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Metareferential (he/him)
@metareferential.bsky.social
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Space educator. Amateur forager/beekeeper/welder, has managed to not poison anyone (yet). All opinions my own. Trans rights are human rights. Fnord.
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shannonstirone.bsky.social
This is a great example of what not do to when you write a headline—especially a cover story.

This is irresponsible. He is not in science he’s against science. He’s killing people because he is so AGAINST science.

Press—do better. Do not repeat their messaging. Do not repeat the lies.
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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krisstraub.com
the most scathing book review i’ve ever seen. absolute brutality
photo of a public urinal in a SEATAC restroom. on the ledge, someone has abandoned a hardcover copy of “chasing the dime” by michael connelly
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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mytholder.bsky.social
“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
lethalityjane.bsky.social ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 5d
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
Post from Threads user "missjenbeck" Romantasy question: are the fae open source? I had only known them from SJM books, but didn't expect to see them in Quicksilver!
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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warren.senate.gov
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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wxdawg.bsky.social
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.

I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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elicia.bsky.social
This picture of Io's shadow by Juno is excellent.
A wide true color photo of the pale banded surface of Jupiter, which fills the bottom half of the frame. A black circle is visible where Io (unseen) casts a shadow.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
Interesting fact! I live nearish to DC incidentally
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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whereisyvette.bsky.social
LOOK WHATS HAPPENING FLYING OUT OF DENVER RIGHT NOW!!!!!! 🔭🧪
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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neorsd.org
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
large 20-foot tall concrete lined sewer tunnel. in the distance three people stand with head lamps on their hard hats, looking toward the camera as they stand in ankle-deep water.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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buttercupfestival.bsky.social
The rare em-dash Snickers
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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annasplat.bsky.social
Shout out to everyone else watching poll results tonight with Gen Alphas, praying the numbers 6 and 7 at no time appear in succession on any kind of screen
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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luckytran.com
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Perhaps most significantly, researchers have learned that queer people were largely reported by people in their own communities. As many as a third of LGBTQ+ people who were arrested were denounced, that is reported to the Nazis, by their friends and family. ”That really changes the understanding of the Nazi period, because it’s easier to think that this was just a top-down hard line or dictatorial regime implementing all these policies, and they’re the ones doing the hunting down and finding of the so-called enemies of the state,” said Newsome. “But what we’re actually seeing is that most Germans just did nothing to protect LGBTQ folks.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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monicapotts.bsky.social
The Republicans can end the shutdown any time they want because they have 53 Senators.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d
JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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especiallygreatliterature.com
A dog in a purple hat.
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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duck.rodeo
Latest pumpkin is complete! This is the most intricate one I've ever carved, leaving very little of the surface untouched

Carvings this year are to raise money for Beat, the UK eating disorders charity. Please share or if you can spare it throw a few bob their way www.gofundme.com/f/raising-mo...
Pumpkin with kite shaped eyes and circular pupils. It has sharp teeth, a beak-like nose, there's zig zag and rainbow patterns all over it. Very little of the front of the pumpkin is not carved in some way. Photo from the top, showing off the zig zags around the eyes Close up of one eye Taken directly from the front, showing off the teeth which are just thin outlines
October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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magdarine.bsky.social
"The English profs keep sweeping our work under the rug, but that rug is about three feet off the floor by now, and things are coming out from under it and eating the English profs."

(Ursula K. Le Guin, Prospects for Women in Writing, 1986)
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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gofrankgo.bsky.social
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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mxdshipwreck.bsky.social
Be not afraid
stefapie.bsky.social stefa @stefapie.bsky.social · Oct 24
Free will rules
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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whatahellofawaytodad.com
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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niais.bsky.social
I can not emphasize this enough. Stop putting cameras in things. Stop buying things with cameras on them. We need to fix some very basic things before we even get back to talking about the internet of things. Just, absolutely no.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 19
“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”
Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.
www.cnet.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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harmonys.bsky.social
More great signs (cropped for anonymity)
A sign reading “one nation under frog with ribbity and justice for all” A sign with an Obama Hope style frog that reads “ribbit, resist, repeat” A sign with a frog that says united we ribbit, divided we croak A sign that reads You sucked in Home Alone 2
October 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM