Reposted by PhoebeKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This👇 is such a good example of how on top of her game Helen was. While she was keeping us all updated on Ebola, MERS, flu, and so many of all the other infectious diseases out there, she immediately grasped the gravity of the first warning sign of what we now remember as SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19. 6525148
Reposted by PhoebeLisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière 63105813102
Reposted by PhoebeMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! 513524
Reposted by PhoebeBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 1140791329
Reposted by Phoebeescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Democratic candidates up and down the ballot take note: when your central thesis is "i have scraped dogshit off my shoe that has more moral fiber and respect than my opponent" you can land some real body blows on the other guy across a VARIETY of topics 114531
Reposted by PhoebeDr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Adding ‘win the Nobel prize’ to my running list of ‘things you can do with a PhD in Ancient Greek Literature’. 0122
Reposted by PhoebeErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum. 231203292
Reposted by PhoebeFrances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 04/10/2026google's ai proving absolutely indispensable in dublin 362721234
Reposted by PhoebeThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 188111811873
Reposted by PhoebeA.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Privatization = You Pay More 19061
Reposted by PhoebeAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9042491699
Reposted by PhoebeStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Gray Ezo squirrel from Hokkaido Island, Japan 1330552
Reposted by PhoebeWolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact 4232431257
Reposted by PhoebeJohn Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Onion really needs to up its game if it's going to be competitive with whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/... 02712
Reposted by PhoebePhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Is being super intoxicated on controlled substances ever debated as potentially exculpating for any violent crime other than sexual assault? It’s like saying: sure he was driving while intoxicated when he ran that lady over but that’s just cause he was wasted. 611321
Reposted by PhoebeAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz 854313470
Reposted by PhoebeThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 199113352171
Reposted by PhoebeJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves. 753223469
Reposted by PhoebeMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/09/2026Behold, the prelaunch is open for the graphic novel of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red! 13545172
Reposted by PhoebeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it! 2778129994
Reposted by PhoebeBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381942847
Reposted by Phoebeᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This genuinely made me laugh out loud today 104036816
Reposted by PhoebeSteve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on 4397431241
Reposted by Phoebejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884017696
Reposted by PhoebeThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026Scientists have found singing lemurs, known as indris, and opera singers use similar mouth shapes to create loud, high-pitched calls. 69020
Reposted by PhoebeJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...thedartmouth.comOp-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector PangramSchnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.” 701481491
Reposted by PhoebeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit" 2405218585335
Reposted by PhoebeMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over. 611423318
Reposted by PhoebeCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026Humans are doing harm. AI is the mechanism. The humans need to be regulated so that they stop doing that. 452284
Reposted by PhoebePatrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise. 263125691
Reposted by PhoebeElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb 76969851133
Reposted by PhoebeMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. 48110
Reposted by PhoebeSandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election 6766151
Reposted by PhoebeThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 12/09/2026‘Not as orange as he looks’: NI parties weigh Donald Trump’s united Ireland commentsirishtimes.com‘Not as orange as he looks’: NI parties weigh Donald Trump’s united Ireland commentsDUP says future to be decided by the people of Northern Ireland, not in London, Dublin or Washington 84916
Reposted by PhoebeGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What if Emily Dickinson came back like Fruma Sarah to attack ChatGPT for appropriating the em-dash 415927
Reposted by PhoebeElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign 24550461565
Reposted by PhoebeMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie. 412127600
Reposted by Phoebetunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 426174293862
Phoebe @phoebeacheson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I spent a winter (1995-1995) working at a temp agency in Washington DC which led to a lot of gigs like the day I sat at a desk outside of an NPR bigwig’s office (he was not there) and read Things Fall Apart. 031
Reposted by PhoebeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026The thing is, they may not realise how many of the people affected are romance authors, and relatedly that we have a paramilitary wing. 962351
Reposted by PhoebeCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026sry i fridgemogged u or w/e i fw them tho frfr plummaxxing 7476161
Reposted by PhoebeThe French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 04/09/2026Today is Nonidi the 19th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate the marigold. #JacobinDay See today's page 19228
Reposted by PhoebeAlissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people 1224886848
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