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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 12h

like, on broad aggregate, if there was ever a justifiable reason to default to the more moderate bullshit establishment candidate in any generic race, November 2024 ended that indefinitely. platner seems like he has the juice, let him cook, help build grassroots power or get out of the way

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 12h

with obvious caveats that all politics are local and i don’t know the race specifics, the fact mainstream Dems are running a 77 year old candidate against that young charismatic progressive oysterman in the Maine primary makes it pretty clear the rank-and-file of the party must be shot into the sun

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 45m

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

I'm today's main character

bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 3h

A perfect joke and none of them seemed to get it (this clip cuts off the non-reaction).

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 21h

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 48m

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 4d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 5h

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

one of my go-to touchpoints is “is it possible for this system to generate the events surrounding and during Fleetwood Mac Rumors tour?”

if not, probably needs more drama hooks

have just realized I have a new one to add to my list, and that’s “can this do The Lion In Winter” (2/2)

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Shoe queen of Atlantis @salomekjones.bsky.social · Aug 20

Some weird shoes for you. Make shoes out of whatever you have handy.

A trainer with a normal sole, the body made of blue, yellow, red and black wires with some sort of capacitors? on them. Proof that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 7h

And this is how #folklore starts...

#wolfenoot

#custom #tradition #DogsOfBlueSky

Image of a social media post by Jax Goss which reads: 'My son has invented a holiday called Wolfenoot. It is when the Spirit of the Wolf brings and hides small gifts around the house for everyone. People who have, have had, or are kind to dogs get better gifts than anyone else. You eat roast meat (because wolves eat meat) and cake decorated like a full moon. A holiday to the spirit of wolves that celebrates people who are kind to dogs? I can 100% get behind this. So we will celebrating Wolfenoot. It's on the 23rd November if anyone else is moved to celebrate it (Wink emoji). (If you do, send me pics, so I can show my kid his idea spread. (Heart emoji)). ETA:Woah, this seems to be resonating and taking off. Please use #wolfenoot if you post pics or anything so he can see how it spreads. (Smile emoji) He's already excited that other people want to do it. (Heart emoji)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 8h

This looks fascinating. I worked as a tour guide in a glass factory when I was a teenager talking visitors through the processes on the floor below. Didn't know the concept started between the wars

Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 11h

Just out: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production

Abstract. In the 1920s and 1930s, British mass-manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. As the market for brand

academic.oup.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 19h

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 19h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 16h

Queen.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 18h

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 18h

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17h

A new life on the off-world colonies sounds pretty sweet right about now.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes Catholics really do go hard, still

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 19h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Getting arrested for pooping on my dog’s poop

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 1d

It’s our version of the elect. That enormous wealth must signal that they are enormously intelligent.

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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Our October temporary exhibit showcases new acquisitions to our collections, including a 1660 account of the trial of the regicides, the Ireton family's Bible and this curious 1643 map of Huntingdonshire - complete with distances! More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/new-a...

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 1d

Earnestly, what is the most effective mindset in that circumstance?

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 1d

Wish you were here. :)

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