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This year is the 35th anniversary of Timothy Zahn's HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, which touched off a wave of Star Wars novels that has never abated. So naturally I had to write about it.

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Star Wars: Reading “Heir to the Empire” by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 1)

On Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire, the first novel in his acclaimed Thrawn trilogy, which relaunched Star Wars franchise fiction after a half-decade hiatus.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 2h

Classical-era Peshawar Lancers. A meteor strikes somewhere in southern Russia during the reign of Trajan, creating a dust cloud and 3 year winter. Trajan rallies the Roman Navy to evacuate much of the surviving population into Nubia and Mesopotamia...

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 4h

bro are you five

Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”

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glavo lilio @glavilio.bsky.social · 17h

this is my favorite post ever

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 7h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

Between this, and the way these schools treated Gaza protesters, and so how many rolled over for Trump, I'm in favor of having the states seize the Ivy League, turning them into community colleges, turning the dorms & frats into public housing We gotta think big, people

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 15h

looking into the sunset from thirty nine thousand feet

picture of a beautiful red, orange, yellow, blue sunset with a mountain in the middle. juni doesnt know exactly which mountain, but its north of the plane when It was east of San Francisco

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 19h

Notebook but make it 90s Taco Bell

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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How many crying wives were at
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I need a final count
I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 19h

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By 40, you should have a shirt you can’t bear to throw out, an animal you over-identify with, a bad 90s movie that makes you weep due to unresolved issues with a parent, an apotropaic charm to ward off The Curse, inexplicable memory lapses, blood on your hands, so much blood, & shoes w/ arch support

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My friend Mark Cho, co-founder of The Armoury, visited Lovat Mill in Scotland some years ago. He filmed this charming video with Lovat co-owner and design director Alan Cumming, who explains what goes into making tweed. You can see how many bright colors are used to make a "simple" earthy color.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026

Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the time has come for a paradise lost adaptation that really gets into the angel sex

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EndianShade @endianshade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“That activates my pain vector” is my new excuse for things I don’t want to do

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Kelly Smith 🍁 @kellymjsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a fun thread. I didn't even know there *was* an emoji for amphora!

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Jason Prime @blazingwaters.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

See this is why I fuck with you Maractus youxre always real as fuck

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Dee Matyas @traingeekdee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A pair of Cleveland Works switchers pull a hot metal train with molten iron splashing out of a bottle car. Steel mills are wild! And that sunset was pretty nice too.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my girlfriend is both a known MILF Stan and a member of the “Evelyn O’Connell made me a lesbian (who works in a library)” generation, truly do not know how she’s going to survive MILF Evelyn O’Connell she looks. SO GOOD.

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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

really enjoying this gif. please, join me for a drink

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings down

two crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish sky

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extended

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Her chapel is fumigated with myrrh and incense, ducks and geese are cut up on her altars; sparkling gold and faience powder are scattered on the ground amidst cereals, wine is sprinkled around her domain, music and joy! (OGC)

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Todd MacEwen 🇨🇦 @tmacewen44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You didn’t get invited to the Jack Parson orgies if you couldn’t hold up your end of the deal and that man lived to orgy!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is wrong for several reasons, chief among them the fact that at least one person is on record saying L. Ron Hubbard was good at sex

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!

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Playboy @playboy.com · 25/09/2026

“Our main stroll is not in a very safe neighborhood, so hitting the stroll every once in a while, but also still patrolling neighborhoods from ICE. It’s a part of our culture now, and we want to be a visible, militant part of that.”

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Meet the Sex Workers Forming Gun Clubs for Self Protection

Sex worker gun clubs are popping up across the country as a form of self-defense and community protection.

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Ryan Schwartz @ryanschwartz.tv · 25/09/2026

Taylor Swift’s “Cleveland” pales in comparison to this absolute banger.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Where else can you see a steam powered lawnmower?

A massive metal contraption painted green, with a stovepipe and boiler and wheels. On one side are handles for pushing it around.

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SMD @anothersmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is utterly adorable and i think if i saw this show as a kid i would've been bouncing off the walls

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

p̞̈͑̚͞ā̤̓̍͘ỉ͔͖̜͌ṇ̤͛̒̍ ā̤̓̍͘t̲̂̓ͩ̑ t̲̂̓ͩ̑ḣ̖̻͛̓ẹ̿͋̒̕ p̞̈͑̚͞ư̡͕̭̇ḿ̬̏ͤͅp̞̈͑̚͞

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bison have returned to Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. 44 bison were released at Coahuila’s El Santuario reserve late last year, followed by 29 more into Sonora’s Cuenca Los Ojos region in February 2026, where the herd produced 10 calves within months. Yucatán Magazine buff.ly/0SEucl3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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The Return of the Bison to Mexico's Chihuahua Desert

A species lost for over a century is once again shaping northern Mexico's landscape.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 24/09/2026

so many problems could've been avoided if our society had a career pathway into becoming a techpriest

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Jessie🌈 @atropius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I caught the cutest thing ever on the Katmai bear cams

A photo of a large brown bear, taken from behind, laying on the ground with her back legs splayed out. Her two cubs are laying against her right side, both using her butt as a pillow. They're laying next to a river

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Cranky Professional Organizer Bitch @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 25/09/2026

I would love to make more things for the sheer fun of it, but unfortunately I have to eat, and being able to do that requires an ever-increasing reliance on monetizing every skill I have.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s bisexuality visibility day! When I love to share the Villa Farnesina bisexual visibility fresco, commissioned in the early 1500s by the Italian Renaissance artist Sodoma, depicting Alexander the Great between his wife Cassandra and boyfriend Hephaestion. Bisexuality has always been a thing!

Fresco of a sumptuous bedroom. In the middle Alexander draped in blue and gold robes is offering a crown to Cassandra who is lounging naked in a canopy bed. To the right Hephaestion also naked watches while standing in a sexy pose.

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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 23/09/2026

btw i think the reason i like magical sigils and worlds based around them is because magical sigils are actually real. you open up a satellite LNB and what you find is shapes wrought from metal to manipulate unseen forces. you can't tell me they're not magical sigils

picture of the inside of a satellite low-noise block downconverter (LNB), the circuit in the focal point of a satellite TV dish. this one's a rectangular metal case with inside of it a printed circuit board full of gold-plated traces. many have strange shapes you wouldn't find in other electronics. scientifically you might call them microstrip filters, but really they're nothing more than a well-understood magical rune

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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