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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14h

A Dictionary of Words Invented to Name Emotions We All Feel, But Don’t Yet Have a Name For: Vemödalen, Sonder, Chrysalism & Much More

Philosophers have always distrusted language for its slipperiness, its overuse, its propensity to deceive. Yet many of those same critics have devised the most inventive terms to describe things no on...

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 53m

This pains me. So much.

Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 5h

MAGA is destroying the research enterprise that powered America to enduring greatness. The deep impact of this will only truly be felt in a few decades, by which time all these criminals who are doing the destroying will blame those impacts on more immediate causes. slate.com/life/2025/10...

Harvard’s Dismal Grad School News Is Just the Tip of a Very Bad Iceberg

Grad school's been grim for years. But it's always possible for things to get worse.

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 55m

@sngreenways.bsky.social Do you know what’s up with the lamp posts on the Wilcox Walls? Are they being repaired or ? I walked there the other night and noticed a bunch were removed.

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NPR @npr.org · 2h

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 10h

Yep. What he's tearing down are symbols of women in the White House.

What is happening right now???

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 16h

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 17h

We suffer because of it.

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

How Did The World Get So Ugly?: Then Versus Now

More than a few of us might be interested in the opportunity to spend a day in Victorian London. But very few of us indeed who've ever read, say, a Charles Dickens novel would ever elect to live there...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d

The 135 Movies You Must See to Understand Cinema

If you wish to become a cinephile worthy of the title, you must first pledge never to refuse to watch a film for any of the following reasons.

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 5d

www.hercampus.com/school/ucf/w... #metoo #feminism

What Happened to the #MeToo Movement?

With National Women's Month, looking back on the progress women have made is vital. One movement that garnered a lot of attention was the #MeToo Movement in 2017. But what has happened since?

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 5d

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The US supreme court appears ready to nullify the Voting Rights Act | Moira Donegan

Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatory

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 5d

I sometimes see this in Seattle, but...honestly. It doesn't look right paired with Gore-Tex and Patagonia.

Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 5d

OMG.

Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, I thought you were talking about

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Mar-a-Lago face - Wikipedia

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14d

Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style

The life of Russian-born poet, novelist, critic, and first female psychologist Lou Andreas-Salomé has provided fodder for both salacious speculation and intellectual drama in film and on the page for ...

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 14d

This is not good.

The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 14d

Clergy in Washington will remain mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect, but prosecutors will not enforce the law when abuse is disclosed solely during religious confession, according to a new agreement filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma.

WA clergy shielded from reporting confessions of abuse

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · 24d

:( It has. It's rough on the inside. Really rough.

Microsoft has lost its way

Microsoft's CEO loves to talk about 'empathy.' But everything that is coming out of Redmond these days is perilously close to turning the company into the Borg.

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 27d

Stream Hundreds of Hours of Studio Ghibli Movie Music That Will Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax: "My Neighbor Totoro," "Spirited Away" & More

Stream Hundreds of Hours of Studio Ghibli Movie Music That Will Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax: My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & More

The Boy and the Heron, the latest feature from master animator Hayao Miyazaki, opened in Japan this past summer. In that it marks his latest emergence from his supposed 'retirement,' we could label it...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Sep 24

When the US Government Commissioned 7,497 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known Fruit in the World (1886)

A picture is worth 1000 words, especially when you are a late-19th or early-20th century horticulturist eager to protect intellectual property rights to newly cultivated varieties of fruit. Or an art...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Sep 20

“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · Sep 21

Seeking a new typeface for my personal correspondence. I like this one: Oso. A family with both serif and sans. assets.fonts.adobe.com/igus8620nuuz...

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Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social · Sep 19

On this week’s Optimizer, I talk about how accessibility is the strongest use case for smart glasses — and that we need to keep this aspect in mind as we debate the extremely valid concerns people have about privacy in this category.

www.theverge.com/column/78177...

The strongest argument for smart glasses is accessibility

:taps the sign: Accessible design benefits everyone.

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · Sep 19

I am so fucking glad I live in Washington state.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 18

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · Sep 13

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After Trump’s Cuts, ‘Crippled’ NPR and PBS Stations Must Transform

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 12

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free

The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

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Neylano @neylano.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Courage first, confidence later."