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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Such awful reporting--the Smithsonian charter, which dates to the 1840s, is designed to prevent the sort of political meddling that Trump is now attempting.

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What do I win for being the twelve zillionth person to find today's vulgar and disallowed #pangram?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

the best way to put it is that these people are not *voters*, if the term denotes a person who routinely goes to the polls to cast a ballot. they are, instead, *trump fans* who go to the polls to cast a ballot for donald trump, who is their parasocial father

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 07/09/2026

Nearly 40% of incarcerated workers are paid *nothing* for their work. And the rest are paid at abysmally low wages. This is not a system built on "justice" for all.

Graph showing that prison labor is usually mandatory and often unpaid: 71% of people in state prisons with prison jobs are required to work and 29% choose to work. 39% of incarcerated worker are paid nothing for their work. 61% are paid, but at abysmal wages.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A family of golden pholiota grow from the side of moss blanketed log in a warm rainy forest. All photos by me

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A large tuft of orange Mycena mushrooms grow from a crack in a mossy log. Each cap hides hundreds of dark-edged gills, illuminated by summer light, all photos by me

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yesterday we went hiking and found 3 baby squirrels that had fallen from their nest. They were making high-pitched chirps and scrambling around blindly (eyes still closed). We couldn't tell if they'd been there for a while or if they'd just fallen. I hope after we left their mother recovered them.

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thank you, Bruce! You were SUCH a big help in my writing process. I never forget that!

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm stunned to announce that #FreemansChallenge has won the Herbert H. Lehman Award for Distinguished Scholarship. This prize, given by the New York Academy of History, "honors outstanding contributions to #NewYork State and City history." This means so much to me! @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New up on Commonplace, Diana Louis reviews Robin Bernstein's "Freeman's Challenge" and discusses what William Freeman's "struggle within and against the Auburn (NY) state prison system" tells us about the antebellum origins of race and for-profit incarceration. commonplace.online/article/list...

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Placing a marginalized Black man at the center, Bernstein showcases the machinations of capitalism, the racialization of criminality, and the range of possible responses to brutality and injustice.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

She wasn't neutral, she was on the side of poor children, queer people, and Black lives. And in a time of great division, neutrality is not a positive.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

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A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I was yelled at years ago when I wrote that academia was killing us (if you’re an us, you know). When mediocre white men plagiarize or worse, it’s handled quietly. When one of us fucks us they’re driven to death in a public spectacle that implicates us all. Shame. Peace to Arday. 💔

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Japanese artist Tomoko Sato, known for her carving skills as a food sculptor, often using fruit such as melons and apples #WomensArt

Photo of intricately carved melons and apple with curling neat patterns

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by #folklore and nature #WomensArt

Stained glass artwork with image of a rural scene with a hare running in the foreground, a woodpecker on a tree and house in the background on a hill, all against a golden sunset

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I ALREADY HAVE A ROBOT THAT DOES MY DISHES. I CALL IT MY DISHWASHER. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? 2/2

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Actual quote from the current issue of @wired.com: "'I want every person on the planet to be recording themselves doing the dishes,' says Avi Patel, the 23-year-old founder of data collection marketplace Kled. 'That's going to make a robot so that you never have to do the dishes ever again.'" 1/2

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The @nytimes.com #spellingbee does not recognize #caryatid . Wtf? It's totally a word. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid

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Caryatid - Wikipedia

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Gender studies is so irrelevant to today’s world”

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

this just made it click in my brain what the difference probably is between academics who fell for Epstein and academics who immediately clocked him as a charlatan

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

And here's one more photo of Cornelia Crow Carr--just 'cause I think she's pretty.

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Cornelia Crow later wrote Harriet Hosmer's biography, edited her letters, and named her daughter after the sculptor.

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is a sculpture, "Daphne," that Harriet Hosmer made as a "love gift" for Cornelia Crow. When Hosmer shipped it to Crow in 1854, she wrote, “…when Daphne arrives kiss her lips and then remember that I kissed her just before she left me."

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Here's a photo of Cornelia Crow Carr, just 'cause I think she's pretty.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Hand ground watercolour on khadi paper by Zarah Hussain, artist who creates mathematically precise, geometric art inspired by Islamic Geometry #WomensArt

Three images featuring symmetrical neat patterns in different colours with flower like motifs

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This made me laugh out loud. And wince a little.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I love this.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Pippin (8 lb chihuahua mix) demanded to go outside in the blizzard. Here's how far she got before she changed her mind.

Photo of heavy snow on porch near door. Dog's footprints are near door but nowhere else.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/02/2026

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Same. Crypto is exactly the same as Beanie Babies, but without the Beanie Babies.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Norwegian photographer, women's suffragist Marie Høeg (1866-1949) made late 19thc and early 20thc photography including self portraits which challenged how women were expected to be portrayed #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph of a young standing white woman in bold stance, wearing a cap, shirt and breeches, smoking, in a photography studio

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia #WomensArt

Multicoloured painting with lines, circles and star like motif representing significant meaning

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

"Moderator: What do you think of Adolf Hitler?

Ashley: I think he was a great leader, to be honest. I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values.

Andrew: I’m in favor of a strong executive. I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don’t think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously, but I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man. I support national sovereignty, and Hitler was a nationalist. He was like, we have to take Germany back for Germans. And I feel like we should do that in America. We should take America back for our native population. So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means, but as far as nationalism is concerned, I’m all that.

Brice: I myself am actually Jewish, ancestrally. I’m Christian by faith, but Jewish by blood. I’ve actually read Mein Kampf. The end conclusions that he came to: absolutely abominable. But I strangely understood where he was coming from as far as wanting to improve the national state of Germany."

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