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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 2h

I guess if you don’t know dick about shit you could think Johnny Cash seems “deeply uncool” but anyway glad newborn babies are getting to write opinion columns, good for those lil cuties

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 2h

jamelle is so so good at this

Why the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Still Matter

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 5h

thankfully you can turn that off!

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 11h

I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 1d

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective

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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 1d

tired: Sincaraz
wired: Tienvedev

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 2d

Remember those court records that Miami Dophins receiver Tyreek Hill wanted sealed? They are now unsealed and up at @defector.com.

The paywall is also down:

Here's The Court Document Tyreek Hill Didn't Want Anyone To See | Defector

The Miami-Dade Circuit Court clerk released Tuesday a copy of the latest petition for divorce from the estranged wife of Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill. In the document, Lakeeta Vaccaro described...

defector.com

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 2d

I can’t believe I got it. #Jaguars

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2d

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Headline:
Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 3d

#notacrossword

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3d

This is the process chart for the City of Bellevue's potential plan to add parking meters.

Fourteen steps completed over the course of one year

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 4d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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Austin David @austindavid22.bsky.social · 6d

85': GOAL! SIMONE CHARLEY! HER FIRST GOAL IN THREE YEARS! A looping ball by Haley McCutcheon finds Charley in the box, who loops a header up and over Abby Smith to tie the game!

1-1 | #HOUvORL

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 6d

antifa v fa is inspired

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 6d

🔵 This week's comic!
🇺🇸 A BUSY, BUSY DAY IN WASHINGTON, DC
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Brought to you by the heroism of the INNER HIVE, including longtime member Kyle B. and new member Amitha Knight.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE, Y'ALL

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 6d

You can really see the colo(u)rs changing on satellite this morning.

A visible satellite image of the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada. You can see the fall foliage across Canada, interior New England, and the Appalachians.

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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 6d

A word search where you actually have to know your countries: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...

Word Search: Two-Word Country Names

Can you find the ends of the countries whose beginnings are given?

www.sporcle.com

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 7d

weird al covers en vogue

New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 7d

wottachump

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 9d

lfggggg

final fantasy tactics - nintendo switch version

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 9d

assuming this isn’t a typo and hegseth is celebrating talk like a pirate day a little late

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "I don't want me son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men"

austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 12d

thought orlando had more movie buffs but my 11:10am screening of one battle after another at the biggest screen in the area only had like 10 people in it

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Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social · 12d

Four years ago, @scotttobias.bsky.social and I started The Reveal. To celebrate this, we’re having a weekend-long subscription sale. It’s a bargain! And every new paid subscription puts a smile on our face and helps allow us to keep writing about movies, old and new: thereveal.film/the-reveals-...

The Reveal

A film newsletter from Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias. Reviews, essays, lists, commentaries, community.

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 14d

oooh had no idea that was in these emails. here’s a good one from a few weeks back

flashback: this week fourteen years ago, you logged… the big lebowski, another earth, the trip, the devil’s double

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 14d

seth’s tank top is giving real richard simmons vibes youtu.be/f6Ukgpag63w?...

Seth, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang Go Day Drinking

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 15d

Today at The Reveal, I wrote a New Cult Canon entry on SNEAKERS, the surprisingly durable and prescient '90s tech-caper that channels the values of its leading man. thereveal.film/the-new-cult...

The New Cult Canon: 'Sneakers'

This surprisingly enduring '90s caper saw the future while channeling the progressive spirit of its legendary star.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 16d

One of the biggest things we want readers to take away from “Life After Cars” is that learning to *see* cars is step one on the path to realizing a better world.

Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 17d

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

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