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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 16h

album of the day: Zooropa by U2. for when you really need to be back on your bullshit, goddamn this album fucks I love it so much y’all

Cover art. Doodle of a large baby head in an astronaut helmet surrounded by glitchy yellow stars reminiscent of the EU flag. Background is a mess of tv screens and words so glitched out they’re impossible to read

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

got followed by “eleanorwetgoat” on tumblr today, which is such a perfect tumblr url that it’s honestly a shame she’s a bot

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

back on my bullshit; One is just a really fucking good song

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you got a doorbell? i'll ring it @carithlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the latest XKCD is spiritually 17776 xkcd.com/3304/

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Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's fun

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me, totally safe, after spending four delightful hours in Jurassic Park's passenger pigeon and dodo sanctuary: "Fuck happened out here"

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a shower ux review 4 u

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“My eyes! The goggles do nothing!” 31 years ago today, September 24, 1995, #TheSimpsons episode “Radioactive Man” first aired on Fox.

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mike Mills. but also: Carol Kaye, Tina Weymouth, Nick Seymour, Tony Levin, Paul McCartney, Joe Doyle, Gail Ann Dorsey, ok fine Adam Clayton can be on this list too

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Zoo Boise @zooboise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Penguins aren't hatched knowing how to swim. Before our two new penguin chicks returned to the Penguin Pavilion, they took "swimming lessons" with animal care staff. Check out their progress and technique as they graduated from the kiddie pool to deeper waters and finally, to the penguin pool!

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

if you think ai automation will result in ubi you have to say why industrial and then computer automation didnt

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This (and the rest of the really only tangentially related thread which you should read because it’s great) makes my atheist ass very happy

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

absolutely wild car crime dreams this morning • waiting at a drive thru, someone smashed my windshield with a baseball bat • different someone broke into my trunk where I was carrying (who knows why) several beehives, and they stole the honey I don’t know where this all came from

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Came across these little goobers and I adore them. They're replicas of misericord carvings from the Lincoln Cathedral in England

A knight, seemingly sneaking about with his sword and shield at the ready.

A monk in the fetal position, apparently giggling.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Emily Wilson, I do love you. (From “Translating The Odyssey” in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea.)

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Petty Whine Time: it is so chilly and humid that everything is super clammy and sticky and my nail polish won’t dryyyyy

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel that it’s very unfair that knowing the thoughts are unhealthy doesn’t keep you from having the unhealthy thoughts, why is Logic not a perfect disinfectant

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

st jerome patron saint of scholars and translators pray for us. st julian of norwich who may have been onto something walling herself up in a small room away from the da vinci code pray for us

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my first thought was What Dreams May Come, I should watch this again (my second thought was The Fall because @carithlee.bsky.social is a good influence)

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

just saw Coyote Vs Acme, what a goddamn delight, so many little references and bits and callbacks, fantastic integration of live action and 2D animation, just so much fucking fun, I love it so much

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Again, I feel shitty even asking given the state of the world in general, but this is going to eat about $10,000 all told, and while I think we can get some help from relatives, I’d just. Super appreciate any help anyone has to spare ko-fi.com/dynamicsymme...

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Buy Sunny Moraine a Coffee

Become a supporter of Sunny Moraine today!

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22/09/2025

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post
every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Maybe this really was Elissa Slotkin's experience in the weeks after 9/11, but it sure as hell wasn't mine. People lost their fucking minds, and pretending they didn't, that everybody wanted to sit around and sing kumbaya, is revisionist insanity.

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

album of the day: Collapse Into Now by R.E.M. for when the slightest bit of finesse might have made a little less mess

Cover art. Black and white photo of three white men, one in front and two behind. The one in front has his left hand raised in the air. The photo is overexposed, showing very little gray. Yellow and black shapes and stripes make up the rest of the art, with the album title in large heavy black capitals behind the photo.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026

we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked

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FULL FOP MODE 🦋🪭🫦 @momebie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, for one thing, he’s a much more accomplished writer than I am and people would notice immediately.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't want to go to meetings today. I want to be a deinonychus.

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

whatever the opposite of thalassophobia is, I have it

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

And then suddenly you find the most important question ever asked in an 17th century book. The depth, the power, the genius... Is cheese rational? Well, is it? IS IT?! web.archive.org/web/20200915...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it is actually shocking how much of this movie is dumb droid bullshit (complimentary)

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

fela, adj/adv: much, a great number, many. (FELL-ah / ˈfɛ-la) Image: Partridges in a bestiary; N Italy, c. 1290; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.459, f. 18v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of five of six birds flying toward a bird walking on the ground; the sixth bird flies away from the others.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

every so often I remember my Old English professor referring to Hrothgar’s men as “Grendel’s chickie nuggies” in the middle of our Very Serious Translation Session, I loved her so much

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sapient pearwood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the Venn diagram of people on my TL that are Heated Rivalry folk and people on my TL that are the old LJ crowd is a single circle tonight

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