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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck to all of us!

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 10d

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

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Remedios Varo Bot @remedios-varo-bot.bsky.social · 12d

Electric Surprise / Sorpresa Eléctrica (1962)
https://www.remediosvaro.art/paintings/sorpresa-electrica

Feel free help improve this bot by suggesting better alt text in the comments, thanks.

#SurrealistArt #Surrealism #Surrealismo #RemediosVaro

Electric Surprise / Sorpresa Eléctrica (1962) by Remedios Varo (1908 - 1963)

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 13d

This year, I intended to have a plan. I don't, but at least I'm starting earlier. Now's your chance too! Find yourself something good.

ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 13d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 15d

Researching for my writing just got instantly easier, God bless JSTOR

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 15d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 18d

I feel like I'm trading LinkedIn endorsements right after graduation.

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 18d

I don't have any well-considered insights to offer, but I'll happily tag-in @brotherjuniper.bsky.social who has studied the field extensively.

Things that are (not) Goblins

Inspired by DiY and Dragons , I have been working up a big goblin compilation post. In the process, I started thinking about goblins i...

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Erick - smells like autumn...finally. @ericklw.bsky.social · 20d

Logging on.

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tiny miracle 💖 @tinymira.bsky.social · 20d

there are two kinds of work day breakfasts: Healthy Breakfast and Poison Breakfast. today is a classic poison breakfast day (celsius and protein bar)

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 20d

To be sure, I say this from genuine curiosity. I spend a lot of time thinking about the math component but then "is it good" is mostly "try it and see."

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 21d

starship makes rattling noise at impulse speed

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 21d

I'd love to know what numbers make a good or bad mechanic, in your opinion.

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Windlass @windlass.bsky.social · Mar 18

Roguestar Trader

#art #roguetrader #homestarrunner

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 26d

I'm not sure if those were all collected in one place, so if it's unclear what we mean, they added one issue to the end of a bunch of "dead" series featuring those characters' reactions to Blackest Night, similar to that other crossover event giving everyone an extra "issue #0."

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 26d

Blackest Night was my intro to DC! Finding all those scattered "last issues" of titles I'd never heard of was somehow really exciting, even though I mostly had no idea what was going on.

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 26d

Yessss. People send me fishing things now. 😂

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · 28d

!!! @firedrawnear.bsky.social

FDN LXIII

FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history an

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · Sep 10

I saw some national guard soldiers use the metro contractor gate the other day. Fare evaders!

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · Sep 5

I don't know who might need this, but the CFPB's "Your Home Loan Toolkit" booklet looks really useful. I'd recommend reading through it before you're in the middle of it.

Your home loan toolkit: a step by step guide | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Your home loan toolkit: a step by step guide

www.consumerfinance.gov

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think many people would! But it's not clear that their infrastructure supports it. There's no user accounts, no way to suggest tags or categories, etc. I'd consider user input part of a complete solution.

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Regarding the use of LLMs by @gutenberg.org.

More Erroneous Pictures of Whales - Benign Brown Beast

Recently, Project Gutenberg added a new feature. Can you spot it? Let’s look at Moby-Dick: Summaries! But there’s something off about them…

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 2

There is no constitutional reason why Congress couldn't do this, as laid out in the Harvard Law Review: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

While a step in the right direction, these proposals are inadequate. To create a system where every vote counts equally, the Constitution must be amended. To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods15 as states. These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.

Radical as this proposal may sound, it is no more radical than a nominally democratic system of government that gives citizens widely disproportionate voting power depending on where they live. The people should not tolerate a system that is manifestly unfair; they should instead fight fire with fire, and use the unfair provisions of the Constitution to create a better system.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Aug 27

(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · Aug 25

The new state flags are here!
www.universalhub.com/2025/new-sta...
#Massachusetts

Proposed Massachusetts flag showing our official state dinosaur running with a cup o' Dunk's

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Ian @iemcd.bsky.social · Aug 25

Whenever I buy deodorant I can't escape the suspicion that maybe the stuff with aluminum was really good and we've all been robbed.

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