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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For I am a salt-hag. I know gull gossip. I know the calling and quelling of storms. My hair is wind-braided. My lips wear rough salt kisses. I stand on the cliffs and read omens pulled by the tide. Be well and avoid my anger. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 29/09/2026

I fail to understand why squirrels are not the top trending topic at all times

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI: Getting more and more advanced, things progressing quickly Me helping researchers: Let's talk about the benefits of documenting any work that you do, or naming things so that you understand them later.

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The Simpsons: Marge Simpson Go-Karting

ALT: The Simpsons: Marge Simpson Go-Karting

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

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

The enshittification of the National Science Foundation will go down as one of the greatest moral injuries I've experienced in my career.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Issue 61 of #rdmweekly! ➡️ Open Research in the Arts, Humanities and Qualitative Social Sciences @jenniad.bsky.social ➡️ CODECHECK: An Open Science Initiative for the Independent Execution of Computations ➡️ Intro to Synthetic Data @ukdataservice.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 061

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/10/2025

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump’s NSF is only funding research that props up his AI donors. This is so deeply corrupt, and such a tragedy for science.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 02/09/2026

It really is this simple. Don't watch.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

please give yourself the gift this spooky season of the “Dracula” audiobook where Tim Curry is Van Helsing and Alan Cumming is Renfield, it’s everything you could ever want from “Dracula” and it’s a sleeper hit on my Personal Tim Curry Faves roster

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss

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Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain

Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

no one has ever had, or will ever have, a better creative day than Dolly Parton writing Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 24/08/2026

🎵 Data Rescue in the Morning!🎵 Join us this #MemeMonday in the studio for our pretend talk show. We'll cover pressing #DataRescue issues like data documentation, accessible file formats, and kettle corn. #iykyk

A still from the show "Community." Characters Abed and Troy hold mugs and smile. Superimposed text reads "Data Rescue in the Morning"

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 21/08/2026

St Francis participates in the backyard bird count, circa 1350

Medieval painting of 2 monks, one with halo, and a tree full of birds

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yeah it ys a BLEAKE! HOUSE!

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 17/08/2026

This #MemeMonday we want to call attention to a serious problem: data that aren't properly documented. In our #Community of #DataRescuers, we know just how important it is to have robust documentation to understand (and use!!) datasets.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12/08/2026

🚨 important cat news 🚨

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12/08/2026

It is Walnut Wednesday, my dudes. Squirrel of the Day for August 12, 2026 #sqrlpix

Black squirrel eating a walnut in a tree

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 10/08/2026

It's #MemeMonday and we're doing our best out here. As #DataRescuers, we do our best to stay informed and ahead of impacts but it can be tough. We appreciate everyone in our #Community for all of the hard work that you do!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 05/08/2026

Harry Potter has been on the NYT Children's & Young Adult Series list for NINE HUNDRED AND FIVE WEEKS, in case you're wondering whether anyone gives a shit about giving the terf queen their money. And know that every pull to publish, fanfic, tattoo, pin, whatever the fuck keeps these books relevant.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hi. The raccoon in Seattle is not “fucked up” or “broken” and doesn’t have a “disorder”. He has skeletal dysplasia. Peter Dinklage is not broken and neither is the raccoon. Does he have challenges? Sure. It’s a world not built for him. Plus he’s a raccoon.

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spookily scarily pitt girl 👻🎃👻 @opg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

a) college is not trade school. the point is not only to get a high paying job b) this will destroy fields like social work and librarianship, which are super important but wildly underpaid even though they often require advanced degrees in part because they’re “care” jobs primarily held by women

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Issue 53 of #rdmweekly is out!📬 ➡️ ECR Asks: Q & A with @eivimeycook.bsky.social ➡️ data-dict.yaml (data dictionary specification) @hadley.nz ➡️ Modern Python Project Management for Researchers with uv @digiresacademy.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 053

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Do they seem disoriented, pale, and clammy? Of course they do. But they may also be in distress.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 08/07/2026

Graphical representation of of Brown Econ undergrad cheating www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... h/t @jacobtlevy.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com #AI #LLM

Graph showing difference between midterm (LLM aided) versus final (unaided) scores

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/07/2026

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It’s ruined.

rump turning our National Retlecting Pool into our National Cesspool has got to be the most perfect naturally occurring metaphors of all time.
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I clean actual swimming pools for a living. This will not work. The reflection pool used to act much like a natural body of water with natural filtration. It would (leak) drain through the granite and new water was added. Now it's been "sealed" with polyurethane and will no longer drain itself and the standing water will grow even MORE algae. With circulation and filtration added, it will no longer be a reflecting pool. Only still water perfectly reflects. It's ruined.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature

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Jen Chaput @jenchaput.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

These were both great! And the audiobooks are fab.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 16/06/2026

Where you'll see a rare bird. Thanks to @ryanfm.bsky.social's newsletter for teaching me about the Cabanis's ground-sparrow that lives behind the walmart