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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 11h

Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...

In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.

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Spooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 7h

Are you an Austin based TTRPG Person? We're collabing with @distributeaid.org on some super secret Good Guy shit in the area and we need folks for a Secret Thing, hit me up or tag your homie in the replies!

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 11h

Books by Leigh Brackett on Project Gutenberg For when you, too, need The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter, Queen of the Martian Catacombs, and Black Amazon of Mars (I am intoxicated on Brackett at the moment: word-craft and wild imagination, the thews of the old romances) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

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Books by Brackett, Leigh

Project Gutenberg offers 79,516 free eBooks for iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Android and Kindle.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's trying to do George C. Scott from Patton but is mostly doing George C. Scott from Strangelove.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 30/09/2026

I have a Big Ask from our community. Many of you will remember our graduates Pikachu and Eevee, who were adopted together. Eevee had dealt with some very challenging chronic diarrhea while she was a kitten, but before adoption, we figured out a food that worked for her & she was all better (thread)

Eevee, a soft dilute torbie cat, hunched over looking uncomfortable and thin.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2026 in videogame development

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THE MALTESE FALCON is back in theaters this December for its 85th anniversary. Buy your tickets now!

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.

In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losers attack libraries.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Becky @beckymew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey friends, one of our Peculiarity Shop artists is trying to help cover a surgery for this sweet senior baby.

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caztastrophe 🐦🦝🏳️‍🌈 @caztastrophe.gay · 17/09/2026

$150/1700 - thank you so so much, please help if you can. We are out here doing our best & this was totally unexpected. She's an older girl but she's otherwise very healthy.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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Mike Lee @rocketpatrol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Any Kentuckians out there with a recommendation?

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The US Constitution is a blueprint for governing and a safety net for civil liberties, not an obstacle to be navigated for loopholes. Happy Constitution Day.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

AI scammers have gone mad. Just had an email from Jane Austen who is very impressed by my short story collection.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A very happy and blessed Ganesh Chaturthi to you all! May the Remover of Obstacles clear your path and bless your endeavors ahead.

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Ganesh Ganapati Hindu Deity Painting

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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you got my grandmother at any gathering for long enough, she'd eventually bring up the moment when this appeared on the TV.

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Mike Lee @rocketpatrol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=65df... Glorious. Bewitching. Beautiful. Sometimes a poem appears at just the right moment in your life, and it's like magic, illuminating the dark corners of your soul.

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Stephen Fry reads John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale"

YouTube video by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

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Nathan Long @nathanrlong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The combination that launched a thousand film noirs.

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No, you're called racists because you keep saying that people of color are making our country "dirtier and poorer" when that's the objective of your unregulated pollution & wage decimation. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"They"? What? What's fun about Republicans is that they get to smear an entire political group as responsible for one random person's actions, but they themselves will deny any responsibility for the actions of their own deranged president or the racist billionaire who has bought them all.

They killed Charlie Kirk—one year ago today.

Then they spiked the football, openly celebrating his assassination.

A year later, they’re planning parties to savor that horrible tragedy.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Mike Lee @rocketpatrol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"name a movie that can't be improved by Muppets", literally impossible, it's axiomatically true

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.

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Rachel Reid @rachel-reid.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"...no one would try this hard to take your vote away unless they were desperately afraid of the outcome of a free and fair #election. Whatever else you do, make sure you #vote. Let’s be the result that they’re afraid of. We’re the cavalry." @joycewhitevance.bsky.social #midterms #USPS #voteblue

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I Doubt You’re Surprised

There’s a whistleblower addressing the USPS plan to implement Trump’s EO on mail ballots

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Mike Lee @rocketpatrol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Princess Bride: Sicilian Laughs

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Phil Tippett having to sell off his life to pay creditors makes me hate this world just a little bit more. Especially when the people who profited off his work live in luxury.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

KITTY IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen on E 17th Street between Ditmas and Newkirk Avenues, she's nine pounds and chipped: 985141005773132 If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT KITTY!

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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 28/08/2026

Hey, if you know anyone in Brooklyn, Sunset Park specifically, who recently lost a cat, I found this very personable (and LOUD) little polydactyl on 53rd and 2nd. She's unbelievably sweet. I would love to reunite her with her people

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!

Photo of three kittens. Two are orange; one is black.

Photo of two orange cats, one black, and one dark gray.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Still no takers. I don't *understand*, and it's killing me. LOOK AT THESE FACES.

Gray cat with small white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.

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