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Clay Wallace @claywallace.bsky.social · Aug 12
Budget year ahead - subscribe to this feed to see skeets by verified Kentucky journalists and news outlets about the 2026 Kentucky General Assembly (tagged with #KYGA26)!
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IN ONE unmarked jelly jar in my fridge: chicory coffee concentrate from a friend. IN ANOTHER unmarked jelly jar in my fridge: gravy from my grandmother’s thanksgiving.

In my coffee mug: gravy.
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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📬During WWII, mail from home meant everything to the 16.4 million Americans serving overseas. From heartfelt letters to innovative V-mail that saved precious cargo space, wartime communication was a lifeline.

Read the blog by Dr. Jim Seaver here:
https://ow.ly/5m3v50XvO9f
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Fifteen Years

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Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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One of the most liberating moments of my life occurred when I was 15. I realized that you could just do whatever you wanted to do, based on whatever you were interested in, and you got to choose whether you cared what other people thought about it.
brr.bsky.social brr @brr.bsky.social · 5d
what?
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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vulture.com
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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no but this time I mean it: oh my God
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 10d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Heading out. Anybody need anything?
A little gas station market with a few pumps and cars in front of it. The name across the front reads “MI-DEE MART” in three locations. On the steep slant up to the roof, the letters “DE I” with a space between the “E” and “I” where the faint outline of the “L” spelling “DELI” once was.
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I’ve been using Kagi as my search engine for several months now and it consistently returns the best image results - even before the StopSlop initiative.

You can also block all Pinterest results from showing up.
kagi.com Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 8d
Last week, we kicked off our SlopStop initiative (blog.kagi.com/slopstop). Since then, the community has submitted over 3,000 reports!

Please continue reporting AI slop in your search results to improve Kagi Search for everyone.
Digital portrait illustration of Steve Jobs with short graying hair and beard, wearing his signature round wire-rimmed glasses and a light blue collared shirt against a transparent checkered background. The image has been flagged as AI-generated content and is currently under review, as indicated by a notice in a panel.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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In the 60s when Dolly Parton was fresh to Nashville and her record company at the time didn't know what to do with her yet, she released a few incredible girl group/pop/r&b tunes.

youtu.be/Zq6_el27aw8?...
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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In Morehead today for a concert and dipped into MSPR to steal a quiet spot to record a news thing. Greetings Fiona Apple Dream Machine.
A Sony Dream Machine (vintage radio alarm clock) on a wooden desk. The Dream Machine is a creamy off-white with blue branding on top reading “FIONA APPLE SLEEP TO DREAM”
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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kendrawrites.com
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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lecagle.bsky.social
They're playing running up that hill at the Krogers
waiterich.bsky.social Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Aug 24
Part of the elder millennial experience is now realizing the best music you’ve heard all day is being played over the grocery store speakers
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Qualifying Lexington residents could see some of their medical debt wiped away thanks to a city partnership with a national nonprofit.
'That letter is indeed real': Some low-income Lexington residents set to have medical debt erased
Qualifying Lexington residents could see some of their medical debt wiped away thanks to a city partnership with a national nonprofit.
www.wuky.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Rolling gray clouds over a BP gas station. On the left side of the screen, the clouds are wavy and bubbly, while the right side shows a clear line of dark gray, like a pleat in fabric.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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My stepdad loves to golf and, in retirement, works at a city golf course. Over dinner, my sister asked him how golf courses even make money. He said “They don’t. A golf course doesn’t exist to make a profit. They exist to be enjoyed, to enrich the communities they’re in.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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kentuckylantern.com
BREAKING: Trump administration unveils plan to try to dismantle Department of Education
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BREAKING: Trump administration unveils plan to try to dismantle Department of Education • Kentucky Lantern
Trump administration takes steps to dismantle U.S. Department of Education, announcing transfers of its responsibilities to other agencies.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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wuky.org
Lexington leaders move closer to deals that could create a new city hall, solar facility. Hear more in our weekly conversation with #CivicLex.
CivicLex Chat: Maxwell apartment hearing, final talks on solar facility, and leaders inch closer to new city hall
In this installment, we chat with CivicLex's Richard Young about a variety of major long-awaited projects moving closer to becoming a reality — from a solar operation to a new city hall.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Planning your week? Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION is your chance to learn who broke the internet & how we can fix it.

The concept was the 2023 Word of the Year & an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.

📆 Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PST
📍 Online
www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
Cover for the book “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow, featuring a poop emoji with symbols representing expletives. Text reads “Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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"It is astronomically low," CannaBuzz CEO Annie Rouse said of the new #THC limits. "It's so low that it's almost intentionally written so that there will be no market." #hemp
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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kentuckylantern.com
IUDs are increasingly popular but for some this birth control comes with an unwelcome surprise: pain, sometimes extreme.

Medical providers in Kentucky are taking pain more seriously, but work remains, patients say.

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Long-term birth control should come without a price tag of pain, say Kentuckians • Kentucky Lantern
IUDs are highly effective at preventing pregnancy but for some this birth control comes with an unwelcome surprise: pain, sometimes extreme.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
A video pinball machine with a blue screen of death
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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They call the desk tiny, I dont believe the desk is tiny ive seen like 7 full grown adults back there AND their instruments
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM