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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 4h

if i ran for public office this would be my platform: if you’re sending me a demanding email you must attach a pic of a pug wearing a beret or something

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 10h

And the best thing is when you find that special someone.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 03/10/2026

If we all try hard enough we can will this into actual existence. (Cc @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social)

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An easy fix: Boeing launches as it is, with no additional funds, and the CEO and three randomly selected board members are the crew. Whether Boeing refunds the money or the execs burn up upon re-entry, nothing of value would be lost. futurism.com/space/nasa-s...

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NASA Has Been So Thoroughly Screwed by Boeing's Disastrous Starliner That It's Now Throwing Its Entire Access to Space Into Question

With SpaceX threatening to pull the rug out from beneath them, NASA could soon be doomed to make Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft work.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#InverteFest announcement: The December art book will be our 8th and last edition. We've been doing this since 2024 but my real life responsibilities have changed. We might revive the idea in the future in one form or another, but no promises. If you want in, this is your last chance.

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

St. Remedius fuel, in a very positive way.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Agency says sea turtle eggs laid on California beaches are a first for the US West Coast apnews.com/article/cali...

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read a paper recently and was shocked to learn we can potentially detect RAINBOWS ON EXOPLANETS. What. It's so cool! So I wrote about it for Scientiifc American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🔭 🧪

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Can we see rainbows on faraway exoplanets?

A future NASA telescope could spot atmospheric phenomena on planets orbiting other stars

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FossilFriday It’s easy to see why Cotham Marble is often referred to as ‘landscape marble’. This Late Triassic limestone from the Bristol area is a microbialite. Detail from a specimen about 10 cm thick on display at the Natural History Museum, London.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Read the research in New Phytologist: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Multiple facets of Chlorella ohadii biological properties and potential as a research model and biotechnology platform.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'It achieves growth rates that no other organism that uses sunlight as an energy source can match. At the same time, it uses sunlight particularly effectively for photosynthesis.' How a desert alga helps us understand plants’ adaptability to extreme environmental conditions rptu.de/en/newsroom/...

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How a desert alga helps us understand plants’ adaptability to extreme environmental conditions

At RPTU, we provide future shapers with the knowledge and tools they need to develop and expand their competencies and skills in more than 160 courses of study. We offer the best conditions for this…

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's spooky season which means I can finally bring this piece back 🎃🐈‍⬛

A pumpkin patch featuring multicoloured pumpkins, some with carved faces, and black and white cats, frogs, crows and foliage

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 02/10/2026

In that case I recommend my encyclopedia of supernatural Japan!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My record collection is almost entirely records I bought at shows. I hope soon AI will go to the shows for me and talk to the bartenders and tell me who's playing drums on the new record and that they like the color of my eyes and I can maximize that time by lying in bed hooked up to a feeding tube.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

every day it seems like a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know, the number of bottomfeeder lawyers using AI to make up nonexistent witnesses and testimony really makes you wonder what a slovenly job they were doing before they got their grimy hands on the six-fingered plagiarism machine…

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

"Every hand I saw drinking craft drinks at Lighthaven was a bit softer than the last. Such soft hands, invisible hands that don’t want to be cut off, the hands of people having a really good time in the world they've created for themselves, rationally, but always without actually using their hands."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

“But the smart glasses reflect a larger philosophical position, one ubiquitous in Big Tech and fueled by the artificial intelligence gold rush: that the human is not enough, and that we need to be aided — and disciplined — by AI.”

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Amazon Is Perfecting Total Surveillance of Its Workforce

Amazon has long been synonymous with workplace surveillance. With the introduction of “smart delivery glasses,” the logistics giant may soon ensure that not a moment of its drivers’ time on the clock ...

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

need this on a slutty croptop tbh

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can never have too many responsible pet owner videos, especially involving reptiles. Good on her.

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because it's necessary: an ever-expanding playlist of dead and undead-related songs and musical scores to shove at braindead terrestrial radio programming directors when they think the Cranberries's "Zombie" and The Hooters's "All You Zombies" are Halloween songs. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Undead Songs NOT by the Cranberries - YouTube

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savetheacademy.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks, all, for liking our last minute protest posts, for commenting, for sharing, for making some NOISE. Because this fight is just beginning. If you have not yet signed up for our mailing list, you can do that at save-the-academy.org. Follow us on TikTok! IG! FB! We can #savetheacademy !! 💪

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How much Halloween swag is too much? Asking for a fiend. (garden Flags by @flagsforgood.com ) #BookSky #HorrorSky #Halloween

Little Free Library charter no. 231975. A black coffin shaped bookcase on a black post stands amidst Pride-themed garden flags and Halloween décor in a rewilded suburban yard.

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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No promos from us for #litmagweek, instead, I'd like to point you all to the magazines I ~~am most jealous of~~ admire the most. I'm sure you know them already, but go give them your money:

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love Antiques Roadshow because half the segments involve someone telling a Grandpa Simpson-style story about their great grandfather who traded a boot for a cash register once owned by Willy Wonka

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s

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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial

The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm still waiting for the "The Prisoner" crossover: "Uhhhh...like, your name is, like, 'Number TWO'. Huh huh huh huh."

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A half-remembered Sternberg Museum story I need to get to the bottom of: After FHSU bought the metroplex dome and exhibits were being developed to fill it, some important stakeholder (donor? university prez?) kept insisting that the museum be "more like Jurassic Park."

A square building next to a huge dome in front of a blue sky in flat western Kansas.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billion

The Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THE SNAILS HAVE BREACHED CONTAINMENT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES. THE SNAILS ARE HUNGRY.

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