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@etchachan.bsky.social
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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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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s wild to imagine a United States where the death of 8 children resulted in actual policy change. More on brand to see that the response to a bunch of vehicle accidents was to blame the time zone.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I used to live by the sea, and herring gulls arriving in the morning made a lot of noise, but the jackdaws are worse because sometimes the hammering sounds like someone knocking at the door so I have to get up to check 🫩
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can tell when there’s too much moss growing on our roof, because the jackdaws swing by at sunrise, shout at each other and hammer on it to see what’s living in there. There’s no roof space above me, so it’s quite loud.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’ve been caving in waterlogged spaces only just big enough for a helmet to fit through, but this photo produces substantially higher feelings of claustrophobia and fear of drowning in me. Being sliced up by the lost teeth of former riders embedded in the tube seems like schlock horror writing 😬
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now I’m torn between the eu getting its shit together, and wanting to be an eu citizen again 🫤
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 01/10/2026
Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whilst out and about and cake-bothering booksellers, I saw my first Hookland sticker out in the wild.
A Hookland sticker on a pipe covering up some fascistic filth. The sticker reads: HERNE THE HUNTER HATES YOUR RACIST BOLLOCKS
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess secretion will do, but *exudate* is better.
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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
Makes me think about sci-fi habitable worlds and colonisation stories. Maybe don’t drink the water or breathe the air until three generations of more reckless or desperate people have tested it for you. Not a dystopia I’ve come across, but I’m not super widely read.
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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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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Sometimes people escape our flaming deathtraps through open windows, and we were trying to eliminate that chance of survival”
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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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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When I finally have to replace my old diesel car (which might be soon, given what’s happening to fuel prices) I‘m going to have to learn how to disable the onboard gps and internet connection all modern vehicles seem to be fitted with. Everything has too much telemetry.
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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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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
At least they drew a line under his character, and nothing like him ever turned up again. I feel like there’s no way these days that any successful series could have resisted turning him into an entire franchise.
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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Those strategic oil reserves are being drained right down to help keep fuel prices under control. It’s not a trick that will work forever.
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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 · 13/09/2026
That’s amazing. Awesome work!
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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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etc @etchachan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think someone just accidentally a few words. The regular text mentions six *kilograms* of rods.
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