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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 4h

this is very cool but shout out the roboto project for introducing this sort of thing to me and my friends circa 2000

Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 7h

Good morning I’m in @theverge.com profiling @ekkoastral.bsky.social @jael.bsky.social and some other cool trans musicians who are bringing the organizing energy they learned from being trans online to music venues across the country. These musicians are meeting the moment.

The DIY and IRL energy of punk rock mutual aid

Bands like Ekko Astral are bringing the urgency of online solidarity into the mosh pit.

www.theverge.com

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 7h

Good morning I’m in @theverge.com profiling @ekkoastral.bsky.social @jael.bsky.social and some other cool trans musicians who are bringing the organizing energy they learned from being trans online to music venues across the country. These musicians are meeting the moment.

The DIY and IRL energy of punk rock mutual aid

Bands like Ekko Astral are bringing the urgency of online solidarity into the mosh pit.

www.theverge.com

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 17h

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 17h

it's "flagpole sitta" followed by "never there" but "jumpin jumpin" remains a jam

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20h

Welcome new Bluesky users, to prove that your are at least 36 years old, the minimum age for this website, please list your favorite song on the first ten volumes of Now! That’s What I Call Music. Please consult this playlist if you need assistance.

music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Now thats what i call music(US Vol 1-10 by Cooper Lund on Apple Music

Playlist · 174 Songs

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Jason Davis @davisjason.bsky.social · 22h

The World Cup belongs to countries run by despots and totalitarian regimes and has for awhile because that's how FIFA likes it. I see no reason to believe that will change.

Ryan Rosenblatt @ryanrosenblatt.bsky.social · 23h

It’s important to remember that FIFA didn’t give the U.S. the 2026 World Cup as a pivot from the “bad” countries that hosted previously.

The U.S. is hosting the 2026 World Cup because it is one of the bad countries.

Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 1d

FIFA effectively agreeing the Donald Trump and remove cities from World Cup hosting with this statement. He suggested yesterday Gianni would agree with whatever he wanted.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1d

I know I sound like the people in the early days of the internet here, but re education the answer seems obvious - don’t use it! Not all learning needs to be done on a computer! The idea that it does is extremely new!

Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 1d

I think we have a window of opportunity to stop AI from ruining us that is slowly closing

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

www.theguardian.com

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 1d

i am a single issue voter moving forward

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 2d

RSS was one of the truly great inventions of the Internet—entirely decentralized sharing to your own personalized feed of the internet—and every company is working hard to kill it.

jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 2d

Netflix x Spotify licensing deal…

Small experiment w/ mainly The Ringer shows

When does @msnbc.com start simulcasting Pod Save?

Deal blocks Spotify from airing these shows on YouTube

Netflix Jumps Into Podcasts With Spotify Deal

www.nytimes.com

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girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa @gochujung.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago’s East Side neighborhood has a history of being one place where industry concentrates its most polluting elements. That environmental racism plus the release of multiple forms of chemical weapons today exacerbates terrible health consequences for a mostly Latino working class community.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Autumnal Dunks @dunks.bsky.social · 2d

“we accidentally figured out why men are increasingly insane”

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 2d

rip to someone who was so much more than the "sexy song man" but man, the songs were SO sexy

youtu.be/H_WzjiTzZBA?...

D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 2d

MASHED POTATOES AND GRAVY, MARIE

(they intensely hated one another lol)

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 2d

i'm a single issue voter moving forward

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 3d

hey i'm quoted in this waxing poetic about my beloved wiss!

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 3d

What’s your happiest place in Philadelphia, and would you care to share it with the class?

That’s what we asked our readers in August, and more than 200 of you responded 👇

The 20 happiest places in Philly, according to our readers

We asked readers in August where their happy place in Philly is. From Dirty Franks to Wissahickon here's what you told us.

www.inquirer.com

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 3d

i distinctly remember being at the library in like 8th grade reading from an encyclopedia and realizing all nuclear power plants really do is boil water to spin turbines and being like..."what, that's it? that's the future?"

merritt @merrittk.com · 3d

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 4d

The people who visit the league website are the people who *care about the league* and what this signals is that the league would rather save a few bucks than serve them. Same message as killing extratime, btw

Alicia Rodriguez @soccermusings.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote hundreds of match recaps & edited hundreds more for this site back in the day. It’s not just MLS - I’m increasingly convinced soccer will “fail” because at this moment when U.S.-based fans love it more than ever, there is a rapidly shrinking media ecosystem covering the sport. We are screwed

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 4d

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 4d

meanwhile penn state is closing whole campuses

Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 4d

Uh, are they really just gonna pay him $50m

Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 4d

ESPN reports Penn State has fired James Franklin.

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 4d

@mls.bsky.social this sucks bigtime

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 4d

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 4d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 4d

This little ass. Disappeared all day. I thought she snuck out of the house or curled up to die somewhere. Canceled plans to host an oktoberfest party. Walked around the neighborhood in the rain looking for her. Agonized about when to tell my partner. She was just hiding in the basement all day long.

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 5d

Cosign, it rules. Also: I burned this on a cd for my dad, he'd cackle and sing "Celine Dion / Shoulda been on / THE TITANNNNIC" (and he liked celine!)

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 5d

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Bob E. Brown @buhbaynium.bsky.social · 5d

What’s Jim Leyland like? What does he smell like? I would think it would be like a combination of Marlboro Reds and cherry lip gloss

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5d

The idea is that you're supposed to "grow out of" your youthful dalliance with Rage Against the Machine or The Clash or whatever, in order to graduate into adulthood, when you simply resign yourself to How Things Are. But you were right all along to believe in all that shit!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d

me steeling myself to go to the job i prayed to god for

ben affleck miserably contemplating the ocean

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