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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The dangers of flying too close to the sun… with robotic angel wings…https://partiful.com/e/nfIQX967M5xj1Br0GOt8?c=1OmXSvE0 ##sftechweek

A man wearing bespoke angel wings and the aftermath of riding his bike on the playa thinking he’s the archangel Michael with a title of Micarus

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you in the Bay Area next week for SF Techweek2026? Wanna learn about how you could make your own pair of 16’ robotic angel (or devil) wings? Free demo day and presale for the maker experience October 8th 3-5pm PT Come/share! luma.com/iwybkc04?tk=...

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Wings Of Desire: Human Tech Week - Titan Gauntlets - Demo · Luma

Wings Of Desire: Human Tech Week - Titan Gauntlets - Demonstrations - 2026 A PREVIEW OF AN IMPOSSIBLE WORKSHOP · SF TECH WEEK · OCT 8, 3:00–5:00 PM · FRONTIER…

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7 PM
In conversation with M.M. Olivas

Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7&8 – Chicago
7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I feel like in solidarity I have to pull out of playing on Ed Sheran’s tour too. I feel like we can all agree on that!

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IKEAs marketing team doing a bang up job

Advert showing a wicker bench that says ‘made from husband material’

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a brave, human thing.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My quote of the day The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

the old "drunk octopus wants to fight" photo of a two-pronged metal coathook, whose screws look like off-kilter eyes of an octopus putting up two of its eight dukes

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DeFlock @deflock.org · 08/09/2026

"Flock Safety says an automated maintenance system mistakenly triggered the reinstallation of license plate cameras that Grass Valley police had already removed after canceling the city's contract with the company." 🤦‍♂️ www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/v...

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Police remove Flock cameras again after unexpected reinstallations in Grass Valley

Flock Safety says an automated maintenance system mistakenly triggered the reinstallation of license plate cameras that Grass Valley police had already removed after canceling the city's contract with...

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. . . They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell.” —Susan Sontag “The Conscience of Words”

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pippen Windfall, a forced evolution experiment to ultimately give the power of personal computing to mitochondria. A bicycle for the mind is how Jobs described the Mac. So let’s give them to squirrels! (On the way down to mitochondria by way of IPSCs and morphogenesis.) vimeo.com/1223504631/0...

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Pippin Windfall Mycotalk Network

Learn about the totipotency utilizing Michael Levin's Inverse morphogenesis now with fungal chemical signaling.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 02/09/2026

Meanwhile, Scientist returnees to China have surged from 31 in 2004 to 1,409 in 2022, totaling nearly 10,000 returnees — more than half from the U.S. scceichinabriefs.substack.com/p/chinas-sci...

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Pedro Falcão @pifalcao.com · 02/09/2026

yes please tell me how can I improve my name with AI

Screen grab of a form asking for "Your Full Name", then my name Pedro Falcão under it, and on the right side there's an "Improve" button, which upon hovering with the mouse, there's a pop-up tip that reads "Improve your text instantly with AI"

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In Pittsburgh this week and care about artists, art, and a thriving and just society? Join us at silver eye gallery! us10.campaign-archive.com?u=b655f0e233...

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This Wednesday — Come Celebrate with us!

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Earlier in the summer I suggested I’d do a thread on this gnarly paper. Better late than never. (Yes, it's more WTF biology.) 🧵 /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Subnuclear genome compartmentalization controls bivalent chromatin activity - Nature

Knowledge of the spatial location of a gene is necessary to understand its epigenomic regulation.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/08/2026

Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote. [tinyawards.net]

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Tiny Awards

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Mapped: Each U.S. State’s Top Export Partner" www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-each-...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 27/08/2026

Every R&D team in 2026

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i'm gonna put forward a concept i've been explaining to people off and on while consulting for a while, which i hope can usefully and practically show how TTRPG crowdfunders work. i've been calling it (in my head) The Balatro Theory of Crowdfunding 1/16

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton, like Fred Rogers, stood up for people when it was unpopular, just because it was the right thing to do. She stood up for gay men during the AIDS crisis when others stayed quiet. She stood up for sex workers. She stood up for trans people. I will always love her.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Her goodness goes marching on.

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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

have you ever seen a visual shepherd tone anon? courtesy of @bleuje.com

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I hope y'all are ready for the coolest fucking indie booth at gamescom next week (Hall 10.2, Booth E051g)

banner image compilation of three images. Left: woman standing in the stirrups of a saddle in front of a monitor at a conference booth. Middle: wooden "horse" (just a barrel basically) with a saddle and saddle pad on it, in front of a monitor at a conference booth. Right: three images showing the saddle controller and where it's sensors are, under the rider's seat, behind their calf, and on the reins.

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Book alert! @natashapulley.bsky.social’s new book just dropped in the US! The Salt King.

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Six months of Super Nintendo! And it's my birthday this week! This book is the culmination of 20 years' work as a games journalist - all the time I've spent interviewing Nintendo creatives and thinking deeply about games and the place they occupy in our lives. Pick up a copy linktr.ee/super_nintendo

Keza with the colourful UK and US editions of her book Super Nintendo, a cultural history of the world's most beloved game company

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Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is insane

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

❤️

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you invested $1 in the stock market in 1802 at 20 years old you would probably have died by 1822.

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GOP are Russians @whoknowsnow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Freaking Awesome ad for Maine Senator Race!!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So fun to see this when it first came out, made me even more a lifetime fan of Cusack & crew!

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Mickey McManus @mickeymcmanus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Random experiments in microdioramas…

Businessman impatiently waiting for the universe to thaw while encapsulated in a block of unobtanium wondering if he’ll be late to the big bang.

He realizes some galaxy spanning alien god has been holding him up this whole time. Now he’ll be late for work.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Why are people worried about AGI scifi and not ecological sustainability, which is definitionally necessary if we are to persist?

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's a healthcare economy, and the rest of us are just living in it.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" shows change in employment since January 2025. Healthcare and social assistance has added 952,000 jobs through July 2026 with consistent monthly growth, while the rest of the economy has lost 362,000 jobs over the same period, meaning all net job creation has come from a single sector in an unusually unbalanced labor market.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 04/08/2026

Using high-definition open source videos and photos from NASA and his own music, John Boswell (aka Melodysheep) created this mesmerizing eight-minute video recap of the Artemis II mission. So well done. [kottke.org]

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An 8K Cinematic Tribute to the Artemis II Mission

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/08/2026

"Flock cameras are just one part of a vast ecosystem," @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver warned his audience last night. "Check out resources like the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, which catalogs each of the technologies used in your area." www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

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