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bookowl.bsky.social
I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.
theforceisstronginthegirl ®® Follow ... For people who have never seen a cow I'll explain: Cows are covered in cow shit. All the time. Even clean cows who get bathed regularly have cow shit on them. But listen to me. Normal dairy cows are not getting baths. They have cowshit on them, the splash back from their cowshit gets on udders. So does cow urine. Also listen mud gets on cow udders, cow hair, bugs, and other nasties will get in the milk. But most importantly: cow shit. There is so much cow shit involved with cows even in the cleanest and healthiest dairies. Cows shit a LOT. Also for some reason cows like to lie down in cowshit. You will have a whole pasture with no cowshit and they will find the most disgusting pile of cowshit you've ever had the misfortune to smell and they lie right in it. When cows were milked by hand this was a problem- when cows are milked with machinery this is a problem. Cows are animals and they shit. A lot. And it's going to get into the milk. And listen. You do not want to drink cow shit germs in milk. And milk can be filtered all you want and it is- but germs? gotta cook those fuckers out. So you don't get sick from the cowshit. TLRD: cow shit.
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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thatheatherc.bsky.social
In 1914, Charles Daniels, a Black CPR employee, was denied his rightful seat at The GRAND Theatre (then the Sherman Grand). His refusal to accept injustice led to one of Alberta’s earliest documented human rights cases.
Here's the @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social:
www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgarys-unk...
February 3, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam
a rabbit pops out of the snow; second panel shows many rabbits popping up; third panel has liam himself popping up and the rabbits all around him. text says for liam! love, all the bunnies in the whole wide world <3
February 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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wilfredotorres.bsky.social
For Liam.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 AM
shiftkicker.bsky.social
Some from the archives for #FungiFriday

1 Questionable Stropharia (Stropharia ambigua)
2 Slime Mold (possibly White Carnival Candy Slime Mold Arcyria cinerea?)
3 Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
4 Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)- same specimen, hand for size

#fungifriends #mushrooms
Questionable Stropharia. A close up image taken from ground level of a single white stemmed mushroom with a shiny, slightly pointed yellow cap growing from a bed of brown alder leaves and cedar fronds. There are coniferous trees in the background and it is slightly misty. Slime Mold. A close up image of a cluster of slightly tapered white, shiny oval shaped fruiting bodies attached by slender stalks dangling from a slightly out of focus bright green mossy bed. Fly Agaric. An absolutely perfect specimen. A close up of a stereotypical bright red capped toadstool speckled with white spots, with a thick white stem and growing from a bed of fallen brown beech leaves. There is a blurry looking golden retriever sniffing around in the background being bored because her mum keeps stopping to take pictures and exclaiming about the wonderful mushrooms. Amanita muscaria. A second image of the same amanita as before, but taken from above. The photographer is using their hand to demonstrate how enormous the mushroom is- it is larger than their spread fingers, about the size of a dessert plate.
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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lgarciainmn.bsky.social
We're on Erin's list & would love the support!
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3...
We're an all trans immigrant troop in Mpls MN & can't safely sell like normal due to ⓘⓒⓔ. All funds from purchases/donations going to support our hurting neighbors & community. 🍪💖
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org
January 30, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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pdfmerchant.bsky.social
tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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fiveburger.bsky.social
one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Philip Glass withdrawing from the Kennedy Center is a great opportunity to mention one of my favorite one-acts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AEQ...
Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread
YouTube video by Joshua Zamrycki
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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billybragg.bsky.social
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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marygillis.bsky.social
It's a good day to stop using Hootsuite and tell them why.
Vancouver firm Hootsuite provides services to ICE
U.S. procurement records show that Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite is providing social media services to the Department of Homeland Security.
vancouver.citynews.ca
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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oldfriend99.bsky.social
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you older
January 24, 2026 at 4:49 AM
shiftkicker.bsky.social
The mild wet winter in the PNW is great for fungi!
#FungiFriday #FungiFriends

1: Fluted Bird's Nest Fungus (Cyathus striatus)
2: Woolly Bird's Nest Fungus (Nidula niveotomentosa)
3: Purple Jellydisc (Ascocoryne sarcoides)
4: Crystal Brain Fungus (Myxarium nucleatum)
Fluted Bird's Nest Fungus (Cyathus striatus) A cluster of cup shaped fungi with light grey striated insides and fuzzy brown outsides There are several tiny white lentil shaped fruiting bodies in each cup. The cluster is growing in a bed of wet bark mulch. Woolly Bird's Nest Fungus (Nidula niveotomentosa) A small single cream coloured cup shaped fungi with a fuzzy outer surface and a yellow interior growing on a twig and lying on the damp forest floor amongst fir needles and bits of forest debris. The interior of the cup also contains several small bead shaped fruiting bodies. Purple Jellydisc (Ascocoryne sarcoides) A close up of a cluster of mauve coloured semi-shiny petal shaped fungi with orange edges growing out of the bark of a damp log. Crystal Brain Fungus (Myxarium nucleatum) 4 clusters of a shiny pale orange-brown translucent brain shaped fungus nestled in between patches of vibrant green moss and pale silvery lichen, all growing on a tree branch.
January 23, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
The interesting applications of AI are all, like, "we built an open framework that uses processors on recycled cell phones to identify and triangulate the location of rare bugs in tropical rainforests" while big tech is going "what if we burned down that rainforest to summarize your emails?"
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17d
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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funranium.bsky.social
HOW I WRONGED A CAT TODAY:

My shadow fell on Artemis too heavily while she was enjoying crinkle paper.
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 AM
shiftkicker.bsky.social
Remember all the weird things you believed and odd rituals you did as a kid?
icysedgwick.bsky.social Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 21d
I'm collecting children's folklore for a forthcoming podcast theme - what do you remember believing as a kid, or what games did you play? And what do YOUR kids do for rites, games, and stories they pass on? Let me know! forms.gle/D8mLW7q2um5Z...
A paper fortune teller sits beside two dice and a hand of cards, made up of the 3 of Diamonds, 8 of Spades, Ace of Spades, 9 of Clubs, 5 of Hearts, 4 of Clubs, and 6 of Hearts.
January 17, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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breeminneapolis.bsky.social
The more stories I see about Minneapolis fighting ICE, just spontaneously morphing into this gentle giant that dogs ICE agents everywhere they go and delivers groceries to families sheltering in place, the more I think @naomikritzer.bsky.social is a psychic.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
www.uncannymagazine.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
History is making fun of us
4 frame comic. In the first frame, a portrait of Knut Hamsun. In the second, Hamsun is seen shaking hands with Goebbels. In the third, he looks at something Hitler is showing him. In the third, Machado presents Trump with her Nobel prize. Text reads : The last Nobel prize laureate to gift their medal to someone was The influential Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun*. Source : *the Nobel prize committee, the Nobel prize and the laureate are inseparable, JANUARY 16th 2026 he won the Nobel prize of Literature in 1920, and in 1943, decided to give it to Joseph Goebbels, the nazi head of propaganda. Days later, Hamsun was awarded a rare audience with Hitler, to complain about the German administrator of Norway and to plead for the release of Norwegian prisoners. nothing came out of it. sometimes, it feels like history is making fun of us.
January 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social
Hello 👋 I am an independent bookstore who wants to help you find good sci-fi/fantasy books. I’m also overfolio with dad jokes.

BUT the algo has bibliophiled me away—condemned to be seen by no one.

Please, help me appendices the day and find new people to delight and dismay.
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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dexanderson.com
“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy
January 16, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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edmundjexley.bsky.social
I have posted
the docs
that were in
your trunk

and which
you were probably
reading
at breakfast

Forgive me
they were a gold mine
so rich
and so many

Copyright Credit: William
January 15, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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gwillow.me
I regret to inform you all that Threads is improving
Thread of literary jokes that starts with "Just finished Animal Farm and 1984 and it's honestly some of the most Orwellian shit I've ever read in my life" and continues with "I was just reading The Trial and thinking how Kafkaesque it was" and "I just finished Othello and can't believe how Shakespearean it was"
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace!

A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!
Art Show - Comic-Con
2026 Comic-Con Art Show JULY 23 through JULY 26 The Comic-Con Art Show is open to the public—you do not need a badge to come in and enjoy or purchase artwork. However, everyone entering the Art Show i...
www.comic-con.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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daniellebeckman.bsky.social
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has made the bold decision to forego federal funding in order to maintain the integrity of their evidence-based work on maternal health, preventive care, and more.
👏👏👏

Find out more at their letter to @thelancet.com

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ACOG eschewing federal funding is about action, not talk
For more than a decade, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has been an international leader working to mitigate the maternal mortality crisis through education, advocacy, a...
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January 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM