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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Japan may have lost to India but nobody is beating their names
Cricket batting scorecard naming Japan’s players: Kendal Kadowaki-Fleming, Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake, Ibrahim Takahashi, Benjamin Ito-Davis, Shirai-Patmore, Reo Sakurano-Thomas, Charlie Hara-Hinze, Wataru Miyauchi, Declan Suzuki, Makoto Taniyama, and Shoma Sugaya-Slater.
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Don Hughes @donaldhughes.ca · 19/09/2026
I hope my American friends have a nice election season and that everything goes smoothly. Please keep Canada in your thoughts when deciding how to vote.
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nothing is more certain to enrage the college administrator than an attempt to give our students money
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Luis Apiolaza @ojala.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Reviewing some old links before deleting my Twitter account I was reminded of "Civil disobedience in scientific authorship: Resistance and insubordination in science" (doi.org/10.1080/0898...) which contains a great table on deciding authorship order:
Table 1: Deviant author assignment strategies (selection), listed chronologically. It contains year, authorship assignment strategy and reference.
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 19/07/2026
Prorok Povětrnosti Weather Prophet School Timetable, 1937 designreviewed.com/artefacts/pr...
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
rubbernecking at the schismatics
Sign reading:
St. Therese’s 
Roman Catholic Church
Academy and Cemetery
Society of St. Pius X
Traditional Latin RiteA small white church or chapel and a smaller, yellow, nondescript building, with a soccer field in the foreground.
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
w. ross ashby: thanks, dad!
Lined notebook page with handwritten text reading "24 Dec ’52. Following a suggestion from Dad I have decided to write an Introduction to Cybernetics. A first step is to decide the relation of my work to that of Shannon. My basic scheme is that of p. 4299. After reviewing his book carefully,"
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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I'm part of the very specific fragment of the population for whom this image is the best joke of the week.
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
explain to @marthaballard.bsky.social
ODD LOTS
How a Vibecoded Newsletter Is Making the Hay Market More Transparent
JUN 12, 2026 • 48:04
The hay market is not a transparent market: It is very fractured by types of hay, whether it is alfalfa or clover hay. There are a few opaque, illiquid markets like this — scrap metal for instance — that require some hands-on investigating to figure out.
Aiden Johnson is co-founder and CEO of the Hay Wire newsletter, which aims to make the hay market more transparent: He and co-founder Cole Glasgow use an Al model to mine public data sources — like USDA reports on auction prices across different regions — to produce a weekly newsletter on the hay market. On this episode, we speak with Johnson as he explains why he chose hay over other kinds of markets, how HayWire was made possible through vibecoding, networking with hay farmers, why the ROl of owning a horse is dropping with hay prices spiking, and why hay demand keeps on tightening.
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BlonicYouth @blonicyouth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Providence RI update: someone is building a guillotine in their building's driveway
a homemade guillotine in the process of being built in a brick drivewaythe same homemade guillotine but closer and from a different angle.
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The @sunynewpaltz.bsky.social library no longer performs original cataloging, which means, in addition to no longer adding many other unique library and archives holdings, their zine collection will be frozen. Shame! 📚 oracle.newpaltz.edu/campus-libra...
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Campus Library to Lose Critical Archiving and Cataloging Services - The New Paltz Oracle
The Sojourner Truth Library is losing parts of its archival and cataloging services, including the SUNY Open Access Repository, after the spring 2026 semester due [...]
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rimidar @rimidar.au · 18/05/2026
What would Karl Marx think about Polymarket and how much money would he lose on it within 24 hours of opening an account
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go
An incredibly silly meme with an image of Buckinghamshire's waterways. The following text is around it.

'Can't remember the names of the rivers and waterways in historic Buckinghamshire? Try this handy mnemonic!

"Roman roads really ran right resiliently"

[The first letter of the following words (R) is highlighted]
River Thames
River Great Ouse
River Wye
River Thame
River Colne
River Ouzel'

There is an image of an otter in the bottom left with a speech bubble says 'It's easy!'
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Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue @lyndamk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
There really should be a support group for brutalist academic libraries. All of my libraries would be founding members.
John D Rockefeller Jr libraryJohn D Rockefeller Jr library
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Jesse Lemisch’s greatest achievement (complimentary) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How a Radical Historian Saved the Schlock of ’76 (Gift Article)
Yale’s Bicentennial Schlock collection offers a window into the star-spangled commercialism that swept the country 50 years ago.
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"because we already had a license from the workplace violence training" is not an acceptable answer
students walking on a college campus between brick buildings and trees with red and yellow leaves, overlaid with the text "if the campus isn't safe the likelihood of violence increases," the words "safe" and "violence" in wine mom font
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Primary needs
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I’m currently obsessed by Boston’s early C19 sewage infrastructure, which relied heavily on the labor of African Americans. Here’s an 1803 map of sewers in Middle (now Hanover) St in the North End & an 1802 receipt from Peter Virginia for emptying septic tanks. This is literal History from Below! 🗃️
A map showing private drains leading from residences to common shores, or sewers

Boston Town Records, BPL Special CollectionsA receipt from Peter Virginia, an African American laborer, to Boston’s Board of Selectman for ‘taking twenty Load out of the North School Vault’
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
was at this bar a year ago and these have stayed up the whole time
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Table of four columns headed, respectively, "1,000,000 Years Ago," "150,000 Years Ago," "10,000 Years Ago," and "150 Years Ago." The first column contains four roughly-shaped stone tools, the second has four more finely-shaped stone tools, the third has yet more sophisticated stone and bone tools, and the fourth has the text "Introduction of Interchangeable Parts."
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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 03/01/2026
Get your war on 3: ok I hate to act like a fucking dumbass but are we at war? I mean, did we ever officially declare war? Declare war? Who's got time to declare war when there are so many bombs to drop
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully. "Lovely", Frog replied.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The verse goes Midst the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me And as He died to make men Holy let us die to make men free Our God goes marching on And, like, honestly you wanna burn down Richmond all over again when you hear it!
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 27/11/2025
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
why does the active shooter training use wine mom font
stock photo of a smiling man in front of a classroom with the text “alert but not paranoid; relaxed but also situationally aware.”  “Alert,” “paranoid,” and “situationally aware” are written in a cursive “wine mom” font.
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 05/11/2025
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” 

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” 

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
@lenorajoon.bsky.social I was instructed to share this with you
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
1 AM, clouds moving in
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
features in my Alfred Thayer Mahan but with magic fanfic
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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
guys want one thing and it's literally 'a single-family home designed by TKA that looks like a state-system university library built in the 70s'
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Steph Noell (they/them) @librarianstebbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
kinda wanna put this ~1925 ALA poster on the inside of my library science zine
American Library Association poster text reads: 
Library Work: 
The Profession on Which All Other Professions and Occupations Depend; 
The library serves: 
teacher, minister, doctor, lawyer, engineer, merchant, artisan, social worker, student, home-maker; 
It offers: 
culture, information, recreation; 
Library work puts the librarian in touch with every human interest. 
A challenging field to the college graduate
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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The series of questions I ask myself when I wake up each morning 📚
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 25/08/2025
The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...
An image of a proposed redesign for the Massachusetts flag: it is a photo collage with a huge Dunkin Donuts at the center with the Harvard "Veritas" seal on the front of the building and a huge lobster plush doll walking out the front of it. The enormous smiling head of Governor Maura Healey rises up from behind the building, with heart-shaped sunglasses pasted over her eyes. Three bros in the lower left of the photo are raising a toast in red Solo cups, and in the lower right a (possibly drunk) young white person wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses is waving a huge rainbow flag and wearing a rainbow boa. The word "MASSACHUSETTS" appears in the upper right in enormous pink-sprinkled letters in the Dunkin Donuts font.
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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.
Kaiju press conference
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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
OTD 1819 Peterloo Massacre. 18 killed & hundreds wounded when pro-democracy meeting of c.60,000 people charged by Cheshire yeomanry, Manchester & Salford Yeomanry & 15th Hussars with 31st & 88th Regts & artillery also deployed. 15th fought at Waterloo & a Waterloo veteran among marchers killed.
 Dubbed Peterloo by Manchester Observer. Meeting called for Parliamentary reform and repeal of corn laws.  4 women and a 2 yr old among the dead. The Waterloo veteran killed was John Lees, the  son of a mill owner who joined the Royal Artillery aged 15, a regiment which had two guns present but not used at Peterloo. He was beaten horrendously and died of wounds 3 weeks later.
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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 17/07/2025
Probably five years ago, there was a screenshot of a tweet that bravely asked: Did Karl Marx accidentally discover the ills of capitalist society in pursuit of his autistic special interest, linen coats? I need this tweet for a talk I'm giving in August. I'll explain later, there's no time.
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dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Adding headings "Suffragists" and "Mustard (Condiment)" to the same record is possibly the highlight of my week
Leaflet (ca. 1915) including a recipe for "suffragette salad," which involved gelatin, lemon juice, cucumbers, and mustard.
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
someone in the search committee chat answered an interpretive question by cutting and pasting what chatgpt said and i am about to lose it
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Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
out in the park like
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Toby
Toby, a tricolor beagle, lying curled up on a red couch
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Gotta add menswear guy to the Marxism starter packs after this thread
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