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Dr Kate Laity 🧿

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Dr Kate Laity 🧿 @katelaity.bsky.social · 22d

I am selling tour merch to get to Berlin to share the gospel of #LeonoraCarrington at @occulture.bsky.social visionaryfuel.threadless.com

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 11h

Will watch this later 👇. I watched the documentary on the refurbishment of The Angel underground station on the iPlayer and it was amazing how ancient 1980s britain can seem

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine a 1970s Alan Partridge on a mind bending trip through long lost London, so breakneck & fragmentary, full of incredible characters & handbrake turns that it feels like a dream where the cast & context keeps mutating & it still won’t be as wild as the actuality of this
youtu.be/hTIkSgNC4ww?...

1975: BERNARD FALK's Tour of HIDDEN LONDON | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 57m

Once again I have to wonder where the hell the "libertarians" are in this perilous moment.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 58m

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1h

Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.

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Antifa @antifa.bsky.social · 15d

The Trump Administration is a Terrorist Threat, an anarchist enterprise that has overthrown the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.

It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 1h

You have got to be kidding me.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Nuno @nun0c.bsky.social · 4h

It's longer you'd expect

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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David Soulscorch @david-soulscorch.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicSky
OTD a few years ago, armed with a bobble hat and microphone, I was exploring Skara Brae, The Ring of Brodgar, numerous chamber cairns and other exceptionally exciting #Neolithic sites on Orkney
Here's the Chapter One
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ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/album/orcadi...

Orcadia. Chapter One - Megalithic Tapes & Neolithic Soundscapes, by Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project

8 track album

ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 9h

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 55m

Gosh I wonder what they were up to there

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 55m

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

"On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter." - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1h

Two years on, these horrific numbers show the scale of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The figures speak for themselves: zeteo.com/p/these-horr...

Subscribe to Zeteo to support unfiltered journalism.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 7h

I'm giving several talks about the books in the next couple of months, if you want to hear more (before you buy?). The first, linked below, is online via. UPenn @sims-mss.bsky.social on October 17th at 12 midday EDT.

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method

J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

www.library.upenn.edu

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 5h

Authors whose works are in the LibGen pirate database downloaded by Anthropic for AI training & now subject of a massive class action settlement: @sfwa.bsky.social has an online survey to gather data on the impact (you don't need to be a SFWA member to participate) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Author Experience Survey: Did Anthropic Downloads Include Your Work?

SFWA is gathering information to share with the larger genre and literary community about our specific experiences with the LibGen dataset download. Do you have a story you'd like to share? Was one o...

docs.google.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 54m

Everyone start burning Confederate flags. I'm trying to see something.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 10h

“I'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.” www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1h

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 12h

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · 54m

Seeing a lot of "read banned books" posts and I just want to remind everyone my upcoming book with @erikkaars.bsky.social is gonna be banned so you know what to do. 🤣

a woman in a red dress says " read honey "

ALT: a woman in a red dress says " read honey "

media.tenor.com

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 54m

UNC, do something fucked up to their students? Well, I never!

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 2h

From one UNC defensive assistant: "What we've done to these kids is fucked up."

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Politico @politico.com · 54m

The shutdown stalemate is showing signs of provoking one of the most powerful forces in the federal bureaucracy: an army of overworked, currently unpaid air traffic controllers.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Flight delays could force parties to the shutdown bargaining table

Disruptions caused by staffing shortfalls may up the pressure on lawmakers to strike a deal.

www.politico.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 54m

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 52m

Lol they still think this Kirk thing is the ticket

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5h

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 51m

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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