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Louie Steptoe
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katie0martin.ft.com
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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kateelliottsff.bsky.social
#AICouldNever

A classic cinema moment of resistance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
La Marseillaise Casablanca
YouTube video by Andrew Barbin
www.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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vimiller.bsky.social
Chicago, looking for a place to stay warm?

-The city's 10 S. Kedzie warming shelter is open 9am-5pm today & 9am-8pm tomorrow

-Cook County opened its courthouses as 24hr warming shelters (food+water provided, pets allowed in carriers) through Wednesday

Full lists of city/county warming locations ⬇️
Arctic air to drop wind chill to minus-20, bring snow for Sunday's Bears game ahead of more cold
A slight reprieve from the temperatures will build gradually from Monday’s high of 10, reaching 20 on Tuesday and 30 on Wednesday before dropping back into the 20s.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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hesterblum.bsky.social
Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:
Generative A.I. This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences. One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.
January 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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maryrobinettekowal.com
If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is.

Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Clearing - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2q6aadW
One of the only things that can burn off the heaviest mists of sadness: the softest starlight. Lost Lake, Utah
January 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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moma.bsky.social
Mark Innerst, Coastal Inlet, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135374
Given anonymously
January 16, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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xkcd.com
Sailing Rigs

xkcd.com/3193/
Comic: Common Sailing Rigs. [18 boats with different sail types, labeled.] Lateen; Bermuda rigged sloop; Ketch, Gaff rigged sloop; yawl; schooner; Ketch-rigged Gaff; Kloop-rigged sketch; bunkbed rig; Flettner rig; Oops, all Spinnakers; keel rig; kite rig; longsail rig; deckhand obliterator; offset rig; mastless rig; unclassifiable chaos rig.
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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monet.bsky.social
The Steps at Vetheuil - 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9708
January 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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federalreserve.gov
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
If you’re not absolutely furious about this, and about what this would do to the world, why it’s REALLY happening, and who’s most likely pulling the strings, then you REALLY need to be.

This would be one of the worst turning points in world history.
premnsikka.bsky.social Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7d
Trump orders special forces commanders to draw up a plan to invade Greenland.

This would deflect attention from the economic crisis and killing of citizens at home.

Europe won't resist. What next?

New age of imperial emperors will create insecurity. Europe must make new alliances.
Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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moma.bsky.social
Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135642
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
January 11, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
It would not surprise me if ICE ends up killing Episcopalian clergy, sadly. Episcopalian ministers go pretty hard in the paint for civil rights.

The story of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopalian seminary student, pushing Ruby Sayles out of the way of a KKK shotgun blast in Alabama comes to mind.
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7d
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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theodramatist.com
Really feels like just telling military to draw up plans to invade an ally should be an impeachable offense regardless of party
January 11, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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davidacody.bsky.social
Cliff Palace, built by the Ancestral Puebloans, is located in Mesa Verde National Park.

#ScapeFriday #landscape #photography #EastCoastKin
January 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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crits4cats.org
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredictable moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
January 10, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
If this doesn’t terrify you, you’re not thinking rationally.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 9d
"Trump told the New York Times in an interview published Thursday there was only 'one thing' to limit his global power. 'My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me.' He added: 'I don't need international law,'" writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/3NCH8bG
January 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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monet.bsky.social
Monet first glimpsed Giverny from a train window in 1883. He rented the house, then bought it—choosing a place where light and garden would become his lifelong studio.
January 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.
January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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blikethecheese.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse: the kindest town in North America is at it again.
Gander, N.L., residents drop everything to drive stranded air passengers to hotels
Residents of Gander, N.L., formed an impromptu volunteer shuttle service for about 200 passengers aboard two planes forced to land unexpectedly at the town’s airport on Wednesday night.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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monet.bsky.social
View of Antibes from the Plateau Notre-Dame - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10337
January 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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monet.bsky.social
Road in a Forest Fontainebleau - 1863
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6235
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
For National Bird Day, take a brief respite from all the horribleness in the news, and read this list of 32 ridiculous made-up bird names. 🦉🦅🦆
Thirty-Two Bird Names I Would Contribute If I Were an Ornithologist
1. Johnson’s Thrush 2. Brown Jumping Quaff 3. Pandora’s Baffle 4. Yellow-Eared Tiegslider 5. Jaundiced Terpsichore 6. Pink-Bellied Sneech Destroyer...
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January 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Variable Star DI Cha - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/dgRTU2
I had some massive charge bleeds on top of the usual cosmic rays to contend with on this. I am pleased at how much better it looks with the artifacts removed. I also removed a large ring ghost from the lower right quadrant if you notice it looks slightly off. Data used: HST_10138_08_ACS_WFC_F850LP_sci HST_10138_08_ACS_WFC_F775W_sci
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM