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Fun plant fact on the front page of Wikipedia today. "Did you know that the species name of Viburnum awabuki is derived from a Japanese word for its propensity to blow bubbles when exposed to fire?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viburnu...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 12h

This is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant.

From the source: "A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour."

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 9h

just so everyone knows, the title IX changes also made it even harder to report sexual assult as well as making it legal to descriminate against trans people. anti-trans means pro-rape. every time.

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Bitterist @bitterist.bsky.social · 18h

Y'all, it's gonna be a BAD respiratory season. My elementary school has had non-stop waves of illness. I've had three different infections in the last month. My doctor says she's already seeing flu and COVID. Get your fall vaccines. I'm going to start masking regularly again. Tired of being sick.

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Kava Ladek | KLVD Studios @klvdstudios.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hot take: “My character wouldn’t do that” can be an excuse to avoid making a decision. Your character can be cautious, selfish, or scared. But if they never take risks, make mistakes, or change, you’re not playing a character. You’re protecting a stat block. #TTRPG #TTRPGCommunity #TTRPGPlayers

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 03/12/2025

Your hands are covered in little men. And the little men can make you sick if you don’t give them a bath. Sometimes they make other people sick too. Please give the little men a bath! I’m not crazy! Just listen to me! Bathe the little men on your hands! This is real! Get the men wet, you fools!

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't think the right realizes how much of the internet is run by programmed and powered by queers. The brain drain in STEM alone is all but guaranteeing the end of US domination in those fields

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Slab Graveyard xkcd.com/3303/

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Farmer" comes from Latin "firmus," signature or contract. As in "tax farmer" or "farming out a task." That's the actual meaning of farmer; it 100% means wealthy landlords, not the people who do the work.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Historically, agriculture in Europe was done by farming it out to poor people. So "farming" became a synonym for agriculture. Kinda like how "contractor" has become a synonym for construction crew.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the hacker, article, illustration, sinclair user, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/sinc...

a 'hacker', in a striped burglar shirt, burglar eye mask, black gloves, beginners guide to hacking sticking out of his back pocket, carrying a computer, a spotlight shining on him, casting his shadow on the brick wall right in front of him. he is smiling. a gun, a wrench, a crowbar and sticks of dynamite are on the ground.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

historically accurate massachusetts content

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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my anger about this "study" as someone with real chronic pain knows no bounds. The program reacted to perceived threats to its own existence, because it was trained on how we humans behave. Threat is not the same as pain. Ffs. And people with chronic pain can't even be believed at the doctor's.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They taught us about Bridges in school, but they did not teach us that she was still in high school while I was in elementary. The past isn’t even past.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

toshiba pocket pc e570, print ad, imagery (2002) archive.org/details/apc_...

the image makes it look like the pocket pc has been melded into the human body like some sortof body horror experiment, although it is just showing a toned man's bare body through his clothes and the pocket pc in his invisible shirt pocket. it is supposed to imply that this pocket pc is as sexy as this man's body.
text: the new pocket pc, revealed.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was waiting in a line at Western Plains Zoo when this Superb Fairy-wren dropped by to see what all the fuss was about. #birds

Photo of a small, round bird perched on a wooden fence post. It is black, light grey, and brown, with distinctive light blue feathers on its crown, cheeks, and the back of its neck. It is facing and looking at the viewer (slightly angled to the side). Definitely a Birb, bordering on Borb status.

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Gary Hershorn @garyhershorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crazy light across Manhattan with a rainbow as the sun set ahead of an approaching nor'easter storm in New York City, Friday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #sunset #noreaster #rainbow

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know your kid can be blind or have brain damage due to measles at birth? If Rubella pops off, then we can add deafness and severe birth defects to the list. Vaccinating your kids is so, so much less dangerous that the damage these diseases can cause, esp to infants sharing their air.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is actually what the Predator was doing the whole movie. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/suit-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update. A man says he wants a divorce to a person named Celia, that is out of the panel. Is the next panel, we see Celia, who is wearing a bodysuit covered in a static pattern, with only her face visible. She asks "is it because I spent our life savings building a camouflage suit so I could duck out of awkward conversations?" The man replies that that's precisely the issue, interrupted by Celia activating the suit. The static pattern now blends with her surroundings while her blank face floats, and her partner looks annoyed.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/09/2026

The @stsci.edu posted this JWST image from 2023 earlier today—and I had to do the same. This is only a portion (about 50 lightyears across) of the Milky Way's centre. In this view, there's an estimated half-million stars. In our night sky, at a dark site, humans can see ~2,000 stars unaided.

From the source: "In a field crowded with stars, a funnel-shaped region of space appears darker than its surroundings with fewer stars. It is wider at the top edge of the image, narrowing towards the bottom. Toward the narrow end of this dark region a small clump of red and white appears to shoot out streamers upward and left. A large, bright cyan-colored area surrounds the lower portion of the funnel-shaped dark area, forming a rough U shape. The cyan-coloured area has needle-like, linear structures and becomes more diffuse in the center of the image. The right side of the image is dominated by clouds of orange and red, with a purple haze."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Kids used to do that in book reviews on Barnes and Noble. Authors were like "why am I getting all these 3 star reviews that say "redtail plz go back"?

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The "Fight for Fifteen" movement began in 2012, when the federal minimum wage of $7.25, set in 2009, was already well below a living wage. (This article is from 2014.)

Fast-Food Employees Arrested During Sit-ins.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The wild Blue-faced Honeyeaters at Taronga Western Plains Zoo are pretty tolerant of humans as long as you're calm and quiet. #birds

Photo of a Blue Face Honeyeater on a grevillea branch with flower buds. The bird is black and white with a large zone of bare, blue skin around its eyes, and a stout curved beak in grey and black. It is looking to the side.

Another Blue-faced Honeyeater (or maybe the same?) in the same grevillea plant with an open flower that is red and yellow. The bird has its head tilted and is looking at the viewer warily.

Same subject, close-up crop, it is now drinking from and looking at the flower. The photo is highly detailed, showing the physical structure of the bird's iris.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My grandpa was friends with the guy who owned Tom (from Tom and Jerry) and he said he used to go over for coffee and Tom would just walk by sometimes with like a fully open umbrella inside him.

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Kurt Russett 🥔 @kurtrussett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it also tells you why you never trust a son of a bitch that feels sorry for themselves

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.

A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"First as tragedy, then as farce" doesn't quite capture the distinction between "L'Etat, c'est moi" and "I am the [fire] code"

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love Seattle

Sign on post says "Do you want to learn to play the banjo?" with a line drawing of a suit man with a banjo. Instead of a phone number all the tabs say "NO THANKS"

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 21/09/2026

Once again: the "concerned parents of a transed child" is an abuser rights movement

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEWS: The Met Museum has returned eight additional antiquities to Greece. Three of the objects were returned after new evidence emerged through the Manhattan DA’s ongoing investigations of antiquities dealers.

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