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✨Reader Librarian✨🗽⚖️🇺🇸 🌬️🍂🍎 @weeklyreader.bsky.social · 16m
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2h
Michael Tracey is forcing himself back into the news cycle discourse in his own predictably disgusting ways, so here’s a link to the longform biographical episode we put out about him earlier this year with @robertsilverman.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
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110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · June 1 · 2h 31m
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1h
The new business casual
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 2h
Blood and Politics is Leonard Zeskind's unprecedented, sweeping history of white nationalism's rise over four decades. Banned by the U.S. Naval Academy in April 2025, its October re-release could not be more timely. Join us to celebrate the release on our fall book tour, starting in the Midwest.
Join us on tour
At every stop, Carol Smith, Leonard’s life partner of 46 years, offers reflections on the book and Zeskind’s legacy, joined by Devin Burghart, executive director of IREHR, who tracked the movement alongside Zeskind since 1991.

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Pilsen Community Books
Chicago, IL · 6:00 PM
1531 W 18th Street
Carol Smith and Devin Burghart in conversation.

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Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch
Kansas City, MO · 6:00 PM
4801 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64112
Also joined by Bishop Donna Simon, Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Zachary Mueller, senior strategist for States at the Core; and Nimrod Chapel, Jr., Missouri president of the NAACP. Moderated by nationally syndicated columnist Mary Sanchez.

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Skylark Bookshop
Columbia, MO · 6:30 PM
Moderated by Rhonda Perry, executive director of the Missouri Rural Crisis Center.

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Left Bank Books
St. Louis, MO · 6:00 PM
Also joined by Zachary Mueller, senior strategist for States at the Core.

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Raven Book Store
Lawrence, KS · 6:30 PM
Also joined by Zachary Mueller, senior strategist for States at the Core. Moderated by Melinda Lewis, professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 5h
New York growers seek to kill farm worker union rights. Court ruling protects labor rights for now.  1/2
A photo of a truck in a orchard with the words: New York growers seek to kill farm worker union rights; court ruling protects labor rights for now.  
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Oooooh! Nice spooky vibe. "To dream the impossible nightmare." 👻 🎠
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3h
If you thought the articles on The Gateway Pundit were rough, you should spend some time reading through the comments its readers leave on them. I did. And folks... it is not good. My latest at Open Measures: openmeasures.io/violent-rhet...
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Violent Rhetoric Against Public Officials Seen in Comments on Hyperpartisan News Site Ahead of 2026 Midterms - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h
Ahhh, tomorrow, my favourite month begins…Goodnight. 🖼️ Tuesday Riddell
Two eyes peer through the stems of yellow foliage and white flowers in the darkness, in the foreground, a snail walks leaving a trail and one flower has fallen to the ground. A moth flies above the flowers. Painting.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10h
A list of people who honked in support of the Academy of Natural Sciences at yesterday's protest: A schoolbus A car full of kids A cop A mailman Cars full of people in business attire Cars full of people in work outfits Cars full of people in street clothes The PPA Philly supports the Academy.
a woman in glasses holds up a sign that says Honk for the Academy
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The Onion @theonion.com · 7h
IT Guy Had Affinity For Cords At Young Age theonion.com/it-guy-had-affinity-fo…
IT Guy Had Affinity For Cords At Young Age
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 4h
Today is Décadi the 10th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate vats. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Vats.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
when protests aren’t enough. the encampment at Puerta del Sol plaza started with 10 tents. “Now, we’re more than 300 tents, and it keeps growing.”
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‘It keeps growing’: the tent camp that stands against Spain’s housing crisis
An encampment is sprawling across Puerta del Sol plaza in central Madrid in protest against the ‘rentier economy’
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✨Reader Librarian✨🗽⚖️🇺🇸 🌬️🍂🍎 @weeklyreader.bsky.social · 13h
🎶Better not mess with Major Tom... 🎶
A small terrier-esque young dog with enormous ears and one dark iris and one blue white iris stares at the viewer. Other dogs are behind it.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19h
This country absolutely hates women and depends on our unpaid labor and hates us even more for that dependency. We are loathed, and once you understand that a lot of the pieces fall into place
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 13h
Break the System Criminalized Black Mothers and the Reproductive Politics of Abolition press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Once in a Lifetime, 1928
Sheet music for the song "once in a lifetime" (Not the Talking Heads) from the show Earl Carol's Vanities. (choreographed by Busby Berkeley) this is Illustrated with a slender woman in an elaborate gown I think the artist was imitating Erté unless somehow the artist was irritated sending some work to America got this image via the Great new York the Golden Age Tumblr account
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 13h
RUN FOR COVER (1977) Acrylic on illustration board H. Beam Piper is, of course, best remembered for the Fuzzies of Zarathustra. My involvement with those books began in 1976 when Ace, guided by Jerry Pournelle, repackaged the two original novels: LITTLE FUZZY and FUZZY SAPIENS. #art #booksky 🪐📚
A white haired man stares down a horned and tusked alien boar-like creature as it prepares to charge. Pappy Jack cradles a little fuzzy alien creature in one hand while gripping a laser rifle by the stock with his other. The beast turns intense orange eyes towards the pack of fuzzies that are panicked and looking for cover. The beast’s intentions are clearly hostile from the bristling of its mane to the set of its hooves on the flora covered rise.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 13h
I’m #TeamQuartz in #MinCup26 but today’s #sciArtSeptember prompt carbon lines up with graphite, so I am sharing my #linocut of Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; 1930 – 2017). She was a professor of physics & electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science. In this linocut I’ve
My linocut portrait of Millie Dresselhaus in white sweater, red blazer, and C for carbon necklace, with the structure of a carbon nanotube behind her, in red, silver and black ink.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13h
Meta is tapping "into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation. It’s an aggressive interpretation of the tax break, which Meta embraced to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion."
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 14h
Kremlin-affiliated outlets continue framing EU member states as warmongers unwilling to end the war. In reality, Russia rejected seven peace proposals last year alone, while Europe’s increased defence spending is a response to the growing Russian threat.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026
Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.
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Tiniest Violin
ALT: Tiniest Violin
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Rod Serling stands next to a painting of a woman in the TV show, Night Gallery.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026
The post-information world of the replacement of science, expertise, and institutional development with autonomized ignorance and participatory make-believe as the highest epistemic good proceeds apace. Caveat cognitor.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The two teams are: Desperate to change our systems and structures of power, and desperate to maintain them. There are more of us. Even if they have the resources. Solidarity is the *only* way home.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/09/2026
“Super Hyper Drive”: New Orleans photographer C.F. Weber shot this science fiction set around 1955, possibly in a television studio. www.tumblr.com/humanoidhist...
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The catmint sniffer
Our tortie cat Kitty on the kitchen table smelling the purple blossoms of catmint in a vase
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A few have called out my overt nationalism on this account. My explicit expression of national superiority, prioritising my ethnic group above all others & referencing the Englishness of the oak tree I am Welsh Love where you live, & honour your ancestors
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We took the protest to an event where we knew the Drexel board would be tonight and I blasted a bullhorn directly into the door crack of the gathering, disrupting the event 💅 Drexel President Anthony Merlo was supposed to be there but a person slipped to us that he canceled 👀 gosh I wonder why.
Sarah is smug as fuck on public transportation
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
setting up students for final project specimen selection; Stolas imperialis remains popular as always but I'm hoping this year will see a return to the Psychedelic Jones Moth
nice, possibly oversaturated photo of a bold blue and greenish iridescent Neotropical tortoise beetle (Stolas imperialis). I'm sorry I don't have a source for this image, it was posted to reddit and I stolased it from thereThaumatographa jonesi, the psychedelic Jones moth-- photo from Moth Photographers Group, by Arlene Ripley. It's a tortricid in an astonishingly jazzy striped outfit in orange, black, silver, and iridescent purple.
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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🐾 Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences. Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840. [Source]
Hyena illustration from historical archives
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Goodnight. Moon Lake, Kent Ambler.
Woodcut of full moon in cloudy sky over lake with trees in background.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
THE ADVENTURES OF
MAYA THE BEE
WALDEMAR BONSELS
Yellow cover, black lettering and design of large bee.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hello Tuesday. Ormesby Psalter, England, c.1310
Owl perched on back of a hare, marginalia.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
William de Morgan
Lion Rampant tile design, yellow, white, turquoise and black
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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Marilyn Owl' Homage to Andy Warhol and all owls #OwlishMonday 🤍
Four squares featuring the same portrait of a barn owl looking out at the viewer in different colour combinations. Top left: purple on yellow orange. Top right: red on light blue. Bottom left: pink on light blue-turquoise. Bottom right: dark green on light pink. Linocut, Maria Strutz
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Environmentalists Warn U.S. Running Out Of Small Wooded Areas Where Buddies Can Smoke Up theonion.com/environmentalists-warn…
Environmentalists Warn U.S. Running Out Of Small Wooded Areas Where Buddies Can Smoke Up
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 29/09/2026
Today is Nonidi the 9th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate parsnips. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Parsnips.
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explore.org @explore.org · 29/09/2026
There can only be one. Go VOTE at fatbearweek.org and choose your ultimate 2026 fighter.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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✨Reader Librarian✨🗽⚖️🇺🇸 🌬️🍂🍎 @weeklyreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. - Jo Godwin
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every book its reader Every reader their book Ranganathan got this right back in the 1930s
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Bubbie's brine makes an excellent ingredient for salad dressing.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I like ugly good guys. Everyone has the most beautiful good guys and it’s aggravating
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