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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Best chilli and garlic oil yet! *insert Hamlet quote here

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

[À partager] Surprise ! Après des mois de travail intense, Dr. Zarge et la première BD sur l’agroclimatologie, est née ! Plongez dans une aventure captivante mêlant science et vulgarisation, pour les jeunes et les grands curieux. Commandez-la ici : editions-les-tardigrades.sumupstore.com

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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

perhaps you'll allow me to share w/ ye what I just learned which is that ‘pukapuka’ is not in fact the Māori transliteration of ‘book’ as often stated; rather the kupu came about when our tīpuna saw the “leaves” of books & likened them to native puka leaves so named the collection of them: pukapuka

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Horror fans - please share this/plug this - this festival is run by lovely people and so cheap - it will be a joy to be there but I know they really need to sell more tickets

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

This is a good little example of three different techniques in terms of writing industrial emissions propaganda. 🧵

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Crafty Ghoul 👻🎃 @craftycow.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

I’m really struggling to find new ways to find customers for my cat sofas … any suggestions welcome (Selling from the UK) #CatsofBluesky craftysharp.etsy.com

Black cat sleeping soundly in a blue cat sofa

Black cat sitting upright looking over her shoulder while sitting on a pink velvet chaise long

Black cat lounges comfortably on a purple striped cat sofa

Black cat sits in a gold and yellow cat sofa

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

My husband is both raising funds for leukaemia and blood cancer AND teaching his high school class about the significance of social actions in social studies, so if you could see your way to donating a few dollars you would be Extra Virtuous 💜 www.shaveforacure.co.nz/brent-ericso...

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Every shave is different. Every shave matters.

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Be supportive of people but not angry at them for their decisions. Tough love and anger don’t need to be the same thing Also here’s a fluffy boy because why not

A black cat with blue/green eyes in a red windbreaker sits on some grass in front of a black metal gate. The cat looks thoughtful.

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

*SCREAMS INTO THE VOID* My cat: ‘Well, I didn’t like thaaat’

A black cat looks shocked, poking its head out of a purple tunnel with a fluffy pastel rainbow tassel on it.

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

thinking about making this into a model for upcoming youtube videos where I make art and sculpt random stuff in Blender 3D. i had the idea of like, a bat that died mid-air, fell into honeycomb, and was brought back to zombie life by the power of sheer sugar. which is how i feel most days!

Blocky illustration of a skeletonized bat in a ribcage-print t-shirt with rolled up sleeves. Instead of skin, the bat has a layer of dripping orange honey on his bones.

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Crafty Ghoul 👻🎃 @craftycow.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

I've got no more room to store my cat sofas! I need one of you to buy one! *Looks directly at you* craftysharp.etsy.com

Black cat sits loaf style on a teal fan design cat sofa with gold detailing

A black cat sits with her back to us but turns her face to us as she sits on a pink velvet chaise long style cat sofa

Black cat crouches loaf style on a gold and purple oriental design cat sofa

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

I HAVE NEVER WANTED ANYTHING MORE THAN I WANT THIS DEER HEAD SOMEONE POSTED IN THE BAD TAXIDERMY FB ACCOUNT

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Joey | mojosec | The Least, Maybe @mojosec.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Just in case anyone needs a reminder: You do not have to know, understand, engage with, or care about everything that goes on here. You have every right to just keep scrolling. Do what you want, what you need, and what protects your mental health. You are not alone. And you are loved.

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

My ‘new’ chalk bag for bouldering ❤️ Repurposing ftw! (new meaning added belt and clasps on a pre-existing bag incidentally made of chalk appropriate materials)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/06/2024

This is cool: Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand are building out a distributed storage network with eight sites built on Māori land to give “iwi and hapū the power to control and make decisions over their own data.”

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World-first data storage infrastructure solution built by Iwi Māori, for Iwi Māori

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

I came across someone today who has had a turbulent life,regretting their very publicly expressed views. They’re trying learn and improve and I really respect that They’re afraid the people they admire will never accept them because of their past-honestly soul destroying- they can’t change the past

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

I love my mum and she loves to knit but say ‘I generated this knitting pattern using AI to test an idea, would you like to try it?’ And even as an unchallenging knit by her standards I heard how fast hearing ‘ai’ mentally noped it

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

People who have no empathy or no patience for someone having one of the worst trauma responses in years (which ironically is traumatic and adds to it all) are lucky enough to not understand how dark it is to go through that…

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Our local humane society reached out to me because they haven't had much response for their Feline Foto contest fundraiser, and I was like "I MIGHT KNOW SOME PEOPLE WITH BEAUTIFUL CATS THEY NEED TO SHOW OFF!" www.gogophotocontest.com/hsccfabfeline

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Check out 6th Annual Fabulous Feline Foto Contest benefiting Humane Society of Chittenden County.

6th Annual Fabulous Feline Foto Contest

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

This roommate eating beans

r/AmlOverreacting rl u/ItWasntReallnventory .21h
My roommate ate my beans so I went to his Baldur Gate Three game and threw every item of his inventory down a cliff, and saved over his prior saves?

I (25 M) like to order fancy beans and grains from a place called Rancho Gordo, they are called "heirloom beans". Unlike most beans they are not in a can, they are dry beans that you are meant to soak and cook properly. making very good protein-filled foods. Now, these beans are a little on the pricey side, and the bags they come in aren't large
On three times in this year I have caught my roommate (25 M) cooking (incorrectly) my beans. He thinks that dried foods should be a "shared resource". What? He never buys beans or any other kind of good dried food, nevermind an expensive kind. I told him stop eating my beans. This week I was looking forward to making a veggie chili with some of my good beans, I got home and seen the bag was empty. Like 2 or 3 beans in there. I became enraged.

My roommate is obsessed with the video game Baldur Gate Three. I seen him play it all the time. So when he was out what I did is I went into his game. You have 4 characters in your "party" basically. So I went to this place where there is a cliff, and I dropped all of their gear, and then picked it up and threw it down the cliff. This took me a long time. Like, hours. And then I went back to his camp and changed the party with other members, and I went back to the cliff and did the same, and I did it until every single member of his party was naked and weaponless, and then I saved the game and then I deleted all of his prior auto saves, So the only save file was the one where his gear was down a cliff.

When my roommate came home he was livid. He actually did a "N00000000000" like in the movies. He knew it was me and accused me of making him "Waste 100 hours of his life on NOTHING" and that he would have to start the game over again. I said well I hear it's a good game I'm sure you'll have fun. And he was like "WHY did you do this to me" and I said "Maybe this time when you rebuild your inventory you'll find some beans of your own." He was shocked silent and then said he couldn't be believe I "ruined his entire month" just because he wanted to share my beans. "Share".

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Relatable: trying to take a nice photo with an uncooperative cat. 1923. www.nb.no/items/d07e4c...

Black a white photo of a white woman with dark hair, standing outside in a wooded area with a house in the background. She's laughing and trying to hold a shorthaired light colored cat which is clearly pushing with its legs, trying to back out of her arms.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Have you ever seen a woman look more pleased with herself? She released many hives worth of bees onto deputies trying to serve an eviction notice.

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

My friend Katy is the daughter of noted comics retailer and historian Bob Beerbohm. She quit her job and moved to care for him, but has burnt through her savings and the 1st day of her new job was literally the day he died. She needs help with his end of life expenses. gofund.me/c115d4d7

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Help Katy with memorial expenses for Bob Beerbohm, organized by Melody Leffler

Our friend Katy's dad Bob Beerbohm died on Wednesday, March 27th on K… Melody Leffler needs your support for Help Katy with memorial expenses for Bob Beerbohm

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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/03/2024

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

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Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · 14/03/2024

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

Since Oct 7th, NYT reported on antisemitism 5 times more often than on Islamophobia

The Times mentioned Israel and Israelis more often than others in their coverage each week since October 7th
... while the death toll in Gaza surpassed 25 times the Israeli death toll as of March

Times coverage of the war on Gaza quoted both Israeli and American sources more often than Palestinian ones

The Times used passive voice to describe Palestinians 1.7 times more often than when describing Israelis
...and used active voice with different vocabulary

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

BBC reporting on homelessness in England implying ‘oh it’s up by a quarter but at least its still better than in 2019’. So, it was bad and you were doing nothing, then you were forced to do something(Covid) and first chance you’ve gone back to nothing, so it’s getting worse again. Not a positive.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Here is a thread of ship's cats in tiny hammocks if anyone would like to enjoy it. Yes I know about Mrs. Chippy. I don't need people to keep telling me about Mrs. Chippy. bsky.app/profile/cats...

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Given that Brianna Ghey, Nex Benedict, and the unnamed London skating rink victim were all attacked by cis white women, I think we need to come to grips **pretty quickly** that young women are being just as radicalized toward reactionary violence and bigotry as young men.

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Ah,Bee! @abbstractedly.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Classism over books is really insidious. Not every book has to be literature- that isn’t the goal of every book, but the sheer amount of snobbery in bookish groups is no good. Your value as a person is not related to the literary value of the books you read to relax.

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B J. Witkin @itsjustbeej.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Stephen King, noted HORROR NOVELIST, wrote a short story based on this concept. Because it’s horrific.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

David Attenborough [whispering]: “The dual-finned Canadian land shark surfaces briefly, scouting the area for signs of potential prey.”

A pair of dog ears surface from deep snow.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

If you are ordering books online, we are trying to make David’s final month as Jam Bookshop as good as possible. He has put his heart into it and deserves the support of book lovers everywhere uk.bookshop.org/shop/Jam

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Jam bookshop Bookshop UK

A shop run by an illustrator for lovers of books, comics, illustration, reading and style.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Can't miss the opportunity to share my own favorite Superb Owl, an Athenian silver tentradrachm from c. 400 BCE.

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

I heard it's #SuperbOwl Sunday! All owls are superb! Burrowing owls are especially so, if you ask me. 🪶

A burrowing owl standing on green turf, with black drainage tubes (used as artificial burrows) in the background

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Towards the end of this year I am planning a big tour of libraries and this article will explain why I feel the need to www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

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Can 'super libraries' survive spending cuts?

Libraries are transforming what they offer, but will that be enough to save them?

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mart • commissions open @martapreliy.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I finished a poster with Kiki and I want to show it EVERYWHERE

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

I liked this light and shade this evening

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Did you know that Torc Waterfall in Killarney NP gets its name from the Irish for wild boar? This native species fulfills *so many* vital roles in an ecosystem, and their absence leaves nature impoverished. We should be actively looking at reintroducing these wonderful animals. 🌎

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