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Cracker of Bones. Sylph of Space. The Selkie Delegation. Destroyer of Destinies. Gore Mom. Future Double Satan. she/her

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 06/10/2026
dumb things I wish to make for myself
shoddy doodle of a skull with strong arms and legs; text says “this is my gym shirt I am getting strong”
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VAL🦴HAL @valhal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Made a Deadly Spawn inspired pumpkin 🎃 The teeth are potatoes that I also carved
A pumpkin carved to look like the Deadly Spawn The same pumpkin but with a candle lit up inside
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?
The researchers' breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic
development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to - rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain.The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos. They identified two different brain progenitor cells.
One, which expresses a gene called Otx2, is destined to become the forebrain and midbrain. The other, which expresses a gene called Gbx2, is committed to forming the hindbrain. They showed that these two cell populations never overlap; they are mutually exclusive from the earliest stages of development.The team then examined the DNA packaging, or chromatin, in these cells. Chromatin is a way cells determine which genes can be easily accessed and which are bundled away out of reach. What they found was striking: The anterior neural ectoderm (future forebrain and midbrain) and posterior neural ectoderm (future hindbrain) have fundamentally different chromatin configurations.
These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said. "Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 22/09/2026
🧪 Huge news! We've always thought the brain was a single organ. This study says it is two! We assumed the brain grows from a single type of starter cell. Instead, two separate cell lineages develop side by side: one builds the front and middle of the brain, the other builds the back. #Medsky 🧠
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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable the generation of human hin...
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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got this badboy framed up 😎
A photo of my Cosmic Snakes digital art piece, framed with a thrifted silver-gold decorative frame and a custom painted matte to match.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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punished brian @brilandia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
and before that it was the public option. and before that it was acorns. and before that it was all the deregulation of the 90s. and before that it was welfare reform. and before that, manufacturing. just a long history of folding and reconstructing their platform to be narrower and further right.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dem politicians kicked women in the teeth on abortion for decades and their reward is that they got to move on from pearl-clutching about the Abortionplex and put their energy fully into kicking trans people in the teeth
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(CHECK PINNED) Deer in Places they Shouldn't Be @deershouldnt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
my dog wont bark. i think its gay.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 19/09/2026
SO said I should put it on the back of a hoodie so I'mma be doing that shortly
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sno @sno-oh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
venu redesign #oc #digitalart #pokemon #venusaur
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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Redbubble account is pretending to be me and selling AI trash plus art stolen from other artists, including myself. There is A LOT of stolen stuff on this page, I'd appreciate any shares and complaints to shut this seller down.
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funeralbeat Shop | Redbubble
funeralbeat is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
another lil tutorial! (1/?)
image of first step of a flat crystalline shape, with a fully rendered one by its side
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Cobalt 🔞 @generallycobalt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's so good! There's an audiobook too. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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vN Audiobook on Libro.fm
Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine—a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her...
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Cobalt 🔞 @generallycobalt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
vN by Madeline Ashby. I once described it as what would happen if Donna Haraway traveled back in time and shook Asimov until his books were good. It's a setting where building synthetic ppl was funded by a megachurch that intended them as companions for those left behind in the theoretical rapture.
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good news!!! Hard cover copies of "The Woods at Blight's Hollow," a folk-horror TTRPG co-created by Oli Jeffery and I, are now available for preorder! blightshollow.com
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Steven Gawoski @stevengawoski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ink 10/31/2019 Speedball 107nib 6" X 8" [15.2 X 20.3 cm] #sciart #gawoski #liverwort
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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Woubble and Mimi are partners in crime. They are trying out the Rogue life! - What class should he try next? #art #d&d
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𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖘
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history.
Tim Curry in full clown make up holding an umbrella between takes during the filming of the tv miniseries of It
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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
see you space cowboy tim curry
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 26/08/2026
Just saw Facebook antivaxxers speculating that 80-year-old Dolly Parton’s death was hastened by the COVID vaccine she helped fund the development of and received—half a decade ago—and am thinking about how the past decade spent catering to these people has been nothing but a waste of time.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An open letter in the Guardian generating more backlash and anger than Black people being systematically abandoned without power for weeks in Gary, Indiana is US leftism in a nutshell 🎪
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
To be fair it is entirely in character for Spider-Man to need a gofundme for legal fees
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I keep seeing "pencil slop" being said by AI people as rage bait, and I'm like damn even your insults are ungrounded shallow empty ripoffs of something that already existed.
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RADINSKY 🏳️‍⚧️🪬 @thisisradinsky.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
My grievance with the notion of talent is how much it disempowers individuals and how deterministic it is — how it causes most to believe that there is an age limit to learning and developing skills, and most importantly, that it’s not as worthy of trying as a result
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Yoshi Yoshitani @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️❤️❤️ Especially to the Monster Lovers out there Prints and mini prints available #art
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Robin enters the Silver room of Babel third illustration for R. F. Kuang's Babel - Illustrated edition 30x40cm ink on claybord (starting to enter spoiler territory a bit here but eh)
black and white scratchboard illustration depicting a circular room in three point down-up perspective - around the room are circular pillars holding up a balcony. High above the room, an ornate dome. In the center of the room, dozens of silver bars of varying heights, some reaching to the ceiling, some a few inches high, are arranged almost like an organ. On the left side of the illustration, a boy wearing acamedic attire and holding a satchel, stands there and looks up at the silver bars in awe.
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Nictanova @nictanova.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Хексадецимал
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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Jonathan Frakes in BEYOND BELIEF
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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Anarchist Medical Book is dedicated to everyone who has ever cared for a sick person; even themselves. Thank you. You keep us all safe. anarchistmedicalbook.com #Anarchist #Medical #Book
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The Anarchist Medical Book
The Anarchist Medical Book Born from the collective wisdom of hackers, scientists, and healers who believe that healthcare knowledge belongs to everyone—and that direct action gets the bread. This is ...
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
[Echinacea]
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
PSA: if you're saving precious voicemails from beloved deceased family members, please remember that voicemail boxes are not a long-term storage device and you need to save those files in a more permanent way if you want to keep them
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Scientists" believe life began in underwater hydrothermal vents 4 billion years ago. I believe it began at the Denny's off the interstate in Toledo Ohio in 1956. I don't make fun of their theory and yet they constantly ridicule mine. And that's what's wrong with our so-called elites
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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In case you were wondering WHY someone would mail their scabs, the earliest inoculation available for smallpox involved grinding up the scabs and inoculating someone with a scratch on the skin. This method reduced the fatality rate from 30% to about 1%. 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variola...
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Variolation - Wikipedia
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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Heads up that there are videos circulating of the police lynching in Madison, WI. Good time to turn off video auto-play if you havent already. RIP Corey Ruiz. Fuck the police.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I hope E. Jean Carroll is smoking the kindest buds that have ever existed from a one million dollar bong handblown & inlaid with precious gems & minerals by some guy who lives on in a mountainside cabin and has a theory about the moon
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Q: Why are Bugs so silly? A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body *loud booing* Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
Pinkish red planthopper with large wings like a maple seed, and a pointy triangular snoot topped with wavy white lines
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Shellenius (ballii?), a magnificent derbid planthopper seen this cold morning under a palmetto frond ❤️
Slender derbid planthopper with wings and booty raised in the air; the nose is pointed, the wings are veined like leaves, and the colors are red and yellow and pink. Very autumn.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.
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Dr. Leo Croft @drleocroft.com · 23/07/2026
Ruby Bridges turns 72 this September. She has a TikTok. 1.4 million followers. Stop letting them tell you the Civil Rights Movement was 200 years ago. medium.com/@drleocroft/...
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Hey Racists, Ruby Bridges Turns 72 This Year
So stop acting like the Civil Rights Movement was 200 years ago.
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ジョン!! @john31215.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
誕生日おめでとう🎊🎉 #TRIGUN
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