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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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Kate Saylor @ksaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What kind of promo image is this? Did a human design this marketing material?? That's definitely the image that comes to mind when I'm thinking about library advocacy. 😒

Man standing on a beach in camo pants holding a chainsaw between his legs.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How to visit an art museum with someone who isn't used to visiting art museums:

Two social media posts by @pan_juho (Translated from Japanese):

"I love going to art museums, but when I go with someone who's not used to them, if I say, 'If you were a great thief, tell me later which one you'd steal,' they end up looking the exhibits pretty seriously, and that makes me happy.

"Whether you steal something you like or something that seems valuable -> it opens up endless conversation based on what vou liked about it or where you saw value in it, so it's also great as an easy icebreaker for chats after visiting the museum."

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026

public libraries ftw

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A.S.K., a librarian @thestackscat.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026

I have watched this SO MANY times

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 22/05/2026

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

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Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?

“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We’re all tarred as “radical cyclists” when we come to city hall looking for redress, for some small reflection of our existence in the design of the roads we share. I think city hall is not used to being bound to respect any minority rights whatsoever, and they certainly imagine us a minority.

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Woltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye @wolter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I feel like part of being a surgeon and why they get the big bucks is being the one who makes the decisions, not a jumped up spellcheck.

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̶C̶a̶n̶R̶a̶y̶ Undead Canary @canray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How well has Canada learned to survive winter? People live year round in Winnipeg.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

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Atla Hrafney @atlathewriter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..."

More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!"

A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

in 2026, may you find the community you need, the projects that fulfill and sustain you, and all the messy salty crunchy cheesy snacks your heart desires

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

it's a harsh world out there and not everyone is going to give you credit for all the great stuff you do. but Sandal thinks you have done awesome this year. he doesn't know how you do it. he also doesn't even know how to open the refrigerator but that isn't important rn

An orange and white cat is so proud of you.

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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Always read the fine print.

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

While trying to convince my nephew of the magic of the Lord of the Rings movies I showed him this LOTR/Mulan mashup AMV, and now I fear his love for it exceeds his love for either property youtu.be/fMiM0O1YiMo?...

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Éomer's Bootcamp (I'll Make a Man Out of You)

YouTube video by EomersBootcamp

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Was simply riding his bike to school. What are we doing? Seriously.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I want them, too, to meet the tiny nine month old baby orphaned by the bike path that vanishes into a shoulder that itself veers over directly into the target of a disappearing lane of traffic. I want them to explain to her that her parents needed to die because there wasn’t budget for a sidewalk.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Wellington Cres and Kenaston are deadly roads. They kill people. They are designed in such a way that it is inevitable that they kill people. You can’t stand next to either of them during rush hour and think “this is safe”. And there are people we elect who could change these places and they refuse.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Smoking Hot Satan @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

When the House Hippo first appeared on Canadian televisions, it seemed that everyone wanted one to appear in their homes. This commercial became a part of the Canadian cultural landscape and even today, the House Hippo is beloved by Canadians. 🧵 1/10

A blurry photo of a small, dark hippopotamus-like creature grazing on a dimly lit indoor floor near green buckets labeled "JAM," with a spotlight casting shadows.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 05/07/2025

if I may: a total work of art

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

not sure I've ever seen reddit humour that is so purely my kind of laugh

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nomarie @nomariea.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Yes Gmail, you're so right, I really needed a 'summarize this email with AI' option on a two-sentence out-of-office reply.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 16/05/2025

I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now

Google search for “bees in my computer”, yielding the “AI Overview” of “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.”

(This was a few months ago, I think they fixed it.)

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Be the scrabbling you want to hear in the walls

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Today is World Hamster Day so please enjoy this clip of a worldly hamster going on a great adventure * and if you want more videos like it, check out the Homura Ham YouTube

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Titmousie @titmousie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

As it should be 😂👍 #priorities

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is amazing: Pillsbury has finally given up and started pasteurizing the flour in their raw cookie dough because they know people are going to eat it raw even if they say not to

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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 09/02/2025

The news remains shit so why not enjoy this video of someone trying to clean a water bowl for tortoises while the tortoises repeatedly try to get in it? (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0jAMl... )

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nomarie @nomariea.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Emotional support dumpster fire (credit: www.reddit.com/r/crochet/co...)

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Went to HomeGoods & really REALLY wanted to buy this. No discourse only Disco Horse.

A life-sized horse statue tiled in mirror bits like a disco ball you can ride. I’m standing next to it, wearing a mask & clutching its chest like the heroine of a romance novel clutches Fabio. Pillars of light are reflecting off the disco horse.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

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Elise__Mae @elisemae.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Parallels among feminism, cycling, urbanism, etc...

via original poster Mohamad Safa (not on Bsky yet, apparently):

"Overheard: Being a woman is kind of like being a cyclist in a city where all the cars represent men. You're supposed to be able to share the road equally with cars, but that's not how it works. The roads are built for cars and you spend a great deal of physical and mental energy being defensive and trying not to get hurt. Some of the cars want you to get hurt; they think you don't have any place on the road at all. And if you do get hurt by a car, everyone makes excuses that it's your fault."

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵

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Ben Morton @benmorton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

As an editor I have the 'pleasure' of reading multiple clinical manuscripts each week. Content is key, there is no getting around this. But content needs to structured in an easily accessible way for the reader to engage... Is this called a "skeetorial"? Anyway, here we go. 🧪 #medsky #ansky

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/09/2024

It's always worth remembering how academia's reliance on Google Scholar is totally unsustainable, since Google doesn't make a dime on the product and (as such) it's maintained by like two and a half engineers on nights and weekends

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