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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

vote for me and my platform of chilly rainy days being only for cozy reading and napping

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Lynne Kelly 🐘🐳🐣🐙 @lynnekelly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“I’m not mad at you, just disappointed.”

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I should be practicing, but instead I’m making memes casting shade on a violinist who died over a century ago

A picture of Joseph Joachim (a bearded 19th century white guy) with the text: Playing out of tune? Who do you think you are? Joseph Joachim?

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 06/09/2026

I love it when our ancestors predicted the future. These French illustrations tell us what people in ca 1910 thought the world would be like a century later. Some of these were pretty close! Let's take a look. (original here: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...)

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

will never unsee again

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank you all so much for the reams and reams of great questions and comments you sent in to us for this season, which has resulted in a full THREE HOUR final bonus episode for S3! zencastr.com/z/QO_WfPUL

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S3 Bonus Episode 3 - Q&A · Zencastr Video

This ae nighte, this ae nighte, Every nighte and alle, Fire and fleet and candle-lighte, And Christe receive thy saule. In our final S3 bonus episode, we spend either three hours (from your perspecti

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Geomorphologist: the water in the cup ran up the sides of the cup to an elevation of 112mm, which is one of highest waves ever recorded. Good thing there were no cruise ships in the cup.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/08/2026

"International assassin" always implies the existence of national assassins, or possibly local assassins. Every midsized town has a minor assassin working out of a storefront at the mall between the Cinnabon and the UBreakIFix guy

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sometimes I look at the knitting community and think “Wow, we have more drama than just about any other community out there” And then I remember that I’m a professional classical musician

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So you’ve left fundiegelical Christianity? I am so proud of you, that’s such a hard journey! Gonna hold your hand while I say this: if you’ve deconstructed from Xianity but haven’t worked on whiteness & colonialism? Sweetie, you’re not done. Keep going, there’s more sh*t to unlearn

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 20/08/2026

I did a research project on legendary child prodigies and found that the secret sauce was having parents who provided them with the best musical education possible and connections to a professional network that gave them opportunities That’s it that’s the secret, it’s just access

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You can believe that there are some LLM use cases while also thinking the societal and educational push to shove it everywhere is immoral and disastrous.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

By the way, this is the exact historical process of “woke” people attempting basic goodness & smashing into the conservative brain over the course of this stupid fucking century. It’s just that conservatives stay 7 forever.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Doing the gentle parenting thing of patiently explaining the effects of a small one’s actions/choices when… Childe: STOP IT YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO GET ME TO FEEL WHAT YOU FEEL!! Me: Well…yeah. It’s called empathy. Kind of a big deal Childe: WELL I HATE IT I AM NOT GOING TO DO IT

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Ron Swanson Suppressing Laughter

ALT: Ron Swanson Suppressing Laughter

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Ms. Midwesterner, what impact does corn sweat have on you on a day-to-day basis?” “Well I just stepped out of the air-conditioned grocery store and my glasses fogged up so fast I couldn’t see where I was going”

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2025

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I found it to be of little use in writing anything of substance and I haven't used AI to write my stories. I've come to hate LLMs and I would never participate in a similar study today. I have been vocally against AI.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.

wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com

Wordcraft Writers Workshop

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/08/2026

Big news, readers: Ebooks are coming! 🎉 We’re excited to share that in the coming months, you’ll be able to enjoy both ebooks and audiobooks on Libro! Every purchase you make will benefit your chosen independent bookshop. What are we most excited about? 🔽

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Every once in a while I remember that VeggieTales has a character named the Italian Scallion and it just makes me happy

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diggingtrail @diggingtrail.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

WTF How do they expect to grow the sport and gain viewership of they don’t show it? I enjoy the TDF Femmes as much if not more than the men’s race and want to watch the whole thing

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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 02/08/2026

9. Instead, historians like Sutton in his book CHOSEN LAND shift the line of inquiry. Instead of trying to measure who is or who isn't Christian, he asks a different question: "Do the social norms and political systems favor Christianity over other religions?" The answer, he demonstrates, is yes.

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Soooo Peacock is just gonna show the pre-stream filler and never actually switch over to a live broadcast of the TDFF? It’s 20 minutes since they said the broadcast would start, and over an hour since the race started

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The Nightmare on Timothy St @barturtle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's bad enough that Tour de France Femmes coverage doesn't cover the start, but making us miss out on Mountain Points is horrible. @nbcpeacock.bsky.social sucks

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

NBC commentator: “I would imagine that MvdP has his eyes closed hoping that when he opens them Tadej will still be there” On these narrow winding Paris streets?? I hope MvdP is keeping his eyes wide open!!! #TourDeFrance

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I need the equivalent of a 2* Goodreads review for Dante’s Commedia: “Decent poetry, interesting premise. Ruined by the constant inclusion of politics and fanfiction-esque adoration of Virgil”

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Over a year ago, a Dutch frog science magazine emailed me asking if they could include my comic in their upcoming issue about dart frogs. They were interviewing the scientist who first described the blue poison dart frog; he had seen and liked the comic. They mailed me a copy, which just arrived:

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sepp Kuss, nooo!!!! (He’s at least safe!) #TourDeFrance

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

everyone needs their own Homeric epithet but I don’t think you should get to decide what your own is

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026

I prithee. Please subscribe to B*tch, Listen. If it's hard to find, use the asterisk! Or search my name. I appreciate you.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

At the end of the day, don't we all just want to read books and eat pastries in a seaside cottage during a raging thunderstorm?

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“It’s not a faithful retelling Homer’s story! Nolan changes Odysseus’ motivation, his character…” My boy. My sweet summer child. Let me introduce you to a little story called the Aeneid

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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Gaetano Donizetti, "La fille du régiment" (1840)

A family can be ten dads. That's it, just ten dads with no kids. (There is a framed picture of ten middle-aged men with mustaches in all-denim outfits, with their arms around each other lovingly.)

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of my favourite reviews of “Platform Decay” by @marthawells.com 😂😂😂 No spoilers!

Tumblr post from shrubfriend:

I love you Martha Wells. I Love you and your beef with privatized transit and whatever happened to you at Rainforest Cafe.
#the murderbot diaries #platform decay

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sounds the sort of thing you'd say if you were hiding Dracula's grave

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

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Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

instead of Whamageddon, see how long you can go before seeing a Halloween decoration. I have already lost #Hallogeddon by going into a Michaels in early July.

in a Michaels store, a rack of Halloween baubles - candy corns, pumpkins wearing witches hats, orange candies

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Violinknitter @violinknitter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Five living authors that you’ve read five books by each: Robin McKinley Martha Wells Ben Aaronovitch Ann Leckie Nghi Vo

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today's historical find, special America at 250 mega-thread. In 1932, to celebrate George Washington's birthday, everyone, and I mean everyone, danced the minuet. First, in Cleveland.

“They’ll Dance Minuet at Washington Parties” Two photos of 3 couples in colonial attire, one dancing.

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A retelling of Never Let Me ago set in the Toy Story universe and starring dog toys

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Ellie B. Spookypants @brynstar7.xyz · 25/06/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's a new Rhiannon Giddens album that you can preorder:

rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com

Hope is the Thing with Feathers, by Rhiannon Giddens

10 track album

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/06/2026

our local Penzeys likes to display wholesome children’s art:

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Othello Othello Oh you’re a funny fellow You’re just like Pulcinello We’ll dress you all in yellow And cover you in jello No matter how you bellow Or try to play the cello Othello So far my broadway musical has a great book, I just need more songs

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 19/06/2026

Sometimes I'll be cooking or whatever and I'll say, "Dang, I wish I had some five spice powder" Then I'll stop and go, "Wait. Actually, I wish I could teleport like Nightcrawler" Because what if THAT is when some wish-granting entity happens to be listening? And I waste my one wish on ingredients?

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