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錠マヱ @joemae000.bsky.social · 2h

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Bobcat Moran @bobcatmoran.bsky.social · 15h

And to any American who says this question isn't racist, I'd like to ask, if someone says to you, "Where are you from?" will you say Sweden/Germany/Italy etc.? Or will you say where you, yourself are from?

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Bobcat Moran @bobcatmoran.bsky.social · 15h

And if you trace one of my family lines back far enough, you'll hit a first-degree relative of Daniel Boone. But the true meaning of that question is, of course, "Why don't you look like you belong here."

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Bobcat Moran @bobcatmoran.bsky.social · 15h

One of the most consistently exhausting questions I get is, "Where are you from?" The answer is that I was born and raised in MN as were my parents and one of my grandparents, the others being from KY and CA. You have to go back to my great-grandparents to find someone born outside the US.

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Bobcat Moran @bobcatmoran.bsky.social · 18h

Everything bagel with veg cream cheese, but ONLY if it's from the bagel shop on my walk to work when I lived on LI, with the perfect blend in the cream cheese of just right sized diced scallions, red pepper, and some other things I can't remember since it's been almost 10 years. I miss that so much.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 22h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 19h

Today is Décadi the 20th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate the wine-press.#JacobinDay

More information on the wine-press

An old time-y illustration of a the Wine-Press.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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aru!! 🐇🌙 @magiinemagiine.bsky.social · 1d

It Is Fourze Friday

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Bobcat Moran @bobcatmoran.bsky.social · 1d

Well. Crap. The jurisdiction where I'm a poll worker uses their machines. On the plus side, they leave a paper trail since all of our ballots are "fill in the bubble" type, like a scantron test. On the downside...

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 1d

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate sunflowers.#JacobinDay

More information on sunflowers

An old time-y illustration of a Sunflowers.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Bobcat Moran @bobcatmoran.bsky.social · 1d

I've had Tesla Ubers twice, and both times the driver had to explain how to open the door to get out, because everything I tried wasn't working. Seems like a really cool, safe design.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 2d

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d

1973 Time Magazine cover" The Good Life In Minnesota, with Gov. Wendell Anderson holding up a large fish

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 2d

Queens - The Bermuda Triangle of New York

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

Boston Globe. “Longstanding policy” is federal law passed in 2019. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 3d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 3d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 4d

Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Under- cover Operations to Infil- trate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence

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