Reposted by maniraptorSimon MacEwan @theblastedheath.bsky.social · 17hSquirrel replacement program. Squirrel 1's tail was too short 1275
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 1hMidterms vibe check: today saw a minivan with a fake arm “hanging” from the rear hatch. The hand was conspicuously orange, and there was blood on the white shirt cuff 000
Reposted by maniraptorShira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world. Here’s the argument: At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic. 47222
Reposted by maniraptorStef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Alt text: "Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says, CNBC Economy headline, Published Thu, Oct 8 2026, 8:05 AM EDT, by Alex Harring" 042
Reposted by maniraptorhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16hOctober is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip' 126339
Reposted by maniraptorThe Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment theonion.comDOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of EntertainmentWASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo... 892928720
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 2hYou cannot convince me that Widow’s Bay and the US version of Best Medicine do not take place in the same cinematic universe, if not on the same island. 100
Reposted by maniraptorgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026whoever decided to split this clip into four separate sound bites that they could drip out to the media knew exactly what they were doing. 17923152
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 15hAtlanta College of Arts alums: they named a hall after Clarence Thomas, are you really surprised lmao 010
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 15h“Our students and families expect economic return on their education investment” My dude, it’s art school. C’mon. 100
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 15hSCAD dropping sculpture and adding an AI degree is a rancid vibe 110
Reposted by maniraptorAntwan Crump @antwancrump.bsky.social · 23hNew, hilarious plague just dropped...nypost.comSexually transmitted diarrhea is on the rise — and it’s morphing into a drug-resistant superbugThe infection is evolving into something that’s “close to untreatable,” one expert said. 163
Reposted by maniraptorElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23hWhen I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here. 462789682
Reposted by maniraptorAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" 503149413326
Reposted by maniraptorAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters." 11543161286
Reposted by maniraptorjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 22hisn't dying on stream like, the biggest desire of the average guy who does a mass shooting these days? this is obviously stupid for too many reasons to list but i wouldn't be surprised if this motivates some chud copycat 1680347
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 21hThis seems an inevitable outcome of contemporary American technoright-wing insanity, and yet the mind falls into a recursive loop at the WTFuckery of it 031
Reposted by maniraptorMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23hThis would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6236411332
Reposted by maniraptorgommash.bsky.social @gommash.bsky.social · 31/08/2026That's a Nekomata, they have split tails. Bakeneko will start to speak and shape shift into humans after only living with humans for 10 years. Also, cats with long tails are more susceptible to be Bakeneko. I fell into a Wiki portal reading about them. 2111
Reposted by maniraptorae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now disabled social media account. " And guess where that account was 537299
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 21h(The bois are also giant babies, but also jealous drama buttholes lol, they all rock) 010
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 21hOur girl cat is still ~60% feral and (when inside) also the biggest baby in the house, so 110
Reposted by maniraptorMerryGhouled @merryghouled.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Anyone interested, his sister has uploaded her deposition video to TikTok for her lawsuit against Sam. 0615
Reposted by maniraptorJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Everything he is saying here is fully vindicating my belief that we need Religious Studies as an academic discipline to begin to understand the culture surrounding AI, and its millenarian fantasies. 311330
Reposted by maniraptorColin @colin-fraser.net · 08/10/2026I don’t understand why people think this isn’t the most obvious question in the world. No, of course not. You don’t know what the distribution of responses will be; that’s why you do the survey. 1736043
Reposted by maniraptorBoston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This goes on the list w. using polio vaccination to track bin Laden—& the Tuskegee Experiment—to create lasting distrust of the US and likely public health more generally. It’s a ridiculous study to begin with, and will likely cause more suffering from the reputational effects than it does directly 23215
Reposted by maniraptorChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Netflix adaptation called Surf Dracula: Nocturne that coyly plays with the original lore of the Surf Dracula franchise but is mostly penned by playwrights and is about the expulsion of the Acadians from maritime Canada. 1131147
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?static.klipy.comExcited MeAlt: Cary Grant in the black and white film Bringing Up Baby, in which he plays a paleontologist trying to get funding out of a wealthy patron while getting enmeshed in her neice’s madcap schemes. A leopard and Katherine Hepburn are also in the film. Oh, here he is dressed in a feathery peignoir and leaping up in the air proclaiming he “just went gay all of a sudden!” 030
Reposted by maniraptorLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Flydubai pilot was deep into manosphere content, routinely used derogatory sexual slurs about women, and wanted a tradwife Misogyny is a gateway drug www.ft.com/content/a92b...ft.comThe online life of the Flydubai attacker[FREE TO READ] Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views 14722191
Reposted by maniraptorSilverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This explains the Trump administration’s change to the human subjects review/institutional review policy last month. 13121
Reposted by maniraptorJonathan Baker @jonathan.boxcake.net · 08/10/2026The study they are paying for is to test how effective it is to not give the vaccine to thousands of children. Basically a way for them to find/manufacture/look for evidence that vaccines cause autism and other neuro-developmental disorders. 172
Reposted by maniraptorAimai @aimaiami.bsky.social · 08/10/2026No. No.No.No. Everyone involved should be disbarred, struck off, and spend time in prison. 12812
Reposted by maniraptorAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Reminder that the Vice President of the United States has described Yarvin as an intellectual influence. 129167
Reposted by maniraptorSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini. 81972281361
Reposted by maniraptorSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026look at Priyanka Gandhi holding the constitution of India while she's being taken away by the cops 8903161
Reposted by maniraptorAnise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time. 622284
Reposted by maniraptorCallalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026RIP. My mother worked on her team at MIT on the Apollo Project. We had some of those books, like the ones stacked in the photo, in my parents' basement when I was a kid, and I used to like going through them and seeing how much I could follow (not much) and finding the pages with my mom's name. 0438
Reposted by maniraptorMissileToes @missiletoes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I love that in the women of NASA LEGO set they included the coat rack. 1378
Reposted by maniraptorc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Most bats eat insects, some fruit, a few meat, 3 dine on blood. Two species of bat primarily eat FISH. 🐟 Let's learn about one of the LOUDEST ANIMALS IN THE WORLD & how they hunt by STEALTH. Meet the bulldog bats in family Noctilionidae. 🦇🧪 518864
Reposted by maniraptorAAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 07/10/2026European Space Agency: Mars’s Oddest Cloud May Be Even Odder Than We Thought www.esa.int/Science_Expl...esa.intMars’s oddest cloud may be even odder than we thoughtScientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some very exotic physics beh... 044
Reposted by maniraptorOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We’ve been hearing for 20 years plus how we should just sit down and have a meal with people who think black, Latino and LGBTQ people are subhumans who must be killed. No. 601733274
Reposted by maniraptorZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026Bruno on what happened: azhdarchid.com/bsky-suspens...azhdarchid.comI've been temporarily suspended from BlueskyBruno Dias' personal blog. 21596123
Reposted by maniraptorZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026yes keep banning good posters over the mildest shit about dipshit tech billionaries that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, that aren't even on here, that'll help your platform. 232117379
Reposted by maniraptorMosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscapescience.orgThis is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded likeResearchers re-create the chorus of noise produced by ancient insects 032
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026They should play yakkity sax over replays like that 010
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026@teeveeben.bsky.social does this count as a real NFL game or is it for funsies? 200
