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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The people on the Epstein list aren't scared nearly enough.

Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 1h

It amazes me how little our society respects the dead. Why not dig up corpses and create taxidermied animatronics of them? ITS THE SAME THING.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2h

I’m with Damien on this one: all you’re doing is creating a stochastic parrot wearing your loved one’s skin, and if that doesn’t give you immediate pause, then I have some questions for you. ESPECIALLY if you’re using it in institutional contexts.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

It’s more than an insult it seems to me a profound violation of personhood. Just because someone is dead doesn’t mean we get to prop their likeness up to perform labor for us. The dead deserve better from us.

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 2h

I think we should invite Indiana and Ohio along... but I don't think they will.

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 3h

I would like to take Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois with us.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 5h

feels like we should make a larger talking point out of the fact that AI is just another attempt to consolidate wealth for billionaires

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Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 3h

I thought McSweeney's was supposed to be satire, this is documentary

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 3h

There a straight line from Trump’a grab her by the pussy” to the Cornell rapists “free pussy” texts. Frats have been cesspools of harassment and rape long before this, but there’s a generation of boys that grew up learning that Trump and creeps like the Tates are role models to emulate.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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nappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 4h

I love how these moral panics about family estrangement always bring up children refusing to talk to their parents, never the long history of parents disowning children. It's fine if dad wants to kick out his gay kid, not if his gay kid doesn't want to talk to his homophobic dad.

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 3h

My son is a pedophile

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Larry @misterkojak.bsky.social · 3h

For sale. Empire. Never worn.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 3h

"Oh God, Charles is Up."

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 10h

this site and field station is currently under threat from the climate change linked forest fires in Borneo. if you found this paper interesting (or not) please consider reading about or donating to support fire fighting causes in the area: coreborneo.com/wildfire-app...

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Emergency Appeal: Help Save the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station and Surrounding Peatland Forest defaultdefaultdefaultdefault The Fires Have Returned to Tuanan A major wildfire…

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 4h

I really think “solitary” is in inaccurate description for orangutan social structure. I think “dispersed fission-fusion” makes more sense, though “semi-solitary” works too.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h

The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 13h

Has anyone checked in with Narcissus recently RE how that reflection worship turned out for him?

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RedEye Games | Miney Golf is live on Steam! @redeye-games.bsky.social · 18h

Once you have even a cursory understanding of the math underlying these models, it REALLY changes how you engage with people on it. Oh you have an AI girlfriend? Yeah tell me more about how sexy you think 6 regression models in a trenchcoat is and why we should poison the water for it, bud!

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13h

Can we get this on billboards all over America?

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Kaye Ross @kaye.zone · 13h

This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. The way estranged parent communities are revving each other up is way worse than what you’d probably assume. This is a kind of omni moral panic that redefines “child” to make everyone the property of their parent so long as that parent is alive.

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Virginia @nastenka.bsky.social · 17h

WTF! This is.. a new rabbit hole for me! 🤗 My first thought when I read "basilisk" is this and now everything is weird lol.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 20h

In other news, I spent a couple hours learning about the math involved in large language models and I AM SO MAD! IT IS LITERALLY JUST SPICY AUTOFILL IDKY I THOUGHT THE DIP$h!+s IN MY OLD PROGRAMMING CLASSES WOULD BE SMARTER THAN THEY ARE THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST WORSHIPPING A REFLECTION OF HUMANITY

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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 14h

More #TeamAlcesAlces delights!

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 13h

Worf has interplanetary adoption trauma. He overcompensates by adhering to the stereotypes he’s internalized about Klingon culture.

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Logan Five @logan-5.bsky.social · 15h

When this country elected a black man twice, the Republican Party decided they’d rather end America than live in a country where something like that was possible. So they set about to end it. They hired Trump. And they aligned with Putin and took his help. None of this is hard to understand.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 15h

The aim of the Republican Party is to delegitimize and dismantle the United States government in order to resegregate, restore patriarchy, privatize and plunder the states they control.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 20h

It's so stupid that we still have the death penalty They're botched so often because no one who might be able to professionally do it wants to be involved. Hippocratic oath and all We have the technology to euthanize pets and even do so for humans who actually want to die NO ONE wants to do this

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20h

a) abolish the death penalty literally yesterday it's so fucking disgusting b) until the above happens, if the state tries and fails to get your ass you should be allowed to walk

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 20h

My phone says this is a Panicled Aster and I thought it said Panicked Aster and I was like “yeah I get it, it’s rough out there.” #BloomScrolling 🌿

A cluster of white flowers with very thin petals and round yellow centers, surrounded by a lush green background of leaves.

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 21h

maybe that will help them forget their kid is dead

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 20h

"archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards."

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 21h

I really hope these find a life of their own beyond me sharing them directly. They need people to champion them way more than I can do by myself and I desperately need to rest

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 21h

My dog and I are both cold at 68 degrees, so I’ve set it to that, and we snuggle in the blankets like we’re in the Arctic.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 21h

Another new IG video from ISS today (they have been super busy with these) and we get the clearest view yet of the three photos of Jared Isaacman, Elon Musk, and Wernher von Braun. Video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DeJ8qfx...

Screenshot from the linked video, apparently filmed by Anil Menon. From left to right, Jessica Watkins, Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir, and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk are gathered around the Node 1 galley table. There are party balloons on the ceiling. Behind the group, on the aft hatch, are three photographs, showing Isaacman, Musk, and von Braun.

Closeup of a screenshot showing the hatch above Hathaway's head and the three photos.

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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 22h

#TongueOutTuesday Robin edition Harvesting the haws from the hawthorn tree. 🪶📷🌿

An American Robin, along with many of its buddies, plus a few Chickadees, and Cedar waxwings, is working over the Hawthorne tree in my sister’s backyard. The paler colors make me think this is a female and if you look close, you’ll see her tongue is out to guide that fruit into her beak and down to her belly.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23h

You'll never love anything the way Stephen Miller loves stealing brown kids.

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Brian Lilly @brglilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ranbi and Natalia playing under a blanket (1 of 2) #PaigntonZoo #orangutans #primates

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Brian Lilly @brglilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Crowned lemur in Lemur Wood #PaigntonZoo #lemur #primates

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“If you eventually face consequences you were never powerful” is a useful summary of the MeToo backlash

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026

An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m old enough to remember that time people from another country destroyed a few US city buildings and the President got so mad he decided we could do torture

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see some people debating what Trump was actually saying, re: Iran bombing US cities. I watched the clip, and to me it felt like, mid-thought, he sort of wandered and was saying, yeah, if they're gonna bomb a city, let them bomb one of these cities I hate, and then got back to gas prices.

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have only heard of Piranesi from this list, thought it is on my long TBR list!

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