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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/10/2026

Ground Effect xkcd.com/3305/

Comic. [Two people flailing high in the air. Three people on the ground running ahead of them. Arrows and a dotted line indicate that this second group is within roughly one body length of the surface.] [caption] The “ground effect” explains why sprinters can run most efficiently if they stay within roughly one body length of the surface.

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 01/10/2026

IBM Office in São Paulo, Brazil r/brutalism

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC

What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/10/2026

The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse

Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YOU’RE DEAD TO ME: LIVE WITH AN ORCHESTRA! Tickets are now on sale for our 2-hour Beethoven special recording at London’s Southbank Centre. Come see me, our guests, and the BBC Concert Orchestra as we explore the life and music of a musical titan www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bbc...

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BBC's You're Dead To Me Live: Ludwig van Beethoven | Southbank Centre

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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am looking for graduate students to join my lab in Fall 2027. If your interests lie within the realms of phylogenetics, macroevolution, and/or invertebrate biodiversity please reach out to me!!

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Didn't think Packie Bonner's penalty save against Romania would ever be bested by an Irish goalkeeper, but here we are.

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m so proud of Gavin Bazunu. He’s provided a yardstick for courage that his so-called teammates will eternally be judged as failing to live up to

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 26/09/2026

全方向つるすべ

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Visiting Iceland for our 2026 Musicality Genomics meeting. A beautiful sculpture near Harpa Concert Hall (Reykjavík) makes sonic overtones as wind travels through. Intended to depict the shape of light beams reflected through vibrating tuning forks, it also resembles a right-handed double-helix. 🧬🎶😊

A photograph of Himinglæva, a stainless-steel sculpture designed to produce sonic overtones as the wind travels through it. This Aeolian harp is based on a Lissajous figure, representing the shape of light beams reflected through vibrating tuning forks. The sculpture produces diverse sounds based on the force of the wind travelling through it, thereby directing the viewer’s attention to natural phenomena like the air around them. In Norse mythology, sailors who sensed the power of the wind and waves around them assumed that the mythical figure Himinglæva (meaning transparent, shining, and small wave) was embodying the water and propelling their vessels across the ocean. The sculpture was created by Elín Hansdóttir in 2021, and can be found outside the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in downtown Reykjavík, Iceland.

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in what unjust world is there Mops mops and Boops boops but no Blaps blaps? Get your act together, tenebrionid systematists

wikipedia's beloved photo of the fish species Boops boops. It is a startled-looking but otherwise unremarkable silver fish.

wikipedia's photo for the tenebrionid genus Blaps, but NOT Blaps blaps because there is no Blaps blaps.... YET

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I loved eating Chik-Fil-A. Can't remember the last time I ate there. I used to go to Hobby Lobby weekly. Haven't walked into one in over a decade. I enjoyed Harry Potter, past tense. My life is not wanting of joy without these things the way it would be without all my LGBTQIA+ friends. Choose love.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 14/09/2026

I might be the only one watching lanterns thinking “that guy would make a great Judge Giant”

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 10/09/2026

“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions.” [collusion.wiki]

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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 10/09/2026

Slovak National Archives in Bratislava r/brutalism

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Or, hear me out, AI just sucks.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 06/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to-#StarTrek! The show premiered #OTD in Canada 🇨🇦, ahead of the US airing days later. And, of course, it featured two Canadian actors in recurring roles.

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Star Trek Enterprise Phaser Attack

Alt: U.S.S Enterprise firing phasers.

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Alvaro Falcone @pjwm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@weratedogs.com give us dogs! We'll even take the 7/10s that you won't post anywhere else. Bluesky is so nice they'll pump those little ugly critters up to a 9.5

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Forster's Tern #InFlight for #birdoftheday Bolsa Chica Reserve, California #birds #nature

Tern hovering in flight with wings raised, orange bill and feet, and a spread tail against a blue-gray sky.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Criterion just put up a vast Abel Ferrara collection and it just illustrates how cool Criterion has become over the last few years. The team over there gets it. Criterion picks DRILLER KILLER & MS .45? Yes please. www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-...

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Directed by Abel Ferrara - The Criterion Channel

Pulsing with operatic intensity and a furious moral vision all his own, the films of Abel Ferrara comprise one of the most fearless and uncompromising bodies of work in modern cinema. Emerging in the ...

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You guys ever listen to Dionne Warwick singing a Burt Bacharach song and think we can get through this fuck yeah we can

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The new transitional insect/crustacean fossil might not look very insectlike, if you think of modern insects like butterflies and beetles, but check out its reconstruction (left) next to a photo of the oldest living lineage of extant insects, the bristetails (right). www.science.org/content/arti...

Paleo art by artist Chao Tan showing an orange, lobster-like animal standing on a rock above water.

Macro photo of a silvery, cylindrical insect, a jumping bristletail, standing on sand.

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

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jpicone @me.jamespicone.name · 30/08/2026

Stolen from discord memes channel

Nine-panel Calvin and Hobbes strip, edited.

Panel 1: A bespectacled doctor in a white coat leans over a desk, holding out a small box to Calvin. "Put your right hand in the box."

Panel 2: Calvin, clutching Hobbes, looks up warily. "What's in the box?" The doctor, hand resting on the box: "Pain."

Panel 3: Calvin howls, "Why are you doing this??" The doctor answers with eyes closed and a faint smile: "An animal in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape. What will you do?"

Panel 4: Cut to the waiting room. Calvin's mum sits in a chair reading a magazine. From off-panel: "No need to call for help. Your mother is behind that door. None will get past her."

Panel 5: Mum reads on, magazine raised. She whispers: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration…"

Panel 6: A jagged burst of shouting from off-panel: "NO!! I'll never cooperate, you hideous bug-eyed freak! NEVER!!" Mum has not moved.

Panel 7: More shouting: "You can contain my BODY, but you can't chain my SPIRIT! Walls can't confine it! Laws can't restrain it! You can try to leave a message, but my spirit screens its calls!!" Mum is staring blankly ahead

Panel 8: Enormous block letters fill the panel — "AAAAAGHHHHHHHHH" — as mum is shocked out of the chair, which tips over backwards.

Panel 9: Outside, mum stands, looking down at Calvin. "What did the Reverend Mother say?" Calvin, striding in: "All history up to this point has been spent preparing the world for my presence."

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903 – 1993), award winning Mexican photographer #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring three figures walking down a zig-zagging external metal staircase in bright sunlight causing the railings and steps to cause shadows on a background wall

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Alvaro Falcone @pjwm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's really no way to avoid this Orange fuck then I guess? No way? I'm quietly just over here enjoying the tiny CARTOGRAPHY CORNER ON GODDAMN BLUESKY and now I have to know about some real big lake? America! You are shitting in the pool.

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Just Figures @justfigures.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This one's for you Alvaro Falcone, I drew the background for a GISH project a few years ago. Hopefully it makes you smile. # #OrionPax #PrimeMinister #figure #toyphoto #toyphotography

Optimus Prime with a campaign poster for him as Prime Minister as a background.

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Alvaro Falcone @pjwm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@justfigures.bsky.social If you happen to have a Dolly, a Frank-n-Furter and an Optimus Prime hanging around you could probably make me feel a little better about very recent events.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thanks to all who came to the show and got stickers, the proceeds of which,£100, have now gone over to MSF Nepal appeal. Salut!

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Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We currently have TWO collections-based vacancies at National Museums Scotland! As part of the upcoming DiSSCo UK program, we’re seeking a Digitiser and Senior digitiser to work with our insect collection: careers.nms.ac.uk/vacancies (Apply by 31st August) #Digitisation #Insects #MuseumJobs

Preserved bumblebee specimens with data labels below each individual

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mindscape 365 | Vitor Cardoso on Why Black Holes Are Special. We journey from the theories to the observations and back. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Title card for Mindscape episode with Vitor Cardoso

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve said this before, but Northern Ireland didn’t even make it into the word ‘Brexit’.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 23/08/2026

Sometimes drawing a comic is just hours on this sort of thing.

Not sure how to dewcribe it. Dense dead wooden undergrowth. Drawn on pen and ink.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Benefits of Being a U. S. State: 1) No universal healthcare. 2) Your kids get shot at in school. 3) You get no disaster relief if you didn’t vote for the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office. 4) Get diarrhea from your food. Think long and hard before saying “no” to such a utopia, Canada!

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Alvaro Falcone @pjwm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Alright folks, I think you're all basically too nice. As am I. Just going to go on a block spree of obvious Russian bots. Feels like I haven't done the garden in a few months.

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Alvaro Falcone @pjwm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Appreciate that my whimsical football posts are not to all my followers’ tastes. I am sorry if they irk. But social media having been so dismal recently, that is my way of staying on here. Without this I probably would only post links to my posts elsewhere, if at all.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you want a boring sense of entitlement to always being in the top six then support a ”top six” club. If you want the sheer sense of terror of realising that any fleeting success will be likely matched by relegation, then other teams like Aston Villa are available.

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