix documentary Life on Our Planet! 🐡🪶

Gouache painting of Anchiornis huxleyii, a small feathered dinosaur, climbing through branches. He's mostly grey with black-spotted white wing, leg, and tail feathers and a rusty red crest and cheek feathers.

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 31m

yeah man idk how i feel about "AIPAC Get That Schmoney 💸💸💸" making the cut but nothing about Meta/X's ongoing suppression of undesired groups, but i guess the latter thing would be too divisive if you're ahead of the curve on red-brownism

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2h

cool ghoul

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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 2h

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #Yosemite

This view of Yosemite Valley from just east of Yosemite Village gives a sense of conditions of the floor of Yosemite Valley.

This webcam image is provided courtesy of Yosemite Conservancy.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know how people find these random old posts, but sometimes they find a winner. Yesterday someone liked this 2+ year old image and it let me see it again. Look at baby Colin Robinson.

Tiny baby white goat in a field of blue and red wildflowers

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Kara @kgz3.bsky.social · 5h

Hug an archivist, everyone. Or just tell them thank you, because they’re awesome. At an archives fair, and these people love their collections. They make me excited to do research.

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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's not a lie; I didn't process that was the wrong answer until I saw them recoil. Both the judge and counsel were picking on me because I said I was a data scientist so tbh they should have expected that.

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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Got excused from jury duty because the prosecutor asked "Can you put a number on the amount of proof needed to establish beyond reasonable doubt?" and I immediately replied "Yes, 95%".

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21h

ok but this helped me put something together in my brain

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ratstick @ratsstick.bsky.social · 19h

If you are truly feeling overwhelmed and struggling to find information make sure you tell it to cite its sources and check out the sources yourself to verify what it is saying. Ezpz. It's two Ds of the 4D framework: diligence and discernment

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Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 21h

I mean, this is also a direct result of Google purposefully making search worse to force people to use their bullshit ai for things they wouldn't have needed before.

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ratstick @ratsstick.bsky.social · 19h

They're usually 18-22 year olds who have been brainwashed and are finally allowed to go out on their own. If you have the time, you can have a polite and honest theological discussion or just send them on their way. I'm an exmo and the missionaries were usually solid altruistic young adults

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ratstick @ratsstick.bsky.social · 19h

😭 I hadn't had missionaries come for a while since leaving AZ and we used to give them water since they're on bikes and two came not too long ago and I kept vehemently asking if they wanted some water in the moderate Midwest weather

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

Parisians dressed their dogs up for Paris Fashion Week. Video via @reuters.com

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persephone @jomaselli.ca · 20h

When I was in school, one of my male friends invited me over to watch a movie. I got super tired while I was there & ended up falling asleep on his futon. I woke up surprised to find a blanket on me & him sitting on the floor so that I could be comfortable. This is what is supposed to happen.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 19h

It’s great how the thing that allows you to be most morally superior is to engage in costly signaling that drives Jewish people who don’t self-humiliate and make themselves vulnerable out of your social circles, but costs you as a gentile zilch (unless of course you have scared Jewish loved ones)

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 19h

It’s pretty wild how the defining moral issue of our time is supposedly something that requires you to alienate a particular ethnic group to take the “right” stance, and that ethnic group is conveniently small enough that their population is overwhelmingly confined to a couple of US states

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Just a cat”. Rude! Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a lovely shorthaired grey cat standing on a line of smooth rocks that look like they may have been placed there to border a driveway or something. The cat is looking at the camera with its tail up, obviously friendly. Cursive handwriting in the upper left corner reads “Just a cat”.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Probably a smart idea. People love North Ohio. It’s all we talk about “god I wish I could visit North Ohio”

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like I truly don’t understand how you could have been anywhere in the vicinity of Springfield Ohio even before the election and thought that he’d only go after “criminals.” Trump, Vance, and CO werent subtle in the slightest. I can only really conclude this was a lie the median voter told themselves

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Just because I don’t believe in 124 genders does that make me a Nazi?” No. This does. You absolute boob

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Somehow we’ve survived 250 years with the military not being called in to oversee elections.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The proper role of a well-trained community poll watcher is to remain invisible, watch, and report. It is NOT to intervene or intimidate, under any circumstances.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026

he’s a very minor player in this story, but dewine really is an unbelievable coward. unlike a lot of GOP governors, dewine very clearly *knows* all of this is wrong, but doesn’t want to stick his neck out about it.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let him at 'em again

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People will roll their eyes at this over the combination of The Atlantic and the "well well if it isn't the consequences of my vote" genre but it's good that he feels this kind of shame, that's how a human should feel and Trump's power is built on people with no remaining capacity for it

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ratstick @ratsstick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gerrymandering is the only reason Ohio is a red state yeah

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A lot of responses to this to the effect of, "It wasn't on television." Kids today won't believe there was a time when Presidents faced repercussions for actions that weren't even televised! It's true.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."

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