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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 19h

That is a *very* long run.

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 23h

These historic gold rings are based on ancient astronomical instruments called armillary spheres, which emerged from the theory that everything in the cosmos revolved around Earth.

What Do Astronomy and Jewelry Have in Common? In the Late Renaissance, Look to the Stars

Armillary rings emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries during the birth of the scientific revolution and rise of astronomy studies.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1d

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, this is very good.

Dessa @dessadarling.bsky.social · 1d

Release Day. My new single “Camelot” is now available from all the internet’s musical places. It’s the B-side of a 7-inch record slated to drop on Nov 4th, but available for preorder….right now. *Triumphantly fires cap gun towards sky, immediately apologizes to upstairs neighbor*

store.doomtree.net

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Coach D @coachdharris.blacksky.app · 1d

And yet somehow we gotta scroll past a story every week featuring men who are continuously shocked that women want nothing to do with them cause what the hell is this

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

I love this so much

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Would love to go even one day without a piece of news that makes me say "Whaaat the fuck???" out loud

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 1d

“Today’s poem is a poem that inspires me to ask better questions about the world, and about the soul, and about the idea of God," shares @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode.

Read "Soot" by Kaveh Akbar: bit.ly/4n0LAxi

📷: Charles Bakofsky
📖: @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

a graphic featuring a portion of Kaveh Akbar's poem

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d

did you know THE DEADLANDS is doing a fundraiser

raising FUNDS to keep publishing GOOD STUFF (about death)??

please by a coin and help FUNGUS we mean FUND US

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

A meme image based on Nickelback’s “Look at this photograph” scene. The lead singer is holding up a framed picture, but instead of a photo, the frame shows a custom coin design featuring a skull with mushrooms, plants, and the words “Admit One.” Below the image, the meme text says: “look at this coin” with the word “coin” in red replacing “photograph.”

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

That is someone who is trying to ship you a curse.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

I love this baseball bird.

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 2d

Ruby the hornbill is stepping up to the plate for more Mariners enrichment! ⚾ She’s fetching baseballs, flying between bases, and rooting for the Mariners to bring home the big win today! 💙

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

We love to see it!

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

We do not play our saxophone on the bus!

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

I legit love MacArthur day. I love seeing the amazing things people are working on: www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

www.npr.org

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 2d

It’s free if you’re a student! And $5 if you use the code below! Join us!

StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 2d

Join our amazing instructor @fulmerford.com at the Univ. of Chicago Divinity School this Friday 10/10 at 6:30 pm for a panel discussion about religion, spirituality, and horror writing hosted by the American Writers Museum.

Use the code AWMFriends to get a ticket for just $5!

buff.ly/noaUPuN

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, seeing this helps me.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 2d

This is a gorgeous, gorgeous book.

Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 3d

We still have copies of our first letterpress project, a gorgeous signed limited edition of Ted Chiang's classic novella, Story of Your Life. Full details and snag yours: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

Announcing the Signed, Letterpress Edition of STORY OF YOUR LIFE by Ted Chiang

We’re pleased to present a letterpress edition of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, one of science fiction’s most famous, and beloved, novellas.  Copies of the signed, limit...

subterraneanpress.com

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Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social · 3d

A beautiful, previously unpublished poem by Seamus Heaney in today's Guardian Books ahead of tomorrow's publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney by @faberbooks.bsky.social > tinyurl.com/2vnm36mf

Seamus Heaney’s unpublished poems to be released — read one exclusively here

The Poems of Seamus Heaney, out on Thursday, will feature all 12 of the revered Irish author’s collections alongside uncollected works and 25 poems yet to be published

www.theguardian.com

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 3d

So glad y'all liked that last video with Seckou! Here’s one with Francesco Turrisi on percussion and an original song by Seckou Keita just for our tour!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 3d

Such a smart and interesting book!

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Naming Song

Check out The Naming Song - A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. “The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of langu...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday Yo-Yo Ma 🎂
📷 Mark Hauser, 1993

“Ma has the virtuosity and musicianship to express every nuance and colour, from rich, golden tone to whispered harmonic, and he brings them all into full play.”
- Fiona Maddocks

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