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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 7h

'Moonlight on a country road in autumn', 2007, by Tabuchi Toshio (田渕俊夫, born 1941), a contemporary Japanese Nihonga (日本画) painter from Tokyo (東京都).

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mattfugazi.bsky.social @mattfugazi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We used to be a proper country.

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mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A raft/gang/gaggle of wild turkeys on a river-side trail (Zumbro River just off-screen to left)

Photo of several wild turkeys in slow-motion flight from walker/photographer

Photo; another angle on the gaggle of wild turkeys afore photographed, this time the sun's behind the photographer, so a bit more detail

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 04/10/2026

historical trends indicate the number of germanies may be asymptotic

a map of the holy roman empire, it's a fucking mess

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mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

mandylion, Greek for cloth or towel; loosely, then, shmatte

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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The times they are a changing...

Trees are starting to change color. The ground is covered in tan grains with green grass in the foreground.

📷 Dreamcatcher

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Order of BlueSky stands at the ready

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William @meche-hokie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Scenes from 5th century Rome

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lydelle BLEAAAH!ster @babyshoes4cash.com · 03/10/2026

2027: u.s. invents triarrhea

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 01/10/2026

A joint study by Yale University and George Mason University found that those who are disengaged, doubtful, or dismissive of climate change tend to highly trust healthcare providers on the subject — even more than public officials from agencies like NASA and news organizations. (Published 2025)

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The Fifth Vital Sign: Atlanta Doctors Are Talking Climate Change With Patients

Leveraging trust built over time, doctors hope to depolarize the issue and break through misinformation.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Willow and Crows Yanagi ni karasu zu 柳に鳥図Attributed to: Katsushika Hokusai 1841 (Tenpo 12) MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink and color on silk DIMENSIONSImage: 84.7 x 42.5 cm (33 3/8 x 16 ¾ in.) Overall: 193 x 68 cm (76 x 26 ¾ in.) CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Cascading down from the upper left, the gossamer tendrils of a weeping willow (yanagi) frame a dramatic, tumbling flock of crows (karasu) in mid-flight. Rendered in masterly sumi ink on silk, the painting captures twelve birds descending in dynamic, acrobatic spirals—their wings banking, swooping, and fanning open with astonishing kinetic force. Hokusai employs a breathtaking range of ink tones, from the velvety pitch-black of primary wing feathers to translucent slate-grey washes detailing underbellies and open, cawing beaks. The image evokes a vivid sensory atmosphere: the sharp, cold rustle of autumn wind whipping through slender willow branches, the raucous, reverberating calls of crows gathering at twilight, the faint scent of aged ink and silk, and the palpable rushing of feathers cutting through damp evening air.
Created in 1841 (Tenpo 12) during the final, triumphant decade of Katsushika Hokusai’s life, this hanging scroll (kakejiku) bears the signature of the octogenarian master operating under his late artistic moniker Gakyō Rōjin Manji ("Old Man Mad About Painting"). Now housed in the William Sturgis Bigelow Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the work stands as a supreme masterwork of kachō-ga (bird-and-flower painting). Hokusai’s lifetime of relentless anatomical observation and brush experimentation allowed him to capture the illusion of instantaneous movement with effortless spontaneity. Executing such complex, fluid brushwork directly onto delicate silk demanded absolute technical mastery, as silk absorbs ink instantly without allowance for correction—a pure manifestation of monozukuri (artisanal discipline and supreme material craftsmanship).

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mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I was still young enough to enjoy reading Hardy Boys, I overheard a librarian describe them as not worth reading (don’t remember phrasing). I only ever read 1 or 2, but enjoyed Years later, probably teenage, I read 1 & indeed it was dreadful

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mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bear is trying to warn us about the Body Snatchers

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm the guy at Anthropic in charge of the big red Recursive Super-Intelligence button. Whenever the office needs livening up, I pretend I'm about to drop it, or put my coffee mug down on it, to a chorus of screams. Dario Amodei can't fire me due to Bayesian priors

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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nettiegr.bsky.social @nettiegr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Angie Nixon is a 5th generation Floridian American. This kind of rhetoric is offensive and obviously racist. This administration shames us every day

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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A month in four photos. September 2026. #FourPhotosOneMonth Salves… 1.Electric storm - Seaburn. 2.Night Swimming - Georgeham. 3.Sunsets - Woolacombe. 4.And breathe - Whitburn.

Looking out to the dark sea at night, with just the tips of the waves visible. On the horizon a streak of bright orange from lightning.

A garden swimming pool in low light with a cottage & trees in dark silhouette and a hot orange patch of sky as the sun sets.

Looking out over the sea & headland from a high viewpoint as the sun begins to set.

A single figure walking on a clear beach towards the edge of the sea under a big cloudy sky late in the evening.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 30/09/2026

Goodnight. Watership Down (1978) dir. Martin Rosen, John Hubley

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

The Brooks Brothers riot never ended

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mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That guy should be buried SO FAr under a pile of shame we never hear from him again

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One must imagine Sisyphus horny

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 30/09/2026

This is one of those important, overlooked stories that's hard to report & even harder to place. I'm grateful @prismreports.org understood what's at stake for students fighting these fragmented free speech battles, while they also endure the chaos in higher ed & the nation in general 📻⬇️

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College radio stations are disappearing

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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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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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

im tired of hearing about rogue ai, wake me when there is druid ai

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🖼️ Wellcome Collection

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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[//] Professor Hazard @prof.hazardlabs.com · 30/09/2026

I am Grimli, son of Groin

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

me: jrr. you gotta stop naming dwarves jrr tolkien: borgen and lorgen and forgen and clorgen. bujingo and judingo and bobingo. choin and groin and sloin and of course, bloin

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

meanwhile the guy who produced that substandard copper just languishes in total anonymity

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

having these snakeoil hucksters calling this stuff "super intelligence" is exactly the kind of publicity the AI grifters deserve

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Will never pass up an opportunity to repost leon’s dramatization of this

leon @leyawn.bsky.social

(drawing of twitter exchange)
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates •2d
So curious that the richest man in the world doesn't have a favorite shape.
Does he even know any shapes?
shapesthetics @shapesthetics -1h
The triangle is a shape with three sides and three corners, one of the most basic yet beautiful shapes in Euclidean geometry.
Elon Musk @elonmusk •1h
Great shape

Leon is QTing:

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social • 8mo
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

if i can alt-text this without spoiling the joke then you can alt-text your funny images too

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, this cited dress is also pretty great: patents.google.com/patent/USD64...

from the spec: "a one-piece garment or dress showing my new design,
the upper and lower sections of the dress
having contrasting colors, the main portion
of the outlines of the elephants being in
silhouette, as indicated in the drawing."

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Even if he “can’t help it” because he’s a vampire, I still think what Dracula did is wrong

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

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mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a hard world for little things

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Sarah @sarahisathome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This reason for the improved position by the CDC on the COVID vaccine should be an inspiration for lots of legislation. Being pesky can pay off!

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mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gus is the Legolas of Lonesome Dove

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