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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Luminosity @luminosity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Willem Dafoe as one of the lighthouse keepers in the movie, The Lighthouse. He's dressed in a heavy oat with a nautical-type of hat. There's an out of focus lighthouse over his left shoulder. Caption: This month I'm doing a challenge called "October." It's where I try to make it through every day of October.
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Alison @alisonbee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Have a lovely weekend 🐑🐏
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achren.bsky.social @achren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If Dems win the Senate, they should refuse to confirm any SCOTUS appointment until after the next president is in office. It would just be playing by the R's rules but I doubt they have the guts to do it.
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achren.bsky.social @achren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Carol Burnett Show
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Carol Burnett's Iconic Curtain Dress Sketch (Powered by KLIPY) Posted from Skywalker @skywalker.thereforeiam.eu
Alt: Gif from Carol Burnett Show Gone With the Wind spoof where she's wearing the curtains with the rod still attached
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achren.bsky.social @achren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Josh Johnson has a nice bit on this distinction.
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The Canadian Stereotype 🇨🇦
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.
John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rest in peace Stephanie Cole, known to many for her role in DOC MARTIN, but best known to me as Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, she of the sharky grin at MJN Air in the wonderful BBC radio sitcom CABIN PRESSURE... The lemon is no longer in play, today... :( Art of Carolyn by @twirlynoodle.com
Drawing of Carolyn Knapp-Shappey with her sharky grin by Sarah Airriess, aka Tealin (https://bsky.app/profile/twirlynoodle.com
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
FeMales
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/09/2026
Absolutely amazing.
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Willem DaFOMO || 🇨🇦 he/him/they/them @willemdafomo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Have you met his girlfriend? 😉
a two-panel image meme. panel 1: "Your AI Girlfriend with makeup," next to a photo of a conventionally attractive white, blonde feminine person. Panel 2: "AI Girlfriend without makeup," next to a photo of a long row of computer server racks in a data centre,
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Mid Gun
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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.
[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey folks! There's an alllllmost total lunar eclipse this Thursday night, and it's visible to all of America. I wrote about it in today's newsletter, and put that article above the fold so everyone can see it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/watch-the-...
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Watch the (nearly total) lunar eclipse Thursday night!
Also: An eclipse from Mars… of Earth. Kinda.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 14/08/2026
As I'm waiting for a big video to export, I shall tell the story of how I nearly died in a Greek trireme.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Here’s a very quick tutorial of how I build a basic capy. Hope it’s helpful!
Doodle of how I draw a capybara, the shapes I use to construct the form and a final outline
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The image is of a Twitter(?) post with the poster paraphrasing John Adams, "I must study war so my sons can study business so their sons can study art so their sons can write gay vampire fiction."

Below this quote is another post with an image of Ulysses Grant Dietz, great grandson of Civil War general and president Ulysses S. Grant. Yes, Dietz is an author of gay vampire fiction. 

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/10/a-u-s-presidents-great-great-grandsons-big-gay-vampire-novel/

#steampunk #19thc #acw #lgbtq
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/08/2026
cartoon 
Nancy on bed saying actually yeah maybe today satan
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The Specifics Hardly Matter @gbaji.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 28/07/2026
... users can be found giggling, crying, or simply staring into the distance saying "Whoah..." We spoke to one, and asked how they feel about warnings that the practice is addictive: "I could stop, but I don't want to." Some experts say if reading was invented today it would be banned at once.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Episode 1 available free wherever you pod your cast. The whole thing available right now for the patreon people. Is good! I added some gags! Tell your friends, tell your wife! If you don't have a wife, you can just tell someone else's wife, there's no law against it!
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
China eats lightning for breakfast...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss. 

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026
Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
an outrage.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 15/07/2026
the rest were actually sickle
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Heartbroken to see that HMS Surprise (formerly Rose) will be permanently closing to the public on August 1st of 2027. The Maritime Museum can no longer afford her upkeep. If you're headed to San Diego for #SDCC this year, make a point of visiting! She's incredible. sdmaritime.org/visit/the-sh...
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HMS Surprise – Maritime Museum of San Diego
HMS Surprise , a replica 24-gun British frigate famed for her role in Master and Commander, now serves as a historic exhibit with immersive below-deck displays
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Arthur🎨 @idreamofentropy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The discord was lit today
The distracted boyfriend meme where Mitch McConnell is the girlfriend, death is the boyfriend, and the other woman is Lindsey Graham
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Holy moly. What a feat. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Scam Ghouldin @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
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Steve Zorowitz @stevezorowitz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This game was a real flemish on the U.S. record.
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Dax Pryce @dax.pryce.io · 07/07/2026
this isn't exactly directly applicable but it's also not not applicable and i think you could stand to hear it
Text on a light green/olive background of a drawing of baba yaga's house - a small house on chicken legs. The text says: "Girl, stop feeling guilty about setting boundaries. Baba Yaga has eaten people for much less than what you are tolerating."

There's a watermark/maker mark of "Wildwood Healing" below that.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Zeus is annoyed.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”
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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
In Istanbul, Turkey, a statue was erected in honour of Tombili, a beloved stray cat known for his unique habit of sitting in a relaxed posture, watching the movement of the street.
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