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human scary bean @humanbean.net · 01/10/2026
dogs have over one hundred words for dinner
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hyperbolic PR, as one of the paper's authors themselves say so bsky.app/profile/spif...
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All the Indian papers do it. Along with publishing things without research/fact checking.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dumbass take. It's a local researcher that published it. It was a local that found the animal and thought it was a domestic kitten. All of this is in the article and the headline also says "identified" not "discovered"
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've been using a product called Antinol+ which comes in those gel capsules that my dog just swallows.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Honoring 1 year
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026
REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked me for a good source debunking this nonsense. I'm not sure what planet we're living in at this point.
Timnit commented "I don't know what level of ridiculousness this is", sharing a screenshot that reads

@Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. 

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. 

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. 

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

There is a sibling emoji reaction to her post
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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture @burkemuseum.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
In the early 1980’s, we began preparing separate spread wings to help illustrate features of birds that had never been accurately drawn. Today our collection of spread wings is the largest in the world, preserving more than 40,000 specimens.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I was surprised to learn she was 97! Was lucky to see an exhibit including a couple of infinity rooms a few years ago.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Happy International Dog Day! Ziggy isn't impressed.
A blue tick Beagle sitting on his haunches, wearing a light blue bandana and sticking his tongue out.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yes, but they picked that name for a kinda shitty reason.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
She was in The Expanse too www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-expan...
denofgeek.com
The Expanse Season 6: Who Is Rosenfeld? | Den of Geek
Marco Inaros, the antagonist of The Expanse season 6, would have been defeated long ago if not for the careful counsel of his newest advisor.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes. Lots of loan fintech in India. I've seen emails for loans of a couple of thousand rupees with repayment due a week or two from the time the loan is issued with interest rates like 20-30%. And of course, the fintech app takes a cut of the loan too.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My email address has been entered as the ID for various people named Ashwani across India. I get their credit notices and the interest rates for all the short term loans they're taking out are insane. Really worrying about how they're surviving through this.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I recently found this path near my home. Only been living here four years and didn't know it existed! 🤷🏾‍♂️
A black and white dog walked along a paved path shaded with trees.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oh wow. The same thing happened with our Ziggy in early November 2022. He threw up his food and was quivering in pain. He had emergency surgery that night and when we got the biopsy results after days, they told us it was benign. Ziggy turns 10 tomorrow.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.tiktok.com/@gettishow/v...
tiktok.com
Peanut butter hack to clip dogs nails 😆
TikTok video by Getti
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I lost my mom last year and an older brother in May this year. I brought back a bunch of family photos and spent a few days scanning them. But now I just want to keep looking at them and relive those memories.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon: That's Not A Thing
ALT: Tina Fey as Liz Lemon: That's Not A Thing
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/foss...
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
He's a paleontologist, I guess he knows what he's talking about. Ask him.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This one bsky.app/profile/denv...
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Did you see the reply to it?
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I stayed back at work late (at the Dheeraj Swapna building) or else I'd have been on the train at Bandra.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026
This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Wild stuff funded by America250 — which is the congressionally licensed entity, different from Trump's Freedom 250 grift operation. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/america...
The Constitution, the series asserts, was predicated on Biblical morality. “If we live by virtues, if we follow the laws going back to the time of Moses, our Constitution can hold strong,” the narrator of “The U.S. Constitution” comic tells us. This narrator guides us through the entire text, article by article, and he and his assistants tell us, in no uncertain terms, that: God was displeased by the three-fifths compromise on how enslaved people would be counted in the distribution of U.S. House seats; that Clarence Thomas was “smeared by rumors and mudslinging” in his 1991 Senate confirmation hearings; that the Electoral College should be preserved  to force candidates “to care about the needs of small states”; that court packing is bad and “will lead to chaos”; that Originalism is good because Justice Antonin Scalia said so; that Roe v Wade was rightly overturned because it “created law, it didn’t interpret law”; that the proposed Bill of Rights being whittled down from 17 to 10 amendments at the Constitutional Convention made it “like our 10 Commandments”; that there should be no wall keeping religion out of public life or preventing the government from supporting religions; that regulating hate speech or internet propaganda is bad but regulating spending on political ads is a grave violation of the First Amendment; that the personal right to carry firearms bestowed by a 2008 Supreme Court decision is good because “home isn’t the only place you encounter criminals”; that it’s unclear if the 14th Amendment applies to children born to people who are in the country illegally (it is); that the 2023 Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action was good because it “stopped preferential treatment given to people of certain races” (rather than trying to correct for centuries of affirmative action for white people); and, once again, that the Constitution is a miracle.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Shocking, you're reading botany books! 😂
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
At one point in the 1990s, before the Internet was widely available in India, a friend and I typed up letters as text documents and just mailed a floppy disk to each other. This way the previous letters were also on the same disk.
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Since Africa’s best referee, Omar Artan is all over social media today it’s worth remembering that one of the greatest football anthems ever, the 2010 World Cup song Wavin’ Flag, was by Somali artist K'naan. The song was originally written for the people of Somalia and their aspirations for freedom.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I have this one that hangs out on my porch surveying his realm.
A chipmunk sits at the edge of a porch, back to the camera.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Awesome! I've had that in an online cart since some time last year. Just need to hit the checkout button then.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Which scanner did you get? In a month I'm going to get a bunch of old family photos and I need to digitize them before they degrade further.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Comedy is attacking someone until they learn to have a sense of humor
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Coconut
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Air Guitar Adventure
ALT: Bill & Ted's Excellent Air Guitar Adventure
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
PDFsam for splitting and merging PDFs, LibreOffice Draw will also open PDFs and allow some limited editing depending on the PDF.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If they had a lisp, they'd find this a-मूत-ing
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Pasha Bhai from Bangalore raps in Deccani youtube.com/@pashabhai56
youtube.com
Pasha Bhai
Art kato mai
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Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience @vtneuroscience.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Congratualtions to Dr. Aparna Shah, recipient on the VT Diggs Teaching Scholar Award. The Diggs Award recognizes excellent educators who model 'innovative pedagogical practices that advance, challenge, and/or unsettle existing conventions of teaching and learning. Well done!
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...
Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost
sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some
of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the
burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act
violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Valve isn't interested in building a desktop. They want to build a game console.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I think they just used the company name to segue into writing about the opera. So it's the opera that's featured not the cosmetic company.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The Atlantic writers manage to make an article about bread have some very "let them eat cake" energy www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
For sure. We thought learning new things and meeting new people was awesome. But unfettered capitalism ruins everything. ☹️
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Similar sentiment a few months back bsky.app/profile/ashw...
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Might be too late if you haven't sold yet finance.yahoo.com/news/allbird...
finance.yahoo.com
Allbirds stock tumbles after nearly 600% rally as the shoemaker rebrands as an AI company
Allbirds is getting out of the sustainable sneaker business and into the AI business.
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Ashwan @ashwan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Sell it before they go belly up and the stock drops to zero
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