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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sally Hayden of the Irish Times is the author of The Fourth Time, We Drowned as well as This Is Also A Love Story. These are her dates in the U.S., and all but one are free.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hello everyone, I'm just reposting the details of my North America book tour for 'This is Also a Love Story', w an updated Austin location. I believe they are all free entry apart from Vancouver. More details & links here - please come, tell a friend (or two), etc.: sallyhayden.net/2026/04/11/t...

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All travel terminus announcements ever

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This clip is so unexpected it leaves you speechless before you can even say "damn

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who knew Members of the European Parliament could be so funny? 🇪🇺

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/two-days-l... TL;DR HHS is destroying routine immunizations for infectious diseases that kill and cripple babies and adults and spread like wildfire. PLACE A COMMENT AT HHS- instructions are in the article.

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Two days left to comment on HHS's vaccine category proposal

Okay, this one’s a bit in the weeds, but it’s worth your attention.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dolly Parton becomes the only artist in history to occupy the entire Top 10 of US iTunes with different songs.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So interesting 💭 "Relighting 'Nighthawks' - bit.studio reimagines Edward Hopper's classic artwork, turning the most crucial element, the 'light,' into something you can actually control!" The exhibit is held at the bit.studio gallery on the 3rd floor, Slowcombo building in Samyan, Bangkok. #art

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Laurie Stone is a terrific writer and shares her thoughts and writing in her Substack, Everything is Personal. She’s good company in uncertain times, and in 4 years has never missed a post. open.substack.com/pub/lauriest...

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My brilliant friends

a goat, a sister, and Jennifer Baumgardner

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is great news (halfway to goal), but more is needed. If you aren’t subscribed, *it’s worth it!* My July fave was the (what else?) Jaws commentary by Elizabeth Cantwell, It’s Only An Island If You Look At It From The Water.

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For those like us downwind of the wildfires and who would like a room air filter: the Corsi-Rosenthal Box is quite cheap, all the parts are available at any hardware store, and it can be assembled with duct tape in a few minutes. And then you feel like Matt Damon on Mars.

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My Apple phone “processed” yesterday’s clearly yellow Boston sky to bluish-gray. Any idea how to turn that processing off so the picture shows what the eyes see? Shooting in RAW didn’t work, neither did the various filters—they affect the whole photo. And yes, putting out the fires would work best

iPhone pic showing a gray-blue sky on a day when the eyes revealed a very yellow sky. Compare to the news pic taken in Boston which reveals the true color.

News pic of the yellow Boston sky 7/15/26 taken the same day as the other pic in this post. This pic shows true color. The other (iPhone) pic does not.

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Scientist, writer…boxer! Fantastic one-two-hook.

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

First American Woman Rows Solo From California to Hawaii www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u... Incredibly impressive feat: she set the fastest time from CA to HI by any rower (by 9 days), and she shared her experience throughout 43 days of continuous effort.

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First American Woman Rows Solo From California to Hawaii

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/07/2026

A hero’s welcome for the Cabo Verde team arriving home ❤️

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We all know Mark Hamill as the screen Jedi, but he also keeps cropping up IRL; today it’s in Sally Hayden’s new book This Is Also A Love Story. See the Alt Text for the story from pp18-19. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social And may the (other) 4th be with you as well.

“At the next stop a young, blonde, khaki-clad Ukrainian border guard stepped on board and peered at me curiously. ‘You know Ukraine is at war? You not afraid?’ she asked.

‘The bomb shelter is in the basement,’ declared the receptionist, hours later, when I finally checked into a hotel in Lviv. Only then did I use Wifi to download the recommended app, ‘Air Alert’, onto my phone. It would act as my own personal alarm if an air raid warning was issued for the city, and was surreally voiced by Mark Hamill, the actor who became famous in the late 1970s for playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films. A siren sounded at the beginning of a raid, and when it ended – anything from thirty minutes to three or more hours later – Hamill’s voice announced: ‘Attention, the air alert is over. May the force be with you.’

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This July 4th, see Jaws through the eyes of the poet Elizabeth Cantwell.

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tom Cox writes wonderfully. The instructions are simple: 1. Read this thread 2. Read the photo alt-texts 3. Read Tom’s books 4. Feel better after a good laugh.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

next time you hear someone “throws like a girl” this is what you should assume they mean

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is a great thread from Nate Federman about writing stories for The Office. He’s also writing a book, so watch out for that. Also, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: his daughter wrote a story for her first sleepover that scared the bejeezus out of her friends :)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Three terrific self-portraits by PETER FALK of himself as ‘Columbo’.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@brightwalldarkroom.com Thought you’d like Gregory Corso’s wisdom from “How Not To Die”: “To the movies --- to the movies that's where I hurry to when I feel I'm going to die So far it's worked.” (Source: www.babelmatrix.org/works/en/Cor... (Site translates, thus the title below says (English))

Gregory Corso’s poem “How Not To Die”, with a picture of a relaxed, smiling man with rumpled hair in a rumpled work shirt. The poem reads

Around people
If I feel I’m gonna die
I excuse myself
Telling them “I gotta go!”
“Go where?” They wanna know
I don’t answer
I just get outa there
away from them
because somehow
they sense something wrong
and never know what to do
it scares them such suddenness
How awful
to just sit there
and they asking:
“Are you okay?”
“Can we get you something?”
“Want to lie down?”
Ye gods! people!
who wants to die amongst people?!
Especially when they can’t do shit
To the movies— to the movies
that’s where I hurry to
when I feel I’m going to die
So far it’s worked.

Source: https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/en/Corso%2C_Gregory-1930/How_Not_To_Die

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“You pointed at a photo of a plate / of macaroni cheese then a photo of a glass of wine. / ‘Great.’ // You coughed up a mothball. / It sat on the table between us like a sad, sucked imperial mint.” — @carolinebirduk.bsky.social, “Naphthalene Heights” @carcanet.bsky.social

NAPHTHALENE HEIGHTS. The hotel was called Naphthalene Heights which I thought was a strange name for a hotel but the poetry festival had booked me the room so I had no choice. Besides, apart from the name, it was a completely normal hotel. You were waiting for me in the lobby. You couldn’t speak. At the end of Alcestis by Euripides, Alcestis is brought back from the underworld, mute. Her body has resurrected but her voice remains dead. “Is that what happened to you?” You nodded. You still had soil in your hair. “How did you die? Who killed you?” We sat down in the bar. You ate a peanut and looked at me.

You were so beautiful I felt a commotion in the pit of my throat like my words were fighting over you. “Shall we order?” There was a Fun Fact section under the children’s menu with colourful lettering inside speech bubbles rising from the mouth of a cartoon snake. FUN FACT: In the past naphthalene was administered orally to kill parasitic worms in livestock. It wasn’t a cartoon snake, it was a cartoon worm. FUN FACT: When you smell mothballs you are inhaling Naphthalene. “Hotel food can be a little bland. We could eat somewhere else?” You looked at me so sadly I felt continental plates separating

in my forehead. I studied the menu again. FUN FACT: Small children are at risk of eating mothballs because they look like candy or other treats. The food choices were standard. Burgers, pies, ravioli. You pointed at a photo of a plate of macaroni cheese then a photo of a glass of wine. “Great.” You coughed up a mothball. It sat on the table between us like a sad, sucked imperial mint. “Please say something.” I handed you a pen. “Write something on a napkin?” It struck me that you were the death of the world. I felt a terrible pain. I looked down. A small hole was forming in my palm like a ghost was

driving a pencil through it. “What’s happening?” You took my hand and stared at me through its hole. Tiny holes were forming all over your face. Pinpricks of light were shining out of you. I realized “holy” was a literal term. I didn’t want to lose you to the glare of the scene behind. I could already see chairs and tables through you. I could see the bar. We were half-hotel. I remembered that night you kissed me in the car park of The Nobody Inn, you’d said “In the next world maybe.” We held our disappearing hands. Caroline Bird

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“I hope you licked the ends of your colored / pencils. Also, that you carried a Trapper Keeper. The first time a girl / touched you, I hope you had graham crumbs on your mouth. I hope / she wore her brother’s hunting coat” —Kiki Petrosino, “Valentine” @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

VALENTINE. I hope your father built a treehouse in the soft shade below the creek. I hope it glimmered there, between two poplars. I hope you stood at your mother’s sleeve while she fixed madeleines for breakfast. It was Easter. All six of your aunts adored you. For your country project you picked Tunisia because of its peanut shape. Which was your first rock show? Mine was Milli Vanilli. I hope you licked the ends of your colored pencils. Also, that you carried a Trapper Keeper. The first time a girl touched you, I hope you had graham crumbs on your mouth. I hope she wore her brother’s hunting coat, latchless. Do you also dislike beets? I hope so. I hope you’re reading all the classics, like Moby Dick. When the preacher climbs the ladder made of ropes? That’s the best. I did that once, at an amusement park. I believe the stars get brighter when it’s cold. Do you like riding in convertibles? I like riding in convertibles. I like how sunflowers turn themselves into big radios. I used

to live where canola oil’s from. I used to eat fried zucchini flowers and tomato salad. What do you like for breakfast? Do you listen to BBC News? When you make someone a sandwich, I hope you trim the casings from each slice of salami. No one likes to eat those. I try to think of what you’ll need from Walgreens. Maybe you’ve got contacts. In which case, you can just use my solution. What diseases run in your family? Will we have to worry about strokes? I’ll probably live to be quite old. I hope you’ll let me lay out your pajamas. Not every day, but sometimes. Will you eat bran patties for breakfast then? What about those S-cookies? Those come from Sicily. I’ve seen them in the shops. I’ve seen women in gold slingbacks on the bus. That’s OK, but I hope we’ll have our own car. I know a church with a dark ceiling. The Normans built it. It’s sad until you drop coins into this special lamp: clink, clink. After that, it’s different, see. Kiki Petrosino

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Best photobomb I’ve ever seen during an official speech. One sideways; one distracted but a stuffy; and the third just floating ‘round looking cute testing the gravity.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The first astronaut in history to speak French while en route to the moon — Canada’s very own Jeremy Hansen 🇨🇦

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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

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Rick Porter @rickporter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Stan Van Gundy: “This is the iced tea game, Long Island vs. Arizona.” This is a perfect piece of sports announcing.

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontation.” —Richard Wilbur

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Richard Wilbur, The Art of Poetry No. 22

“A man like Sartre can get a whole book out of a proposition which is, on the face of it, untrue . . . ”

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The last 24h in order: Snow, rain, freeze, melt. Astonishingly beautiful. Zoom in to see the sparkling melt drops; volume up to hear the chorus of birds.

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Steve Potter @sea-water.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This, I would repost every day.

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