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Merfilly (they/them) @merfilly.bsky.social · 2h

It's been a hard day's night And I've been working like a dog It's been a hard day's night I should be sleeping like a log But when I get home to you I find the things that you do Will make me feel alright "A Hard Day's Night" - The Beatles #lyrics

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They're here! They're here! The Comedy Wildlife Awards finalists are here! www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

a squirrel(?) with grass in his mouth looking scary

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Nycc 3679? @mahoukarp.com · 12h

Godzilla and King Kong, two besties hanging out #art

Illustration of Godzilla and King Kong having a good time chilling in the city

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Runtd @runtd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Submission for this month's Character design challenge. Theme was Cat Beauty Pageant. Cat Girls ? ❌ Cat 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 ✔️ #art #oc #characterdesign #catgirl #furry #furryart

Full body portrait of a black cat woman in a fancy red evening gown. She wears golden jewelry set with blue gems.
Behind her is a red lace halo, on which "CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE" is written.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 16h

Our dear dear friend Haley at @friendsofbear.bsky.social has a very sick, sweet geriatric kitty who is in the hospital dealing with some stuff. She posted on her IG that all she’d like for her birthday today is some donations for his care: linktr.ee/friendsofbear

An orange tabby cat who is a bit old and scrungly sleeping inside a cubby bed.

An old orange tabby cat who is a bit disheveled and scrungly, looking quite under the weather with an IV catheter in one leg and a kind hand scritching his cheek gently.

friendsofbearcatrescue one of my favorite little FoB sanctuary buddies Mr. Peaches is currently in the hospital
no pressure but it's my birthday today
and I would love nothing more than if you could donate toward his hospital bill so we can give him the best chance
our donation links are in our bio!
Peaches came to us at the end of May after 13 hard years on the street. His time outside definitely showed, he was in horrendous shape and weighed 5
Ibs of mostly fleas. Since then, we have been managing his various conditions. He's dealt with anemia, congestion, gastric ulcers, kidney disease, horrible dental disease... the list goes on. We've been slowly chipping away at these issues and he was actually starting to feel pretty good! A couple weeks ago, he started backsliding and I've been trying to figure him out. This weekend, it became clear he was declining and what I was doing at home wasn't enough, so I had to admit him to the hospital.
Peaches is dealing with an infection, dehydration, another gastric ulcer, pretty awful congestion and a mild hit to his kidneys. Thankfully, after 24 hrs of fluids, he's showing improvement. Through all of this, he continues to have the loudest purr and best headbutts for everyone who helps him
I feel hopeful that we can get Peaches back on track and give him more time to feel loved and cherished, something he missed out on for his first 13 years of life. If you're able to pitch in $1 or $5 toward his care, we would all appreciate it more than you know.
Everyone who has met this little guy knows how special he is and how much he wants to stick around
thank you all as always for the ongoing support for these gross cats, they are my heart and soul and your donations and kind comments mean the world to me

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 19h

"These Long COVID Superheroes may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they’re showing us a world where listening to your body, standing up for your needs, resting, and leaning on others is true bravery" 📝: @heatherhogan.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/10/05/k...

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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times

Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 21h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 05/10/2026

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979): Matte painting by Syd Dutton

Futuristic city, matte painting by Syd Dutton

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Jules 🦋 @julesk.me · 05/10/2026

Good morning.. today is the last day to register to vote in florida.. go

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Merfilly (they/them) @merfilly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I can afford to drop to part time, I'm thinking no earlier than 10 for start time.

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Kim Wallmark @kimwallmark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

USA voters, it may be wise to check your voter registration status, just in case. vote.gov has links for all the states and territories. They also have links if you need to change your voting address or register to vote.

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Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 04/10/2026

The dragon watched the girl climb up to its mountain lair. She stopped to catch her breath, then shouted: "Oi! I've got some questions." "Ask." "Princesses, why?" "They're educated and smell nice." "No noble blood?" "All humans are humans." "Yes! The revolution is go! Cheers!" "Good luck."

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Merfilly (they/them) @merfilly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like a warrior that fights and wins the battle I know the taste of victory Though I went through some nights consumed by the shadows I was crippled emotionally "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" - Aretha Franklin & George Michael #lyrics Meshell Ndegeocello & Cynthia Erivo cover is great too!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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JR Gershen-Siegel @jespah2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

FYI for Massachusetts residents, check your voter registration status: www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistr...

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TF Rare Pairing @tfrarepairing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FIFTEEN DAYS UNTIL RARE PAIRING FEST OMG!!! #2026TFRarePairingFest

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Angela Scaletta @periwinklejane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Minnesota cat rescue Kitty Revolution is holding a silent auction. Ends Sunday 10/4 and we are not even halfway to our goal. Please take a look - maybe you'll find something you need? www.32auctions.com/kittyrevolut...

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Third Annual Silent Auction

Silent auction 'Third Annual Silent Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Smo - Screaming for vengeance @smomotion.tv · 03/10/2026

Fleischer Studios quietly uploaded the ORIGINAL superman short from 1941 to their youtube: youtu.be/Izw59y7yVio?... Some of the most well animated shorts to this day [and still the best Superman!]

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Superman, released September 26, 1941 was the first of Fleischer Studios' acclaimed Superman series!

YouTube video by Fleischer Studios

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Skinnie Talls @skinnietalls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even if you've only done the Macarena once, you're still a carrier

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KM Praschak @kmpraschak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I once described this book ROCK STAR as what happens when superhero Partridge Family haul the Stepford Wives into a giant mecha and get ready to kick asteroid. The reptilian invaders are bringing the wacky mushrooms, of course. books2read.com/u/4NKg8W Amazon: a.co/d/083MQ1WT

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Rock Star by K.M. Praschak

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 30/09/2026

Your 3rd dose today of Anthropic settlement madness (at least from me). Authors, CHECK YOUR CLAIMS! Your situation may have changed, per this email from the settlement administrator that some authors are receiving (subject heading: Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates)

We made updates that may affect your claim.
What Changed?
Wed, Sep 30,
2026 at 5:35 AM
Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works are categorized.
In particular, where multiple claimants submitted default claims for the same
ownership interest in a work, we changed those works from agreement to
disagreement.
In addition, the portal is updated to reflect that some claimants changed their sole
ownership claims to default claims, and some claimants withdrew their claims.
What This Means for You
As a result of these updates, some works on your claim may now be categorized
differently. We encourage you to review the current allocations for your works.
How to Review and Update Your Allocations
Please use your claim number and PIN above to log into the portal below.
Claim Summary and Allocation Portal
For help making updates, please visit the allocation portal instructions.
If You Already Submitted Updates
If you already updated the allocation for a work, then you do not need to
submit those updates again. Any changes you submitted previously
through the online portal are recorded, but the portal is not being
updated in real time. If you submit multiple updates for the same
copyright number, your most recent submission will replace any earlier
submissions

What’s Next?
We will continue to work with claimants to help resolve disputes.
For works where all rightsholders are in agreement and where all necessary
payment information is provided, we expect to send a first round of payments in
November 2026.
If You Have Questions
Please contact us at 1-877-206-2314 or info@AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com.
Regards,
Settlement Administrator

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A judge has cleared the final hurdle for Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. One fewer major studio. One fewer buyer for creators. One fewer employer for workers. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/pa...

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Paramount-WBD Merger Clears Final Hurdle, Hollywood Gets Smaller

The states have settled their antitrust challenge, leaving one fewer major employer, buyer, and competitor in an already shrinking industry.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To sum up: My publishers failed to register US copyright on many of my titles I am doing all the work in making the claim on those titles they did bother with They take half of any compensation anyway

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sickorax @ripeteeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

genuinely crying in the club this is one of the tenderest and most thoughtful videos

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Lil Nas X - World's Greatest! (Official Video)

YouTube video by LilNasXVEVO

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Jenny Rae Rappaport @jennyrae.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning, it's story day! This is my first appearance in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, and I'm delighted for you all to read "Monsters in the World". ❤️ kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2026/...

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'Monsters in the World' by Jenny Rae Rappaport

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Adler, The Phoenix of Grunvale @phoenixofgrunvale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"A History of Warner Bros. Through Mergers, Our Timeline" By popular demand, and now that the Netflix merger is officially well and truly an alternate timeline, time for an update, a 2.0 version. Yoicks, and away! #WarnerBros #Paramount #Skydance #VideoEditing

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eerian sadow @eeriansadow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bump

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Submissions are open! We're seeking short stories from writers living in the North of England for our anthology of cosmic horror. Find out more and submit: carnyxpress.co.uk/anthology-3-...

Submissions are open for short stories on the theme of cosmic horror, from writers living in the North of England, from the 1st October to the 30th November.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today!

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Kaleidotrope - Autumn 2026

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚

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PAL @paladin42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow October returned. Which means my birthday is barely a week away... Might as well toss the wishlist back out again. In case anyone winds up feeling generous... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excuse me wtf is this. We all know what's missing here and the obvious absence just makes it more noticeable.

Magic card called Dance with Goblins. David Bowie as the Goblin King is there but his signature bulge is not.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/09/2026

The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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MStewart @thinkingtooloud.org · 30/09/2026

A few last notes in September, #CPTSD awareness month. Forgive yourself for being who you needed to be to survive. #MentalHealth #noStigma #SurvivorStrong

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW. PENGUIN.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29/09/2026

Her son carefully lifted his ochre-stained hand from the cave wall and studied the outline. "That's me. My hand." He looked at the other hands. "Do you know all?" "Some are older than me." "That old?" "Hush you," she laughed. "We don't make these to be seen tomorrow, but because today, we live."

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singedsun @singedsun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lol nice try Marshall. Streisand effect in action.

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