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Ian

@capeoian.bsky.social
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Watching democracy die with despair, and trying to avert it. he/him

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Ian @capeoian.bsky.social · 10h
That the brown snake is mostly a slug eater reminded of the most amazing slug you’d probably see. The Leopard Slug. Can get up to 8 inches long. A whole world happens while you’re sleeping.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 20h
We've read 246 books this year with Z. This is revolutionary!
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Ian @capeoian.bsky.social · 17h
This entire day has been people I usually consider smart reacting to a fake post about a Marvel movie and fake Eminem lyrics. Come on, people.
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Ian @capeoian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Came across this tiny Dekays Brown Snake while walking through the woods at lunch today.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Although you don't see these wins in the headlines, they are happening.
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 14h
I want to put my money where my mouth is. It has always been a core value to leverage the work of Between The Hashmarks to tangibly help our most vulnerable, I’m pledging 30% of proceeds from each new subscription purchased this weekend to the Women’s Way Immediate Response Action Fund. (1/2)
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h
The late great JOHN CANDY killing it as Orson Welles on THE BILLY CRYSTAL COMEDY HOUR (1982)
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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 15h
This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful Kevin Hassett is allowed to continue appearing on TV for some inexplicable reason
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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 22h
Very happy that our very own @rmoudheden.bsky.social ‘Krijn’, the Neanderthal from the North Sea made the cover of National Geographic Historia 🌊 ! Reconstruction by Kennis and Kennis. #FindsFriday
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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 19h
An interesting test here is whether the models can construct working programs in a programming language that did not exist when their training set was gathered, so no samples can possibly have been in the training data. They can, and there are projects exploiting this, e.g., bend-lang.com
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17h
not big on the shoggoth thing but that's a shoggoth
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Ian @capeoian.bsky.social · 17h
This entire day has been people I usually consider smart reacting to a fake post about a Marvel movie and fake Eminem lyrics. Come on, people.
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A Nightmare on Nat Street 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 20h
Everyone in the quotes operating on Grade A digital media literacy. 💀
Twitter bio for Buzz Crave, which is a fake news account.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 20h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.
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Ian @capeoian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Came across this tiny Dekays Brown Snake while walking through the woods at lunch today.
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gustav Klimt - 1901
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026
your average Bluesky adventuring party has: - 1 sports person who is also a political sicko - 1 adhd chaos crafter who is also a political sicko - 1 sff writer who is also a political sicko - 1 romance author who is also a lawyer who is also a political sicko - 1 gardener recovering from being a po
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
crylaughing at the thought of Mike Tomlin getting home after a long day of listening to Aaron Rodgers and just straight up dissociating for five hours in Minecraft 
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Patrick Claybon @patrickclaybon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Too far gone, idk how it gets fixed
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still jaw dropped that one of the most followed folks here happily went on record calling whatever the hell happened on that FlyDubai flight to TLV an Israeli false flag without even scant evidence to support such a theory and no one suggested that she was being wildly irresponsible.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ll be honest, this is exactly what I’d expect someone who doxes rape victims to look like.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026
Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sorry, i don't yet understand what happened on the plane to Israel either but if your kneejerk is that this is a perfidious Israeli false flag you are just absurdly cooked and you need to change your life
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Ashleigh Klein ➡️ LOOKING FOR WORK! @ashleighrpg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
OMG I witnessed a “anti-woke crusader” getting bodied by Kingpin! MUAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA
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Mister Alex @awp.christies.org.uk · 30/09/2026
The ADSB data is terrifying. I usually only ever see tracks like that when I'm messing about in a flight simulator.
Screengrab of flightradar24 showing the Boeing 737Max8 dropping height like a broken gargoyle.
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Malenia 🏳️‍⚧️ @mal3n.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Loving Lanterns so much The man with the greatest Will in the whole universe is just a guy fighting depression holding onto his life, like a kid holding a ball he doesn't want to let go no matter how tiring it becomes? Yeah peak
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Smiling Hal Jordan
ALT: Smiling Hal Jordan
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Mike Sterling, A Comical Fellow @mikester.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
release the LANTERNS "no references to Harry Potter" cut
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The time has come! I am packing up my baby bag to go to the hospital! Here's what I'm bringing... 👶🏾🍼
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026
they created files on the server and accessed config, they didn't just guess URLs to download non-sensitive data that should have been public in the first place. omfg
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DNA testing showed 30 years ago that *a* Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. But holdouts desperately claimed it wasn't Thomas. Now DNA from a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair cut on his deathbed proves it was him: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
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Did Thomas Jefferson Father Sally Hemings' Children? After More Than a Decade of Research, the Answer Is Finally Firmly in Hand
A lock of hair, advances in genetic science and a community of descendants all contributed to solving an American mystery
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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.
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notthedavidspade.bsky.social @notthedavidspade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Guess we can pump the brakes on the Drake Maye contract extension. Glad we actually paid Gonzales.
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Ian @capeoian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Starting to think Maye is not our franchise QB going forward because when you repeatedly keep doing the same stupid thing it might just be that he’s stupid.
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I simply do not believe all these people who claim they’ve “never heard” Disasterpiece by Slipknot. Obvious virtue signaling.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i like that JJ Watt saw Stephen A. in Rio and instantly clocked that he had no professional reason for being at the NFL game in Brazil
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/09/2026
Explaining how the law and legal system works is not a defense of either. There is a growing sentiment on the left - I see it every day! - that explanations of the legal system (like, for example, why Mamdani can't legally arrest Netanyahu) are making excuses,
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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Biology is AMAZING! This is a microscopic wasp. The wings have a distinct shape because at this size air resistance is different.
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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found at Castle Water of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in July. This wasp is a parasitoid of the eggs of thrips, but we don't yet know which species of thrips. #wasps #RyeHarbour
Side view of a tiny wasp. Its oar-shaped wings have long fringe hairs. Its hewad and antennae are to the right of picture.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
THIS SHOULD BE NATIONAL NEWS This has been public for more than a week, and I can’t find a single national TV report. Just local. Why? REPORT: A female Cornell student alleges she was pressured into taking ketamine, then sexually assaulted for hours by multiple Chi Phi fraternity members in 2024.
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Ian @capeoian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tons of lantern flies on the my back porch trying to stay out of the rain, the bastards. (Yes, I killed them after I took this pic).
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Of the new experiments, the only one I wouldn't revisit is Atlantic Rim. And that's not on them, that's just how punishingly awful and joyless I find that whole Asylum school of filmmaking.
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