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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a pocket of Philly that's nearly impossible to believe: old farmhouses, hundreds of acres of forest, foxes running across front yards. Now squeezed by development and climate change, what will it take to preserve this last bit of wild Philadelphia?

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The Final Wilderness in Philadelphia Is Under Attack

Upper Roxborough is the last rural corner of Philadelphia, a place where forests and fields reign. Squeezed by development and climate change, how much longer can it last?

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

buddy you just described an alt-weekly

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In honor of Labor Day and my brother’s birthday in just a couple of days, one of my favorite poems youtu.be/B-XxgwM0Yvk?...

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What Work Is

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a glorified single-source interview with the head of Third Way. It quotes far more moderates saying they support the progressive candidates in the general election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The classicists have broken containment.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I grew up in a household that liked the occasional pineapple-ham pizza. I like it fine, probably less than most others in my family. My take is that BBQ sauce, rather than tomato, suits the toppings better, but then you’re straying further from the platonic ideal of what I want when I want pizza.

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Some context here is that Bonhoeffer is not at all obscure to Right Evangelicals. They are BIG into him. Though that still makes this analogy an odd choice on several levels.

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

only six genders? really?

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Education doesn’t fit into a customer-product model. Not everything is about capitalism. This may be part of why teachers are treated like shit. We don’t adhere to the standard mental model where everyone’s position in society is defined by whether they’re buying or selling.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Getting both of these articles in the same AL Direct email is giving me some serious whiplash 📚 AI and the Librarian: Reconciling Personal Ethics with AI as a Professional Necessity and ‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Libraries remain one of the institutions that help make the American Experiment possible: open, free, and committed to the belief that knowledge belongs to everyone.

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Why libraries really matter right now | Opinion

Libraries remain one of the institutions that help make the American Experiment possible: open, free, and committed to the belief that knowledge belongs to everyone.

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This post is making me want to rewatch CJ the X’s amazing video essay on objectively bad art. youtu.be/sqjzauX2DAQ?...

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Objectively Bad Art

YouTube video by CJ The X

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 03/04/2026

My personal theory is Twitter did a lot more management of media class posters than Bluesky does and a lot of them are not handling that or their ability to control their experience very well.

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“A library is a space that is open, free and generous at a time when others increasingly are not.” jskfellows.stanford.edu/i-have-an-id...

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I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.

What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

here’s a student take from an ivy grad. imagine what it’s like for non-ivy students.

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Opinion | Careerism Is Ruining College (Published 2024)

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

students are also frustrated by rampant careerism. they *want* options; they *want* to pursue things that interest them; they *want* more than the credential from college. we saw this in 2020-21: why did students hate distance learning so much? because college is about more than completing credits.

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Obviously this is all just vibes, but it sure seems like a lot of the same folks who would otherwise be grousing about “kids today” trusting technology over “common sense” are willing to abandon their own common sense in a heartbeat when it comes to A.I.

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AI Software Tells Cops to Arrest the Wrong Guy

YouTube video by The Civil Rights Lawyer

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Read nonfiction, read fiction, read broadly and deeply and capriciously. Support authors who know what they’re doing and talking about.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11/12/2025

I'm gonna tell you a little secret about copyediting. Shhhh. A solid 25 percent of copyediting is helping writers not to get kvetched at by people who like to kvetch at writers over picayune shit. Now, that might seem to be giving in to the enemy, but trust me: Writers like it. (Most of them.)

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I'll tell you what, as someone who was in J-School in the twenty-teens, I feel like I received all sorts of mixed messaging throughout my life on how I ought to leverage my identity on social media. I think I'm lucky I ended up in small markets, for myriad reasons.

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is the literal Dunning-Kruger, no? (I actually don’t know for sure. I know there is the original, academic definition of the concept, and then there is the colloquial, pop-sci understanding of it. But, alas, I am no expert.)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2026

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Love the new Aronofsky scene where the colonist takes off his hat to cheer, revealing that underneath it was a second and somehow larger hat Masterful artsistic choice

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Scott @smadin.net · 02/01/2026

also grok only produced that text in response to a prompt asking for an apology, and then someone gave it a prompt for a "defiant non-apology" and it produced that text too, because that's all it does, people acting like this was some kind of "admission" are making me feel insane

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/11/2025

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We're just six days away from finding out if someone left Snoopy in the vestibule.

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Bizarro Jimmy Olsen @bizarrojimmyolsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I think one of the problems is that students frequently believe that classes are something to be endured, just obstacle to getting a piece of paper certifying they endured it rather than a genuine opportunity for learning and the exploration of ideas.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Getting personal for today's post talking about my struggles to connect with entertainment and how seeing HADESTOWN this week did a lot to help. Like, read and subscribe if only to prove me getting mopey ain't a bad thing. thefilmmaven.com/hadestown-po...

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Revisiting Hadestown in a Week of Nuclear Fears and Mamdani's Win

Who knew a musical about Hell was just what I needed?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I did not have any of this on my bingo card, because a bingo card is typically just a grid with sets of numbers on it

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William T. Perkins @wtperkins.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Substitute teaching a high school classroom today: “Mr. Perkins, I love your hair. It’s very 2000s!” 💀

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/10/2025

“we’ve gutted our newspaper, chased off most of the talent, and turned our opinion page into a low rent WSJ clone somehow this is not attracting new subscribers, better gut it some more” what a disgrace

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/10/2025

this is accurate along multiple dimensions they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/10/2025

the trust fund brunchlords in charge of modern media have absolutely no idea what they're doing, zero understanding of the modern information environment, and are completely, intractably oblivious to their own class/race/gender bias

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Research and reference CAN be fun lol

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Please sir, may we have another portion? We're children of the beast that dodged the abortion Neck placed firm 'tween the floor and the Florsheim We'll shut your shit down, don't call it extortion

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The Coup - "The Guillotine"

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

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