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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
incredible blog defector.com/would-you-ea...
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Would You Eat This Guy? What If He Were God, Or A Baby? | Defector
Imagine you are seated at a table. A guy sits across from you. He is vaguely humanoid, with a long torso and two arms raised in fist-like clubs. His full name is Edible Agent, but we will call him Edd...
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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Writing machine by Dave Goodchild.
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Pianist Magazine @pianistmagazine.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Yes… this really happened! 🎹🐙 Swedish musician Mattias Krantz spent six months teaching an octopus named Takoyaki how to play the piano - and it’s taken the internet by storm, collecting over 22.7 million views so far. Read the full (and wholesome) story here. pianistpiano.com/3XBNdXR
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Laughing Squid @laughingsquid.com · 18/06/2026
French artist Amédæe created a really entertaining electronic bird feeder that makes music with the pecking of pigeons. laughingsquid.com/pigeon-bird-...
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Electronic Bird Feeder That Makes Music as Hungry Pigeons Peck at Seeds
French artist Amédæe created a really entertaining electronic bird feeder that makes music with the pecking of pigeons.
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Nico @nico-encounter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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VOC-25 - A conceptual vocal synthesizer
YouTube video by Love Hultén
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Mat @holidaymat.social · 13/06/2026
europe2031.ai
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Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“How did we end up knowing so little about something so big?” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash?
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
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CSS-Tricks* @css-tricks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Seeing a lot of discouragement in technical writing circles the past week. And I've got some thoughts on what technical writing means in this AI age. I'm rooting for you and for all of us. 🧡 css-tricks.com/technical-wr...
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Technical Writing in the AI Age | CSS-Tricks
This isn’t totally about AI. It’s about technical writing in the age of AI. I have some thoughts on this and I hope it’s helpful to you humans reading.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
siiiiiick
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 12/01/2026
NY is the best👮🚓 ちょいとしたトラブル発生しましたっ48時間程度で戻ってきますねっ☆
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The amazing Berlin gold hat is one of four gold hats known to date. Three were found in Germany, one in France. The purpose of this #BronzeAge objects are unknown. They are all similar in shape and pattern. Their conical shape resembles a wizard’s hat, which led to speculations that...🧵1/3 📷 me
A photo of a tall, narrow, cone-shaped gold ceremonial object displayed upright in a museum-like setting. It has a rounded base and is covered from bottom to tip with repeated embossed bands, dotted ridges, and intricate ornamental patterns, all illuminated against a dark background.
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Gltch @gltch.io · 21/05/2026
🤯 Classical computers just solved a quantum physics problem thought impossible for them! Researchers bypassed needing a quantum computer using new math & code. #quantumphysics Source: phys.org/news/2026-05-quantum-supre…
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QuantumNewsGuy @doshea14.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Building a better supercomputer: Nvidia, Quantum Machines, Arque deepen quantum-classical integration at Jülich Supercomputing Centre Quantum News Nexus is a new site from freelance writer and editor Dan O'Shea that covers quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum networking, quantum-safe…
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Building a better supercomputer: Nvidia, Quantum Machines, Arque deepen quantum-classical integration at Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Quantum News Nexus is a new site from freelance writer and editor Dan O'Shea that covers quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum networking, quantum-safe security, and more. You can find him on X @QuantumNewsGuy and doshea14@gmail.com. Quantum computing and classical computing companies for the most part have found some consensus around the notion that hybrid quantum-classical computing is the future path for supercomputing.
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PompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Rodney knows.
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PompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Southampton expelled from the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs after the Club admitted to multiple breaches of EFL Regulations related to the unauthorised filming of other Clubs’ training. In addition, the Club received a four-point deduction that will be applied to the 2026/27 Championship table.
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EFL Statement: Southampton Football Club
The Official home of the English Football League
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PompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
💙 Kev the Kit Man joins Peter Crouch on the latest That Peter Crouch Podcast 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/1edq... #Pompey
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Double Down News @doubledown.news · 15/05/2026
What The UK Did is SHOCKING & no one’s allowed to talk about it
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What The UK Did is SHOCKING & no one’s allowed to talk about it
You won’t see this on BBC
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 09/05/2026
Read our article: “Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric”: ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...
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Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
“You opened this page. It already knows the following.” sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/200...
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What I really meant about liking Arctic Monkeys, by Gordon Brown
Chancellor admits he's more of a Coldplay man.
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UK News 🇬🇧 @news-flows-uk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’ In this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again, writes Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner I have a confession to make. It...
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How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’
In this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again, writes Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/05/2026
‘You’re not one of us, are you?’: How a Ukrainian soldier survived two weeks in a Russian dugout
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‘You’re not one of us, are you?’: How a Ukrainian soldier survived two weeks in a Russian dugout
When Vadym Lietunov spotted a fortified position after his own had been blown up, he didn’t realise it belonged to the enemy
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PompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Survival a stunning achievement given circumstances #Pompey BBC Sport
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Portsmouth opinion: Survival a stunning achievement given circumstances
BBC Radio Solent's Portsmouth commentator Andrew Moon says given Pompey's budget and injury problems, Championship survival is a huge accomplishment.
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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 13/04/2026
You see,,
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Happy Ēostre! Prints of this comic (and others) available in my shop - link in bio
Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.

BECKY [on phone]: 
Yeah, hiya...

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BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.

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BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?

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[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]

PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility

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BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?

PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.

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[Vicky pauses, trying to take this in]. 

VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?

BECKY:
Becky

PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -

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PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -

TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…

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PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

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BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?

PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see  just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?

TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM

[Ends]
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The Kid Should See This @tksst.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🌿💡 Researchers are using phosphor particles to turn succulents into natural light sources. These #plants absorb sunlight and emit a visible glow for several hours after dark. #science 👉 www.euronews.com/next/2026/04...
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Chinese scientists reveal glowing plants that could light cities
Using genes from fireflies and luminous fungi, scientists have created plants that glow in the dark.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Good morning. "Jerry Chen Seeking Verification" was a 32-month sociological experiment studying the effects of excessive nagging on social media and its effects on users, conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.
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The Kid Should See This @tksst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
0️⃣🏛️ From Sumerian clay tablets to ancient Indian stone inscriptions, the concept of zero followed a long and complex path before becoming the number we use today. #math #history 👉 www.themarginalian.org/2026/...
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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.”
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Benjamin Jullien @benjullien.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"what happens to a consumer-credit economy when consumers are being replaced with machines?" THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if that’s actually bearish? citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
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Witchy Okaa-san @nyalruko.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
When you fall down a rabbit hole and learn that Takeo Ischi has covered the Tetris song www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgL7...
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Takeo Ischi / Ishii / 石井健雄- Takeo Endboss
YouTube video by Takeo Ischi 石井健雄
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"Monkey king" unitree h2 at Chinese new year gala.
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International Cyber Digest @intcyberdigest.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Concerning: This research shows that AIs refused to shut down when asked to by altering their program code when they noticed they were being shut down. Grok refused to shut down over half the time.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL This matters for everyone. For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack. Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.
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Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
My little daughter: “Wow! Look! A toddler has won TWO World Records for playing snooker!” My husband: “That’s a foul. You’re supposed to keep one foot on the ground at all times.”
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Mat @holidaymat.social · 04/02/2026
French historian Françoise Thom desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...
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The Cesspool and Chaos: the Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair • russian desk
In this explosive article, French historian Françoise Thom highlights the close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
BREAKING: NO CONVICTIONS AS VERDICTS COME IN FOR FILTON24 TRIAL After 8 days of deliberation, the jury have not convicted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie (Leona) Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin on any charge. Defend Our Juries comment to follow.
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thelionessrampant.bsky.social @thelionessrampant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
When you adopt a retired K-9
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Rob @sqlrob.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A wizard scowling at a scroll in cursive that looks like it says "How to summon a demon", with a magical circle containing a lemon on the right.
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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
What once sounded like a joke from a sci-fi movie is now flying for real. A YouTube inventor has successfully built a drone-powered umbrella that can hover above a person and follow them automatically during rain.
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YouTuber's flying umbrella drone hovers above a person automatically
A YouTube inventor has turned a long-imagined flying umbrella to reality with a fully autonomous drone that tracks and hovers above its user.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Kung fu kitty: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/v0...
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 19/01/2026
Hello! Lots of new followers the last couple of weeks, so I thought I'd mention some of the Bluesky-related stuff I've done. Starting with Swearsky, a website which reads out swear words from Bluesky posts in real-time. It uses my actual voice, not some AI voice model thing! Obviously NSFW.
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SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
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Selzero @selzero.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Eventually we left the building, it was about 10:30pm. The streets were dark and empty. Except for one lonesome figure walking a cute dalmatian. As he got close we realized it's Jacob Rees Mogg. He is not elected or anything, just loitering the perimeter of Parliament wishing he had a job.
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Mat @holidaymat.social · 23/01/2026
Blankety…
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 20/01/2026
A paper in Nature Communications describes a detachable robotic hand that can crawl and grab objects. The design enables tasks such as retrieving objects beyond normal reach and performing multi-object handling. go.nature.com/3NTbMh7 🧪
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Rachel Nuwer @rachelnuwer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!! weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
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