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JThomasAlbert @jthomasalbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When we were kids, they told us the name "sperm whale" came from an old word that had nothing to do with that thing you're thinking about. Then I grew up and learned they named them "sperm whales" because the oil in their heads looked like jizz.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

everything was filled with sperm, except the captain’s pantaloons pockets

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/10/2026

First time catching a sunset in a squirrel eye. Might make this a thing.

The vertical eye of a squirrel with the reflection of the sun setting over trees in the distance and the reflection of the tree in the foreground

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Marcie808🧡🖤⚾️ @marcie808.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who wants to check out a short order joint that’s open all night? I know I do! The Liberty Cafe was a mom and pop shop that opened in 1932 and served up classic fare for decades. I’ll have an Olympia Oyster Sandwich with fries and iced tea 🍽️ Liberty Cafe Olympia WA 1940s #VintageMenus

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read a paper recently and was shocked to learn we can potentially detect RAINBOWS ON EXOPLANETS. What. It's so cool! So I wrote about it for Scientiifc American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🔭 🧪

scientificamerican.com

Can we see rainbows on faraway exoplanets?

A future NASA telescope could spot atmospheric phenomena on planets orbiting other stars

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

david lynch had exactly the correct attitude on this. “The film is the talking.”

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The Film is The Talking - David Lynch

YouTube video by TheMagicJesus

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Not everyone has time or capacity for that, and at any given time, we don't *all* have to be doing that work. We can take turns, spelling each other off at times in our lives when we have more or less slack. But *lots* of us have to be in the fight, or *all* of us will get screwed.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-Al generated CAT-RELATED art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 3:30 pm EDT. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie meowing at the camera with her little pink, toothless mouth open looking like the cutest lil gremlin. The words art show are written in sloppy digital crayon above and below her face.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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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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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FRODO: They're called "chastity cages". SAM: That sounds good and well for your little peeper frog, but I don't see how one could handle my own bull toad. GOLLUM: We won't wear it! SAM: YOU'LL SLITHER YOUR STINKY LITTLE EEL IN THERE OR I'LL SLICE IT FROM YOU FOR MY MORNING SAUSAGE. GOLLUM: AAAAAAAAA

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Marcie808🧡🖤⚾️ @marcie808.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I did not know that many suffrage groups ran lunch rooms, often in their headquarters, to raise funds for the cause. The sunflower was a national symbol of the movement. I’ll have the corn fritters, cantaloupe and tea please 🍽️ Sunflower Lunch Room Boston 1916 #VintageMenus

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Centaurus A Extreme Deep Field - 130 Hours - Sep 2019 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2hk73QH

The Deepest View Ever Obtained of Centaurus A (NGC 5128)
New improved version with 10 hours of H-Alpha, Sep 2019
In 2013 I gathered 120 hours of data on Centaurus A, and processed the deepest image ever obtained of this magnificent galaxy showing many features and structures not revealed by amateurs before.
In Feb 2014 I released an improved version of the image with higher resolution, processed using PixInsight.
Then in 2018 I again acquired further data (for what is evidently a never-ending project…), this time in the H-Alpha wavelength. This new re-processed image incorporates the H-Alpha data in order to highlight the impressive emission structures triggered by the relativistic jet from the supermassive central black hole. It also emphasises the many pink hydrogen clouds in the dark dust lane across the centre of the galaxy, and lastly I feel the image showcases the concentric shells and rich background slightly better, while keeping a reasonably subtle natural look.

About the Image
This image is the realisation of a long time dream of mine: Taking a deep sky image with more than 100 hours of exposure.
I set out on this mission in early 2013 and after having gathered 130 hours of data on 46 different nights in 2013 and 2018 I present what I believe is the deepest view ever obtained of Centaurus A. This is likely also the deepest image ever taken with amateur equipment, showing stars as faint as magnitude 25.45.
I spent around 40 hours and analysing processing the data...

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts. www.reuters.com/business/ant...

The company said it plans to spend at least $111.1 billion with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, $110 billion with Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab and $31.4 billion with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab under long-term infrastructure service obligations over the next seven to 10 years "regardless of ⁠usage."
Anthropic is separately carrying about $161.2 billion of Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab-related equipment lease obligations that are largely non-cancelable, according to the prospectus. Anthropic filed for an IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June but its paperwork has not been publicly disclosed.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the filing.
The company said it committed to pay Google between April 2026 and July 2033 and Amazon between May 2026 and April 2036.
"If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference," the company said, adding that similar terms apply to its Amazon agreement.
It added its commitment with Microsoft of $31.4 billion between November 2026 and May 2033 "is non-cancelable except in the event of Microsoft's uncured material breach."

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

To anyone claiming that science is "boring", I would point them towards this award-winning study from 1939 showing that repeatedly exploding paper bags next to a cat that was standing on the back of a cow caused that cow to produce less milk than normal: academic.oup.com/jas/article-... 1/

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 27/09/2026

Not noticed before that Bill Nelson used John Dee's Monad glyph on a single sleeve in 1984, years before Coil used the same symbol for their Time Machines album. A foretaste of Nelson's later occult preoccupations.

The title page of Monas Hieroglyphica (1591) by John Dee. In the centre of the page below the book title is an engraved emblem showing the Monad glyph, a symbol that creates an abstract human figure by combining the astrological symbols of the planets. At the four corners of the emblem are graphics depicting the four elements: fire, air, earth and water.

A seven-inch single sleeve for Acceleration by Bill Nelson. Grey background with a graphic in white lines of two nested squares that frame a circle, triangle and Dee's Monad.

One of the insert cards from Time Machines (1998) by Time Machines. A white border with the words Time Machines -- Persistence Is All printed in black. Inside the border is a black square; inside the black square is a white oval; inside the white oval is a small green Monad glyph.

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high king pʰɪɫnɒk @pilnok.dad · 10/12/2025

fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season

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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Arnie will most likely end up a better Dem than Gavin Newsom.

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Peter Glaser @peterglaser.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

• Byte magazine , January 1984 Cover by Robert Tinney

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/09/2026

Not being Yudkowsky is a conscious choice I have to continually make and sometimes slip up on. As I often say "if you're the smartest person in the room, it's because anyone smarter knows not to be in the same room as you".

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Art by Michael Whelan for The Year’s Best Horror Stories Series III (1975)

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

theguardian.com

Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still possibly my favorite line + delivery in all of 30 ROCK. It's a feeling I empathize with down to my bones

Liz Lemon saying, hopefully, "that's later. Maybe we'll be dead by then."

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Marcie808🧡🖤⚾️ @marcie808.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hopefully y’all can read old timey cursive or you’re out of luck with today’s specials. Everything is à la carte and there’s a good selection of vegetables, so I’m having the Sirloin Steak with American Oyster Bay Asparagus and banana fritters 🍽️ Hotel Studio Maryland? 1920s #VintageMenus

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Fat4all (Agatha) 🏳️‍⚧️ @fat4all.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

*flashback to bisexual jecht laughing at tidus*

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Made Men - people who actually matter - can do pretty much whatever they want: corruption, far right conspiracy theories, fraternising with criminals, it’s all gravy so long as you are Mr Hot Shot. A troublesome leftist cannot cough, without the entire press pack jumping up their arse with Maglites.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Now, listen to me, young lady, pull my finger."

1st Doctor pointing at Tegan, in the TARDIS. 5th Doctor, Turlough and Susan are there too.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

wondering how many dudes have asked fred schneider if he'd do the voice while having sex

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if leadership says it's okay, it's safe, to care about a minority group, they'll care about them and if leadership says otherwise, they'll switch to 'well unfortunately we just gotta be pragmatic' so much of 'pragmatic' politics is people who are afraid and conflict avoidant wanting to feel savvy

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

really is a motherfucker knowing that if dem leadership/seniority signaled that trans rights were worth standing up for, every single person scolding and berating about how this sacrifice just HAS to happen would 180 overnight to "we draw the line here. abandoning people in need would be cruel"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026

Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

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