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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This RULES!! Shared with my local Stop Flock group.

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just did an entire zoom meeting with crane food in my hair. Because some tiny tyrant flung his breakfast dish in outrage since he now only likes a very specific texture of crane crumbles. Broken leg/surgery child is now the crane of 10,000 opinions. #wildliferehab

A juvenile sandhill crane colt looking down at the viewer from the front. This bird is undergoing rehabilitation after a car strike and surgery to repair his leg.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 07/09/2026

I’m still so proud of this little book. If you read it, I hope it’s useful to you. And I’ve said it before, but if you’d like a copy but don’t feel you can swing the purchase right now—shipping costs, how your budget’s looking this month, whatever—just send me an email. We’ll figure it out. ❤️‍🔥

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 07/09/2026

This Friday 11 September at 9am PT: join me and Dana Chisnell, co-founding member of the U.S. Digital Service (amongst many other achievements!) for episode 10 of How People Work, Live! register + previous episodes at verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every time you check out a library book instead of ordering from Amazon, ask a friend instead of an LLM, cook a meal instead of ordering from an app, or go for a walk instead of scrolling social media, you interrupt the cash flows of insane CEOs. Do it! Ruin their day!

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's become so bad! AND you have to use Facebook for all sorts of parent group and extracurricular stuff.

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Wordpecker @wordpecker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Fresh Wordpecker update! www.heywordpecker.com/p/wordpecker... In this edition, we have small mammal antics, nerding out on feathers, two decades-long art projects, and more! h/t to @doctorow.pluralistic.net for introducing us to 'dickovers.'

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Wordpecker 15: Beaver Atlas

Meet the marms

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

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Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 17/07/2026

This week, we have a very large timeline update from Immigration and smaller updates from Food Safety, Medicaid, and Federal Workforce. Our weekly briefing covers all four at highest speed: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...

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Briefing: Immigration, Food Safety + more — Unbreaking

This week we have a short briefing about so many events in Immigration, some upsetting things happening in Food Safety, and quick updates from our Medicaid and Federal Workforce teams.

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I love this series so much and am so happy I got the physical copies. Supporting this Kickstarter will do your heart some good.

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hating women is the center of the venn diagram here then you can add whatever isms across the other circles

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026

One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

They bought all of our choices, political, lifestyle and economic. But they did not wager the cost of our *refusal*. It is fascinating. Grim but fascinating.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Every Sunday, I sent a weird wordy newsletter called Wordpecker out into the void. Some of you actually read it. Here's last weekend's edition. www.heywordpecker.com/p/wp-09-moon...

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WP 09: Moon Porn

Happily trapped in the American Woodcock algorithm

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

once again the innate belief of people that They Wouldn't Just Let The Thing Lie And Give Bad Information Mate It Stands To Reason They Got People Who Check These Things is proven to be as valid as believing the moon landings were fake or that Duke doesn't suck

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026

i'm so sorry we've sent these souls to the moon and they're using outlook?

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

teaching only one of my chickens to play No Limit Hold'Em in order to create wealth inequality amongst the chickens

a baby chicken playing no limit hold'em poker on a computer

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/03/2026

If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I've decided Bluesky is now my complaint channel. Enjoy.

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A major local healthcare network in Chicago (Northwestern Medicine) uses obnoxiously fake typing sounds between prompts with their automated phone service. It fills me with rage every time I hear it. We know it's not a human, knock it off. This is both terrible marketing & an awful user experience.

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Every single org should offer the option to turn off hold music while waiting to speak to a representative.

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I read about a recent study that found that people who are assholes online aren't just being bolder bc they're hiding behind a keyboard, as most of us assume them to be. Turns out they're actually *also* assholes offline who have likely been ostracized bc that shit doesn't fly in person.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

[pink pony club] 🎵 Joyce Carol Oates She’s gonna keep on posting ‘cause she’s Joyce Carol Oates 🎵

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We love you, Minneapolis!

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Yes, there's a Bluesky version: @wordpecker.bsky.social - follow to get the latest phrases! And consider subscribing to support human-generated writing!

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Really excited to share the new look for my newsletter, New-To-Me Phrases: Say hello to Wordpecker! www.heywordpecker.com/p/welcome-to...

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Welcome to Wordpecker!

New look, same phrasemaxxing

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I think we can all root for this.

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Toni McLellan, she/her @tonimc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Who is this little guy? Find out next week! Sign up for my newsletter at www.newtomephrases.com

A graphic design of a tiny, pill-shaped red-bellied woodpecker pecking at the air.

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