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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Need recs for esoteric side trips from Amsterdam/Utrecht in mid August. Easy on a train within three hours. Recs for fabric arts, beer, dutch masters, printing presses, random ancient buildings very much welcome. @thehollows.bsky.social I'll be reaching out to you and L soon to see you!

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What an incredible thing it must have been to be a part of this chorus of joy — singing, arranging, practicing, recording, all of it. "All your life // You were only waiting for this moment to be free"

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The best part is that any of the dumbasses wanting to know how much you think about Rome, don’t even get this joke

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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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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This was at our East Cobb (GA) precinct at 4:50pm when my husband walked up. He was pissed, waited 1.5 hours to vote. He saw at least 20 people take one look at that line and walk away. Only two of the seven check in machines were working, poll workers said they had been calling all day. #gapol

Voters waiting in a line wrapped around a building, in the hot sun in 86 degree heat at 4:50 pm. May 2026 primary in Georgia.

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Scientists just created a skin patch that destroys melanoma tumors. Melanoma causes 80%+ of skin cancer deaths — but in mice, this stretchable graphene patch shrank tumors by 97% in just 10 days. Activated by mild heat (~108°F), it releases cancer-killing copper ions directly 1/2

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A Stretchable, Transparent, Photothermally Stimulated Laser-Induced Graphene Patch for Noninvasive Skin Tumor Treatment

Melanoma causes over 80% of skin cancer-related deaths, with conventional therapies hampered by its aggressiveness, metastasis, and drug resistance. Noninvasive, biocompatible strategies are promising...

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Geography. I’m always putting the R in the wrong place like there’s a George hiding in the letters.

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Sadie is on a big journey to nowhere with her travel doughnut (nomming on a benign cyst too much). She mad, but likes sleeping on it. @darthbluesky.bsky.social it’s not a potato pillow, but I feel you needed to see it regardless.

White dog with an eyepatch wearing a pink neck doughnut around her neck.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I dare you not to click on List_of_Coolest_Rocks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of individual rocks - Wikipedia

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The skirt is a conventionally voluminous #1950s style but the bodice of Jacques Fath’s 1952 red satin is a triumph. The collar, the buttons, the cut out, the bow. Delicious #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

An almost side view of a bright red satin dress with full circle skirt and long sleeves. It has a narrow black belt. The bodice consists of a high collar with a cut out above the bust, a black bow at the neck and black buttons

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Nov 23rd 1984 - Jack Ryan came to the conclusion that the rogue Soviet naval captain, Ramius (Sean Connery), plans to defect to the United States. 📽️📅 The Hunt for Red October (1990)

3 Screenshots from the movie "The Hunt for Red October" (1990): First, a green-on-black map with labeled locations like "Grand Banks" and "Nova Scotia," accompanied by text describing a Soviet submarine surfacing in November 1984. Second, a group of men in a dimly lit room, one of whom looks attentively as someone says, "Is today the 23rd?" and another responds, "Yeah." Third, a close-up of grainy, black-and-white surveillance photos showing Soviet figures, including a man in a military hat, projected or displayed on a screen.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

"It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses." - Charles de Lint

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on a path through the green and rust and golden magic of the Devon hills.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Nearly 8% of the people on our planet are farmers who produce more than a third of the world’s food on small plots of land...just an acre or two each. These farmers want to work, produce, feed their families, sell what’s left, and stay on their farms (cont.)

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Farmers Embracing Smart Agriculture

YouTube video by Classroom Europe

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Hello in mast year from Georgia! (10 days collection just from driveway and street directly in front of house, third such gathering, and three trash cans full sent down the back hill) #acorns

Huge pile of mast year acorns in front of a yard. 10 days collection just from driveway and street directly in front of house, third such gathering, and three trash cans full sent down the back hill

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Girl at an unexpected necropolis in picos de Europa in northern Spain.

Northern Spain, Bilbao specifically, a woman sending postcards to go home, putting the missives into a yellow Spanish postbox covered in graffiti and stickers.

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1) Diving into a pool after exercise and heat. 2) Black tea as the sun rises. 3) A friend who brings you super cute stickers for no reason. 4) The way the woods sound. 5) Reaching middle age and feeling free to tell someone to F off.

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Woke up before 4:30am to try to score radiohead tix, no dice, but now I have so much time for activities before work!!!

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Practicing kindness at my little job, and delighting in encouraging my coworkers to find light in shitty situations. I closed my business a year ago after never recovering from the pandemic, lost an incredible amount of money, saw a dream fail after 12 years of toil. But I can still find joy.

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Golden delicious, cosmic crisp and honeycrisp on the menu today for this week’s market apples-for-dehydrating haul! #apples #appleseason

Three varieties of apples, and some stray tomatoes, cleaned and ready to process on a kitchen towel.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The Bowling Green State football lockerroom cat is my favorite 2025 college football season character. Look at this cat

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I am a bigly Clueless fan girl, and I gotta say, never noticed that Paul Rudd is wearing a 688 Club T-shirt. He and I were still kids in (different) schools in KS when the club was open, but just look at this list of performers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/688_Club

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688 Club - Wikipedia

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

So in love with this little guy. If you need a book lover gift, or want to start a book club but can’t be bothered with the mechanics, check out Lit Lover Bundles on Etsy or insta! I’ve been reading with the maker for 20+ years and she’s SO good at this. #booksky www.etsy.com/shop/LitLove...

3D printed book my best reading friend is developing for freebies in her book lover bundles. It’s a black book with wee bendy legs and arms to put on your bookshelf to keep all those characters company.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In 1856, a 17-year-old woman from Rhode Island embarked an a unique and brilliant project. She gathered autographed pieces of silk from hundreds of celebrities (including Dickens, Emerson, and Lincoln) and incorporated them into a stunning quilt: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If I gave an award for best museum mannequins, Cincinnati Art Museum would be the clear winner, I love the attitude of the poses

mannequin in a brown coat, arms flung to the side in rapture

mannequin in long-sleeved midi dress, leaning back all cool like there's a hot guy in front of her and a brick wall behind her

mannequin in a black pantsuit, pointing in two directions kinda like dancing

mannequin in emerald green and sapphire blue dress and shawl, hands popped out a little like she's gonna launch into the charleston

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My parents, at the car, after taking me and my friend to see Pretty Woman in fifth grade without thinking the plot through. “Well that was NOT what we thought it was going to be.” I’d never seen them rendered speechless before, and kudos to them for not yanking us out of the theater mid-movie.

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

My husband is back in cooking form, after a painful surgery break. (Not pictured: perfectly cooked ribeye, and farm box corn done with the lightest touch of butter and onion). The simple joy of summer produce!

Grilled peach with just enough char and ripeness

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

19. KC and ATL are my hometowns. I’ll always adore NYC, Denver and NOLA. Pittsburgh, Oakland and LA surprised me. Hot take: no place should be as uniformly beautiful in weather as San Diego.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Reaaaaally love this Businessweek story from @viajoshhunt.bsky.social about the world’s largest zipper-maker, YKK, which is totally fascinating in too many ways to enumerate in a post. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Can the World’s Largest Zipper Manufacturer Survive Trump’s Tariffs?

The world’s largest zipper manufacturer has spent decades mastering the global supply chain. Now it has to weather the Trump-tariff era.

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Photographing Atlantic Puffins 30 years apart. My first great experience with Puffins was a tour to Machias Seal Island in the mid-90s followed up last month in Iceland. Machias landscape was much rockier than grassy burrows. #birds

An Atlantic Puffin flexes its wings while perched on a rock.

A group of eleven Atlantic Puffin perch on a rocky coastline.

A pair Atlantic Puffin perches by their grassy burrow entrances.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/06/2025

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

The nameplates of Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, Newsweek, and Esquire.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I hope they enjoyed chilled English pea soup on #nokings day. I have voted for democrats in every single general election besides 2000; if I find you out of touch in my middle age, you must be in big trouble. Just look at how many umbrella holders they have lol. (gift article)

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The Clintons and Kamala Harris Descend on a Hamptons Wedding of Liberal Royalty

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Two of my younger coworkers said their younger siblings use Chat GPT for every single decision, from lunch to what kind of life goals they should have. Another coworker in her 30s has stopped listening to audiobooks or music, now only listens to podcasts about AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

That bird is made up of all the most popular Starter jackets from the 90s.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This thread would be shorter and more to the point if the 3rd way types just said “we’re mostly older white guys and we’d have compromised on civil rights in the 60s too.”

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Incredible exhibit Threads of Change at Museum of Design ATL, highlight of the weekend for sure. Scientific data interpreted through fiber arts. If you have the chance to see any work by Sandra Sawatsky, Christine/Margaret Wertheim, Adrian Baker, Nathalie Miebach or Bonnie Peterson, do so!

16,000 hours of incredibly detailed embroidery work. This is just two of the eight panels. Description from MODA — Black Gold Tapestry by Sandra Sawatzky: A detailed visual narrative tracing humanity’s complex relationship with oil.

Wry sculptures that take some objectively awful things (hurricane sandy, sailors death at sea) and present the data in a totally unexpected way. From MODA description — Nathalie Miebach: Data-driven sculptures inspired by weather and environmental phenomena.

Hard pressed to say which of the installations I loved the most, but these are incredible. The artists are twin sisters — one is a science writer, and one is a poet, and it’s obvious that sometimes you need the innate brain of the one to excel at the other. From MODA — Crochet Coral Reef by Margaret and Christine Wertheim: A stunning representation of ocean ecosystems under threat

From MODA description — Geoscience Embroideries by Bonnie Peterson: Vibrant works that translate climate and geoscience data into tangible art

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Ellie Tsang @fairemortal.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Have you supported your local degenerates today?

Blocky white handwriting on a black background. It reads:
Say no to generative AI art. Buy art from real degenerates. -Joe Wos

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Re-upping: If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. . ... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now. Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

About 2/3 of the way down this page there's video from a camera strapped to an Andean bear and it's so fucking cool This entire project should be viewed on a large computer screen btw, it is visually stunning

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Bears of the Cloud Forests | Into the Amazon

On the trail of these elusive creatures that are vital to the Amazon ecosystem

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Nicole Wheeler @somedayagoat.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

And possibly no idea of what it's like to live in a slightly sane society!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Deep sea mining is a *problem* for the organisms living there, but there are so many problems rn that it sometimes falls off the radar. Wear a shirt! Start a conversation! Design by the ever fantastic @coreydanks.bsky.social Sales fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Nick my beloved mustachio’d Canadian twink wears a black t shirt that says save our freaks don’t mine the deep with a strawberry squid sinking a mining ship

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Astrocat @astrocat101.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I've just found a clip of a wild bald eagle being weighed and can't stop laughing XD

Photo shows a bald eagle lying on it's back on some digital scales. The middle of the eagle is tightly wrapped with pink flower patterned cloth to keep it's wings still. The eagle does not look amused.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

How striking were these cabin crew uniforms of the 1970s? They comprise the unmistakable designs of Emilio Pucci with the trademark swirls of colour. Flying with a flourish @sfomuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Two cabin crew uniforms side by side, one a turquoise trouser suit with over skirt and the other a long sleeved dress both featuring the swirls of Pucci

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