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bethanyblack.bsky.social
Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:
A picture of He-Man
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong

Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975
Black and white shot of Diane Keaton in a tank top with her hands behind her head. I like this photo for its simplicity; you can feel her personality.
October 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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karlbode.com
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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sophiegilbert.bsky.social
Gasped at the ending to this. (It's all cool edgy fun and games until someone gets chatbot-induced psychosis.) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters
Avi Schiffmann says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?
www.theatlantic.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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laventanacadenaser.bsky.social
🗣️ @elviralindo.bsky.social : "Las mujeres sentimos una presión enorme por cómo somos vistas"

"Nos miramos con muy poca piedad"

📹 Vídeo en directo: youtube.com/live/HrGKwMwALrE?feature=share
September 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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nigella.bsky.social
Bring all the berries —
No-Fuss Fruit Tart is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/no-f...
No-Fuss Fruit Tart
This is perhaps one of the most useful puddings you can have in your repertoire. Not that it is the job of a pudding to be useful: a pudding exists merely to delight. Still, dinner does need to be mad...
www.nigella.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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fionacreates.bsky.social
Magpie - Watercolour on paper.

The scan and touch up, this painting gets the proper treatment!

Available as a print at www.inprnt.com/gallery/fion... to whatever places inprnt ships to (not just the UK :P)
Watercolour magpie illustration
August 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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rincewind.run
an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously

when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint

the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
Far Side cartoon with a female chimpanzee grooming a male chimpanzee “Well, well - another blond hair. … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
October 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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petergleick.bsky.social
Very sad. One of the world's great human beings.
#JaneGoodall

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Jane Goodall, primatologist and friend to chimpanzees, dies at 91
She used her global fame to draw attention to the plight of dwindling chimpanzee populations and, more broadly, to the perils of environmental destruction.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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motherjones.com
New Hampshire and Vermont could be next to introduce "balcony solar" [via @canarymedia.com]
New Hampshire and Vermont could be next to introduce "balcony solar"
Cheap, plug-in systems that reduce people's bills without red tape are piquing bipartisan interest.
www.motherjones.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
My favorite Robert Redford movie. Peak 1970s perfection.
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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pawbaby2.bsky.social
How very sad! 😢 Have you all seen this back to school commercial that is running in the US?

#USDemocracy
#Pinks
September 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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kamimagic.bsky.social
Cyndi Lauper: Girls just want to have rights!

(Interview with Ari Melber)
#ProudBlue
September 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.

IG tatterbluelibrary
Small brass butterfly. The underside of the butterfly, which has little pockets to store sewing needle packets. The underside of the wings are decorated with two plates. One carries an inscription of the drapers company: "Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. - London." The other has a gilded head of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, art, trade, and war. The butterfly can be folded up, like how a butterfly flaps its wings. A close-up of the butterfly's wings.
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
August 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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washingtonpost.com
For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives.

But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.
These crabs probably saved your life. Can we save theirs?
The medical world relies on horseshoe crab blood in the production of vaccines and equipment. A synthetic is available, but companies have been slow to adopt it.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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sacbee.com
Sacramento Bee reporter Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado stopped by the iconic scoop shop with $25 and a sweet tooth.
Is Gunther’s Ice Cream worth the hype? I tried Sacramento staple on a $25 budget
Sacramento Bee reporter Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado stopped by the iconic scoop shop with $25 and a sweet tooth.
bit.ly
August 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
"A fully comprehensive program of humanitarian specialist medical care is needed in order to stop this catastrophe from spiralling completely out of control"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel letting in a trickle of aid.
July 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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newyorker.com
After 300 days of war, the UNRWA issued an analysis describing Gaza’s trauma as “chronic and unrelenting.” Mohammed R. Mhawish writes about the catastrophic effects this trauma has had on the mental-health of the people, especially children, in Gaza. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
August 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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compostwitch.bsky.social
pspsps @alasdairstuart.com
michellefranklin.bsky.social Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · Aug 1
Every time I see some idiot on Twitter talk about what they think 'real masculinity' looks like, I remind them of Tamawashi (玉鷲), the Ironman of Sumo.
He loves baking cakes and cookies, cooks for his family, does embroidery, and said the happiest day of his life was when his kids were born.
August 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social

Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
www.youtube.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM