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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is what I mean. I have to wonder how it's possible to explain this to people. It has to be possible. But no one's even trying.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026

For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...

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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth

The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tired: STEM (Science Tech Engineering Math) Wired: STEAM (Science Tech Engineering Arts Math) On Fire: STEAM PUNK (Science Tech Engineering Arts Math+ Pyrotechnics Ukulele Ninja Klezmer)

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Okay, I'm trans and I still don't know who to ask. I'm strongly in favor of kids transitioning, but not genital surgeries... right? I'm guessing you physically can't do those, won't get good results, until the kid is well thru puberty and is a young adult.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My cabbages are tattered, my lettuces never germinated, but red leaf amaranth has beat the heat and produced a respectable harvest for the food pantry community garden. It tastes like spinach but it's a C4 plant, so it loves the heat while other greens wilt.

A raised garden bed with leafy greens growing about 6 inches tall. Each leaf has a blush of red along the center. Called amaranthus tricolor.

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@volts.wtf I don't know if you ever do mailbag questions but I'm curious about if anyone is working on decarbonizing and electrifying the Haber Bosch process. Seems like a great way to turn excess electricity into a shelf-stable product.

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's kinda bad but with the ballroom alone, I wanna see what trump does. Hear me out. He's a delusional maniac. But in this one thing, he also has an artistic vision.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I ate seedless blackberries, I saw a cherry bush that would've confused George Washington, and I wrote about the brave new world of gene-edited designer crops for @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/seedle...

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Seedless Blackberries and Cherries That Grow on Bushes Vie to Be the Future of Food

Startups and Big Ag are using Crispr gene editing to create crops that taste better and grow on a hotter planet. But will they find a market?

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Y’all. These colors. Come ON.

Delphinium blooms in bright, super saturated ombre of blue and violet.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So you’re telling me the ONLY safe foods are ice cream and ravioli?? That I have to *exclusively* eat ice cream and ravioli until this butt parasite is resolved? Well gosh that sure is terrible news. I hope they get to the bottom of this soon.

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thanks to Canadian @shiventaneja.bsky.social for developing these instructions. The CR Box has a high clean air delivery rate for particles in the size ranges of wildfire smoke & should remove a large amount of heavier organic gas-phase components. All at a fraction of cost of other air cleaners.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

At the Economist, we believe that fascism is bad, but the only legitimate alternative is Thatcherism/Reaganism. If we can't have that, we will accept fascism as an alternative, but we'll shake our heads gravely so you know we don't approve of it.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Feminism made positive virtues available to all, so the only distinguishing feature of maleness are the vices we've historically been allowed to get away with.

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Quebecoiswolf 🔜 Furpoc @quebecoiswolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Market analogies are too sophisticated. Trump thought he could fuck Iran and now his dicks caught in an alligators cloaca. That's the metaphor to use.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Every new thing that’s happened in the Iran war since early March has been Trumps attempt to find a way out of facing the fact that he lost the war in the first days of the conflict. It’s like he bought a stock at $100. A few days later it dropped to $1 and the company was delisted.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 24/05/2026

Once "enshittification" just means "remember when things were better", then it becomes nothing more than nostalgia, and nostalgia is a deeply conservative force.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

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Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic

We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.

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🎃 Prof Spooky 🦇 @depresseddeveloper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The people overwhelmingly want renewable energy, biodegradables, a clean environment. This is all possible right now. We don’t get that because we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a dictatorship of the capitalist owners.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is insanity on full display.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This should be seen as the NYT trying to discredit the left by tying it to a politically toxic person/idea, all to hinder a movement that seeks real forms of accountability and meaningful taxation for the rich.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Dear Americans who know nothing about Africa, The Pope is the head of a global church, visiting a continent w/ many Catholics & many wars driven by terrible men. Maybe his words have broad app but he’s not talking to you primarily. Other countries matter, too. Love, an Africa analyst

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

There is a Buddhist story I've forgotten, about how life is like climbing a cliff above dangerous lions, and you should take a moment to stop and eat the berries you find along the way. I think it means I should post flowers. #bloomscrolling

A closeup photo of elegant dogwood branches holding many white blossoms. American dogwood/Cornus florida

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Surprise flower time! Spring Beauty / Claytonia virginica just showed up in my suburban neighborhood. I have to wonder how. I'd never seen it before this year. #bloomscrolling

A short wildflower called Spring Beauty or Claytonia virginica. It has a clump of beautiful white flowers facing up to the sun.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/04/2026

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#bloomscrolling for one more day since the world didn't end again. I don't know how this daffodil got there, I didn't plant it and it surprises me every year.

Looks like a daffodil with extra petals in a thick bed of indistinct foliage in a normal suburban yard.

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

it’s crazy that you can be the president and be like “i’m the messiah and i am going to bomb and murder children” and tens of millions of people who ostensibly subscribe to a religion that say doing both of those things is bad will snort their approval like the little hogs they are

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Since the world didn't end can I post my flowers or what. Back on my #bloomscrolling bullshit

Creeping phlox (phlox subulata) with some flowers open and others still closed

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

That's so inspiring. It should be their new motto: "The Data Tells Us What Is Valuable and Where to Focus."

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Rowan @rowangarden.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Imagine what could have been done with 45 billion for housing, or healthcare, or education.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

There is plenty of racism and authoritarianism in American history, no doubt, but what Trump is doing is unique. We've never had a strongman like this, who corrupts the entire government into a personal instrument and gives his supporters permission to commit libidinal violence in his name.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The double cognitive load of a) the President is deranged, and nobody in power acting he's deranged is stressful, and b) there are millions of Americans who get their news from media sanewashing the President, so they don't *know* he's deranged, so they think *we're* deranged, is ... fun.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/01/2026

Seems like, overnight, someone (who?!) made the decision that the US is going to embrace the most corrosive & addictive forms of gambling, and make them trivially easy to access, and shove them out in front of the most vulnerable victims in every corner of media & culture. Why did we do that?

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I would never argue that you are entitled to punch Stephen Miller in the mouth and steal his wallet as long as you are bigger than him. But that is exactly what Stephen Miller is saying. The rule of the playground is no basis for peace.

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