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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 02/10/2026

How popular are European leaders in their own countries? (10-21 Sep 2026) 🇬🇧 Burnham +6 net favourability (+1 from Aug) 🇩🇰 Frederiksen -6 (-2) 🇮🇹 Meloni -22 (-4) 🇪🇸 Sánchez -35 (-2) 🇫🇷 Macron -60 (-6) 🇩🇪 Merz -73 (-7) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes I am not sure if nytpitchbot.bsky.social actually srarted writing headlines for the NY Times.

Screenshot of real New York Times headline: „3 Reasons Trump and South Africa Disagree on Anti-White Racism Claims”

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What was your first computer growing up?

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Closed captioning summarizes quite well Trump's UNGA speech.

Picture of Trump in front of the United Nations General Assembly. Closed captioning says: "US US"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Enjoyed this article about the growing number of men adopting cats, bucking gender stereotypes. Apparently Mamdani is allergic to cats, but has been getting allergy shots because his wife wants to adopt one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

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Dave Franco, Jordan Poole and Other Everyday Cat Dads Are Redefining Gender Stereotypes (Gift Article)

We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To be fair the model showed this all along. A moment please! *holds finger to earpiece* Sorry, I am being informed that I am looking at the wrong model.

Model of a former Nazi built Flaktower in Berlin.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

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Tank Of Gas Blue Brothers

Alt: Full Tank Of Gas gif from Brothers

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All those great trade deals that weren't. Peace deals that technically were at best glorified MoUs (if anything at all). Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, etc. Is there a point when the media accept that he runs a reality tv show and not serious politics? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...

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U.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says

The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nice photo but pretty easy to scroll past until you realize it was taken on Mars.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is so pretty: The entomological society of Geneva (Switzerland) partnered with a local brewer and produced these lovely beer cans. 😍 Many of them no longer available unfortunately. entomo-ge.ch/activites/la...

Four beer cans, two with pretty butterflies and two composing a blue grasshopper together.

A beer can placed on a tree trunk showing a kind of moth with a similar camouflage pattern.

Three beer cans composing the full drawing of a stag beetle.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s hard to tell us what the Hormuz war teaches us in a profound sense beyond “don’t be an absolute idiot”

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Actually, there are only two types of accounts here: Chaos muppets and order muppets. We need you both! (for reference see "Chaos Theory - A unified theory of muppet types" slate.com/life/2012/06...)

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don’t know what the word is, but the Trump administration’s record in everything in and around my expertise makes me feel like watching someone torching the library of Alexandria

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Ludmila Carone @exotides.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Look, I am an academic and even worked in Belgium and today read the letter from the dean regarding "that guy". He is no professor but "just" a postdoc. The first get hired to define/promote a field. The latter is a fixed term employee to pursue a specific subject.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

trying to add "no bilingual packaging" to a trade deal with Canada at the 11th hour is hilarious, it's like trying to add "and ban handguns" to the US side of the agreement

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gary Walsh from Veep, but even creepier.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Happy 70th birthday to "the box that built globalization" 🎂🌐 www.ft.com/content/b88c...

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Might Scare-ger @mikesager.net · 20/08/2026

I'm sorry. The Denver Republican party is run by a dude named Hugo Chavez and he's in trouble because he won't back a candidate named Marx?

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Trump's lawyers now accusing the BBC of "abusing the deposition process" reminded be of the old definition of Chutzpe: "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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BBC seeks to subpoena Trump's family members in Panorama lawsuit

A spokesperson for Trump's legal team responded to the request accusing the broadcaster of "seeking to harass" the president's family.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Learning the NATO phonetic alphabet: The biggest struggle is to remember if "M" stands for "Motel," "Mambo" or "Movember."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The challenge, for those of us teaching either Introduction to International Relations or Introduction to American Politics now, is that we have to teach both how the system is <supposed> to work under our constitutional republic & how it <actually> works under competitive authoritarianism.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sideshow Bob continuing being hit in the face suggests he is struggling not to step on rakes.

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Simpsons Sideshow Bob

ALT: Simpsons Sideshow Bob

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Oh boy. Hilariously bad. Totally unqualified. I could not even pretend.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

„Oh, you studied music? That must be exciting listening to those kindergarteners blowing their vuvuzelas.“

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“Oh, you study international relations? That must be exciting right now!”

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every academic to their non-academic partner:

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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The writers room has clearly given up on any form of subtlety at this point.

Screenshot of New York Times headline: "Huge American Flag Flies Into Power Lines, Knocking Out Power for thousands"

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Jérôme Lachasse @jeromelachasse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

L'AFP vient d’annoncer la mort de Marjane Satrapi, l’autrice de "Persepolis". Elle avait 56 ans

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 04/06/2026

What! That could be anybody’s massive palm shaped artificial island!

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Great start to the World Cup: A Swiss player could not travel with the rest of the national team today because his ESTA was "still under review" (coincidence or not, it is a player who was born in Cameroon). www.flashscore.com/news/soccer-...

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Switzerland: Breel ⁠Embolo has US travel authorisation under review | Flashscore.com

Switzerland forward Breel ⁠Embolo will not travel with the World Cup squad ‌to the USA on Tuesday after his ‌ESTA authorisation was placed ‌under review, the Swiss federation ‌said.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hindenburg Completes Mostly Successful Departure.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“You would hope that German officials would support scientists’ advice, but they have ignored it,” says one marine biologist who asked not to be identified because they feared repercussions. Must-read story by @martinenserink.bsky.social in @science.org. Feels like an encapsulation of our times 🧪

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Chaotic whale rescue shocks marine biologists

Timmy, a humpback whale stranded in Germany 6 weeks ago, was ailing and may already be dead

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I am sure that after those devastating decapitation strikes the remainders of the Iranian regime really regret to never have built a ballroom.

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ali @zoonpolitikon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Imagine you just ran the first official sub 2 marathon except that there was the other guy who did it 30 seconds before you. (don't know who made this. Happy to give credit if someone has a source)

"I'm going to change the world. For the better right?"-Star Wars meme with Yomif Kejelcha replacing Anakin.
Kejelcha: "I ran a maraton in 1:59:41"
Padme: "And that's a world record, right?"
Kejecha: "..."
Padme: "You won the race, right?"

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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Colombian mercenaries were tracked by device data from Colombia to El Fasher, via a UAE base, a Somali compound, and Libya. One device was in El Fasher during the genocidal RSF takeover. It connected to a network named "ATACADOR." Spanish for "attacker." static1.squarespace.com/static/69673...

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