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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is it weird how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how weird it is?

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

calling in sick to the kickflip factory and confusing everyone as to whether i'm coming in or not

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a social inept but kind hearted uncle who keeps using phrases like "water get place" and "liquid-sourcing shaft". He means well.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City

Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

at one point he discusses a Tang dynasty criminal who had tattooed on one arm 'alive I do not fear the city prefect' and on the other 'dead I do not fear King Yama' (the judge of hell) which is more proof of the Tang being the most metal dynasty

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of St. Hildegard, from the shoulders up. She is dressed up in her nunnish finery. Her wimple is white and very creased, so that she looks a bit like a mummy and her veil is the dusky black of that suggests it's been through the wash many times. She has something like a crown on her head, with little spikes that look for all the world like duck feet. The saint's eyebrows are hard lines like windshield wipers, & her nose is ski-jump smooth.

Her head is surrounded by a nimbus of blue with a white outline, set against an orange background. She is looking up and towards your right, as if she's watching a possum that's about to drop onto the person sitting next to you. Her mouth is set in a tight smile. She's likely thinking about sex again. And maybe not just eel sex.

Hildegard provided us with the first written description of the female orgasm, so it's quite possible that she's got that on her mind.

Meme text reads:
"Medieval Eel Truth:
It's all about the Bingen's, baby!"

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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has love torn you apart? Speak to our

Side of a van advertising a company’s ’Joinery Division’

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

and another thing. i'm not siding with the oppressor by remaining neutral in matters of oppression. don't put in the paper that i'm siding with the oppressor by remaining neutral in matters of oppression

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Chris E @algebraist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🎶When I was just a little girl, I asked - my mother answered (way haul away, haul away Joe) What will be will be, she said - she said it like a Spaniard🎶

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In June and July, we have 24 hour daylight. A five-day Test takes a maximum of 30 hours with no breaks. We should therefore play all Tests in Reykjavík. They will be done in a day. Fixture congestion solved. We could allow seven substitutes if players get tired or cause trouble.

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Chris E @algebraist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No idea, but I think the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk has a copy of Fuori dell'abitato di Malbork (outside the town of Malbork).

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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Beowulf v0.1: Fixed a bug that prevented legendary creatures from awarding extra XP in some contexts.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An oil rig be: Standing alone in the sea sucking crude through a straw Up from the floor

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Hate the petard, but man, do I love the hoist

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this is maybe why fellowship is my favorite one: the acknowledgment that there’s just weird ancient shit that you can’t explain, sorry, there’s the exit to the next bit

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Arnold Schwarzenegger pose for Annie Leibovitz and Rolling Stone in 1977:

Dolly stands in front of Arnie flexing, such that you can't even see his head behind her hair. HEAVENLY BODIES COLLIDE is the title of the centerfold photo

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I still think it's a good pitch

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Things To Do With Potatoes Throw a potato on the ground behind a stranger, then say "Excuse me, you've dropped your potato!". If they deny ownership, pull another potato from your pocket, saying "Well it's definitely not my one". Hide a potato in a pair of shoes at a bowling alley.

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Alderac Entertainment Group @alderaceg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AEG is looking for a paper airplane enthusiast or expert to consult with us on a few things for a project we are working on. If you are the person who knows way too much about paper airplanes, folding tech, or the wonderfully weird world around them, lets connect. Yes, this is a real request. 😄

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What is best in life? Trusting an author so much that you buy their next book without looking up anything, and then discovering what it's about as the characters do.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 14/08/2026

Mushroom that defends itself by making you think the woods kinda sucks and you'd rather hang out in a different biome. Maybe tundra? Tundra sounds pretty nice.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

When Freddie Mercury says, 200 degrees, that’s why they call him Mr Fahrenheit, that feels like it would work for any number of degrees. I mean, I could justifiably call myself Mr Fahrenheit. A better reason would be his surname being ‘Mercury’, which Fahrenheit used in his pioneering thermometers

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John Deans @jjbillyd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm afraid that's an abuse of a civil alarm system. By all means ban barbecues, communicate the risk of fire - but don't use the channel that warns us of incoming missiles as though it's the Fox News chiron.

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Captain Bionic @captainbionic.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

Did a spot on the BuskStop stage at Broadstairs Folk Week, best time

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Plato: OK class le- Diogenes: I have a question Plato: Oh Zeus... What? Diogenes: WHO LIVES IN A BARREL DOWN BY THE SEA? Plato: Please don- Diogenes: DI👏O👏GEN👏ES👏 Plato: ... Diogenes: WHO SHITS ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASS TAUGHT BY THEE?

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

expecting people to walk away from Omelas is ableist but we're not ready for that conversation

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Chris E @algebraist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dead right about tears mind

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Chris E @algebraist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Event organisers give clear end times challenge. Difficulty level: impossible

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Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A little reminder that my writing course kicks off next month and there are places available! Any genre and experience level welcome but with a focus on creative non-fiction and observational work Grounding Your Words with Thom Eagle www.eventbrite.com/e/grounding-...

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Grounding Your Words with Thom Eagle

A creative writing course with award-winning author Thom Eagle on building the craft of observation into your fiction or non-fiction.

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Chris E @algebraist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well what do you expect if you leave off Arlecchino

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 08/08/2026

Happy international cat day from the Toms of Atuan! (Ursula drew this on a postcard; you can also find the drawing in the Book of Cats).

A line drawing of four cats, captioned beneath, "The Toms of Atuan (who live on the Fartherest Shore)."

The first cat is curled up, croissant style, and looks disgruntled as he thinks "This is ridiculous." The second sits upright, and his speech bubble says, "Oh Marie! Marie! My own Marie!" The third cat is crouched as if to jump; his speech bubble reads, "Oomeoomeoo-meoomeoo." A fourth cat faces the viewer, standing, and says, "Err, Err, Err, myaaooww, Marie!"

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The noble horse: basically a hypervigilant kimchi pot with an attitude, on a really epic set of getaway sticks.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Terrible news: the ghosts from Pacman have overridden their security protocols and escaped containment, invading at least three neon mazes before they were detected. (Shares in Namco treble)

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