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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

Old but classic meme, screenshot from Facebook. Person A: "I'll keep observing Columbus Day. Thanks." Person B: "What do you do to 'observe' Columbus Day? Get lost in a grocery store looking for spices?"

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Surly Librarian @surlylibrarian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You keep getting the wrong 80 year old!

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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Only a Wedgewood away 🪵

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Surly Librarian @surlylibrarian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I miss hockey…….so much. September 30th is right around the corner @avalanche.bsky.social

Bernie, the Colorado Avalanche mascot poses for a photo rinkside with the dedicated ice crew standing at the ready.

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✨𝕊𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕒 - Teh-REDACT-all✨📎 @samiamnurnot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There are priorities, and then there are *PRIORITIES*. This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

need you all to see this deeply indescribable cooking video

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Playing badminton with Mitch McConnell. We talked about the midterms and Iran. I took the first game 15-0 because he is unresponsive and lying on the ground.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Independence Day

A drawing of Patience and Fortitude, the stone lions that guard the entrance to the New York Public Library. Between them is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut: "The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Leo: Half of you wants to see the world. Half of you wants to change it. All of you is gonna get too drunk and order a cat bed online.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 17/02/2026

I didn't expect that.

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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A message for you all to carry through the year

Image is a popular astronaut meme. An astronaut is looking at the earth from space saying wait, I am worthy of love? An astronaut is behind him holding up flowers and saying always have been

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/12/2025

Hockey Players Blast ‘Heated Rivalry’ For Unrealistic Depiction Of Anal Sex theonion.com/hockey-players-blast-h…

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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 10/12/2025

I saw a lot of people posting their favorite cover songs and thought I’d add mine to the mix

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 06/11/2025

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Surly Librarian @surlylibrarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

@kodansha.us So I don’t normally review, well….anything, but THANK YOU for licensing “Spacewalking With You”! As a YA Librarian with a pretty solid manga collection and wide variety of readers, this is hands down the best representation of neurodivergence in any manga I’ve ever read (it’s a lot!)! 💚

Cover of Spacewalking With You, a coming of age manga that celebrates different learning types as the story progresses with the friendship of two loner types.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Friends don’t let friends walk by a mushroom without saying “hey look a mushroom”

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Surly Librarian @surlylibrarian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@beeves I love the fact that I saw this and was going to send it to you….and then I noticed how I found it in the first place

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is the way.

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Surly Librarian @surlylibrarian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

You know, at least he admits it out loud now. I mean, the rest of the intelligent folks did, so glad he finally came to the same realization.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide

Power point slide with a corgi in a gilt frame in the right corner. The slide reads “No children. No husband. I want to live all by myself. I want to come home from my self rewarding job and have everything exactly where I left it. And no GROSS children.”

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

giving myself a gold star for this

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you've had one of those days when all you really need is a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes, here's a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Americas starter Pokémon

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bay 🌙 comms on vgen @baydews.com · 07/04/2025

happy International Asexuality Day! friendly reminder that we belong in the queer community, we aren't all "sex-repulsed prudes", and just because some of us depict eroticism and sex in any creative medium we may pursue isn't equal to wanting it for ourselves in real life 😊

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“Since when are libraries the swamp?” asked @bravoandy.bsky.social on last night’s WWHL, when he named Trump’s IMLS cuts Jackhole of the day. Thanks so much, Andy, for standing up for libraries and raising “library kids.” Be sure to see “The Librarians” documentary. We’d make great bartenders 😉

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daniel chamberlain @amfmpm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

his pen is too small, he looks like he's being raised for veal

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Surly Librarian @surlylibrarian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Even my cat has excellent taste. Only the finest Hendrick’s gin will work for her.

A Siamese cat perched on an ottoman, who has decided that gin is her jam.

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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It’s Caturday. Seen any good cat memes today? 🐈‍⬛

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