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Jucika @jucikadaily.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 1h

youtu.be/YAlDbP4tdqc?...

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 1d

New York’s finest? this mob of busking raccoons in Central Park I somehow witnessed.

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it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 22h

rest in peace kaleb horton. this is my husband's eulogy for our friend. davesplace.substack.com/p/my-eulogy-...

My Eulogy for Kaleb Horton

A few notes:

davesplace.substack.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15h

Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 14h

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 16h

The bone buddies are still having a blast outside, celebrating the fact that they're skeletons.

Here's a lovely pic of five bone buddies (small plastic skeletons). One is standing on their head, one is doing the splits with their arms up, one is dangling by their legs from an outdoor chair, one is climbing the back of the chair, and one is waving while sitting on the chair.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

for maaaaybe $200

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 3h

"Scotland’s most vocal prohibitionists are wont to refer to harm reduction as a vast and nefarious industry, concerned only with its own enrichment and self-preservation – they should try looking in a mirror. Those fighting to deny Scotland the safe consumption rooms and drug law reform it desperately needs do so because their own approach to addiction is wedded to the War on Drugs that has consistently failed for a century, doing untold harm in the process, to the poorest peoples and nations most of all. Despite this, that war has always been politically advantageous for those who would get on board with it, so it is no surprise that some would rather not see it sink."

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 1d

I believe there may have been a fundamental overestimation of how many people want to hear *more* details about an affair with RFK Jr.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 1d

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 2d

Denying humanitarian aid is A WAR CRIME, not a fucking bargaining chip. Good lord.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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matthew @pahuski.com · 3d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 2d

left a hideous little malformed cub in the bookstore at o’hare

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 2d

That one was my parents' favourite.

Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 2d

Eric Roberts and Mickey Rourke in the Pope of Greenwich Village

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

I don't trust this ceasefire, and my Gazan refugee friends are no better off today than they were two days ago

Please help them, if you can:

Donate to Help me and my family Rebuild their lives, organized by Alma Family

I am alma from Gaza and I am 14 years old. My family consists of 10 member… Alma Family needs your support for Help me and my family Rebuild their lives

www.gofundme.com

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

AI tech will be the asbestos of the 21st century, digging it out of the software it's embedded in will become a well paid job for some. The hideous grinning forced optimism of the AI bubble, however, will disappear with the stock market crash.

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss truly has Ted Cruz level haters. I keep seeing people who are like “I knew her when she was nine and I fucking hated her” lol

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

the more i think about it, bari weiss running CBS is direct proof there’s not really a meritocracy in any real way under capitalism. the opposite is true in this system, failing upwards is the default the more a country becomes an oligarchy