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@jcsalterego.bsky.social jerry do you know what happened to regular meghan’s account? she replied to me earlier but now it says [deleted account] – did she get banned for being too cool? hopefully it’s not permanent, meghan is good people!

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 29/09/2026

Fresh what now?? Another great example of @karenmcgrane.bsky.social’s maxim “truncation is not a content strategy”

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 26/09/2026

Today’s Greek cats

A bold black & white street cat stands on the step of a restaurant entrance, knowing she’s not allowed in but peeking inside and signalling that she’d like some food please (it works and she gets some meat)

A friendly black & white street cat sits with her black tail wrapped in front of her white feet and looks up at the camera

A shy black street cat sniffs the index finger of a white hand, checking to see if the human is trustworthy (the human fed this same cat a large chunk of meat 5 minutes ago)

A shy black street cat graces the human holding out their index finger with a cheek rub, a real honour

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is not the branding I would go for I think if I was tasked with producing signage.

A sign in a menswear section that reads 100 years of fash at M&S, with the letters ‘ion’ below and to the right of the word fash.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 24/09/2026

Back in Greece so you know what that means: more Greek street cat pics

A beautiful but very shy black and white Greek street cat, who accepted a few small strips of chicken presented as offerings

A very friendly mackerel tabby cat, mid roll onto her back

A very friendly mackerel tabby cat, mid yawn

A very friendly mackerel tabby cat doing a biiiig stretch on her side

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 16/09/2026

Bought one of those cheap XTEInk e-readers (X4 Pro) and it’s quite cute/tiny, small enough to take anywhere. The CrossPoint firmware’s pretty functional, though managing an ebook library manually with Calibre is giving flashbacks of ripping CDs and typing in metadata by hand (it gets tedious fast)

A white person’s right hand holding an XTEInk X4 Pro e-reader showing the size and front aspect of it. On the e-reader’s screen there is text from Ursula K. Franklin’s Steering the Craft

A white person’s right hand holding an XTEInk X4 Pro e-reader showing the thickness and side aspect of the device

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eliseaboo 👻 @inviolablevoice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this child is part tigger, made of rubber and springs

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

GUESS WHO’S HOME

An orange cat wearing a blue cone sitting in a dark blue litter box. He looks more than a little grumpy about the whole situation.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Therrrre it is.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/09/2026

Opinion: The misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran. ft.trib.al/0YWaLQC

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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 08/09/2026

New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...

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Switching Password Managers in 2026

Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was lucky enough to do some work with the RNLI a couple of years ago and they are the absolute best. I mean, you all know this because you aren't idiots, but they def deserve your support rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Give Money To Charity – Donate And Support the RNLI In Saving Lives At Sea

Donate money to the RNLI and help us save lives at sea. Your donation provides volunteers with the kit, equipment and lifeboats they need to save lives.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Neighbor: I think I saw you out with your dog? A gorgeous little border Collie? Me *Proudly*: That's her! Neighbor: She was going insane and trying to attack a bin? Me *Less proudly*: That's her.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't know who attacked your feet all night dad. It couldn't possibly have been me.

Black cat on a white bed spread trying to look innocent

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026

‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Learn to Pounce with Michael LESSON ONE

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 30/08/2026

Anybody have (moderately priced) hotel recommendations in London? I’ve been twice and my “pick randomly from a map” strategy has had very mixed results.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Long before Gamergate, tech author Kathy Sierra was harassed off the web and social media for calling out harassment. My reporting partner Greg Sandoval & I wrote about her story for The Verge in 2013, and Kathy did an even better job telling her own story a year later www.wired.com/2014/10/trol...

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The end of kindness: weev and the cult of the angry young man

The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in vi...

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 30/08/2026

Was randomly going through my camera roll and came across this photo I took outside Captain Pantelis fishmonger in Gaios, Paxos. The guy in the window fed the cats, they were all very patient 😊

Nine assorted Greek street cats wait patiently outside the window of Captain Pantelis Fish Shop in Gaios, Paxo, while the fishmonger arranges some fresh fish on display over ice in styrofoam crates.

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 30/08/2026

@brosandprose.bsky.social deleted my twitter account years ago, but I thought you’d appreciate these dunks

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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the things I'm most proud of is my report on Yayoi Kusama, which highlighted the work of @dexdigi.bsky.social. He has a PhD in East Asian Studies from Cornell, is fluent in Japanese, lectured on Japanese culture, and is also an incredible journalist: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

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Yayoi Kusama Expresses “Deep Regret” For Anti-Black Statements Ahead of Exhibition at SFMOMA

The artist issued the remarks just before an exhibition on her work opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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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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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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