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Dee

@dspiffyfish.bsky.social
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Canadian book-loving, nerd crochet-making weirdo. I like sea life. Carcinization for all!

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A return to firing squad everywhere might finally end the death penalty. Why? Because people have to be directly involved in executions (not pressing a button) it’s terrifically difficult to get them to do it. Medieval executions had the same problem!
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 7h
Medieval Executions 🧵 Hi there. One of my areas of expertise is medieval crime and punishment. If you’re interested, here are some comments on medieval executions. Note that, just as today, practices and perceptions varied widely across medieval Europe... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live
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Dee @dspiffyfish.bsky.social · 3h
Some terrific words here. I feel like I need to somehow incorporate them into my Halloween books display at school.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
just watched a Paul Bettany interview from this morning where he's like "my kids keep changing my Disney Plus login to a picture of me as vision and naming me "the worst avenger""
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Animaniacs evicted.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 07/10/2026
h/t to @slack2thefuture.bsky.social for letting me know you can delete the "customer personalization" data in your Amazon account and enter anything you want. Like this.
Fucking with Amazon "customer personalization"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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LizaYuzda @lizay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As true of Canadian cities as American. @anandwrites.bsky.social
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and God said, why the long face
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sound off if you can be wooed by Potato.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“You took EVERYTHING from me!” “I don’t even know hooo you are”
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition
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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
The Butlerian Jihad is real.
Pope Leo XIV: In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent 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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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Justice 🐙 #octopolis #tarot #sciart
A blue-green octopus with mantle fins and purple web patterns tracing along its body hovers suspended in the open ocean. Its arms are extended and gripping four lines of rope, held in perfect tension by the competing pressure of floating kelp bladders above and the gravity of net weights below. The octopus's two front arms grip a pair of shells, one pointed and one a fan shape, entwined below its body. Text reads 'Justice'. Digital art by SS Julian
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
Willem Dafoe reflects on his favorite chore on his farm in Italy. In this week’s Wild Card, he talks about his Midwestern roots and how he feels about growing older. Watch his whole conversation with NPR's Rachel Martin here: n.pr/4rEWg8s
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TheScarvedInsect @thescarvedinsect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dear seller, I'd like to report a MISSING PACKAGE.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 01/10/2026
I once had a job where the men would literally ~make the women leave the room~ so they could tell misogynistic jokes. Like, they thought the solution was to exclude us completely, that there wasn’t anything wrong with the jokes if they didn’t tell them in front of us.
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's back ⛓️🙏 HELLRAISER: RETURN OF THE PRIEST is on shelves wherever you get your comics! I am so incredibly proud of what Alessio Avallone and I made here, and so thankful to Clive Barker for inviting us to walk through Hell.
Zach Howard's cover for RETURN OF THE PRIEST Christian Wards cover for RETURN OF THE PRIESTFederico Sabbatinis cover for RETURN OF THE PRIESTAriel Olivetti's cover for RETURN OF THE PRIEST
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For the past week, I've heard a lot of people say "provincial and municipal elections happening at the same time is confusing, especially since I don't fully understand what a city is in control of." So, I did a four minute explainer piece to try and help www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlh...
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What municipalities can and can’t do in B.C.
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2026
Inside of it is a faith hugger
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A field can be socially indispensable and poorly remunerated because of existing institutional arrangements—social work and education are obvious examples of this. Then, circularly, that low remuneration is cited as evidence that educating people to perform the work is a bad financial investment.
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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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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most people don't expect you to fire a trebuchet at their house, that's what makes it such a fun surprise
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Resident Evil movie used real people to create the massive Merged Monster.
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Video Shows Movement Rehearsal for RESIDENT EVIL Leg Monster
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right? RIGHT? Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels? Yes. Yes it is. 1/5 🗃️🧪
Meme. Painting of six people sitting at a table laden down with food, looking startled as a skeleton taps one of them on the shoulder. The skeleton is standing behind the person on the far right, tapping with its left bony hand & holding a class in her other. The tapee has his hand over his chest & a look of shock on his face: the sort of expression you would get if you walked in on your great aunt Sue in the middle of a menage a trois with some other folks from the assisted living facility.

The others characters at the table are all either leaning away from the doomed soul, or actually falling backwards in fear. Curiously, the one 3rd from the left, hidden in the shadows, looks like an angry Abraham Lincoln. But what would he be doing here? He doesn't look like part of the company; perhaps he's working with the skeleton to settle a score (one of 4, likely). The better angels of our nature, overcome by the skeleton of his revenge.

Meme text reads:
"This meal is
deelightfully deadly"
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you
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Misery 👻 @miseryhighlight.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Listen, man, you didn’t weird me out you weirded me in. Tell me more obscure facts immediately.
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Finally some good news
Photo of a marmot in the rocks. The headline reads: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean if we get right down to the whole wolf situation, inside you there are eight paws and two foreign buttholes
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 21/09/2026
I do not need the rat bag I do NOT need the rat bag
JW Pei handbag shaped like a rat in black leather with gold-colored hardware.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Eagle-eyed visitors may have noticed that mice suddenly look delicious. Mouse-eyed visitors may have noticed that eagles are scary.
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
friend told me a story about her dad’s college music class where they wrote different examples of classical compositions John Williams ripped off and John Williams showed up for a masterclass one day, saw it, went over to the blackboard and started adding more examples
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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 21/09/2026
This is a decade old now, but still . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odq2...
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Din and Tonics a cappella tribute to John Williams | Harvard University Commencement 2017
YouTube video by Harvard University
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Welcome to the car park.
Stairs down to a car park. Walls are red and yellow, then black and white stripes, then light and dark blue, in blocks. Silver handrails on both sides.
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