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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 5h

The American style of printing titles on spines top-to-bottom is superior to the European style of printing them bottom-to-top because when a book is placed face-up on a table the title appears right-side-up on the spine

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 21h

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

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Barron Trump Finally Old Enough For People to Rightfully Shit on Him Just Like They Already Do on His Old Man

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 5h

Explaining the Brewers relay to the husband so he can participate in society

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 6h

aw man

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 6h

has anyone written a protest song yet that just completely avoids the fourth scale degree

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re a politician who needs an alias for checking into hotels with your mistress, you could do a lot worse than

A package of crackers that says LANCE TOASTY

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 8h

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 7h

Books aren't just what the writer puts in. They're what the reader puts in, too. And some readers are assholes.

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 7h

"She married Danny Hoang, a fellow Vietnamese immigrant she met working at a nail salon...Tran became known in community as a devoted swim team mom and beloved small-business owner. She claimed in court documents that over the last 21 years, she never missed one of her ICE check-ins."

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 20h

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolonging...

buff.ly

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 8h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Aide: Sir the protesters have started dressing up as kid rock. ICE doesn’t know what to do.
Boss: I was afraid of this.

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Collin 'Appears To Be A Typo' Woodard @collinwoodard.bsky.social · 10h

Mysterious Sign Impossible to Understand, Probably Means Nothing, Drivers Say

Photo of a "state law stop for pedestrians within crosswalk" sign at an intersection

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 11h

please post rare turing_polices

Turing Police @turing_police
when I was like 12 I went to the California science center which had a "drunk driving simulator" educational arcade type game and if you were too good at it the game would automatically crash the car after a while so you didnt undermine their message

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 10h

Like, no wonder the Soviet Union fell a few months later.

What POSSIBLE counter could they have to Cher in fishnets on the USS Missouri?

If that's what you're up against you've lost.

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Xenochrony @xenochrony.bsky.social · 10h

Travel agent: What's your budget for this trip?
Me: Disguise the limit!
Wife, sighing and pinching the bridge of her nose: I've...I've told you that's not the expression.

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House on Huntered Hill (1959) @drhbus.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is Columbo's Day, so remember to eat the traditional chili dogs, wear your best disheveled raincoat, and above all, don't let any rich assholes get away with anything

A pencil drawing of Columbo by Peter Falk himself.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10h

The scenes of this disaster break my heart. Are there local organizations that are best suited to receive donations and turn them into aid?

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
S...
Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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gospodyina @gospodyina.bsky.social · 12h

That’s 1-888-227-8255 Hello you’re on Car Talk

(800) 588-2300 Empire

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And then it’s all dead relatives after that. And my elementary school.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 15h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 2d

"Grandpa, what was 2025 like?"

"You know that feeling when you go down stairs in the dark and you think there's one more step but there isn't? Like that."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook

The cover of a Spanish textbook. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown. Two people are talking to each other on the cover. The book is titled "En español!"

Zendaya in a Marc Jacobs double-breasted suit. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

a picture of 80s era Madonna, the greatest Italian-American. she is lounging across a white table in front of a kind of bamboo / rattan backdrop. the look is indescribable but I’ll try. dark jeans, a black mini skirt with some insane lime green pattern, a pink studded belt. then a black tank top over a hot pink tank top. about one million bracelets on each wrist going halfway up her forearm. big dangly earrings. she has a red scarf tied in her hair with a bow on top and huge 80s sideswept bangs. her lipstick and eyeshadow are both like gray-pink??? its a wild look no one else could pull off

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 10d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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