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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Saturday, after taking photos of terns on the beach, I went looking for crabs. I wasn't alone in this. The gulls wanted some and got none. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Birds #Herons #Seagulls #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #Crabs #TexasStateParks

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Coyote Punk 🏴🍉 @flameexpression.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SHRIMPTEMBER ❤️🦐 I drew a shrimp for every day of September, I haven't done a month-long art challenge in years so this was a fun project! 🥰 Shares appreciated! 💕 [ #shrimp #furryartist #shrimptember #artchallenge #art #digitalartist #humanartist #shrimpsisbugs #artist ]

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

also an oldies banger by deadmau5

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

hes gonna get copies of the federalist papers poltergeisted thru his window

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton are gonna haunt this guy fr

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

if you have a sewing machine or a needle and a little bit of time, elbow patches are super easy to add. if you can find a good color sometimes it makes it look better. ive added old denim patches to some of my older work shirts bc they got worn down to holes at the elbows

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Thad @tyranicus.net · 05/10/2026

Scooby Doo meme of Fred pulling off the mask of a "ghost" to see the man underneath it. The ghost is labeled "lower quality at my favorite place," and the unmasked man is labeled "private equity."

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

may I ask why? (/genuine question)

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TODAY'S COMIC: Crabby

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my most recent challenge has been converting (well, struggling to convert) several phones to various AOSP OSes without caving and just buying a g**gle pixel (i REALLY dont want to and it defeats the whole decorpo thing) ...I am adept with tech enough to mess things up but not enough to fix my mess😹

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

trying to de-corpo fully by the end of 2026 has proved incredibly arduous and stressful, and I recommend trying it out just to fully comprehend just how utterly dependant your life has become on them. for people motivated by spite(me) and oppositional defiance, it's very effective. decorpo challenge

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since rwx bought back Wuxiaworld from Kakao I was holding out hope that the original ComicPanda/tapastic would come back😭💔

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't understand Kakao's decision to close Tapas down in favor of Kakao Page/webtoon but choose not to migrate works/accounts/purchases. That feels incredibly sketchy tbh and gives us good reason to not trust purchasing from Kakao ever again... :/

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"As parent company Kakao pursues a spin-off into Kakao AI and Kakao X, Kakao Entertainment is shifting its global strategy away from directly operating low-margin overseas platforms toward IP utilization" of COURSE these fuckers are going to go into AI of COURSE they are

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neon/🎮l4d2 @neonplnk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

me when i feel my throat beginning to feel scratchy

terrifying t rex behind a wide eyed dog, picture in black and white

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thats EXACTLY it💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

still working on this massive tech hole I dug myself into but in the interim, trying out various atmosphere/atproto apps and currently enjoying Heron. nice clean simple experience so far and also, a genus of bird i quite like 𓅣

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that sore throat that makes you narrow your eyes in suspicion 😩

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tigerheron.bsky.social @tigerheron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #EFG, a green heron spotted last week at Sauvie Island. #birds #birdphotography #birding #naturephotography #Oregon #Portland

A small heron with brown neck, slaty green tail, top of head, and back, and yellow beak and eye, walks down a mud-encrusted log, body parallel to log, with large clawed foot raised ready for the next step. Olive green water is in the background.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I posted this as a reply but in case you miss it: This is a (true) crab, believe it or not! Xenocarcinus tuberculatus. Might be the weirdest shaped crab there is 😱🦀 #Crustmas

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it & to institute new Government Day

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/07/2026

"After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free?" brb dying my hair red white & blue and running through the streets with sparklers this speech is the good shit. this is a speech for all of us who love the best parts of our fucked up nation

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it & to institute new Government's Eve

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My favorite running bit is doing this for city services in casual conversation ("socialist police" "socialist fire department" "socialist waste services" "socialist water")…gets mixed reactions depending on who youre talking to but its always a hoot either way

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/07/2026

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I have never seen cradle catholics so united about ANYTHING before this administration

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've basically quit getting groceries at Whole Foods for corpo reasons but today had to stop by to check to see if they had an item we can't seem to find anywhere lately (they did not) BUT it was exciting timing bc a promo event was wrapping up & we got a bunch of really high quality free stuff😸

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We call the Fourth of July Independence Day but I honestly think it needs a better name in light of the 250 anniversary? Im partial to the preamble so I think we should call it "the Right of the People to alter or to abolish the government and to institute new Government" day

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Tbh it never occurred to me that routers could even break down like a car haha. Like, it just sits there??????

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I like how my home internet router decides to give up the ghost on the weekend when I actually need it

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

They've established a higher standard for proving discrimination than proving murder. Not only do you have to prove discrimination, but you must prove that no other motive, plausible or not, could have existed in conjunction with discriminatory intent.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

brought my father to the flgs where he casually mentions the war miniature games theyd play in the navy which was the reason he was always bringing me home model kits & also why he introduced me to risk aka my first board game obsession…??? random loredrop on my gaming AND my crafting origin story?

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The giant cancer specialist center here happens to be literally right next door to my favorite board game store so I've ended up amassing a small army of new miniature projects that I told myself I wouldn't…

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Myrmidia @myrmidia.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Despite what a lot of people might think, we ABSOLUTELY remember those who regularly like our art, even those with lots of followers. One time, someone who had never commented but liked every single one of my pieces joined my Discord, and I genuinely had to hold myself back from being too excited.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Really good THREAD of analysis from Prof. @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on what we’re seeing from this Court.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/06/2026

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

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2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and archite

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/06/2026

Also anyone who studies cancer from a public health perspective would immediately make the point that cancer survival stats are dominated by access-to-care equities. Scientific advances will not affect population level statistics without a fucking delivery mechanism. Absolute smoothbrains

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Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We already thought @haozhulab.bsky.social hung the (liver-shaped) moon🌙 & now his #relentlessdiscovery is promulgated. Check out Chp 6, "When Our Bodies Autocorrect," p140 to read how somatic mutations could give us "hope." Great topic, @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social! 🧪 Watch out #booktok 🤓

Hao Zhu stands in front of a window holding the book "Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health."

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

ive been in curl up in a ball in a dark corner mood for days now but without any chance to curl up in a ball in a dark corner😔

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