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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 3h

Last day. I still have a fairly significant chunk left. :-/

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Some lovely pictures of very common birds: Black-capped Chickadees, Anna's Hummingbirds, Song Sparrows. And a Lincoln's Sparrow, quite a bit less common especially around developed areas, but migration season is full of surprises! #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #photography #birds

A Black-capped Chickadee perched on a wooden fence

A female Anna's Hummingbird perched on a red plastic feeder

A Song Sparrow on a concrete slope leading to mucky water

A Lincoln's Sparrow perched on a branch, partly hidden by a small yellowing leaf

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

engadget.com

Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 29/09/2026

A Canada Goose with some fashionable elm seeds -- Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, May 2024 #BirdOfTheDay #EFG #photography #birds

Closeup of a Canada Goose with bits of dirt clinging to its bill, as well as two whole elm seeds. Background is greyish gravelly ground

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Rhonda Howard @1184outdoors.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grasshopper Sparrow, a tiny brown bird that generally hides in tall grasses & makes buzzing sounds like its namesake. #EFG #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 #ECK

Small brown bird perched on a diagonal stalk of dry grass, with blurry green foliage in the background. The subject has a small drab pink bill, legs and feet; a light eyering, and a warm tan wash on its upper breast. Its head, back, and wings are a warm caramel color with bold black markings. Its belly is almost white.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We could have bridges, Ed. We could have windmills, and solar, and public transit across the entire goddamned country. Instead we’re doing this, and it’s driving me a little insane!

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 28/09/2026

sounds of nature 🌿

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 28, 1874. The U.S. military defeated the Comanche in Palo Duro Canyon, south of modern Amarillo, Texas, largely by stealing their horse herds. This made previous Comanche ways of life, including their work cultures, impossible and forced them into a reservation!

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An American Oystercatcher in some absolutely divine light at sunset For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BokehBirds #birds 🌿 #SunsetAndSilhouettes #silhouette

A shorebird with a long beak stands on a beach bathed in golden light. It is silhouetted against a blurry and brightly sparkling ocean.

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 28/09/2026

A male Tree Swallow perched in front of a fuzzy pond -- Reifel Bird Sanctuary, May 2024 #BirdOfTheDay #BokehBirds #photography #birds

A Tree Swallow sitting on a small post, shining in the light, and looking out

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In a podcast with Ezra Klein, Jensen Huang suggested learning basic math was basically unnecessary. This is a bad and disingenuous take. Read more in my latest article: cinqpersonnes.substack.com/p/long-divis...

cinqpersonnes.substack.com

Long division is important actually.

On learning, and simple skills.

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 27/09/2026

A Sandhill Crane flying low -- Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, March 2023 #BirdOfTheDay #Airborne #photography #birds

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 26/09/2026

Two Tree Swallows, uh, pairing up Two Canada goslings on the water A Song Sparrow doing what it does best against a very #Green background #BirdOfTheDay #Pairs #photography #birds

Two Tree Swallows mating, perched on a thin branch. Light green foliage in the background. The male has his wings fully spread

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 25/09/2026

Fun fact. Canada's arts & culture gdp is basically the same as oil & gas at about $70 billion. Direct funding for the arts & culture is about $700 million annually albertaviews.ca/arts-publicl... It's up to $30 billion for oil & gas depending on how you count www.theenergymix.com/canada-pours...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

disconnect.blog

The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

motherjones.com

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026

Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 25/09/2026

A big boy Dark-eyed Junco, a contemplative Golden-crowned Sparrow, and a Song Sparrow all floofed up against a cold snap #BirdOfTheDay #Borbs #Brown #photography #birds

A male Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon subspecies) perched on a branch at about eye level. It is looking very round, and the light is a bit grey and dim

A very round Golden-crowned Sparrow is sitting on a wooden fence. The light is a bit golden

A Song Sparrow on a wooden fence, looking pretty spherical. Background is dry yellowish reeds

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 24/09/2026

A Pelagic Cormorant in its finest breeding outfit A male Bufflehead, so shiny and adorbs An adolescent male Common Goldeneye with a hearty breakfast A male Barrow's Goldeneye (sister species to the previous) swimming along #BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers #photography #birds

A Pelagic Cormorant, with iridescent green and purple plumage and white rump patches, is calmly swimming along

A male Bufflehead swimming on mostly still water, facing camera right. We can clearly see his reflection in the water, and beautiful purple and green iridescence on his face.

An immature male Common Goldeneye, its white plumage a bit grey and muddled, is out on the water holding some shrimpy thing in its bill. The light is low and golden

A male Barrow's Goldeneye swimming in bright sunlight on blue water. The head is a bit iridescent in green and purple

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explore.org @explore.org · 24/09/2026

Day 1 Fat Bear Week winners 🐻 Bear 909 Bear 910 Bear 132 Family Bear 806 Family See you tomorrow for day 2 voting!

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 23/09/2026

Saw-whet Owls are tiny compared to other owl species, but no less ruthless and efficient predators. I've only ever seen them twice, since of course they tend to hide during the day. But sometimes they hide close to the trails #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors #photography #birds

A Saw-whet Owl, perched at about eye level. One eye is slightly open

A Saw-whet Owl, perched up in a tree. Its eyes are tightly closed

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads, and here's the prettiest of them all.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

there are so many amazing, life-changing things you can do with computers and i think it's a serious problem the companies that make them keep trying to sell them by saying "do you hate everyone in your life? are you less of a person than a hollow automaton waiting to be told what to do by me?"

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 22/09/2026

A Northern Cardinal lady, making sure I get all her good sides! #BirdOfTheDay #Redheads #photography #birds

A female Northern Cardinal, body facing me and head turned camera right. She is at about eye level, on a bare branch. Background is more bare branches and grey winter.

A female Northern Cardinal, body facing me and head turned towards me. She is at about eye level, on a bare branch. Background is more bare branches and grey winter.

A female Northern Cardinal, body facing me and head turned camera left. She is at about eye level, on a bare branch. Background is more bare branches and grey winter.

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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#LightandShadow is the theme for todays #BirdOfTheDay, so here is a beautiful shot of a Red Kite flying overhead against a lovely blue sky #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two conjoined Sycamore trees.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands constantly at the edge of it, constantly welcoming everyone who arrives, with a wave and a smile.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 20/09/2026

Baaaasically BC politics is NDP Vs Not NDP and Not NDP keeps trying to adopt expansive names to maximise their electorate, but their electorate actually wants them to be the Crush The Wokes Party and so they attract lunatic MLAs who fight like cats in a bag.

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Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca · 21/09/2026

Man couldn't read a room if there were a bright neon sign telling him the vibe

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/09/2026

“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits.

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Glen G @gleng.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Morning #bird "Hey man, wanna buy a watch?" #birdoftheday #CaptionThatBird

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A big ask, no pressure & I know people have better things to do but if about 15-20 people buy this from Blackwell's in the next few hours it's likely I'd have the number 1 & 2 books in their chart & that might be enough to finally persuade an American publisher to get my books out over there...

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 20/09/2026

BABY YOU CAN FIND ME UNDER THE LIGHTS DIAMONDS UNDER MY EYES TURN THE RHYTHM UP DON'T YOU WANNA JUST COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE #BirdOfTheDay #CaptionThatBird #photography #birds

A White-crowned Sparrow on a white wooden fence, singing. Background is fuzzy dark green foliage, and just to the left is a bush with some large pink flowers

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 19/09/2026

Wood Duck males show both extremes. Most of the year they are dazzling and #Elegant as anything, but during the summer they switch to a much duller "eclipse" plumage. During that transition they may look... somewhat less than spectacular #Scruffy #BirdOfTheDay #photography #birds

A male Wood Duck, his bill very slightly open, and his mullet almost standing on end

A male Wood Duck in the middle of a moult, some longer feathers sort of hanging out, and a bit of down hanging from his open bill

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's totally normal to take 78 photos of a Blue Jay in a bird bath, right? RIGHT? #birds

Head and shoulders portrait of a bird with a bright blue crest and black necklace. The bird looks super confident.

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · 18/09/2026

Closeup of a very floofed-out pigeon -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park. December 2025 #BirdOfTheDay #Pigeons&Doves #photography #birds

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HLK @hlkfotos.com · 17/09/2026

Duck teefs. #BirdOfTheDay #ODG #ECK 📷🌿🪶🦆

A photo of a female common merganser (Mergus merganser) rearing up on the surface of choppy, gray-green water, wings spread behind it in a wing-flap after bathing. Its cinnamon-brown head is topped by a shaggy, spiky crest, with a slender, serrated orange-red bill held slightly open, and a brown eye lit amber by the sun. It has gray upperparts and a white underside. The outstretched wings are white and gray, with dark primaries fanning out at the tip. Water droplets scatter around the bird, and its orange feet are just visible beneath the surface.

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SeaLevelOslo @sealeveloslo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly showing its dark side #flowers #wildflowers #butterfly #ColorADay #YellowThu #photography

A photo of a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly with its wings closed on light purple and yellow wildflowers.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026

Just because this dude has the mental capacity of a handbag filled with dogshit doesn't mean other people can't figure this stuff out, the "AI" dudes aren't THAT smart, they're just horny accelerationist nerds who don't see what the problem killing off 90% of the population is, they can be stopped

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