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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Decorative shelf tabby. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat sitting upright on shelves next to a television set. It is staring at the tv.

Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 28/09/2026

I for one am not ready for tomorrow to be Monday. Can we all agree to make tomorrow Saturday II: Saturday Harder? Then Tuesday becomes Sunday II and Wednesday we can try for Monday.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 28/09/2026

the bad news: it's Starlight Express

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been working on this for a year and a half and they just tweeted it out

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Koalas have fingerprints remarkably similar to ours, which is how they managed to frame the zoo's dentist for bank robbery.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/09/2026

You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

oh man I need to get this for my gothy niece

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

also calling people in their 30s "young" is definitely Boomer bait

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

the story of that photo is pretty astounding (and they're all gone now, the last remaining musician in the picture just died this year)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula 🦇

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

one of these days I expect my dad will give me his first American edition of Darwin's earthworms book

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

as a non-Catholic she didn't believe in transubstantiation at least

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

(if someone else has made this joke, don't tell me, I don't care)

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

Groverfield: The Monster At the End of This Movie

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

...well, anything. And it's self-perpetuating, because the people with the money are the same types of people: they've always been told they're special boys, and anything they want, they can have, whether it's more money, more power, women/girls/boys/men, whatever.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

you think about how many Silicon Valley techbros were told they were special little boys, given vast amounts of money while still in college/high school, told their ideas made them worth more than everyone else on the planet put together, and then put in charge of companies instead of learning ...

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

it was never gonna happen given my background etc., but I'm really glad nobody even considered making me super wealthy at age 19 or put me in charge of anything important.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 27/09/2026

From experience, it's because an 9th grade algebra teacher required someone to buy it

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

well *that* drove everything else out of my head

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

followed by distribution of the wealth

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Binx showing off her new galaxy of white hairs. Again, *pretty* sure they'll all come back in black after next shed, but we'll see! #cats #becurious

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I’m watching a horror movie I never ever want to see the monster clearly unless you have a really, really good and clever design because 90% of the time it looks fucking stupid

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

but also! Meta using people's pictures in AI-generated content, or suggesting adults follow teenage girl accounts, or suppressing certain political content while pushing people toward extreme far-right content. The violation of consent goes far beyond indifference.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

not to mention everything Meta does

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

most guys won't even be able to find the cork

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

"consent" is something these techbros do not understand. Every one of them needs to be [redacted] with a [redacted] until they [redacted] all over the [redacted]

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The straights can get sexual liberation after they get feminism. I'm sorry, but it has to be done in order. Like two shots of a vaccine. You get one before the other and it all goes haywire.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

stress is bad cat is good I choose cat

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

need to get out more for its own sake now that the weather isn't broilingly hot every day

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

went for a walk by the canal this morning which was very nice

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ll add to this that a big part of why Biden’s approach failed is because he tapped Title IX administrators to lead the effort, instead of survivors and their advocates. He picked the betrayers instead of the betrayed.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

that may be the real answer, yeah, with an extra helping of "everything is legal if you're Republican"

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

he's so out of touch with reality it's almost funny. people can't afford food or driving to work, but yeah. let's pretend we'll all have a world-burning privacy violation machine in 5 years 🙄

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

yeah I feel like someone who isn't old enough to serve wouldn't be on the ballot, so why is someone who doesn't live in the state get included?

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

there are worse and weirder choices of obsessions

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

the women I've known who hate men the most aren't feminists or lesbians or whatnot: they're the ones married to right-wing misogynists, because their lived experience tells them men are evil and cruel and abusive

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deep in their evolutionary history, gastropods underwent a process called 'torsion' in which their digestive track folded back in on itself such that the anus exits directly above the head in nearly all snails. For this reason, I am afraid most snails identify with the Rationalist community.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

also like 90% of that book is just him listing species, which would be the same in English and French

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

after all, past evidence bears him out. He's been in the Senate since Jesus was in diapers, and hasn't died yet.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

Grassley's so stupid, he probably thinks the Senate is what's keeping him alive, so if he never retires, he'll live forever

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