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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 7h

"You dare challenge me?"

A black-and-white cat stands upright on his hind legs on an ironing board, with his tongue slightly sticking out.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Corporate powerhouses and billionaires are flooding politics with money to shape policy—and to pick their favorite next legislators. Sludge and The Lever are uncovering how this influence works—now you can get full access to our scoops, two for the price of one. 🤯

Sludge headline: Health Insurers Are Paying Third Way as It Targets the Left (08-10-26)

https://readsludge.com/2026/08/11/health-insurers-are-paying-third-way-as-it-targets-the-left/

Lever News headline: The Billionaire Building The Democrats’ New Machine (08-27-26)

https://www.levernews.com/the-billionaire-building-the-democrats-new-machine/

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026

Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Monica Morrill (Canadian Artist, born 1976) "Northern Radiance", 2026. Acrylic on Canvas, 36" × 36". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883–1957) "The Pond at the Benten Pavilion of Shiba", 1929. Woodblock Print (Ink and Color on Paper), 27.3 × 39.8 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]

Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cornell University has announced that the Cornell Seven will not be allowed to use AI to write their University-mandated rape apology essays.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anatomical Painting (1946) by Russian-born surrealist painter, set and costume designer, Pavel Fyodorovich Tchelitchew (1898-1957) Oil on canvas 143 x 117 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

i have been laughing at this for 5 minutes straight

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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m @mjjii.com · 30/09/2026

from the zine

Fierce Pigeon Interview

I caught up with the pigeon who's taking Spunkton by storm for being "fierce" (stylish and confident).

What does a typical day look like for you?
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Is there anything you're really interested in lately?
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[digital art of a pigeon walking]

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hiroshi Nagai (Japanese Artist, born 1947) "Traveling North", 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 11.6 × 8.9 inches. Illustration. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

WHY I AM YELLING: MY HUMAN MADE PIZZA BUT IT IS JUST COOLING ON THE COUNTER NOBODY IS FEEDING IT TO ME

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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

how it feels

the wheel of samsara with a kitty powerless against the endless cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Eva Fialka (Hungarian/French, born 1960) "Black Cats", 2023. Acrylic on Canvas, 100 × 100 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pilgrim-4 (2023) by South Korean artist Sun-Hyuk Kim (born in 1984). Painted stainless steel 147 cm wide, 144 cm high, and 102 cm deep #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Great Mystery of Water (2016) by Métis visual artist, environmentalist, author and activist, Christi Belcourt. Born 1966 in Toronto, Canada. Acrylic on canvas #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s a kestrel party 80 miles offshore! 🌿🪶🎉

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ya-ya-nyan, the mascot of Owase City, is a welcoming cat whose clothes celebrate Owase's nature, culture, and fishing industry. The name "Ya-ya" comes from the unique "Ya-ya Festival", where people dress in white and fight in the streets. Ya-ya-nyan’s special skill is being able to sleep anywhere.

A smiling white and brown cat mascot with two fish and a heart on its headband stands in a convention centre.

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Alex Sauerbrunn @birdsbyalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Boobies were out last weekend! #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Nazca Booby — A large white and brown seabird glides over the ocean. Photographed off Anacapa Island, California.

Blue-footed Booby — A large brown and white seabird with bright blue feet perched on the side of a cliff. Photographed on Santa Barbara Island, California.

Red-footed Booby — A large brown seabird with a blue and gray bill floats on the ocean. Photographed off Anacapa Island, California.

Cocos Booby — A large brown seabird with a white breast glides through the air. Photographed off Santa Barbara Island, California.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 20/08/2026

Antiquing find

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the week of the MI senate primary, a group of river tubers on the Muskegon went missing for three days after they got in the water not realizing the river only flows in one direction and doesn’t just take you back to your car. They’re more representative of voters than anyone on here.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Charles Le Brun, before 1685

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Eóin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey all. After being quiet for months, I can finally share what I’ve been working on: I’m co-founding a video game studio! With @fairemortal.bsky.social! It’s called Patch Notes Interactive, and I’ll be its creative director. We’re making bold, story-driven titles, and I could not be happier.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Duane Keiser (American, born 1966) "Last Slice", 2025. Oil on Board, 8" × 9". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i have said it before and ill say it again every single financial institution would benefit from paying a pink hair communist with a septum piercing to walk around the office all day saying “how fucking stupid are you people that you actually believe this shit?”

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 17/09/2026

You bolt awake. You are not online. It is 219. You are Abba Arikha, and you have seen the future. It cannot come to pass. You must not promote the Talmudic tradition of insane hypotheticals and edge cases in religious law.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Giraffe Car! @jenbrucker.com · 15/09/2026

We live in a Mr. Show Skit ass country...

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

GUESS WHO’S HOME

An orange cat wearing a blue cone sitting in a dark blue litter box. He looks more than a little grumpy about the whole situation.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Eric Bowman (American, b.1960) "What We Never Talk About," 2013 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My family’s pet cockatiel, Nibbles, just passed away. She adopted us back in 2001, when she appeared in our driveway, hungry and scared. She hopped onto my extended arm, and has been a member of our family ever since. Nibbles was at least 30 years old — an extraordinarily long life for a cockatiel!

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