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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 2d

I’m still waiting for the people to rise up and put me in charge. It’ll happen any day now, really, and I’m sure I’ll be great.

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Kristin Hersh @kristinhersh.bsky.social · 3d

my son Wyatt (@chimaera_sight on Instagram) is an environmental mapper and data analyst who organizes information into beautiful, graspable images…please reach out if this interests you, it’s truly amazing stuff

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 5d

Kristin Hersh. (Runners up: Lucinda Williams and Nick Cave.)

Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 7d

You’d think David Marcus would know his father a little better than that, but given the circumstances of their relationship I guess it’s understandable.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 13d

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow.

LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 13d

They lost me with their breathless "but her emails!" coverage of the 2016 election. I never went back.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 15d

USB Arthur

Bea Arthur’s torso photoshopped onto a USB plug

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 13d

My contempt isn’t an undercurrent, it’s overt: people either voted for Trump because 1) they knew and liked what he stands for, and so intentionally supported the end of American democracy, or 2) were so foolish or uninformed that they had no business voting without first learning the stakes.

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 14d

Really bizarre that this post is being moderated as “rude.”

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 17d

“Why can’t you take a joke?”

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 18d

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect.

So profoundly reluctantly.

But, good lord have they earned it.

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 17d

Civilization.
Civilization II.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17d

I'll tell you the best two PC games made before 2000.

TIE Fighter.
Baldur's Gate.

Runner up:
Dark Forces.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 17d

Name a Videogame made before 2000.

Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 20d

Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand leaps into the air during a show in Athens on September 11, 2025.

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 20d

Ahem.

Crew of the Enterprise looking absolutely dashing in their fabulous Wrath of Khan uniforms.

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 21d

Every week God is like ok this time, there's got to be somebody to rapture, and he gets out the snacks and the bunting (congratulations on being raptured) and he sits on his couch all day and nobody shows up.

Jesus wanders in: it's ok dad. One day, someone will show up.

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 22d

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 21d

It takes five hours to say “It was renegade Wakandans”?

Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 23d

The Christmas one is pretty great too:
youtu.be/uEMxebZGxbM?...

Six Feet Under Christmas episode death

YouTube video by Brian Aylward

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WereBen! 🎃💀🐺 @benimated.bsky.social · 23d

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23d

If I were a company that owns Star Wars and planned on capitulating to fascist threats, I wouldn't have provided Star Wars fans with two seasons of well-written anti-fascist inspiration right before doing so.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24d

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state
constitutions block public funds from supporting religious
entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe,
Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) .
The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional
provisions.
The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state
governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious
entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See
also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597
U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower).
Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the
government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of
jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not
all religions will receive public funds, the government forces
minority faiths to support other faiths, or else.
The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and
public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of-
government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty
structure.
As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church-
state separation and federalism principles. The Court's
nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution
"has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 25d

If they try to make Charlie Kirk’s birthday a national holiday, it will actually be kind of impressive in one sense: since his birthday is October 14, it would be one of a vanishingly few ways to somehow make Columbus Day worse.

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · 26d

I knew the sirens were for me

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 28d

man rolling rock up hill
how it started how its going

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Dan Osher @danosher.bsky.social · Sep 13

Crete has some pretty nice skies.

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