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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 6h

I think it’s ridiculous that the HOA is insisting I take down the giant skeleton I put up in my front yard just because it “came from a bull elk” and “still has meat on it”

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only word I’ve said aloud today is fuck. But in 3 different octaves!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10h

Paleo colleagues, I've got a dino-interested undergrad looking to do summer internships in any field of paleo, but ideally with vertebrates (any period). My knowledge skews more Quaternary; what are some good programs to know, including some that might be a bit more off the beaten path?

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 23h

Simplify your life by hibernating from now until spring

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 6h

In the last two paragraphs, I could feel the metaphorical light bulb flaring in my mind. "Oh, wow! I get it!"

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Dumb Beezie @dumbbeezie.bsky.social · 9h

Things women won’t do if they found a man unconscious in need of medical assistance 1. Rape him

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Mike Satz @mikesatz.bsky.social · 10h

I just saw an army of babies walking down the street. I think it’s the infantry.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 7h

My nomination for the most mind-boggling fact regarding the Missoula Floods: See that building on the promontory to the right in the mid-distance? That building is called Vista House, and the promontory is called Crown Point. At the peak of the floods, Crown Point was scoured underwater.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First the Academy of Natural Sciences, and now the Sternberg Museum of #NaturalHistory. In a better world, leaders would divert some of the money currently being spent on AI or data centers to maintain our libraries, museums, and archives... #histSTM #histsci #STEM #paleontology 🗃️📜📚

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Sternberg Museum in Hays to close by year’s end

The president of Fort Hays State University cited a budget shortfall in the closure decision.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i think i’ve accumulated enough life points to be upgraded to not this reality

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Tom Swanson @swansontea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Senate republicans introducing legislation to make it illegal for sports teams to have similar names

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 29/09/2026

The City of Westport is breaking ground on a new tsunami vertical evacuation tower. Join us for a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 in Westport. This will be the third tsunami vertical evacuation structure on the Washington coast. Full details: mil.wa.gov/news/westpor...

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Westport breaks ground on tsunami vertical evacuation tower

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Aurora, all too Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yes, in hindsight i can see “you miss every shot you don’t take” was not the best quote for the aa meeting

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#TalonTuesday isn't a thing, is it? I feel like maybe it could be. Reach out and touch someone! 🧪⚒️🦖

Assorted replica theropod talons and phalanges. Large.

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Coleman Ridge @colemanridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I read a safety engineering handbook that mentioned a sign in an English munitions factory saying "When in doubt, brew up." They meant tea, not coffee, but were conveying that you should stop and think long enough to make and drink a hot beverage. So, sometimes safety first is coffee first.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been reading about terror birds. They died out about 100,000 years ago, were up to 10 feet tall, 350 kg, flightless, could run faster than an ostrich, and had sharp sickle toes for grabbing prey and huge beaks for jabbing them to death. And people complain about gulls.

A terror bird skeleton. Big head, big feet, long neck.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 27/09/2026

A slab graveyard is all well and good but I think viscous death is a much creepier thing. xkcd.com/3303/ @xkcd.com

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Slab Graveyard

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide

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licia @astra99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Crazy to think it's 4 years since DART proved planetary defense. On Sept 26, 2022, we impacted Dimorphos. That 570kg probe hit at 6.1 km/s, shrinking its orbit by 33 minutes. That's 27x more than they needed. Incredible engineering.

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The Night Humanity Moved an Asteroid

Four years ago, on September 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, a moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. This histori

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Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 26/09/2026

*walks into interview* interviewer: (smugly) well I'm glad to see you didn't bring an iced coffee ... but who's your friend? me: oh this is my barista

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☢️ Captain Antagonist ☢️ @captantagonist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Gilded Age will continue until morale improves or most of the population starves to death.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 26/09/2026

My goodness, this nor'easter is a looker from space today. 😍

A visible satellite image of the nor'easter off the East Coast on Saturday afternoon.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sure a prospective employer would be impressed with my projectile vomiting.

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William in Nevada 🍎🌅🌰🐿️🌻༄˖°.🍃.ೃ࿔*:･ @william-in-nv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bank of America has notified me of their new $14/mo. checking account fee if you don't maintain a $1,500 balance. It doesn't affect me, but it does affect the poor. Along with massive cuts in food aid in the US and rising prices, there's this extra bit of pain for no other reason than they can.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is like rooting for the Road Runner. We know we don't really need to; the conclusion is foregone. But the compulsion is real.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

Every day we get closer to this:

Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture

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Resident Warren G. Harding @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

First day as a vampire hunter: This is easy lol First night as a vampire hunter: oh no

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

John Brunner (1934-1995) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Steele Savage, 1969; R, Murray Tinkelman, 1976 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for The Stand on Zanzibar. Lots and lots of people in box-like apartments. It's trying to emphasize the overpopulation of the future that's central in the book

Cover for The Sheel Look up. The outline of a human form arrayed against the dry desert. The man holds a sheep skull with dry flowers. He is wearing a gas mask.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Are you AI enhanced or did you just suffer a concussion?” is going to be a question doctors ask in the future

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Elakha Alliance @elakhaalliance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sea otters once thrived along the Oregon coast, but today, there are zero sea otters living in the wild here 🦦💔. Oregon is the only U.S. state within the sea otter’s native range that no longer has a resident population of this important keystone species. (conti..) #seaotters #seaotter #oregon

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've wondered what became of Spinal Tap's Stonehenge stage prop.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hmmm... a compelling argument. ⚒️

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will not be out-dad joked

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

About time. This issue feels extremely pernicious to me.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m in Fortuna for work. First thing I do when I arrive at the hotel? Check my tsunami risk and figure out the tsunami evacuation route. Don’t be scared, be prepared! www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/...

Map showing tsunami hazard zone for the area around Fortuna. Tsunami zone is indicated in yellow.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Classes start tomorrow at OSU, and man I'll tell you, the freshmen get younger every year.

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