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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 8d

This. I decided a few years ago that a lot of art produced by absurdly rich ppl doesn’t do it for me anymore. I’m not saying it’s all bad. I’m saying I’m not attached to or invested in it. I don’t care what their commentary is because it’s so divorced from my everyday life. Rax says it better here

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Aug 30

Kristi McCluer Eagle Creek Wildfire with people playing golf

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 16d

Artist Luis Quintanilla fled the Spanish Civil War to escape persecution, but most of his work was destroyed. Today, one of his two remaining murals sits in an otherwise ordinary corner of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

A hidden Kansas City mural is 'a warning' against fascism, from a Spanish artist who survived it

Artist Luis Quintanilla fled the Spanish Civil War to escape persecution, but most of his work was destroyed. Today, one of his two remaining murals sits in an otherwise ordinary corner of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Newly restored, Quintanilla’s bizarre and enthralling masterpiece stands as a testament to immigrants and the danger of authoritarianism.

www.kcur.org

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 16d

If you haven’t realized this already: Trump will continue to demand you sacrifice vulnerable ppl as a compromise. The Democrats will continue to do it until there are no vulnerable ppl left. This is based on evidence. The current plan is not working

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17d

Everytime Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets to leave the kitchen.

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malyndae.bsky.social @malyndae.bsky.social · 17d

We’d also like some cancer research, please.

Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 17d

We’d prefer to be able to afford groceries.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 20d

Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22d

this poem is astonishing and I am so grateful to Eileen for bringing it to our attention last year & again this year.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 22d

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 23d

Correlation vs Causation

#tylenol #acetaminophen

Did you know that every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying?! 😵

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David Kronig @davekronig.bsky.social · 23d

MAHA claims do not deserve to be engaged with on the surface level of whether they have any merit. They do not. The purpose of MAHA is eugenics and grift, and this needs to be repeated constantly. They want those they deem unworthy to die, and they want to make a fortune along the way.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 23d

The scientific illiteracy of the White House press corps is going to get children dead.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 23d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25d

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · Sep 15

One of the saddest things is when children have cancer, immune deficiency or need bone marrow or organ transplants.

And to add insult to injury, they’re unable to receive vaccines.

But YOU can do your part to help protect them by immunizing yourself & your family.

We are ALL in this together.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · Sep 15

Wow

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 14

Someone's death does not in fact change their life.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great news for those of us who've been holding off on streaming The Smiths for a long long time bc we don't want to support or enrich this wanker in any way--

(though the deal isn't done yet -- the sycophantic slags are likely still in the reissue, repackage
reevaluate the songs stage of things...)

Morrissey Selling Stake in The Smiths' Name, Songs, Publishing

The Smiths vocalist Morrissey has announced he is selling his rights to the band's name, songs, and publishing to "any serious investors."

consequence.net

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · Sep 7

My state is led by mice who pretend to be lions. When Trump called and told them to jump...they said "how high, daddy?" I've never seen such pathetic small people but we have the choice to fight back. Check out my latest on the fight to gerrymander Missouri. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

These aren't Missouri values

Governor Mike Kehoe's move for a mid-decade gerrymandering and crushing direct democracy has nothing to do with our values and everything to do with keeping power

open.substack.com

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David Kronig @davekronig.bsky.social · Sep 6

10/10 would recommend finding a partner who makes you a playlist of their favorite band's love songs but includes a couple absolutely unhinged tracks for good measure

(Thanks, @malyndae.bsky.social 😘)

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malyndae.bsky.social @malyndae.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · Sep 6

Kids and the elderly are going hungry and we can’t fund pediatric brain cancer research, but we can afford all this…

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malyndae.bsky.social @malyndae.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Fight by refusing to abandon your humanity, your originality, and your will to explore. … Read and think on your own terms with your own words. Do not take your ability to do so for granted.”

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 5

New article! On the authoritarian attack on higher education and the exploitative practices that preceded it: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-ti...

The End Times of Academia

"It was the non-existent future that I was working toward that was the problem."

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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malyndae.bsky.social @malyndae.bsky.social · Sep 5

@randalljstephens.bsky.social this might be of interest to you

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malyndae.bsky.social @malyndae.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yeah, this might feel super infantilizing to give college students but with AI destroying the ability/will to study/read/write/think, this is the way.

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Sep 5

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Aug 19

Updating my comparative public admin seminar class—which was decimated by AI last year—to maybe be a little more LLM-proof by adding a 20–30 minute start-of-class writing & discussion activity. Will it work? Who knows! Full details and PDF here: governancef25.classes.andrewheiss.com/assignment/c...

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