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Sean Ernst, Ph.D. @sean-ernst-wx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The amount of OU posting does tell me that Bluesky is indeed The Sports App

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As usual, he says it so clearly: "The Afrikaner policy... proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you're poor, you're a moocher, and if you're gainfully employed, you're taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian."

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Absolutely stunning snowliage photo from Telluride from earlier this week. Thanks @wat_mo on X for sharing this with me!

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The evolution of this weekend's nor'easter.

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now that the nor'easter completed its phase with a tropopause vortex and is decidedly non-tropical, let's look back at its structural evolution over the last day and a half, and why despite attempting to start the tropical transition process, it fell short of classification:

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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MrTinMD @mrtinmd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

From my brother in Queens.

A red sunset over the Manhattan skyline.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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KUTV2News @kutv2news.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW VIDEO: Video from Fruit Heights appears to show a possible tornado in the Davis County foothills Friday afternoon as a severe storm moved through the area. 📍 Fruit Heights, UT 🎥 Nanette Ward See less

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

America’s Added Fuel Cost Clock: now online and available live on the web for you to see the numbers climb in real time :( hoping if and when prices fall I'll get to the savings in real time... patrickdehaan.com/fuelclock.html

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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Long time, no post, but I have to share a cool job opportunity: Social Science Research and Testbed Support Specialist in Norman, OK. Please pass along to folks who may be interested! Happy to answer questions or point you to someone who knows more. careers-fedwriters.icims.com/jobs/2456/so...

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Careers: Unlocking Your Path to Success | FedWriters

Unlock a world of opportunities with FedWriters. Our active recruitment is your gateway to dynamic careers where talent and innovation come together.

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Jeremy Gibbs @gibbs.science · 08/09/2026

Here are how daily maximum temperature and dew point temperature have changed between the first 30 years of record at KOKC and the last 30 years.

A plot of daily maximum temperature distributions at KOKC. The first 30 year record (blue) is compared with the last 30 year record (orange). Data show a shift toward warmer temperatures, with an average increase of 11 days per summer reaching greater than or equal to 90˚F.

A plot of daily maximum dew point temperature distributions at KOKC. The first 30 year record (blue) is compared with the last 30 year record (orange). Data show a shift toward warmer temperatures, with an average increase of 11.5 days per summer reaching greater than or equal to 70˚F.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The point of the movie Starship Troopers is that Paul Verhoeven gets the audience to support the soldiers before slowly revealing to the audience that they’ve been duped into cheering for Nazis. Costumes play a huge role in this, providing a signifier that the humans might be the villains. 1/2

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Space Force Uniform Inspired By Quasi-Satirical Film 'Starship Troopers'

The president shared photos on Truth Social of the uniforms, which include in their color palette "space gray" and "midnight black" as well as knee-high leather boots

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Wisc-Satellite @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

During the ongoing eruption of #Krakatau in Indonesia, 10-minute JMA Himawari-9 True Color RGB images today showed a broad lower-altitude area of volcanic ash (shades of brown) along with pulses of higher-altitude volcanic clouds (a mixture of water vapor, ash and SO2).

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 03/09/2026

OMG the actual post that picture was a response to

OP:
Another coyote just went viral in SoCal for being the first known coyote to capture a roadrunner. How does that make you feel?

Reply: Coyote holding a sign that says We cannot judge our worth on the work of others.

Reply: Mental Health Advocate Wile E. Coyote is the motivational hero we need in these times

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Brendon Boo-zard 🎃 @brendonbouzard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This exchange is so good.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

JD Vance spread the lie that Haitians in Ohio ate dogs and cats and then said "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."

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The Lever @levernews.com · 01/09/2026

Before flash floods killed at least two people and stranded 80 at the Grand Canyon, Trump’s Interior Department pulled 300 specialized emergency responders from across the country – to work on his D.C. golf course and Reflecting Pool upgrades.

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Statement from Gov. Mike DeWine: "I think we have to ask ourselves: is this really good? Is it what we want done to people like this being picked up and facing deportation? Do we want that being done in our name?"

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

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INSTAAR @instaar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

INSTAAR senior research associate Alton Byers on what happened in Nepal and what should happen now nepalitimes.com/this-is-by-f...

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"This is by far the most horrific flood I have ever seen"

Himalayan glacier expert Alton C Byers on what happened in Nepal and what should happen now

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Services I provide for my cats

Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Liftoff of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, seen launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida this morning by GOES-East.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New from @vantortech.bsky.social. Absolutely astonishing images of the China-Nepal Gyirong Port/Rasuwagadhi border post. Literally nothing is left. (Before 19 April, After 27 Aug)

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Over on Linked in, CNRS researcher @sgascoin.bsky.social has done analysis showing that the water flowed 2.5 kilometers UP HILL into the Trishuli Valley. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The footage from this event is hard to watch and absolutely terrifying. Retreating glaciers and melting mountain permafrost expose unstable rock surfaces and increase the danger of landslides, rockfalls, and flash floods. bsky.app/profile/osin...

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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 26/08/2026

And @duncanfyfe.net's glorious cataloguing of this perfect moment is worth (re)reading again today: www.vice.com/en/article/a...

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An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism

How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

there are going to be many remembrances of Tim Curry today for his brilliant work in Rocky Horror and Clue and so much more, but to me this ridiculous bit from Red Alert sums up everything that made him great you never knew what you were going to get with him, but whatever it was would be brilliant

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Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space

Alt: Tim Curry's Space gif from Red Alert

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

[P] Even ignoring her tremendous contributions to music and entertainment, just spend a few going through at the "Philanthropy" section of her wiki. *That* is how to live a life. RIP to a genuine American treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...

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Dolly Parton - Wikipedia

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

oh, hell one of the best people who ever walked this planet, we are all immeasurably worse off without her

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brettjrob.bsky.social @brettjrob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The prefrontal downslope torch strikes again. I think today's 110 F (so far) impresses me more than any day in 2011-12 -- it was mostly cloudy all morning, and "only" 95 F at lunchtime.

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ESO @eso.org · 24/08/2026

A bubbling Betelgeuse ⭐️ 🫧 This ALMA image is one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of the iconic star Betelgeuse. The surface is uneven & lumpy, with peaks and troughs originating from giant bubbles of hot gas rising from deep within the star to its surface. 🔭 🧪 1/2

A star’s almost circular shape in various shades of orange, centred against a black background. The edge of the shape has smoothed bumps and extensions, and is a darker orange compared to most of the shape’s interior which is orange to light orange.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#PPOD: The August 12, 2026, total solar eclipse was photographed above the Roman Bridge of Lugo, Spain, and reflected in the Miño River. Taking this photo took three days of planning—scouting good spots in the city to capture a beautiful, representative shot. 🧪 🔭 📷️

Total solar eclipse centered over a historic stone-arched bridge at dusk, the sun’s bright corona casting a vertical reflection in the calm river below.

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Brad Barrett @barrett-weather.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tell me it’s an El Niño year without telling me it’s an El Niño year

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