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Vernacular Gothic @vernaculargothic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am trying so hard not to eat the blondies that I made for tomorrow, one pan for the boyfriend’s birthday, one pan for the office. But I really, really want to.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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Ash of the Titans @ashgunnywolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At least Fuckface the Talking Gerbil Saves Arbor Day didn't perpetuate white supremacist rhetoric

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/09/2026

As a copy editor I'm supposed to observe and reflect language changes rather than shove them into the spotlight prematurely, but as a writer I'm quite keen on "themself" as a singular reflexive pronoun and use it every chance I get. #copyediting

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seth Moulton visited a high school yesterday and a student wrote on Reddit about meeting him. Moulton advocated for Flock cameras and told the teenager to look up Ed Markey in the Epstein files.

Screenshot of reddit post: Experience Meeting Seth Moulton for the First Time as a Teenager. Text is too long for alt text but link is in reply.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Queen of Appalachia, by Asterosperma. www.asterosperma.com

A stylized picture of Dolly Parton almost like a tarot card. She sits with crossed legs on a wooden chair wearing an orange dress and cowboy boots surrounded by an ornate frame. Her right arm and hand is raised and her left one rests on her knee. Two small black bear cubs clamber up her legs. She is surrounded by butterflies and flowers. The background is a deep orange color.

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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song

Their heads are wide, and their eyes are lidless. Their limbs are underdeveloped and possess long, thin digits.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

from “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman 1985

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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

LEAVE THE MOON ALONE GET A JOB

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Love to Seattle and people there just trying to have a nice time together. We should not have to live like this.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

theintercept.com

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Maura Healey continues to ignore the existence of this facility in our state.

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Vernacular Gothic @vernaculargothic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is giving Lowly Worm’s apple car some competition for its place in my heart!

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BratKnits @bratknits.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nobody ordered Temu Eddie Redmayne. Send it back.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'll straight up listen to elevator music in a house and house music in an elevator. I really don't give a shit anymore.

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Victor14403 @victor14403.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So now we know for sure. The culprit who vandalized Trump's reflecting pool renovation was...Donald Trump! He ruins everything he touches.

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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

She blames trans people for her obsession with trans people, so she wants to punish them. Transphobia/transmisia offers no catharsis, so it only makes things worse for those who have it. Even finding like-minded others lacks comfort. Hateful community offers no way out.

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Erika Uyterhoeven @electerika.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Massachusetts is the only blue state in the country with a 287(g) agreement that deputizes state officers to do ICE's work, and Governor Healey and many legislators have defended it.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

jk rowling quotes an account called trans widows’ voices

rowling says:
Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund.

trans widows’ voices says:

Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do not have the same power or influence to defend ourselves

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Mad Auntie Kristy @auntiekristy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Please remember every time you drink water it's less water going to data centers fight the system stay hydrated.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I have no idea where this came from, but

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I love the phrase "writers and poets" because it suggests poets aren't writing but instead doing something far more sinister

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I spoke with my old friend Mitch McConnell for almost twenty minutes and we played this funny little game we always play where I poke him with a stick repeatedly and he doesn’t react at all. Oh that Mitch!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Graham Platner is a bad guy???? No way, who could’ve predicted this????

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm very glad Rep. Kean was able to take time off of work and get treatment for his depression. Rep. Kean also voted for the OBBB, which will kick Americans who need to take a month from work to seek mental health treatment off of Medicaid because they're "able-bodied adults".

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Seth Moulton is scrambling to clean up his private equity investments now that Massachusetts voters know the truth: he's a sitting congressman making millions on private equity investments in weapons manufacturers that are overseen by the very committees he sits on.

Seth Moulton is scrambling to clean up his private equity investments.

September 2025: "I cannot recuse myself from my constitutional duty to vote on matters coming from the house, including those that may impact Divergent Technologies."

June 2026: "Moulton will recuse himself from any congressional votes that could benefit Oura, webAI or Divergent Technologies."

Too little too late when you've already made millions.

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Vernacular Gothic @vernaculargothic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just saw Gang of Four. Astounding. I want to be Gail Greenwood when I grow up.

Gang of Four onstage at the State Theater in Portland Maine.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Far left" positions: - Transit should be fast, functional and maybe even free. - Everyone has a right to healthcare, childcare, housing, and food. - Collective punishment and genocide are bad, actually. To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 23/06/2026

He's a nervous guy.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Seth Moulton owes Massachusetts voters an explanation for missing today’s vote on Senator Warren’s housing bill. He says he wants to build affordable housing, but he can’t even be bothered to show up and do his job when Congress passes the biggest housing bill in 30 years.

Screenshot of NPR headline reading: Congress passes the largest housing affordability bill in decades

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

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Vernacular Gothic @vernaculargothic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This was so, so good. The acting, the writing, the direction, costuming, staging…funny and heartrending and surprising. If you are in the Boston area or can get to Cambridge, I highly recommend it! www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/the-my...

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The Mystery of Irma Vep – A Penny Dreadful | Central Square Theater

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

pogroms are bad and when we see them in a country with a recent political history eerily similar to ours we should pay attention and also insist, again, that pogroms are bad

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“This is birth control to Major Tom” — a friend’s 6 yo, belting out her interpretation of Bowie

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