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Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...

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Eyecager Sketchbook @amberbladejones.bsky.social · 17h

yay see you there

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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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Jun ★ @jun-hug.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Creatures of forest #digitalart #humanart #fawns

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 15h

Given that Irish government TDs have cited Sweden's decision to introduce a language test for citizenship as justification for Ireland introducing one, it seems relevant that Sweden is finding it difficult to actually do it

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

From the Magna Carta to the Constitution to the Emancipation Proclamation to 19th Amendment, voting rights (what you might call "Big P" Politics) were always downstream of protests, riots, petitions, mass movements, strikes and good, old fashioned community organizing (that is, "small p" politics).

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to *make* them matter, we need a lot of small p politics. That means that democracy isn't something you do every couple of years with a ballot paper (though that's an important aspect of the process). Democracy is continuous.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

If you've ever wondered why your vote seems to accomplish so little, I think you can blame the near-abolition of small p politics by Big P politicians of every stripe.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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Art Fight @artfight.net · 01/10/2026

1st OCTOBER? You know what that means... ART FRIGHT TIME!!! Create artwork that follows one of our prompts or palettes (or both, if you fancy!) and submit it to the form below to receive an on-site achievement for participating in Art Fright! 🦇🎃 Share your work by using the #ArtFright2026 tag!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 10h

I used to see maybe 1-3 monarch butterflies during migration season in East Tennessee, but now I'm seeing 3-6 a day thanks to people planting small native flower patches!! Keep on planting native, y'all. It's working!!

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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 22h

Time to start up the Tesla Takedowns again.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/10/2026

People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

These were three individual pieces I did in 2021. Unplanned, they became something of an accidental sequence. They then prompted me to make the piece in the quoted post, of the pumpkin dance, by way of a conclusion. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, each 95 × 64 mm.

Three small silhouette drawings in black ink. The first is of a sitting fox, looking back over its shoulder at a bird on the branch of a little bare shrub. The second has a playful-looking fox, half-crouched, tail in the air, looking at a bird which has just taken off from a branch. The third shows a fox, surprised, its head drawn slightly back, as it seems to have come upon a pumpkin on the ground, surrounded by its vines. It has a face like a carved jack-o'-lantern.

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 22h

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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MGCoco★ @mgcoco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tolkientober 2026 themes are here! 🎨🖌️ A Tolkien-themed October art challenge, and welcomes artists of all mediums and skill levels. Tag your works with #Tolkientober to join! Prompts are totally up to your interpretation, and you can do as many or as little as you like!

Tolkientober 2026 prompts

1. Mortality
2. Luck
3. Forge
4. Poetry
5. Birds
6. Bows*
7. Warm
8. East
9. Hope
10. Entwives
11. Mountains
12. Axes
13. Memorials*
14. Rivers
15. Gardens
16. Creepy
17. Siblings
18. Family ties
19. Orcs
20. Lords of Gondolin
21. Gratitude
22. Harvest
23. Dancing
24. Jewels & Gemstones
25. Dark Creatures
26. Beacon
27. Queens*
28. Dread
29. Faery
30. Spiders
31. Immortality

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Tolkientober Day 1: Mortality “But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos.”

Watercolor and ink painting of a headstone reading “Edith Mary Tolkien Lúthien 1889-1971 John Ronald Ruel Tolkien Beren 1892-1973.” There are plants and golden flowers growing around it

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MGCoco★ @mgcoco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elros chooses his fate #Tolkientober Day 1: Mortality

A chibi Elros in a brownish hanfu and a ponytail. His eyes are closed. An outline of Numenor is behind him

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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s #dRAWRtober time! All mediums, styles, and subjects are welcome to participate. Just don’t use AI. Tag your art posts to have them added to the queue for Halloween!

An image showing a Halloween-themed art prompt. The background of the image is tan with a paper texture. The upper left corner has a string of decorative bunting flags in orange and green. A starburst in orange and green is behind the text. The text says: 1. Legs! Legs! Legs! #dRAWRtober. In the upper right corner is the url: https://www.animal-photo-references.com/

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CarolC @carolconnolly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am so tired of the FF leadership struggle impacting innocent people. Jim O'Callaghan and Jack Chambers are obsessed with looking tough for the FF party members and view ruining all our lives as acceptable collateral damage. #spéirghorm

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s October 1st

David Lynch. Next to him is a graphic with a Halloween jack-o-lantern and the text, “Devil’s Night.”

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Eimhin McNamara @eimhinmcnamara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some production footage of Tadanari Okamoto's The Magic Ballad (1982))

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The most important way to fight data centers is to take everyone you meet protesting one and organize with them to scare the shit out of "your" politicians so they don't *dare* compromise on *anything*.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Data centers are very bad and very visible, so they make for good targets. But data centers are only the physical extrusion of a vast, brutal, extractive system.

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Climate Crisis Info (from Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CLIMATE CRISIS "The mine’s owners forecast it could lead to 809m tonnes of carbon dioxide – nearly double Australia’s annual climate pollution – being released into the atmosphere once the coal is exported and burned. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Matt Kean warns climate crisis ‘isn’t someone else’s problem’ as largest coal project in NSW history greenlit

Exclusive: Climate Change Authority chair says planning commission did not account for climate-related economic damage in NSW

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's spooky season which means I can finally bring this piece back 🎃🐈‍⬛

A pumpkin patch featuring multicoloured pumpkins, some with carved faces, and black and white cats, frogs, crows and foliage

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Princess Weekes @princesmweekes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Initially, I didn't plan to do a Star Trek video, but while I was in the shower, an idea popped into my head, and here we are. New Video: youtu.be/wmraygqDEx0

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How Star Trek: DS9 Saw 2024 Coming 30 Years Ago

YouTube video by Princess Weekes

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columbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy thursday columboheads!

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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Who else out here getting excited for Halloween 😃🎃😃

Edited screenshot from Star Trek TOS The Original Series episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of." Captain Kirk is standing in a cave with his back to the wall, hiding from Ruk, who we see in a distant doorway. Kirk is holding a massive piece of candy corn in his hands.

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 01/10/2026

Fair play to all the students out protesting in front of the Dáil today. Education should be free, but instead students are forced to pay thousands and thousands, with more and more reporting struggling to feed themselves and becoming homeless. #EducationIsARight

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m listening to a podcast about AI psychosis and it reminds me so much of spiritualism in the early twentieth century: also a con, also preyed on people who were convinced it promised some eternal truths wrapped up in great personal significance.

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Laura Mabingi (Laz) @midearthling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely love this series' cast! Karen O'Leary's love for her girlfriend is so cute 🥹

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know what to say. This is just awful 😞

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, my understanding is that the best places to donate are abortion funds, because the money goes directly to helping people in need get abortions. donationsforabortions.com/funds-by-state

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Funds By State — Abortion Funds in Every State

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People casually using genAI instead of their own creativity or capacity for thought genuinely feels like a huge values difference now, on a very fundamental level. We do not hold the same things to be important or worthwhile.

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Laura Mabingi (Laz) @midearthling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man....why won't they just let him make more of The Orville instead

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Laura Mabingi (Laz) @midearthling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listening to Enya always feels like a transcendental experience

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 29/09/2026

Lively public meeting in Tallaght tonight about pulling the plug on data centres. They are costing us all every day - in our pockets with higher electricity prices, in slowing the delivery of housing and in higher carbon emissions. It's time to call a halt.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Asking for Ireland. Also, apply to any service where the customer is doing work to save the management the hassle of employing actual staff?

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Laura Mabingi (Laz) @midearthling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Taskmaster NZ's "be britsh" task is absolutely frying me fjgkgkkg Mel going around colonising the Taskmaster set is amazing

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Laura Mabingi (Laz) @midearthling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been a member of the Irish Wildlife Trust for a few years now, but I tend to neglect reading the magazines they send. No more! My vow is to read all the articles from now on instead of doom-scrolling for my news about the environment

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 29/09/2026

Rescued from wildlife traffickers in 2016 and reintroduced to the wild in 2024, a critically endangered Grauer’s gorilla named Lulingu has given birth in DRC’s Virunga National Park. Conservationists say the birth marks a major milestone for the world’s largest primate. mongabay.cc/M62FJ2

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Reintroduced Grauer’s gorilla gives birth in DRC national park, ‘makes us happy’

Lulingu, a Grauer’s gorilla (Gorilla beringei), was reintroduced to Virunga National Park, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2024. In May 2026, Lulingu gave birth to a new baby, bringing…

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Farplace Animal Rescue @farplace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

KITTEN ALERT! STOP SCROLLING. WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO. Because honestly, every single one of these kittens deserves their own little fan club. Meet Minos, Achilles, Pasiphae, Zeta and Diepnea. A ridiculously fluffy, ridiculously friendly little gang who have been with us since they were very young.

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