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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

After the initial rush, blocks of Bluesky's new AI (attie. ai) have really fallen off. Wouldn't it be nice to take away Vance's position as #1 most blocked? Then he can be #2 in every way.

Screenshot from clearsky.app of the account for attie, Bluesky's AI feed creator.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The #Cubs are winning big or losing big. Another good day! #baseball

Screenshot of final score between the New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs. Cubs won 12 to 4.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

So, #baseball fans, what about ABS, now it's been a couple weeks? I read umps are being overturned about 55%, calls I've seen, literally 1/2 the ball in the strike zone. IMO, it's a game for humans, not computers. Umps are already 93% accurate. I was also bummed when lights came to Wrigley.

Entrance to Wrigley field, home of the Chicago Cubs.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

For those who say that the problem with #baseball is that "nothing happens," I invite you to consider this "cheat sheet." There are many notation systems, but pretty much all track these same things. Whole lot goin' on.

Overview of how to keep score in a baseball game. It's long, it's complicated, it's beautiful.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

If you want to doomsay, ok, but I'll offer two bits of info if you want hope. NSF and NIH have missions and programs that are nearly exclusive of the other, a valuable bulkhead that has impeded work in the past. Dynamic systems don't just break when hit. As an example:

Graph showing the 2025 funding for NSF, NIH, and NASA, Trump's 2026 budget request, and actual 2026 funding. In each case, Trump requested far less funding, and in each case the funding was very nearly the same as 2025.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We're just going straight up 1984 now I guess.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Random building in Berlin, near the Spree. I love the "tree fairy."

Five-story mural of a stag next to an androgynous person wearing a crown of leaves with the offering of a seedling in their hand.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

@minisanctuary.bsky.social has some adorable items in their Etsy shop. Proceeds support the sanctuary's mission of providing physical and emotional support to rescued farm animals and wildlife. www.etsy.com/shop/MiniMot...

Handmade grey and white wool sheep with a crown of white and yellow flowers in greenery.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

It arrived! It's as lovely to the touch as it is to the eye. Check out @artologica.net on Etsy for beautiful blood and brains! www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

Chiffon scarf with images of brain cells in blues and purples.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

And I will direct you to two things I love and you cannot have (but I left plenty of cool stuff so you can buy some too).

Large, flowing earrings of silver, pewter, and metallic blue polymer clay.

Dangling earrings with blue beads and silver books stamped with "Once upon a time..."

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Dude. This is what they'll be met with. What then? I'm guessing he'd rather block me than respond, so here's gunslinger's post for context.

Gunslinger @goodguywithag... 11h
Why not start it?

How about 5 to 10 million Americans,
armed with semi-automatic assault
style rifles marching to the steps of
the Whitehouse and demand Trump
and his entire administration resign or
be removed by force?

That would be my suggestion.

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I do like your attitude.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Do not mess with a squirrel who loves their country! #nokings from #Eugene OR! @wyden.senate.gov

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

You planning to pick up a few of these at a garage sale?

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Going to be traveling all day, so no march for me, making my bag speak for me. Be loud, be safe. #nokings

Backpack with three patches: American flag at top, below a progressive pride flag on the left and a US/Taiwan friendship flag on the right. No kings!

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Don't buy what Newsom is selling. Only 1/3 of Prop 1 funding is permanent housing, divided btw vets and non-vets. Rest to behavioral health. Seems good, but evidence supports a housing first model for ending homelessness. CA will blow thru the funds and Newsom can do what he does best.

Gavin Newsom participating in the raid of an encampment.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

You can block criticism of conspiracy theories all you like, it won't make them any more valid. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S6144X/

Fair enough. What came before "good grief."
He says one motive is to be first getting a conspiracy theory out. Throws out "facts" w/o checks-after M he's gotta be first. Claims white supremacists killed someone central to their agenda-big problem for the theory, but who cares if he's first?

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Nicknamed the "Demon Grasshopper," the omnivorous Bluff Wētã will feed on live insects, but prefers its protein already dead and decaying. #invertefest #sciart #bugart

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Black Bladder-Bodied Meloid larvae, called triungulins, use their claws to attach to ground-nesting bees and catch a ride to the nest. There they feed on bee eggs and other stored provisions until they emerge in their adult form. #invertefest #sciart #bugart

Drawing of a black bladder bodied meloid beetle.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

In 1862, Francis Walker first described Sosxetra grata. It remains the only member of it's genus, and the origins of the word "Sosxetra" remain clouded in mystery. #invertefest #sciart #bugart

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I don't usu do this, but I think it's useful if I'm going to avoid repeating myself. Here's the last post I replied to:

I just want to know who to go to war with. And since you can't unequivocally say you'd choose a Dem over fascism, I can write off you and whatever you want from a President.

It's going to be a very long few decades for those of you who'd be happy with fascism.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Post a non-religious picture you think is holy

Mural painted in 1986 by Keith Sharing on the Berlin Wall. Yellow background with figures in black and red

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

You can also look to steel tariffs in the 70s. Short-term, seemed like a positive move. Long-term it was a big factor in the devastation caused by inflation, job loss, and higher prices. This is all that's left of the steel mills in Pittsburgh, where I grew up.

Abandoned, rusting steel mill in Pittsburgh PA.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

No cheating. Post the last pic of your non-human companion

Two grey cats, one with a sold coat, one with stripes. They are snuggling, leaning their heads against one another.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

You need to meet my friend. Excellent for threatening my brain into submission when it starts getting on my ass, and it's a great prop for my fantasies about doctors!

An orange and black drill with a very long bit.

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I saw the big orange! He's in my brain! Get 'im out! Get 'im out!

Brain in a vat. At the top, the label says "Homo." At the bottom, the label says 11.694.2

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Cryptic Species @6impossiblethings.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Two completely unrelated movies with the same director

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