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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 9h

YOU DARE BOO THE BEAUTIFUL CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM. YOU PAY WITH BLOOD! YOU PAY WITH BLOOD!

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · Aug 28

When you audit Perusall, you can see instances where a student cut-and-pasted a single word. I discovered that this is a fun way to figure out what words undergraduates find difficult to spell.

This term, I'm keeping track of them.

Week 1:

boredom
existing (SAME, student, SAME)

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 11h

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 9h

Baltimore.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 13h

It seems like we cycled really quickly from TikTok protest songs to TikTok war songs.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 13h

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16h

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 13h

I have to agree: there is no better way to demotivate people for a mass rally than to require an email address (for various reasons). No Kings is really fucking up here by not even telling people where the various protests will be. You must make attending protests convenient.

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 13h

You do you, but I guess I'm skipping the next one, because there's no point to a secret rally. I'm not going to RSVP to get an address. 🙄

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 14h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 21h

Typographic apparitions 👻

Spotted in a 1498 Cologne missal: a case of off-set printing, where ink from the forme (or from another printed page?) accidentally transferred onto these printed page.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Detail of a page with musical staf printed, added music by hand, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

Detail of a page with liturgical text printed, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

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diana180.bsky.social @diana180.bsky.social · 12h

the 60 nations of Nor^D^D^D the United States

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 20h

New York Times’ headline writers get a lot of justifiable guff but I salute anyone and everyone involved in titling a piece about “miraculous” meatballs “Anyway, here’s wonderball.”

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 22h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 20h

I think anyone who saw the episode where Mr. Rogers explains the Trolley Problem has it seared in their memory forever.
So much violence, depictions of gore we never thought possible in puppetry.
We wept, we screamed, we were scarred.
Still, it was educational.
So that’s good.
I guess.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

It is the one thing about America that is unambiguously good and it’s a treasonous sin to act like it’s a bad thing

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 16h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12h

brand new sentence

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Carlos Rossa @carlosrossa.bsky.social · 2d

The just-released IEA's Renewables 2025 report forecasts capacity will nearly double by 2030, but miss the COP28 target. Solar PV dominates growth (80%), with China leading the build-out. The USA forecast was cut significantly due to policy changes.
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🔌💡
www.iea.org/reports/rene...

www.iea.org

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Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · 12h

And we have more details, about how these Nobel-winning sponges started with diamonds, how they neutralize nerve gas, and are being used in cancer treatment. And what they have in common with Harry Potter books & movies, though they are science and not magic. Link below..🧪

Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · 23h

Finally! After decades of also-runs, amazing molecular cages-which can do everything from trapping greenhouse gases to delivering and releasing drugs at specific parts of the body- won the Chemistry Nobel. Read @megha.bsky.social 's story, here, and watch for updates today.

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...

www.scientificamerican.com

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AC Vasquez - 安娜 @criskotsu.bsky.social · 12h

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Three CNN reporters on three continents wore chemical-tracking wristbands. The results were alarming | CNN

Plastic is woven into our lives and its chemical pollution is in the air we breathe, the dust we inhale, the food we eat. We did an experiment to see what we’re exposed to every day.

www.cnn.com

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

so obviously when the educational system is entirely focused on apprenticeships, the state will invest in big infrastructure projects to make sure they have work and we all benefit from an abundance of housing, great transport and and cheap renewable energy, right?

right?

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

It is always the Reading Room of the Special Collections where the magic happens.

Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian of the 19th century, I regularly think about who might have sat next to each other in the Reading Room of the BL without either knowing who the other one was, while both were researching and writing world-changing texts.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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