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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 3h

i think i'm 10% gayer now after what transpired over the night

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smokey! 🐻⛅️🍃 @sploggles.bsky.social · 12h

was showing my gay therapist some old art and he responded 'wooof' when this old smokey popped up 😭

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Zuccnini @zuccnini.bsky.social · 11h

Mr dinosir on the broccoli

Photograph of a miniature Mr Dinosir sitting on a broccoli plant

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Zecret (Comms Open) @zecretcolors.bsky.social · 11h

what is krow scared of

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 8h

trying to catch up on affection after such a long episode makes me feel like a puppy that's gotten loose and is overjoyed to see everyone and wants all the attention 😵‍💫

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marty 🌞 @martyrockanthem.bsky.social · 13h

telling my future kids this was john lennon

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 12h

starving xwx wish i could treat myself to fast food or something

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✨Rome🪶 @romesketches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weird-looking Archen… #art #oc #pokemon

Pokesona idea for my OC Rome as the Pokemon archen

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

was doing one of those conversation cube games in vrchat the other night and said a food take so controversial that EVERYBODY started fighting 😆

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Cubivor @cubivor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

got hit with a sudden urge to draw sandile, very polite looking guy that'll only bite you a little bit

a sandile sitting while looking right at you. its chill though, he seems very polite and well behaved

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i don't think i can ever emotionally recover from completing digimon beatbreak 😔 this might be the first show to regularly make me cry praying for a second season or a movie but im not too hopeful

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also i'm alive i just woke up from being tuckered out due to cleaning the entire bathroom, was excited to try out an electric spin scrubber that I got in the mail, it made my job significantly easier and i don't get cramps from cleaning the tub anymore

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

:( i went to make a grilled cheese and discovered that the entire bag of sharp cheddar already has green mold on it when its only a few days old... god I hate kroger

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Shaaloani Roadhead 🔜 Claws Out @hyenablood.yeen.world · 28/09/2026

who wants to learn a scent thing I just learned geosmin is the compound responsible for the smell of rain on dry soil which I already knew but apparently we're 200000x more sensitive to it than sharks are to blood, a dilution equivalent to 1 teaspoon in 200 olympic pools????

Geosmin (CAS 19700-21-1, C₁₂H₂₂O, MW 182.30) is a bicyclic sesquiterpene alcohol — specifically, (4S,4aS,8aR)-4,8a-dimethyloctahydronaphthalen-4a(2H)-ol. It is the principal odorant of wet earth. Not an abstraction: the actual molecule your nose detects when rain lands on dry soil, when a beetroot is sliced open, when a Streptomyces colony sporulates in garden compost.

The compound was isolated and named in 1965 by Nancy N. Gerber and Hubert A. Lechevalier at Rutgers University, from cultures of Streptomyces griseus. The name derives from Greek: geō (earth) + osmḗ (smell). Gerber elucidated its structure in 1968 as trans-1,10-dimethyl-trans-9-decalol. Its biosynthesis — from farnesyl diphosphate via germacradienol, through a bifunctional terpene synthase — was not fully resolved until 2007 by Jiang, Cane et al.

Human sensitivity to geosmin is extraordinary. The detection threshold of the natural (−)-enantiomer sits between 5 and 15 parts per trillion — roughly one teaspoon dissolved in 200 Olympic swimming pools. The (+)-enantiomer is approximately 11 times less potent. This hyper-sensitivity is not accidental: geosmin signals the presence of water in soil, which held obvious survival value for early hominids. The olfactory receptor OR11A1 has been identified as the primary detector.

Geosmin is produced by Streptomyces (actinobacteria), several genera of cyanobacteria, and certain fungi including Penicillium species. It is the molecule behind the earthy flavour of beetroot and the muddy taint in catfish raised in pond aquaculture. In water treatment, its presence at concentrations as low as 10 ng/L triggers consumer complaints — a persistent headache for municipal utilities worldwide.

To put that in context, a shark can smell blood at one part per million. That means human noses are 200,000X more sensitive to geosmin, which is also the source of the earthy taste in some vegetables, than a shark is to blood. No wonder I hate the taste of beets, my nose is probably better than yours.

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✦ @wuol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a myre from may that i forgot 2 post

digital drawing of a dragon swimming between the swaying stalks of a warmly lit kelp forest, her eyes are closed as she swims forward.

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

im sorry to those whom i used to regularly hang with, i kind of had a long term episode where i detached from everything and went survival mode. i cant afford to have my illness treated and this is the only way i can safely process highly stressful times without doing something that i'd regret haha

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

convenient how I always have a severe allergy attack right when I open a new box of tissues

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Jovvilo @jovvilo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i will miss waiting every week for the next beatbreak episode, i really loved this season. thank you glowing dawn🩷 #digimon

sketch of the main digimon from digimon beatbreak: cougarmon, gekkomon, pristimon and chiropmon.

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Leshen @leshen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good to have a reminder every once in a while. It's easy to do, and the problem is likely to get worse. So make it a habit.

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Jim the Belmont @jimthebelmont.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I keep getting these pop ups that appear every time I put a disk into the drive. What gives? 🤔 #furryart #synth #retro #pixelart #oc

Art of my OC synth like Deer, Glidoe on a Windows 98 background and pop up reminiscent of Clippy.

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Marshy 🏳️‍🌈 @deimodoodles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This seems like a pretty neat musical robot deer! (Finally finished my phonodroid sona! Phonodroid species created by Smorbee) #phonodroid #furry

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

people expecting the frame to run full on vrchat standalone have their expectations far too high lol have they even interacted with a quest? you expect a technological leap that massive within a couple years of the 3's release?

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✺ 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍 ✺ @mothsprout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Redwood Forest, Old friends 🌲

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wanted to pay tribute to Michel Gagné's 2D FX work (The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, My Little Pony, Osmosis Jones, The Saga of Rex...). He usually animates his effects at 24fps. www.youtube.com/@MichelGagne

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✦. @beastbait.art · 25/09/2026

Completed design for @fursuiting.bsky.social !! 🐾☁️

Sitting plush, pastel, quilted Akita with pierced, tagged, and pinned ears and a septum ring.

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

where do i find the fat fur art where theyre comfortable in and celebrate their bodies and arent telling me to eat more 🫩 the kink overlap tires me out sometimes

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Aery @slitherwing.xyz · 24/09/2026

its finally less than 70 degrees outside

colored doodle of an anthro glaceon wearing a coat, pants, and boots

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

i love having a snout collider

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Airplanes.gov.uk @planeyboys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On this Lugia Day 2026 we will concentrate our thoughts into manifesting them a bigger tent #lugia #pokemon

Drawing of Lugia lying down in a tent that is too small for them

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Airplanes.gov.uk @planeyboys.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I gotta do it man I just gotta draw the loogs #lugia #pokemon

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

wtf stop stealing my flow

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Katherine Crossan @kackington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WARTORTLE!!!!!!!!!!

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

is it bad that my anxiety spikes whenever I blab about something that I like because i'm so used to not being acknowledged haha

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Puck 🦦 @ritzmeow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this yummy ass zigzagoon

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Ash Pixel @ashpixel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I love these two foxes <3 #HisuianZorua #Zorua #Pokemon #Arceus #Pixelart #Pokemonfanart #히스이조로아 #조로아 #포켓몬 #도트 #픽셀아트 This piece was quite a challenge, but I learned so much through the process!

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quartz @itsquartz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I dont know how I can break out of and stay away from feeling like my only value is being an object of convenience but its ruining my life and hindering the progress that I've made towards recovering socially it doesn't help that people keep proving that my intuition is often correct as well :/

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