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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A Ruby-crowned Kinglet waves hello! 👋
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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🎃 miki bishop 🎃 (looking for work!) @nifty.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
sorry but this genuinely sucks
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2027 Bird Calendars are here! 🙂 You can pick one up here: www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/Jocely... . The calendar features some of my favorite photos over the past year. The calendar is 8.5"x11" and is $18 + shipping (ships US and international.)
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jim Burns’ 1999 hardback cover art for "Bios," by Robert Charles Wilson. From a past paid issue of my art blog newsletter, where I’m documenting my research for my new book on science fiction art: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/book-notes-p...
Two blue dragonfly-like aliens zip past a lush jungle with alien trees and flowers and some lumpy grass fields.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LIFE FEELING LIKE AN 06 COD LOBBY
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
new ghosts 🏀👻 youtu.be/Yzjr3v7mnRg
youtu.be
G - H - O - S - T 🏀👻
YouTube video by Louie Zong
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Verhoeven really saw things with perfect clarity
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"wanna see a dead body?" is not an electoral message i expected would resonate with voters
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Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I went Big Walkin' with my friends #BigWalk
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
free throw contest
a stylized 3d render of young link shooting a bomb like a basketball into the large spinning goron vase in ocarina of time.
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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WAVE (1994) Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48” Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. #art
An exponential curve expressed as a massive wave of green-blue water that climbs to vertical against a sky of puffy lavender clouds. Light breaks through the cloud cover just over the horizon casting a flat glare across rippling water before the wave climbs. Fin-like ridges emerge running up the wall give the water turbulence and dimension.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Messier 20: A Deep Look at The Trifid Nebula and Surrounds - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2ky4FU3
This deep image shows the famous Trifid nebula in Sagittarius, also known as Messier 20 or NGC 6514:
www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Nebula...

The complex cloud displays an unusual combination of both red emission and blue reflection areas as well as numerous intricate dark patterns. 
The nebula is located 9000 light years away in the direction towards the galactic centre. The entire area is sprinkled with thousands of stars and fainter dusty and nebulous areas throughout. A separate prominent dark cloud appears dramatically silhouetted against the starry background to the right.

A curious example of gas evaporation can bee seen near the core of the Trifid itself. Here a dense stalk, 8 light years from the centre, is emerging from the edge of the bubble surrounding the central cluster, and in the other direction a powerful stellar jet from a young star, HH 399 embedded in the gas, is shooting out in an upwards direction. The bright young stars in the central cluster emit strong radiation which eats away the surrounding gas and dust. The stalk only appears because a denser region lies at its very tip and protects a thin strip of the cloud from this interstellar erosion. The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged this fascinating area in high resolution. Also, the proper motion of the irradiated plasma in this jet has been measured and a  paper has been published detailing these findings. 

Also, throughout the nebula lies countless young T Tauri stars just h...
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Syd Mead Ultimo", a new massive 320-page artbook dedicated to the late, legendary designer (Star Trek, Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, Star Wars, Gundam...) Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
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We Are the Mutants @wearethemutants.com · 28/09/2026
NEW today! Mike pores through the 1981 Sears Wish Book: Dungeons & Dragons, goldenrod kitchens, disco tables, air hockey, and Merlin: The Electronic Wizard!
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Game Room Challenges and Computer Labyrinths: The Sears Wish Book, 1981
The Sears catalog was, by the outset of the 1980s, an American institution nearly a century in the making, providing an A-to-Z inventory of mail-order household goods for even the most far-flung consu...
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Life in the Milky Way Galaxy - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2roeDrA
Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Colour cycling and hi-res Amiga AGA landscapes: A clip from the Mark Ferrari art slideshow production from 2023.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Lagoon Nebula in Infrared light - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/egmQmU
This infrared image of the Lagoon nebula contrasts heavily with traditional images taken in visible light. Such images primarily display the striking magenta colour from glowing Hydrogen gas, as well as large dark obscuring clouds of dust.

The infrared part of the spectrum penetrates these clouds better and reveals complex details and thousands of young stars that are otherwise completely invisible. These stars shine primarily in the infrared and appear as golden red in this image. Only a minority of these are visible in traditional optical images. 

To create this image I used a special infrared filter. Effectively the band observed is 700-1100nm since the sillicon CCD chip is not responsive to wavelengths longer than that, and this band is called NIR (Near Infrared). One issue arising from this technique is that the NIR band does not have a colour as such, since it lies outside the visible light spectrum. 
To create a colour image from the NIR data I have developed a colour stacking technique which has produced promising results so far. 
I use the NIR filter together with G and B filters to create a colour composite. The resulting images are assigned to the different channels as NIR->Luminance, NIR->Red, G->Green and B->Blue. 

Substituting the R channel with NIR nicely brings out the contrast between the nebula itself and all the young obscured stars that shine primarily in infrared. This colour image is then overlaid with the NIR frame used as luminousity....
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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 23/09/2026
Achoo
A six panel comic, three rows of two panels each. Skull Panda starts to sneeze. The third panel, he sneezes so hard that it shoots him into the fourth panel, colliding with himself. As they are lying in a pile on the ground, the second skull Panda sneezes, launching them out of the bottom of the 6th panel
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yoot Saito's The Tower box art by Mamoru Takahashi / 高橋衛. potteryarts.theshop.jp/p/00004
a painting of a skyscraper seen from above
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026
Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Ron Cobb, “Skybox”
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PURSUIT (1982) Acrylic - 30” x 20” Occasionally it is fun to do an action-filled scene. This exciting book by Alan Dean Foster afforded the perfect opportunity. #art #booksky 🪐📚
In a frantic flight through the woods, a fierce ostrich-like bird bends its sinuous neck as it corners around a massive tree. With a powerful talon, it grips rock and seeks footing with its other leg raised. Mounted on its back gripping reins is a redheaded man in a vibrant blue coat. A serpent coils around his shoulder and down his extended arm. The serpent spreads kaleidoscopic wings and hisses in displeasure. A badger-like creature springs out of their path.
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Nexus Point News @nexuspointnews.com · 25/09/2026
Merged monster rehearsals for Zach Cregger’s ‘RESIDENT EVIL.’ 📷 Jakub Hudlický
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
IRAS 10082-5647 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/nZk5Mn
Whoops! I try to focus on the pictures which haven't already been featured at spacetelescope.org or hubblesite.com but this one slipped past. I assumed it hadn't been done and then did a search to try and figure out what it was and realized that it had been. Oh well, this is my version. It's not terribly different from ESA's version, though. It's a great picture so it can't really be featured too much. Still plowing through the datasets from proposal 10536 but getting close to done.

Red: ACS/WFC F814W
Green: Pseudo
Blue: ACS/WFC F606W

North is NOT up. It is 158.86° counter-clockwise from up.
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VoxBelicosa @voxbelicosa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
soldier
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 14/09/2026
The comedy we make at LRR… y'know, it could destroy civilization. It's simply SO funny, funnier than any human could conceive, it might be the end of all things. Obviously we're excited, but we also want to acknowledge that our comedy is simply too powerful and there is no choice but to submit.
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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am
A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
taiko 🐟
a stylized 3d render of a cat playing taiko (except the drum is a can of wet food and the sticks are churu)
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 13/09/2026
oh your art is messy and full of mistakes? it doesn't mirror properly? the proportions are weird because you grew up on a mix of anime and 3D platformers? you drew on the wrong layer and now the highlights are weird? that rules, dude, show me more; a horrible computer could never make that
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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Snake is Back
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Starless Eagle Nebula and The Pillars of Creation - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2nxreCe
www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Nebula...

This image shows the famous Pillars of Creation region of the bright Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) in Serpens.
Constructed from monochrome exposures in two very narrow wavelength bands of ionised Hydrogen and Oxygen, the data has been combined into a colour image to reveal this highly detailed and very dramatic scene. The bright colours are due to emission from the ionised gases, energised by light from nearby stars. The stars were removed during image processing to fully reveal the intricate structure of the nebula. Orange-red nebulosity corresponds to H-Alpha emission, and the blue areas are OIII.
The core area of the nebula was made famous in 1995 as the "Pillars of Creation" by images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are giant columns of gas and dust, approximately 9 light-years long, that are slowly being eroded away by intense radiation pressure from nearby young stars.
The nebula lies 6000 light-years distant in the Sagittarius arm of our Milky Way galaxy.

Image details:
Date: Sep-Nov 2021, June 2022
Exposure: Ha OIII: 450:690 mins, total 19 hours @ -25C
Telescope: Homebuilt 12.5" f/4 Serrurier Truss Newtonian
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon 3nm Ha/OIII
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand
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seraphyx 🪽 @nemhi.vanadiel.network · 17/09/2026
Thank you king
d vampire hunter d bloodlustbenten cyber city oedo 808mephisto demon city shinjukudeimos bride of deimos
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jesperish @jesperish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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fannd ✧ comms waitlist @fannd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm overjoyed like a little child, a new cat species has been discovered? So the world just met a completely new kitty?? We're so happy you exist, tiny cutie-beans from Bolivia!
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 11/09/2026
He sure did www.cnn.com/2013/07/16/s...
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Stevie Wonder says he’ll boycott ‘stand your ground’ states | CNN
Musician Stevie Wonder has vowed to stay out of Florida until the state repeals its “stand your ground” law.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 11/09/2026
the mathematics award winning fields medalist and known himedanshi yu deng just said that if ai puts all mathematicians out of a job he's gonna go home and write yuri novels. girl please do it anyway i need to see what yuri a fields medalist mathematician can do omfg
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
fyi
Back of a jacket that reads 

art is not a sport
There are no winners or losers
Lucas museum of narrative art
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
plushies
a stylized blender render of a girl holding a large quagsire plush!a stylized blender render of a boy holding a large sudowoodo plush!
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Monday, September 07,1953
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING DOWNTOWN 
SLUGGO: I HAVE AN IDEA, NANCY 
P2- THEY WALK BEHIND A WOODEN FENCE 
SLUGGO: LET’S STAND BEHIND THIS FENCE 
NANCY: WHY?
P3- SLUGGO: THIS IS LABOR DAY ---
LET'S GIVE THE BOSS AN EASY STRIP TO DRAW
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 08/09/2026
If Werner Herzog (rightly) said this to me, I would simply crawl into a hole and die. (also, gonna adopt “Go ahead and fail” when dealing with AI bros)
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Protostar in LDN 1527 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2o1cFqj
Update: Simeon Schmauß over on Twitter (@stim3on) recommended G'MIC for taking care of the horizontal noise / banding. It worked pretty great. There's a Photoshop plugin for it, too.

Wanted to process my own version of this one, since nebular landscapes are some of my favorite views. Having a hard time with the linear noise pattern, especially near the top of the image.

In the center of this view is a newly forming star crossed by a dark disk of dust (say that three times fast!) which is casting shadows to the left and right, and allowing cones of light out the top and bottom. Think of it like a light bulb inside of a donut with a bunch of fog. Though the infrared light can penetrate much of the dust, there are clues in the image that show some of the dust is still too thick to see through. At the lower right especially are a lot of background galaxies. On the left, the background galaxies are fewer, and what we see are dimmer, so we can tell there is more dust there.

You can see the official release here. They've got a much better description than I could ever write.

Orange "screen": NIRCam/F444W-F470N (not arithmetic)
Red: NIRCam/F444W
Green: NIRCam/F335M
Blue: NIRCam/F200W, F187N, F115W

North is 100° counter-clockwise from up.
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maddie raspberry ★ @othatsraspberry.com · 02/02/2026
AND he's working an office job on top of it all!! 😤 #ff7rebirth
ffvii rebirth comic by me
Cloud watches as Cait Sith stumbles around on his moogle
Cloud: "kinda clumsy"
Cait Sith, yelling: "I'mma MAN drivin' a CAT drivin' a MOOGLE"
"cut me a wee bit o' slack, ey?!"
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maddie raspberry ★ @othatsraspberry.com · 06/01/2026
taking survey of the passengers #ff7rebirth
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth comic by me
Cid at the airstrip: “Alright, let’s see who we’ve got here”
(looking at Cloud, Aerith, Tifa) 3 adults
(looking at Yuffie) 1 small child [Yuffie, frowning: Hey!]
(looking at Barret) some kinda… gun-man
(looking at Red 13 and Cait Sith) a cat and a… child cat
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"but if i write that it'll be sooooo silly..." NO. SHUT THAT THOUGHT DOWN. THE WORLD NEEDS MORE WHIMSY
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