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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you could use a pick-me-up, check out the Smithsonian’s live cheetah cub cam. The five-day old cubs are beyond adorable, and an important addition to the captive breeding program for this vulnerable species.

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Cheetah Cub Cam

The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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Longcat @longcat-is-long.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mah Pikachu face, it is unsurprised

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Longcat @longcat-is-long.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The way I shuddered. That is straight up evil.

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Longcat @longcat-is-long.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Co Wexford tipping the hat to Clare and Dublin this morning

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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CapnMarrrrk @capnmarrrrk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks for posting this I didn't know it existed! These all rock but I especially love this one.

Wil E Coyote doing a Reddit AMA answering using only signs.

Question: Hi WEC. I watched you since I was a kid, just wanted to say thank you for running into paintings of tunnels all these years.

Smug coyote hold up a sign that reads "Keep art alive."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.

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Longcat @longcat-is-long.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love the MERL so much. I can’t wait to listen to their podcast this autumn and knit my shawl with British wool. Will pass on the acorns, though.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom. Happy 39th to the One I Love. Well, One of The One(s) I Love, because the greatest American rock band ever had so very many from which to choose.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [We mysse you Dolly, Tim, P Cullen] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On its back, legs in the air, crotch on fire, tell your mom I said hi

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 01/08/2026

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Massive Attack banned from Singapore after pro-Palestine display at show

The UK band is told not to return to the city-state after shouting "free Palestine" at a gig on Wednesday.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

here's today's post: "still no sign of life from Glitch McConnell, but Republicans are going full Weekend at Mitch’s" — and Donny shits the bed at NATO. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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still no sign of life from Glitch McConnell, but Republicans are going full Weekend at Mitch’s

and Donny shits the bed at NATO

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

On the subject of etiquette, there's also this, covered in a previous Picnic: when reading is more expensive than "writing", the asymmetry makes sending someone unsolicited AI slop nothing short of rude.

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It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Feeding slop is an act of war

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The glassholes aren't just on the street, wearing dorky frames. They're also in your meetings, with AI note takers silently churning away. This is the next chapter in a decade+ long journey of letting Big Tech run roughshod over privacy expectations in the hope "data" brings us some vague benefits.

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The glassholes are back, thanks to AI

Recording people without consent — once seen as a brazen privacy violation — has become thoughtlessly routine, both in meetings and on the street.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/02/2026

You could not invent a scenario that's a better metaphor for the CBP's willingness to commit violence against children and the administration's willingness to facilitate it.

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Longcat @longcat-is-long.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

1. The Modern Soviet Novel 2. Greek and Latin Influences on the English Lexicon 3. German Romanticism 4. Western Ethics from the Ancient to the Early Modern World 5. Shakespeare’s Later Plays

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/01/2026

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It’s ok you can say it

trump, labeled “cats” is smiling up at mamdani, labeled “eating tape”

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Great insight into Trump's appeal to the Southern electorate and its roots in exploitive economics and power by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social Grew up Philly, now living in NC, I still marvel that a NY tabloid coverboy created such fandom in the South

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