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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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aquila 🍉 most normal frankenstein enjoyer @belllmonts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"dracula is actually about repression" "dracula is actually about bloodsucking landlords" "dracula is actually about assault" "dracula is actually about xenophobia" "dracula is actually about bram stoker being closeted" dracula is about all of those things welcome to the gothic genre

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every book its reader Every reader their book Ranganathan got this right back in the 1930s

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do yourself a favor and read this epic travel misadventure thread.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.

Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Don't want to be a buzz kill and I love a good "we stopped a data center" as much as the next guy, but I fully expect there to be AI "sacrifice zones" just as there have been for oil, chemicals, etc and stopping this shit shouldn't rely solely on communities having the energy, time, money to protest

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Watch this space dance party and enjoy a brief respite from paying attention to The Horrors here at ground level.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dammit. Rewatching the video of the 2011-era Doctor Who cast & crew lip-synching to 500 Miles has been one of my most reliable sources of online joy, but now these jerks decided to proclaim their transphobia.

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's never too late to return that overdue library book... 😊

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don’t believe AI will kill us all. But I do believe it can make all our lives worse, which has already started to come into effect, and it’s clear that the people behind the technology don’t care at all about the human cost.

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So glad no one was hurt! Meanwhile, some bears and raccoons are about to try to teach themselves to read with this trove.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026

everybody is (rightfully) remembering her incredible charity work, the 300 million books and counting for kids, the moderna vaccine, all of it she also wrote 'I Will Always Love You' and 'Jolene' on the same dang day. absolutely peerless

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕

Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it's the averaging effect that i hate, the way that LLM-informed infrastructure tries to helpfully guess what I want, and it always guesses in the direction of what most people have wanted before me. Wrong. It makes me irrationally outraged. YOU DO NOT KNOW MY INTENTIONS, CLIPPY

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Birthdate and name matches are causing US Citizens to get arrested in error by ICE as they board airplanes. This is the same level of rigor they're bringing to claims of fraudulent voting, and is obvious as an error-prone method to anyone who has taken an introductory stats class.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2025

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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WitmerLab at Ohio University @witmerlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's #InternationalCatDay and #caturday so we'll dip into the #PinkysDinosaurAdventure archives for an image of 8-week-old Pinky the Kitten with a somewhat larger friend.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is never getting fixed until Democrats start vocally arguing that IMMIGRATION IS GOOD instead of just saying, "well, we'd like to enforce immigration laws a bit less harshly than the Trump administration"

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I hate the fact that life has turned into an endless series of single-use kitchen gadgets. Want to go to a theme park? Better install their proprietary app. Want to go to another theme park owned by the same company? That will be another app.

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Went for coffee after work. They had a "dirty coke" special: Coca-cola with espresso, plus cherry & lime. I'd never seen coffee & Coke combined. Seemed like an odd idea but surely they wouldn't offer it if it sucked, and cherry goes with both coffee and Coke. Worth a try! Folks, it was disgusting.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026

You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 28/07/2026

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/07/2026

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I came up with a joke about Orpheus but it was too backward-looking.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026

FWIW, the first known use of the Wordle word today was in 1607.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2026

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes theonion.com/study-97-of-average-am…

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This belongs in a live action version of The Silt Verses.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Amazing thread, especially for those who want some delicious schadenfreude.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My favorite detail here is that Thomas Jefferson literally died mad about these edits. Also "we hold these truths to be self-evident" is a huge improvement over the original "sacred and undeniable."

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.

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Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second — Chad M. Topaz

Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Giant SUVs & pickups are killers. It should take extra licensing to drive them, and owners should have to pay significantly more in taxes/fees to account for the many antisocial effects (pedestrian safety, climate impact, constantly overflowing parking spaces, & more). Or just ban them.

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

One thing I've always appreciated about President Obama is watching him interact with kids. He's got wonderful dad skills and seems genuinely pleased to hold babies and shake hands with elementary schoolers.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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Oeming @oeming.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/06/2026

Thread about how using “A.i.” will turn you into a world class loser in the eyes of your colleagues… and yourself. Just say no. This shit is trash and it destroys human souls. I’m not exaggerating.

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Youssef Chouhoud @chouhoud.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think this captures the current moment of New York joy amidst federal angst in a way that is especially comprehensible to elder millennials like me Also, I would have absolutely watched this movie on WPIX every other weekend afternoon

A picture of a smiling Zohran Mamdani in a Knicks jersey and suit with a caption that reads: "Every video I have seen of Zohran Mamdani this week feels like watching a 90s movie called 'KID MAYOR' where every idea works and he wears a basketball jersey under a suit jacket and his main villain is Donald Trump."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

Boston cracked the seal in 2004, & it was never properly attended to between 2005 and 2016. Then we lost Bowie & Prince, reawakening the gate once more. And then: the Cubs. Attend to your rituals, children! Seal this portal, & with it cast these rancid vibes to the netherdeep from which they came!

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bespectacledsparrow @sparrow-specs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Improve your day with a thread containing some super cool birds. Grebes are so great.

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