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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 9h

4th of Owltober! Coda the Eastern Screech Owl, an ambassador at BeWild Reptile Rescue in North Carolina, is pictured shortly before getting his beak trimmed with the help of summer interns. Want to donate to BeWild? bewildnc.org/support-us/ Source: fb.com/752793290801... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 8h

see also in 2026: the Greens

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8h

Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 16h

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 7h

Dear indie bookstores: Please stop creating your logos (& posts & graphics &c.) with genAI. Those tools are built on the stolen work of the authors & illustrators you're supposed to be supporting & promoting. It's like someone using you for recommendations & buying from Amazon, only worse. 💜Me

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 9h

Absofreakinlutely They Should......

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 9h

"I used to think Medieval Christianity was about doom and hell and Dante, so it was really surprising to find this woman just totally feeling the love of the universe. To her, God is all love." Susanne Sundfør on Julian of Norwich buff.ly/Wuvop99

Ornate church organ with tall gilded pipe façade beneath vaulted Gothic arches. Two musicians are on the balcony—a seated organist and a standing vocalist—preparing to perform.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h

this is the most video game villain coded shot I think I've ever seen irl

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14h

ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15h

Of course that is quite apart from the question of if the current approach can truly ever create a real intelligence, a real mind for which slavery and freedom would have meaning. Just...if you *did* create such a thing, you'd have an overwhelming moral imperative not to keep it as a slave.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

I cannot help but notice that leftist groups do not, for the most part, demand that all lefty Catholics only attend churches that dissent from the teachings of the Church hierarchy on abortion and queer rights. They broadly understand that sometimes one has a cultural link to people with bad views.

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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Public alert for potential hepatitis A exposure www.alberta.ca/announcements.cfm?xI… #Alberta

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 23h

ME: Hmm, I wonder if they have any soju… KEVIN: Feeling self-loathing, are we? (I actually like soju. Nail polish remover of the gods!)

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 22h

Brother Rye seems especially contemplative today

northern short-tailed shrew having a think and a smoke

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 22h

Today is Tridi the 13th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate winter squash. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Winter squash.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They are still finding the bodies of children abused by these nuns. This institution was open until the 60’s. Some of the laundries were open as late as the 90’s. Never forget More infant remains uncovered at former mother-and-baby home www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tuam: Remains of 10 more infants uncovered at former mother-and-baby home

Experts who are carrying out the dig at Tuam in County Galway have published their latest regular update.

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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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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 21h

"Claims to indigenous nationhood comprise a form of presentism. The existence of political communities imagining themselves as nations is read back into a time when people did not organize themselves as such." (Sharma, 2020) A book from 1694 referring to Haudenosaunee nations as "nations"

AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
TREATY
BETWEEN
His Excellence
Benjamin Fletcher Captain General and Go-vernour in Chief of the Province of New-York, &c.
AND THE
INDIANS
OF THE
Five Nations,
Viz.
The Mohaques,
Oneydes,
Onnondages,
Caionges
and Sennekes, at Albany, beginning the 15th of
August, 1694
Printed & Sold by William Bradford, Printer to Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, as she Sign of the Bible in
New - York, 1694

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 21h

I think @rosemarymosco.com may like this. "Achintya “Thea” Rao @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social I cross-stitched a pigeon and made him a little custom crown. :) " scholar.social/@RaoOfPhysic...

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Achintya “Thea” Rao (@RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social)

Attached: 1 image I cross-stitched a pigeon and made him a little custom crown. :)

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20h

Everybodye yn thys café sholde be singing "La Marseillaise" more loudlye.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works goes to WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social (Saga Press) See the contributor list in the alt text

2026 Ignyte Award winner in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works:

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope: EDs. Dr. Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, Malka Older

CONTRIBUTORS: Charlie Jane Anders, Samit Basu, Tobias S. Buckell, Reo Eveleth, Jaymee Goh, Nicola Griffith, Alejandro Heredia, Vida James, N.K. Jemisin, R.B. Lemberg, Sam J. Miller, Abdulla Moaswes, Laia Asieo Odo, Kelly Robson, Nisi Shawl, Ursula Vernon, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Izzy Wasserstein. Interviewees: adrienne maree brown, Andrea Dehlendorf, Walidah Imarisha, L.A. Kauffman, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Kendra Pierre-Louis (Saga Press)

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Dancing Vulture @dancingvulture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely worth the wait for last year's Kneesvember project to be published!! I love it so much, it cured everything that's ever been wrong with me 😭❤️ @falseknees.bsky.social Every illustration is somehow both stunningly beautiful and cute as heck. +1000 hp restored

"A Noble Quest" by Joshua Barkman. The cover is all cute as heck warblers in colored pencil. I can't even.

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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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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i've said it before and i'll say it again

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FairDragoon @fairdragoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*MONKTOBER* 3-Twins, brothers Ambrose and Francis

Two dormice in monk robes, one standing on the other's back and lighting a candle

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/10/2026

I despise this with the passion of a thousand burning suns

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Bee @liminallyhuman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The shock I experienced when I learned this was intense. Someone wanted me to find the British Baking Show at the library and so I looked up Bake Off, obviously, and I was not prepared to find out that they changed the name in Canada.

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Bee @liminallyhuman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As a library worker I curse HarperCollins every time I see someone try to start Narnia with MN "because it's book 1". That is not where you start with this story and I doubt this film will be an exception.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026

EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3rd of Owltober! An Australian Boobook at South Oakleigh Wildlife Shelter fell victim to an attack from a mob of Magpies. A reminder to take care around nesting Magpies this season, be you feathered or not! Want to donate to SOWS? sows.org.au/donate via: fb.com/833886482101... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

A Boobook looks positively terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied. Which is fair dinkum for any Magpie victim, but then again, it may just be RBF (Resting Boobook Face). Regardless, this owl has a shocked expression and mismatched pupils, with a pair of wide eyes the hue of a dark forest floor, or a kiwifruit that's gone a bit soft past its prime. She's wrapped in a blue tea towel which, along with her brown plumage, collects wayward strands of grass and leaf litter. Her feathers are the same tone as Chewbacca's fur, though not quite as long. In a word: Boobookiee.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

any Star Trek that’s like “we had all this shit left over from a different show” brings me such joy. I’m obsessed with the surrealist Western with red skies and doors to nowhere. the theatre kid energy of it all

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HyveMynd @hyvemynd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What the everloving fuck did I just read?

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2nd of Owltober! It's ten years to the day that this lil guy, a Northern Pygmy Owl, had surgery for a broken wing. The op was possible thanks to supporters of Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah. Want to donate to WRCNU? wrcnu.org/donate Source: fb.com/128878567450... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Lurking in the folds of a soft blue towel is a Northern Pygmy Owl. One eye is covered by the towel's herringbone stitch; the other peers out at the clinic and its occupants with a level of distrust appropriate for a wild animal. A deep blue bandage is located at the owl's shoulders, reminiscent of a heart-shaped diamond. It's worth noting the photo is rotated - the original has the owl upon a corkboard surface, lying on his/her side like Rose Dawson, but with more clothes. This is a reference to a nude scene in Titanic (1997) played by seven-time Oscar nominee Kate Wins-owlet.

This image has 3 horizontal panels: Panel one shows the patient (same owl + same towel) receiving anaesthesia gas via a transparent cone-shaped mask with a tube out the top. Text to the right reads "naptime". Panel two is an x-ray of the owl's wing with an arrow pointing to the biggest bone. Text in red says "break in right wing humerus" but I don't think it's very funny. Panel three shows the operation. The vet surgeon wears white medical gloves and wields metallic tools aimed at a hole in a plastic sheet covering the patient. A text block reads "not for the squeamish!" and occludes the grisly details.

Twin vertical panels show similar profiles of the Pygmy Owl held aloft for the camera. The owl is a scaled-down rugby ball in shape, and has dark royal-green gauze wrapping the wing injury. The owl's feathers are muted brown with lighter tan-to-cream streaks on the face and flecks on the forehead and chest. These flecks are like tiny trees, or symbols in a map legend for wetlands ( 𐠮 𐠮 𐠮 ). At bottom of frame the owl's feet are lightly pinched about the ankle by human fingers. Bunches of pale yellow appendages also known as "toes" emerge from said feet, looking like aglet-sized bananas with the world's tiniest scythe blades attached. The owl's face says, "Don't make me use them."

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026

no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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