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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · Apr 3

This one is also my avatar, Sheesha, my whippador girl:

A black whippador girl dog on a light brown dirt shoreline with calm light brown water behind her. She's facing the camera and only her two front legs are visible, and she's frolicking, with her front legs off the ground. He ears are up and a bit askew, showing white hair inside of them. Her name is Sheesha.

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 24m

It also makes some good threads:

Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 51m

Shaving your vuvuzela is a biphobic antcolonialist act, but it's so Ezra Klein you get a free Labubu.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 5h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 38m

"We need to educating the UK public."

Case in point.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

i really think accounts like @horsedisc.bsky.social are rhe best representation of what all of this has degenerated into. because every post the account makes could be a published article in a print or digital outlet you see tomorrow

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

nonfiction writing in english has been degenerating into a garbage fire since rhe early to mid 2010s. one of the recurrent signs of it is just an increasing emphasis on personal essays written by deranged people

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

...but if you go check the video on TikTok (search the username visible on the screen and scroll through until you find the video) it also has an annotation that explains it's AI.

Screenshot that reads "contains AI-generated media"

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 3h

WAINWRIGHT: Welcome to the 63rd inning
[Poseidon rises from Puget Sound]
[Pounds on T-Mobile Park dome]
WAINWRIGHT: Yes
[Roof thrown into the ocean]
WAINWRIGHT: Take us O Elder Gods!

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 3h

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting study that looks at dynamics of B cell responses in the lymph nodes to vaccination against SarsCov2 (COVID). This shows that B cell responses are broadened in the node germinal centres enabling wider responses to variants 🧪 #ImmunoSky

Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization

SARS-CoV-2 variant booster vaccination broadens human B cell responses through the germinal center reaction.

www.science.org

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 2h

In the late 90s/early 00s Bravo I think used to have IFC saturday nights where late at night they'd play some artsy or indie or foreign flick, all huge crowdpleasers. Movies I first saw that way:
- City Of Lost Children
- Run Lola Run
- Rushmore
- The Royal Tennenbaums
- I think *IRMA VEP*?

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 2h

Something I love that was especially precious pre-widespread internet adoption is moments where you got into some kind of important books/ movies/ music/ art in general that was otherwise unavailable from you. Like a friend who made you That One Mixtape, your random video rental one time, etc

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1d

HELL YEAH JEFFRIES!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h

HOO BOY. I just acquired the FINAL, approved 2026 #ACA rate filings for #ARIZONA and it's not pretty at all.

Premiums are going up 46.3% on average...and that's for full price enrollees.

acasignups.net/rate_changes...

2026 Final Gross Rate Changes - Arizona: +46.3% (updated)

Originally posted 8/7/25 Overall preliminary rate changes via federal Rate Review database. Antidote Health Plan of AZ: (Unfortunately, no rate justification summary is available, and the full actuari...

acasignups.net

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3h

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 12h

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7h

Look vibe coding can be kind of fun. This is Claude making a 1997 Geocities page for Darth Revan

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Darkonius Mavakar @darkonius-mavakar.itch.io · 16h

Simon Belmont: "ah dang, I have low health, what will i do?!"

The ever so useful wall chicken:

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 3h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h

Ok I’m trying to keep AI stuff in one thread since some folks find it annoying, but I have to give this its own thread

3. “The Galaxy Contrarian” - Print Magazine Feature Spread (7 ABY)
Full Prompt Description:
“Two-page magazine spread in the style of heterodox conservative-liberal publications like The Free Press or The Dispatch, upscale intellectual design. Left page features large pullquote in elegant serif font: ‘We’ve Created a Culture Where Mentioning Alderaan Ends All Debate. That’s Not Justice—That’s Emotional Blackmail.’
Article title across top of spread: ‘THE TYRANNY OF ALDERAAN REMEMBRANCE: How Trauma Politics Silenced an Entire Galaxy’ by Senior Editor Mira Covenant. Professional layout with three columns of text, sophisticated typography, cream-colored paper texture.
Right page includes a data visualization chart titled ‘Alderaan References in Senate Debates, 4-7 ABY’ showing exponential increase, with caption: ‘Critics say invoking Alderaan has become a thought-terminating cliche that prevents nuanced policy discussion.’
Sidebar box: ‘Five Times New Republic Leaders Used Alderaan to Dodge Legitimate Criticism’ with numbered examples. Small author photo shows professional woman in business attire looking serious and thoughtful.
Additional visible subheadings in article: ‘The New McCarthyism,’ ‘When Remembrance Becomes Performance,’ ‘Imperial Veterans Deserve Due Process Too.’ Footer includes related articles: ‘Are We Allowed to Criticize Mon Mothma?’ and ‘The Death Star Had Contractors: Complexity the Rebels Ignore.’
Color scheme: navy, burgundy, cream, gold accents. Premium paper aesthetic, intellectual gravitas, positioning as brave truth-telling against ‘sanctimonious’ Rebellion orthodoxy. Star Wars universe, 7 ABY, resembling long-form magazine journalism in The Free Press or similar publications.”

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HN @hnws.bsky.social · 3h

How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it?
L: https://james-simon.github.io/blog/chicken-cooking/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545965
posted on 2025.10.10 at 22:06:02 (c=0, p=7)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

the planet broke before the game ended

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 3h

Bed Bath and Batman Beyond

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 3h

The number of people I went to high school with who support abortion rights and don't like what ICE is doing but love RFK Jr. because they talk about their kids having to wear masks in school like it was *literally* state mandated child abuse is astonishing.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 3h

These CDC firings are actually the most logical action Trump has taken, to me. An enormous segment of the population, tens of millions of Trump voters, feels that COVID mitigation efforts (not COVID itself) were the worst things that ever happened to them, and want that never to happen again.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 5h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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