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We all want @bsky.app to be Twitter before Musk.

Am I wrong?
August 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Wanna know who's behind the curtain?
The Palantir Mafia Behind Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startups
The network connects founders and venture capitalists with ‘Palantir Pals’ and a Russian River camping trip
www.wsj.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know what this world is missing:

An index of substack accounts.

An index of YouTube channels.

Someone get on it.
August 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Happy Literary Birthday to Charles Bukowski, born this day in Andernach, Germany. (1920-1994). #BookSky 💙📚
August 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hey, #MusicSky 💙🎶 --- I have a question:

If you were tapped to teach a class about music appreciation and part of the requirement was to choose ten songs for you and your students to deconstruct....which ten songs would you choose?
August 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A Russian activist fled his country to seek asylum in the U.S. An appeals court found that he lacked a “well-founded fear or clear probability of future persecution.”
How an Asylum Seeker in U.S. Custody Ended Up in a Russian Prison
Eighteen months after an activist fled Russia to avoid persecution, an appeals court found that he lacked a “well-founded fear or clear probability of future persecution.”
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
August 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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@joannapocock.bsky.social retraces her journey traversing the physical and memory landscape of North America.
A Tour of the Private: Traversing the Physical and Memory Landscape of North America
Traveling on a Greyhound bus, you can disappear. * The day hadn’t yet begun as we pulled out of Detroit. We were heading to St. Louis through lashing rain under a black sky. The only sounds were th…
buff.ly
August 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Steve Martin turns 80 years old today. In 2007, Martin wrote an essay for The New Yorker in which he was unusually candid about the early years of his career, and his struggles to figure out what he wanted his act—and his life—to be. Revisit his piece.
How Steve Martin Found Out What Funny Is
From 2007: Over the three years I worked at the Bird Cage theatre, I strung together everything I knew: some comedy juggling, a few standard magic routines, a couple of banjo songs, and some very old ...
www.newyorker.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
August 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Just sayin’

#FilmSky 💙🎬
NUREMBERG Trailer (2025) Rami Malek, Russell Crowe
YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#Montana may be the most beautiful state I've ever visited.

In addition, they have something important on their agenda at the moment:
Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money - OpenSecrets News
Voters in Montana will have the opportunity this fall to ban corporate political spending and dark money in federal, state…
www.opensecrets.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Remember that US tour when The Who were 2nd on the bill to Herman's Hermits? On the latest CROSSED CHANNELS podcast, we discuss that fateful tour and a whole lotta other crucial Who moments from 1967 to 1969. Check it out!

danepstein.substack.com/p/the-who-ta...
The Who Take on US and Win, 1967-69
Episode 19 of the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast looks at the three tumultuous years that established The Who as rock stars in America, and may have also saved the band's career at home.
danepstein.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM