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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 5h

a bald man wearing glasses and a grey jacket smiles

ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a grey jacket smiles

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a plaid shirt is smiling and says well yeah

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 7h

Man I sure love blankets

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this

Woke up because my Al controlled bed is too cold. Went to adjust
temperature and I can't because the Eight Sleep app is currently broken. Can't adjust by hand because I have a Pod3, not the upgraded Pod4 with
physical controls.
Now I am stuck in a cold bed. This feels dystopian.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 9h

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 9h

Sukkos celebration in Kalinkavichy, Belarus (where my maternal grandfather was from).

Five Belarusian Jews sitting in a small sukkah, having the time of their life.

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Mark Rodin @markrodin.bsky.social · 11h

I suspect Hood is unhappy with his playing time and decided to walk away rather than be a sideline observer. This young man deserved better and an opportunity in every game. Bad reflection on current coaching staff

IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 12h

UNC running back Caleb Hood has announced his decision to retire from football less than halfway through Bill Belichick's first season in charge of the Tar Heels.

UNC star sends Bill Belichick message after shock retirement decision, aged 23

www.irishstar.com

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 10h

US Georgia really should be required to change its name. I propose Marainia.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11h

DIANE. 💔 Heartbreaking. 😢

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 11h

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My Blue Heaven - Arugula, it's a vegetable

YouTube video by niznj

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 11h

One of my "brief encounters with famous people". Passed her on the street in NYC, restrained my impulse to gawk, & just nodded with a smile. She returned a friendly wave. Made my day.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 16h

"No events" seems akin to "no chemicals"

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 16h

Missed it. Many happy returns!

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Matt Hartman @themhartman.bsky.social · 2d

fighting within the school of civic life and leadership began before the school existed, and i've got a new story that explains what it's all about

there's a ton of new info, so here are a few highlights:

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Lesson in Civics

The School of Civic Life and Leadership’s public fighting is part of a long-running rupture about the mission of civics schools around the country.

www.theassemblync.com

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Bend Over Here It Comes Again @pdxbohica.bsky.social · 18h

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 17h

Anthem

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Manuel Guerrero - En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza - D.L.B. dlb-549-b

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James L. Agneta @jlagneta.bsky.social · 18h

Forget mounting antlers or eagles on top of a steam locomotive headlight.

Crabs are where it's at. 🦀

🚂

A brass crab named "Crabitha", mounted atop the headlight of NYSW 142, a 2-8-2 steam locomotive.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 17h

In high school during the late 70s, I edited a newsletter for a student club. So I got a weekly dose of mimeo fluid fumes, and purple ink stains on my hands. Good times.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 17h

Many 48ers also went to Mexico, bringing polka music & beer.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 17h

It's been nearly 40 years since I lived in England, but my flat also had mixer taps.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

In the early 1980s, the USSR increasingly became a gerontocracy. After Yuri Andropov died in February 1984, the small US group, the Spartacist League, published this tribute to the dead Soviet leader. The line ‘He made no overt betrayals on behalf of imperialism’ is such an oddly phrased sentence!

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 1d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 1d

You have to move your hands back and forth very quickly. Keeps your wrists in shape.

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