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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for bringing that last point up. 😭

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 14h

And the stress baking continues apace.

A cropped picture of two loaves of apple twist bread, drizzled with a powdered sugar glaze.

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 14h

[gift link]

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16h

Come back again and wake me up at about half past May.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16h

lol

Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 16h

That insanity goes down officially as a grounded into double play, making it the only batted ball hit over 350 feet for a GIDP in the pitch tracking era (reg. + postseason).

Max Muncy grounded into a 404-foot double play.

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 16h

Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 17h

Leaning into autumnal stuff as a way to try to cope with everything.

Luckily, our campus does autumn very well.

(Taken last week, not during today’s nor’easter, obviously.)

Photograph of a still lake flanked by trees with some of their leaves turning, a blue sky, and a bird flying just above the water—all reflected in the lake’s calm surface.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 21h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social · 22h

We’re at the “liberal white home owners have professionally designed yard signs warning about ICE” stage of outrage in Chicago.

A yard sign with Spanish text explaining a person’s rights if stopped by ICE. There’s a white picket fence in the background.

A yard sign with Spanish text explaining a person’s rights if stopped by ICE. The sign is among plants and flowers in a front yard.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 23h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 23h

So rich to tell an indigenous artist that they're not taking up enough space...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Máret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more?

The Sámi artist may use reindeer skulls and bones, but her spiralling wooden fences are so slight they fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space – or the imagination

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 23h

And…yup!

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

How does he still have a job there?!?

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 23h

I have not clicked on the link yet, but I’m going to go ahead and say that the author’s initials are JJ.

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H-Sicily on H-Net @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social · 23h

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Call for Applications: 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research Residencies, La Capraia, Naples [Museo e Bosco di Capodimonte]:

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Call for Applications: 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research Residencies, La Capraia, Naples [Museo e Bosco di Capodimonte] | H-Net

Call for Applications: 2026-2027 Predoctoral Research ResidenciesCenter for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities "La Capraia,"Naples, Sep 8, 2026–Jun 7, 2027Application deadline: Jan 31, 2...

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · Mar 9

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Forbidden Colors, 1988.

Installation shot from ‘The Workspace: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 16 September–20 November 1988.

Four vertical panels, hung in a row on a white wall, each panel a different color. From left to right: green, red, black, and white.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

Any journalist of color, I know working at a major institution like this, would instantly be reprimanded or possibly even fired.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less,” a neighbor said.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...

400 Rogers Park Neighbors Rally After ICE Arrests 4, Including Tamale Vendor

Neighbors lined Clark Street on Saturday as a show of support after multiple immigration arrests. "We've seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less," a neighbor s...

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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 1d

"Amy Sherald: American Sublime," which opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art next month will travel to the High Museum in Atlanta, opening on May 15, 2026. It will be uncensored.

high.org/exhibition/a...

Amy Sherald: American Sublime

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

apnews.com

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 15d

(Nun speaks to Giant Walrus)
Agatha. Agatha spitt it out. Agatha
(Walrus spits out penguin wearing wimple)
(Nun slaps penguin)
Consort NOTTE with the Wallruss
Ten Hail Marys and NO SUPPERE
(Walrus thumps away, penguin grumbles)

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian artist Dima Srouji’s London show explores myth, memory and erasure through the built heritage of her homeland.

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 1d

CONF: The Art at the time of Michel Sittow (Tallinn, 4-6 Dec 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/50882

The Art at the time of Michel Sittow (Tallinn, 4-6 Dec 25)

Oskar J. Rojewski. Estonian Academy of Arts, EKA, Tallinn, 04.–06.12.2025, Anmeldeschluss: 28.11.2025

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I hadn’t thought about is that new pavement is much quieter when cars drive over it than old pavement is. Added to the list of temporary benefits of repaving, alongside no potholes/patches going into the winter.

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