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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 2h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Dhilrukshi Pathman @dhilrukshi.bsky.social · 6h

Merlin Sheldrake Tour.

"There are so many ways that fungi can help us as we move forward on this changing planet.

What can we learn from them?

How can they change the way we understand ourselves?

How might we work with them to adapt to the radical change of our times?"

The poster promotes Merlin Sheldrake’s “Secret Life of Fungi Live” tour, showing him closely examining a small mushroom, with event dates and locations across Australia and New Zealand listed below.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2h

Dead thing alive; sexy. Unfortunately, society

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 16h

‘Six words or _fewer_.”

A meme. There’s a skull at the top, followed by the words ‘WRITE A HORROR STORY IN SIX WORDS OR LESS’

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2h

This Untitled Goose Game sequel sucks

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2h

thinking about the skateboarders in One Battle After Another. they were very cool

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 19h

Lunch sketch.

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 11h

Vlad Guerrero Jr., at a preposterous height, sliding headfirst into home. He is captioned "Me" and home plate is captioned "a few small beers"

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 12h

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 12h

I should eat more almendras. He's right

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 13h

I've watched enough spanish language stuff on TikTok (linguistics videos and Angelo Colina standup bits for the most part) that the algorithm is trying to serve me normal videos in spanish now. just a regular doctor telling me to eat more almendras so I can disminuir my colesterol

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 13h

front page of The Onion from 1914

Text reads

EXTRA! THE ONION EXTRA!

WAR DECLARED BY ALL

AUSTRIA DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON TURKEY DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA DECLARES WAR ON BULGARIA DECLARES WAR ON BRITAIN

OTTOMAN EMPIRE ALMOST DECLARES WAR ON ITSELF

NATIONS STRUGGLE TO REMEMBER ALLIES

AREA DRUNKARD DECLARES WAR ON IRELAND

then there's a map of europe with a bajillion big arrows pointing in all different directions

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 13h

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Reacher from the Jack Lagoon @daltondeschain.com · 14h

dying at this ad that wants you to hang up this “romantic keepsake” that tells everyone you met at Panera Bread

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 14h

If we can get Stavvy over there with a mic and a PA system the entire national guard unit is gonna lay down their arms within like 15 minutes

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 14h

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 15h

Whole stack of Morgan Wallen CDs on clearance. You hate to see it.

A plastic box on a store shelf filled with about 25 CDs of Morgan Wallen’s last album, labeled CLEARANCE

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Ahorrible Assassin Ace 🏴‍☠️ @assassin-ace.wtf · 1d

[long, tired sigh of a union shop steward] y'all don't deserve a single member here. your employees deserve so much better. like. good fucking grief.

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

A single moderator reviews thousands of reports per year — often making a decision in under 30 seconds. Expanding the scope of what counts as “evidence” makes it much harder to act fairly and consistently. 2/9

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 19d

I listened to the Salvatore Lima episode of @nogodsnomayors.com podcast and the part where they're describing how the mafia in Italy only saw power as patrimony and had no understanding of the state as like a mechanism that Does Things? That part? That felt pretty relevant to y'know. Circumstances

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22h

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book

The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 21h

just found out about “rig tape”, which uses the decimal foot, that’s divided into 10 units not 12.

This is written usually with decimal dot but sometimes with ‘ “ as if they’re feet and inches.

I love customary units when the custom is “go fuck yourself”

A roll of measuring tape meant for oil drilling denominated in decimal feet with a smaller bar for regular foot and 12 inches and a reverse side in metric. It is red white and blue and has stars.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 21h

do it and be a legend

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 23h

modelo especial corduroy snapback... she could fix me..... www.wearyourbeer.com/modelo-espec...

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 2d

hay modelos en la enfriadora

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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J🔥HELL🔥P @jlp.systems · 1d

It would rock to be completely vindicated, which should happen any day now

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 1d

this little chief has the opportunity to do the funniest thing (release the report about the 5 year investigation into DRPS corruption that they are currently sitting on)

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headline: DRPS name Pickering Grade 5 student Chief for a Day

dateline: October 7, 2025 | 8:38 am

article features a photo of 5 police standing with a child

photo caption: Advaita Paliwal is this year's Durham Police Chief for a Day contest winner.

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