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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
would you like to meet our new cat? her name is All The Fur I Brushed Off Madeleine Over The Summer
A pile of cat fur arranged into a loosely cat-shaped mound; two ears have been pinched into shape, and two googly eyes have been attached in the place where the eyes would be. It is sitting against a green wall, and it is very wrong to the eye.
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pent @mirakur.us · 21/09/2026
For the record this is my wolf/dog/not-a-coyote
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pent @mirakur.us · 21/09/2026
saw big ears and immediately thought i'd learned something on bsky about "big ears, short paws, narrow muzzle" being a Coyote. apparently i was wrong and this is a Dog
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かねこともみ @kotomoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🕺🐶✨
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I found a drawing from when I was 14 😂
An old doodle drawn in a textbook. A girl in a school uniform. She is holding a kitchen knife and is bleeding.
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pent @mirakur.us · 09/09/2026
ZUN on a livestream in 2026 I think he looks the same as photos from 20 years ago...
zun popping an oversized champagne bottle on a livestream celebrating new th6 release
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 31/08/2026
Correction: The previous image associated with this story showed a forest most consistent with forests during the Carboniferous and Permian periods, not the Jurassic period. The story has been updated.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Martini the fennec fox kit has started making daily appearances outside of her nest box!
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AnimEigo @animeigo.com · 24/08/2026
New pre-orders for December! Drucker in the Dugout A fantastic character drama about a girl managing a high-school baseball team using Peter Drucker's Management, which has nothing to do with baseball, but is a detailed book about business management! mediaocd.com/product/druc...
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pent @mirakur.us · 24/08/2026
so my pc broke so i'm using a mac mini for the past few weeks. and in doing so, have discovered new pro mac OS tech: use a mouse, but also keep the touchpad an arm's length away specifically for multi finger gestures
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 21/08/2026
When I worked at Microsoft support my favorite repeat crank customer was a woman who’d insist you refer to her in the 3rd person as “The Commander”. & one time her son came on the phone & the SE asked if his mother was going to do something & his response was “my mother? Do you mean THE COMMANDER?”
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pent @mirakur.us · 29/07/2026
Nice choice of city. North Chicago, notably home of Abbvie
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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Scientists just found sabertooth cats from the La Brea Tar Pits suffered an abnormally high rate of rare spinal diseases. The incest-driven disorders likely hampered mobility, compelling the cats toward weakened animals entrapped in tar. #Paleontology #Smilodon @tarpits.org New at @science.org 🧪
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Saber-toothed cats became inbred—and struggled to move—before they went extinct
Population declines led to spike in spinal deformities and rare tumors, fossil study suggests
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pent @mirakur.us · 19/07/2026
blep
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 18/07/2026
Seriously, a HIGH BEE WARNING now???
Joshua tree:
High Bee Activity Advisory

Due to elevated temperatures and reduced water availability during the summer months, visitors may experience increased bee activity in campground areas. We encourage all visitors to exercise caution
while in these locations. Individuals with known bee sensitivities are advised to avoid the campgrounds and ensure they have appropriate medication readily available during their visit.
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 16/07/2026
"fun" fact: moot had deleted /pol/ (the racist politics board) prior to meeting epstein, and apparently epstein convinced him to re-open it, and it rapidly turned into a massive alt-right radicalization center. you know who convinced moot to delete /pol/ in the first place? ME!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I really kinda feel like all the news reports on this are burying the lede. Which should "The only way a Cyclospora outbreak can happen is if raw sewage is getting onto the food."
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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
why it hot
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com
1. Title: The North Wind and the Sun quarrelled as to who was the stronger. 

2. The Sun says: "I propose a wager: See yonder traveller, let us see who can make him remove his cloak."

3. The northwind blows on the traveller, the sun says: "You blow yet he only wraps it tighter!"

4. The sun shines on the traveller, saying: Observe! . The traveller mutters "nice and warm"

5. The Sun says "See, my kindness brought results!" The traveller has removed hos cloak and begins to sweat. "Fair enough, you win." concedes the North Wind.

6. "Tremble before my gracious heat!" says the sun, smiling bradly. His heat has started a fire. the traveller flees. The North Wind says "I think that’s enough."

7. "Let the world burn with my cleansing benevolence!!" blazes the sun madly, now grown huge in the sky. The land is a burning fireball. "Now you’re scaring me!" says the North Wind anxiously.
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Describe the economy in a single sentence
Notice on a vending machine saying: "FYI (OUT OF ORDER) (DOES NOT GIVE YOU ICE CREM BUT IT TAKES MONEY"
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pent @mirakur.us · 25/06/2026
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2026
Study Contends Free Will Disproven By Fact That Humans Repeatedly Eat At Jimmy John’s theonion.com/study-contends-free-wi…
Study Contends Free Will Disproven By Fact That Humans Repeatedly Eat At Jimmy John’s
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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 22/06/2026
Last time I was at the store with my parents, we were looking at novelty socks and my mom picked these up and said quietly, "Undertale?"
Socks of southpark
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alex remembers the big cow 🐄 @thebigcow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It's incredible that the entire panic over "ultra-processed foods" is based on the results of just *five* RCTs, four of which were less than three weeks long. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for establishing cause-and-effect relationships and attributing health outcomes to a specific intervention rather than other factors. Five such trials have been conducted in the USA, UK, Denmark, and Japan to investigate the effect of UPFs on obesity and related outcomes (5–9). The results have been highly publicized and widely communicated, often in ways that suggest that ultraprocessing is inherently harmful to health (1, 2). The design of these clinical trials, however, makes it very difficult to attribute the unfavorable effects of UPF-rich diets to ultraprocessing per se. Instead, these effects are highly likely to be due to differences in traditional nutritional properties that frequently—but not uniformly—co-occur in UPFs (see the figure).
All of these trials used a crossover design, in which the same participants consumed UPF-rich and non-UPF diets in a random order. All foods and drinks that participants consumed were provided in either inpatient (involving overnight stays at a hospital, clinic, or research center) (5, 6) or outpatient (7, 8) settings, or through a combination of supervised and unsupervised eating (9). This “feeding” trial design prevents confounding from varying diet adherence that occurs in “diet advice” studies. In three trials, participants consumed the diets at will until comfortably full (ad libitum) (5–7), whereas in two trials they received a fixed amount of calories (8, 9). The duration of each diet arm of the study was 1 to 3 weeks in four trials (5, 6, 8, 9), with the longest lasting 8 weeks (7).
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4GamerNews @4gamer.net · 09/06/2026
4Gamer 🔗https://www.4gamer.net/s/G999903.260609084 「ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ」のリメイク版が2026年内に発売決定
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「ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ」のリメイク版が2026年内に発売決定
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/06/2026
The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and charities funded the drug’s early development, execs, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. (Pub. Feb. 2025)
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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
it too hot
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Grace 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 04/06/2026
are you just going to do this for every generation
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Great American State Fair officially downgraded to Fair American State Poor
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I'm going to need everyone to stop being such a mark for stuff like this. They have learned through years of feedback that this gets them clicks. It's an engagement strategy as contrived as anything a social media marketing agency could put together for a SaaS startup.
Andrew Tate, Asmongold and Nick Fuentes's social media marketing interns having an important conversation.
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pent @mirakur.us · 30/05/2026
i should probably actually mention the story huh
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pent @mirakur.us · 29/05/2026
Heard about this on the neuro podcast. What a story
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/05/2026
South Korean Starbucks Apologizes For Ad That Evoked Massacre theonion.com/south-korean-starbucks…

"You gotta be careful which massacres you depict in ads.”

Miranda Suarez, Land Purchaser
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4GamerNews @4gamer.net · 27/05/2026
4Gamer 🔗https://www.4gamer.net/s/G101011.260526036 Switch版「TETRIS THE GRAND MASTER 4 -ABSOLUTE EYE-」,6月4日に発売決定 価格は2800円(税込)。Switch版の発売にあわせて,PC(Steam)版の価格改定も実施される
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Switch版「TETRIS THE GRAND MASTER 4 -ABSOLUTE EYE-」,6月4日に発売決定
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 26/05/2026
Here are some of the things people called spelling bees before the name 'spelling bee' became common: 1) Trials in Spelling 2) Spelling School 3) Spelling Match 4) Spelling-Fight 5) Spelling Combat 6) Spelldown
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I wrote about that fish that looks crazy defector.com/what-the-fuc...
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What The Fuck Is Happening With This Fish | Defector
One of the strangest tales in Icelandic folklore concerns a creature called the Loðsilungur, or the furry trout. The trout, as you might imagine, looks like a fish covered with a white shag of fur, wh...
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pent @mirakur.us · 20/05/2026
mmm smells like smoke outside, it's that time of the year
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pent @mirakur.us · 19/05/2026
imagine: it's 2007 and you're a student of English in Japan. you're struggling with the difficult vocabulary. you stop to take a break to play a minigame. AND THEN THIS FUCKEN BANGER OF A SONG STARTS BLASTING
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NEW英単語ターゲット1900 Counter Strike
YouTube video by もっぴー
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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pent @mirakur.us · 18/05/2026
I’m here for the dog
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Honestly, when I was young I was prepared to believe a lot of things about the future, but I never expected it to be so stupid.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/05/2026
Results Age xkcd.com/3245/
Comic: Implications of the age of the posts you see when you Google an error message. [Grayed out error code with unreadable post. Post date of 3 years ago is enlarged with a text bubble. Table with three columns for age of post, what it means, and probability of a fix. 2 hours ago: There’s an infrastructure outage; very high–just wait. 5 days ago: A recent update broke something big; high, but you might have to wait for a patch. 3 months ago: A new product isn’t working for some users; decent chance of a solution in the replies. 2 years ago: You’ve run into an edge case; low, but maybe the replies can help with troubleshooting. 13 years ago: You’re the only person with this problem; very low–post is likely not relevant. 24 years ago: Oh god how is the internet this old; maybe whoever posted this message has kids who can help you.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/05/2026
💐 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY 💐 💖 Celebrate with a GifCities GifGram, filled with blooming, sparkling, love-soaked GIFs from the early web. Share this one👇 🔗 gifcities.org/gram/72661b5... Or create your own GifGram 👇 gifcities.org/gram/ #MothersDay #HappyMothersDay #Mom #LoveMom
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robyn 💚 @haykebyr.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 06/05/2026
“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)
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