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Library mensch. Warning: pre-coffee posts will be cliché-ridden. Folklore is more fun when you are not living it.   The lies are what will destroy us. THERE IS NO PLANET B. Opinions, when offered, are mine. @ratgrrl on @mstdn.social

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 1h
"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario
"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens"
Poster
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 5h
Schmitt's staff may have set their boss up for a big day around his big moment. But, to echo another famous conspiracy theorist, the intel on this wasn't 100%.
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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 9h
Eduardo Paolozzi, Lotus, 1964 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of G. David Thompson
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Collective Action Comics Podcast @cacomixpod.bsky.social · 12h
Just watched My Neighbor Totoro for the first time in more than two decades, and let me tell you - it holds up.
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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America? @ratgrrl.bsky.social · 16h
Nice picture caption!
Screengrab from The Briefing with Jen Psaki. Below her the chyron says: From VP buzz to blunder, Schmitt's big blunder backfires. 
To the right is a photo of Senator Schmitt presenting his evidence with a caption below it that reads: Absolute Schmitt Show.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 19h
As a person obsessed with the ways Google no longer works, I enjoyed this sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird...
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When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
News is bad. Vibes are bad. WHO NEEDS A TEENY TINY FROG?! (A Wood Frog baby so little it could sit on a quarter) #herps 🌿
A very small brown frog sits on a lily pad.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 29/09/2026
Marvellous. Deserves making it bigger to visualise incomprehensibility. Tthe eight or so stars with the six bright spikes are local to our Galaxy. Everything else is a galaxy off in the distance. Each with hundreds of billions of stars. The warping is light from galaxies even further behind 🤯
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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bullfrog of the day! Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Duckweed and bullfrog face with side-eye
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And again with a splash of digital colour… #Shiptember
A pen drawing of a spaceship coloured digitally in blue and orange.
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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America? @ratgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can work with that format! Let's see: "The United States has a lousy President, but they have great libraries. They have one of the worst Presidents in history. A real stupid guy. But they do have good libraries, which is more important."
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A few weeks ago, I gave a virtual presentation to a retirement community. The audience was great, they asked some really thoughtful questions and gave some very positive feedback. They also bought some books which is always nice!
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America? @ratgrrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Flapping lips over hollow faces Nothing sees you from the eyes You cannot learn in the Uncanny Valley
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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How it started vs how it's going - a male Cape May Warbler in his fancy breeding plumage in June, and one taken a few days ago, after molting into his non-breeding plumage. #birds #birding
Cape May Warbler dressed for success in his dating outfit in the spring. He's perched low in a small tree, at eye level, showing of his yellows and orange. Cape May Warble in the fall, perched in a coniferous tree in profile view. Now he's wearing sweats and a t-shirt, not trying to impress anyone. Soft, muted colours, but the overall pattern is the same.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am Groot
A old, tall conifer -not sure of the type- with its branches outstretched. It is on a rocky hillside. There are other conifers in the background. The sky is mostly clear with thin high clouds. The afternoon sun is shining on the tree.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was such a treat to find these gorgeous little green cup mushrooms in the forest this morning. Usually all I can ever find is the bright turquoise mycelia in the rotting wood. Finding the thumbnail size fruiting bodies is pretty rare for me. Their colour is unreal. 🍄🌿
Bright turquoise green little fingernail shaped mushrooms, growing out of a rotting log
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shiptember No. 26. ‘Burning Bridges Light My Way'. Spaceship name suggested by @tobybarnes.bsky.social #shiptember #Drawing #Scifi #Spaceships
A sketch of a chunky spaceship with three odd fins beneath it. A couple of people wait for it to land.A page of spaceship sketches.
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Charlie Alzamora @chalza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm gonna start calling the little vase of artificial flowers on the kitchen windowsill super flowers.
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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We saw a North American Beaver, the largest rodent in North America, and an official national symbol of Canada, the last 2 times we went to Burnaby Lake, BC, Canada. Here's a video from the last time, Sept. 22, 2026! #mammal #rodent #videography #ECK
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 26/09/2026
AI slopaganda images are not meant to fool the viewer through being a form of photorealistic false evidence, so much as they are meant to influence people’s attitudes as a kind of hyperreal political cartoon. Donald Trump’s use of AI imagery is a good example of this.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The screening has been interrupted by an important announcement
Photo of a black cat with yellow eyes sitting on the coffee table directly blocking my view of the tv. She is staring at me.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What. The. Fuck.
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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I remember stage-managing a show where Bo Diddley was the headline act. After soundcheck, he called me over and said, "You got someone introducing me before I come on stage, right?" "Yes, sir." "Make sure he doesn't say 'legendary'. I hate that shit. Makes it sounds like I'm already dead."
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shiptember No. 25. ‘It's All Fun And Games Until Someone Gets Hurt'. #shiptember #Drawing #Scifi #Spaceships
A pen drawing of a spaceship, that looks a little like Thunderbird 2.A desk strewn with spaceship sketches.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remembering Jim Henson, born on this day, 1936.
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shiptember No. 24. ‘The Heart Isn't Heart-Shaped'. #shiptember #Drawing #Scifi #Spaceships
A weird upright spaceship sketch.A weird upright spaceship sketch.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*If you think that you dislike AI slop, the aging laptop-users on Tumblr.com really don't put up with slop *They're like the Amish of the Slopocalypse, on Tumblr "Wait, I'm supposed to somehow use TUMBLR??" 😱 *Where else do you plan to hide? Not Bluesky. The Bsky management loves AI
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Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America? @ratgrrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Judge Blocks Trump’s White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press credentials for the employees of the three news outlets. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/b...
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Court Blocks Trump’s White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico (Gift Article)
Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press credentials for the employees of the three news outlets.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke pony girl Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keep on daunsinge, Down yn West Hollywoode' [WICKED LUTE SOLO] 🎶
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/09/2026
#sciart
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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America? @ratgrrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am the code, I am the code, I am the code, I am the code ...
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Bear in the Big Blue House Dances The Twist
Alt: Very large Muppet Bear in the Big Blue House Dances The Twist
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
mini mart
An anthropomorphic hyena and water dragon in a mini mart shopping.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026
As I've said, more than half of NVIDIA's GPUs - and I'd argue most of the Blackwell GPUs sold since 2025 - are unproductive and being warehoused. NVIDIA and hyperscalers should be forced by regulators to disclose how many chips are actually in service. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-...
I need to be more blunt here: the vast majority of companies that have bought GPUs have yet to turn them into meaningful revenue, if they’ve turned them on at all. Most of NVIDIA’s sales are sitting in warehouses, and that is a significant disclosure that NVIDIA should have already been forced to make.

It wouldn’t be too dissimilar to the last time NVIDIA got in trouble with the SEC back in 2022, when it failed to disclose that the revenue growth in its gaming segment was actually coming from cryptocurrency miners rather than gamers, which was considered “inadequate disclosure.”

While there’s a noted difference here — as NVIDIA’s customers are, ostensibly, buying their data center GPUs to put in a data center — the “demand” cycle for these chips, or really any AI chip, is entirely manufactured as a result of four or five large customers buying so many and Huang making statements about revenue generation that do not reflect reality. 

Perhaps this doesn’t rise to the level of SEC action, but every single journalist and analyst should be asking Jensen Huang and every hyperscaler executive buying GPUs the following questions:
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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All travel terminus announcements ever
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 23/09/2026
There it is 😡
Nature, which previously reported on NSF’s grants shortfall, said it can “be attributed mainly” to the agency keeping more than $1 billion in an account, much of which is for the White House’s Grand Research Challenges project, which is meant to support specific fields, including artificial intelligence. The project was mentioned in one line in a Sept. 10 NSF memo: “In the coming weeks and months, NSF will announce a series of Grand Research Challenges to take thesis-driven bets that stand to unlock new frontiers of S&T [science and technology].”
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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ll add, if you know of a 3 bed in a place with decent secondary school for my kids, I'm looking for leads (tobias@tobiasbuckell.com).
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Zaibatsu @zaibatsu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hobbit house at Hobbiton Movie Set, Matamata, New Zealand (© djr-photography/Shutterstock)
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shiptember No. 22. ‘Happiness Isn't Good Enough For Me! I Demand Euphoria!'. #shiptember #Drawing #Scifi
A pen drawing of a chunky spaceship.
A pen drawing of a chunky spaceship.
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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America? @ratgrrl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Seinfeld Soup Chef meme. Caption is 
One day in the Intelligence Line... 
No Super for you!
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