Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialThe Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026All I want is a seaside cottage, the distant rumble of thunder, a vintage mystery novel, a kettle on the stove, a comfortable reading chair, a crackling fire, a raven keeping watch, and a basket of freshly-baked emotional support scones. 3565173
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And this morning the Shed is a cottage in the woods; moss-covered; wreathed in rowan trees… 412910
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart.” #Switzerland 🇨🇭 #ClimateEmergencytheguardian.com‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five yearsAlpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution 18464
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialO🏹🌙 @ohsaidwhat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Things are looking up. 051
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJessý Potato @markdownhandsup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In exciting Northern Lights news (since it's been oh-so rainy here all month in Iceland): the SMILE UVI (ultraviolet imager) captured its first images in July, and the ESA has just released these astounding shots of an aurora substorm ringing the north pole DURING midnight sun season. 3292
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialThe Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1509 0365
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialDavid Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Son who used AI to help save mum's life hopes case offers Parkinson's clues. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSon who used AI to help save mum's life hopes case can help other Parkinson's patientsDoctors say clinical trials are needed to understand more after Ed Patrick identified a potential side effect of a Parkinson's drug. 082
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We need AI regulation yesterday. The incentive driving the doom scenario is simply greed. I don't take PAC money from OpenAI, or any AI corporation, or any corporation for that matter. 7234021047
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should. 101401244
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 168186804688
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialIntrovert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026 1043571
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialThe Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I typically only respond to correspondence if it’s in the form of a handwritten letter composed on an oak desk by candlelight using a quill dipped into a bottle of ink, enclosed in an envelope with a wax seal, and sent via raven, so no, I’m afraid I didn’t “see your email." 1334744
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Brb finding a rat to tickle… 824128
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news. 1473517757
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just finished @naomialderman.bsky.social's superb new book, THE STRANGERS. Oh, my, but it packs a *hell* of a punch... 1383
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialAnna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this morning composing an ode to my coffee counts as writing 1192
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026good morning to everyone out there but an especially good morning to any twelve foot skeletons who are reporting for yard duty 414824
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Unsolicited writing advice, no. 926: Don’t try to control every stage of the process. Make room for other people to do their job; and make room for surprise and spontaneity when doing yours. 0817
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sometimes you don’t want to be bothered 425933
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nigella Lawson eats the way Jennifer Hudson sings and I am here for it 51404
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is alllllll making a lot of sense 561588213
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape. 1037481715
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialIntrovert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 1533433
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialMichael Beveridge @tattieboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I really do hope that nobody calls it Super intelligence. 111
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky 20479751348
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Best costume. 215124
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialK. Cook & Cats, Co. @kcookandcatsco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026First editions make me kinda misty 🥹 youtu.be/VqgRoJmIadc?... #BookSky 📖youtu.beIncredibly Rare First Edition Copy Of The Hobbit! | Antiques RoadshowYouTube video by BBC Antiques Roadshow 092
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should not have to grieve the justice that so many people were robbed of so often 331934
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“They just recalled soap for bacterial contamination” tired 1028222
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...open.substack.comThe great betrayal? AI imperialists and Albanese – Richard FlanaganThe Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations 712053
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialKaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There's just way too much to be very cross about, today. The Australian government investing OUR MONEY in EllenMusk's stupid space project and weapons companies is next level crap. I've disagreed with governments before but I've never been this disappointed in one. 1217367
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.social𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026The physique of a man whose exercise routine is refreshing his mentions. 10974547933
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers” 299214045941
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/09/2026Don’t make me say it. 171798
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet. 824216536
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJulie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Editor Sophia Dasser and reporter Cereese Qusba of the Cornell Daily Sun are the reason we now know about the gang rape case at Cornell and the university’s shameful under-reaction. Nice work, ladies. (📸 Heather Ainsworth) 4459101
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialThe Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember, if someone tells you that your dream of having a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is "unrealistic", they were never your friend to begin with. 1366862
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialFMI @fmi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Enid Blyton's latest works are getting quite gritty and contemporary... nihilist even. 12510
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialThe Owlbear Camus @akirathelemur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And that's another goddamned book I need to get. I'm starting to get this sneaking suspicion that I'm never going to make it through my TBR list. 051
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialThe Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books, drink tea, and eat pastries in a humble seaside cottage during a raging storm? 2960953
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comSongs In The Key Of Life - The EPEP • Stevie Wonder 542055655
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialIntrovert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The older I get, the more I realize I really don’t need much to be happy as an introvert. Just give me a quiet day at home with no plans and nowhere to be 940544
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAnger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared onlineThe My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies. 4679173
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books.motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 37627
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialCambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trump’s answer to warnings about AI is not evidence but masculinity: a powerful machine merely requires a sufficiently dominant man to control it. Technical risk has been recast as another test of whether the president looks tough. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe Trump administration’s hard-on for AI, explained“No dooming. America will be AI DOMINANT!” 0169
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors. 1417713623
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I still practice Meatless Monday only I spell it "Meetless Monday" and it involves me just minding my own dear business all day long 526221
Reposted by @paralelladventures.bsky.socialJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have lived several lifetimes since I started and am not the person I once was and this new person ate too much cheese while they were cooking so… 42065