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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 13h

New reality show idea: love is blind but instead of pods, people’s dogs meet first and they choose the dog they most want to cohabitate with. Then you date that person.

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Dr. Joanna and her Evil Hellhounds @jlphistory.bsky.social · 13h

Inside you there are two dogs.

One of those dogs is Index, who is rolling in the grass with a blissed out look. The other one is Footnote, who is sitting properly. Don't worry, they both got treats.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14h

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 13h

gonna go out on a public scholarship limb here and say the catholic church will survive a liberal pope.

it’s survived a lot worse, i promise.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22h

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 3h

I am currently teaching Latin to several students whose first language was not English. Keeps us all on our toes!

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 3h

If the next one I attend has Huntr/x songs playing along with the union and guillotine songs they had last time (plus, understandably, "Goodbye Earl"), I'm all for it on both aesthetic and thematic levels.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13h

Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.

There's probably one in your area.

I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes I wish my study of classics, especially the late republic and early empire, were a little less relevant to my own era, you know?

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 12h

Texas armadillo are fucking slacking on crossing the desert I tell you what. I'm gonna have to import them here and jump start the migration.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Holy shit, they finally did it (for those who don't know, this has been used as the legal justification for a SHITTON of unrelated stuff since)

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 15h

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 3h

My god don't give them more ideas. Especially as they clearly have none of their own.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 11h

why not merge the English Department and the Classics Department into a new Department of Percy Jackson while you're at it

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 18h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 10h

anyway good night

Fluffy gray tabby asleep in yesterdays sunbeam.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 9h

The feds really had no idea they were up against the most sarcastic and passive-aggressive city in America.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 9h

Dante was Catholic and the Inferno is full of Popes.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 10h

This presumes that the essence of Catholicism is the worship and/or veneration of clergy, particularly the Pope, and that’s never been a settled thing within Catholicism.

I mean, yes, these guys are ridiculous, but not because they argue with the pope. Catholics argue with the pope. It’s a thing.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 8h

My students once asked me why I kept making dark jokes throughout the semester. I told them straight up that it was how I coped with The Horrors.

That and getting very, very good with a sword.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12h

(I guess a thing about being a Black ADHD-haver living through an era of fascism which has been enabled by the exact things you've spent years studying and trying to warn about is at least maybe occasionally your brain might turn the persistent horror into decent comedy)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7h

Isn't a cathedral the most appropriate place for this question?

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 7h

People online are losing their absolute minds at this art installation at Canterbury Cathedral and all the ridiculous reasons they're giving as to why it's bad kind of prove the point of why it's good, actually.

A photo of steps at Canterbury cathedral, on the wall a graffiti-style graphic in red and black reads "god, what happens when we die?"

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 20h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 7h

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 4h

Appropriate Halloween yarn: achieved

A variegated skein in dark purple brown and red

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Stephen @cythraul.bsky.social · 4h

Back on my Gross Hungry Boi bullshit.

#minis #miniaturepainting #warhammer #flesheatercourts

A gruesome ghoul of the Flesh-eater Courts.

Two gruesome ghouls of the Flesh-eater Courts.

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 3h

That song really sticks. Soda Pop may be catchier, but that one gets its hooks in.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 4h

Me, at 6am, asleep...
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My brain:
🎶CAN I GET THE MIC A LITTLE HIGHER🎵

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3h

TFW your bishop has a giant bath complex attached to his late antique house, but at least he lets regular folks use it sometimes? How, um, generous. archaeology.org/news/2025/10...

News - Byzantine Bishop’s Bathhouse Revealed in Ancient Olympos - Archaeology Magazine

ANTALYA, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that a well-preserved bathhouse covering more than 2,000 square feet has […]

archaeology.org

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