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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my unironic life advice for everyone is to go to an art museum once in a while because i think being in an environment that encourages you to really *see* something is good for you

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is something Mamdani can do that no female politician could ever do: give right wing dudes “permission” to surrender to a more dominant dude who happens to be more left/progressive

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Year after year after year. As noted, while each Worldcon is a separate organization from the previous one, the same volunteers tend to show up and be placed in positions of responsibility and influence. It is long past due for these people to treat every attendee as equally worthy of respect.

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If a "fitness standard" means that disabled people are ineligible to examine documents, then it is not fit to be a standard.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 01/10/2026

I once had a job where the men would literally ~make the women leave the room~ so they could tell misogynistic jokes. Like, they thought the solution was to exclude us completely, that there wasn’t anything wrong with the jokes if they didn’t tell them in front of us.

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Libby 🎃Stink Gourd🎃 @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just cannot stress this enough: If you attempt a joke that doesn’t land, or you say something unintentionally problematic or hurtful, and somebody checks you on it, there are so many ways to walk it back. Take accountability. Apologize. At minimum, stop saying more words to make it worse!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great haul at the farmer’s market. Corn, Yukon gold potatoes, a russet potato, garlic, red onion, a full-size tomato and a basket of cherries, red and Thomcord grapes, strawberries, red butter lettuce, a bag of alkmene apples, and heirloom black beans.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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

I had initially thought so, but on careful rereading, I have discovered that the age requirement only applies to legal persons. Since Virga is not a legal person, he doesn't need to be 35.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We'd show him our work and he'd study it. Then he'd ask a few incisive questions about our goals for a figure, a panel, a sequence. Just formulating the answers was valuable. Joe never let us lose sight of our role as communicators. There needed to be a reason for every choice we made on a page.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mamdani is writing the playbook for how Democrats must continue to communicate with voters after Election Day. He could have done the usual thing and disappear after winning but if anything he’s communicating even MORE now.

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Modern-day Mengeles seek disabled subjects for unethical research.

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am feeling uncharitable thoughts towards the Nevada Chamber of Commerce, which is amplifying their meeting so loudly I can hear every word in my living room two blocks away.

Washington DC skyline. Rooftop crammed with people, two blocks from my apartment.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 13/09/2026

It kinda takes most of the video to *get* to the point about Hermione, but yeah, Hermione's meant to be a comic punching bag. Relatedly, that's why the worldbuilding is bad *as worldbuilding*--because it's actually satire that Rowling missed the entire satirical point of & wrote as straight escapism

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/09/2026

After several exchanges… ME: The Bat deck is behaving well. STEPKID: They are not behaving well! They’re killing us! ME: WELL BEHAVED BATS RARELY MAKE HISTORY

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 12/09/2026

Also: he had a badge that had one of his con-pseudonyms on it, and when he was wearing it, HE WAS NOT TERRY. He could just walk around and be… some guy. Not even good friends would speak to him at such times except to idly discuss dealer’s-room merchandise. 😄

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

she deleted this once she realized that based on the time difference she was implying that schoolchildren in Scotland knew about 9/11 before it happened

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my real takeaway from watching Mamdani is that if Nehru had been American, you lot would probably have made him president 10 times in a row

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mamdani's channeling of Indian retail politics upending the entire US political framework is hilarious to watch, this is literally what you always do in desi politics, hug the person who called you names to show you're a saint and he's a piece of shit that voters should look down on- and it works

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To be entirely fair, the United States also had almost twice the population in 2023 compared to 1958.

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As a brief serious moment: I specialize in disasters & worked all kinds of roles, But the most impactful in terms of enacting actual change have all had playful framing. Policy doesn’t change without public support, political will, & money. Joy unlocks more than fear.

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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1958 Miss Alaska Eleanor Moses. As Alaska was not yet a state, Moses, a Koyukon Athabascan, was designated a "foreign" entrant for Miss Universe and not allowed to compete for Miss USA. She appeared on some game shows and became a Northern Consolidated flight attendant. #alaska

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026

i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

9. I feel like if you stopped a bunch of Minnesotans (non-homeless) on the street, showed them pictures of a shelter and asked if they'd rather live there or in a tent, at least in the warmer months, a solid majority would pick the tent. A lot of Minnesotans LIKE camping.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Expanding the 1922 library required digging under and around it; at one point, the entire building was basically up on stilts. I get into the renovation in today's @notusmetro.bsky.social newsletter, which you should sign up to receive! www.notus.org/metro-newsle...

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People with disabilities should be able to *fully* participate in Worldcon. A Worldcon that puts up barriers to participation in any part of the con—whether that's presenting awards, taking part in panels, or anything else—has failed so badly they don't deserve to have won their bid.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Only one thing could improve this. Just one thing. You guessed it. Muppets.

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can corroborate, from my own memory. The hostility was similar to the right-wing attacks today on people who state their pronouns, and every bit as dumb. Social progress never stops, it is always possible to put yourself on the right side of history, and always possible to do the opposite.

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'd actually say that people should get two COVID and flu shots a year. It's ridiculous that every year we get articles advising us of the best time to get a flu shot, because the protection doesn't last an entire flu season. Just give us two.

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Steven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What the heck. Why bodies be weird.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok look The Odyssey is very much a sequel

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today I released WE GO IN for Traveller #ttrpg. It’s a non-violent career and mission generator (and includes a new ship). I wanted a story that was not about violence and all about saving people. legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5826...

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We Go In - rescue crews in the far future - Mongoose | Travellers' Aid Society | DriveThruRPG.com

WE GO IN Someone is trapped. Everyone else is leaving. You go in. We Go In is a rescue-focused supplement for Travel

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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 04/09/2026

This prank, related from @adapalmer.bsky.social's *Inventing the Renaissance* is absolutely s-tier. Imagine having the wherewithal to get a whole city in on your ruse.

The prank which made Amanatini famous was masterminded
by Brunelleschi (who was not yet working on the dome), along with
Brunelleschi's equally famous lover Donatello and several of their
friends. Our account comes from a text written a number of years
later by admirers of Brunelleschi, so we need to keep that bias in
mind, but the details are as clear as they are implausible. Together,
Brunelleschi and his friends conspired to convince Amanatini
that he had gone mad and was actually someone else. Through
their influence, one morning suddenly everyone in the entire city
started addressing Amanatini as Matteo Mannini, an unskilled
day laborer (the kind that earns 35 florins a year). Brunelleschi
and friends locked him out of his house, and hid inside the house
loudly impersonating the "real" Amanatini, with their befuddled
victim listening outside. They got everyone in on this, and even got
the city watch to arrest Amanatini for Matteo Mannini's debts and
throw him in jail, where visitors pretended not to recognize him.
They then had two men bail him out, claiming to be his brothers,
who took him to their home and spent the evening convincing
him that he really was the day laborer Matteo Mannini, and that
his memory of being a master woodworker was a fit of madness.
Once their victim finally fell asleep, the pranksters returned him to
his real bed, and in the morning pretended nothing had happened,
trying to convince him it was a strange, elaborate dream.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Re: Brubaker, Ellis, etc. Good work is good work. I don't feel duped for having bought and enjoyed good stories. HOWEVER, good work is not unique. And let it be known that producing good work does not allow for bad behavior. It is also not a shield that will prevent someone from kicking your ass.

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randomgenera.bsky.social @randomgenera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The whole situation is incredibly nasty. Bevin and his wife made a huge deal of adopting these kids from Ethiopia, shipped one to a horrible “school” in Jamaica, and when it got shut down didn’t retrieve the kid. Just left him in a foreign country.

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Former KY Gov. Matt Bevin's adopted son reportedly removed from abusive facility in Jamaica • Kentucky Lantern

No one came for Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's adopted son after authorities removed him from an abusive academy in Jamaica, reports The Sunday Times

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

what Schkade has achieved on Flash Gordon should earn him a free hotel room in any town where comics are mentioned, the strip has returned to greatness.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyway, someone talks shit about our mayor who was 9? Someone lauds goddamn Giuliani? Someone tells someone who was there the thing that happened couldn’t have happened? Someone tells you “homeland” isn’t a Nazi word? You give them a fuck you from NYC and you will be blessed by the pizza rat

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