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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 10h
This is ... wow, just ... wow! - An about 8,500 y/o Stone Age axe *with* wooden handle. 🤯🤩
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pillay is really well known to people who advocate for & study international human rights; she also couldn’t be more different in some ways than last year’s winner. Selecting Pillay, I imagine, is a way to underscore the value of defending human rights in an increasingly regressive, repressive world
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Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for 'efforts to promote peace and international law'
Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Hans van der Kwast :qgis: @hansakwast.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Here's a preview of the new Vector Field Renderer that will be available in #QGIS 4.4 as a result of the recent crowdfunding for native tools for hydrology. The preview shows how you can visualise a flow direction raster with arrows. #GIS #OpenSource
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Leo @leo-in-merimbula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Golden-headed Cisticola posing nicely with a classic over the shoulder look. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz
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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That phrase 'gutter contrarianism bred by the social media attention economy' is a masterclass in meaning with brevity. www.thetimes.com/article/02eb...
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Why there’s a new battle raging over the Second World War
The allied victory of 1945 is the founding myth of the liberal western order, something despised by the new radical right
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was told there was a Situation. The Situation did not disappoint. #hobart #lgtas
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
David Graeber wrote a piece about bullying. It was called "The Bully’s Pulpit." It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today. This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
No one would deny, of course, that humans are flawed creatures. Just about every human language has some analogue of the English “humane” or expressions like “to treat someone like a human being,” implying that simply recognizing another creature as a fellow human entails a responsibility to treat them with a certain minimum of kindness, consideration, and respect. It is obvious, however, that nowhere do humans consistently live up to that responsibility. And when we fail, we shrug and say we’re “only human.” To be human, then, is both to have ideals and to fail to live up to them.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/
Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A thread worth reading!
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Legs are jelly but the good news is my ankle ain’t giving me any grief when riding my new (old) beast.
Recumbent trike, red frame, black seat.
Photo of my left ankle showing surgery scars.
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#booksky
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hey lovely people. My beautiful friend Emma and I are running an online workshop about friendship and networking. It promises to be a wonderful time. 4th October, 9am NZT, Pay-what-you-can. (Available for 2 weeks for people who can't attend on the day.) www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/friendship...
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Friendship & Networking For Creatives
A warm, fun workshop about networking and friendship for writers, artists and anyone wanting to connect to a community.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Okay, someone said "You couldn't make BIRTH OF A NATION today!" in the context of political correctness or some nonsense and... Yes, it could be made today. It was independent and self-financed. It was essentially a Daily Wire production of its day. Don't test me, I know more than you do.
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Humpbacks heading south off the Gold Coast this morning.
Photo taken from a boat, view is of the Gold Coast with a humpback whales blow in the middle of the image.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are you over forty? Is it September? It's time to play Floater or Fruit Fly! Is that speck in your vision a sign of your slowly degrading eyeball? Or is it Drosophila melanogaster, breeding in the apples you've picked? The only way to tell is by squinting, which makes you look even older.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stéphane De Greef captured this video in 2014 near Angkor Thom in Siem Reap, Cambodia, part of a study on 'blue ants' in genus Leptogenys. The ants hunted this Thyropygus millipede as a group, paralyzed it with venom & are forming chains to haul it back to their nest. 🧪 (📷: Stéphane De Greef)
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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's my birthday 🎉 so in Bluesky tradition I'd love for folks to repost my art today! 😊 #artistSupport #illustration #darkArt
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Gordon Ramsay didn't appreciate his suppository.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The TL:DR version of these two threads is simple and uncomfortable. The reason politics is fucked can be answered by looking in the mirror. If you're reading this, you are an active participant in our civic society and have a responsibility. Stop being a mark for what you want to hear in anger
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A medieval warrior's skull and the surprising origins of the term "forensics." I got you covered in a NEW video! Please consider subscribing & throwing me a like! I'm trying to revive the old channel and it's...hard to reach people through the AI slop & algorithms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yh...
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The Warrior's Skull
YouTube video by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kiana and I are very proud to announce that No Woman's Land, our photobook documenting women's lives under Taliban rule in #Afghanistan , is out with 268 pages of photos along with texts, archive imagery, polaroid and collaborative art, sketches. (1/2) shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-la...
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A shagging squiggle.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, here goes. I tried to keep it contained. Ridicule is what we use to fight institutional hostility. Make no mistake, that's what this is. rick-morton.ghost.io/deliver-us-l...
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Deliver Us, Lord, From Ridicule
On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...
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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is both brilliant and horrible. @premeemohamed.com is very good at brilliant and horrible.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The new space force uniforms are directly inspired by the uniforms from the Starship Troopers film...which were inspired by the uniforms of the Nazis that Paul Verhoeven saw occupying the Netherlands during WWII
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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 05/09/2026
don't wanna be all incrementalist but I'll trust you to organise a revolution after I've seen some evidence you can organise a chook raffle
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 03/09/2026
My latest book review: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘Snake Men’ Review: Scandals in Serpentine Science
Who gets to name a newly discovered species is an unsettled question in the world of biology. Conflicts over taxonomy can become venomous.
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Robin Hawkes @robhawkes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Turns out you can extract the rotation of a wind turbine from a single pass of a satellite 🛰️ Each time a Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite passes overhead it actually captures multiple images across different spectral bands.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The car industry didn’t see this coming. In 2015, 330k fully electric cars were sold globally, about 1% of the market. In 2025 it was 14m, close to 1/5 of all new cars. The fleet on the road tells you about the past. Sales figures tell you about the future. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...
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The car industry didn’t see this coming
From Norway to Nepal, current sales reveal a transition far further along than the stock on the road suggests.
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Federal Bestiality Institute.
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you see this post your getaway vehicle.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/08/2026
#OtD 26 Aug 1930 scab dock workers at Port Adelaide in Australia were attacked around the town by mobs of locals, including one group of women demonstrators. They had to be rescued by police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9805...
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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Moth faces are so cool. This is Rhodochlora brunneipalpis 🌿🌱 #invertefest
A moth on a leaf facing the camera. The wings are green. The abdomen, legs and antennae are white. The face is bright orange with pink mouthparts and big brown eyes.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
By the way, long-nosed fur seal flippers are really cool.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/08/2026
[drunk as hell trying to remember joanna newsom's name] natalie harp
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When anyone mentions Marilyn Monroe’s pill addiction I am honour bound to bring up her severe incredibly painful endometriosis that she had surgery on BACK THEN because it was so bad. She was considered unreliable by men when she was often in debilitating pain
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Breakfast buddy.
A magpie on a metal table about 1m away from me.
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Spent the night at my sisters, woken by the nephew tickling my foot and screaming “wakey wakey sleepyhead”. He’s now hiding under the bed giggling uncontrollably as I threaten his life and limb. Waking up to a 6 year olds laughter is a great start to the weekend.
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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This beautiful dictionary of colours found in nature dates back to more than a century before Pantone. 🎨 Werner's Nomenclature of Colour was an indispensable resource for Charles Darwin, helping him describe new species. We love these natural colours - which page do you like best?
A page of an old book titled “Blues” with a chart of different shades, naming each shade with an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that colour.Another page titled “Reds” with a chart various shades with an animal, vegetable and mineral for each.An old book page titled “Yellows” with a chart citing various shades of yellow with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each colour for reference.Another page titled “Greens” with a chart of various shades of green with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each shade.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK. It's French. DELIGHTED to welcome @juliekalman.bsky.social onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France. Listen below, Youtube or your pod app of choice
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Episode 27: The history and cultural impact of Asterix the Gaul
The Untitled History Podcast · Episode
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New student guest post on the Parasite of the Day blog! This post was written by Keegan McCleary, and it's about Duplorbis koru - a parasitic barnacle living in a parasitic isopod living in a squat lobster in the depths of the Kermadec Ridge 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/08/dupl...
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<i>Duplorbis koru</i>
Student guest post time! One of the assessments that I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for them to write a...
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Robyn Veitch @oddert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Imagine listening to @bloodwork.show onboard this
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ah crap the seppo contingent is awake. It’s pretty much all downhill from here for the next 12 hrs.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The sea is filled with weird little guys, but this one is among the weirdest. This is Thetys vagina, named for a sea nymph & the Latin for 'sheath', named before the latter word gained its current usage. Is it a cross between a Gummi bear & a xenomorph? No, it's a 'salp'. (📷: Kayleigh Grant).
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Let local communities be the stewards of their own wildlife | Letter www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Let local communities be the stewards of their own wildlife | Letter
Letter: Sjúrður Hammer responds to NatureScot’s decision to prohibit the annual Guga Hunt, where islanders collect gannet chicks on the Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir
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Brent 🍻🐜 📖 @brentsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@drdemography.com great article in the conversation!
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