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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 5h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 4h

"No events" seems akin to "no chemicals"

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 4h

Missed it. Many happy returns!

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Matt Hartman @themhartman.bsky.social · 2d

fighting within the school of civic life and leadership began before the school existed, and i've got a new story that explains what it's all about

there's a ton of new info, so here are a few highlights:

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Lesson in Civics

The School of Civic Life and Leadership’s public fighting is part of a long-running rupture about the mission of civics schools around the country.

www.theassemblync.com

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Bend Over Here It Comes Again @pdxbohica.bsky.social · 6h

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 5h

Anthem

youtu.be/4-8ABBweQNY?...

Manuel Guerrero - En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza - D.L.B. dlb-549-b

YouTube video by Frontera Collection

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James L. Agneta @jlagneta.bsky.social · 6h

Forget mounting antlers or eagles on top of a steam locomotive headlight.

Crabs are where it's at. 🦀

🚂

A brass crab named "Crabitha", mounted atop the headlight of NYSW 142, a 2-8-2 steam locomotive.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 5h

In high school during the late 70s, I edited a newsletter for a student club. So I got a weekly dose of mimeo fluid fumes, and purple ink stains on my hands. Good times.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 5h

Many 48ers also went to Mexico, bringing polka music & beer.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 5h

It's been nearly 40 years since I lived in England, but my flat also had mixer taps.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 17h

In the early 1980s, the USSR increasingly became a gerontocracy. After Yuri Andropov died in February 1984, the small US group, the Spartacist League, published this tribute to the dead Soviet leader. The line ‘He made no overt betrayals on behalf of imperialism’ is such an oddly phrased sentence!

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 13h

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 12h

You have to move your hands back and forth very quickly. Keeps your wrists in shape.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 12h

I miss the towel warmers.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 12h

At this point I'd settle for 5 or 6.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 18h

find someone who loves you as much as boomers love saying social security isn’t an entitlement

thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 2d

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 19h

a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it

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Jeff Lewis @jefflewis.bsky.social · 20h

Big law gets caught filing appellate brief with made-up cases. Opponent catches them. Big law asks for permission to file a "do over" brief. Opponent scorches them. Tony Ortega recounts the painful battle here: tonyortega.substack.com/p/scientolog....

Scientology blasts lawyers for Masterson victims in AI fiasco, wants sanctions

Since news first emerged that the lawsuit against Scientology and Danny Masterson brought by his victims (Bixler v.

tonyortega.substack.com

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 20h

The best lawyers are on the case

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 20h

But they have everything that actually belongs on a bagel.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 20h

On the other hand, they were mystified when I told them that "working hard" and "hardly working" are not synonymous.

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 20h

I had no idea those rules existed until I lived in Prague and a Czech student explained them to me.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 20h

If only NC had such legislators.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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