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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Scientist: I made it in TeX and can't figure out how to remove the gap but I also don't want to get yelled at if I post a question on stackexchange, so I have instead decided to appreciate the gap, which is still there

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

also lumpish and warm lol

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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We have a winner lol

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Green Stripe (1905) is a portrait of Matisse's wife Amélie, her face bisected by one bold green line. Where tradition used light and shade, Matisse used warm against cool, showing that colour could model a face without shadow.

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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We report: after an afternoon of rain, and with the expectancy of a rainy night as well, the sun makes an appearance at sunset. Our expert has rolled down the car window, and it smells cold; the humidity is crisp instead of muggy. The light is warm in comparison.

Digital painting of a sunset sky, voluminous orange clouds with scraggly edges, dark purple in the shade, with yellow highlights. The sky behind them is a washed out blue. There are a few black birds scattered across the frame.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see a love that wends its way in and out of all your many years.

Fitz, a dark skinned man with dark hair, sitting on a book tearing itself open, leaning over to The Fool, a nonbinary person meeting Fitz

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Will the withdrawal of free universal Covid vaccines be replaced with other free vaccines (MMR for adults) & proper rebates for iron infusions for women, weight-loss medication for people who need it but aren't diabetic, etc? Or will we just give polluting companies more of our money?

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Maharetr @maharetr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today I LEARNT. Holy hell. How am I, an Australian SFF fan, only learning this TODAY? legit rattled

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

reviewed by the brilliant @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social in Locus Magazine this month and look, it's terribly wrong to say something like "oh *thank goodness*, this very experienced SF reviewer has understood what I was going for on the SF side of the story" but this is 100% what I was going for.

Later, when Naomi shows this data to scientists
and other government figures, they insist that it is
inconclusive. Frinton appears several more times,
in each seemingly possessed of more authority but
also more mentally scattered. As someone who has
experienced a series of miscarriages and who is
slowly coming to terms with the fact that she will
probably never have children, Naomi admits that the
allegation that the mimmoths are causing infertility
seems designed to cut to her core. At the same time,
as a person without access to definitive information
or the ability to assess it, the only possible response
she can have to Frinton’s claims is a blank shrug.
This, The Strangers seems to be saying, is how
most of us would experience an alien invasion. It
is how we currently experience war, climate crisis,
and the breakdown of our institutions. Decisions
are made by people far above us, and we sometimes
only become aware of them when the ripple effects
touch our lives – when our mother’s medical care
isn’t what we’d been raised to expect, or when an
animal no one has seen before shows up on our
wildlife camera.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This x100. It was a challenge for a really long part of my life. These days I do laces once & slip shoes on & off :) I wish I’d been able to learn about energy accounting / spoon theory way earlier. Some stuff is ‘normal’ but just not worth the huge amount of energy it takes for me to do it.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. - Version with ALT text! Thank you @virginiaopossum.bsky.social for the help!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's not reasonable to ask immigrants to assimilate, actually. Bilingual schools do, and should, exist. Things are and can be written in multiple languages. For now, for better or worse, English is the fast-track to many better jobs, yeah, true. But for the price of "abandon your culture"? Why.

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.”

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Maharetr @maharetr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The *cheeriness* and pride with which he says tumour-free. Like. MY GUY

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heaney’s re-framing of the biblical story is interesting alone, shifting focus to the people who brought the man to be healed But this was written following a stoke he suffered in 2006 & could also be read as tribute to those who supported his own recovery #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They sat there, feeling happy together.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of my favorite YouTube subgenres is "I saw a thing in a very remote area on Google Earth, and then I hiked out to it, and it sure was weird."

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/10/2026

Posting this on bluesky is basically a war crime and I have no regrets I'm a monster

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Take three minutes out of your day to watch this. It’s worth every second, not just for the artistry of the spoken word, but for the words themselves.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

completely apart from criticisms of RJ/TJ as a model--by definition they cannot be done without victim involvement. you can't claim to want "an RJ/TJ perspective" without the survivor involved, that's not how it works. all that means is you want to initiate the process of mandatory forgive & forget

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching the waves rolling in against a spectacular piece of the North Antrim coastline. County Antrim, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great demonstration of the Tyndall effect in a wooded area by the scattering of beams of light by finely suspended particles of fog in the air: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your periodic reminder that the decision to pursue a professional ballet career happens at similar or earlier age to most youth gender affirming care and has significantly more lifetime impact on peer socialization, how the body looks and overall health than social transition and puberty blockers.

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Maharetr @maharetr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Update: made it into bed. Very nice in here. Do rec, if you're also stuck

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Maharetr @maharetr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TFW you're desperate to be in bed, but you're stuck *on* bed, and there are so many steps to get ready for bed and 😭😭😭

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/09/2026

He’s a tin, but he can’t spell.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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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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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Once he learned how to read, he couldnt get enough of it

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In 1841, American painter John Goffe Rand invented the collapsible paint tube, which kept colors fresh outdoors. By the 1880s, Van Gogh relied on them to work in fields and streets, making plein-air painting central to his style.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture."

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Philip Allfrey @drpda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today looking up details to correctly cite a scholar I found she's also made some art. #DHMakes This is Interference Pattern II by Frances Rothwell Hughes. She started each square when she had time to embroider and stopped when interrupted by her newborn www.francesrothwellhughes.com/interference...

Detail of textile artwork, showing 6 by 4 squares. Each square shows the same pattern in different stages of completion, ranging from dashes, to diamonds, to a complex geometric pattern filling the entire square.

Framed textile artwork consisting of 4 rows of 25 squares. Each square contains a different number of embroidered stiches in black thread.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I made myself a vessel. I know its shape. But not the clay. Life danced me. I know the dances. But I don't know who the dancer is.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Regardless of the particulars of this individual case, once again, we ask the 'justice system': how can a woman 'prove' a man held a knife at her throat/threatened to shoot her while pointing a gun/etcetcetc if he always did it with no witnesses? How do such women get justice, safety, or sanctuary?

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