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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 9h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 7h

A lot is happening here.

AKlob post on FB: A guitar-wielding Tommy Stinson of the legendary MN-based band The Replacements hit the campaign trail with Tim Kaine on the harmonica with Elizabeth Guzmán and me in Manassas to kick off a canvass for Elizabeth and Abigail Spanberger, the next Governor of Virginia!

From left: Tim Kaine, patting Tommy’s back; Tommy; AKlob; and Elizabeth Guzmán.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9h

People never believe this fresco is real, but it is!

Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 10h

Top funny thing from @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE: “Filippino Lippi’s Saint Thomas Aquinas Interrupts the Annunciation to Introduce the Virgin Mary to Cardinal Carafa who paid for the painting, while patient Archangel Gabriel just has to wait.”

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 8h

What the hell

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9h

Yes yes ofc you get context about Tyra's hot ice cream venture in Australia here u go, here's poison words to rattle around inside YOUR brains for the next few days too 🥰 🥵 🍨

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9h

Cop: So u have any idea how fast you were driving?

Me: It's hot. Ice. Cream

Cop: Ma'am

Me: Tyra's favorite cold

Cop, drawing his service weapon: Ma'am step out of the car

Me, sitting perfectly still: Tyra's favorite HOT

Cop: Ma'am I will shoot

Me: It's something that has not been done before

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 9h

Mums and a dahlia.

A vase of golden football mums and one deep red and white dahlia. It stands on a quilted jack-o-lantern mat next to an autumn-themed placemat with a red napkin held by a silver napkin holder. There is a barrister bookcase in the background.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9h

Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

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general BOOsician @generalmusician.bsky.social · 9h

Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

It's A Wonderful Knife 🔪

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 13h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 11h

I’d also love to see Judge Luttig interview any of the Republican justices, which would’ve cross-ideological in a different way.

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 11h

The cross-ideological interview I’d love to see is Retired Judge Michael Luttig interviewing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and/or Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

like, on broad aggregate, if there was ever a justifiable reason to default to the more moderate bullshit establishment candidate in any generic race, November 2024 ended that indefinitely. platner seems like he has the juice, let him cook, help build grassroots power or get out of the way

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

with obvious caveats that all politics are local and i don’t know the race specifics, the fact mainstream Dems are running a 77 year old candidate against that young charismatic progressive oysterman in the Maine primary makes it pretty clear the rank-and-file of the party must be shot into the sun

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 14h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

I'm today's main character

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 16h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 16h

A perfect joke and none of them seemed to get it (this clip cuts off the non-reaction).

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 1d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 14h

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 4d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 18h

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2d

one of my go-to touchpoints is “is it possible for this system to generate the events surrounding and during Fleetwood Mac Rumors tour?”

if not, probably needs more drama hooks

have just realized I have a new one to add to my list, and that’s “can this do The Lion In Winter” (2/2)

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Shoe queen of Atlantis @salomekjones.bsky.social · Aug 20

Some weird shoes for you. Make shoes out of whatever you have handy.

A trainer with a normal sole, the body made of blue, yellow, red and black wires with some sort of capacitors? on them. Proof that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 21h

And this is how #folklore starts...

#wolfenoot

#custom #tradition #DogsOfBlueSky

Image of a social media post by Jax Goss which reads: 'My son has invented a holiday called Wolfenoot. It is when the Spirit of the Wolf brings and hides small gifts around the house for everyone. People who have, have had, or are kind to dogs get better gifts than anyone else. You eat roast meat (because wolves eat meat) and cake decorated like a full moon. A holiday to the spirit of wolves that celebrates people who are kind to dogs? I can 100% get behind this. So we will celebrating Wolfenoot. It's on the 23rd November if anyone else is moved to celebrate it (Wink emoji). (If you do, send me pics, so I can show my kid his idea spread. (Heart emoji)). ETA:Woah, this seems to be resonating and taking off. Please use #wolfenoot if you post pics or anything so he can see how it spreads. (Smile emoji) He's already excited that other people want to do it. (Heart emoji)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h

These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 21h

This looks fascinating. I worked as a tour guide in a glass factory when I was a teenager talking visitors through the processes on the floor below. Didn't know the concept started between the wars

Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 1d

Just out: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production

Abstract. In the 1920s and 1930s, British mass-manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. As the market for brand

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 1d

Queen.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.