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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3h

The writer Peter Matthiessen traveled the world looking for elusive snow leopards and rare cranes. But a new biography shows that the genuine self he was really seeking would be much harder to find, writes John Kaag:

A Warning for the Modern Striver

A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

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askmetomorrow.bsky.social @askmetomorrow.bsky.social · 3h

Put a banner on every closed hospital & nursing home:

“TRUMP SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD”

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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 3h

apathy

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 11h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 12h

Fresh off not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump decides to blow up another boat and call it narco terrorism.

Why Venezuela hasn't declared war on us, I don't know.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Uday speaks. Man with no known religious conviction gives interview to paid propaganda agent of the Kremlin and describes how he is remaking Christianity. This is hysterical. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 12h

no peace award for you

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · Feb 28

a few years ago if you said "college republican clubs are hotbeds of white supremacism and enthusiastic support for rape" people looked at you like you were wearing a barrel on a street corner and if you said it today most people would still do that because the newspapers won't print it

anti-fascist jefe @jefe.bsky.social · Feb 28

Young Republicans Group Invites Tate Brothers to Speak to Members: ‘As Free Speech Absolutists…’ www.mediaite.com/news/young-r...

Young Republicans Group Invites Tate Brothers to Speak to Members: ‘As Free Speech Absolutists…’

The Tampa Bay Young Republicans tweeted an invitation to Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan to come speak to their group, drawing swift criticism for the outreach to the men currently facing charges ...

www.mediaite.com

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Randy in Montana @406randy.bsky.social · 1d

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 1d

We knew this would happen, and this will keep happening. #ShutdownStories

www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...

Government Shutdown Brings Waves Of Illegal Activity To Yosemite National Park

Crowded campsites, unpermitted hiking, and illegal sport is running rampant in this national park right now.

www.backpacker.com

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs” includes a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” written about a deportation flight crash that killed 28 migrant farm workers in 1948.

🎶 They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves 🎶

Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs on vinyl

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 1d

A black-fronted dotterel at Lake Hattah. The play of light makes it look as if it has diamonds on its legs 😄

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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 1d

What work? They're on vacation

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

But we cant have healthcare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely want to have breakie at your cafe

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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 1d

sounds delightful

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Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social · 2d

Until I was 10, we lived in a one-bed flat with no proper bathroom, yet my working class parents had no notion that art galleries, books, foreign films or music were “not for us”. My mum cleaned houses but she’d have recognised Pinter in a lineup. My dad could talk about Rembrandt and Kurosawa.

David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 2d

EXACTLY!
‘Where once there was a yearning to be “exposed to something extraordinary”, today politicians and arts administrators are besotted by the notion of “relevance”, of the arts as something with which people must immediately identify or recognise.’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve had to suffer through Carrie Underwood screeching every Sunday night since 2013. They can handle Bad Bunny for a 30 minute halftime show.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 2d

Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'More degree subjects are likely to face extinction unless changes are made to competition laws to allow universities to work together to maintain certain courses, experts have said.' 1/3

Competition law exemption ‘needed to prevent courses dying out’

Attempts to quell universities’ fears about competition laws may actually be heightening anxiety over collaboration in cash-strapped sector

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 2d

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Jan 16

🧵I'm listening to a book by someone whose work I respect & as sometimes happens, was hit by ignorant & frankly antisemitic language around Jewish scripture & "the Old Testament God" that, whenever I hear it, I feel like my head's going to blow off.

So. A thread! Fun!

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 2d

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

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LeCaffeinated Rabble-Rouser @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 2d

“You weren’t going to fact check”

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Toronto Blue Jays (Bot) @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 2d

LOUD. PROUD.

O Canada at the ALCS! #WANTITALL

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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 2d

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

www.thegauntlet.news

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