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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What makes these beaded sculptures of fleeting children by Numata Yuka even more poignant is that this ”abandoned” elementary school in Japan was actually closed in 2012 due to demographic decline. Historical photos of Yuya Elementary in Gero, Gifu, here: gero-art-discovery.jp/en/school_fo...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 03/07/2024

The entire genre of dancehall (more or less) came about when a reggae producer repurposed a "rock" beat he accidentally discovered on a casio kid's toy keyboard. People recently discovered the long-anonymous Japanese woman who programmed the beat was in fact a huge reggae fan and scholar.

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Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae

The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline origi...

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Donna Rees @donnarees.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's often been copied, hasn't it? Lenny Kravitz and Beck's Colors come to mind, also that's Toni Basil dancing with Davy.

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Dave Ross @daveamitri.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shared elsewhere on The Monkees socials. Here's Davy Jones in full music hall mode from Head with some of the most incredible film editing you will ever see. youtu.be/QDi7MAbDyr0?...

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HEAD Daddy's Song

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Look at the dissolving shadows and snappy high heels and subtle striped pants in Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day” at @artinstitutechi.bsky.social

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 10/09/2026

Matt, channeling Baudelaire (complimentary)

From Charles Baudelaire, “The Bad Glazier”:

At last he appeared. With great curiosity I examined all of his panes and finally said: "What?
You have no colored glass? No pinks, no reds, no blues, no magical panes? No panes of the gods?
Impudent creature! You sell your wares to the poor, and yet you have no panes that are able to make life beautiful!" And I abruptly pushed him,
groaning and stumbling, out to the stairs.
I then went out on my balcony and grabbed a small flowerpot; when the man reappeared at the door | let my engine of war fall right on the back of his pack, the reverberations from the impact sending him reeling. Falling on his back he managed to break all of his poor, portable merchandise with a crash akin to lightning striking a crystal palace!
And intoxicated by madness | screamed furiously:
"Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Delphinuwen @delphinuwen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Go muscu goal : pouvoir faire ça en manif avec une voiture de flics

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Don't sit on the sidelines. Doug Ford walked away from an offer for Olivia Chow to restore car travel lanes but keep the protected bike lanes. He owes it all Ontarians to answer why. cycleto.ca/fight_trump

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#dlws In case you haven't bookmarked the Toronto Hydro outage map, this might be a good time.

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Outage map - Toronto Hydro

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ok, it's finally hit us. Junction got very dark and windy before the hail started. #dlws

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Nijmegen Helmet: a visored Roman cavalry display helmet of silvered bronze and iron: ca. Early 2nd Century AD. Busts embellish the diadem; and the name 'Marcianus' is scratched into the right cheek. #Archaeology 🏺 Image: Valkhof Museum (XXI.1.4). Link - valkhofmuseum.nl/en/verdiepin...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

really into this guy who krumps to various songs while singing said songs a cappella

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Tom the Dog @tomthedog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You guys. YOU. GUYS. Somehow I didn't know that Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris had covered Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," I feel like I have been wasting my life until this moment

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Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris - After the Gold Rush (Official Music Video) | TRIO

YouTube video by Linda Ronstadt

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.

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Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The most Christ-like thing any person can do is quietly do the work. That's it. That's the game. You just quietly keep doing the work. Anyone telling you anything different is selling you something. And it ain't Christ. So yeah, Dolly was Christ-like as fuck.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Do your one minute of clickens for mental health. clickens.chicken.pics They yearn to be appraised.

Which is more duplicitous?
A painting of a small yellow chicken in foliage
A painting of a chicken on a green background with a majestic comb

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm playing a new word game, and it's fun. You should check it out, if you're into that sort of thing. I found a Rarity-65 word worth 88 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 806 points · 10 rare words. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/UMELNT

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OUTLIER · Day 96

mostlymartha scored 806 on Day 96 — can you beat them?

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The biggest issue we have in Alberta is that we'll get 20% turnout on the referendum to hold a referendum, and that 20% will be only separatists. That's literally the real risk.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had no idea CBC had an app for learning French that uses real shows and stuff to help with learning it. One way to ensure Canada protects French is if we all make an effort to truly be bilingual — and we can make Quebec feel like we understand their struggle too. “Mauril” app from CBC:

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 23/08/2026

Hey, so that "detailed list of last minute demands" screenshot in the US-Canada negotiations? It's an unsourced AI document. Stop sharing it

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

From the start, the strategy has seemed very much like Carney to Trump: I'd like to cave! Carney to flaks: Tell the press I might cave. Flaks to press: Carney might cave Press: Carney to cave Public to Carney: Don't cave! Carney to Trump: I want to cave but can't right now. More time pls. Repeat

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it's worth noting that the image on the right comes from The Young Pope, which treats Jude Law's pretensions as the immature crash out of a man who never worked out his parental abandonment issues and is now subjecting 1.5 billion people to an extended temper tantrum

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?

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Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue
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Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Marlon James deserves 100 horse lamps and this makes me love him even more

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I woke up intending to finish this today, but Sunday chores needed doing. In progress: "Leopard Frog", oil on canvas board, 4x6" #wip #art #frogs #sciart

A painting of a leopard frog, green with dark spots & a white stripe down its side. It is seated on a green moss with some dried, brown leaves on the left side.

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Guillermo Esteves @allencompassingtrip.com · 16/08/2026

Porcupine, Antelope Flats, Grand Teton National Park. February, 2019. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/1400″ – f/8 – ISO 1600 🏷️ #NationalParks #Photography #Porcupines #Wildlife

A porcupine reaching for a branch in the snow near Antelope Flats.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

HIGHLY recommend the display of Christopher Payne's oversized photographs of industrial/manufacturing processes at the Cooper Hewitt. Really fascinating and beautiful work.

A photograph of a man in the center of some sort of turbine

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Per my last tablet

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is the church. This is the steeple. Open the doors, And SEA PEOPLES!

The hand motions for the "this is the church" nursery rhyme thing, but instead of "and see all the people" you have the Sea People, the group of tribes hypothesized to have attacked Egypt and other Eastern Mediterranean regions around 1200 BC during the Late Bronze Age.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I loved Everything Will Swallow You and am expanding my Tom Cox bookshelf, so when he made this offer 11 days ago, I jumped right in because I want him to keep writing AND I adore his Mum's art. I just received a red lino print of her magical "Meadow Hare" (a Canada Post miracle!). Thanks, Tom & Jo!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

1/ Today, an executive order was signed aimed at childhood vaccines. There's no new scientific data for this policy, but there were a LOT of words and confusing rhetoric at the press conference. Here’s what today actually means for you and your family.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is an important thread. It also gives me a pretext for posting this, a short film I show my MIT science writing students every year: (One quibble: It took way longer than it should have, but Bell Burnell is now famous, full stop. At least in scientific circles.)

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I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs

YouTube video by New York Times Opinion

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dive photographer Alex Dawson captured this eerie tour of an underwater forest at Geiseltalsee, the largest artificial lake in Germany. Formerly an open-cast lignite coal mine, it was flooded 2003-2011 to create the lake. Let's talk about the geological history of this valley & why it was flooded.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026

I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.

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Kester Allen @kesterallen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

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