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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A person so miraculous she made Siskel & Ebert agree ♥️

refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I mean this is pretty much the explicit goal of those pushing “AI” adoption, right? To turn all society into task-completers and not critical thinkers.

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’ve been in an airport for way too long and haven’t slept but I’m pretty sure this is the funniest video I’ve ever seen? I’m crying? And can’t stop watching? Is this real??

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/08/2026

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Brutal news about Glen Hansard. Every once in a while I'll rewatch this opening scene to Once, which is obviously of a time, but is still awfully beautiful. Watched this at a little movie theatre and had no idea what it was about and was just blown away by the electricity of it. RIP.

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Once (2006) - Say It To Me Now (by Glen Hansard)

YouTube video by bogdan dincă

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 27/07/2026

Welcome to the party, pals

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just kind of insane that we can simply point our phones up at a night sky and get an image like this. We don’t have anything close to an appropriate capacity for wonder in the world.

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For real. Did a re-watch last week, sat back happily at the end and exclaimed “The fucking 90s, man.”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

bluesky's tag line is "social media as it should be" but it has no official slogan, or didn't, until this quoted post; I feel that I'll get as close to unanimous consent as is possible when I move that this slogan be displayed alongside the butterfly always & everywhere. so say we all?

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This! One of my favorite network theme songs. We really cooked in the '90s, right? What happened to us

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My thing is that this dips into a kind of teleological hagiography…I think everything about Trump (especially the way he marketed himself) was perfectly suited to take advantage of a broken political/media landscape. He would have been an awful candidate in any pre-Obama election cycle

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Did a spontaneous thing yesterday, drove to Omaha to see my school finish the most improbable, inconceivable, unbelievable postseason run, a bunch of zen warriors on the diamond who never stopped believing. Sooner born, Sooner bred, Sooner magic like none other. #OU #CWS #Soonermagic

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Can confirm. Best strawberries I’ve tasted were roadside outside Yangshuo; they were half the size of supermarket monstrosities, packed with sweet and tart flavor. I’m convinced most Americans have no idea what fruit is actually supposed to taste like

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Maybe humanity is worth saving after all (evidence- all of this thread)

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I haven’t done this enough on the bluesky, but here’s a pretty picture I took while staying in a cottage in northern Sweden (and pretending to get writing done)

A picture of the sky reflected on lake surface, clouds arranged in a semblance of an inverted Milky Way belt, with a line of green trees at the very top.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“Fuck. she right. I gotta be better.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption

Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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Weaz @spiceweasel.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

That scene from Heat where Al Pacino bellows “cause she’s got a GREAT ASS”

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Dejan Pantic @serbianism.com · 06/06/2026

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

(mario during a breakup) it's not you, it's a-me, mario

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

JOURNALIST (wearing a subtle but defiant pin on his suit): Good evening, Mr. President TRUMP (visibly decaying): whhat th hell did that little waiter just say to me

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world … [gets] destroyed.”—Hannah Arendt, Lying in Politics (1971)

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

we have saved daylight but at what cost

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ceej @ceej.online · 17/06/2025

trying to live my stupid little life under the threat of nuclear war

screenshot from Synecdoche, New York (2008). Hazel (Samantha Morton) tours a burning house with a realtor and says “I like it, I do. I'm just really concerned about dying in the fire.”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/02/2026

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

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Jennifer Jamieson | Grief & Mourning Educator 🇨🇦 @jenniferjamieson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Why I cry at concerts, sporting events & other gatherings: Collective Effervescence. A term coined by sociologist Émile Durkheim describing that shared surge of emotional energy that happens when people gather around something meaningful in the same moment. An emotionally charged collective breath.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"Every life is a universe." This is going to stay with me for a very long time.

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David Dylan Thomas @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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refractedglow11.bsky.social @refractedglow11.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Clicked on the headline out of morbid curiosity, giggled uncontrollably when I saw that it was Mpetshi-Perricard, of course. What a picture.

Headline “tennis player injured after accidentally volleying ball into own eye” and picture of prodigious server Giovanni Mpetshi-Perricard with racket extended, yellow tennis ball in the act of striking his face.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

47 years ago today!

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/01/2026

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is haunting... It's the oldest piece of music for which we have both the words and the notes. A song to the Hurrian goddess Nikkal, it was written on clay tablets around 3500 years ago, and was discovered in the 1950s in the ruins of the ancient city of Ugarit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tf...

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THE OLDEST SONG IN THE WORLD

YouTube video by Peter Pringle

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