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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21h

"When they fought, the Vikings fought hahd! N’ some’ah the ones that got the most famous fahr fightin’ the fuckin’ hahdest were the Varangians who fought in Constantinople befoh r’it turned intah a Turkish caliphate ah whatevah." #LeifEriksonDay

A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians

Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 1d

I still don’t understand how we accomplished something this cool as a city, but we did. Yay, ancient peat bogs! Go, ancient microfauna!

Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 1d

"...they watched in astonishment a brown wormlike creature greedily munching through green clumps of algae as if more than 130 years hadn’t passed since its last meal. Equally oblivious, a host of life – water fleas, worms, plankton – danced and spun around it."
#invertebrates #hope

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 1d

Wooooo!

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 1d

Lime sorbet and coconut ice cream. Lavender syrup on vanilla with a spritz (?) of whipped cream and maybe a tiny bit of lime zest.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 1d

I’m deeply amused by how superstitious a major sports home team championship run can make me and everyone around me. And also anxious (so anxious).

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

My mom freckles but he doesn’t. He is a lovely jumble of my weirdnesses and his dad’s, though: given a chance to roll a 3 or lower, he frequently does. But he’s his own guy, so we’ll have to see. Thank you so much for this.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

My son definitely has the red highlights in the sun, but can tan, thanks to his dad. Kid also has a stupid high pain tolerance, which is a blessing and a curse. He hasn’t had to be given opioids for any reason yet, but forewarned is forearmed. He’s my kid, lol.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

Just when I am ready to log off forever and go be a hermit in the woods, someone makes an off-handed comment and starts a super useful thread that gives me explanations for why my body (yet again) is so weird. So it’s not off to the woods for me yet; which is good. I hate moving. And mosquitoes.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

I was wondering about this! Pretty sure my brown-haired son got it from me, and I got it through my brown-haired mother. I got the red hair, as did much of the rest of her family. Verrry interesting.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

Uh…off to research this redhead type 2 opioid resistance thing a bit more. I knew it was genetic, but did not think it was the hair.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

Same. Or they make me angry that I am still in pain but also too sedated and apathetic to get up and flip a table over it. Weird, weird combination.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll tell Gary. But I am pretty sure Ayami still thinks it’s his fault.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

Just yelled at a friend of mine to stop watching the game and jinxing it. #BlueJays

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

I had a shudder of revulsion just reading that. Good god.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating thread about moderation for online communities that could apply to all sorts of social groups.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 2d

Rather, it's not that modding necessarily makes you *hate* your users but that it necessarily sets up an adversarial and managerial relationship with your users, rather than a friendly one.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 3d

Well, crap.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3d

What the actual.

For those not in the know, B&T is a MAJOR library supplier (my last library system got about half of its new collection there every single year). Summer reading books for kids? B&T. This is WILD.

Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 3d

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently blue jays do great imitations of bald eagles too. Why? One theory is they are warning other jays of the presence of a predator. Another, shared by Local Squirrel, is they are assholes. Observation of Local Blue Jay’s behaviour today says, “credible theory.” 2/2

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 3d

I heard a red-tailed hawk outside the house, very close, and ran out to record the sound for my bird app. I also heard a blue jay, which flew into the tree in front of the house and opened its beak to do an excellent imitation of a red-tailed hawk. Apparently they do that. 1/2

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 7d

Nice one!

Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 7d

"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7d

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7d

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 7d

No truer headline.

The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 25

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 8d

As usual @johnlorinc.bsky.social nails it again.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

How Toronto Forgets Its History (Again) - Spacing Toronto

The north portion of St. Lawrence Market is arguably the second most historic spot in the post-colonial city, after Fort York. A public market has been operating there continuously since 1803, which i...

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 8d

“Mmmm. Forbidden donut.”

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe I am too tired from too many fact checks while editing today, but I can’t get past that weird graphic. It’s not cross-stitch, that’s for sure. What is that?

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