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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Royal tern in LaJolla. 🪶

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As always, excellent reporting by @melodyschreiber.com. I have *so much* to say about all this. But let me say this: I've worked with medical record data for research and LMAO, LMFAO even...this is why we need qualified scientists in charge of our scientific institutions.

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RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event

Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”

The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.

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NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have

A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.

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Cairngorm Reindeer Herd @cairngormreindeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yep... yep, right *there*. Wish I could bend like itchy Druid!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #fossilfriday! Here's a guy from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY: Arthropleura, a (probably!) herbivorous millipede relative that roams the coal forests of Carboniferous Scotland. Survival Verdict: YES. It's got a nasty nip, but we feel if you get bit, you have it coming.

A large, flat green millipede of unusual size crawls through a Carboniferous swamp forest, with some tiny tetrapods crawling on its back. Art by Stieven Van Der Poorten, from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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melts @meltsmelts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#deltarune Heh, you know we got this

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Gray @grays.art · 20/09/2026

“Damn. Forgot my earbuds.” #BirdOfTheDay #CaptionThatBird #eck #birds #birding #humor

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Bonita Springs, Florida 9-19-26

Helen’s bird of the day theme today:
1. Post any of your bird 📷 that make you smile
2. Add ONLY a witty caption & hashtags

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is Cosmosoma auge. Not a lot of blue but just absolutely gorgeous.

A clearwing moth. The wings have black veins and black along the outer edges. They are red close to the body. The body is black and blue.

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こむたん🐾 @comtang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

めっちゃたのしい

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026

We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. 1,026 cancer trials 273 pediatric trials 115 heart disease trials 184 diabetes trials This is unacceptable and inhumane.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026

On September 17th, we filled our 200,000th pothole. See something that needs fixing in NYC? Call 311, tag @nyc311.bsky.social or go to portal.311.nyc.gov.

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Devilby @barnaby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The Country Bear Jamboree will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

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Niko @rubberyote.space · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The Drats will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran (because he is a bitch)

Image from Rock and Rule with the 4 main characters playing in a band on stage.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026

Last week, it was a few Dems agreeing with sports bans, calling trans girls "men," and agreeing to vote for national bans on gender affirming care. This week is Marcy Kaptur in Ohio highlighting that she voted "with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools."

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026

A new wave of anti-trans attack ads targeting millions of voters appears to have launched on Sep. 14. Dems targeted include Brown, Peltola, Turek, El-Sayed, and Talarico. It is driven by Elon Musk's America Pac with a $100M ad spend planned for this election. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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New Round Of Anti-Trans Attack Ads Blankets The Airwaves This Week

New ad spends have gone up targeting Talarico, Peltola, El-Sayed, Turek, and Brown, among other Democrats.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17/09/2026

The #1 qualification for this administration, Fox News experience. Latest nominee for Surgeon General: Dr. Saphier, a radiologist and Fox News contributor. But at least she told the Senate vaccines don’t cause autism. Welcome to the new bar. www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026

Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his medical license over a fraudulent, now-retracted study that falsely claimed a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.

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RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield

The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.

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Map Crow | Kyle Latino @mapcrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here are some more #Boschémon

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Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺 @hubbubbub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cathedral of Steel by: Cushla Monk. Sydney Harbour Bridge, N.S.W. Australia. The Mono Awards 2026. 📷 #PhotographySky

Cathedral of Steel by: Cushla Monk.
The Mono Awards 2026.

Places category winner Cushla Monk says a little research into weather and sunrise conditions led to an early-morning trip to the harbour. “What an overwhelmingly beautiful morning it turned out to be,” she recalls. “The constant movement of the fog rolling in across the harbour, the light as the sun rose and the changing angles of the sun’s rays through the steel girders of the Harbour Bridge were all so mesmerising.”
Source: Capture Magazine.

Cushla Monk captured Sydney Harbour Bridge emerging through fog after researching weather and sunrise conditions before making the early morning trip to the harbour. She was drawn to the movement of the fog, changing sunlight and the patterns created by the bridge’s steel girders.
Photograph: Cushla Monk/The Mono Awards 2026.
Places category, runner-up: Cathedral of Steel by Cushla Monk.
Source: The Guardian.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Painting the same butterfly at age 20 and 30. Never give up on your art!

Two digital paintings of the same large yellow-and-black tiger swallowtail butterfly. The one in the upper left is labeled "2016." It has a more painterly style with some questionable proportions and anatomy. The one on the bottom right is labeled "2026" and is far more realistic, to the point it looks as though it might come to life and flit off the page at any moment. It's hard to believe I've only been a scientific illustrator for ten years, though that really was a whole lifetime ago. Thank you HRT for letting me live this long. :)

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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: A top staffer to Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) appeared to wear an SS uniform while marching near Nazi flags in photos. He also created a public Spotify playlist called “Tales From Rhodesia," the White-run African colony embraced by white supremacists. Gift link: wapo.st/4xkuEa0

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Ohio Senate campaign staffer used Nazi soldiers as profile photo

A top staffer for Sen. Jon Husted's reelection campaign recently made a playlist of songs in honor of White colonists in Rhodesia and wore a Nazi uniform.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️

Hand-drawn figure almost certainly derived from painstaking examination of filmed midge flight. It took them 4 years to publish this. It is indistinguishable from an elaborate squiggle.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread

Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.

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Rachel Hollis @rachelhollisart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A bit disconcerting when one of the world's largest moth species is attracted to your headlamp! Found this beautiful Hercules Moth in far north Queensland. #wildoz #wildlife #nature #biodiversity #insects

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Spread your wings and raise your butt! Or so sayeth the Yellow-fringed Dolichomia Moth, Hypsopygia olinalis 😂😂😂 #MacroPhotography #Moths #Insects #invertebrates #Nature #Awe and #Wonder

A photo of the front of rust brown moth with yellow fringes on the edges of its wing. The moth's wings are spread tent-like. it has large dark eyes and it is holding the end of its abdomen, its butt upraised.

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Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance @denverzoo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Meet Igor, our 27-year-old black vulture. 🖤 Igor has been part of the Zoo since 1999, when she arrived from Busch Gardens. These days, Igor is thriving behind the scenes with her Animal Care team, including Lora, who has cared for and adored her for 21 years.

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Echoes • 16” x 30” • gouache & watercolor on paper Based on my 2024 residency in the wilderness of Minong (Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior)

greyscale painting of a sandhill crane among burned trees with fireweed silhouettes as silhouettes in the foreground

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

CW: loud sound I was also a big fan of a japanese animator called Yuichi or Ydash Yダッシュ that made a whole Mario serie on the Nintendo DSi and to this day, I find that insane! Doing so much with such limitation shows that any program is great if you master it I do wish Mario movies were like this

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Greater Coucal 48-56 cm lives across India, China, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia Diet large insects, caterpillars small vertebrates fruits,and seeds. Monogamous pairs share all duties equally: Incubation 16 day, feeding chicks in the nest 22 days. After they fledge feed and protect 1 month.

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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 03/09/2026

Today I was made aware of the most laughable and dangerous white paper I have ever fucking seen published by this Government! 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵 Before I link to the paper we will be going through it together because you need to understand why this was published and how to dispute it because maga.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Working through my fundraiser paintings and the request here was “paint my two dogs looking happy sitting behind Ben Roethlisberger after he threw an interception”

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