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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 1d

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 12h

I would dearly love to hear a telling of this story from the ghost's perspective

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13h

Whomst among us hadn’t made this exact mistake

Plot detail from Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk:

Raymond and Agnes made plans to elope before Agnes left her aunt's castle for the convent. Agnes planned to dress as the Bleeding Nun, a ghost who haunted the castle and exited its gates at midnight. Raymond accidentally eloped with the real ghost of the real Bleeding Nun.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

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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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20h

do i wish the transcription worked better? yes. does it also provide us with moments like this? yes. (the word actually said was "aunado")

the detroit pitcher looking sad. it says Ha llorado [He has cried.]

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 1d

Just went on a ghost tour of a 1700s house and they served us hot cider and pumpkin doughnuts beforehand before a log fire in the outdoor kitchen. Bliss.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a while since I've annoyed Brad with a food opinion, today is a good day

MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 1d

I put butter on cinnamon raisin bagels but plain cream cheese on plain bagels( with lox if it's sliced all nice)

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 2d

Beginning an 11 item Welsh bound with…

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 6d

KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?

SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 2d

it has been one of those days when the world keeps reminding you that you have no value and you keep snarling back OH BUT I DO

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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 2d

The Spy Who Audited Me

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

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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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 2d

STUDENT: (looking at the play "Pygmalion") Pie-g-mall-ion.

ME: Pig-male-ion.

STUDENT: Is it a play about how men are pigs?

ME: Good guess, but no.

(I think about it.)

ME: Actually, great guess, and yes.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 3d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 5d

the Drake meme but it's these two photos of Hilary Jenkinson

Hilary Jenkinson looking slightly less annoyed than he did previously.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 5d

in other social media news I am really enjoying posting cringe on the library's IG for American Archives Month. just call me Hilary JANKinson

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 5d

I had a coworker who would say PLENTY OF FICHE IN THE SEA every time I reshelved the microfiche in the library. I didn't kill him but I kinda wanted to.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5d

Sympathy
1878

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 6d

if anyone is tempted to ask me how snakes can survive in boiling oil TAKE IT UP WITH THE BROTHERS GRIMM

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 6d

can't believe I agreed to a second date. anyway, this time I've been nailed up inside a barrel of boiling oil and snakes. I'm struggling with his mixed messages.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 6d

in retrospect I should have suspected something was wrong when my date abandoned me in the forest and I survived thanks to that mysterious gingerbread house

Teaser for a Washington Post article titled "Breadcrumbing and Three Other Dating Red Flags You Should Watch Out For."

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 6d

absolutely, they're powerless against it

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 6d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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