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Void (they) @gendervoid.gay · 1h

We love @nashiez.bsky.social in this house! 🖤☺️

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Michelle @cloverjag.bsky.social · 1h

I love that my babies get along so well.

Godzilla (a Hiya Toys figure) and Solo (an orange and white tabby) sitting and looking at each other.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 36m

Wanna feel old? There are college students who have never lived in a world before Kaleidotrope.

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 2h

You guys, I'm all in on these moody autumn days. Tisha Mark ©2026, For Love of Stormy Days, oil on linen, 14"x11" This one-of-a-kind original stormy seascape painting is available: tishamark.com/product/for-... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "For Love of Stormy Days" oil on linen, 14"x11" (2026). A textured and atmospheric seascape painting where the dark blue sea on the right meets a coastline on the left that is reddish brown with bits of green. There are textured waves meeting the shore and textured storm clouds in the sky.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 1h

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 3h

Bettany’s response - which wasn’t horrified - was chilling. He said Depp shouldn’t burn Amber because she was nice to look at. Thinking about this in the context of all those men who knew Jane Doe was being raped and did nothing.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 3h

No matter how many times he shows his ignorant hate, people are still going to be falling over themselves with the, "He's rich so he's got to be smart!" Nothing but clownshoes over there, all the way down.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 3h

Still probably a whole lot of Nope, lol, but I am now curious how your vision sees them flying?

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 3h

A new federal rule weakens the Endangered Species Act by redefining "harm" to wildlife. This change makes it much harder to protect the habitats that endangered species need to survive. Tell Congress to undo this change and protect endangered species here: mbayaq.co/4xSPQUZ

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Stand with the Aquarium for Endangered Species - title

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 5h

In fairness, coming across a trilobite flying at you would be terrifying AF

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 6h

Being Verified means I can't do spooky Hallowe'en names anymore. Changing the display name breaks the checkmark. "Mellow Lugosi's Dead" is finally retired. I will enjoy all of your names from my blue-check cage

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Bauhaus: The Hunger - Trapped Behind Bars

Alt: Bauhaus: The Hunger - Trapped Behind Bars. Lead singer Peter Murphy lit by blue lights, grips a grid-fence from the other side.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 23h

My dad had a grey one for years he called his Elephant. He loved it though, he had the all wheel drive one, and got a aftermarket camper installed in the top like the old VW Vanagons. He took all the way across the SW, Sierras, and up and down most of California too :-)

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How can we do that? Let's do that. Watch horror movies with me. Not in my house, but you know, you over there and we talk about it here.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

You may need to just put up a second mailbox and label the first one Spider House, lol. I appreciate you looking out for it though!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep carrying this spider further and further away from my mailbox where the mailman shoves mail into. I keep worrying that it’ll get hurt, so I evacuate it and yet, it keeps finding its way back. Kind of amazing.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have not felt lumped in with rapists. It would be worth asking why one would respond defensively in these cases.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A list of people who honked in support of the Academy of Natural Sciences at yesterday's protest: A schoolbus A car full of kids A cop A mailman Cars full of people in business attire Cars full of people in work outfits Cars full of people in street clothes The PPA Philly supports the Academy.

a woman in glasses holds up a sign that says Honk for the Academy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

I don't know, I feel like if you're able to do that last one you should be able to, lol I saw this one in at a country store in Oregon…

Bathroom sign that read, "Whatever, just wash your hands" with a silhouette of a woman, a man, and a Sasquatch who's actively peeing.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

This is the Old Lore. I remember when check kiting was a thing too.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

Mirror Universe Tribble, it just got a crown instead of a goatee.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saw this today at the NJIT library, I wholeheartedly support this message

A sign showing an image of the two astronauts, gun and Earth meme, text reads: "wait so the secret to beating brain rot is reading books?"

"always has been"

Text next to the image reads: "Are you worried about your brain going stale already?

READ BOOKS
READ BOOKS
READ BOOKS!!!

life is full of propaganda but this one is serious!!! evidence-based!!! reading is good for your brain and helps you build empathy and stuff!!"

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GenAAaarghhvieve 🧟‍♀️ @gensibayan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would anyone like an Audible code to support a book I narrated a while ago? US and UK regions available. Let me know which and I'll DM you one. 🎙️ Savage Planet: A Short Story by Alethea Kontis on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B07GZZ5PS...

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Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals

Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app.

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"It is just as easy now to get away with rape on campus as it was when I was an undergraduate. That is not going to change any time soon. I don't know that it ever will." Wrote about grief and the Cornell 7 in this month's newsletter:

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September '26: We're in the Red Zone | Ella Dawson

content warning: discussion of campus rape and the Cornell 7 The majority of sexual assaults on college campuses take place between the star

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

Not about these per se, but I wanted to let you know that you were one of the folks I was especially excited to see make the jump to BlueSky. I don't just love the science you share, the joy you share it with is wonderful :-) Thank you for your work and sharing!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking character: I hate to use this account for political strategizing but the ball needs to get rolling on this....when Dems take the House they've got to focus on impeaching Hegseth. He can be be blamed for the Iran war plus he's a drunk and a criminal.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/09/2026

okay red wings nuts, i am gonna probably have to retire my long-serving timberland work boots in the next year, the soles aren’t replaceable, i don’t think. what are your recommendations (i know you are out there)

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

The happiest of news!!! Hope you enjoy the rest of your trip :-)

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

I don't know what this is in regards to, but hell yeah!!!

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

I hope so, I really like them too.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 30/09/2026

Santa Barbara is such a nice town too. :-/

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 29/09/2026

@ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social We watched a thriller called Red River Road over the weekend that I thought you might be interested in. It was made by a family, I think during the pandemic, and while it has some roughness to it, I really appreciated the efforts they put into every aspect of it.

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 29/09/2026

Those are great questions to ask, especially for larger dogs!

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29/09/2026

Her son carefully lifted his ochre-stained hand from the cave wall and studied the outline. "That's me. My hand." He looked at the other hands. "Do you know all?" "Some are older than me." "That old?" "Hush you," she laughed. "We don't make these to be seen tomorrow, but because today, we live."

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D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com · 29/09/2026

Awesome! That's fantastic news, congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

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