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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 4h

0.08 milligrams of fluoride per litre of drinking water protects against cavities by remineralizing enamel on our teeth. some of the fluoride finds its way to our bones, the rest coats our teeth via our saliva. fluoride occurs naturally in soil, air, and in some water (yes, naturally), which is

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 12h

Ugh, nope. Tapping out on streaming for one more week. Brain feels like sand. 😵‍💫

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14h

Michael Whelan’s work is in my imagination’s double helix, so SO important to me when I was a young would-be writer. Love this thread

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 13h

Thread. My running theory is that most men never learn how to separate sex and power. To them, it’s the same thing. So hating women and having sex with them is no different from conquering them. That sex can be anything mutually pleasurable is alien to them, like asking a fish about the desert.

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 13h

Alright, I slept awful last night, so idk if I’ll go live today. The new meds are still giving me occasional rounds of nausea, which also doesn’t make me very entertaining to watch. I’m gonna give it another hour and see how I feel. 😩

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i just can't get over the absolute histrionic absurdity involved in saying that someone committed "literary sex crimes" because you don't like their portrayal of your fictional vampire boyfriend

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𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐡✵ @dogyards.art · 04/10/2026

I’m glad that we are finally being defended by our community, because I’ve had it with the way we are treated as trans men and transmasc identifying trans men.

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok but…does it also glow. 😹

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

was talking to friends about an apocalyptic lake with a pH as high as ammonia, temperatures as high as 140°F, where animals are mummified into haunting crystalline statues, & ALSO, is the only place where lots of flamingos breed we all thought I might be reciting an AI hallucination BUT GUESS WHAT

ENVIRONMENT BLOG
A mummifying lake
How an African lake transforms unlucky wildlife into petrified statues
NEEL V. PATEL • NOVEMBER 26, 2013
A calcified flamingo at Lake Natron, 2012. The lake's properties allow it to naturally "mummify" dead organisms. [Image credit: Nick Brandt]

Image is of a creepy af mummified bird

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What's great about this is - Yes. Germany was in fact a source of great scientific knowledge in the end of the 19th century. If you wanted to do science, you learned German. And then the Nazis destroyed the German scientific establishment. Because that's what Nazis do.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

pirate walks into a bar with a ship’s steering wheel stuffed down his pants. bartender asks him what the deal is, and the pirate says “arr it’s driving me nuts!”

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Awww yiss, the Halloween decorations are finally up outside. (They’ve been up indoors since September) The crows Did Not Approve This and wouldn’t come near the feeder until I put peanuts far away from everything. 😹😅

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps.

Caption reads:
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The big national grocery chains need to be seized by the workers, converted into employee-owned coops, nationalized and turned over to municipalities, or in any other way, shape, or form destroyed.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first-ever I believe contingent of "FTM” folks marching in the 1994 Pride (anywhere?) in San Francisco included Loren Rex Cameron and a few of his buddies … and by a few of their tellings he stayed up all night making this banner, in this now-iconic image. That’s of course him there shirtless.

FTM TRANS PRIDE banner being held by LRC and a friend, with a few others behind

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 01/10/2026

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your daily affirmation: It's ok to feel out of place. It's ok to get some rest. It's ok to become the haunted horror at the center of a haunted world.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Why don't people come forward if the assault really happened?" This. This is why. Because they have to relive the trauma endlessly. Professionals pick holes in their story. They have to be perfect in every way to be credible. For a lot of survivors, the burden of proof is too heavy to carry.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 02/10/2026

This is also the time of year every coffee shop makes 'scary' lattes by putting charcoal in them. If you take birth control by mouth, that shit will not work when there's charcoal in your stomach.

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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trigger warning SA the "promising young men" who never faced consequences, justice or charges are now in charge of the world. Judges, deans, officers, politicians are to blame but so is everyone who turned a blind eye, who didnt believe victims, who blamed victims.

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What the fucking fuck?! I hope they catch who did it, but I doubt they will. Fucking mpd is useless.

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Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.com · 02/10/2026

LRP, in high school my friend took too much Tylenol and the ER gave her activated charcoal to sip. That's what they give to you to get medication out of your system/absorb it. If you drink/eat something that is black in color this spooky season, it likely has activated charcoal which nullifies meds.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

if you’ve never chased your friend around a yard cackling madly and spraying them with one of these things you haven’t truly lived

Super soaker 50 20th anniversary edition

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Huh. So the Covid shot barely touched me this time. My arm got sore, but that was about it. Every other time, it’s knocked me out for at least a day, usually two. I have no idea what changed, because it knocked my spouse on his ass for two days, he usually shrugs it off. It’s weird. O_o

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

What are we even doing anymore, people

A four pack of Oreo chicken and waffle flavored cookies

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 01/10/2026

Prior to these five deaths in Pennsylvania, the state had not reported a measles death in 35 years: arstechnica.visitlink.me/u-NSpC

arstechnica.visitlink.me

Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths

State health officials race to vaccinate residents by giving over 8,500 doses.

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Covid and flu shots got. Now we brace for impact. I’d still rather go through this than ever get COVID or the flu again.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excuse me wtf is this. We all know what's missing here and the obvious absence just makes it more noticeable.

Magic card called Dance with Goblins. David Bowie as the Goblin King is there but his signature bulge is not.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026

y'all if you get mad about women saying "choose the bear" please look up bear assault and murder statistics and then contrast with human men. It is objectively reasonable to choose the bear.

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why are you trans? Wrong answers only. I wanted to do bathrooms on hard mode. Will the single toilet be functional and not damp? Will the door even lock? Will I witness the dude pissing at the urinal leaving without washing his hands? (Seriously, why are men like this.)

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Muhahaha, I have finished Dungeon Crawler Carl #3 and have acquired #4. But since it is now spooky season, I’m putting the series on pause to read the horror novels that have been languishing in my hoard of to-be-read books. 🎃👻🍁

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

JCO took a literary legacy and stomped all over it by somehow being both the most pretentious asshole in any room and a tantruming toddler at the same time.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No matter how hard they try to spin this. The onus of not being a rapist. 100% is on the rapist. Always.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 30/09/2026

I would watch every single one of their ads, too, and not toss their Act Blue texts right into spam.

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trans masc here as well. It probably happened sooner (I’m neurodivergent and kind of oblivious, plus I dressed so much like a boy that I flew under the radar until I was much older) but the first time it really hit me was when I was 15. I cannot put into words, even now, how fucked up that felt.

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Koffie Kobold - Gnollsome Adventures! @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI truly is made for people who don't know what a hobby is.

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KalicoKobold @kalicokobold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Black-market dairies. It sounds like something you should run across in a D&D campaign, not the real world. 😫

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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