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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 8d

Smoke in Portland is coming from two things: folks barbecuing on a beautiful fall day, and feds aggressively teargassing peaceful protesters at the ICE building

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tom @tom.games · 8d

if you are in Seattle and you drive by my house prepare for the fright of your life

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7d

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day, still here for some reason

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Jeremy Morse @siggyllama.bsky.social · 8d

A glimmer of hope on the culture front.

Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 10d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 8d

At crucial moments of choice most of the business of choosing is already over.

—Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d

History repeats.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 14d

that’s nfl players for you. week after week, making it all happen. they can really put on a show

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Jeremy Morse @siggyllama.bsky.social · 19d

We're hiring! Or if you like, since this position reports to me: I'm hiring! Great opportunity if you want to help keep academic research preserved, discoverable, reusable, and free.

Data Curation Specialist for Health Sciences | U-M Careers

careers.umich.edu

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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 24d

This ppl is your Spam in the Gears for this Friday my good and beautiful ppl. -Kilroy was here-

Armcahir Activist Activate! Send a letter to Disney and tell them to fuck off and they ruined Starwars!

Spam in the Gears! Send a letter to Disney and tell them they fucking suck and they ruined Starwars!

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Jeremy Morse @siggyllama.bsky.social · 23d

You should have bundled up against the wind. (What’s a germ?)

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 29d

They aren’t using words because those words have meaning or reflect beliefs. They don’t care about meaning or beliefs.

They’re using words because those words have effects. And when those words no longer have that effect, or they want a different effect, they’ll just move on to some new words.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · Sep 11

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Aug 28

With the AJC dropping its print edition, I feel compelled to share one of the greatest moments in print design history

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · Aug 3

Book is finally out in the world! Buy a copy for your comrades? And your haters? alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

Me in a pink button-up shirt holding a copy of our book, “Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers.”

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Jeremy Morse @siggyllama.bsky.social · Jul 30

Dangit, I just last week bought a bunch of stupid manatees

Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hell yes I bought 5 sheets of the Chris Ware USPS stamps. Wow! Lookit this design!

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hell yes I bought 5 sheets of the Chris Ware USPS stamps. Wow! Lookit this design!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 25

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Jul 24

my greatgrandnephew CyberJaxxon called me an e-bigot for refusing to submit retinal scans to OpenGPT 9 and vowed to rugpull my family's stablecoin. as a master of the old ways i went digging in his front yard without calling 811, severing his mandatory fiber optic cable. he was swiftly arrested

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Jeremy Morse @siggyllama.bsky.social · Jul 21

Spotted in my library

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Jul 18

This is what mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani told @errollouis.bsky.social when asked about the slogan "globalize the intifada" and his position on Palestine. (When Mamdani said "images you're speaking of," he was referring to the Second Intifada.)

Full interview here: ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

I’ve thought about this quite a lot. For some New Yorkers, this phrase refers to civil disobedience and protest, a call to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

But I know for many Jewish New Yorkers, it brings to mind images of the like that you are speaking of. I was sitting with a rabbi not too long ago who told me how the same phrase is heard very differently by her and it’s heard as a reference to bus bombings in Haifa, restaurant attacks in Jerusalem. It engenders a fear in her and in others of those very attacks coming home here in New York City.

That distance between what some intend and what others hear is a bridge that is too far, and it is why I have not used the phrase and why I discourage its use. My focus is on building a movement for justice and equality, and as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, I think often of the words of Noy Katsman, who lost their brother in the horrific war crime of October 7th. Noy said we must believe in all life, Israeli and Palestinian, Jewish and Arab, that it is equally precious. That is the vision that I hope to fulfill.

It was just a few months ago that I met a New Yorker in Brooklyn who told me of how more than 80 members of her family have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. This is a devastation that many New Yorkers are feeling personally. It’s one that for others, they are witnessing on a day to day basis, and it continues until today. Just last week, NBC News reported that the Israeli military bombed a health clinic in Gaza, killing 10 children, including a 1-year-old who had just uttered his first words hours before. We are speaking of a place that is now home to the greatest number of child amputees in modern history.

What offends so many in this city is this horror is one that is subsidized by our country.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Jul 12

This billionaire’s fortune is built atop research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and yet he seeks to destroy that agency and its investments in the scientific engine that has fueled our tech industry since the 1950s. And why? Because it tried to include more diverse scholars?

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 12

"The investor described a 'counterattack' against universities in his messages and called for the National Science Foundation, a federal research funding agency, to receive 'the bureaucratic death penalty.'" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org · Jul 12

And then of course they’d have to rename one of the cross streets that run between Clark St. and Superman Ave. to Lois Ln.

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Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org · Jul 12

The Superman marketing team missed an opportunity to rename this part of Chicago's Ashland Ave. to Superman Ave. (Since Clark St. turns into it.)

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