Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com

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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social
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Had a voiceover audition to be the voice of a parrot on a TV commercial and the producer notes said "we need to intuitively believe this voice is a parrot" and that the parrot should have an "optimistic tone." An optimistic parrot. I did my best.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social
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Nice sink. #FridayNightZillow #SinkZillow
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Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/feed/aaahuawzr46cm
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andy™ @andylevy.net
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nyx says welcome home
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Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social
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the annual purging of the shelves, good luck in your new life on the streets, old pottery
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social
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I'm moonscrolling
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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social
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Dad watching the splashdown: Well they’ve improved the coverage since ‘69
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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They have voice! Comms are back and trajectory is good. 🎉🥳🙌
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social
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Those are tears in YOUR eyes
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social
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SPACE IS SO COOL THIS IS SO GREAT
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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com
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Went cow cuddling last week.
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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com
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Ready for Artemis return! We’re dressing up right? I even have my iron meteorite cuff links!
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Laurie @laurie-merrell.bsky.social
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emotional support magnolia is blooming 🥰
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social
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hey kids

you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission

it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big*

they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight

www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBtepa4
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Branden Andersen | Newsberg @newsberg.org
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Really great listen from @thewesternedge.bsky.social yesterday talking about the state of local news in #Oregon. Horrible to hear the Roseburg paper closed yesterday, especially considering it was the first #localnewsday.

www.thewesternedge.media/p/layoffs-mark-local-news-day-in-the

Here are a few great points:
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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social
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Yes yes, spot on spot on.

Open the schools!!!!!! (And don't cut funding for media courses!!!)
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Hi, journalists and others posting links! We're investigating a glitch that started yesterday that's preventing link preview images from loading about half the time. Apologies for this—we're working on diagnosing the problem today and will report back on our progress.
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Jim Calabro ♟️ @calabro.io
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I wrote a short post-mortem on the Bluesky outage we had on Monday. First time using pckt, it was a really nice experience tbh!

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social
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It won’t solve the problem, but ensuring that book editors have ample time to thoroughly edit every single book on their lists would help. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/books/shy-girl-ai-publishing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A.zfqa.TrX6ekhPfrGj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org
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Today's Friday Bread Basket includes links to a fundraiser for a new bakery, bookstore, and community space in Damascus, Syria, a story at Offrange on the bug killers protecting our grain supplies, and a grainy excerpt from Solvej Balle's 'On the Calculation of Volume II':
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social
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remember nathan hansen, the right-wing twitter guy and self-employed attorney who has amplified conspiracies — pizzagate, obama birtherism, hatians eating pets, etc. — and lost a district judge election in 2024?

he's the newest immigration judge in minnesota.
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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com
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the last one bc it’s a snail with its pds on its back 🎒🐌📦
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social
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Max loves you! Try not to doomscroll too late tonight.
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social
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TFW you’re so happy you just don’t know what to do with yourself
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com
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Judge gives federal government three weeks to turn over evidence from Renee Good’s killing
bit.ly/4c6WtKc
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Mimi Rocah @mimirocah1.bsky.social
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Last night I turned my book draft into my editor at @harpercollins.bsky.social due out 9/26. Still a ways to go and work to do but it felt like a milestone. 1/2)
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social
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tonight’s lightshow
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social
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The latest eruption at Kilauea appears to be starting! We should see large lava fountains soon. Tune in live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKuUyKt8mc
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Carrie T., Bsky Elder @carrieat.bsky.social
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finding the good
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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net
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it feels so good to resume my lunchtime tradition of riding out to the pine grove by the pond and be a guest of the trees and birds
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