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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"Bluesky is dead." Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

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Loretta DeBourbon @lorettafables.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Just a moment to take in as much wind & blue sky as your heart can hold youtu.be/W2X0Gf9jfz8?...

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Thunder Road

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William F. DeVault @williamfdevault.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Aftermath of the Venetian Spider Press awards ceremony held at Barnes & Noble in Morgantown, WV: We've been invited to do more readings and signings for them. Current plans are for at least two events over the summer, on June 21st and August 16th. The lineups are still being confirmed. #booksky

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Imagine if projector salespeople told you projectors were great in the classroom not because they let everybody see an image better but rather because now every course could be about projectors, because projectors are the future and the time to opt out of talking about projectors all day has passed.

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John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Oh very well, here's the most recent photo of me.

Photo of a green frog lying on a lily pad in the water among many other lily pads, looking either very content or very anxious, depending on your point of view.

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Steve Shilstone @steveshilstone.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

RAINDROPS ON OTHER THAN ROSES #photo

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Loretta DeBourbon @lorettafables.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

World is unwinding once again it's mystical places ☁☁☁☁☁☁☁ 🏔☁🏔☁🏔☁🏔 🏯🌲🌲🐏🌲🌲🏯 taken for granted youtu.be/hW_WLxseq0o?...

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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live at Knebworth 1979) (Official Video)

YouTube video by Led Zeppelin

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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 07/05/2025

I've *never* seen this photo of Peter Holding his head before, only the one where he's looking at it. Is this familiar to anyone else, or have I accidently stumbled across a previously unknown photo?

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Aaron Schmit @theaaronschmit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

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Loretta DeBourbon @lorettafables.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Happy Wednesday! Unusually long stay of thick fog over Gotham has finally declined to a sweet breeze & sunshine 😉 🎶🎶🎶 youtu.be/LOkQsVJV8ts?...

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Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

you can write a novel you can draw a comic you can compose a song you can do it you can do it you are a human being!

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 02/05/2025

A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

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Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter | Made in China Journal

It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement...

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is so many kinds of magic. 😂

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The new Echo Park Time Travel Mart window is up, designed and built by me! Come visit a prehistoric lizard in the neighborhood! With an amazing mural designed and painted by @supercoolspyclub.bsky.social!

a person in an orange hat smiling in front of a store window which has a giant sculpture of a prehistoric lizard in it.

a storefront display of a prehistoric lizard resting on a bunch of blocky buildings.

a view of a bunch of blocky buildings with wooden billboards

a storefront display of a prehistoric lizard resting on a bunch of blocky buildings. a small row of wooden buildings with corkboards are in the foreground.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The cover for trade paperback of the NYT bestseller Absolution, the fourth in the Southern Reach series, out in October. Changes from the hardcover put the image into the same style as the 10th anniversary editions of Annihilation, Authority, & Acceptance. There's also a new intro by Julia Armfield!

Deconstructed gator all morphed and with pieces falling off in vibrant greens and blues.

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Brian Wendt @azbrian.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Recommend funny Science Fiction other than Hitchhikers Guide. Go. #BookSky #SciFi

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Meidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

tranquility

standing on the side of a lake looking between trees there is the lake with mountains in the background.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/05/2025

book cover
man looking at a pair of legs
woman in the dunes
hiroshi teshigahara

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Tractus Fynn @tractusfynn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This Day in #History 1783 William Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus...

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Brian Frink @bfrink.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It's even a bigger mess now! But at least it's finally an interesting mess. It needed some narrative, so I stuck two boats in it. My easy go-to. lol... Working title, "Sailing Lake Wonderment". I know...super cheezy title...but I like cheese.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 07/05/2025

🌍🛰️How cool is this⬇️ ☂️Watch as our Biomass's antenna deploys in space! Following liftoff, orbital injection acquisition of its first signal and satellite in-orbit checks, the successful deployment of Biomass’ mesh antenna reflector marks the final key step in the launch and early operations phase.

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Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

For the new followers, here's my new-ish hobby I have been too busy to pick up this year. I like to model dioramas and scenery, although I don't play any tabletop games. In a different life, I would have found a way to do this full time 😢 Here are my 3 finished creations.

A miniature diorama of Arnold Bocklin's Isle of the Dead, seen from the front. A boat with 2 mysterious figures, sliding on dark green water, approaches an island composed of rocks and cypress tree.
A miniature diorama of Arnold Bocklin's Isle of the Dead, seen from the front. A boat with 2 mysterious figures, sliding on dark green water, approaches an island composed of rocks and cypress tree.

A diorama of an entrance to a cave or dungeon entrance in a wall of rocks. The entrance is a sculpture of a wolf or feline's head. Stone steps lead up to it, sided by grass and stones.

A diorama of a fisherman's house by the sea. The 3 story red house with blue roof is on stilts and a pier beside it connects it to land. There are barrels and stands with fish in front of it. The fisherman can be seen arriving on the pier, and his wife too, watering the plants on the second floor.

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Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

💿August Announcements💿 August brings us another collection of Ninja action, a moody and unnerving Polish drama, our second Visconti release (this time in colour) and two twisty police-noirs from Claude Miller.

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

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𝖂𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗 @wertheimer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it. H.G. Wells The Time Machine 7 May 1895 #BookSky

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/05/2025

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

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A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful

A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.” — Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

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zteve t evans @ztevetevans.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

One May Day, Guinevere, and friends were in the woods happilly decorating each other with May flowers, until evil Sir Meliagrance appeared, desiring Guinevere. But his idea of wooing a girl was - er well - abduction! #Folklore #Arthurian #Romance #MayDay buff.ly/Eu2Sb7c

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A nice selection of @scalzi.com books from the library! I’m late to the Scalzi Party (have only read Redshirts previously), but on the plus side, at least I get to experience them for the first time one after the other! #booksky #sf

Covers of 3 books by John Scalzi: Old Man’s War; Kaiju Preservation Society; When the Moon Hits Your Eye.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

All the greens, reflective of the emerging shades at the moment, fresh verdant leaves, ferns and stems unfurling in variegated abundance. Mid #1870s designs such as this were similarly varied in colour and trim @chicagomuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Three quarter view of a long green bustle dress trimmed with silk fringe satin ribbon and decorative covered buttons

Detail of the green bustle dress showing the silk fringe satin ribbon and covered buttons

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝 Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out! 🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

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WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland

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John Bright Collection @jbrightcollection.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Thrilled that our collection items feature in the new book ‘Artistic Dress at Liberty&Co’ @yalebooks.bsky.social - including the one on the cover: www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/turquoise-dress-by-liberty/. #bookrecommendations #libertydress #artisticdress #fashionhistory #1910sfashion

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Brocktopher Boestie @balloonsquared.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Soon girls across America will be standing in doll lines waiting for their rations.

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Kaisa Maria Krisangi Leka @kaisaleka.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Our book is here. Let’s celebrate. Today at 18.00 at Luonnos, Uudenmaankatu 13, Helsinki. 🖤 #sarjakuva #kirjataivas #comics #booksky

A compilation of photos of Kaisa and Mr. Leka wearing white t-shirts. Kaisa’s shirt says “I want to believe” and Mr. Leka’s shirt says “For those who think philosophy is for the birds: I agree.”

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

As we mark 80 years since VE Day this week, we’re reflecting on the lives of ordinary people during WWII. Discover their stories through books, letters, and personal papers in our collection: bit.ly/VEDayReading #VE80

A photograph showing a series of book spines on a shelf, with titles on WW2 and VE Day, including ‘VE Day: The People’s Story’ and ‘The Summer of ‘45’

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Pamalee Ruane @pamalee-ruane.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

By Herman August Cappelen (Norwegian, 1827–1852) "Waterfall in Telemark" 1852 Oil on canvas, 77.30.4 x 40.3 in. #ArtSky #Art #Painting

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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025

Claims that possible signs of life were found on a planet called K2-18b made a big splash. But recently, other researchers and a new analysis have cast doubt on the findings.

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Exoplanet K2-18b: Home to alien life or noisy data? : Short Wave

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines. Researchers said they'd detected sulphur-based gases that, on Earth, are s...

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Spoon & Tamago @spoon-tamago.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

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West of Town @westoftown.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I just wanted to get home, but where is home, I always ask the sky, no matter where I roam. --Joy Harjo westoftown.substack.com #writing #stories #adventures #reading #booksky #novels #writers #WritingCommunity

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