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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Betteridge's Law of Headlines" states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'. if publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they'd have presented it as an assertion. By posing as a question, they avoid accountability en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...

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Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Writing is 5,000 years old, too recent for evolution to build a “reading module.”🧵 (1/6) The brain repurposes older circuits evolved for vision, object recognition & spoken language, into a new network that decodes written symbols (neuronal recycling). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurona...

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Neuronal recycling hypothesis - Wikipedia

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The madhalla is a traditional hat from Yemen, worn by women. The hats have a wide circular brim & peaked top. The straw hats are peaked to keep the wearer cool in hot temperatures. Being almost 2ft tall, the design promotes air circulation within the hat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhalla

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Madhalla - Wikipedia

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

BFF 🥹💙 a baby girl and her puppy play for the first time.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice." Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 19/05/2026

The Eisner-nominated anthology with the AI story (Michael Todasco) gets pulled just as the Commonwealth Prize nominee with the possibly-AI story (Jamir Nazir) is announced

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/05/2026

so it appears that the Commonwealth Short Story Prizewinner for 2026 may have been AI generated. You can read it here.

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The Serpent in the Grove

‘The ring of stone lay there where cocoa gave to bush, its mouth boarded with ply and chance.’ Fiction by Jamir Nazir.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

About 45% of pet ownership is walking by them and badly singing little songs that integrate their names. If you can’t do this, then I’m sorry, you are not ready for the responsibilities of owning a pet.

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mimi 🐑 pixel artist @yumemimir.art · 09/04/2026

for the longest time i genuinely did not consider audiobooks as a legitimate form of consuming books. but then i remembered that before formal writing systems all stories were shared orally. if anything, audiobooks are the more ancient human form in some ways.

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 09/04/2026

I am back from our annual Patagonia photography tour and adventure and I wanted to share with you the Patagonian breeze that my group enjoyed on a beautiful morning! Some winds were more than 120 km/h! Torres del Paine, Chile. #bluesky #photography #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography

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Peggy Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

So Kindle is removing tech support from its device, pretty much requiring people to buy new ones, and introducing ads. This is why we sell our ReBound press books on Kobo. Also for ideological reasons: Amazon has been terribly destructive too booksellers and publishers, and I refuse to support it.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I watched that cringe-filled moment. On behalf of the people who share this rock with you, we’re sorry that HE had to be a part of any of your historic journey.

A tweet featuring an astronaut inside a spacecraft, looking tired or resigned. Overlaid text jokes about being farther from Earth than any human before while still having to hear a particular voice.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In Norway, the oldest ship burials known until now were located on the island of Karmøy, in the southwest of the country, and dated to the late 8th century. Herlaugshaugen is therefore between 50 and 100 years older than those.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

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a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Unless ageing population, Obsession with population growth tends to be tied to economic systems that only function if the population keeps expanding. They depend on a constant influx of new workers & consumers. Without more people entering at the bottom, the whole structure becomes harder to sustain

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Grand Admiral Shaun Duke @shaunduke.net · 09/04/2026

Fun fact: if you're looking for space opera novels written by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors, I've got a handy spreadsheet just for you! I've maintained this list for several years, and it's still growing! #sciencefiction #books Give it a look. Bookmark it! tiny.cc/spaceoperali...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A great episode of The Outer Limits was the time traveling genius tries to stop the killing of his neglected wife, but then he realizes that he’s the one who did it so he goes back in time to shoot himself while past-he is on the way to a date with the wife, and past him is like omg this is so…

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Haha they stowed some coffee in a locker to surprise the astronauts. Here's my favorite coffee-in-space moment, Samantha Cristoforetti doing her Janeway impression on ISS

Cristoforetti is in the Cupola, with a blue and white Earth overhead, wearing a Voyager-uniform-like jacket, sipping espresso.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It's been a week. Re-live the #ArtemisII Moon flyby with me, in the room where the science happened. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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CosmicDS @cosmicds.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Our dynamic universe deserves a dynamic visualization! 🔭 This Artemis II interactive lets your students track Integrity’s path to the Moon and back. Choose your adventure: see the path from the Earth’s perspective or the Moon’s.

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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

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Andrew Stronach @aistronach.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

So, hedgehogs. It’s not just me, the ancient Egyptians were also in awe of these spiny mammals. A very, very old Eygptian hedgehog seal. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art_object_c...

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Berenice pet cemetery is a pet cemetery in Berenike, Egypt, dating from the 1st–2nd century CE. It contains the remains of more than 580 individual animals including cats, dogs, and monkeys. It is among the oldest known animal cemeteries in the world. 🧵(1/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenic...

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

2,000-year-old animal cemetery in the Egyptian port city of Berenike that includes the remains of multiple macaque monkeys. In at least 36 cases, the bones belong to Indian rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). 🧵(1/4) www.popsci.com/science/roma...

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Roman generals gifted kittens and piglets to their pet monkeys

The macaques were status symbols all the way from India.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Ancient Greek philosophers Hippocrates and Plato described a (nonexistent) condition in which the womb “wandered” around inside a woman, causing emotional disturbances. Wandering womb later evolved into the even more popular diagnosis “hysteria” named after the Greek term for womb, hystera."

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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy #BatMas everyone! Follow this thread ⬇️ or check out the hashtag to find out about a new bat species everyday, for 25 days! 🦇🌎🧪 #BatSky🧵

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a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In case you're not DEEP into science nerd lore, this is the SI wheel. A visual representation of the seven units that form the basis of our international system of units (known as the SI). MSL are the keepers of the SI here in #NZ (and I used to work at the UK equivalent lab!) 🧪⚛️

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SI Units

The International System of Units, known as the SI, is the globally-agreed basis for expressing measurements at all levels of precision, and in all areas of science, technology, and human endeavour.

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I work two days a week with the Measurement Standards Laboratory. Yesterday, we had a very fun Christmas lunch which included a quiz, a haiku competition, and a stealing secret Santa. The gift I brought was stolen the maximum number of times, so I'll take that as a compliment 😄 This was it:

A flat disc made with seven shades of wool, depicting the seven base units of the International System of Units (the SI). It is hanging on a Christmas tree

The actual SI wheel. The units are kg (in red), metre (orange), second (yellow), ampere (green), Kelvin (blue), mol (puce), candela (dark purple)

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LA Dork @ladork.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

UNREMARKABLE POSTCARD SERIES, No. 104. Grand & Main. El Segundo, Calif. 1950s.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

In 1865, when a British entrepreneur built a demonstration railroad near Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi saw not progress but danger, had the tracks torn up & ordered that locomotive be replaced with horses. Within decades, imperial China would collapse. www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

In 1865, when a British entrepreneur built a demonstration railroad near Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi saw not progress but danger – of disruptions to feng shui, imperial graves and rural order – and had the tracks torn up.

Two decades later, when a Chinese-built coal line threatened to steam too close to sacred grounds, Cixi’s solution was not innovation but regression. She ordered that the locomotive be replaced with horses.

By clinging to tradition in the face of technological transformation, the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) delayed modernisation until it was too late. Within decades, imperial China would collapse under the weight of its own resistance to change.

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Freezer @freezer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The overton window shifted so far we now say Halo had simple graphics.

Youtube thumbnail of Halo 1 Master Chief with the text "The Beauty Of Less".

Video title 'Are Low Poly Games Better?'

Youtube transcript with the text:

If you grew up before the HD era, there's probably a game from your childhood that lingered in your imagination for years despite having simple graphics. For me, one of those games is Halo Combat Evolved.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

One of the UK’s most beautiful mushrooms to my mind, the Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus) is much less rare than one might think. I’ve found it in at least 3 different locations. As appetising as it looks, and despite its name, this one is in fact not considered an edible - bitter and rubbery.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

1) Bananas were first domesticated in Melanesia, especially New Guinea, between 7,000–10,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence from Kuk Swamp confirms early cultivation, with phytoliths showing deliberate planting of Musa acuminata 🧵(1/5) www.apscience.org.au/pbf_02_3/

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Tracing antiquity of banana cultivation in Papua New Guinea

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Look up United Fruit Co. on Wikipedia and all you’ll see is “In addition to many other labor actions, the company faced two major strikes of workers in South and Central America, in Colombia in 1928 and the Great Banana Strike of 1934 in Costa Rica.”

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Karla Pacheco! @thekarlapacheco.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Reading a book which is beating the thesaurus so bloody I believe the author should be charged with many crimes. They're not using the words incorrectly, and yet they're still using them WRONG!

I don't even know where to start, but I'm posting a picture of a book page, where the author uses arcane, inchoate, cryptic, alacrity, sepulchral, and goddamn TENEBROUS in four fucking sentences.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

These Pygmy Fruit-eating Bats are another one of my neighbors here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica They cut along the midrib of banana leaves to make them collapse into a protected little house. And then they cuddle with each other and wonder why this strange man is looking at them. #bats

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Cat in the Garden — Anastasia Trusova 2024 Acrylic on canvas

Painting of a little black cat and a garden for the colorful flowers seen from above

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Bree 🍄🦇🌿 @breebird33.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

hi I just found out about planthopper nymphs

two crazy woolly white insects with soft "tentacles" rising out of the back of their abdomen

several over these woolly white insects with soft "tentacles" facing each other on a leaf

lil guy insect with wild green coloring and almost pale blue fluorescent filaments erupting from its abdomen

it's like a firework on a lil insects back

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LK @lkcreations.art · 07/12/2025

Daily sketch 🪾🍂🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? #art #artsky #ink #sketch

A landscape with orange leaves tree and a lake. A little samurai silhouette stands in the middle and a cat is hiding somewhere.
Inidian inks on paper

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Have you been watching Cheetah Cub Cam (Smithsonian)? The babies are so huge now! Mom is so patient! 🧪

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The burial mounds at the archaeological site of Vysokaya Mogila, a necropolis with a series of high-status burial mounds scattered across 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) was in use between the 4th & 3rd centuries B.C., & a number of artifacts have been discovered both in the burial mounds & outside them.

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News - Sacrificial Complex in the Southern Urals Reveals Nomadic Rituals - Archaeology Magazine

ORENBURG, RUSSIA—According to the Greek Reporter, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) announced the discovery […]

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/12/2025

A study in Communications Earth & Environement reports that aluminum-rich float rocks from Jezero crater on Mars likely represent some of the wettest intervals of Mars’ history. go.nature.com/4ryEOCc 🔭 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows the location and examples of light-toned float rocks discovered at Jezero crater, Mars.

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