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December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
A flight path in the shape of the Grinch
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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maketheroadny.bsky.social
Today, the NYC Council passed the Street Vendor Reform Package, expanding licensing & creating an Office of Street Vendor Services—changing the lives of tens of thousands of street vendors, their families & our neighborhoods.

CONGRATS to our movement fam @streetvendorproj.bsky.social!

¡Sí se pudo!
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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jmiers230.bsky.social
A gentle reminder that paranoid delusions are a real, serious, and deeply understudied public health issue. Reducing these harms to “ChatGPT” oversimplifies the problem and does a disservice both to the discourse and to the people affected.
www.cbsnews.com/news/open-ai...
Open AI, Microsoft sued over ChatGPT's alleged role in fueling man's "paranoid delusions" before murder-suicide in Connecticut
The suit alleges the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified a man's "paranoid delusions" and helped direct them at his mother before he died by suicide.
www.cbsnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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newyorker.com
The New Yorker’s restaurant critic rounds up her favorite menu items of the year.

www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
The Best Things I Ate in 2025
Our restaurant critic rounds up her favorite menu items from a year of eating out.
www.newyorker.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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newyorker.com
Shokuhin sampuru—mesmerizingly lifelike handmade food replicas—are a roughly $90 million industry, and a beloved part of Japanese pop culture. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MZDGoU
Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food
Lifelike food replicas have long been a fixture of Japanese dining culture. Now, in an exhibition at Japan House, they are being spotlighted as art.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Title: Wenceslas Variations 1. Good King Wenceslas: King bestows gifts on peasant. 2. Bad things Wenceslas: King steals gifts from peasant. 3. Indifferent King Wenceslas: No gifts 4. Two Kings Wenceslas: Kings exchange gifts. 5. No King Wenceslas: Gifts divided between peasants. 6. Philosopher King Wenceslas: King and Peasant discuss gift-giving. 7. Quantum King Wenceslas: Gifts given and simultaneously not given. 8. Apex Predator King Wenceslas: King devours gifts and peasant.
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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nyc.streetsblog.org
The see-through cars have been standard across the globe for a generation, but to the MTA, it's still untested technology.
MTA Still Won't Embrace Open Gangway Subway Cars - Streetsblog New York City
The see-through cars have been standard across the globe for a generation, but to the MTA, it's still untested technology.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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eclaire.bsky.social
the integrated onion survivability onion don't be harvested don't be groceries don't be peeled don't be diced don't be soup
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A small child approaches his scientist father who is working at a large, strange, contraption. His face pressed to a viewing tube. “Are you looking forward to Christmas, papa?” Asks the child. “Yes,” replies the scientist“ turning round, “that is exactly what I am doing” then he adds “Thank you for the socks.” We can now see that the viewing tube breaks the border of the comics panel, passes through complicated machinery and allows the scientist to see into the next comic panel: Caption: December 25th A Christmas scene. The child and father-scientist open presents before a Christmas tree. The father has just unwrapped some socks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Joe Schwartz, Brooklyn Tricycle Gang, n.d. (1930s-1940s)
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Fan Ho, Hong Kong, 1962.
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Lucy Smith & Pauline Ranken Climbing Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. 1908
photo: Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Fulvio Roiter, On the Gela-Niscemi Road, Sicily, 1953.
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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us.theguardian.com
"Opposition to women’s voting rights has long been a fringe, but persistent, feature of the American right," writes Guardian columnist Moira Donegan.
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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aetiology.bsky.social
Self magazine partnered with AAP awhile back to make some. Some do show needles but they're not huge and the person/ child isn't crying like so many photos. www.flickr.com/photos/selfm...
SELF x American Academy of Pediatrics Vaccine Photo Project
Medically accurate vaccination photography that anyone is welcome to use for free.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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dannybate.bsky.social
Spotted on this morning's walk: 'cordwainer', a shoemaker or worker with cordwain leather. You might not guess from its appearance that 'cordwain' has Mediterranean origins – the word comes from the Spanish city of Córdoba.
A old wooden sign that reads "J. H. Storey Cordwainer" hanging on an old building in a narrow alley
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Grandma Moses
To Grandma's House We Go on Thanksgiving Day, 1942
oil and glitter on masonite
40.6 x 57.2 cm.
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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bird-nerdco.bsky.social
More halite, this time with a beautiful cobalt-blue coloration from radiation in situ.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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newyorker.com
For our fourth and final centenary special issue, the artist Malika Favre created “Taking Flight,” the latest adaptation of The New Yorker’s classic Eustace Tilley cover. Read the issue here: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nWkC-7 #NewYorker100
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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openculture.bsky.social
Nikolai Gogol’s Classic Story, “The Nose,” Animated With the Astonishing Pinscreen Technique (1963)
Nikolai Gogol’s Classic Story, “The Nose,” Animated With the Astonishing Pinscreen Technique (1963)
A mild-looking barber slices into his morning loaf of bread to find a human nose embedded within. You might imagine this image opening the next David Lynch movie, but it actually sets up a more lighth...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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judah-grunstein.bsky.social
Once I hit a certain age, I started playing Batman in this situation, whether the person is pregnant, elderly or using a cane or crutch. The most effective method I found is to ask really loudly so everyone sitting in front of them can hear: "Excuse me, would you like to sit down?"
laminda.bsky.social Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · Nov 21
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Student Journalists (Again) Showing Us How dept:

—@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social plays latest 'Harvard about to cave' story the way it should. Ie, as another MAGA claim. (Left image)

—Gives "well, actually...." context missing from most MSM reports. (Right)

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Headline: "White House Renews Claims That Settlement With Harvard Is Close." News story: McMahon’s remarks Thursday aren’t the first time the Trump administration has said it is close to a settlement with Harvard. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the White House was on the verge of finalizing a deal with Harvard. When he first announced in June that talks had resumed, he predicted that an agreement would be reached “in the next week or so.” More than four months later, no deal has been announced. Trump previously told reporters in the Oval Office on Sept. 30 that the White House had “reached a deal” for a settlement with Harvard before clarifying that the agreement had not yet been finalized. “All you have to do is paper it, right?” Trump said to McMahon. “It’ll be great.” Trump said in September that reaching a deal would mean that Harvard’s “sins are forgiven.” A settlement would likely resolve multiple federal investigations into the University, which have targeted everything from its ties to the Chinese government to its financial aid formulas. It might also halt attempts to force Harvard to stop enrolling international students and protect the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that Harvard researchers receive each year. But the pressure on Harvard to accede to a deal lightened somewhat after a series of favorable decisions from federal judges. A judge agreed this summer to Harvard’s requests to temporarily block revocation of its Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification and a Trump order that would prevent many of Harvard’s international students from entering the U.S. In response to a separate lawsuit by Harvard, a judge agreed to restore billions of dollars in multiyear federal funding that the Trump administration attempted to freeze this spring.
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM