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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 01/10/2026

Every so often a hawk flies into the windchimes and things get SUPER-exciting for thirty seconds.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In other words: This meme is a surprisingly accurate scaled depiction of the magnitude of the 2026 El Niño event vs the 1997 event *if using the absolute index.* But if using the relative index, Danny DeVito is currently the same height as Arnold Schwarzenegger. And either pairing is striking... 👀

A common meme from the movie "Twins" featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger towering over a similarly dressed Danny Devito modified such that "1997" appears above the diminuitive DeVito, and 2026 above Schwarzenegger.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a proud Amherst alum, I do have to admit that this first footnote made me laugh.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Found a coupla mutants in the back yard.

A (somewhat munched) six leaf clover, poised on top of a pale-skinned human hand.

A five leaf clover, poised on top of a pale-skinned human hand.

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Mr. Escher A. Bug, MSc @escherbug.art · 25/09/2026

As a taxonomist I will always be a little miffed that people who make comics are cartoonists and people who make cartoons are animators and people who make jokes on stage are called comics

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yup, even upside down, head off bed. (Your dogs are lovely.)

A red fawn greyhound, upside down, with his head on the rug next to his bed.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look at this tiny handsome man in our garden.

Western fence lizard, trying to look like leaf litter on top of a cement block wall.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, we got properly suckered buying off eBay. Listing photo appears to use Ikea Mammut children's chairs, didn't clearly specify which of several possible rug sizes this particular one was, and... well. Spouse says at least he can use it as an MTG play mat.

An ebay listing for a rectangular rug that has a print of a snakes and ladders game. The listing photo shows it on a wood floor, with at least six chairs lined up along the long side, which look exactly like Ikea Mammut children's chairs. Along the shirt edge is what looks like a Kallax style shelving unit with what look like panda plushies. There is a magazine rack along the wall

The Ikea Mammut chair measurement page, showing that the chairs are 15 3/8 inch wide.

Actual size of game mat that arrived. Approximately 23 inches wide. Pencil added for scale.

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R. Blaylock Art @meanderingunicorns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Many fantasy and sci-fi authors have created compelling fictional religions, but @tkingfisher.com has written the only one I actually want to join. Let me be be useful. Let me be practical. Let me find ways my skills can serve others in the Temple of the White Rat.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I slept wrong on my *ankle* last night and am kind of hobbling around today. How do you even sleep that wrong.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Move over, pumpkin spice: September belongs to the BOG HARVEST. While many flock to apple orchards, the world’s peatlands are hitting their peak. Far from muddy swamps; bogs are the secret agricultural powerhouses you didn't know you needed. Join me in protecting these undervalued landscapes! 🧵 1/

Photograph of ripening cloudberries on a bog surface.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 08/09/2026

In the morning I will have to explain to my husband that I spent $150 on this Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlepod baking dish 😆

Screenshot of baking dish that looks like a shuttle pod

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Surprised and Sad Sculpins. #SundayFishSketch Mottled and Slimy!

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

attention Bay Area Costco shoppers who grew up in the mid-Atlantic:

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 31/08/2026

A delightful thread of @tkingfisher.com's fascinating animal facts from last night's Hugo Awards ceremony.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: Sprainedback Mountain Some of the President's Men The Devil Wears Gucci Adequate Will Hunting

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I found a Rarity-81 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 858 points · 10 rare words. Only 3 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 2 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/4ARDCZ

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snailspace scored 858 on Day 98. Can you beat them?

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Okay, I did the thing. I found a Rarity-59 word worth 86 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 808 points · 10 rare words. Only 21 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/W8QVQM

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OUTLIER · Day 97

player-5294 scored 808 on Day 97 — can you beat them?

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루런 řüĺĕň @rulen613.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We've decided 9-25 is Dolly's day. We have a month to prepare, and to make this a National if not Global celebration of the best of humanity. Repeat, share, and prepare! Organize a block-party, write a poem, buy some books, sing some music...come together and be good to each other for a day!

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Windy late summer day working out in the Delta. Water water everywhere but none anymore in the soil.

Landscape showing dark blue-brown water in the foreground, clear blue summer sky above, and a thin horizontal strip of bleached golden hills with white wind turbines between the two blues.

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Rufus's Person @mikesapoz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Me: Come on, let's get you up, we need to get to school 9 year old, curled under blanket: Awwww, I was almost done with my imaginary cookie

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Well, this was new for me. First time I have seen baby grebes on the back of a parent. I saw this in Woodland CA and took 100s of pics and just wanted to share this one for now. Many more coming later. Clark's Gebes. Woodland, CA. Nikon D500, Nikkor 500 mm f / 5.6. #birds

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We finally have a lizard in our backyard! I feel proud that we have enough variety of habitat to host them now.

Very small Western fence lizard on a retaining wall stone.

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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Icelandic teenagers tossing baby puffins off a cliff.

5 teenagers on a cliff in Vestmannaeyjar. Three are holding baby puffins, about to throw them off the cliff. One teen records with a smartphone while the fifth watches from behind.

The baby puffins are found in town, confused by the lights. They're caught, weighed, boxed up, and tossed off the cliffs to fledge.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Enjoy your skunks is my new email sign off

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rava @rava.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You guys wanna see an old quilt? (Everyone cheers) My great grandma sewed and quilted it, my grandma stitched the designs, and this summer mom and I finished it

old blanket with stitched floral designs and hand quilting

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song Me: Suckin' on a chili dog

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

beloved intern/volunteer Fiona described zygopines as having "large pathetic eyes that look as if they should begin welling with tears" and she was right to do so

one of the various tragic zygopines of bugguide, this one an allegedly undescribed species of Cylindrocopturus. Its huge sad clown eyes are accentuated by its white body color.

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

1978: Snap pea Vermicomposting Permaculture Tea light Uncanny valley

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am slowly adding darning to my mending skills. My darns are still large and lumpy, but this was a favorite sweatshirt (had it for thirty years now!) and when the cuff started fraying I figured I had nothing to lose.

Image of the outside of a purple sweatshirt cuff, darned in a slightly lighter purple embroidery floss.

Inside of purple sweatshirt cuff, darned in a slightly lighter purple embroidery floss.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This weekend's garden and orchard haul. Not all of it, either. Featured: French prune plums (most of which have been dried into plums by now), sungold and sweet hundred cherry tomatoes, Early Girl/Dirty Girl tomatoes, a few Cherokee Purple tomatoes, and a bunch of Aunt Mollie's ground cherries.

A large garden basket containing about 2 gallons of French prune plums,.ng on a beige counter. The basket is next to a blue box of tissues for scale.

A counter full of garden produce. There are two eighteen-egg cartons piled high with yellow and red cherry tomatoes, about a dozen and a half small slicer tomatoes, and a green plastic punnet full of small groundcherries.

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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 21/05/2026

Unidonk & Pegagoat. Fantastical critters in digital charcoal. Unidonk prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad... Pegagoat prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Donkey with a horn, digital charcoal drawing by Victoria Maderna. Black and white.

Digital charcoal painting of a goat with wings by Victoria Maderna. Black and white.

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Anthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #FossilFriday from the special surprise found inside the last stupid Xiphactinus that i discovered this spring: a complete Micropycnodon! This poor little guy was eaten right before the Xiphactinus (nicknamed Brown Sugar) died, and is forever trapped in fish rib jail. 🧪🐟

Curatorial finger booping the snoot of a completefush. It looks like an armored brown pancake with a googly eye. Its trapped between thin parallel ribs of a much bigger fish.

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