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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DATE: what are you thinking about ME: fall should be spelled fa// DATE: ME: DATE: fell should be spelled fe_ _ *we kiss*

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Hootie and the Fugu

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's not long at all -- 11 pages total -- and what I desperately want is one computer setting that stops this prompt from ever popping up in any of my apps again.

Adobe worries that an 11-page PDF is an overtaxing burden to read and has offered to summarize it for me.

Black text reading, "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant," appears against a blue background.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

a bluegrass Shins tribute act called "New Twang"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

See? Not so easy to close out a tourney game without squandering a 19 point lead, is it?

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The less you know about sports the more unhinged these ESPN headlines seem

Screenshot of ESPN.com headlines including:
"Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash"
"Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27"
"Hidalgo nears quadruple-double as Irish advance"
"Ole Miss QB Chambliss clears hurdle to play in '27"
"Sources: NBA presents 3 anti-tanking proposals"

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I've never put too much stock in these charts (false precision much?), but man if this doesn't just about sum it up. What a debacle. I refuse to even look at my bracket, but I guess I'm cheering for High Point now. Go... Methodists? Furniture makers?

A graph from the ESPN website showing each team's chance of winning the game, updated in real time as the game progresses. This match was between Virginia Commonwealth University (11 seed) and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (6 seed). The graph depicts UNC (up 14 points) as having a 99.1 percent chance of winning with 6:32 remaining. Against all odds, UNC managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Two minutes left in this episode of Shrinking, and everyone seems like they're in a really good place. Welp, good time to turn off the TV and call it a night.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This will never not get a small wry chuckle from me.

A screenshot of the score of the basketball game between Cal Berkeley and Southern Methodist University, which is in Texas. The game is being carried by the ACC Network, a television channel dedicated to covering the Atlantic Coast Conference. Neither California nor Texas are on the eastern seaboard, but counterintuitively, both teams are members of the ACC.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

well credit where credit’s due: it’s 2035 and i’m driving to work in elon musk’s moon city—or rather my optimus robot chauffeur is, heh. i’m just kicking back and enjoying the view. what kind of a name for a moon bridge is owl creek

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I'm hiring! Come work with me as an Energy Policy Analyst at Gridworks, supporting our work to build a stronger, more equitable, more reliable energy grid in the Western U.S. This role is remote and open to folks living in MT, WY, ID, UT, AZ, or NV. Details below. gridworks.org/wp-content/u...

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

On top of everything else, this except from a 2014 Ariely interview lands differently these days.

In an excerpt of a 2014 interview with Dan Ariely, the author gushes about how busy Ariely stays with so many academic engagements around the world, including meetings in London. In the next paragraph, one of the London meetings turns out to have been with Prince Andrew.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Ramshead Rathskeller, but everyone called it "the Rat." It was a basement pub off a little alley on Chapel Hill's Franklin Street, and they served a lasagna that was basically a bowl of cheese. Just thinking about the lasagna burns the roof of my mouth. Much-beloved local institution. 1947-2007

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Whirlwind southern Vancouver Island bike trip: Swartz Bay > Duncan > Victoria > Swartz Bay. 48 hours, 110 miles, almost 6k feet of climbing. Excited to spend more time in the saddle in 2026 and maybe even properly train so that these trips aren't such a bear! 😂

A photo of Kinsol Trestle, also known as the Koksilah River Trestle, on a clear day. It's a wooden railway trestle located on Vancouver Island.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

uni-freiburg.de

Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/12/2025

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

propublica.org

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

to catch the flu, you gotta think like the flu

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Their advice is also dangerously wrong! When one group of people must carry papers on them to avoid government kidnapping and disappearing, that means *all* people must carry such papers on them. How else can you show the government you're not someone they should kidnap and disappear?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

it absolutely rules that the N&O is running, and promoting, this story. newspapers in any city ICE threatens should consider doing the same.

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Didn't watch, but I see that UNC won the second half, which we all know is the more important one

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In North Carolina right now the Democrat running for Senate - in a state Trump won *three times* (I hate it too) - is leading by 6-8 points. 'Oh, but they'll cancel elections' - then force them to cancel elections and radicalize the normies and then march with the radicalized normies.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/07/2025

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive. We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

ACC Tournament, but the game would stay on mute until everyone turned in their test

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/07/2025

cynicism is fucking boring as shit

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Sliding into influencers' DMs to insist – politely but firmly – that in their unboxing videos, the knife or scissors should be wielded away from the body.

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

new youtube video! will the l.a. protests help or hurt trump politically? i say hurt! youtu.be/mOP_5IigrzE

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Will the L.A. protests help Trump?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Cops shooting a woman at point-blank range for trying to get to her apartment Very protect. Much serve. Cops are great

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 16/05/2025

If this post gets 50 likes, i will go ahead and make a long thread about it all, but otherwise won't bother, bc it is kind of a lit of work and i am p busy, so i want to do stuff that is actually useful to people

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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"a U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s urgent medical needs."

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@alliemullin.bsky.social would be fun to audit, wish this had been offered back in the day!

An ad for an American Studies college course focused on race, gender, and sexuality in horror

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I lost my mom and grandmother to pancreatic cancer. Mom was only 47 and passed within 9 months of diagnosis. Its insidious. Hard to find early. Difficult to treat. Almost always fatal. This gives me so much hope… but there’s a bill in the U.S. to ban mRNA vaccines. We must push back.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Emphatically yes, all of this

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy hour is holding the line 🇨🇦

A page from my menu at happy hour. It's completely blank except for one sentence: "We are not selling American wine at this time."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

again, I think a major problem with America is that a critical mass of voters and elites have convinced themselves they can't die even if they stab themselves—that it is impossible to elect a government that actually makes their lives worse so its all just a game

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

aclu.org

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...

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