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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 03/10/2026

Found a little gem on youtube. Story set in Viking age Iceland, the actors speak Old Norse and the clothes and props look very impressive, the scenery even more so. Short independent film but more accurate looking than quite a few big budget films. youtu.be/8Sm5itntHV0?...

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HAMRAMMR - Icelandic Historical Short Film | Full Film

YouTube video by Northern Storm Pictures

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 02/10/2026

“… And then the creatures yanked him out of the ground, skinned him alive, boiled him, and ate him. The end. Now go to sleep!”

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your *fourth* moment of calm (sound up)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend @penfriendrocks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hate money and love music, so to celebrate 7 years + 1 day of quitting my 15 year solo project She Makes War I've made everything on my Bandcamp page FREE / pay what you can: shemakeswar.bandcamp.com 5 albums, 3 EPs, 4 demo collections, 4 fanclub releases, 5 instrumental albums + more!

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She Makes War

Check out my new music project Penfriend at http://penfriendrocks.bandcamp.com +++ She Makes War was the solo project of Bristol based multi-instrumentalist producer and visual artist Laura Kidd. ...

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh god the cat's copying famous pictures again

Andrew Wyeth, 'Christina's World' (1948)

Merrill the cat lying in an odd position

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roman #glass - flask found at Caerleon (Isca Silurum) 1st Century AD . 📷 My own. On display at Caerleon Legionary Museum. #Roman #Archaeology #FindsFriday #artwork

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 02/10/2026

Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...

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Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools

Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 01/10/2026

Facebook is a hot mess of garbage that I only still have for very stupid reasons, but every so often it serves up something beautiful. I will probably never be anywhere near this coffee shop, but if I were, I would throw money at them

A facebook post from Caffe Lucca - which appears to be in Halifax - that reads "We don't use AI for anything, but we don't want to be left behind with so many restaurants churning out slick flyers. Here's our best made-by-humans approximation." The image shows a white person with short hair holding three paper coffee cups in about four hands. The fingers are all weird and the images have been pasted together badly. Down the left side of the image, a series of paper coffee cup sleeves have been written on. They say "coffee!" and "hurry!" and "cud" among other somewhat random and repetitive words.

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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 01/10/2026

Areal view. Today's cartoon by @emadelrosso.bsky.social. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

Two map snapshots labeled Gaza 2023 and Gaza 2026: a densely built neighborhood in 2023 and, by 2026, widespread destruction with remaining building outlines arranged to spell 'GENOCIDE'.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/10/2026

#HappyToastMonsterMonth Day 1 - Widow's Bay's Sea Hag

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today I discover that Cillian Murphy starred in a music video for a choon.

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8:58 - The Clock (featuring Cillian Murphy)

YouTube video by 858VEVO

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/

A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Mark Parisi @offthemarkparisi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Definitely go see Coyote vs Acme. So fun and so well done

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/09/2026

Made another meme. Feel free to use it, the meme that is. More info: www.academia.edu/5333789/Xylo... www.jstor.org/stable/4433639 journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/fu... archaeologymysteries.com/2023/03/28/d... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospo... www.reddit.com/r/badhistory...

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...

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What would orbital data centers look like from your sky?

500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally, some honesty about the shitshow that is #Brexit

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 29/09/2026

@eurosky.social @bsky.app absolutely rife with spam all originating from accounts with usernames that are subdomains of lnan.site. We need the ability to block at the domain level (I think Mastodon has had this for a while)

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 30/09/2026

In the hallway of the Old Cartoonists’ Home

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 29/09/2026

All the atoms in your body were once part of a star. You’re literally made of stardust!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He broke the system

4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A doctor at her desk says, "Mr. Johnson, I have to talk to you. Please have a seat." Panel 2: Mr. Johnson crosses his arms. "Absolutely not. I know that trick." Panel 3: "If I sit down, you'll tell me I'm gonna hear the worst. So I prefer standing." Panel 4: The doctor thinks to herself, "Damn... this guy's good."

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

for rent, duplex unit

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/09/2026

A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.

Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.

A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 28/09/2026

sounds of nature 🌿

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 28/09/2026

These late Rerun strips from the 1990s are so great. This one made me laugh. ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 10/13/1998

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 28/09/2026

By Chris at lyonkid: www.instagram.com/lyonkid.art/

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please help if you can! Queen City Cat Lounge is an adoption center I visit frequently here in Vermont and their window was vandalized last night. Fortunately they had double glass for the cats' safety, but the broken outer window needs to be fixed ASAP. www.gofundme.com/f/repair-and...

Poster with a black and white screenshot of security footage showing a man peering into the front window of a cat adoption center. Text says "please help Queen City cat lounge recover. last night someone broke the window at Queen City cat lounge - an adoption center that has placed hundreds of cats in loving homes. the cats are all safe but the window needs to be replaced quickly!"

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The UK has no strategic food reserves, imports more than 40 percent of its food, and grows most of the rest in parts of the country most prone to serious drought in the years and decades to come We are not - to say the least -in a good place www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns

Keys crops such as cereals, potatoes, sugar and oils grown in areas with moderate to very high risk

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MosaicMonday The #Roman mosaics of Villa del Tellaro near Noto, Syracuse, #Sicily. The villa, dates from the 4th C AD. The floors of the three rooms are taped with mosaics depicting mythological, hunting and dancing scenes. #Archaeology #History #Art

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 27/09/2026

"Day 226 orbit 3501 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 16, part 2: How radiation affects systems and astronauts…" with @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot! 🎥 ESA/NASA #εpsilon

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/09/2026

The last three months are the warmest on record globally, relative to every other June-July-August period since 1850. Data from NOAA/NCEI's NOAAGlobalTempv6.1.0.

Line graph time series of global land mean surface temperature anomalies for each June-August period from 1850 through 2026. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly averaged for June-August 2026 was 1.21°C for global land areas. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. Data from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0.

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