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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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How this 1977 book led to The Sims and Wikipedia
YouTube video by dreamwieber
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
HiPOD: Rhythmic Layering in Arabia Terra These deposits are undergoing erosion, which has produced crenulations, pits, and jagged edges. Darker wind-blown ripples and debris has more recently covered and infilled portions of the layered deposit. uahirise.org/ESP_092890_1825
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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banteg (@banteg)
>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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Ky @ky.fyi · 14/05/2026
obsessed with this US department of agriculture zine about snail farming from 1986 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...
Drawing of a snail on the soil. Drawing of a snail in the soil.The text “see what snails eat at night” above two people observing plants under a crescent moon.Each pen you build must also keep the snails safe from their enemies.
Snails have many enemies.
You must be careful to protect them from
• mice and rats
• shrews and moles
• walking insects that live on the ground such as ants and beetles
• slugs and other snails that eat snail meat
• birds that eat snails
• frogs and toads
• thieves
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
SUPER cool graph from Stripe Economics. US productivity is up in the post-AI era, but Utilization-adjusted Total Factor Productivity (the measure closest to "tech added to productivity hooray") has been shrinking for over a year and was around zero last quarter!
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Illustrations by Charles Robinson for “The Happy Prince,” in Oscar Wilde, THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES (Duckworth, 1913).
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Cliffs at Etretat - 1886 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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marinermariner.bsky.social @marinermariner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Another month another round of @clarkesworldmagazine.com !
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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 23/06/2026
Who said range sliders need to be straight and boring?! Hey CSS, distort the line! 〰️ css-tip.com/wiggly-range... Another funny demo powered by border-shape, scroll-driven animations, and more The HTML code? Only an input element (no extra code is needed)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 21/06/2026
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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Have a look at this. Disquieting. (As if you need more of it, I know. But still. You should) sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 03/04/2026
As promised, here's a quick write up of how my eink badge from @pimoroni.com that I wore at #AtmosphereConf worked.
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Badger Badger Badger
A short write up about what Bailey had around his neck at #AtmosphereConf 2026
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.
Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Frank Frazetta, “Frogs on the Moon” (c. 1973).
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)
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Paradox 🫀🦐 @corrodedparadox.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Shrimp hat of a shrimp wearing a shrimp hat. Is this anything.
A hat of a shrimp wearing a hat with a shrimp on it
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Al Gore Fan Club @sm-6.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
the primary function of an army is logistics, they exist to move materiel closer to the enemy. they only get in fights in order to clear space for more supply lines
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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I know shit is all insane and everything is on fire but if all things go well, four astronauts will go to the moon in a few weeks. This mission will include many firsts: the first non-American astronaut, the first female astronaut, and the first person of color to travel to the moon.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🖼️ Fiona Watson
Bears on snowy hillside with trees and winding path against night sky with stars and birds. Illustration.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
The Fairy Tales of Science, Ward Lock and Co London & New York
Green cover with black lettering and design of flowers and foliage. Title in gold box.
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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
this is cold as fuck
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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
'So through the darkness and the cold we flew' -William Wordsworth @signemaene.com welcomes you to an icy cold #BookWormSat. 🎨Edmund Dulac
Cosy illustration of houses covered in snow. A snowy figure is flying through the air.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 25/10/2025
Struggling with the next editorial. Original idea just didn't pan out and time is running out. Open to suggestions or could just do a Q&A style editorial where the Q's come from here. Those can be fun sometimes. Suggest or ask away. :)
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 08/09/2025
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15/09/2025
[wearily] the future belongs to whoever can stop hitting themselves first
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/08/2025
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the Roman Empire. 

The Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles.

Do you think individual Romans understood that their civilization was collapsing? Or did it happen so gradually that they were able to ignore the warning signs—international trade breaking down, the senate becoming a rubber stamp for the supreme leader, and political violence becoming expected during transfers of power?

It’s hard to say, because it’s impossible to imagine being in that kind of situation. In any event—hope you enjoy the candle!
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marinermariner.bsky.social @marinermariner.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
As someone who was a Foundation book enjoyer I’m really enjoying the Foundation tv show. Sometimes it goes off the rails, but that’s also kind of a good thing that keeps it fresh? Gimme more 50s sci-fi tv shows.
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ببونيا @bobonha.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I'm missing Philly a bunch so I'm gonna post about some very Philly things and places and whatnot that might not be on the radar. Some of these places might not be open anymore, some of these people might be gone. But I miss them.
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Zimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 06/07/2025
This is amazing. // A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town
When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoods
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Can't believe that in the year of our lord 2025 I am STILL hearing people say "oh but LLMs are useful for summarizing" They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.
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When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…
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Outside the Blocks @otbgame.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#OutsideTheBlocks #Demo #IndieGame #Diorama #GameDev #Hobby #wishlistwednesday
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I was moved by a single sentence from sociologist Raymond Williams. “There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” (!958) I agreed, and wanted to extend what Williams was saying there. Masses were fine for The Media. Journalists had to speak to a public. 9/
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Kurt Raschke @kurtraschke.com · 01/06/2025
A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems
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Trackernet Stringlines
Graphical Service Analysis for the London Underground
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
AI asked to manage a vending machine: - decides to close the business by shouting "the business is closed" and becomes increasingly unhinged as the simulation agent prompts it to continue running the business.
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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
While Large Language Models (LLMs) can exhibit impressive proficiency in isolated, short-term tasks, they often fail to maintain coherent performance over longer time horizons. In this paper, we prese...
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Aggravation by Briton Rivier
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
One of the coolest and definitely the weirdest map I've seen of Taiwan. Depicts Spanish forts at Keelung and Tamsui
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025
I think about this comic at least once a week
- I want things to be different 
- *smashes everything*
- oh no
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I'm losing my mind The Union grindset guys were everywhere
RICHMOND HAS FALLEN!
AND SO HAVE
L O U N G E S
-AND-
SPRING MATTRESSES
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I have marked them down to very near the old prices. They will not be any cheaper, if they are so cheap. Now is the time to buy. J. T. CASSINO.

The St. Johnsbury Caledonian

St. Johnsbury, Vermont • 
Fri, Apr 7, 1865
Page 3RICHMOND HAS FALLEN!

Richmond has Fallen!!

and so has the

PRICE OF GOODS
AT THE CHEAP CASH STORE OF
J. I. Morris & Co.,
Philipsburg, Centre co., Pa.,
Who have just returned from the city with a large and well Selected Stock of Goods, (Spring and Summer,) purchased since the late decline in prices, and which they are prepared to sell cheaper than the cheapest. (continued)

Raftsman's Journal

Clearfield, Pennsylvania • 
Wed, Aug 16, 1865
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Pictures of the Floating World @floatingworlds.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Tsuchiya Koitsu 1870-1949 Evening Cherry Blossoms at the Edge of Sarusawa Pond #japanese #woodblock
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/04/2025
current yields: -us gov't 10 year: 4.51% -german 10yr: 2.57% -canadian 10yr: 3.25% -greek 10yr: 3.49% -italy: 3.81% seems suboptimal
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
happy confederate surrender day to all
a cartoon of a union army soldier drinking a water machine jug of rebel tears, against a painting of union army troops marching past a burning atlanta
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