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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14h

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just be careful not to hold onto branches too much as you feed them in - the vibration can give you tendinitis, ow.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I really enjoyed it too! And Swordcrossed by the same author is also a delight!

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Guess who tried to use the wrong tube to glue something together tonight. At least it won't develop an eye infection. Better than a mistake in the other direction, anyway...

Two small similar metal tubes next to each other. One is labelled as neomycin ophthalmic ointment, and one is super glue gel.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something I didn't appreciate about the Maryland Renaissance Faire until today is that they've been running a 30+ year real time performance of the life and wives of Henry VIII. They started with 1509 and every year the Faire bumps up another year.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I happened to pick up this moth off the canvas by the lights with an almost perfectly matched leaf. Eois 🌱🌿

A yellow moth on a matching yellow leaf. The moth has silver bands in concentric patterns across its wings.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

Moon rising in a lavender sky over trees and house roofs.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oyster toadfish and its scraggly beard are like the small-time toxic incels of the NW Atlantic. Not big time freaks, just grunty bitey lurkers with venomous spines.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Or pipefish. What if seahorse but also an em-dash.

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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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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brain on drugs, for sure.

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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 · 28/09/2026

That does make more sense all in all.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always heard they would chuck them across LaRue Road, and the ones that didn't squish were the ones they kept for seed.

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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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Eschire Cat-tle, 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 · 23/09/2026

I really loved this one!!!

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

Aww, sorry to hear it. It's always hard to lose them. Our boy is the quirkiest hound we've had yet. Very sweet, with lots of little weirdsies.

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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 · 18/09/2026

Okay, this is a brilliant idea.

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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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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did not know my eyebrows could go this high.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh no, sorry to hear it! Hope she heals quickly!

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

Currently using continuous sonde software called MOPED... I guess there's something about transportation-associated acronyms that just Feels Right.

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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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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Apple sharlotka! One-bowl cake that is mostly sliced apples with just a whisper of light cake batter holding it together. Totally suitable for breakfast. Amazing with a little cardamom added. smittenkitchen.com/2012/01/appl...

smittenkitchen.com

apple sharlotka

Got apples? Sugar? Flour? Eggs? You should have sharlotka for dessert tonight.

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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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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Asking the real questions here. We should do science to this.

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Snailspace @ehwells.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ooh ooh I've heard about this one! It's cooler then and that affects the backup batteries if they're starting to die, causing them to register as low/dead to the detector at 2 am but still okay in warmer temperatures during the day. Sort of like the fuel gauge of a car parked on a slope.

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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 · 31/08/2026

Thank you for posting these!!!!

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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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