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Alex Wingate

@bibliowingate.bsky.social

Everyone writing their dissertation right now should feel amazing about their work because no matter what, even if you didn't write words this week, it's better than this

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11h

Tfw the judge is scrutinizing your nine-line sentence

submissions to the Court. The first paragraph of the July 14 Letter is riddled
with mistakes and broken prose. (See Dkt. #166 at 1). It is nine lines long but
comprises just a single run-on sentence. (Id.). It contains capitalization errors.
(Id.). It reads in full:
We write in response to the July 11, 2025 letter (ECF
165) from Plaintiffs ("Flycatcher"), counsel Tal S.
Benschar, Esq. which opposes
Defendant Affable
Avenue LLC's
request (ECF 164) inter alia to file
corrected briefing and supporting materials inter-alia in connection with its motion to dismiss and compel arbitration, now heightened by the recent events which bring factual matters implied in the complaint, to the fore, in the current dealings with Amazon, which are a direct result of the factual matter presented in the complaint, which wish to arbitrate fully with amazon and flycatcher, and alternatively have dismissed as against those it has failed to meet the pleading
standards, heightened in light of the specific allegations of criminal and illicit conduct stolen goods and NY penal law 165.66, etc., upon which it basis its causes of actions with specificity, as it must.
(Id.). This stark contrast between Mr. Feldman's Response and the July 14
Letter led the Court to further scrutinize both documents, which uncovered yet
another problematic citation.

February 6, 2026 at 3:14 AM

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MicroFlashFic

@microflashfic.bsky.social

Gregor left behind strict instructions his family should follow to appease his ghost.
He didn’t require vengeance, sacrifice, or ceremony. His spirit could only be calmed by acts of self care.
For the rest of their lives, his kids would swear they heard low moaning if they didn’t drink enough water.

February 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM

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S.C. Kaplan

@medievallitura.bsky.social

Two sheep from different flocks secretly pine for each other.

Bleated Rivalry.

Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 9h

The two best woodworkers in the country secretly pine for each other.

Treated Rivalry.

Rachel Esselle @rachelsl.bsky.social · 9h

The two best tailors in the country secretly pine for each other.

Pleated Rivalry

February 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM

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weeder

@weeder.bsky.social

There's no easy way to say this: isthmus

February 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM

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cisverbeeck.bsky.social

@cisverbeeck.bsky.social

Even wat sluikreclame voor mijn optreden morgen op de Wetenschapsbattle: wetenschapsbattle.be/wetenschapsb...

De Wetenschapsbattle 2026 : Wetenschapsbattle De Wetenschapsbattle 2026 – Wetenschapsbattle

wetenschapsbattle.be

February 5, 2026 at 8:53 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

February 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM

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Uncle Duke

@uncleduke1969.bsky.social

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

A dachshund stands in a store, visible through glass doors marked with a "no dachshunds" graphic silhouette sign. The interior shows shopping carts and tiled flooring.

February 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM

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It's ME(Jaime)

@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 1d

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

February 5, 2026 at 12:07 AM

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Tyler, from the Internet

@tylerfromtheinternet.com

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

A tree cut down and felled next to its fellow trees but this tree's rings have an oddity to them and the shape and texture and color it makes it look like a fish drawing

February 4, 2026 at 8:37 AM

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Steve A

@stegan.bsky.social

Cats teach us to be present in the moment.

Also they teach us to complain incessantly if we are not being fed.

What spectacular creatures.

February 5, 2026 at 1:55 AM

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Kristof Smeyers

@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social

anyone in need of a visual metaphor?

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 1d

Cambriolage du Louvre : le musée dévoile des images de la couronne de l’impératrice Eugénie endommagée après le vol et affirme qu’elle sera complètement restaurée

La couronne, que les cambrioleurs ont laissée tomber dans leur fuite, a subi « un écrasement et s’en est trouvée très sensiblement déformée », a fait savoir, mercredi, le musée dans un communiqué.

www.lemonde.fr

February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM

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Jay Hulme

@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

I have a friend who illustrates children's books and if hes given a book and it doesn't explicitly mention both a Mum and a Dad... They're gay. The book mentions a Dad? He's drawing two. The book mentions a Mum? Let's double up. Everything is gay until proven otherwise and he will illustrate as such

madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

live from the chaos house, we have determined that the Gruffalo is gay because the Gruffalo's child does not mention a mummy gruffalo idk

February 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

“No one controls the music, Mr. Pretty - you know that. It just turns up when people have had enough. No one knows where it starts. People look around, and catch on another's eye, and give each other a little nod, and other people see that. Other people catch their eye and so, very slowly, the music starts and somebody picks up a spoon and bangs it on a plate, and then somebody else bangs a jug on the table and boots starts to stamp on the floor, louder and louder. It is the sound of anger, it is the sound of people who have had enough. Do you want to face the music?

February 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM

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Alex Ip 葉清霖

@alexip718.com

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

lizzie johnson
@lizziejohnsonnn
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49m
I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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lizzie johnson
@lizziejohnsonnn
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Jan 25
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.)

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM

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Jay Hulme

@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

I was also able to find the wild theology I was looking for: they believe the antichrist will be conceived by a Satanic Jewish woman (the Anti-Mary) having sex with a former Palmaryian bishop on an altar, while he is wearing his vestments. As part of this woman will strangle the bishop to death.

April 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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Aaron Meyers

@aaronmeyers.bsky.social

Pretty amazing that most of us said if we we ever got to retire we’d like to make music or art or write and the tech guys said oh I can make a program to do that and it will cost trillions in debt so now you’ll get to work in a bad job til the day you die to help pay it off.

February 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM

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Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...