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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

News is bad. Vibes are bad. WHO NEEDS A TEENY TINY FROG?! (A Wood Frog baby so little it could sit on a quarter) #herps 🌿

A very small brown frog sits on a lily pad.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/09/2026

"Over the past three years, a small camp has taken shape [in Israel] that opposes genocide, fascism, and Israeli militarism while also trying to redefine what it means to remain in this place."

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‘The Gaza Holocaust won't be forgotten’: An Israeli musician screams into the void

‘Super Sparta,’ Regev Baruch’s new album, is among the most blunt works of Israeli art since Oct. 7 — using provocation to insist on a different future.

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farwing @farwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone on the same award selection committee as my boss won’t be able to attend an important meeting as he will be in Sumatra “hunting (with camera) some of the last 60 Pygmy rhinos in the world” Needless to say this is not the usual excuse for missing a meeting.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

like this is not the website for non-neurodivergent people! that's tiktok and threads! this is the website for weirdos who still enjoy text-based media in 2026!

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People handle tasks so complex and with so many shifting variables as part of our day-to-day existence that the complexity is underestimated. It’s like how knitting machines have existed for over 400 years but there still isn’t a machine that can crochet, though we think of those tasks as comparable

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

We need to be clear with ourselves and each other that this is most pronounced when rape is involved but it‘s everything … women are told to always put men’s potential first, ahead of everyone’s well-being bsky.app/profile/susa...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Part of the testimonial injustice in the situation is believing that the harm to accused men is worse than the rape and worse than the harm caused to advocates and survivors everywhere when men are let off easy

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

And when I say bad behavior I mean no, you should not be fucking your students and I mean that broadly. Not a student in your department, not a recent graduate, not even a student in another department. Not someone you’re mentoring. Some of the men who like to talk about me have done these things

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

(2) People do not talk enough about the fact that we have a pretty good idea of how to train dogs and there are a lot of prominent dog trainers giving advice who are just wrong. Scientifically wrong. Extremely wrong.

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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I’m afraid that this small clique of all-too-human dorkwads are trying to gain even more mind-boggling wealth and even more political and regulatory control over powerful AI technology, in ways that will allow them to further fracture democracy, privacy, and human flourishing.”

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Changing seasons can trigger a change in your own life. Choose a new form that suits you. Grow your most elaborate antlers yet, or a frightening exoskeleton. Replace old forest folktales with new terrifying legends of mossy gloom and malevolent splendor.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

new favorite baker just dropped (I am finally watching the new ep of Bake Off)

screenshots from the latest season of British Bake Off of a chef named Mo, he's a tan skinned young man. He's got dark hair falling over his forehead and a beard. He's saying, "I come with a lot of baggage, but it's, like, the good baggage."

Mo continued, "Like Louis Vuitton baggage."

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

Literally this, so much, forever, in so many ways that are hard to articulate and reach facets of life I never imagined.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Also don’t let them take your benefits without a fight because you are & will continue to be taxed like a motherfucker.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

You, weak, bringing an iced coffee to an interview Me, strong, answering the first question right as the beat kicks in and singing “it’s time for the percolator”

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

me, strongest: showing up eating a gigantic raw elk steak, my jaws dripping with blood

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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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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jess rips off the Band-Aid of Knowledge about academia and sticks it to you. It's a little gross but now it's yours.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Age of the Great Dessication is upon us

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 25/09/2026

The actors playing pedophiles in PRIMETIME being credited with just the screennames is so fucking funny

Caveh Zahedi
Wow_U_Like_Pot
David Fierro
Raysfan22
Ed Malone
Nextbestfriend_14
David Pridemore
Georgepitansky_9008
Charles Schneider
Cool_guy5
Jonathan Francis
Canifuckyouanally
A.J. Leitell
luv2Bnude
Christian Vazquez
Xbeachdude
Berwick Lagarde
Jeremys_talented_tongue

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 25/09/2026

upshot to running errands in the rain:

A small black and tan dachshund wearing a yellow duckie raincoat. It’s just unreasonably cute, that’s all.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026

NEW: Republican New Mexico governor nominee Gregg Hull is facing renewed scrutiny over court records showing he twice fell behind on child support and health insurance obligations for his daughters.

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Court Records Show Gregg Hull Fell Behind on Child Support as He Now Campaigns on Protecting Health Coverage

Gregg Hull, the Republican nominee for New Mexico governor and outgoing longtime mayor of Rio Rancho, is facing renewed scrutiny over a decades-old child

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@knowtheory.net pointed out the original TikTok video about Gen Z job candidates and iced coffee was from a recruiter working at "buttoned up Fortune 500 companies" and her specific observation was about "coming off as too casual". This is important context! www.instagram.com/p/DdhMd0XvW7N/

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chescaleigh on Instagram: "the Tiktok discourse surrounding iced coffee & job interviews is an example of the literacy crisisView all 706 comments"

the Tiktok discourse surrounding iced coffee & job interviews is an example of the literacy crisis

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If the arguments about iced coffee include "first impressions still matter" and "it can be distracting" then I would push back and ask about that company's (unwritten) dress codes, open office layout, as well as its recruitment and retention of staff members who are BIPOC, disabled, and/or parents.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/09/2026

it’s true what will the AI agent think of your professionalism if you bring an iced coffee to your 57th zoom interview

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"You're just saying that because you're friends with artists." I'm saying it because AI storyboards are BORING AF.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026

so cool how "cybertruck owner commits horrific crime" is just part of our cultural landscape now www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/0...

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Upstate NY driver killed pedestrian, then tried to hide Cybertruck in woods

The man was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. The crash took place in 2025.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026

But but but!! that's a minority of people!!! (25% of Americans have a disability) But but but!! they should just say something!!! (volunteering that you're disabled / medically complex / a cancer survivor is often an effective way to not get hired)

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026

Heat intolerance - due to something like MS - can require the use of a very cold beverage to lower core temperature quickly in order to avoid MS symptoms getting worse. Chronic cough, laryngopharyngeal reflux, and vocal fold disorders all can mean needing a beverage to sip on in order to talk

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026

People w diabetes who take insulin/sulfonylureas can have a blood sugar crash, four ounces of juice or soda or a dunkin extra extra is a standard treatment for that. People with IBD - a high-output ileostomy, short bowel syndrome etc - can dehydrate quickly & may need continuous oral hydration

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026

Wild how many people are willing to post their default is disability discrimination. Sjögren's disease destroys salivary glands, so too can lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis, and having had radiation for head or neck cancer. Antidepressants/-psychotics,-histamines, opioids all can cause xerostomia

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/09/2026

also something I’ve been wondering about since this broke: did the Valley Advocate pass on this story? how did the Greenfield Recorder cover it? the Daily Hampshire Gazette? the Daily Collegian even?

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026

Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/

3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In a major breakthrough, GOP Sen (soon to be governor of Alabama) Tommy Tuberville announces dramatically that the mortal threat facing Alabama is no longer Blacks, Hispanics or trans children: now it's "furry culture," which is focused in airplane cockpits across the country. Who knew?

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾 𝗄𝗇𝗈𝗐𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 📞 𝗇𝗎𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋 & 𝖺𝖽𝖽𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗌🙄 𝖥𝖥𝖲, 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝖨 𝗐𝖺𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝗄𝗂𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗋𝗀𝖺𝗋𝗍𝖾𝗇, 𝗆𝗒 𝗉𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗌 𝗆𝖺𝖽𝖾 𝗆𝖾 𝗆𝖾𝗆𝗈𝗋𝗂𝗓𝖾 𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖺𝖽𝖽𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗌 & 📞 𝗇𝗎𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋. 𝖧𝗎𝖺𝗇𝗀 & 𝗌𝖾𝖼𝗎𝗋𝗂𝗍𝗂𝖾𝗌 𝖿𝗋𝖺𝗎𝖽 𝗀𝗈 🤝. 𝖧𝖾 𝗎𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗍𝖺𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖼𝗋𝗒𝗉𝗍𝗈 𝗋𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗇𝗎𝖾𝗌 𝖻𝗒 $𝟣𝖡, 𝖺 𝗍𝖺𝗑 𝖼𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗍 𝗐𝗁𝗈 𝗌𝖺𝗏𝖾𝖽 𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝖿𝖺𝗆 $𝟪𝖡 𝗂𝗇 𝖾𝗌𝗍𝖺𝗍𝖾 𝗍𝖺𝗑𝖾𝗌 𝗐/𝗅𝖾𝗀𝖺𝗅 𝗅𝗈𝗈𝗉𝗁𝗈𝗅𝖾𝗌

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Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Eloi cannot be happy until the Morlocks hunt them down and eat them all. Team Morlocks.

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