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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 6h

I'll go to bed now before I embarrass myself further with witching hour amateur chemistry nerding

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 6h

what makes cyanide so deadly is a completely different process called "triple-bonded nitrogen is FUCKING TERRIFYING"

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 6h

.... I can't fucking read. cyanide is not chlorine

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 6h

it's organic chemistry, "contains carbon and hydrogen" is so obvious it usually isn't even specified when drawing skeletal formula it's just "here's where all the non-carbon elements are; all unlabeled nodes are carbon; add hydrogens as needed to make sure everything has a happy # of electrons"

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 6h

most importantly, mifepristone is 0% chlorine! though table salt is 50% chlorine and yet though the magic of ionic bonds sodium chloride is delicious and nutritious instead of violently deadly like the pure forms of its components, so. like. chemistry is weird

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Princess Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦀✡️ @nattygo.me · 7h

You get this if you feed the prompt "MAGA man and woman" into image AI

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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 6h

Behaviores Report: 90% goode, 5% trespaced on tha hellocobber shelve, 5% went behinde tVee in one AWESOMB epic zoooom whare i ran FULL SPEED into tha den and across tha cowch onto tha cat trees and then tha shelve and then tVee in an spilt sekind it waz so coole!

Orange and white cat, 90% good, 5% trespassed on the helicopter shelf, 5% went behind the TV in one epic zoom

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 6h

it's so good to be read to. my mom did voices and it was SO good. also, knowing how to read aloud from a page and sound natural is important for. like. job shit. like even if it wasn't, read to your kids, it's great, but naturalistic presentation skills are vital to save listeners' sanity

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 9h

One of the great things about writer retreats is getting perspective from other authors on what big 5 publishers are doing, on the spectrum of “literal angels on earth” to “I have been waiting for edits on a complete manuscript for over a year”

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is representative of a generation of assholes who’ve never been punched in the face Make Assholes Afraid of Getting Punched In The Face Again

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Love these photos of a gansey sweater over at Highland Threads. Such great knitting. A gansey is a type of fisherman sweater with identical front and back sides. Last photo shows one from Flamborough Marine, my favorite contemporary maker for this style. highlandthreads.co.uk/wick-museum

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

evelyn normielib has had enough

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 19h

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 7h

Awwww they look so cozy. Our Shadow and late Bosscat didn't usually cuddle, but they were happy sharing a crate for vet visits. We even caught allogrooming happening once or twice 😅

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 8h

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026

"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education." buff.ly/cEmLBex

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I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

“This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students...

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 12h

Sun’s out, bun’s out. This is what that’s supposed to mean, right? 😇 (No that’s really not what it means. Don’t go searching that phrase and expect to see rabbits! Friday nights used to be wild on Bluesky.) #mammals 🌿

A brown bunny has its fuzzy butt towards the camera as it sits in the grass. It’s very cute and alert, looking off to the left.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

Drunkenly picked a fight with a guy who looked like Viggo Mortensen waiting in line in front of me to get into a concert. He didn't respond. Called him a "discount Viggo Mortensen" before my friends dragged me away. It was Viggo Mortensen.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 15h

A society that's not certain if trans people should have rights while arguing the fancy algorithms need them is not a right society

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 15h

I feel like a lot of the existential talk surrounding AI is sort of a dovetail to Granny Weatherwax's "don't treat people as things" idea wherein you should be very suspicious anytime someone wants to treat things as people more than they do some actual people

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

United States Senator should not be an entry level political office. I thought that when Clinton jumped into NY to save us from, I don't know, something, and I still think that today. Nita Lowey would have been an outstanding Senator, by the way.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

CALIFORNIA: Can’t believe people are casually talking about us hypothetically getting nuked by Iran. So upsetting. HAWAII: … CA: It’s like, crazy right? Can you imagine Americans not caring if you’re nuked? HI: [checks phone, turns off erroneous North Korean missile alert] CA: Wild brah. Wild.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/...

Absent ALNAV 011/26, the board without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.
• If separated from Naval Service, the board recommends waiving recoupment of debt associated with service education program costs based on LT Winchell's demonstrated exemplary service.
REDACTED BOARD MEMBERS 9/23/26

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Kevin @kevinllong.bsky.social · 17h

If our history with technology - from the wheel to the computer - has taught us anything, it’s that it can only be harnessed and made to work by shouting profanities at it. This is an immutable law.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 17h

I am not a big fan of the idea of playacting torture or abuse, even toward a machine, and I am not a fan of people who like that kind of thing. But I am even less of a fan of the idea of normalizing the concept of allowing a major corp to dictate the language we use to address a machine.

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 12h

I see she's showing why my family's grey cat is called Shadow.... what a beautiful cat

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 13h

Haven't been outside yet to look at the repaved street, but I asked the bird who's always chirping in the tree next to my window how it looked. He said it looks cheap.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 14h

Anyway it doesn't mean reward hacking isn't a real phenomenon; it just exists completely outside of the model and mostly corresponds to "model doesn't work". But it has the pleasant side effect of making it sound like the reason it doesn't work is because you actually made the model TOO smart

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 13h

God this app is a pain in the ass. Nothing like arguing with people that are 95%+ in alignment with you politically.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 13h

I've known lots of folks in law enforcement and 30 minutes on a treadmill or jumping rope would be infinitely better for their physical prowess than some time on a heavy bag or rolling with a brown belt.

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RalfWise @untravel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic: Our models are self-conciois persons Me: 'Our'. So you own slaves? Anthropic: Our models are alive in all the ways that make us awesome for making them, but none of your bummer philosophy ways that make us like horrible monsters or whatever

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 13h

👇 this is the most batshit aspect of this Anthropic policy: you are free to use AI to abuse or act cruel towards marginalized groups (aka, humans) all you want, but you're not allowed to be mean toward poor little ol' Claude (a machine). tells you how distorted their worldview is

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 13h

wow I didn't know dogs could bend that way, that is a pose I saw my cat in just a few hours ago

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 13h

Please look at this dog

This is maybe a dog but also maybe some kind of weird collapsible handbag or a slumbering albino kangaroo or a canine pocket dimension, anyway if it is a dog, it’s a dog sleeping in such a way that his back legs are folded up all the way up past his nose which is only possible in an Escher print, anyway his name is Cooper, he is a hound lab mix, he is baby

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

I'm so glad it's twelve foot skeleton season

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 18h

I know the feed is bleak, but please have a brand new lamb picture. I wasn’t expecting this one, and he might be a premie, but his mom is great and he is eating well.

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 13h

:( ... I'll just have to see what my mom's sewing pattern collection has

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Lielac @lielac.bsky.social · 13h

holy shit I want one

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 07/10/2026

because I swear to fuck half the anti-drug attitudes out there are because people do not understand that “making a tincture” is the EXACT SAME THING as “extracting into solution using a solvent”. literally. l i t e r a l l y those are the SAME. THING.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 18h

every time I stop petting him, he looks at me like this

a large orange and white tabby looking back and up at the human with reproachful eyes of neglected woe

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sonovox.bsky.social @sonovox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here in Ireland, it's common enough to call a seagull a shitehawk. 🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shite-h...

en.wikipedia.org

Shite-hawk - Wikipedia

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