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Société Mathématique de France @socmathfrance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[Prise de position du Bureau de la SMF sur les dernières annonces d'OpenAI] Le 8 septembre dernier, OpenAI a annoncé avoir résolu la question mathématique de la régularité des solutions de l'équation de Navier-Stokes, en exhibant un forçage permettant de construire une solution ⬇️

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've posted a free story, for Friday. It's called "Lad and the Devil". It has I assure you no contemporary or "A.I."-y relevance. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/lad-and-th...

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Lad and the Devil

A Diabolical Story

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love how crazily abstract Jack Kirby got in the 80s. Even the normal buildings have been given these wild designs.

Jack Kirby's Captain Victory #6. A group of aliens come out of the ground on a busy street. Inks by Mike Thibodeaux, colours by Steve Oliff.

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Les gens vous êtes chiants. Y'a mes deux livres dans la bibli, donc l'un en double, et vous me parlez de Freud et de crystal, est-ce que c'est pas ça être une femme finalement

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Holy shit, Marvel really did make a Mystique action figure with a baby Nightcrawler accessory to throw.

Mystique action figure with Baby Nightcrawler accessory and a few guns

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I like how the whole "Mystique abandons Kurt" plot could have been done lovingly like Moses among the reeds but no, she just looks vaguely disgusted and hurls him down a waterfall.

Two images of Mystique and Nightcrawler from X-men '97 where Mystique looks vaguely disgusted with her new baby

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

J'ai eu peur pour mon palmarès car doudou 1 a été perdu, mais finalement retrouvé grâce à mon idée d'ajouter un numéro de téléphone sur l'étiquette 🤓

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

i think the wilson–nolan stuff was so explosive because nolan-heads are susceptible to the delusion that his stuff is much more highbrow than it really is, and bluesky heads are susceptible to the delusion that they are the number one homework do-ers, and wilson threatened both myths simultaneously

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One of my Crank Theories of Everything is that the kind of work that survives and becomes part of the canon are stories that feature internal contradictions, because that means they have a rich text that can resonate with people in radically different circumstances and contexts.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ghostbusters at the New York Public Library (This is the last one)

A drawing of the Ghostbusters held up at the New York Public Library

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🏆 Congratulations to Lucy Jameson (Durham) and Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford), winners of the 2026 BSHS Singer Prize! Read about their award-winning essays, the special commendations and the panel's comments here: bshs.org.uk/singer-prize... More on the authors coming soon!

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412th Man @unlox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

can’t find a night when everyone’s reliably free for it, huh

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Tom Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The legendary "walking bed" page from Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was published on July 26, 1908. If there’s a Mt. Rushmore for Sunday pages, this one is certainly on it.

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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

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Chris Sims @theisb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Going to become a tech billionaire just so I can name things after the non-sinister parts of Lord of the Rings. Please make hotel reservations through my new hospitality management software, Butterburr.

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Roger Mansuy @roger-mansuy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Je suis si content qu'Hannah Fry soit reconnue au plus haut niveau international. Son travail pour la diffusion est exceptionnel! Voici sa page dans le Grand Almanach Mathématique!

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/07/2026

🇫🇷 Internet, fais mon ton miracle. 🙏 Mon fils de 11 ans a oublié la petite caméra numérique, qu'il a eu à son anniversaire, sur l'aire de Chagnats, sur l'autoroute A10, en direction de Paris, vers 19h45 ce 22 juillet. Il a le cœur brisé, donc si jamais quelqu'un la trouve...

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Princess Leia: You're My Only Hope

Alt: Princess Leia: You're My Only Hope

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steve @stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’m never surprised by anything. My life contains no wonder or whimsy. I’m fucking miserable and I’m a Bluesky Poster

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

love to experience the platonic discourses

Cycle with 4 parts, and a meme NPC guy in the middle.
Cooking vs delivery
Fuck rurals?
Vibecession
Not voting

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I regret to inform my fellow West Coast bohemians that Pittsburgh does most of the same things as the cities we love but with cheaper beer

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Roger Mansuy @roger-mansuy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Si vous êtes habitué des journaux et magazines de science, vous l'avez sûrement remarqué: on annonce toujours les décès des grands scientifiques, jamais leurs naissances

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Itchy and Scratchy after Marge Simpson interfered: "They share and love and share!"

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Matt D. Wilson @mattdwilson.net · 21/07/2026

Judith’s

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Who can I neg into signing off on my buddy's AI slop venture? I know: the famously opinionated indie publisher who's spent 30 years hand-drawing his labor-of-love project, which incidentally has already been adapted into real animation" said the most useless turd in your toilet

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

me: *sends email to self* gmail: *alert* me: ooh

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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Palais de la découverte @palais-decouverte.fr · 20/07/2026

👏💡➡️https://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/

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Roger Mansuy @roger-mansuy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Je ne suis pas mathématicien. Mais je trouve toujours les bonnes réponses, voyez-vous." Chez Isaac Asimov

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 19/07/2026

As a result of the third p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶ v̶i̶c̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ by England we must now r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶e̶ all French d̶e̶r̶i̶v̶e̶d̶ words from the English l̶a̶n̶g̶u̶a̶g̶e̶

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Vera Tobin @vtobin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

No. Why. Just... no.

Screenshot from the New Yorker: "There are times when you can sense Nolan’s frustration—not with Homer so much as his own inability to reshape the material into something more than mere spectacle. When Odysseus and his men navigate a course between the stonelike, man-grabbing tentacles of Scylla and the enormous churning maelstrom of Charybdis—or, as they are known in less orthodox translations, Rocky and Poolwrinkle—"

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Les bébés dans mon entourage choisissent tout le temps la peluche que je leur offre comme doudou j'ai un super pouvoir 😎

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Alors je suis allé dans un magasin de réparation, et le prix de la nostalgie est de plus de 240 balles mais je ne regrette rien, même pas mon nouveau look disco-holographique.

Une montre ronde avec en fond une image de Saturne en hologramme. Les heures sont marquées par des étoiles. Le bracelet est rouge vif.

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Kevin Wardrop @kevinwardrop.nitemayr.com · 14/07/2026

Hey! That's Tori Amos!

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Judge Anderson in this one specific Simon Bisley panel, I have crossed oceans of time to find you

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Interview excerpt with Sam Neill:
"If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?"
"It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are; otherwise, when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So sad to see that Sam Neill died. I sat next to him on a plane from NZ to Sydney. He was so kind, let me hang in the airport lounge w him (!), told me about his animals, and gave recs on what to do in Sydney and drew me a little map of how to get to Bondi. And was so gracious to fans who said hi.

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Peter Gainsford @kiwihellenist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This news makes me sad. I normally don't pay much attention to celebrities but Sam felt a bit more like a neighbour. Requiescat in pace.

Still from the film Dean Spanley (2008): Sam Neill as Dean Spanley

Still from the film 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' (2016): Sam Neill as Uncle Hec

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Great news: The newborn has survived the night and is already curiously observing its surroundings. Mom found an empty raft to leave the pup on while she goes out to hunt/feed. But she's not going too far away and keeps peeking out of the water to keep an eye on Churu.

A newborn harbor seal with dark-spotted silver-grey fur and a pale cream underside lies curled on a carpeted raft, head raised and looking directly at the camera with wet whiskers and a dark glossy eye. A black mooring line crosses the foreground.

Close-up of the pup lying on its belly on a grey carpeted platform, eyes half-closed and whiskers fanned out, framed between weathered wooden dock beams.

A harbor seal rests belly-down on a carpeted haul-out platform beside a marina slip, its speckled body stretched toward the water. Its mom watches from the water in the background, head poking up beside the red-and-white hull of a moored boat.

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The mathematican's apprentice @mathapprentice.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Divisibility by seven (1/3). A number n can be written, in decimal notation, as n=10x+y, where y has one digit and x one digit less than n. Since 5 and 7 are relatively prime, n is divisible by 7 if and only if 5n=50x+5y is.

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The mathematican's apprentice @mathapprentice.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I started breaking that rule in the last few days, to my regret. Time to get back to it.

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Adam Hewitt @adamhewitt198.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

1) They think everyone else is doing it, and they don't want to fall behind or feel foolish for putting effort in 2) For many, it IS more about the credential at the end than it is about learning 3) Sometimes even people who have good intentions in the abstract will succumb to laziness in the moment

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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

They're calling it the most blockable avatar of all time

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

For all the people saying "fail them" like it's a solution. I have (or had -- I just retired) no problem failing students when that was how the grading came out. I also turned in people to academic misconduct processes for false citation. But a failure means learning didn't happen. And when

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It was even true with the "just be more interesting than their phones" thing. I mean, come on. It's an algorithmic portal to billions of dollars of entertainment content + a constant connection to the people they care most about in life, and you're teaching the two sector model of circular flow.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"If only you were a better teacher, they wouldn't be tempted to cheat" Yeah and if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bicycle.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 11/07/2026

The synthesis is that it’s different and worse now, but students of previous generations would’ve done it if they could’ve

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