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Amaranth Eve Dench @amadenchart.bsky.social · 10h

"Silent Huntress" Original character: Su (Amur leopard). #art #animalart #amurleopard

Illustration of a female Amur leopard with bright blue eyes carrying a roe deer through a snowy landscape.

Illustration of the Amur leopard’s human visage form, a brown-haired woman with blue eyes crouching over a dead roe deer.

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Max 🔜 SJmade Illo mart B405 @jaegerpilotmax.bsky.social · 6h

Hey artist alley peeps and anyone that ships their artwork! Do you have an alternative to Amazon for buying your shipping materials? Like sleeves, bubble mailers, cardboard, flat rigid envelopes?? I need to restock on some things and really want to cut that dependency off

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Scani [🐎🐦] @scanigryph.bsky.social · 5h

ICYMI, Fluxer is a FOSS instant messaging and VoIP app. If you're looking for an alternative to Discord, worth a signup (note that signups are limited).

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Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 13h

💎 quicky colored that Spyro from awhile ago! 💎 #Spyro

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Do you know about Juan de Pareja (1610-1670)? He was an Afro-Hispanic painter who first worked as a slave for the famous painter Diego Velázquez, learning from him. In 1650, Velázquez freed him, and he began his own successful artistic career. He was described as a great Baroque portrait artist.

"Portrait of Juan de Pareja" by Diego Velázquez. Circa 1650.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

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Kesslan @kesslan.bsky.social · 10h

Spam email that claims to be some sort of compensation for something something from the FBI.... Riiiiiiight. I mean, I'm Canadian for starters, so they got -that- wrong. It would be CSIS in that case, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't compensate me for anything.

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Zoë🦨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️⚧⚢ @zoeskunk.bsky.social · 10h

Helldivers and Helldivers 2 are supposed to just be fun video games. Not a road map. The same as, A Handmaid's Tail, 1984, Fahrenheit 451. Those aren't meant to be road maps either. But here we are. Sure as 9 hells and wet thighs, seems like road map use.....

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026

In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.

seattletimes.com

Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage

The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.

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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was in college, I was Dennis Haskins' handler for a Mr. Belding meet and greet event. As a huge Saved By The Bell fan, I was excited to do it, until I’d heard afterwards that he needed a handler because he wasn’t allowed to be alone in the same room with women.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

trib.al

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well look who finally came out of their room to join us!!!

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's still funny that this is a real screenshot of @lastweektonight.com

John Oliver from Last Week Tonight with a tweet I wrote in 2022 at Kandiss Taylor that simply reads "L + ratio + furry butt emote". Below is my Twitch emote, soatokButt. Which features a blue anthro dhole's butt and a smirk looking back over the left butt cheek.

The original tweet depicted in the previous screenshot.

Kandiss Taylor: "The furry days are over when I’m governor. Public school is for academics not fairy tales."

Me: "L + ratio + furry butt emote"

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🌈Eski🌈 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, I'm still staunchly in the "wear mask in public indoor settings" camp. I'm still protecting myself and my disabled husband, because COVID isn't gone. It genuinely sucks socially sometimes, but our health and lives matter more.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The final marker drawing

A marker drawing of Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element in a small Moleskine sketchbook. To the right are two Copic markers and a PITT artist pen.

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rooshoes @roo.shoes · 28/09/2026

very pleased that multiple people get this

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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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Sidekick @sidekicksart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Strip Search" -- "This will not do, small one. The purification ritual must not be tainted by such humble rags. Worry not, we know of the modesty preferences of diplomats, so one of our regal advisors shall provide adequate cover. There, that's much better. Now then, everyone, shall we begin?"

A zebra guards hold up a small, cheetah-print loincloth, removed from Sides the ferret. Sides stands nude, his hands held above his head, as another guard covers most of his package with a single hand, holding his tail with the other, and the zebra's cock peeking through Sides' legs. Sides is clearly embarrassed.

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Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bill Wolkoff has kindly shared this image of the mask used for M'Ress in #StarTrekSNW's "Tomorrow's Enterprise" at Threads. So you can see it was a practical effect. 👌

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Alexcheetah @alexcheetah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why isn't this from the Onion.

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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am so very tired of our "majority government" Liberals advancing absolutely horrendous policy that the worst people on Earth want (AI, fossil fuel extraction, anti-labour legislation, etc.). #cdnpoli

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Lukas (skunk) @lukasisaskunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is so fucking funny oh my god

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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BIG_RED_40TECH @bigred40tech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tens of thousands of incidents. No, AI is no conscious, but yes, AI is a genuine threat to the internet at this stage. It is ruining the public internet and the utilities it depends on, leaving damage that will take billions to fix. This technology should be shut down.

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Kesslan @kesslan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For everything else, there's;

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 2011, most furries I tried to befriend in person were either *super* irritating and self-absorbed, or they wholesale dismissed my existence for not already being sexually involved with someone in their clique. Don't look to the past with rose-colored glasses.

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Amadose 🔞 @amadose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm... being targeted by InfoWars...

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These so-called glass claw beakers were distinctive art forms for early Anglo-Saxons in England and northern Frankish kingdoms. This one was unearthed at the Ringlemere barrow in Kent. The moulded glass appendages look very octopus-like. 🕰️c.400 to 600 AD 🏛️📷 BM #FindsFriday

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fun fact, Raiders of the Lost Ark is set in 1936, so there is a chance that four years earlier Indiana Jones watched "Love in High Gear", the last movie starring silent film actor Harrison Ford.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

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Eunos Rakune @rakune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me guiding the catering truck to resupply the litter boxes for the pilots

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Adult content creators are seen as real people by fans, rebutting years of anti-porn claims that sex work strips creators of humanity. In fact, OnlyFans creators were percieved as having more self-control, free will and capacity for independent thinking than other women.

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Sexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggests

People who sell explicit digital content online are heavily sexually objectified by observers, yet they are still viewed as capable individuals with free will. These findings challenge traditional psy...

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Miss Cryptid🔞 @misscryptidart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To the stickered vehicle outside my LGS, I know what you are.

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Micaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz @dykedeitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

annual reminder that Bobby Kotick threatened to sue me and my college paper for an essay I wrote about him donating $4 mil to the university, which he only knew about because his daughter went there too and had her feelings hurt

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Gulumunkus @gulumunkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

discord casually admitting they know that nobody wanted the age verification implemented and trying to be funny about it is seriously something that the pr team should reflect on and really study when they lose a lot of nitro subs in this next week