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dmori.bsky.social
@dmori.bsky.social
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- likes of your funny jokes, insightful comments, & pithy replies
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- elementary school teacher silently editing your typos
- too old & self conscious to scream into the void, lest the void judge me
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dmori.bsky.social
Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.
compulsiveobserver.bsky.social Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · Oct 29
Link’s perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.
khadijah.bsky.social Khadijah M Silver (they/them), JD/MPH @khadijah.bsky.social · Oct 29
Link’s perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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abbierichards.bsky.social
THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!
September 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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mineralcup.bsky.social
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty?

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...

Check RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in Round 1 Match 1 — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Chrysotile vs Pectolite
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September 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
August 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
dmori.bsky.social
What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?

Something like this but moodier.
Patrick Swayze in a sleeveless shirt leaning against the neck of his beautiful chestnut Arabian horse. He looks so happy.
June 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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alexkirshner.com
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.

1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral

[rant]
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
TURNOUT WINS ELECTIONS!

(have I mentioned that yet?)

Don’t assume anything. Please vote.
#VoteCarney #CanadaStrong
April 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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jmcelroy.bsky.social
Here's my piece on the end of the McBarge.

Dreams die, boats sink, memories for millions of British Columbians will fade.

But friendships are forever.
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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raeloverde.bsky.social
If you're feeling insecure about your book's premise today, remember that someone really walked into a pitch meeting and said, "Hear me out -- it's Hamlet . . . but with lions."
November 14, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I would like to speak up today for the trans community.

You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
November 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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teaberryblue.net
OKAY by special request, here comes the encore performance of How Hans Christian Andersen Was a Bisexual Disaster.
teaberryblue.net Tea Berry-Blue @teaberryblue.net · Nov 12
Telling the full wild story of why Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid for a guy who kept desperately trying to ignore/rebuff his advances without making it weird and wrote about how HCA kept making it weird in his diary.
cupcakesarenice.bsky.social Sarah Cupcakes @cupcakesarenice.bsky.social · Nov 12
I have a game. What were you "known" for on Twitter?

I'll go first. I'm the woman who caused Dave Ramsey to mass-block Royals Twitter.
November 13, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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alice.mosphere.at
hello #swifties, there is a new labeler for you! go to @eras.bsky.sh to set your favorite Taylor Swift era!!
November 8, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Being alive in the face of everything today is so punk rock, man. The people that make art in the face of despair are incredible and so are the people trying to do good and make a difference even when things are so hard. Thanks for helping us all not give up I love you
October 27, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
dmori.bsky.social
I won’t tell anyone what to vote for, but… one of these rocks looks like bacon. Proceed.
mineralcup.bsky.social Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Oct 1
#MinCup24 R5M1: #Rhodochrosite versus #Kyanite

Rhodochrosite, aka Rosa del Inca & Raspberry Spar is a distinctive pink-to-red carbonate that is a mix of utility and charm. Kyanite, while famous for being blue, can be a wide variety of colours, often zoned & sometimes pleochroic.

VOTE:

⚒️🧪 geology
Vote in Mineral Cup 2024 FINALS — Mineral Cup
Rhodochrosite vs Kyanite
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October 2, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Been feeling this so much lately. The spaces between things are bleeding together. The memories from one day to the next. All of it just feels muddled. I (we all probably) need real downtime, without the looming threat of "what's next" or (too often) "oh god what now"
suziw.bsky.social Suzi Wells @suziw.bsky.social · Sep 28
Like this - the full disc metaphor seems right. I often refer to down time as defragmentation which, thinking about it, is super era-specific geekery www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/b...
At Capacity
If we can’t remember the things we read and watch and even loved, do they still “count”?
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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debcha.bsky.social
Every day, I’m like: is this burnout or information overload or looming dread or late-stage capitalism or aging or post-covid or from dealing with the endless new tasks shunted to us (everything from self-checkouts to post-purchase surveys) or burnout or information overload or looming dread or…
September 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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irritatingoysters.bsky.social
This is a thing of beauty.
September 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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bexcommunicated.bsky.social
We’ve had the rule for how ever many years but I still click and watch the video every single time. Some days it can end up in my feed half a dozen times and I will still watch every time. It never gets old. I love it every single time I watch it
Tom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battle
Tom Holland, the stars of ""Spider-man: Homecoming" performing his dance and lip-sync with Rihanna's "Umbrella". Check out his jaw-dropping performance now!S...
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July 4, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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cogentanalysis.bsky.social
Can't wait to enjoy some delicious (squints) hoogs
A hot dog cart on a corner in NYC. The double panel sliding window is partly open so that the "Nathan's HOT DOGS" decal across both panes overlaps to read "HOOGS" (also a very truncated cartoon hotdog)
December 29, 2023 at 4:33 PM
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paulseesequasis.bsky.social
Portrait of an Elder. This photograph is dated to the 1960s and the woman and the photographer are not known. It is from the Government of Manitoba Art Collection and is part of the collection of artworks that are available for Ministers and staff to borrow for…
January 11, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
I carefully maintain a list of the funniest images I've ever seen on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Macaulay Library, and today I gift them to you
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608452...
ML608452541 Green Heron Macaulay Library
Macaulay Library ML608452541; © Arthur Mercado; Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
macaulaylibrary.org
October 3, 2023 at 4:33 PM