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@anotherbettong.bsky.social
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mostly in front of a computer, sometimes walking about, sometimes at a gig or even a folk festival. She/her. Header image by First Dog On The Moon, profile photo taken by me.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stables by Franz Marc, 1913 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
conjuring up some weekend plans with the coven
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 14/09/2026
#⏰🐘🧵
A typewritten note that reads:

survive. they fucking hate it. it makes them so damn mad. do it.

With a doodle of an elephant in trans pride colors
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Allan Lorde @allanlorde.com · 13/09/2026
100%. For those unfamiliar, Van Halen had a line in their rider that essentially said “no brown M&Ms.” It was a way to see if the promoter had actually read the contract. They had a shitload of gear to tour with, so if they’re skipping one thing, it’s guaranteed they’re skipping something essential.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All this talk of 'advanced civilisations' is annoying me to fuck. A faint awareness of how these terms have been weaponised against Indigenous people and mobilised to further colonialism, and a willingness to engage with the disciplines who analyse and critique them, would go a long way! 🧪 🔭 🏺
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
'PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.' - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This beautiful gold enamelled spoon is from early 19th-century Iran. The art of enamelling was especially popular during the Qajar period, which this spoon dates from. Water pipe bases, swords and daggers, mirrors, and tableware are some of the types of objects which were painted with enamels.
Spoon with crowned heads and astrological decorationSpoon with crowned heads and astrological decoration
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh my fucking god
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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Housing Inspection
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
tips n tricks for young songwriters. tagging Damon K because I think you’ll get a kick out of it @dadadrummer.bsky.social
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots
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anotherbettong.bsky.social @anotherbettong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
there's a line in Leland Sklar's tribute video where he says that the world is not a lesser place today, because Dolly's presence in the world was so powerful that it is still here - she made so many good choices that are going to benefit people for a long time to come. I count this among them!
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Devastated to hear that Cathy Wilcox’s amazing talent will no longer be part of the SMH. One of the finest cartoonists of our time.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/08/2026
Back on this topic!! If you see the same previously unsourced stuff circulating but it now has a nice graphic and a citation at the bottom, Go to that citation and see if it actually backs up what the thing says.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/08/2026
Sometimes I talk about living in Florida (rowing, swimming in lakes and rivers) and people ask if I was scared of alligators and genuinely no I never was because like look at them
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Male Loneliness Epidemiologist @girlinrobot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don't like it when people call those AI glasses with the cameras in them "pervert glasses". That does a disservice to all honest perverts everywhere
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every interview with an actor from the new Harry Potter series youtube.com/shorts/QVyIw...
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every interview with an actor in the new Harry Potter series
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Em @emaudible.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lots of excitement about the squeaky beach sounds in Big Walk! You'll all be happy to know it's the real thing! Was absolutely giddy to get to record them on an actual Australian squeaky beach in Wilson's Promontory. Yes, if you didn't know some beaches there really do squeak. It is pure joy.
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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 01/08/2026
Goblin trebuchet: for dramatic entrances and guaranteed graceful landings.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I am begging y'all to stop putting genAI slop in my timeline "Ha ha look at this dumb Facebook Boomer meme with Charlie Brown arguing property taxes are un-American" DON'T CARE, NOT EVEN IRONICALLY FUNNY Just gonna start blocking, I post here specifically because I don't want to see that shit.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happy 48th anniversary of the accidental emptying of the Chesterfield Canal...
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ren faire @lathrys.at · 09/08/2026
queerness as being sovereign over yourself
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/08/2026
art.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How microscopic "water bears" survive in the most extreme environments. Fabulous poster by artist Reilly Dolan 🧪
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Tardigrade Infographic — Reilly Dolan Design
03 TARDIGRADE INFOGRAPHIC Project Brief Choose any scientific topic and create a comprehensive information graphic about the topic. I chose to tackle the...
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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
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anotherbettong.bsky.social @anotherbettong.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
hmm. adding a "is this a missing stair situation or is this a Sasha situation" to my mental calculations about community.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 30/07/2026
someone else smarter than me once heard me complaining about wasting a bunch of materials on an attempt of something cool, and said "yeah but that just means it wasn't a waste, that cost was Tuition" and it's really shifted something in my brain in a healthy direction.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
one of my favorite things in the world is when someone hates a generally mundane thing with the sort of white-hot wrath you normally reserve for someone who has murdered your whole family
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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Weevils!
A Curculio weevil on a sheet from above. It's a wonderfully besnooted golden-brown beetle with thick legs and large feet. Its snout is long, narrow, and curved downward, and elbowed antennae emerge about halfway along its length.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Illustration from the endpapers of the revised edition of the book showing a detailed illustration of the dish set against a striking dark pink ground
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/07/2026
society has made you feel like an outside for not doing The Thing and that is bad, bad society, outside in the doghouse for you society, but other people aren’t stupid for having The Thing, you just don’t relate to it and haven’t realised that yet
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Bayview252 @bayview252.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A friend of mine was at a Skylab Party at his uni. They staked out (with her full consent), the daughter of a prominent Australian politician as a ‘human sacrifice’ for 15 minutes, then everyone got on with the drinking. Anyway, it worked. Nothing dropped in Queensland.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 08/07/2026
DILLO TUSSLE
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
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Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
ZOOP
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Immediately stop what you’re doing and watch this video of stone curlews
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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Both are true: 1. You are not the intended audience for everything. 2. It's good for you to consume culture targeted to other audiences.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
An excellent use case for why people really need to be able to define “AI” and recognize it’s an umbrella term, not a synonym for heavyweight commercial LLMs/frontier models.
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 22/06/2026
It is possible to achieve full marks without understanding the assignment.
Original paperback cover to THE PRINCESS BRIDE showing a near-naked woman with a bird perched on her head, surrounded by and partially morphing into various monsters, corpses, serpents, etc.
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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“‘Time,’ he said, ‘is what keeps everything from happening at once.’” — Ray Cummings (1919) “Space, someone once remarked with great acuteness, is what stops everything from being in the same place.” — Arthur C Clarke (1962)
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
People Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...
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The Man Who's Spent a Lifetime Making One, Giant Map
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I hate that expression "it costs nothing to be kind" it costs everything to be kind. you have no incentive to be compassionate. it will almost certainly inconvenience you, maybe even ruin your life, that's why it's such a swashbuckling way to live
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dafoppishdandy @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
one of my favorite panels in a graphic novel ever ❤️ may she rest in peace
persepolis panel with the text "I wanted to be justice, love, and the wrath of god all in one"
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