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scientist by day 🔬🦠🧬🧫 • paint slaying by moonlight 🖌️🎨 • cat slave • she/her

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data
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Fiona Mathews @fionamathews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why would an animal weighing less than a teaspoon bother flying 150 miles in a night? We have fitted almost 100 with 'airtags for bats' to find out. When one flies near an iPhone, its position is pinged to us. Look what Mike and Mira did last night! @batconservation.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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🏴Yon🏴 @4threset.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
been really into chiikawa lately...
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing
Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"
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Earth @earthin24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🌏 2026 🗓 29th - 30th September 🕛 12:00Z 🛰 Himawari8
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These are human beings. I hate what we have become.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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6000_feet_ASL @6000feetasl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just ‘cause it’s not in the national news anymore , don’t think they’ve magically disappeared. Screwworms are here, and spreading. Cattle, other livestock, pets and wildlife will feel the bite. And, regarding beef prices? Yeah. That will remain a problem. www.scdailypress.com/2026/09/18/m...
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Mimbres quarantined after screwworm case - Silvercity Daily Press
A case of screwworm has been confirmed in a horse in Grant County, and the state is conducting surveillance around the location, according to a press release issued Friday afternoon by the New Mexico ...
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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 17/09/2026
“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BREAKING: Politico now says it has ALSO been denied White House access.
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Ipsita 🎃Mad Social Scientist🎃 Chatterjea(she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
While others are trying to cow you into submission over skynet, United Healthcare will use repeated Medicare Advantage denials to speed up killing your elders by eliminating stable care without a fight every 5-6 days, w/ more work while waiting on an appeal and/or coordinating a return home.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's the simplest thing, these little videos, to show that government is working, and more to the point, working for you. It kicks the teeth out of that old Reaganism about how the scariest statement is "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity
But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining
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ASM @asm.org · 17/09/2026
Happy #WorldMicroorganismDay! The word ‘microbe’ literally means 'small life.' Yet, there are species of microbes that are not microscopic and others that are not alive. So, what even counts as a microbe? asm.org/articles/202...
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What Counts as a Microbe?
The word ‘microbe’ literally means 'small life.' Yet, there are species of microbes that are not microscopic and others that are not alive. So, is 'microbe' helpful shorthand or overly reductive?
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...
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Counting up the costs of coal
Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:
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Jonathan Overpeck @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need to work harder..."This work shows us that all of the solutions we need are already here. We just need to scale them, as quickly and strategically as we can." drawdown.org/insights/wer...
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We’re going to miss the 1.5 °C climate target. Now what?
The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by...
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han @hansoeii.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
fuck Ed Sheeran, fuck Pink and every single "neutral" person out there. you cannot be "neutral" during an active genocide. Have some balls and speak the fuck up. Free Palestine, always!
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apparition of arden👻 @wakingnaturally.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
hello beloved friends. midterms soon. americans — are you registered to vote? takes 30 seconds to check🩷
midterms.voteamerica.org
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
For all that anti-AI folk get accused of "cope" (often and regularly) with regard to AI, I think a lot of the AI boosterism is cope, and much worse cope. The world is getting worse quickly and nobody wants to make hard choices. So now they're like "hey give us money and we will make magic god."
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/09/2026
Pete Hegseth wants to take money from patient-saving NIH funds to fund war. From saving lives to ending them. Sign our petition to Congress to stop Hegseth: tr.ee/ddtqh4
The graphic contains a photo of SpongeBob reading a letter. The graphic reads: "Me learning the Department of War is trying to divert billions of dollars from the NIH to supplement their budget."
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BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
13 Sep 2026 - New World screwworm – first equine case confirmed, 48 animal cases in Texas, USA Read more at: beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=5…
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
RFK Jr said he wanted to “give infectious diseases a break for 8 years”—that’s a crucial motivation for why he degraded or dismantled infectious disease control programs at the CDC, laid off so many experts in ID control, & accelerated his extreme anti-vaxx push. He’s getting the outcomes he wanted😢
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray...
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Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming
Up and down the Pacific coast, dead gray whales are mysteriously washing ashore—and scientists think they know why
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🦖☁️⛰️🌌
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)
J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"I read the new UN climate report so you don’t have to." Highly recommend this summary of last week's UN climate report by @ayanaeliza.bsky.social: ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...
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I read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.
TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A few places on this beautiful planet that made me feel (and look) small.
A selfie of me standing on the edge of a tall, rugged red rock cliff overlooking a vast canyon landscape and the Green River some 1,300 ft below, all under a soft, cloudy, golden sky.The House group of sequoia trees with 6'3" me standing right in front of them for scale as they tower over me out of the frame.A distant selfie of me standing in nearly waist deep water of the middle of the Rio Grande River with massive canyon walls on either side and clear blue sky overhead. A photo of me standing near the base of the powerful Skogafoss waterfall in Iceland. I am center frame, wearing a gray and orange jacket, and standing on light-colored rocks. I am dwarfed by the entire frame filled with white water plunging down the falls.
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Nikki 🍓 7.5 spoilers @madnights.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Of remembering a place you've never been to. #oc:aradia #gpose
The image contains three separate images, all taken place at Zero's Domain in the Void.

The top image is of the faceless knight in the plaza. Three eerie blue flames flicker at the base of the statue. 

The middle image is of Aradia, looking out over the islands floating in the  Void. Her face is unseen. 

The third image is a close up of a brazier with more of the eerie blue flame.
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Nikki 🍓 7.5 spoilers @madnights.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
North Wind #oc:calix #gpose
The image is split into three separate images. Starting from the top is a photo overlooking the mountains surrounding the Garlean capital, seen from Lapis Manalis. A trio of crows is seen flying. 

The second image is a close up of the craggy rocks outside of Lapis Manalis, two tattered black flags whip from the wind blowing through. 

The bottom image is of Calix with a crow landing on his hand, and he regards the crow with a calm expression.
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igns @ignsart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#ffxiv #ff14
ThemisElidibus
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trump is coming for gray wolf protections. He signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to review whether gray wolves should lose their federal endangered-species protections. Link to EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Supporting America's Ranchers
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home wh...
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Francesca Resta @niji707.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hello, Bluesky!! Today it’s my birthday! 💖🥳 I’m very happy and feel like a princess! 💖 Here is some colourful art to mark the day, would appreciate any repost but I appreciate you if you don’t repost too!! 🥰❤️❤️❤️
Fanart of Shallan
Tidus and Yuna laughing for a mtg x FF cardPersonal illustration from some years ago, an astronaut realising is on the hand of a massive statue covered by nature
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This artwork is an oil painting titled "Level Crossing, San Francisco" (2025) by artist Rob Pointon. From his "Fake Tales of San Francisco" collection.
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