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Father, Husband, Philadelphian, Founding Principal of Science Leadership Academy Middle School

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19h
An illustration of who honked in support of the academy of natural sciences
A page from busytown with a bunch of animals doing jobs
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is awesome: in lieu of autographs or selfies at events (this was from outside the XM Radio event in NYC this week), David Byrne now hands out this business card before cycling away. www.reddit.com/r/talkinghea...
FROM DAVID BYRNE
HELLO, NICE TO MEET YOU.
I NO LONGER SIGN AUTO GRAPHS OR POSE FOR SELFIES - OUTSIDE OF CHARITY OR OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS. HAVE A WONDERFUL REST OF YOUR DAY.
/s/ David Byrne
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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enter in the hapless workplace ethnographer who tells said software engineer that no, the medical assistant does not plan a “sprint” every two weeks, and yes, people really do sit at desks and answer phones.
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timothymboyle.bsky.social @timothymboyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well that was not fun at all
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timothymboyle.bsky.social @timothymboyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dad Sox fans are talking about Sogard leading off the 8th
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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."
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Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally
Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/09/2026
I think choosing Texas should be left up to the states
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timothymboyle.bsky.social @timothymboyle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The line freedom for one shouldn’t cause anxiety for a loved one really gives away the whole “should my 5th grader take regional rail alone” advice chat in the Inky. Surely there is one reporter who commuted to school via SEPTA?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc
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timothymboyle.bsky.social @timothymboyle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
David Cohen sucks actually, is reasonable response to their take on Academy of Natural Sciences get a bridge year of funding. Also, deferred maintenance should elicit pitchforks and torches heretofore, from the Philadelphia populace
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"On Monday, I can take a Zoom call from a Mexico City Airbnb that used to be a family’s house, and on Tuesday, I can send an email from a short-term rental in Bali that was once a women’s shelter. I bill my employer for the time I spend on my Instagram." buff.ly/CsWhmEy
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My Remote Job Gives Me the Freedom to Displace People All Over the World
“By working remotely, I break down boundaries. I’m a traveler and a worker, a learner, and a teacher. I’m a digital nomad and a real-life colonist.” 9/14/23 ...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes i google Ally McBeal — that 90s legal drama where all the bathrooms were unisex and nobody cared except to think it was so cosmopolitan and cool — just to make sure i didn’t make all that up.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Dartmouth provost's decision to stop writing by substituting AI-assisted text production is a great opportunity to have the kinds of conversations every institution should be having about AI use in higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Dartmouth’s provost has stopped “writing.”
Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boris Artzybasheff, "The Computer in Society," Time magazine, April 2 1965 content.time.com/time/covers/...
Time magazine cover with anthropomorphic computer
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/11/2025
I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The air traffic controller who answered is definitely from Philly. Sound on.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.
a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/09/2026
"Unions might be a good idea at other workplaces, but it just so happens that they’re actually not a good idea at this workplace—where, coincidentally, I just so happen to own a substantial share of the company’s equity." buff.ly/xIVz3wT
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I Support Unions, but They’re Just Not the Right Fit for the Company I Happen to Own
“Unions might be a good idea at other workplaces, but it just so happens that they’re actually not a good idea at this workplace—where, coincidentally, I jus...
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Brian @brian215.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Support 👏🏼 local 👏🏼 print 👏🏼 journalism 👏🏼
Location guide: Reacher in today’s Philly Inquirer
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum this weekend, Sept 25-27. Please sign up here if you can take a shift! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Help Save the Academy: Volunteer to talk with visitors and hand out flyers at the Academy.
Sign up for a shift outside the Academy of Natural Sciences during its last open days: Fridays to Sundays, Sept 18 to 20 and 25 to 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will be on the ground outside the Ac...
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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
how come ai models never break out of containment and steal ten billion dollars from their companies to build a private server farm in a non-extradition country
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 18/09/2026
A version of the "Aella's birthday gangbang" Sankey diagram but it's about Bluesky posters thinking about posting Sankey diagram jokes, leading from "thought about Sankey diagram joke" through various iterations of workshopping and writing the joke (with various dead ends due to forgetting about it, losing interest, etc). Eventually at the end the joke is finally posted; some posters do numbers with it, some don't, some came in a fluffer
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/09/2026
"Ed Sheeran has, for some reason, decided to claim that he was just following orders. Robert Kraft is hoping everyone forgets he was in the Epstein Files. And Ryan Lewis is… what? Watering a plant somewhere? Birdwatching?" buff.ly/busFvRn
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Ryan Lewis’s Silence on the Macklemore Situation Is Deafening
“As controversy spreads and the country collectively holds its breath to see if Mr. Thrift Shop has Mackled his last More, I find myself asking the question ...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My friends with young kids cry real tears whenever Ms. Rachel once again does not fail them. That’s real. And it matters.
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Adam Bates @abates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
bro you had one job
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Got my mind blown yesterday realizing that the Second international's archives are basically fully digitized!! Gonna need a team of German, French & Russian translators to dig into this... search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH0...
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Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
midnight in a perfect world is maybe one of my favorite songs ever?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Aid in the region” probably means something bad and reporters should ask him to be specific.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
photo of a tube of "Cacique SOY CHORIZO" resting on a carton of eggs. Text at the top reads: "I grabbed this bullshit ass chorizo made of soy I thought it was saying "I am chorizo" in spanish".
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PEER Illinois @peerillinois.org · 15/09/2026
State and federal officials have left students to confront climate change in buildings built nearly half a century ago– and students are done paying the price. To learn more, check out @peer_equity’s new report: Learning Among the Elements at peerforeducation.org/report/ Art by Shauda Islam
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s nowhere near enough squid street art in [redacted]. Someone’s gotta do something about that.
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timothymboyle.bsky.social @timothymboyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We were mindful of the waterways and natural areas within FDR Park,” Slawson said of the decision. Infuriating, not surprising.
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Brian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MALALA SAYS GO BIRDS
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."
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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s our air, our lives, and our city — we should decide 🦅 Two potential data center sites have already been identified in Philly—but the city has no rules to protect communities. We're rallying on 9/14 to demand City Council press PAUSE on data center development. Join us at philly.my/sep14rally
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago today America was attacked by zero Afghans, zero Iranians and zero Iraqis.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I really like this FOIA idea and think this could be a powerful method to learn more about how institutions are using generative AI in consequential settings.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Save the Academy organizers need some volunteers to help hand out informational flyers at the academy of natural sciences this weekend. If you are able to help please get in touch via this contact form save-the-academy.org/contact.html
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Contact us — Save the Academy
Questions, press, partnerships, or a way to help? Write to the Save the Academy campaign.
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timothymboyle.bsky.social @timothymboyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Only because he has so, so bad at his job is this even believable, if a competent senator released this it would be panned as a too cute by half staffer fucking around with unregulated AI
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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Personal to the dude in the pickup truck who threatened me as I Laser Visioned him for parking in the Germantown Ave curb-separated bidirectional bike lane: You still can't park there, bruv.
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Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mural Arts is helping you use SEPTA to ride to 35 Philly parks. Its new card deck can show you how to enjoy these spaces. billypenn.com/2026/09/04/p...
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Mural Arts map shows how to get to Philly parks using SEPTA
‘Getting to Green: Routes to Roots’ has updated its map and made a new card deck to guide SEPTA riders to 35 Philly parks.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work
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