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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 6h
I can smell the offgassing from here. Still think it's gorgeous though
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 6h
the border radii will increase until morale improves
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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The crazy thing about street photography as a hobby is that some mornings I will see things so serene and beautiful that they almost move me to tears and then I have to go sit in an office chair and build a database as if nothing happened
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Your annual reminder that any treats that have black icing are probably using activated charcoal for coloring which neutralizes meds like, say, birth control pills. Ask my cousin. Quint's 6 now. This also applies to antibiotics and head meds. Be careful, please.
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish we could get information about infectious diseases the way we get information about the weather? Why is everyone in Toronto sick right now? What's going around? Where did it come from? What's next?
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Weird side effect of this multi-day fracas is that I'm now wondering what my life would be like if I didn't have a to-do list. Have I become oppressed by my own to-do list?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that?
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Text of a CNN Breaking News e-mail dated Monday, September 28th that reads "Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue" A sledgehammer, held by someone in a black T-shirt.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm so curious if my images are in there even tho I deleted Instagram (my whole account, not the app) and Facebook. Oh shit, I'm still on WhatsApp so probably. Fucking book club group chat
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CBC loves to platform the worst whitest NIMBYest people
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Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Instead of legitimizing the charade of electoralism, I’m Learning About Revolutionary Praxis (or LARPing), which mostly involves commenting on Instagram reels.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This kind of smart sustainable urban infrastructure is illegal in most American cities
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is the most fucking bsky thing I have ever seen and I would like to know how I can get one
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TIL there's a real guy named Tommy Tuberville 🥔
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This made me cackle. Get fucked OpenAI www.404media.co/people-train...
404media.co
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wait haven't we been battling to get people to stop talking about "three brains" and left and right brains, and now it turns out it's actually two brains? I can't wait to see how executive coaches mangle this one
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 21/09/2026
I have the windows open tonight because the air is so nice and cool and I am learning that: 1) Everyone in our apartment building owns the Schubert-singing Samsung washing machine line and 2) everyone is doing their laundry tonight
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's something fun I stumbled upon. My Uncle Chuck owned a couple of hair salons, including one in London. Here's an ad of theirs from 1982. I love, absolutely love the design on this.
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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have an “ideas graveyard” at the end of my current doc where I’m putting things I’ve cut
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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Being close to the US has always been like having a friend who has a ton of guns and boasts loudly all the time and picks fights everywhere and tells you that you should be glad he's keeping you safe.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
honestly who wouldnt want this buckaroo to be your ASSOCIATE MEMBER?
cover of CANADA POUNDD MY BUTT AND COVERS MY PANCAKES WITH REAL MAPLE SYRUP IN AN EROTIC WAY ALSO IT IS DELICIOUS featuring a shirtless buckaroo on the right and a handsome sentient canada on the left
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Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
May seem boring but public bathrooms are an important component of public joy infrastructure.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 16/09/2026
Got to very edit the remaining 200 manuscript pages of a novel I translated in seven hours (or more). Thought it might be fun to livesky how a book is edited while I do it. A thread!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
can someone tell me what cords i need to play a video on this sick space helmet tv i just picked up? am gonna use this as source www.amazon.com/Micca-Speck-...
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Impossibly complicated system diagram of Europe.

Canada is listed as a member of NATO and a “Friend with Benefits” of possibly the council of Europe
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why'd nobody tell me there's an online library school program at Pittsburgh? Adding that to my list
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Local folks! I'm giving a talk SATURDAY at the Champaign Public Library! "Studying gender when you can't study gender: notes from a scientist in unprecedented times" Hope you can join me!
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Recent News | AAUW Champaign-Urbana (IL) Branch
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As well as a huge amount of materials about giant animals, we hold significant records related to agricultural machinery. Our blog delves into work in the last 18 months to digitise and catalogue almost 15,000 engineering drawings from the archives of John Fowler & Co Ltd.
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now I know two things about Macklemore — the other one is he played a Mozilla gig once. (Maybe three things if he has a song about a thrift shop?)
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But can I watch this at work and count it as PD?
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ugh I got scammed by a website spoofing Levoit (the air purifier company). I thought it couldn't happen to me etc etc. Next I will send all my money in Apple iTunes gift cards to a grandchild who needs bail
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Man stands at a grocery store self-checkout machine with his groceries. The screen on the self-check asks the customer “Got any fun plans for the weekend? tap yes or no.” It’s likely he will tap no
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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ontario: A legacy infrastructure condition that developed over time
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
walked into a grocery store in malibu…the rich people are not ok
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My occasional posts of millenial chauvinism really truly are in jest but sincerely it's also true that living your adolescence in the charmed period between the end of the Cold War and 9/11 really was historically special.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If Hugo continues to grow at this rate, by 2030 he will no longer fit in the barn. By 2050 he will have grown to the size of Godzilla and could crush humanity. But if we let the Chinese grow their own Hugo first that would be bad. This is why we must invest 100 trillion dollars in Hugo immediately.
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Automarkic?
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
TIL Burning Man averages one death a year futurism.com/future-socie...
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Numerous Deaths Reported at Burning Man
There were three separate deaths in less than a week at this year's Burning Man, the most in a single year on record.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know a guy who will fold your iPhone for free or for not that much. LMK
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stationery shops in London, if you want to use my travel hack (which is: go to stationery shops; they're usually in interesting neighbourhoods off the beaten path)
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Damn, more editor fomo for me!
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NP-Complete (aka Nellification) @np-complete.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
gofund.me/9cdfa66a1
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Donate to Help Maya Kern Stay Open, organized by Maya Kern
Hi all! My name's Maya. I started my small business in 2015 selling skater skirts with my… Maya Kern needs your support for Help Maya Kern Stay Open
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Amy @amiable-sloth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Latest mcguffin to avoid working on school applications is an urgent quest to get ice cream on this, the evening of the last day of official summer
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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
The TPL bookmobile is, indeed, broadcasting wifi. #LabourDay #toronto
A blue Toronto Public Library bookmobile truck driving down Dufferin.Screenshot showing the "TPL Bookmobile Staff" wifi network.
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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is spectacular, on many different levels
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