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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 19/09/2026

(bad) Idea: Pronoun selections for multiple pronoun users where you have the ability to set relative rates of each pronoun. Like maybe like: (a crosspost from a 2024 tumblr post)

A VB6 dialog box running on XP. The title is "Pronouns" and it has the menu options "File, Pronouns, Help". There's a main group labeled "Pronoun Order/Frequency", and below it four pronoun sets are shown: she/her, they/them, he/him, it/its". Each pronoun set has a slider, with she/her at 90%, they/them at 10%, and the remaining two at 0%. Next to each slider there's up and down arrow buttons for reordering. At the bottom of the sliders is an "Add new pronoun" button.

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

en esta economía??????

nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

blue grey octopus with big eyes on brown bottom

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Yael says this will help me get a job.

A purple drawing of a blob with a pencil and briefcase and very worried looking eyes. The text around it says:
THIS IS THE
EMPLOYMENT JELLY
REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.

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ben @benrs.uk · 14/04/2026

burgers should be wider, not taller imo

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

911 is too hard to remember. we should change it to something easier (867-5309)

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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Still Sunday here in the West, and I have one other to share for #Birdoftheday #feathers, a Golden Nightjar we saw in Saint Louis, Senegal in January. It sits in its pool of camouflage feathers like Jaba the Hutt.

Golden Nightjar rests on sand, feathers pooled around itself

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I can't believe the "New Yorker" REJECTED this cartoon!

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/01/2026

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

A screenshot of WhatsApp:

Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question.
Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know
Ash: Are jaguar soft?
Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My uncle got me a cool flash defuser system for making macro photos on the field. 🥹 But I don’t actually have a field macro lens. 🫠 I use bellows at home in the studio (or in a field studio). I need to raise funds to afford the right lens. So print sale. 🤗 Get a good chunk off with “prouduncle”.

ashponders.darkroom.com

Darkroom

Check out Pods on Darkroom

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

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tameflowers.bsky.social @tameflowers.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

this one is called goose horse

a four-legged ceramic goose, standing on the dashboard of a car

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

JUDGE: how does your client plead MY LAWYER: like a whiny little bitch your honor ME: hey quit it i do not JUDGE: whoa i see what you mean counselor MY LAWYER: right? so annoying

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11/12/2025

This is Bandit. He fell asleep while getting out of bed. We've all been there. 12/10 sweet dreams buddy (u/yarntist)

a silver pit bull puppy lays half in and half outside of his gray and black dog bed, which is propped up on its side. a lamb toy lays nearby as the little puppy snoozes soundly, totally unaware of the strange position he's ended up in.

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find. They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault
RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner
RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school
RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond
Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that.

@yaboyni
Take a moment
And and realize the moment
You took has already passed
Thank you
See you next time

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

absolutely monday pilled. i’m toil-maxxing. going drudgery mode. stumblecore. hitting my slog goals.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

For 4000 years man has craved one thing above all others: a mug that's also a little guy.

Ancient ceramic cup with ears and a nose.

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Roasted Garlic & Herb Paoli @huhhowdoibluethis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

NBC's broadcast of the Macy's parade has superimposed the word "FOREIGNER" over the balloon of Mario.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/11/2025

at some point you’ll finally accept it’s become an unc walk

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out

Mulligan, a gray cat, showing no remorse over the human water pitcher.

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🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈‍⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

estrogen, or as i call it, HER-oin

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 15/11/2025

important highway message

hacked digital road sign drawing of a dick and balls

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 05/11/2025

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal

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Eli (sleepy) @h-eli-copter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

just finished watching Killing Mary Sue after walking in halfway through and as far as i'm concerned it is now the only movie

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 14/10/2025

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 08/10/2025

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me. azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

azhdarchid.com

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 14/08/2025

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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i'm alice @heyimheroic.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

make your own website, even if it's bad

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Vicente Luis @diablicos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Kitty Cat Ears Co.

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Shawty HuckaTritt @shawty007br549.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Just took a Tylenol, and donated to Wikipedia. I guess I’m woke as shit.

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