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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 2d

trump: [video of porn star blasting milk enema on his face]
news: trump responds to no kings rally with proposal for irrigation reform

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Diana Hussein @dianah.bsky.social · 3d

Ran into an anti-fascist, pro-Jared Goff guy at the #NoKings protest in DC today. Detroit Lions fans are everywhere 😻

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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 4d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUO...

The new shock of the New (Documentary about contemporary art by Robert Hughes)

YouTube video by Art and documentary

www.youtube.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve

patrick cosmos' now international theory of "everyone is twelve now"

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Marley Parish @marleyparish.bsky.social · 4d

Horror is as Pennsylvanian as scrapple.

From the Gothic fiction of authors like Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe, to the creature features of George A. Romero and mindbenders of M. Night Shyamalan, the commonwealth has long been a hub for the genre.

What do Mr. Rogers and George A. Romero have in common? The answer might shock you.

The University of Pittsburgh's new Horror Studies Center is home to a global research network dedicated to the genre, which has deep Pennsylvania ties.

www.spotlightpa.org

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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 5d

The #PAbudget stalemate in Harrisburg is a crisis. I spoke with @citycastphilly.bsky.social about how Senate Republicans forced our commonwealth to a halt and what everyday people can do to help build the political pressure necessary to break this impasse.

philly.citycast.fm/local-civics...

Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval on State Budget Impasse and His Undying Optimism - City Cast Philly

The state has gone more than 100 days without a budget. While Saval supports his fellow Democrats’ spending plan, he says Republicans haven’t offered serious proposals.

philly.citycast.fm

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Stephen Caruso @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social · 8d

Commonwealth Partners, who created the misleading gerrymandering mailer, continue to lean into the "convince liberals to vote against retention" messaging per this mailer shared with me over the weekend.

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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 11d

long overdue 🙏

bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 12d

#booksky for #literaryfiction #NobelPrize #bookawards 📚💙

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The Guardian:

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

"Beauty in language. Fun in hell"… László Krasznahorkai. Photograph: Carlos Álvarez/Getty Images

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 12d

I bet security personnel hired by publications, networks and individual journalists aren't spending an equal amount of time on left and right wing threats. I wonder if those outlets would feel safer if they had to order their security contractors to do so. For balance.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 12d

You know things are bad when there's mainstream news stories about the U.S. Navy having decades of reports of UFOs coming from underwater and no one cares.

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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 12d

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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 14d

HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 15d

We're lucky to have writers like China Miéville for this moment

Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism - Salvage

Why, and how, are any of us capable of self-reflective thought? Of experiencing emotion, ratiocination, preference, cold, whim, melancholy, joy? Anything at all?

salvage.zone

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 17d

Hmm maybe handing the keys to universities over to MBA morons who admire rich people instead of knowledgeable people was a . . . bad idea

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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 17d

seeking guest contributors on a writing project I’m simultaneously too busy and lazy to jump-start myself

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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 18d

girl,,,,,

Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 18d

*exhales for nine straight minutes*

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Erik Strobl @erikstrobl.bsky.social · 21d

made in a lab for me. Quite possibly the find of the year

Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 21d

Aexander Baron! David Seabrook! Huge dangerous piles of books! This is an absolutely top draw recommendation from @backlisted.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7n7...