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I cannot overstate how hard "jealousy professor" embedded itself into my brain
KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
September 3, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I cannot overstate how hard "jealousy professor" embedded itself into my brain
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Ten years ago today, CPSC shared its first safety meme. What started as a single baby floating in a force field in outer space has become a universe with dozens of safety characters spanning hundreds of safety graphics sharing thousands of safety messages.
September 2, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Ten years ago today, CPSC shared its first safety meme. What started as a single baby floating in a force field in outer space has become a universe with dozens of safety characters spanning hundreds of safety graphics sharing thousands of safety messages.
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THERE ARE BABY BEAVERS IN GLEN AFFRIC FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 400 YEARS AND WE HAVE VIDEO
news.stv.tv/highlands-is...
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Baby beavers born in Scotland's 'most beautiful glen' for the first time in 400 years
There are known to be at least two beaver kits in the Highlands.
news.stv.tv
July 29, 2026 at 1:19 PM
THERE ARE BABY BEAVERS IN GLEN AFFRIC FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 400 YEARS AND WE HAVE VIDEO
news.stv.tv/highlands-is...
news.stv.tv/highlands-is...
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hope you don’t need anything that comes in [checks notes] plastic packaging
March 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM
hope you don’t need anything that comes in [checks notes] plastic packaging
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I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.
![In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than five months and began translating short fiction by prominent Mexican and Cuban writers. These stories, as he wrote to a friend, explore “the revolutions and uprisings, sugar cane, Negroes, Indians, corrupt generals, [and] American imperialists,” and are “mostly all left stories, because practically all the writers down here are left these days.” But when Hughes proposed publishing the stories as a book, to be titled Troubled Lands, his agent discouraged him from further pursuing the project and it remained unpublished, until now, with only a handful of the translations making their way into contemporary magazines. This volume presents Hughes’s translations of these stories together for the first time as he originally envisioned. Edited by Ricardo Wilson, the book also features an introduction and brief biographies of the included writers.
Troubled Lands features thirty-three stories by eighteen writers, including Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, Lino Novás Calvo, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, Germán List Arzubide, Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, and Juan de la Cabada. The collection depicts Mexico in the wake of its revolution and Cuba in the years between the brutal regimes of Machado and Batista](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlamchyb2ae65fgx75sfaqsq/bafkreiabxdfrb2572rx2ljk6uqrs7rv3krxgs675zbq6n6ykrnysls47yi)
March 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.
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oh RIP to mr tofte! my cousins and i all grew up around his grandkids and he worked at the highway dept with our grandpa bob, they were both draftsmen. he was a nice man and of course he built the world's best theme park by hand
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
Founder of iconic Oregon roadside amusement park dies at 96
Roger Tofte spent seven years building the woodsy wonderland — and another 50 watching crowds flood in.
www.oregonlive.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM
oh RIP to mr tofte! my cousins and i all grew up around his grandkids and he worked at the highway dept with our grandpa bob, they were both draftsmen. he was a nice man and of course he built the world's best theme park by hand
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
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load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society
January 25, 2026 at 2:11 PM
load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society
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2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million
After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
as requested.
December 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
as requested.
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🧠: gondolas for ski
🧠🧠: gondolas for urban transit
🧠🧠🧠🤯: gondolas for apples
The gondola connecting the central treatment hub of the largest apple producers consortium in Italy to the underground storage facility.
Opened last November.
🧠🧠: gondolas for urban transit
🧠🧠🧠🤯: gondolas for apples
The gondola connecting the central treatment hub of the largest apple producers consortium in Italy to the underground storage facility.
Opened last November.
December 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🧠: gondolas for ski
🧠🧠: gondolas for urban transit
🧠🧠🧠🤯: gondolas for apples
The gondola connecting the central treatment hub of the largest apple producers consortium in Italy to the underground storage facility.
Opened last November.
🧠🧠: gondolas for urban transit
🧠🧠🧠🤯: gondolas for apples
The gondola connecting the central treatment hub of the largest apple producers consortium in Italy to the underground storage facility.
Opened last November.
I own philip k dick's travel razor
I own Olympia Dukakis' Greek fishermen's hat
"I own William Faulker's cake knife," a sentence that is both straightforward and true, and yet sounds completely deranged
December 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I own philip k dick's travel razor
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Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
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this just flooded my brain with so much dopamine
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
this just flooded my brain with so much dopamine
do I know any folks with a focus on nyc slang & speech patterns c1918, especially of teenagers? trying to help out a canadian academic who's in need of second pass on a chapter of their novel, set in this era, lmk if this is you, thanks!
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
do I know any folks with a focus on nyc slang & speech patterns c1918, especially of teenagers? trying to help out a canadian academic who's in need of second pass on a chapter of their novel, set in this era, lmk if this is you, thanks!
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you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
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The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
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greatest thread I’ve ever seen
Hello good people of Bluesky. If you followed me on Twitter, you’ll know I’ve been documenting my sporadic trips to my mum’s house by documenting bric-a-brac, old technology which has been hoarded, and a lot of antiquated studio gear, and I thought I share it again here.
I’m at my mum’s house…
I’m at my mum’s house…
October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
greatest thread I’ve ever seen
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
I love the toad in the little blue truck books, he has such an excellent vibe, what a mensch.
October 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I love the toad in the little blue truck books, he has such an excellent vibe, what a mensch.
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Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable"
Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"
Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable"
Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"
Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"
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a) this poem is a banger b) it expresses the exact frustration that grips me every time someone ""feministly"" explains that military history is Boy Stuff
I tend to think every nerdy trans woman should read Margaret Atwood's The Loneliness of the Military Historian and sit with it for a moment no matter what it is exactly she's nerdy about, but that goes double for you www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/...
The Loneliness of the Military Historian
This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to be scary. If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress ch...
www.poetryfoundation.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
a) this poem is a banger b) it expresses the exact frustration that grips me every time someone ""feministly"" explains that military history is Boy Stuff
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I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
hey y'all, I'll be hosting(with my dear friend tex) my old radio show circa rad, tonight from 7-8p pst! listen in pdx on 91.1 & 107.1, or from anywhere via the internet!
xray.fm/shows/circarad
xray.fm/shows/circarad
Circa Rad /// XRAY.fm
Rad music (or close enough). Join the hunt for lost gems and new treasures every Wednesday at 7pm. We serve indie rock, global psychedelica, lo-fi, art punk, a particular sort of americana, Portland-...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
hey y'all, I'll be hosting(with my dear friend tex) my old radio show circa rad, tonight from 7-8p pst! listen in pdx on 91.1 & 107.1, or from anywhere via the internet!
xray.fm/shows/circarad
xray.fm/shows/circarad