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Like the loch. I take pictures of bugs and flowers and try to pretend I’m not a computer person. They/them. Also on mastodon at toot.wales/@etc

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11h
Qingshan Lake Water Forest in Lin'an District, Hangzhou is a viral attraction sometimes called "Matcha Lake" for the emerald green duckweed (subfamily Lemnoideae). These black swans (Cygnus atratus) & their cygnets are enjoying a nutritious buffet of aquatic plants. Let's learn about duckweed.
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
 
Characters
 
Hannah - Goat - Daryl and Seth's Daughter

Daryl - Bear - Hannah's Papa
 
Seth - Otter - Hannah's Dad
 
Panel 1
 
Setting - The dinner table of the Hardy-Softbell house.
 
Hannah's family is having dinner.
 
Hannah: WOW! Dinner is extra good.
 
Daryl: Thank you. I tried a new secret ingredient.
 
Panel 2
 
Seth puts on a cute happy face. The backgrounds shifts to a pink color with hearts floating all around them.
 
Seth: Is it LOVE?
 
Daryl's face remains emotionless.
 
Panel  3
 
Daryl looks at Seth and responds.
 
Daryl: Toasted sesame oil.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Daryl: Love isn't a secret ingredient. I put love in everything.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Panel 4
 
Daryl looks away.
 
Daryl: I used so much love and you never noticed.
 
Seth: I DID!
  
Daryl: From now on I'm putting sarcasm in yours.
 
Seth: NO!
 
Daryl: Yes.

Hannah is ignoring this and just browsing on her phone.
 
Hannah is ignoring all this and has pulled out her phone.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Saving Wildcats project has confirmed four wildcats released into the Cairngorms National Park this summer has brought the total number released since 2023 to 50 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 27/09/2026
No one wants to admit it but the first step to fixing TV is going to have to be making it 4:3 again
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mad-swilliams.bsky.social @mad-swilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, these things are fascinating. You can spend years eating them with no problems, and all the while they’re whispering to your white blood cells that the red blood cells are inferior and should be destroyed, and then one day it just happens.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Artists, show how much you’ve improved in 34 years:
Barad Dûr. The eye of Sauron above a yellow fortress. Blue sky. Magic in the air. 

Photograph of a 6yo painting in a frame that is the wrong size. Sub A is grade 1. Barad Dûr. The eye of Sauron above a black fortress. Red sky. Magic in the air.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
if you quit corporate to become a beekeeper, does that mean you broke out in hives
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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
back in 2016 i made a mesoamerican riff on the oneill cylinder/bernal sphere in "HABITAT"- i love every mossy tube city in space
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is cool, but I really wanted to know where the actual bouy was. It seems to be at an experimental wave power site called SEM-REV, near nantes. juliusvonbismarck.com/bank/index.p... fondation-open-c.org/nos-sites-en... cartes.gouv.fr/explorer-les...
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SEM-REV
Le SEM-REV est un site d’essais en mer multi-technologie dédié aux Énergies Marines Renouvelables, opéré par la Fondation OPEN-C
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Augh, jumpscared by a near-lifesize cardboard cutout of mr beast at the tesco checkout, advertising “his” “book”. I’m angry I even know what this jerk looks like.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one of my proudest moments was being told by a former Gove staffer that he once angrily proclaimed: "I am NOT an eldritch horror!" in a team meeting, because of me.
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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crimsondynamo4.bsky.social @crimsondynamo4.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Drop a THREAT.
Scene from GO-ONGER: Go-On Red, dressed as Santa Claus, declares: " your Christmas present will be the iron fists of justice!'
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cofruitrigus @cofruitrigus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's what the bible has to say about AI
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sometimes I’m sad about how much time I spend on dry land these days. This is not one of those times. I also like that my job makes it basically impossible for me to risk anyone else’s life by my own incompetence, and I’d have to try really hard to die in a workplace accident.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 18/09/2026
a guy in a tesla honked at me because i was a tiny bit in the street taking this picture. i moved aside and he rolled down his window to ask, with furrowed brow, "why take pictures of nothing?". he drove off before i could answer maybe the stupidest question i've ever been asked #coolpicturesbynicky
5 traffic cones and caution tape circle around a lifted metal plate in the sidewalk
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Cuñada Ilustrada @cilustrada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A veces, la vida de un controlador de tráfico marítimo puede ser muy dura...🤭😅🤣🤣🤣 Buenos días, cieletes 😘🤗🩵💪😎
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/09/2026
musk: [pointing phone camera at someone] grok, do a vulgar roast of this person grok: nice shirt. arsehole. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: no, grok; more vulgar! grok: nice shirt. prick. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: grok, use forbidden words! grok: free palestine
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Eric @mokkograd.net · 14/09/2026
New Blogpost: Done with Posting Announcing my retirement from Social Media mokkograd.net/posts/2026-0...
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Suddenly, it is mushroom season. #mushroomsky #fungi
Some tall, very thin and delicate looking fungi. The stalks are thin and white and the flat caps are a translucent greyish white shade with black spores. At the right, a shorter example has a more umbrella-shaped cap that isn’t as far along the fruiting process as the others.
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026
Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A mildly unsettling thing to read (and watch) at bedtime. I‘m wondering how much of the page I missed by accident.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There’s so much I don‘t understand about canadian culture, like how receiving 15 litres of mayonnaise is apparently an enticement rather than a threat.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s a good year for cyclamen. #bloomscrolling
A big patch of pinky-purple cyclamen flowers growing through a layer of pale and brown chert gravel under an apple tree. There’s a red-brick wall in the background and a number of other small leafy non-flowering plants, but only a couple of cyclamen leaves have actually pushed through the gravel to show their distinctive green patterning that reminds me of a Mandelbrot fractal.
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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 11/09/2026
Gonna be headed to Yellowstone again next month. Can't wait to sit by stinky pits for hours again, trying to get a photo of the perfect mud bubble <3 <3 #Photography
24 photos of mud bubbles in a 6x4 grid. They all look alien and neat as fuck.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've been wanting to blog more, so here: a short(ish), off-the-cuff ramble about wolverine, guidance in games, and the void of conscious thought: auratriolo.com/blog/2026/09...
Guidance is a form of communication.

[Achievement from UNBEATABLE: "OHHH I GET IT. THEY ALL HAVE MUSIC NAMES - when you explain an idea, the idea fundamentally changes."]

And communication changes the player’s thought processes in more ways than merely the information being given. Guidance tells the player what to think about and what not to. It establishes safe, “brain-free” spaces. That can be useful! Especially in an overwhelming game. But it can also quietly smother thoughts that might have sprung up in its absence.
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Fabula Celtica Podcast @fabulaceltica.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Instead of responding to this wild shite, I'm going to rank the fictional invasions in Lebor Gabála Éirenn by sheer badassery (last to first place).🧵
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TO THE MOON 🚀 Diesel hitting £1.90 a litre in a bunch of places around me now. Was hoping to squeeze a few more years out of the old car before getting an ev, but that’s looking increasingly difficult…
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Interesting things I have learned today: - male bees never harvest pollen, even in eusocial species. - female colletid bees (including the ivy bees I saw earlier) can secrete polyester and use it to line their nests.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Male and female ivy bee, the last two leaving a mating ball. These are solitary ground-dwelling miner bees but they like living near others of their species so they can form large (but generally harmless) swarms on earth banks. #bee #insect
A small male ivy bee, seen side on and climbing on to the abdomen of a larger female ivy bee, seen from the top and holing on to some blades of grass. These bees have hairless yellow and black striped abdomens with slightly broader black stripes, and fuzzy yellow orange thoraces.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Potentially even worse than Nigel Farage: First confirmed breeding of invasive Aedes aegypti in East London, UK; no human cases, enhanced surveillance underway via @beaconbio.bsky.social - beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...
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BEACON
Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love videos like this… it’s interesting that our theory of mind can interpret this as frustration. Octopuses have to put up with people setting them silly puzzles too, but I don’t think I’ve seen videos of them actually exhibiting frustrated anger or just ragequitting the whole thing.
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Eric @mokkograd.net · 06/09/2026
"Eswahr Eternal" is a fantasy role-playing game about becoming a King. You will travel an empty land, slay Giants, sacrifice your principles for power and then you will rule. For Eternity. Go and wishlist it on Steam, or else: store.steampowered.com/app/5198420/...
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Eswahr Eternal on Steam
Eswahr Eternal wants you to become a King. You will wander across an eternal Kingdom. You will slay the four Giants of the Land. You will sacrifice your Principles for Power. You will take the Throne....
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 06/09/2026
listen I can tolerate the environmental destruction, the systemic racism, the DDoSing everybody, but I draw the line at bringing Thatcher back to life
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 06/09/2026
medium fact: the reason i always instinctually draw cakes teal and red is because of these larvae. they completely rewired my brain w/r/t cake visualization bsky.app/profile/asca...
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026
A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."
Other platforms will soon follow, a senior administration official told POLITICO on Tuesday. “We got Lake America changed on Google Maps, and many other maps are changing in a couple days. And Wikipedia is going to change as well,” said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak frankly.
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 05/09/2026
mercedes out here trying to cut out the middleman of drivers in vancouver looking at their phones while driving
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
God says to a man "you have died. Prepare for judgement. You will now confront your best self. The version of you that lived up to all your potential." An exact duplicate of the man pops into existence and says "hi, it's me! Your best self! I'm exactly like you!" He continues "turns out youa ctually did live up to all of your potential!" The original man puts his hands on his head and says "Jesus, that's depressing."
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Got quite far into the process for a podcast series with the BBC about a little-known Section D op, and collaboration in wartime Amsterdam. Then they insisted I do it with a celebrity as audience proxy. My reply was: "No. I'm not explaining the holocaust to Johnny Vaughn." They lost interest then
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