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Mary M.

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Over 60. Retired RN. Huge reader, especially science, history, and medicine. Proud fanfic addict since 1985. Interest in the history of the Manhattan Project and related subjects. Fan of animation, cats, crafts. Married to NotGeorgeLucas.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19h
📻 To celebrate College Radio Day, tune in to more than a century of college radio history. In 1906, Harvard students formed what was described as the first college radio club. By the 1920s, students were building stations and broadcasting campus events. 📚 More: blog.archive.org/2026/10/02/1... 🧵
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026
this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
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SkyOokami11_art @skyookami11.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Forgot to post this here for a while 😅 (I love their Japanese designs) 🌸🌸🌸 #HelluvaBoss #HelluvaBossFanart #Fizzarozzie #FizzarozzieFanart
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Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya (1988) Episode 19
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just know Bob is designing rhinestone outfits for Dolly in heaven. Rest in peace king. One of one. www.out.com/bob-mackie-d...
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Bob Mackie, famous gay fashion and costume designer, dies at 87
Legendary designer Bob Mackie, who dressed everyone from Cher to Elton John, has died.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/09/2026
OH Scale xkcd.com/3297/
Comic. [Next to a two-story house and some trees is a huge rail (several times the height of the house) with an incomplete huge wheel on top surrounded by scaffolding.] [caption] Due to a typo in the plans, I’ve been building an 87:1 model train set in my yard.
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Stolas’ Fuckass Romper 🦉💕🦎 @zukosmissingmother.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This frame is so funny it’s like a renaissance painting: Blitzø: it’s my best friend Fizzy! Vox: the camera loves me Vaggie: oof you okay babe? Vassago: yes I’m Vassago Fizz & Loona: processing their new lives in The Void Husk: absolutely fuck their happiness Stolas: fuck did he take Adderall again?
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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TheAbbeyRoadie | Commissions Open! @theabbeyroadie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green have just come home. Green is shaking water off his umbrella, while Blueis oblivious to the butterfly sitting on his hat.
Green: Phew! We made it.
Blue: Of course it stops raining as soon as we get home.

Noticing the butterfly, both foxes look at it in surprise.
Green: What's that on your hat?
Blue: A stowaway!

The foxes watch as the butterfly takes flight, fluttering off.
Green: It's getting into the hallway!
Blue: Grab a jar!

With looks of determination on their faces, Blue and Green chase after the butterfly, with Green carrying an empty glass jar on his head, and Blue carrying a piece of paper in his teeth.
Blue: Get back here and get rescued!
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 29/08/2026
Meanwhile: time to go fall over, as it's been a longish day. Please buy my new ebook! *Thank you.* (And if you're in the UK, please go buy it at Amazon: I put the co.uk link in the article there JUST FOR YOU.) 🙂 bit.ly/LionessMane
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At Ebooks Direct: The Adventure of the Lioness's Mane - Out of Ambit
It’s 1895, but not as you know it! The planet Earth experienced its first shattering contact with alien life in the year 1690 AD. Only the inspired genius of Sir…
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are floating, eyes closed, cuddled up so tightly that they're coiled together.
Green, narrating: I want to cuddle in zero gravity. You could sleep without being bothered by me tossing and turning and you could keep us both warm, we won't need blankets.

A view of the foxes, floating in the deep blue darkness of space, illuminated by the moon and stars.
Green, continuing to narrate: If it weren't for oxygen, we could space travel.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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♥ Chaotic Brush ♥🔞 @brushofchaos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was a wonderful human being. We as humans should strive to be more like her, and fight to make the world a better place. Rest in peace, you legend.
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David Leigh Roth @notonebit.com · 25/08/2026
You can donate to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library here donate.imaginationlibrary.com
donate.imaginationlibrary.com
Home
Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.
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khøsh 🦉🦎 stolas’ drenched booty shorts @khosh3kh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
still can't believe that on august 24th, 2026, we randomly got stills of blitz zooted as fuck on his crying couch with his zooted gay husband and his zooted bisexual daughter + loona partying with her boyfailure of a dad + m&m having a Serious Talk fuck i'm so excited for season 3
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, and enjoy the blooper halfway through the video! I resisted editing it out. My dad thinks people are sick of slick videos with the rise of AI slop. So... I kept it in for comic relief, and to show ... I'm really not at all polished on camera. 😂
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Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ultraman Leo (1974) Episode 49
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: On holiday with the compulsive browsers 

Panel 1: Browsing in the airport bookstore despite already having bags filled with books 

Panel 2: Browsing in a charming local bookshop despite not speaking a word of the language 

Panel 3: Browsing in the Airbnb despite there being only four novels, the oven manual and a pizza menu
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🐾🐾🐾..
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The glass is half full Pessimist: The glass is half empty Safety Professional: [sighs deeply] A glass of what, exactly? Do you have the MSDS? You drank some didn't you?
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 21/08/2026
End of the comic ✨️🔥
The crows continue to reassure the wolf, saying they'll take him to his hot pot spot, where he us always around, souping. Souping that hot bird soup.The wolf looks upset, saying he is very happy the crows are helping him, but that they are kinda sucking the solemnity out of a moment he worked towards for years. The crows answer "oh, our b," and "we also call him Campfire Bird. Is that better?"
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 21/08/2026
I love when fantasy series have a dude called something like Stephen the All-Seeing, Keeper of the Demon Sword, hero of the Volcano Age. But in some tiny village, he's known as Bees Steve, that weird guy who loves beekeeping. The more uppercase titles the legend has, the funnier the contrast is.
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elleap ✨ comms closed! @elleap.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
drunk blitz and stolas in dress? or drunk stolas and blitz in dress? yes.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. in this one, Blue and Green are studying the menu of an ice cream shop.
Green: You can tell how fancy an ice cream place is by how weird their flavours get.

Green leans in to read the menu.
Green: Let's see. They have lingonberry, almond, wasabi, rooibos, ennui, birch sap...

Green raises an eyebrow in disbelief.
Green: Linoleum?!

Blue peers in, correcting green.
Blue: "Lime-lemon".
Green: Oh.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes? 

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library 

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)
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Voices from the Eyrie - A Gargoyles Podcast @gargoylespodcast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ironically, Xanatos was designed years before Frakes was cast, so the physical similarities are a wonderful coincidence. Elisa’s model sheet and ethnicity were updated after Salli Richardson was cast. Originally, she was Latina, but she then became half African American and half Native American.
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GeekFilter 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @geekfilter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Filmation, the animation company for #StarTrekTAS, also worked on Aquaman. To save money they use the same motion illustrations for the swimming scenes. Something we wanted to put in the book but couldn't get the rights from DC or rather it would've been too expensive. #TOSSAtNight #TASSatNight
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Voices from the Eyrie - A Gargoyles Podcast @gargoylespodcast.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Disney wanted a show that could compete in a marketplace where Batman was succeeding” and “Batman inspired Gargoyles” are completely different statements. The first is about Disney's business decision. The second is about the artists' creative process.
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Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ultraman Orb (2016) Episode 1
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Today is International Cat Day so we thought it would be the purr-fect opportunity to share some of the cats from the Ashmolean’s collection.
Ancient statuette of the cat goddess BastetA small metal ojime in the form of a cat.A black and white engraving of a sleeping cat.A carnelian prism seal carved with seated cat and hieroglyphic signs
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Some extra Lower Decks for your Second Contact Day. 🖖🏻 Definitely need to get Rutherford and Boimler in the mix. Hopefully more to come soon.
star trek fan art illustration of Jennifer from Star Trek Lower Decks. She's wearing aviator sunglasses, blowing pink bubble gum, dressed in a tank top with pink letters that say "Fuck ICE." From the top, she has a piercing in her right antenna, with an additional ring below. her left antenna has 2 silver rings. the sides of her hair has been shaved to give her a pony-hawk. her right ear has a lobe ring with 3 piercings: two stars and a starfleet delta. she also has a nose piercing. her neck tattoo is the symbol for Trill. her right arm tattoos are the Great Koala, the klingon, maquis, and bajoran symbols. The klingon word for honor is below them. on her right forearm is the Starfleet delta along with vulcan script for "to boldly go" (i hope) all among a vibrant space nebula. she has two rings on her fingers. her chest tattoos are a blue heart bordered with roses. Ritos (the abbreviated name of her ship) is written in the center. below that are gold letters "L & D." on her left arm is the Vulcan symbol for I.D.I.C. Two hearts with lovers initials: M + J & C + J, both are crossed out. My art signature is below them. Beside that is Vulcan script for "what is, is." (i hope.) on her left forearm is the symbol of her homeworld, Andoria. Behind her is a vibrant pink background.star trek lower decks fan art illustration of Shaxs. he's wearing a yellow tank top that says fuck ice. T'ana is tattooed on his chest. on his right hand is the symbol of the Maquis. His left arm is tattooed with a colorful space nebula. A blue heart features the letters L&D. below that is the word ally with the "A" being a rainbow Starfleet delta. below that are rows of Cardassian symbols that have been crossed out. below that the words say, "Resist. Resist Today. Resist Tomorrow." A golden Bajoran emblem hangs around his neck.star trek lower decks fan art illustration of T'Lyn. she's leaning against something (off screen), wearing sunglasses, has purple eye shadow - as is vulcan tradition, multiple piercings in her ear, 2 rings, a starfleet delta and a vulcan hand symbol. she's wearing a blue choker, and two necklaces. one is a simple silver chain. the other is Khan's makeshift broken starfleet necklace from the OG "Wrath of Khan." she's wearing a punk wristband and black opal ring. on her right arm is the vulcan script for "live long and prosper" and on her left arm is the vulcan script for "peace and long life." both are obscured by the pose. her blue tank top has the letters "IDIC." the decal is worn and faded. the background is purple to match her eyeshadow.star trek lower decks fan art of Tendi. she's leaning against the side of the drawing, her hair is slicked back with a pair of aviator sunglasses atop her head. she's wearing several necklaces of gold and silver. a gold pendant with the Orion symbol and a Starfleet delta. she's also wearing a fitted black t-shirt. the white text says "A. B. C. D. E. F. U. C. K. I. C. E." the background is filled with pink skulls on a black backdrop.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/08/2026
Antiques Roadshow xkcd.com/3281/
Comic. [Two people with tiny star floating above display on table.] PERSON 1 with ponytail: Now, your grandmother said this was a relic low-mass population III star, from the first generation of stars. Unfortunately, the high iron content shows that it formed much later, after several rounds of supernovas. I’m afraid it’s a population I star. PERSON 2: Aw, darn. Well, it still has sentimental value. [banner for Antiques Roadshow]
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today is the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. For @thebulletin.org, I wrote a short piece on the curious story of the "Hiroshima Maidens," and what it tells us about the complicated politics of memory. thebulletin.org/2026/08/the-...
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The political implications of Hiroshima’s scarred “maidens”
In May 1955, 25 young Japanese women, all of whom had been schoolchildren who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, were flown to the United States. They became known in the press as the “Hiroshim...
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Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes, it's the zeroth rule of writing advice: if advice works for you, then it's good advice for you, but if advice doesn't work for you, then it's bad advice for you. Sounds like a tautology, but people will fight you to the death on Reddit if you reject one of their unbreakable rules.
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ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Get ready with me comic
4 panel comic titled “get ready with me”
Panel 1 - a guy is bringing a bowl of food to his cat - the caption says “this is my cute little morning routine”
Panel 2 - he watches as his cat eats the food, behind them is an ominous black portal bordered with skulls and with tentacles coming out of it
Panel 3 - he sits in a recliner with a cup of coffee and his cat at his feet. He says “ahh so nice” - the portal is still lurking behind them
Panel 4 - he’s now reading a book. The cat is sleeping in his lap. The portal still looms. He says “the trick is to ignore the void of infinite horrors “
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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A four-panel comic featuring a small black cat sitting in a soft, dreamy landscape beneath a blue sky. As the panels progress, the cat’s expression changes from calm to increasingly wide-eyed. The text across the panels reads: “I wish your August is full of the things that make you happy.” The final panel shows the cat with enormous, sparkling eyes, adding a sweet and hopeful feeling to the message. The artwork has a gentle, textured, hand-drawn style with pastel blue, green, and pink tones in the background.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The way nurses are depicted in hospital shows. For example: doctors are almost always shown as the ones visiting with the patients and their families the most, which just isn't the reality.
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Reaf @reaf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
They have made another Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie. With John Astin (og Gomez Addams) returning as Professor Gangreen, he's 96 years old so he's probably not in it much but this was a fun way of finding out he's still alive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA8l...
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ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE Trailer (2026) Horror, Comedy Movie [4K]
YouTube video by Trailer Feed
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Four cartoons from the book...
A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out." Text underneath reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - Order it at www.tomgauld.com
Panel one, labelled  "School Parents' Night": a girland her parents sit sadly in front of a teacher who is holding up the girl's grade, an "F".
Panel two, labelled "Astronomy Conference": the same girl, now an adult, is being awarded a medal by a professor. The teacher and the professor share a speech bubble which crosses both panels saying "This is for spending all your time staring into space"
Image: A scientist stands at the crossroads at midnight, he holds out a bowl to the devil who looks rather cross. Caption "Thanks to a typo in the contract, the professor gained complete mastery of all the knowledge in the heavens and the earth, in exchange for his soup." Text underneath reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - Order it at www.tomgauld.com
Title: Soren Kierkegaard, 1843 Image: A three panel comic strip that shows Mr Kierkegaard saying "Life can only be understood backwards" as he walks from right to left through the three frames (i.e. against the usual order in which these panels would be read) A dog walks from left to right, saying: "But it must be lived forward". Text underneath reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - Order it at www.tomgauld.com
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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A tweet 

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir - "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon - doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

Above a classic comic of Calvin as tracer bullet private eye, a noir render with a detective cap and pistol behind a desk. The caption is YEAH, THAT'S ME, TRACER BULLET.
I'VE GOT EIGHT SLUGS IN ME.
ONE'S LEAD, AND THE REST ARE BOURBON. THE DRINK PACKS A WALLOP, AND I PACK A REVOLVER.
I'M A PRIVATE EYE.
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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 26/07/2026
AO3 has reached 18 million fanworks on the site! Come celebrate with us and learn about collections features. Read more at otw-news.org/3zd6mwss.
18 Million Works on AO3
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I think that I've finally found it — a true photograph of "the good old days" that everyone is always talking about.
A child rides a contraption attached to a huge alligator in a hand-colorized photo-postcard from 1907. Parents, with babies, look on, impassively. The caption says: "The Joy Ride at the California Alligator Farm, Los Angeles, California"
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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"
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LunalightHowl @lunalighthowl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
All hail Loona, queen of the Savannah
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! #CannibalismBot
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The fact that we almost did not get this movie about a little guy taking on a corporation focused only on profit because the studio decided to axe it for short term profit is frankly too much for me right now.
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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
AMA for Deborah Alban and Amy Palmer's new book, First Helpings: A History of Children and Food going on right now @askhistorians.bsky.social it's pretty fascinating! old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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We are historians of childhood and food, authors of 'First Helpings: A History of Children and Food'. Feel free to AMA.
Our names are Dr Deborah Albon and Dr Amy Palmer and we are the authors of ‘First Helpings: A History of Children and Food’ published by...
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