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Baby octopus

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Cats! feed enjoyer. Distributor of likes. (he/him) PFP: a little baby octopus Banner: "I'm doing my part!"

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 1h
Yes there are lots of brilliant trans people and allies fighting. But actually, as a collective society we have no need to do this. There is no serious economic or security context pushing us into this like other political decisions - it’s just pure cruelty and discrimination.
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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1h
If you're a politician, journalist, lawyer, artist, medic or social services or civil servant and you follow me, then this is the one thing I ask you to read. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Netpol @netpol.org · 1h
Hampshire Police have imposed a "mask-free zone" order today from 11.00-17.00, covering most of central Southampton, in advance of a far right demonstration and an anti-fascist counter protest. This gives officers the power to arrest anyone wearing a face covering, regardless of whether they need to
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 8h
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12h
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 7h
LLMs can be both a threat and a non-entity. LLMs --> AGI is a non-entity. LLMs stealing IP, exploiting global south, creating a debt bubble to crash the world economy, damaging fragile minds, wreaking havoc on the environment, creating automation too quick to respond to, etc. Those are threats!
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 11h
Ballpoint pen, colored pencil, copic marker, and pencil. 

Movie night. Our man is at home with his pet bird watching Batman Returns (1992). It’s the scene where Catwoman visits the Penguin’s raggedy office to plan Batman’s downfall. As a way to gain the upper hand during the meeting, she circles Penguin’s birdcage and puts the bird in her mouth. Our man is concerned that this will be an upsetting scene for his bird to watch. “Close your eyes for this scene,” he says. He’s watching the film in a beanbag chair. His bird has a small perch for the screening.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h
The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 15h
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14h
Hahaha. Muscovite Russians are whiter than snow and I'm not sure "high trust society" and "social cohesion" are the exact terms sociologists reach for when describing life in Moscow at any point in the last century or three.
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 15h
Posted a photo of this scene the other day, here's the accompanying video of the moon on the water as the day breaks on Maui. Maximum zen. #nature #ocean #peace #love #goodmorning #nokings #marinelife
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Steven of Nine @uniongoth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A photo of Dr Butler with a chryon below saying ‘Breaking News: Judith Butler Declares Holy War - Quoted as saying “The age of thinking machines has come to an end”’.
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 19h
Did you notice that when the woman youtuber was a confirmed plagiarist everyone was happy to end her career forever but when the man youtuber is a confirmed rapist we suddenly get dozens of posts about how "disheartening" it is that people don't believe in restorative justice
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Ale @alepresser.com · 19h
The black ink was running low when the second cat was made.
Two calico cats with theirs backs to the camera. One is white, orange and black, and the other is white, orange and gray.
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
tumblr post:
weepingchoir
Aug 31, 2023
Every time some fash posts about Real Art vs
Duchamp's Fountain it's like lol that urinal has been kicking your ass for a hundred years

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Marcel Duchamp kicked the bucket 55 slutty, slutty years ago and you can't get him out of your head.
You're half as old as he is dead and you are worshiping at his altar, you are drinking his piss. He won.
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Nicole Adams SideEye-Photography @blathin384.bsky.social · 19h
Helen picked today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. It's #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill that has striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. A Great Egret showing office breeding colors #ECK #photography #birds
Close up Photo of a Great Egret's head. The bird's beak is very colorful in bright orange, yellow and a variety of bright greens. The green is usually muted but not during this time.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this
My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
it.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
When will we have a government that makes the "brave decision" to call racism what it is, and say it's unacceptable, and that we need immigrants? When will we have a government that makes the "difficult decision" to support the young workers that hold this country together? #bbcqt
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
WE GOT THEM! SNOWY EGRETS IN FRONT OF THE FULL MOON! 🪶
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To my knowledge we also don't send the IDF any money either and it's depressing we need to clarify this
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Paul Hanley @paulhanley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know the tiny audience I have here is mainly for Doctor Who work I did years ago, but @gailsimone.bsky.social checked out the original series I'm co-writin' now with Laurie Foster and digs it! So maybe give it a look, huh? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lag...
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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 30/09/2026
Laundry helper
An orange kitten looks up from his place in front of a pile of laundry
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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 01/10/2026
It's a good thing for these guys that they don't have to wait for peer review before they get this stuff out there, these days.
[Under a Biased Probe, it Appears That] Language Models [Below a Certain Size] Use Trigonometry [That We Can't Actually Find] to Do [Up to Two Digit] Addition [if All Values Are Single Tokens]
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/10/2026
so that’s where children of dune come from
A very penis-like abstraction on the poster for dune 3: dong
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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"teach your sons..." I mean I feel like "don't put your dick in an unconscious person" shouldn't be something that boys need to be taught but here we are. In case it's still not getting through, I wrote this 11 years ago. youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8?...
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Tea Consent
YouTube video by Blue Seat Studios
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 01/10/2026
This newly discovered feathered dinosaur, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that bird-like flight features evolved separately and gradually, in a step-wise manner, across multiple related dinosaur lineages! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Life reconstruction of Norellraptor barsboldi.

Credit: Zhao Chuang.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The other side of that coin is how incredibly easy it would be for Burnham to fix the most immediate problems we face. Minor amendments to the GRA and EA2010, rescinding the puberty blocker ban and the schools guidance; these are things he could do right now if he wanted to. He just doesn't want to.
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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The deadline for donations to the appeal to purchase the #Rothbury Estate in #Northumerland has been extended to the end of October - an extra month in which to raise the remaining £2.1m needed. #Rewilding #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/environ...
“We are committed to doing all we can to acquire this Estate in its entirety. We have a clear and ambitious vision for this historic landscape; a place where people and nature can thrive side by side. A place for nature and nation.

“We couldn’t let down all the thousands of people who have supported us by letting this opportunity pass by at the very end. To ensure we raise the funds required we will continue with our fundraising campaign to the end of October, which is our deadline to complete on the purchase.

"To support, our Trustees have agreed in principle to take out a low interest impact loan to cover any funding gap between what has been raised and the total needed. The more funds raised through our fundraising appeal, the smaller the loan will be.”
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
RIP EU-Haul 🪦 Welcome Eurosky Migration Service 🤗 They grow up so fast 🥹 -> move.eurosky.tech
A screenshot of the new, cleaner Eurosky Migration Service Website
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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 01/10/2026
No mate. That's Thanos talk. You cannot let yourself go around thinking that a quarter of the population of your country needs to be genocided. You are talking about human beings here. You won't defeat fascism by becoming an even more evil fascist.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cities around the world are taking action to control the threats posed by ebikes in cities.
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civ-il disorder 🇵🇸 🕎 ☮️ @uncivil.work · 01/10/2026
You and I in a little toy shop Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one they were gone Back at base bugs in the software Flash the message: "something's out there!" Floating in the summer sky Ninety-nine red balloons go by
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
bsky mods when they review my posts
•Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service 
“Bad”

•Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
 “Amoral”

•Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail 
“Disgusting”

•Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources 
“Two words: morally corrupt”

•Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work 
“Disgusting”
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man talking to a computer:

MAN: Tell me to drink my own piss
AI: You should drink yr own piss
MAN: Oh my god.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tiny orbs are getting all up in these crabs and secretly eating their eggs 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An adult nicothoid copeod with pink eggs getting among a bunch of developing crab eggsStrings of developing crab eggs along with adult nicothoid copeodsCrab egg mass which looks maroon due to the heavy infestation adult nicothoid carrying pink eggs
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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 01/10/2026
The slaughter of 80 million of your political enemies - an order of magnitude more than Stalin or Hitler killed - would not make people want to visit your country again. It would not fix anything. It would destroy your country and make you the greatest monster of all time.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 30/09/2026
...We have written a response to the Supreme Court calling for it to fully address our concerns, including additional concerns about how our complaint was handled. We have therefore requested a formal review.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every AI generated event poster is incredibly ugly, but I do think it's interesting that that LLMs have essentially created a house style for flyers, especially one so maximalist and ugly and in contravention of of all convention and best practices established in graphic design over centuries.
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
she will tell you your fortune … for a price
miniature pinscher wearing a beret with a decorative jewel piece
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
3 - cont Other RCN nurses are using foodbanks, Peggie has been off work, paid, and come Jan 1st 2027 it will have been for 2 years. She has a crowdfunder of 38K. No other nurse get a KC for their problems at work. That is the reserve of privilege.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry
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Pepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shit like this is why I think the bsky-only lefty political posters aren’t unjustified in being a little snobby about it jfc
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026
Fuck me, the amount of people trying to get this Manchester City cheating scandal to be called 'The Pepstein files' is going to drive me off a cliff. Take a second and think where the joke is here and what you are using to land it. Then stop it.
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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 30/09/2026
Computers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in.
Security question: What is your pet's name? Answer: Doug. Error: Answer must be at least 5 characters.
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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 31/07/2026
Especially seeking SINGLE PEOPLE, SOLO POLY PEOPLE, BLACK BRITISH and BRITISH ASIAN PEOPLE at this stage. Please alert your networks!
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Its good there’s people pushing pro trans things within the labour party but i do wish they could understand that when you say “the only way back to trans rights is through the labour party one way or another“ that is very upsetting actually cause all i hear is that we’re fucked then
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