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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 13h
#OnThisDay Oct 6 1979: Amtrak is reorganized during system-wide budget cuts. The popular "Empire Builder" is cut back to 3 days a week, and it's the last day for the "North Coast Hiawatha," the venerable transcontinental train on the Northern Pacific/I-94 corridor with origins back to 1900.
Amtrak train 10, the eastbound North Coast Hiawatha, climbs out of Butte, Mont., crossing trestle 63 on Homestake Pass in August 1975. Doug Harrop photo
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Tatami Spaces @tatamispaces.bsky.social · 12h
Library in the Earth, completed in 2022 in Kisarazu, sits in a corner of KURKKU FIELDS, a working agricultural operation, and Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP designed it for people who plow on sunny days and read on rainy ones.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15h
I’ve heard it’s similar to the underground market for eyelashes among scientists who study the nematode worm C. elegans. A good eyelash is the perfect scooper for a tiny worm. If you’ve got good lashes, they WILL ask you for some.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 14h
Yellow door Kent, IL
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 14h
Greenstone funerary mask of #Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk', born #OnThisDay in AD 649. Greenstone funerary masks were a symbol of political power in the Maya world, placed in the graves of rulers. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 Estela Parra / CC BY-SA 4.0 🏺 #Archaeology
Mask made up of many pieces of greenstone, arranged like a mosaic to form a face with piercings wearing a headdress.
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Himbo Deluxe @verylarge.bsky.social · 15h
Gustav Klimt more like Toyota Tacoma
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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 14h
Daihatsu Midget II bringatrailer.com/listing/1996...
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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 14h
Honda Vamos bringatrailer.com/listing/1972...
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h
Life of Saint Catherine on the wall at San Clemente in Rome, painted in 1430 by Masolino da Panicale. Today is his day.
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Your daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 18h
And you did call yourselves "the filthiest people alive."Well, what kind of credit rating do you think that is?
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 17h
GPS is probably the single clearest parallel to what AI is doing to human knowledge now. Before GPS, you would memorize routes (as well as an ability to improvise when needed), which allowed you to drive intuitively most of the time. Driving was sort of fun and definitely easier as a result.
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Lizzy @stonedeva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The reason I'm not in prison can be chalked up to pure lack of motivation.
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I would like to submit Andrew Wyeth's 1979 painting "The Night Sleeper" as the best painting of a dog
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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 17h
Boyaanisqatsi: Life out of Pocket
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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · 16h
Yape - Darién Gap - Panama 🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/48nMVupuaRJj... 4K link : i.imgur.com/VVb9t2U.jpeg More about the Darién Gap on Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3...
A satellite picture of a dense rainforest landscape, a brownish river is meandering through it from the top left to bottom right. A small village is place on the side of the river.
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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 16h
I look at this webcam a few times a day during my work day to keep myself from making a bazooka out of paper mache and blowing my brains out, and there are some bats flying around right now! And tons of bugs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P_L...
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LIVE Elephant Cam: Tembe Elephant Park - South Africa - Africam | explore.org
YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h
3/3 Saint Jerome, w/ lion & lovely mini-church, joins John the Baptist in another realm of gold, courtesy of Masolino.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 17h
Shane (@shane_oaddo) on twitter: "Being a wright brothers hater must’ve been so crazy, you think ur about to watch 2 annoying nerds die then they give man dominion over the sky forever"
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 18h
Every one of these leaks is a violation of the securities laws, just as SpaceX's leaks were before, and we'll call this de-regulation by non-enforcement. www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's Amodei made $18 million last year, middle of the tech CEO pack
Dario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic, the company's IPO filing shows, putting him in the middle ranks of top ​executives at major technology firms in terms o...
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/08/2025
Purchase in the NEXT FIVE MINUTES to unlock the secret chord that pleased the lord (a $49.99 value) absolutely free!!
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Matt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 06/10/2026
If you are a Democratic candidate debating a GOP incumbent, every answer you give should include “and my opponent, who supports child rape”. How hard is this? Trump is a child rapist and all of them have sold their souls to help him destroy this country. Make them answer for it
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Ben @bdbrands.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Uh man graduated from West Point 30 years ago and fought in multiple wars but had to prove he was a citizen cause his last name had an accent mark
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ceej @ceej.online · 06/10/2026
Interesting. I guess the New York Times thinks it’s appropriate for their employees to threaten to bonk me on the head and play horseshoes with my prominent goose egg. To fill my mouth with piano keys that fall out while tweety birds circle around my noggin. To turn my head into a giant whistle,
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a donkey, a mule @sparrowfalling.bsky.social · 22h
i have only watched with the sound off and no notes
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shredded wheat is an insane concept. "Yeah I want a fucking log of hay in a box. For my breakfast." Fuck outta here. Crazy assholes.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Joint task forces have historically been used to fight drug cartels and terrorism. In DC, Trump is using them to police children on their way to school and harass people simply for being outside.
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Time on Task - The American Prospect
The Trump administration has abused the interagency task force process to intervene in law enforcement across the country.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A good article, but the GOP committing to defense of democracy won't happen. We must create disincentives for lawlessness and collaboration with fascists, and that means punishment. Either we impose consequences or we allow the GOP to keep making things worse as it has continually done since Nixon.
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WH Press Pool Reports @whpresspool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A protestor was escorted out of the event as he yelled insults that appeared to be about both Vance and Donald Trump. As he was being led out, he could be heard yelling “pervert.” VP says Democrats are obsessed with Alaska, seeing it as their “last best hope to take America.” (4/6)
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FRUiTS bot @fruits-bot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fruits Issue 44_Page_26.jpg
a scan from FRUiTS magazine, most likely images of fasionable people in Japan.
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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thinking of all the fucked up medieval haircuts in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Milla Jovovich with extremely intense bowl cut John malkovich dauphin of France with his hair all fucked up  like a baby bird bowl cut 


Two attendants with similarly courtly fucked up styles
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PGA Tour Offseason Insider Meghan McCain @hotsprotstakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The last time I saw this many Yankee errors General Ambrose Burnside delayed his river crossing while waiting for pontoon bridges, allowing Confederates to fortify. He then ordered suicidal frontal charges against entrenched positions, resulting in over 12,000 Union casualties.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Island in the sun.
Sunlit island on a dull day.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Forum boards are the best form of internet, full stop, and the internet began to suck more and more as we strayed from that light
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
at my last job the company had an ex-FBI head of security who would follow up on any death threats and usually reassured me with something like “we looked into the guy and he doesn’t travel outside a 50-mile radius of his small Texas town.” whether that could be part of the issue, who’s to say
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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not the thickest trunk but quite thick for a rowan. This rowan and its hawthorn mates have been pushed sideways by years of living with westerly winds at Hole House near Skiddaw in Cumbria. #ThicktrunkTuesday
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nick Park spent the '80s making A Grand Day Out mostly alone. It was a school project that got out of hand -- he wanted to quit many times. But Park stuck with it and fulfilled his dream of bringing a cinematic feel to stop motion. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-an...
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 23h
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23h
I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.
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Kevin Snyder @guns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I spent my $500 check on 7 cartons of unfiltered Camels because I’ve finally decided to take up smoking
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magic hell ball @magichateball.org · 05/10/2026
The future kicks ass
Beavis da Terminator
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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Its worth going back to Nuremberg and the strategy behind which defendants they chose to try and more importantly, why. Strategic thinking is necessary in ethical matters.
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happy filth_oween @filth-waste.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
radioactive wife material
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Illustration of female orgasm from Sexology Magazine, November, 1949
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’d watch this TLC show
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 05/10/2026
james bond often privately struggled with feelings of inadequssy
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