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That’s why public opinion is up for grabs. Our arguments don’t change people’s underlying attitudes or values (or if they do it’s very slow) but they do help people chose a different underlying value as the decision rule.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 19h

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 8h

"9. i am still trying to figure out how to be in the world without wanting it. this, perhaps, is what it means to be native." #TodaysPoem #poetry #TruthandReconciliationDay Grief After Grief After Grief After Grief Billy-Ray Belcourt This Wound is a World nakinisowin.wordpress.com/category/poe...

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 19h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a Yankees catcher [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Yogi Berra! [SMITH]: That is Yogi Bear sir

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19h

If you buy that they care about women's sports, you're a mark and you're going to get financially scammed someday.

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

voted in the early voting for the Quebec provincial election yesterday, and mailed my mail in ballot for the US elections today 😤

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Citizen: Glowing Title Animation

Alt: Citizen: Glowing Title Animation

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Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THANK YOU! 💚 Let people live. Also, there are LOTS of us white folks who live with assistance. My parents only got our house because of a government program, and we had both the church and the state help feed us weirdos. My goodness.

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

my problem is shaming welfare recipients period. go get your welfare young yt man it's fine

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MS NOW @ms.now · 29/09/2026

NOW: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies to the Senate about his investigation into Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election and storage of classified documents. WATCH LIVE HERE: youtube.com/live/H69_OqF... READ MORE: www.ms.now/liveblog/jac...

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LIVE: Jack Smith testifies before Senate committee

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No one wants to believe they’re exceptional in ways that don’t flatter them

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 29/09/2026

Fresh what now?? Another great example of @karenmcgrane.bsky.social’s maxim “truncation is not a content strategy”

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible stuff.

Commentary|Essay

AI and the crisis of the author

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
Read this issue

Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

reading the terms of service for a new Canada-based online payment method 👀 "even if we are negligent..."

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Nina, Our Sister Killjoy @gotmyniinaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We [...] have over-valorized romantic love, that no matter how horrible and miserable your life has been as a kid or as a teenager, someday you're gonna find this love, and it's going to come into your life and it's gonna change all of that. And many of us found that that was not so." - bell hooks

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...

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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 (Gift Article)

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.

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nai 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Zack Fox is one of the funniest niggas to ever grace this Earth 😭😭

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

anecdotally, i have never heard a case from the aggrieved parent's point of view that won any sympathy from me quite the opposite

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Geoffrey Talaxian 🌯🚀🎧🍽️⚓️🦋🌊♎️🏳️‍🌈 @waxsonic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My paperbacks still have their full charge after all these years.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

"She easily organized the other mothers because she had every parent's name and phone number, plus the district superintendent's, and regularly rallied the parents around issues like homework and textbooks." The only way to solve school segregation is through collective action.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Another good POV:

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

i was hoping to hear more discourse on this bsky.app/profile/drka...

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Catch us at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social in November! Author @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social talk girlhood remixed, and editor @eimearryan.bsky.social speaks on the future of publishing ✨️ dublinbookfestival.com/event/girlho... dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-fu...

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Girlhood Remixed - Dublin Book Festival

Join us at Dublin Book Festival 2026 for an event with poets looking at experiences of girlhood and womanhood

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Ann G. Deuel @dulceanadeja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reporters and journalists, please take notes.

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Misha Solomon @mishasolomon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to @manahil.bsky.social for asking me to contribute to this fun folio, made up of poems that didn’t quite make it into recent collections. My poem, “Puppy Sounds,” is a haibun-ish thing that is part of a suite of poems I wrote when my dog, Mugcake, was a puppy.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the funniest acts EVER on AGT. Original post

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social

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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a case to be made (I would make it) that Chuck Jones is the greatest short form artist in history — better than Bill Watterson, Jack Kirby, Flannery O’Connor, you name it

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Library Yeti, Ice Cream Connoisseur @libraryyeti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WHEEZING LARGE FAMILY CRACKPOT

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Last Of The Elder Gods @4meshewill.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Folks gotta learn the hard way that just because you can’t see that something is working doesn’t mean it’s not doing its job.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very probably the best photo I've ever taken of a 16th Century dovecote with a cow standing in front of it, surrounded by buttercups, looking like she has just dropped a debut album she is thoroughly proud of.

A cow, standing in front of the dovecote in Bruton, Somerset, about a month ago. Lovely town. Beautiful architecture. Had a chat with a really nice lady from an old farming family after I took this. Sadly quite a few stuck-up down-from-London snotbags live there these days and houses cost a fortune as a result.

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

saw an American Bittern on the canal ce matin

a photo of American bittern hanging out in the rushes

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Her Grandma is both blessed and a blessing. 👑💐🩷

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 22/09/2026

Sarah George, a reform prosecutor in Vermont, ordered her staff to visit a prison, hoping it would make them think twice before seeking a long sentence. She won her primary last month to serve another term.

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With Latest Win, Progressive Vermont Prosecutor Looks to Double Down on Reforms - Bolts

Over nearly a decade in office, Burlington’s chief prosecutor Sarah George has pursued a platform of restorative justice and dialing back low-level prosecutions.

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Batsy Cline (she/her) 🎃🦇📚 @batsinthebrittfry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Chili with cornbread skulls

A bowl full of beef chili, a dollop of sour cream, shredded cheese, and a skull shaped corn muffin.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ways to help authors you love: - Review their books. - Share their posts. - Tell people about their books. - Learn the true name of the universe and manipulate it to make their book a bestseller. - Get your library to order in their books. - Ask local events to book them for appearances.

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your host @yourhost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

now reading: "The Disappearers" by Marlon James 💙📚 #Booksky

front cover of Marlon James novel "the disappearers"

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR 🤖🇳🇬🇺🇸🦿✍🏾💨 🏆 Winner of an NAACP Image Award, Locus Award and Libby Award. Finalist for a Hugo, Nebula, Ohio Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Glass Bell Award. It's good to pause and note these things at once. Onward.

Death of the Author and Rusted Robots book covers

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A+ LFL find this afternoon - the Pauline Ellison cover art Earthsea trilogy!

My hand holding the three paperback books of the original Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K LeGuin. The cover art is immaculately fantastical.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My mother basically moved me from an extremely racist but well resourced school in the Netherlands and sent me to live in Curacao, apart from her. Best decision she ever made

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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 20/09/2026

Many many big and complicated feelings reading this. archive.ph/2026.09.20-0...

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BrowseTheStacks @browsethestacks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Batman Meets Columbo: World's Greatest Detectives Art by Colin Cracker

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Never forget when this cameraman sacrificed his job for this incredible shot Original post

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Andrew K. Clark ✨ @theandrewkclark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If there are plums in the first stanza, they must be eaten by the last.

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

but Hasan, people can't think or reason beyond Zionist rhetoric don't you think you should consider that before you speak? press repeat. press reiterate. at no point do their sponges soak up any water

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