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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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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
as a former philadelphia hater i am unduly excited about this
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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 · 16/07/2026
Sam Renal Cat Food
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
happy birthday!!
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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 · 02/07/2026
read this to E who said “hell yeah”
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ashby.info/journal/page...
ashby.info
4298 4299 of Ross Ashby's Journal
Pages 4298 4299 of Ross Ashby's Journal
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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...
oracle.newpaltz.edu
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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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
exception if you’re scoring the game, which is its own sort of self-hypnotic fun
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
absolutely incredible stuff
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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
NO
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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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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
E says "get normal, stay normal"
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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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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
this works
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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 · 22/03/2026
the school where I work had a combined IT and library division and you can see this in the shifting balance of power there. hard-charging 2nd wave feminist leaders (women!) who stripped the library side to build up IT
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
counterexample: Microsoft Bob
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
@lenorajoon.bsky.social you may find these of interest
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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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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Strings of lights back and forth on the side panels seemed to be their solution
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I think there’s only the one, saw it parked on leonard avenue once
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joshua @wombatpraxis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
our local cybertruck is sporting christmas lights
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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
It’s not the first year they’ve done this! I was sure it would be changed but no.
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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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