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tef @tef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bumped into an incredible website gavin-theobald.uk/HTML/Pentagr...
a silver rectangle cut into seven pieces and rearranged into a regular pentagram
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Someone at the mall made a Mystery Machine van out of beans.
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 26/09/2026
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A picture of a piece of old torn and aged paper label, fragile and cracked with age, that states THIS BLUESKY POSTER COMPLIES WITH AUSTRALIAN STANDARD No. PM-00 FREE FROM POSTER'S MADNESS PUBLISHED BY THE STANDARDS AS.... and the remainder is torn.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
Why the East Coast storm is a nor’easter and not a hurricane.
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Nor’easter vs. Hurricane: What’s the Difference?
The systems are organized differently, though how they affect your town or neighborhood can be the same.
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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hardest part: finding a protocol to use for this joke (SAML fans pls don't kill me)
Arrested Development "I love all my children equally" meme with Lucille Bluth, edited. Top panel: Lucille says "I love all my protocols equally," with "protocols" swapped in in yellow. Bottom panel: Lucille says "[Earlier that day] I don't care for SAML," with "SAML" swapped in in yellow.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Particle board, particle board There’s a big pile on the office floor What in the world are we saving it for? Nobody knows Particle board
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wulftec @wulftec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“School choice” means few, if any, choices for parents of disabled students. In Florida, home to the nation’s largest voucher programs, we found that more than half of private schools say they do not serve students with any type of disabilities.
propublica.org
Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.
To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...
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Laura Abbott @labbott.name · 10/09/2026
Proposal to rename “show muted” to “this will probably make you mad”
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
drew lock
a lock i drew
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austin @aparker.io · 08/09/2026
“commitment to excellence” is such a funny slogan. i feel like that’s kinda what everyone shoots for. nobody ever goes “oh we’re committed to mediocrity”
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
none of my moots seem to have posted it yet so I guess it's on me to
Homestar Runner: todaybor day is labor day
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026
one thing the ai era makes me miss is really shitty bespoke photoshops you used to get just the lowest effort garbage imaginable made by people who have opened the program three times in their entire life, but it had some charm to it and now they just generate the same bullshit as everyone else
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 05/09/2026
Google search: "korean bbq near me"

:sparkle_emoji: AI Overview
"That's convenient! I'll keep that in mind."
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026
Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.
wikiworkersunited.org
Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
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Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/2026
23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 01/09/2026
JUST SCHEDULED FLU & COVID VACCINES 4 THIS *RIDICULUS* HUMAN BODY EYE INHABIT THATS RITE 2026/2027 COVID VACCINE IS NOW AVAILABLE
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Laura Abbott @labbott.name · 30/08/2026
I’m “my hip hurts getting off the floor at the children’s library” years old
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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 26/08/2026
Honestly never thought I'd see the day Eve actually moved on from Python 2.7. www.eveonline.com/news/view/th...
eveonline.com
The Move to Python 3 Begins! | EVE Online
How do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026
just wanted you to see my pan ❤️
back of a cast iron pan that has a design with musical notes and a heart and a butterfly and the words "JOLENE PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY PAN"
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to a legend
rob dubbin @robdubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019
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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 24/08/2026
I don’t need toucan scissors I don’t need toucan scissors I don’t need toucan scissors I don’t need toucan scissors
Scissors with the blades painted to look like a toucan
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026
Hummingbirds.
A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Can’t you see I’m busy
4 panel comic: 

Panel 1: Momo behind his computer. In the window of his room we see an alien face smiling and looking in. He goes ‘hey guy’
Panel 2: We see the alien from outside now in front of Momo’s window. In the background there’s a landed UFO. The Alien says ‘we just landed’
Panel 3: There’s a few more aliens in the foreground outside of Momo’s house. One of them says ‘might take over earth’
Panel 4: We look back in Momo’s room from the inside. He seems unbothered. He tells the alien outside ‘not now. I am computering’
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 09/08/2026
Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.
A tan plastic with gold mechanical owl. Very cute.
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 09/08/2026
du du -h du hast du hast mich du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you have type-O positive blood and you can manage it, please consider donating blood *as soon as possible* - this is a very bad situation.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"It's not just selling to people who are curious about alternatives. It's selling to people in crisis, who are scared and out of options through a system failure that has nothing to do with whether their medication works."
wired.com
Wellness Influencers Are Pushing ‘Natural’ and Unproven Alternatives to Adderall
Ads on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube are painting prescription stimulants in a negative light while promoting supplements for ADHD that lack evidence.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Finally someone publishes a forecast of where the US is likely to get episodes of smoke & haze throughout August. Many thanks to @accuweather.com. It must have been an interesting writing & modeling project. I hope we'll see more of this kind of journalism. www.accuweather.com/en/weather-f...
accuweather.com
Canadian wildfire smoke to be a periodic problem into August across Midwest, Northeast
Prevailing winds will direct more wildfire smoke from western Ontario into the Midwest and Northeast often well into August. Needed rain to put out the fires may be scarce.
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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 27/07/2026
what's a good post to misinterpret and get mad about for beginners
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We're living in the Golden Age of Food Poisoning
nytimes.com
1.6 Million Egg Cartons Are Recalled Over Salmonella Risk
The voluntary recall included eggs produced in Texas and sold under several brand names in six states, the Food and Drug Administration said.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Everything is on fire, but I just saw one of these drinking from the pond. We cannot let the fascists destroy our world.
A tiny round Goldcrest (Regulus Regulus), with beige-grey-green plumage, black, yellow and white wings, and a bright yellow stripe on its head, bordered in black. Photo from Woodland Trust.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 17/07/2026
Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.
An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.
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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026
gonna start talking like this to my boss
screenshot where claude is saying "Good catch -- I fabricated that figure."
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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Finally: bridge go boom. The Commercial St. Bridge in Pittsburgh is no more. Here's the implosion from three angles this morning:
youtube.com
MUST SEE: PennDOT implodes the Commercial Street Bridge in Pittsburgh
YouTube video by CBS Pittsburgh
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 06/07/2026
Hey guys. Stella here. Just wanted to say I figured out today that “baked beans” is an anagram for “naked babes”. Well, have a good one
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/07/2026
why are people only ever described as "no-nonsense", what if you're a nonsense person, what then
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Entering 17 lines of information to log into a portal and view a message from my doctor’s office that says, “Health Spotlight: Physician’s Corner: The hip bone… REALLY connected to the leg bone? 👀🦴”
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Quote post with something that is a circle.
A Venn diagram on a white board. Circle 1 says, “The set of all sets meeting some criterion”. Circle 2 says, “sets that do not contain themselves”. The intersection says, “dammit”.
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Laura Abbott @labbott.name · 03/07/2026
“I want to pressure wash the car and eat something” only good ideas from 3yo
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