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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes. “If you defund and deplatform anti-racists then that will force their movement underground, and then they will be truly dangerous!” is never, ever an argument you will hear from the right-wing media. Because they know very well that defunding and deplatforming *actually works*.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is "fantaspionage" the next big thing? Can we MAKE it the next big thing? @mcflycahill90.bsky.social (Audition for the Fox) speaks with @premeemohamed.com (Wickhills) about genre, weird cities, and who is the having the worst time in a story:

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“What Kind of Person Would a City Like Wickhills Produce?”: A Conversation With Premee Mohamed - Reactor

On crafting the perfect spy story, and building a magical city.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A sale or two at my shop would be a colossal help. This helps support me as a fabric artist, unofficial town sorcerer, and human being. I'd love for you to check out my Jeremy Creatures. Each one is designed and hand-sewed by me and takes many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

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Schrödinger's Zoo: Now Featuring Dogs @dropbydroppress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, A Deerhound, 1826

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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let's talk about Versailles.

Renderings show an ornate and gilded interior that departs from the simplicity of the original White House and echoes the look of the ballroom at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, a look he has said was inspired by the Palace of Versailles in France.

Source: https://archive.is/NIWLl
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This event last night was unbelievable. Truly can’t believe how many people came out and just how passionate and energized people are here. Dublin and the people here are officially the greatest.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What I see: Man can't see distress on own child's face and care about him, needs robot to tell him he's Bad Actually.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

You can't beat these hand-drawn Enterprise cutaways by Bruce Morser, packed with beautifully detailed pencil illustrations. [1/2]

Full sheet of a USS Enterprise-A cutaway by Bruce Morser. The style is pencil line art, colour shaded and rich with little details like a plan of the bridge, warp field outlines, a shuttle, and even a portrait of Captain Kirk. It includes the AMT/ERTL and Star Trek logos, plus the name and registry of the ship.

Detail of the USS Enterprise-A cutaway poster by Bruce Morser. This one shows the bridge and starboard view of the ship.

Detail of the USS Enterprise-A cutaway poster by Bruce Morser, showing main engineering and a shuttle.

Detail of the USS Enterprise-A cutaway poster by Bruce Morser with his portrait of Shatner's Kirk, from the late-era movies.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

is it good business to fire paying customers who cost nothing? I am just a simple country book reviewer

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Little Mr Rockafella (Rocky) @littlemrrockafella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A little bit despondent for #TerrierTuesday this week (sorry folks) but here I am keeping mum company while she waits to hear about having an operation. We hope everyone is well 🐾 #BTPosse

A brown border terrier dog lying on a bed next to a foot. He is keeping his human company.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I sincerely believe part of my job is leaving the house and having experiences, hopefully so my writing isn’t boring.

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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy #TerrierTuesday from the Most Interesting Dog in the World. “I don’t often chase balls…but when I do, I chase Chuck-Its.”

Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lounging in a pose reminiscent of the Dos Equis Guy, leaning on one elbow. She’s in a screened-in verandah with a battered green floor, ratty green and white rug, and white furniture. There’s a chewie between her front paws and a ball beside her.

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Elle Skinner @elleskinner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sharktember 20: Steampunk A little traveler shark with her clockwork bird in the era of dirigibles. #sharktember #sharks #art #watercolor

Watercolor painting of a shark wearing a purple 19th century dress

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Elle Skinner @elleskinner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sharktember 18 & 19: Romantasy and Tragedy I am particularly proud of the frilled shark member of the court of the fae, I want you all to know that. His wings are big and bold and probably shimmer in the sunlight. #art #watercolor #sharktember #sharks

Watercolor of a blue shark and a red shark in fantasy attire embracing

Watercolor of two cartoon sharks, one is dead and the other is weeping

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Elle Skinner @elleskinner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sharktember 12 & 13: Cookbook and Western The whale shark cook is SO pleased to teach you 100 different ways to cook salmon and the hammerhead rides its horse through the stoic beauty of nature. #sharks #sharktember #watercolor #art

watercolor painting of a cartoon whale shark wearing an apron and holding a fish in its hand

watercolor painting of a hammerhead shark in a cowboy hat riding a horse

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Elle Skinner @elleskinner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Day 9 & 10 of Sharktember: Fitness & Gothic Horror Two VERY different genres here, but both of these made me cackle with delight. #watercolor #art #sharks #sharktember

watercolor painting of a tasselled wobbegong doing yoga

watercolor painting of a lantern shark in a floofy red gown standing in front of a haunted castle

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

newrepublic.com

MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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Elle Skinner @elleskinner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy Sharktember! The project I do each September where I paint a shark every day! I'm assigning myself the theme of genre sharks this year. Day 1: a classic mystery shark. #sharktember #sharks #watercolor #art

Watercolor painting of a cartoon shark dressed up as Sherlock Holmes

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nearly all stores that sell new books can order a book for you even if they don't have it on their shelves. Here's a quick thread about how that works, and how it's ESPECIALLY helpful for writers who self-publish or have work with small presses.

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Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

LRP: requesting books from your local bookstore is a HUGE help to indie authors and small publishers! Sure, margins are way slimmer than if people order directly off the Bonedust Press website, but it gives us the potential for so much more reach. Especially if it ends up on a bookstore shelf!

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

the whole idea behind MAHA and the griftosphere more generally is that there is One Neat Trick and that is why they fundamentally do not and can never have a point even if there are small benefits to some particular thing there is no One Neat Trick and never will be

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/09/2026

One of my suggestions that I have made in my workshops is that every author should have a document repository. A folder on Dropbox is fine. A physical file folder in your desk is also fine. It doesn't matter what format; just make it a habit to file important papers every time they show up.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 07/09/2026

Mongabay Africa is hiring an editor to lead environmental reporting across the Congo Basin. We are looking for a journalist experienced in environmental and scientific reporting to help expand our local journalist network and cover local stories. 👉️ mongabay.cc/1oa4cX

Position Open | We're hiring a Congo Basin Editor - (French) | Rolling deadline

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"he was being satirical! you're just too stupid to understand jokes!"

guy wearing shirt edited to say SATIRE REQUIRES A CLARITY OF PURPOSE AND TARGET LEST IT BE MISTAKEN FOR AND CONTRIBUTE TO THAT WHICH IT INTENDS TO CRITICIZE

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/09/2026

Two new NO AI ONLY BRAIN paintings in the shop artologica.etsy.com

2 brain watercolor paintings with black text: NO AI ONLY BRAIN

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's Vulture Day! 🍾 We are celebrating with all 23 vulture species now represented in art pin form! This milestone is a tribute to the beauty, diversity, and importance of vultures worldwide. Grab your favorite & show it off: tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8 #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay #IVAD

A graphic showing 24 vulture pin designs, each a different species (with California Condor represented twice) from the Visionary Vultures pin campaign

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FEARsten @k-a-aitch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bodhisattva Luigi walks in peace, here on the bathroom wall of this independent arcade, bar and grill

Luigi with alarmingly long legs, making an obscure mudra with his right hand, walking carefully among mushrooms and turtles

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I would watch a documentary about this. “In Search Of…THE COOL S” as researchers trace the oldest, best, and most bizarre Cool Ss around the world would be excellent. I would also be pleased with James Burke telling me all the Connections of how the Cool S has changed the world.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 06/09/2026

We are family watching ‘Ten Things I Hate About You’ tonight. Shakespeare, Seattle Grunge, Heath Ledger, a very young Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Letters to Cleo, and a classically trained ballerina getting down to Biggie. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVy...

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10 Things I Hate About You - Hypnotize (The Notorious B.I.G.)

YouTube video by Sebastian S

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 06/09/2026

Ok heres a prediction: Handoff, a way to share numbers, will let Apple sell you a Mini-sized phone to go along with your regular big iPhone. www.theverge.com/tech/990868/...

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iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones

iPhone Handoff is expected to launch as part of iOS 27 later this month.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It does seem like this is happening. I consider that great news. Diesel generators pump out poison. "Generating the same electricity from a diesel generator as from a solar panel would cost as much in diesel, every three months, as the solar panel itself"

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In Africa, a Growing Underground Solar Buildout

Households and businesses are driving a solar boom in Africa, where rooftop arrays and other small systems account for the bulk of new solar installations. But this rapid buildout, which is driving so...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

These quizzes need an option for "I am changing my dialect going forward based on what I just learned from this quiz"

Question 37 of 60
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What do you call the insect that flies around in the summer and has a rear section that glows in the dark?
- lightning bug
- firefly
- I use lightning bug and firefly interchangeably
- peenie wallie
- I have no word for this
- other

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 04/09/2026

If I was a USFW special agent with an illegal $100,000 ploughshare tortoise, I would simply shut the fuck up about it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

They had axes, too. But the thing glared at them and asked:
“Where’s . . . My . . . Cow?”
They backed away.
“Is that my cow?” the creature demanded, stepping forward unsteadily. It shook its head sadly.
“It goes Baaaa!” it wept. “It is . . . a sheep . . .”
Then it fell to its knees, clenched its teeth, turned its face upwards, like a man tortured beyond his wits, beseeching the gods of fortune and the tempest, and screamed:
“No! That! Is!! Not!!! My!!! Cow!!!!!”

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 04/09/2026

Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with dark black eyes against a light background, seen from very close up.

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with green/brown eyes against a light background, seen from very close up to show the details of her face. The pseudopupil is clearly visible on her left eye, facing the camera.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.

Luddites Books & Wine, which, heartbreakingly, when I took this photo in Antwerp last year, was closed.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trump has no idea what a trade deficit actually is because he is very stupid.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 04/09/2026

‘I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!’ ‘No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs ... For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.’ 🧍🗿

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I got my toe in the door because an editor misunderstood a question as a job application and offered me a job. As I am Canadian, I accepted the offer rather than explain he misunderstood. (This is basically the same way I got married)

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 03/09/2026

Timelapse of my painting "Capybara in Winter," part of my Four Seasons of Capybaras Collection! #art #capybara #winter #sciart #painting

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