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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 1h

amazing they put this in the newspaper every day

actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 1h

15 Oct 2025

Heathcliff comes a-walkin' down the sidewalk, about to pass right under two birds who are sitting on a telephone wire. One of the birds says "Prayer really does work."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

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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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 2h

whoa oh, we're

Puzzmo @puzzmo.com · 3h

HALFWAY THERE

Puzzmo @puzzmo.com · 3h

🔗 Puzzmo Mini Crossword #15: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

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Orlando City SC @orlandocitysc.com · 3h

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭 😤

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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 1d

13 Oct 2025

Heathcliff rides down the street in his open-top ham car past an autumn tree whose colored leaves are falling. Two meat store employees watch from their shop's entrance, and one says "This is great ham weather."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

more of a publishing opinion than a literary one i guess, but books should come out in paperback first and then do a hardcover release farther down the road

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 2d

a serious man is a good movie and surrealistic pillow is a good album

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 2d

“this entry doesn’t balance”

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I'm correcting your grammar"

Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 3d

No fee, I'm afraid.

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 3d

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New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 3d

foodstagrammers

austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 4d

for some reason insta reels keeps showing me content from july 30 and only july 30

austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 5d

jamelle is so so good at this

Why the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Still Matter

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

youtu.be

austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 5d

thankfully you can turn that off!

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 6d

I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 7d

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective

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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 7d

tired: Sincaraz
wired: Tienvedev

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 7d

Remember those court records that Miami Dophins receiver Tyreek Hill wanted sealed? They are now unsealed and up at @defector.com.

The paywall is also down:

Here's The Court Document Tyreek Hill Didn't Want Anyone To See | Defector

The Miami-Dade Circuit Court clerk released Tuesday a copy of the latest petition for divorce from the estranged wife of Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill. In the document, Lakeeta Vaccaro described...

defector.com

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 8d

I can’t believe I got it. #Jaguars

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 8d

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Headline:
Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 8d

#notacrossword

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 9d

This is the process chart for the City of Bellevue's potential plan to add parking meters.

Fourteen steps completed over the course of one year

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 9d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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Austin David @austindavid22.bsky.social · 11d

85': GOAL! SIMONE CHARLEY! HER FIRST GOAL IN THREE YEARS! A looping ball by Haley McCutcheon finds Charley in the box, who loops a header up and over Abby Smith to tie the game!

1-1 | #HOUvORL

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austin @austinburns.bsky.social · 11d

antifa v fa is inspired

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 12d

🔵 This week's comic!
🇺🇸 A BUSY, BUSY DAY IN WASHINGTON, DC
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Brought to you by the heroism of the INNER HIVE, including longtime member Kyle B. and new member Amitha Knight.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE, Y'ALL

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 12d

You can really see the colo(u)rs changing on satellite this morning.

A visible satellite image of the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada. You can see the fall foliage across Canada, interior New England, and the Appalachians.

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Trip Payne @puzzletrip.bsky.social · 12d

A word search where you actually have to know your countries: www.sporcle.com/games/Qaqaq/...

Word Search: Two-Word Country Names

Can you find the ends of the countries whose beginnings are given?

www.sporcle.com

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