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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in relation to our panel on comics for blind readers today, the comic @emilybeitiks.bsky.social & I made for @technologyreview.com - we explored the challenges and potential of making comics accessible. Can see/listen to it here spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

This is page one of our comic on accessible comics. There is an entire alt-text file and audio version of the comic linked to on this page, so please check that out as it is more complete than I can be here.
https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

This is page two of our comic on accessible comics. There is an entire alt-text file and audio version of the comic linked to on this page, so please check that out as it is more complete than I can be here. https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 02/10/2026

It’s Spooky Season! 👻🎶 All month, we're sharing spooky treasures from our collections, kicking things off with MYSTERIOUS MOSE, a 1930 cartoon featuring a proto-Betty Boop singing the eerie title song as a very strange visitor comes a calling. 🕸️ More Spooky Stuff ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

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Susan Almon @susanalmon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How cool is this? Folklore and drawings about ancient cats! “Beware the housebound kitty-cat. Japanese lore tells us that if you keep a cat as a pet for too long, its tail will split, it will begin walking on its hind legs, and that beloved kitty may just hunt you down.” #booksky

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 02/10/2026

What a good pup, protecting that butter from potential thieves. I saw a thing on Fox News about roaming gangs of butter thieves, it’s no joke.

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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 30/09/2026

A chief refused a widow land to bury her husband. This women’s movement brought his coffin to the chief's office instead. An hour later, the land was granted. Meet the Rural Women's Assembly, a 2026 Right Livelihood Laureate. rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Dr Argue FT @whatsthepointsk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I read this what is striking to me is that Canada is not a “member” of but a partner/ally of the EU. Starkly different from the supplicant (Trump: Canada will come to me and say “Sir we’re sorry” (to get a “deal”) Canada would be in a deal with the US. www.thestar.com/politics/wha...

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What a leaked Canada-EU summit document reveals about Mark Carney’s turn to Europe

The document reveals that the EU chief and Canada’s prime minister plan to launch a “Canada-EU Alliance for the Future.”

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@indra.dahal24 does tiny construction projects: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

landed at JFK and as i’m making my way to the ride share app area a random dude asks me if i want a ride. no kind sir! i usually wait until my SECOND day in the city to be kidnapped but thank you!

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 28/09/2026

A good day to listen to @greatesttrek.com New episodes drop every Monday. They're currently revisiting season 1 of TNG (I'm just finishing up S3 of Enterprise)

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Susan Almon @susanalmon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😹😹 Quoted post is a photo of an Egyptian carving of a person laying flat on their back with a cat sitting on their chest. Text on photo says “Evidence suggests cats have never understood personal space.”

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour!! Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve found blooming in the last week from across Britain & Ireland ☺️

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the post below this is the very first 'find the...' photo I made about a yr ago.There's a miniscule silver plated stag 🦌 hidden among the autumnal finds. It'll help your mental health in 4 different ways... 1) If you find the photo pleasing that triggers a burst of dopamine in yr 🧠 cont'd 1/2...

rosehips, sycamore keys, beech nuts, acorns, a fennel seedhead, ivy buds, a pinecone and Boston ivy berries, part of my first Find the... photo

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wait until these dummies find out the percentage of people who buy life insurance and never use it during their entire lifetimes!

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hahaha right?

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Susan Almon @susanalmon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Delightful and insightful thread

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

cute thread

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Scubagrl @scubagrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Peak Minnesota Bluesky is meeting a mutual about a piece of crop art that they made based on your photo from the ICE occupation (Thank you, @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social)

Crop art of a winter scene of a residential street with a sign that says "A PERSON WAS ABDUCTED BY ICE" posted on a pole

Winter scene of a residential street with a sign that says "A PERSON WAS ABDUCTED BY ICE" posted on a pole

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Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy Fall! From my book Poetry Comics, published by @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

September garden & hedgerow palette: today's botanical dopamine for your brain. If you're feeling anxious or low, research shows that my photo will shift your brain biochemistry for the better - help you recover from stress & lift motivation & mood a little, so maybe pause for a few seconds 🌿🧠

Garden and hedgerow botanical finds in September, arranged in a rainbow on a white watercolour paper background and with a handwritten label

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Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A great review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for my new illustrated novel-in-verse!

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tonight I’m watching Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story It is free to watch on YouTube. We need more films and shows about Canada’s history.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Italo Calvino from If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Relevant discussion of gen Ai from 50 years ago… “What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings?”

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I asked Lotaria if she has already read some books of mine that I lent her. She said no, because here she doesn't have a computer at her disposal.
She explained to me that a suitably programmed computer can read a novel in a few minutes and record the list of all the words contained in the text, in order of fre-quency. "That way I can have an already completed reading at hand," Lotaria says, "with an incalculable saving of time. What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings? An electronic reading supplies me with a list of the frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study. Naturally, at the highest frequencies the list records countless articles, pronouns, particles, but I don't pay them any attention. I head straight for the words richest in meaning; they can give me a fairly precise notion of the book."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He isn't doing "vanity projects." He is destroying the nation's capital. He's going to leave Washington DC in ruins. If, of course, he leaves.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An entire patchwork carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium at Anglesey Abbey a few days ago, looking for all the world like spring. Today’s botanical dopamine for your brain 🌿:

A carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium at Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@autisticsociety.bsky.social's review that autism is genetic aligns with research that autism is a lifelong neurodivergence (www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...) - as the National Autistic Society said, people are born autistic and remain autistic for life. 1/

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Frontiers | Sensory–movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism

While the autism diagnosis emphasizes “deficits” in social communication, the article advances that sensory–movement differences underpin autism through a re...

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

[Video, 1:04] "Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin announces collaboration with world-renowned Jim Henson's Creature Shop on puppets for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. * [It will play] DEC 4, 2026–JAN 10, 2027 at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Hall in Washington, D.C."

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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Announcement | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

YouTube video by ShakespeareInDC

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Reincarnated! I'm a Star Gazer (aka David) @ncred.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do you know the story of Ann Lowe? #BlackSky

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Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc @blindcatrescue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Week! 🐱💙 Seniors, black cats, those with medical needs, and bonded pairs are often overlooked. They deserve love too. Adopt, share, or support your local shelter today! #AdoptALessAdoptablePetWeek

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Susan Almon @susanalmon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In her books, Carol Burnett tells amazingly hilarious stories about Bob Mackie’s costume designs. Even better in audiobooks narrated by her.

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Susan Almon @susanalmon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are you also so old that you have these in a drawer? Good news is that I fixed the September page on our old-fashioned paper wall calendar.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you’re daunted by the prospect of late autumn & winter & are able to get outside, here’s a film I made for @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social with 5 scientifically proven nature-based tips to alleviate anxiety & lift your mood 🌿🧠: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC Two - Autumnwatch, 2020, Episode 3, 5 simple ways: Nature can help your mood

Emma Mitchell guides us through a natural take on wellbeing this Autumn.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Just we two” Postcard from my collection, mailed 1909. This is by C.E. Bullard, my favorite of the Victorian/Edwardian cat photographers. He seemed to genuinely love cats and didn't restrain them or cram them into tiny costumes.

Black and white photo of two white cats on a cushion or folded blanket. A shorthaired adult cat is on the right while a fluffy long haired white kitten is snuggled into her on the left. They appear to be a cozy mother and kitten, cuddled and relaxed.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We've learned about Persian desert-powered ice pits, now let's learn about Iron Age Persian AIR CONDITIONING. How did people live in the hottest part of the world before you could dial down the thermostat & hope your electric bill gets lost in the mail? Let's learn about 'badgirs' or wind towers.

Yazd - Badgir - Windcatcher, a tower with poles sticking out at odd angles, decorated in geometric figures atop flat roofs.
CREDIT: Alireza Javaheri

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