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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 2h

That was incredible! I can't wait to share the video with you tomorrow!

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 13h

Haven’t done a floaty boat for a while so here’s a floaty boat

Digital painting, floaty boat in blues yellows and reds

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 12h

Summer breathes, surrendering sweetly into fall. 1. Paper wasp on goldenrod. 2. Stereum. 3. Oak. 4. Bumblebee on white snakeroot.

Photograph of a paper wasp navigating the small yellow flowers of goldenrod.

Photograph of a dead standing tree limb overgrown with wavy sheets of stereum fungus.

Photograph of a large oak tree rising in a forest.

Photograph of a bumblebee on the small clustered flowers of white snakeroot.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17h

She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹

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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack

Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17h

Here's Backpack as a yearling in 2007, unable to put weight on the injured paw. Holly took her cub & moved upriver, away from aggressive bears who might harm him at Brooks Falls. Fishing was harder for the pair, and she risked both of them struggling or starving, but he was SAFE.

Backpack in 2007, nursing an injured paw that is turned under, so that he can't put any weight on it. If you're wondering why they didn't provide vet care, it's their policy not to interfere when an injury is natural and not caused by human activity.

I think this photo is by David Kopshever, National Park Service? It's on a blog linked below.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Anishinabek Nation @anishinabeknation.bsky.social · 13h

(2/2) The day honours the Survivors & the children who never returned home from the Indian Residential Schools. We encourage everyone to wear orange & take the time to listen, learn, & reflect on the colonial history & the intergenerational impacts on Indigenous communities. #StrengthenOurNations

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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delicious stories inside! @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social

Author Erin Brown smiling and holding up a copy of the anthology Forged in FIYAH

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 12h

I don’t tell about this book enough by me and Andrea Hannah! If you ever wanted to both learn about 616 Agatha and about magic (both in universe and irl) this is the book for you! insighteditions.com/products/the...

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The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness

Agatha Harkness shares her own spellbook, compiled over decades, to take readers on a journey through the supernatural world of Marvel, featuring history, spells, potions, and more! Narrated by the wi...

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Calamity Caitlin @squeevening.bsky.social · 12h

A story in 3 panels 🤣

Cat has sat in dog bed with dog. Dog is clearly upset about this.

Cat has successfully kicked dog out of bed and has it all to herself

Dog is now forlornly spilling out of a smaller bed I brought him nearby, while cat has a wash. 😜

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the double life of véronique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 12h

casual reminder that derek jarman made a horny queer caravaggio movie starring sean bean and tilda swinton in the 80s

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Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The happiest of book birthdays to Forged in FIYAH, edited by @davaun.bsky.social, a landmark celebration of everything Black speculative fiction has to offer! Available in hardcover and paperback.

A paperback copy and a hardcover copy of Forged in FIYAH edited by DaVaun Sanders resting on a starry background.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 14h

The Survivors Flag ceremony on Parliament Hill this morning. Photos from APTN's Keelan Jacobs. Our coverage on this day starts 11:00 a.m. ET. with hosts Tiar Wheatle in Winnipeg and @DennisWardNews in Ottawa. Click here to watch: youtube.com/live/sn25kdf...

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 15h

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 12h

It was the survival of the thickest during Fat Bear Week and "Backpack" beat all odds to emerge as the fattest bear of 2026. bit.ly/47wA07q 📸: Courtesy C. Loberg/Katamai National Park 🎨: Alan Nguyen

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14h

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Much gratitude to Usman for his kind words. He's a fantastic writer himself, one I've read as a fellow South Asian (our governments & ethnonationalists may hate each other, but the people of our countries are joined by history and culture) for a long time now. I'm so excited for his debut novel:

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A Dark and Narrow House by Usman T. Malik: 9798217043910 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"Some writers go a step past, into the darkness, but that step past is just a starting point for Usman T. Malik . . . Follow his voice. If you dare." —Stephen Graham Jones, bestselling author of...

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 12h

in case you need it: here's my favorite tiny orange, George, the rescue / foster fail who owns my parents.

impossibly fluffy orange and white kitten. he's feeling silly, splayed upon a striped tablecloth, belly-up, gaze comical and fixed upon the viewer.

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 15h

I wanted to share my grandmother’s story but Native people shouldn’t have to share our trauma for non-Native people to care about all the ways Canada has harmed and continues to harm us.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 14h

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!

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Cosmic Horror Daily 💫👻 @cosmic46.bsky.social · 12h

A gorgeous book, something that should definitely be listened to as well as read.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12h

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq - www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/534654... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHbJ...

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SPLIT TOOTH - TANYA TAGAQ

YouTube video by International Festival of Arts & Ideas

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 13h

28 hours left! We are SO CLOSE!!! Who can help us cross the finish line??? A little over $100 to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

screenshot from the campaign for OPPORTUNITY WINDOW

$1879/$2000 with 110 backers and 28 hours to go

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just cannot stress this enough: If you attempt a joke that doesn’t land, or you say something unintentionally problematic or hurtful, and somebody checks you on it, there are so many ways to walk it back. Take accountability. Apologize. At minimum, stop saying more words to make it worse!

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 16h

"A century before a human being left Earths’ gravitational pull, Verne saw technology reshaping his world and penned a novel that captures the complex social, political, and *human* reality of innovation and space exploration." @reactorsff.bsky.social @anaklimchy.bsky.social

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Misunderstanding the Genius of Jules Verne — And Why It Matters to Science Fiction - Reactor

Our cultural obsession with Verne's predictive abilities ignores the real critical nuance and power of his writing, to everyone's detriment.

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TVO @wearetvo.bsky.social · 15h

September 30 marks National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to remember the children who never returned home and to honour Survivors and generations affected by residential schools. Watch Remembering the Children, a national commemorative broadcast on TVO at 7 p.m. Every Child Matters.

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This story I wrote for buzzFeed news a while back was largely inspired by this concept that I vaguely remember being called racial induced trauma. In minorities whose lineage has a long history of oppression, racist incidents can have a near PTSD like quality www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dann...

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I’m Tired Of Watching Black Death Go Viral

Why must graphic videos of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery make the social media rounds in order for the public to care about their unjust deaths?

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The remora is the proverbial monkey on the back (and belly, and sides) of this poor spotted trunkfish 😫👜🐟🐒 #spottedtrunkfish #remora #swimming #boxfish #coralcitycamera

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 29/09/2026

It's a classic downpour right now! The rain was loud enough to wake me last night.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 29/09/2026

Also: traffic chaos and car accidents just as the gods intended.

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Veronica G. Henry (Order The People's Library) @veronicaghenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy pub day FORGED IN FIYAH. Get your copy at bookstores everywhere.🥳

Photo of Veronica G. Henry's opening page to her story in the Forged In FIYAH anthology

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 29/09/2026

It's pouring with rain on us here outside Vancouver. The Wet Coast is healing. Moisturized, in our lane, thriving.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...

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