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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Herbie Hancock: 'YouTube rabbit holes delayed me making album for 15 years'
Herbie Hancock on 80 years of playing the piano and being this year's recipient of the Polar Music Prize.
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
[No cheating, post the last photo of your pet]
Cocoa Waffles the black french bulldog with a white chest looks at you like you might have a treat.
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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Because Americans are no longer welcome anywhere in the world, book your next vacation at River Side Casino.
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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words #IdesofMarch 🗡️
a picture of a book text. The text says "Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek 'Kai su, teknon' (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin 'Et tu, Brute'. It literally means 'You too, child', but what Caesar may have intended by the words isnt clear. Tempest cites 'an important article' by James Russell (1980) 'that has often been overlooked'. Russel points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggest that Caesar's putative last words were not 'the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son' but more along the lines of 'See you in hell, punk'.
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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 27/06/2024
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You can take the white lady out of Orange County...
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 12/03/2025
This is a harmful phrasing and it’s disappointing to see it used. Pretending that no management is happening and, worse, offering the implication that less management is “good” is a viewpoint that I wish we could evolve beyond as an industry, already. Especially leaders: do better, and be better.
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Shutdown Fullcast @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today and every day, Blue Sharks don’t sleep
A sticker of a blue shark wearing a PTKU jersey in honor of Protect Trans Kids University
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Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict, 1982
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
*snicker"
Captain Ahab is an incredible villain because despite the singularity of his obsession with killing that one whale, he’s someone almost anyone who’s ever had a shitty, all-consuming job for which you’re paid a negligible sum (plus unlimited cold brew and hardtack!) to help realize someone else’s megalomaniacal vision will recognize.
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My favourite genres are: 5. The protagonist is not someone you want to emulate 4. Let's deny this undeniable attraction as long as possible 3. Classic literature, but make it Muppets 2. Highly competent but frankly quite stupid gang of thieves 1. We're getting the band (back) together
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
That last one is perfect
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Alyssa "Covered in Rats" Read 🐀🎨🐀 @missalyssaread.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Every time people tout using facial recognition to find criminals, I'm reminded of the fact that when I worked for an Xbox contract, we literally had an entire help article for "How come my Kinect can't see me" where we had to carefully ask if the person was Black. Because it COULDN'T SEE THEM.
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Global edition Dumb, Fun: Lima Smart, Fun: Tokyo Dumb, Not Fun: Cairo Smart, Not Fun: London
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Shawn Hennessey ☀️🍷 @sevillatapas.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Día Internacional de la Mujer 8Mi Fuerza / 8My Strength artist: Virginia Bersabé model: Rosa Moneo aka ‘Rosa la del delantal’
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Dread @dreadful4x.blacksky.app · 07/03/2025
My mlitoris is frothing. It’s really brovulation week.
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Four Seasons Landscaping is still the funniest thing ever, but this is a commendable effort.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/03/2025
When people that have studied this say, "This technology should not be used to make law enforcement decisions," people laugh, and say that they're just afraid to move fast and break things.🤡 When you move fast and break things, sometimes the things that you break, are human beings.
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Museo del Prado @museodelprado.es · 03/03/2025
El Museo del Prado enriquece su colección de Rubens con una obra maestra de su última época www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/n... #art #Rubens
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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A lesser-known power of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' is where it comes in its collection. Spoilers, but I suspect you know how 'The Lottery' ends. It's famous for a reason. But this is important: Jackson arranged the collection it was named after, and she chose the arrangement. 1/
Battered vintage-looking book cover. 

Text: 'Shirley Jackson. the most haunting writer of our time.
The Lottery
Adventures of the Daemon Lover'

The cover is deep black; in the right corner cluster a crumpled scrap of paper and a handful of stones.
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The most potatoey
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Your periodic reminder the Alamo “heroes” were fighting for human enslavement. And the eventual winning of Texas “independence” was just winning independence to keep humans enslaved. It’s an extreme version of the same logic the right uses now: “we want the freedom to take away freedom of others”
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Natalia Andújar @natandujar.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Las estudiantes de Parla se rebelan contra el racismo, la #islamofobia y la prohibición del #hiyab en los institutos sindicatodeestudiantes.net/index.php/no...
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Las estudiantes de Parla se rebelan contra el racismo, la islamofobia y la prohibición del hijab en los institutos
Querían que se quedaran calladas, en silencio e invisibles. Querían que no se denunciara lo que sucede en los IES Humanejos, IES Nicolás Copérnico y el IES Narcís Monturiol de Parla. Pero las estudian...
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I forget which one of you recommended "Shark Heart" by Emily Habeck but I thank you. What a glorious, bewildering story with such deeply familiar themes. For the rest of you, go read it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/02/2025
Q: Why is it so much easier for the US right to organize and be unified than the US left? A: Anti-Black racism. The only consistent thing that the right agrees on, is this. It's what unifies them. But the US left is very anti-Black too! So they try to get the benefits, without helping Black folk.🤷🏿‍♂️
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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The Guardian view on Spain: a progressive beacon in dark times | Editorial
Editorial: Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist-led government has welcomed immigration and boosted public spending, with stellar results
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If anyone needs to read something at least semi-hopeful, the latest @highcountrynews.bsky.social story I edited, by the wonderful Caroline Van Hemert, is about a wolf pack's remarkable ability to pivot under pressure, and thrive.
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Life lessons from a coastal wolf pack - High Country News
In Alaska, a biologist and her family learn how quickly these iconic predators can change the menu — and bend the rules.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"If pigs could fly, I bet their wings would be delicious."
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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
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is tripe kosher
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Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~
Generative Al is experimental.
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hauling a Boat Ashore, Honfleur, 1864
Hauling a Boat Ashore, Honfleur
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Rest in Power Roberta Flack
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Katerina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech · 21/02/2025
(Boosts encouraged!) Hi! 👋 I’m Kat. I’ve been a professional dev for over 15 years. I maintained the NPM CLI for 5 of those. I sat in TC39. I work at Microsoft. I’m self taught w/a film degree and no formal CS edu. Are you new to tech? What do you wish you could ask some1 like me? Literally AMA
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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I was joking with my therapist about how I had resisted Costco all these years because we truly do not have the storage and she looked me straight in the eye and said, "Costco sells sheds."
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Sometimes my wife makes cake and there isn't room for it in the main fridge so it goes in the beer fridge which then becomes the beer and cake fridge and I don't know if home appliances have emotions but if they do I bet this fridge is pretty happy with it.
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Me too! Wordle 1,338 6/6* 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 16/02/2025
Happy tenth birthday to a real one
Screenshot of original The Onion post with the famous Sickos comic, dated 16 February 2015Detail of the Sickos guy. Unshaven man leaning against a window from outside saying "yes... ha ha ha... yes!"
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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 15/02/2025
You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
...BUT!...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It was the worst of times, then somehow it got worse.
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This sent me down a research thread that didn't pan out, but reminded me that Marv Levy is still alive at 99 years old.
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
Ten Nigella Lawson recipes that sound like banned WWE moves. 1. Sunday Night Chicken Noodle 2. Red Slump 3. Clapshot With Burnt Onions 4, Mackerel Teriyaki 5. Onion Mulch 6. Coq au Riesling 7. Bang Bang Turkey 8. The Liquorice Cheesecake 9. A Hoisin Quail 10. The Boozy British Trifle
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So rewatchable. Any given 10 minutes like a cup of tea on a chilly morning.
Keanu Reeves from Parenthood (1989)
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
did flavor flav write this
flavor flav has a penchant for speaking about himself in the third person [citation needed]
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Sam Donnelley @samdonnelley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Acolyte
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Laura 💀 Huelin @canalnost.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
El Museo del Prado nos pide que compartamos los cielos azules de sus obras. Uno de mis cuadros favoritos: Concierto de aves de Frans Snyder. Mirad ese mochuelo. Mirad ese caos. Mirad ese azul. #LosBlueskyDelPrado
El cuadro representa a unas quince aves sentadas en las ramas de un tronco seco. En el centro hay un mochuelo con un libro de partituras abiertas, mirando al espectador con cada de circunstancias. No sé el nombre de todas las aves del cuadro pero hay golondrinas, abubillas y, en general, no son pájaros que se distingan por cantar bien.
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A favourite quote about Spain. Galician writer Julio Camba writing in 1929: "Spanish cuisine is overflowing with garlic and religious concerns". ("La cocina española está llena de ajo y de preocupaciones religiosas.")
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it. Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.
Selfie of Jessie in a pink blazer in front of a cabinet of spacecraft models labeled DARE MIGHTY THINGS.
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