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30 something. Mab isn't short for anything (but I am short)

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 5h
“TikTok is great if you ignore the comments” I’m on social media. If I have to ignore all of the social part for it not to be a cesspool I might as well go watch Riverdale.
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 05/10/2026
"you should see the other guy!" I say, not as someone who gets into fights, just as an enthusiastic fan of different guys.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil. 

At the top of the piece we see the delicately drawn branches and leaves of an apple tree. Just beneath the tree limbs, a bat is flying with one of the green apples in its mouth. This is when the morphing begins, reader. A sequence of 13 drawings show the bat morphing into a teeny witch (with completion of the morph around drawing #9). The morphing creates a spiral leading us to the center of the page where the little witch is running towards her basket filled with apples. It’s likely she’ll re-morph into a bat again and the morphing pattern will continue.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ok I know nobody asked but if you crave a soft mint experience these are the absolute best
Red Bird
HANDCRAFTED CANDY
SINCE 1890
PEPPERMINT CANDY PUFFS
NATURALLY FLAVORED
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.
politico.com
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US
With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.
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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Started as a little study and became another one of the 'Secret Society of Unpractical Headpieces in Space' series (that still does not exist) 🪐
Illustration by Eleonor Piteira showing a black woman with an elaborate golden headpiece. Her hair is curly and long, she's wearing a dress, and gold and blue make up on her eyes. She is framed by a circle and behind her there is a space view with a star and small planets.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 05/10/2026
Tired: Arguing over abolishing daylight savings time Wired: Abolishing clocks
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Wings of Silver @silverwingprime.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Watching the news in 2026
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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Getting a couple of new stickers made and decided to color swap an old one into something more pukey
an illustration of an armored hand grasping a snake
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An iPlayer glitch watching an old episode of Dr Who gave me this oddly encouraging message:
An entirely black frame with the words "Things must stabilise soon" in small white letters.
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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some friday fungi friends to make your day a little sweeter. (Armillaria mellea/Agaric honey fungus) #fungifriday
A picture of the lower part of a tree in a forest  with mushrooms radiating out from the trunk to the ground.  There are a lot of mushrooms.A close up of the mushrooms on the same tree.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026
Across the board, medicine needs to do a better job of thinking about medical terms and how we communicate about them, because there are often huge gaps that stress people out or create misunderstandings!
aeon.co
We need a better way to describe what is often called ‘cancer’ | Aeon Essays
A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
chips: we put more air in the bag cookies: we put fewer cookies in the box fruit cups: we have bent the laws of time and space to fit 4 litres of juice in this 250ml cup. God himself told us "stop, that's too much juice" and then we flipped him off and added more juice.
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this investigation on long COVID inside of prisons is out today at the Sick Times! I worked on this piece for months and am so grateful to the folks who shared their experiences with me. I'll write up a real thread a little later, but you can read it now: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
thesicktimes.org
I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a bunch of mushrooms grew in front of this mysterious stack of rocks that emerged the morning after a party 🌱🍄#fungifriends
mushrooms growing out of a pile of woodchips, in front of some old rocks, in my yard
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026
SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'have you considered writing in a different genre' oh you like the trumpet do you, i bet you'd be good at the oboe. if you love football you'd be great at archery, im going to walk directly into the ocean
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/09/2026
vibes
a sign that says THIS IS A (burned triangle) AREA. Who knows what it used to say. it's been burned with acid and fire or maybe magic
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Immigrant Boo👻 @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
When I grow up, I want to be a "radical street librarian" too!
today.com
This Woman Is Bringing Free Books to Hundreds of Kids With Magical Trolley
Ms. Maze, who calls herself a “radical street librarian,” tells TODAY.com how she is working to eliminate book deserts around Baltimore “in a fun and magical way.”
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
thank you bisexual dice polycule
image of a swirling purple background with light blue dice floating in the air they all have faces and look DANG GOOD. the text says 'congratulations. if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the bisexual dice polycule. they have cleansed your misfortune hexes have a wonderful day'
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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
trying to whip up some Halloween feelings
Illustration of a ghoul in a cloak with a hood, holding a goblet of something in one hand, the moon in another
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Hotty Fucking Toddy" Trinidad Chambliss
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Mike Noble @mikenoble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ultimate Man shook my hand and then told me exactly how I was going to die.
WSJ EXCLUSIVE
Belgian Scientists create “Ultimate Man" AI sex bot that they believe will replace real men entirely by 2035
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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hanna @happiestfunrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i've decided "touch moss" is superior to "touch grass." moss is simply more evocative. it suggests having been online too long and being required to be returned to the forest. eventually we'll all be be telling people to commune with lichen.
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Paulo Moreira @paulomoreira.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
hummm cafezinho #xmen
uma ilustração com eles, os xmen, fera prepara outro café enquanto na mesa tem vampira, tempestade, ciclope, jean grey, wolverine e jubileu, uns conversando, concentrados no café, gambit mais ao fundo assiste a televisão pequena pendurada na parede, e ciclope na ponta da mesa dá um sorrisinho enquanto com a caneca de café na mão
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 17/09/2026
Seems fine? Very normal ratio of crocodile to athlete??
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ren nolasco 🔪 FIQ 262 @rennolasco.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Show me the Champion of Light, I'll show you the Herald of Darkness 🔦 #AlanWake
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/09/2026
There are so many ways to be a better neighbor, to show up for comrades, to build community.
conversationalist.org
How To Be a Better Neighbor
Women steeped in democracy work around the world share their thoughts on what we owe our shared future, and how we can all better contribute to our communities.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Tired of being a bird?” (September 14, 2026, Argyle Street, Chicago)
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, added to an existing treatment, slowed the return of melanoma and its spread to other parts of the body in a late-stage clinical trial, the drugmakers Merck and Moderna announced Wednesday. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/m...
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Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
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A. Faë @anaisfae.art · 11/09/2026
Blep
watercolor portrait of a black cat with his tongue sticking partway out. There's a ring of purple flowers and stars around the kitty.
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Jan Ochoa @janochoa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think this is the best thumbnail i've ever made
matt bery is a bookshelf
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 19/05/2026
Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 08/09/2026
Gonna disrupt the book industry by starting a publisher that markets its books.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I like to think that this is how my parents viewed all videogame news that I tried to tell them
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@tante.cc: 'Those “proofs” are about narrative building. Which is why especially people with no b/g in math keep using them as definite proof of LLMs being “more than just stochastic language models” which is just factually untrue and the mark of deeply unserious people.' tante.cc/2026/09/07/t...
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The function of LLM-based math "proofs"
There has been quite the uptick in “AI” labs’ claims of their LLMs “solving complex math problems”. I wondered why that is, especially given that LLMs are not exactly built for the kind of rigor that ...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sorry but if antivaxxers were truly looking for people to just treat them kinder they wouldn’t have aligned themselves with every single hate movement that exists, and it’s intolerant to everybody else to act as if that’s not exactly who they are
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s the enormous failure of the medical system to be trustworthy that has *created* space for the MAHA movement to flourish. If the US medical industrial complex was ethical, moral, and inclusive MAHA wouldn’t exist. This article I wrote back in 2019 is unfortunately more relevant then ever.
damemagazine.com
Why Are So Many Women Rejecting Medical Science? - Dame Magazine
This feature is part of our ongoing series looking at the inequities in healthcare. Snake oil is having a renaissance. And while it’s true that for hundreds of years dubious salesmen have been riding ...
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
by artist Ginny Robbins
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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