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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 3h

Think I might have to mute "plague" for a while. I, too, can look up yersina pestis in Wikipedia, but that does not make me an expert.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 03/09/2026

Democratic elected officials, to the voters they are meant to serve and represent: "THIS IS ON ~YOU~." Please be for real and do something. If you tell me there's nothing you can do, please quit public life forever immediately. You are an embarrassment, and, honestly, I rather detest you.

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 10h

Read this in a Gartner report on HR trends for 2026. Did it happen? "A decade ago, coding bootcamps retrained bluecollar workers as software engineers. In 2026, we’ll see retraining and apprenticeship programs emerge to help digital workers transition into skilled trade professions."

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 10h

Shots in North Cambridge at 3:20. (Now when I hear something that could be shots I check the time.) Apparently at the MBTA station? Injured person taken to hospital, sez police report. News choppers overhead gathering video for the evening show. Too many shootings in my painfully gentrified nabe.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.

wbaltv.com

Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state

Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 06/10/2026

Allston, Watertown, Dorchester all call for restoration of their post offices www.universalhub.com/2026/wu-vows... #Boston #USPS

The most Allston protest sign of the day: Zoom our post office back to 02134

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 16h

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 15h

That's how I heard it... bsky.app/profile/jond...

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 17h

Look. He (or some apologist) is going to say he meant that higher oil prices are a small price to pay to prevent Iran from nuking LA or SD. One of the perks of being so incoherent. Not only can supporters read anything they want into anything he says; everything can be walked back.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NY theater folks and/or gay history folks (my people!): Kramer/Fauci is about to become a very hot ticket, and deservedly so. Go if you can. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/t...

nytimes.com

‘Kramer/Fauci’ Review: A Thrilling Episode From the AIDS Battlefield (Gift Article)

Daniel Fish’s staging of a C-SPAN segment reveals the complex yet tender relationship between the fiery Larry Kramer and the diplomatic Anthony Fauci.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 18h

If anybody reading this is a working scientist who would be interested to learn about and co-develop a public philosophy of science course for scientists, dm me, thanks! Shares appreciated!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, hey. I've gotten into the habit of doing some extra work on Monday nights because that's how things are in 2026. The extra work I do is to end-run around some passive-aggressive bullshit my manager does to some of the people we work with. And yet tonight I'm not into it.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 05/10/2026

Last month I caught a fishhook to the shoulder and so I hit a tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis vaccine. Friday I got this year’s influenza and COVID boosters. Today my doctor gave me a pneumococcal vaccine bc I have asthma. Now I’m invincible. it’s time for me to find RFK, Jr and bite him

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everything is getting more expensive, but if you want something to exist, you have to spend money, recommend it to others, and say a prayer if/when private equity buys it. Restaurants, indie ice cream shops, movies, news outlets, clothing, art, music, live comedy, food banks, mutual aid orgs, etc.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We are living in a toxic era infected by loudmouth grifters, where every pathetic grievance requires a microphone, a cheap merchandise line, and an extortionate fundraising email. Watching a man calmly and stoically stand behind

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

bobcat in a box

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.com

A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is the video of Jack Smith wearing a No King's T-shirt strolling the crowd at the Power to the People fest real?

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That night Frog and Toad were both happy when they each turned out the light and went to bed.

A split panel shows Frog and Toad, each in their own beds, turning out the light and going to sleep.

From "The Surprise"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part two of the version with ALT text. Apologies of missing it in the original!

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. - Version with ALT text! Thank you @virginiaopossum.bsky.social for the help!

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think in my self-review the year I retire I'm going to list my greatest accomplishment as having managed to sign in to work in the vicinity of 9 am for five years.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 03/10/2026

Yay!! Thanks to everyone who voted, and thanks to everyone who works to make the Ember Awards happen every year! And congrats to all the winners and nominees!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

what is happening around me rn is what would happen if there was alcohol and weed at No Kings

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I cannot stress enough how fucking illegal this is. “Donald Trump is a criminal who keeps committing crimes, and now he wants to bribe voters to keep Republicans in office so he can—you guessed it—commit more crimes.” If you can’t message around that, no one can help you.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This piece of the puzzle isn't talked about nearly enough. I am willing to bet it's not the kids who do their own homework who will be left behind in the future. The stans are screaming this because they need it to be true or they are proper fucked.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh.

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Bill C 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪 🇨🇺 @arichat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That this plane survived is insane. * It lost most of its rudder * Dove 17000 feet at a ridiculous angle * Far exceeded its max design speed. * Followed by a climb by a passenger that exceeded the G force of a rocket launch and the engineering limits of the plane... www.wsj.com/business/air...

wsj.com

How a Boeing 737 MAX Survived a Nosedive Traveling at the Speed of Sound

The jet lost key tail sections after an extreme plunge, but its structure largely held up and enabled pilots to safely land.

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grrms 🦠 @frrms.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

English Beat is undefeated for waking up on Saturdays open.spotify.com/track/1no7VP... #80s #music

open.spotify.com

I Confess - 2012 Remaster

The English Beat · Special Beat Service (Expanded) [2012 Remaster] · Song · 1982

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks

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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 03/10/2026

That record-breaking pumpkin's about the size of a compact car — and it was grown by a man from Topsfield. on.nbcboston.com/QSTTgHO

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeak Mr. Evening Grosbeak would like you to admire how green his beak is! Fun fact: They're only green during breeding season! In winter they're tan. #becurious #birds 🪶

close up photo of an evening grosbeak. he is showing from just below his shoulders up. he is eating sunflower chips and his beak is bright lime green.

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This is not a place of honor, but it could be a place of hope". I remixed Warde's "This Is Printing-Office" & Sandia Labs' nuclear waste report (italics) w/my own critical tech text. From my 🎨 archive & press: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/prin...

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with copper-brown ink. It says "This Is A Printing-Office":
THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good
This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope
Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning
a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship: or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism
The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too) From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care: or serving capital, stoking hate
A press is but its printers
Friend you stand on ground
You make sacred—or not
THIS is a PRINTING-OFFICE
Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Labs; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr. for the Book". An image of a printing press is in the bottom right corner.

Digital composite of a screenshot of the text of Beatrice Warde's original poem, followed by a website's contextualizatipn that "This fabulous text by Beatrice Warde was originally printed in 1932 to show Eric Gill's new Perpetua typeface for Monotype." My caption is "why post something popularized as a showcase of serial rapist eric gill's work in your printshop?!" and "So I remixed it with a future-proof nuclear waste site warning report" by a screenshot from a Wikipedia article about the 1991 Sandia Labs report that includes the text "this place is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing
valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger". Warde's poem's text is: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION
REFUGE OF ALL THE ARTS
AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF TIME
ARMORY OF FEARLESS TRUTH
AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOUR
INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE
FROM THIS PLACE WORDS MAY FLY ABROAD
NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND
NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND
BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF
FRIEND YOU STAND ON SACRED GROUND
THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE"

Closeup on that screenshot of a website's transcription of Warde's poem and contextualization of the poem, circled in red by me with my added text "excuse me?! serial rapist eric gill?!" Full screenshot text: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION
REFUGE OF ALL THE ARTS
AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF TIME
ARMORY OF FEARLESS TRUTH
AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOUR
INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE
FROM THIS PLACE WORDS MAY FLY ABROAD
NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND
NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND
BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF
FRIEND YOU STAND ON SACRED GROUND
THIS
AS A PRINTING OFFICE
This fabulous text by Beatrice Warde was originally printed
in 1932 to show Eric Gill's new Perpetua typeface for Monotype. Printing establishments all over the world hung..."

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i think it may be conscious

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wait, is Putin sick or is this just random speculation?

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Virginia S. O'Possum, but scary @virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just so fucking tired of my whole civilization being pressed into service as beta testers. Even if representative government weren't crashing around my ears, this would be tiresome.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s what disgusts me almost beyond reason — the casual assurance that these people died because they were foolish, and that our cleverness would have saved us. Like murdered families are a compliment we pay ourselves for being so smart.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

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