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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2h

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 58m

Physics Paths

xkcd.com/3155/

Vertical comic structured like flow chart. (1) Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value. (2) I hope *I* have value. I’ll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check. (3) [Time Passes] (4) Oh no! My insight didn’t overturn physics! But I don’t think I’m worthless… [arrows to two different options] (5a) Healthy Path: Maybe this was not a well-thought-out test of my value. (5b) Path of Ruin: The establishment must be *suppressing* my insight!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

huh, wonder what this was about

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

Whether he jumped or was pushed, this seems like a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 37m

The redhead larvacean is a deep-sea climate hero 🌊💙

These tiny animals build mucous houses to filter marine snow sinking from the waters above. When their filters clog, they abandon their homes, which sink to the seafloor packed with nutrients and large amounts of carbon: youtu.be/7swiAc8rZbk?...

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 3h

Nu, then we can hope it'll be solved with the other 2000-year old problems.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 3h

Ok, but my personal hill to die on is that we should really go back to using the biblical possessive forms instead of all this הדבר של פלוני nonsense.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 19h

Yeah, the influence of Arabic on medieval Hebrew grammar and poetry is *huge* (and explicit! for anyone who bothers reading)

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 3h

!!!
Not in a million years would I have guessed correctly.

max @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 3h

It’s fun to ask people to guess what movie translated to אהבה בשחקים

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“Kids”

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 4h

Driving (traveling, burning fuel, and/or using electronics) and carrying

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 4h

It's Shabbos

Todd H. Baker @tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social · 5h

Whatever your excuse not to participate is, it’s not good enough. Be there.

Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 6h

In two days, be a part of the largest peaceful protest in modern American history.

Join No Kings this Saturday at an event near you to push back on Trump's power grabs and make it clear—we don't do monarchs here. nokings.org

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 5h

mmhmm

Myron Gaines on X:

Yeah we like Hitler. No one gives a fuck what you woke jews think anymore.
Bro was a revolutionary leader and saved germany. The jews declared war on Germany first.
If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof, I'm questjoning everything you guys have said about the painter during WW2.
11:49 AM • 10/15/25 • 513K Views

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 5h

www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...

#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
On NPR!!! please share!

A celebration of the South's rich — and messy — heritage, delivered on a plate

In a new cookbook, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty pays homage to the rich tapestry of cultures that have shaped Southern cuisine — and keeps a gimlet eye on the region's complicated history.

www.npr.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

I’m going to be so, so mad if I actually have to switch to Linux on my gaming desktop

I know Linux is generally Fine for gaming these days, but come on

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 8h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 5h

Damnit, Faine.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 9h

So when you say Jesus was chasing people like Trump out of the Temple... From our perspective, that's calling people who were doing an essential job that allowed travelers from afar to come and participate in the Passover pilgrimage akin to a corrupt cheating adulterous liar.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 9h

Further, discussion of the money-changers is so often full of blatant antisemitism - which I don't see any of in your posts, to be clear - a lot of us are on a real hair trigger about it. I also think that recent events and Bluesky discourse around them have put a lot of us on edge.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 9h

As for the money-changers, from a Jewish perspective, they were going a critical and sacred task, as pagan coins with graven images were forbidden in the Temple proper - and the Gospels don't actually make Jesus' problem with them explicit.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 9h

I'm gonna put this as gently as I can, but... suffice it to say that a lot of Jews are really, really tired of hearing that most of our historical interactions with Christianity weren't with "real Christians."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

Whatever you think about CFPB, it was created by Congress (as part of the Dodd-Frank Act) and can only be abolished by Congress, not by the President acting as a dictator.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

"feds gas the cops at a nonviolent protest," as is happening in Chicago, is ideal. you want to make sure that the feds and the cops are on opposite sides of the escalation ladder.

there will be escalation, but you don't have to fight the actual cops yet. maybe you will, but ideally you won't.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 17h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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