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Canadian Geographic @cangeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A raven settles among the changing autumn trees near Thunder Bay, Ontario, staying calm and observant long enough for Can Geo Photo Club member Curtis Craig to capture the scene. #PhotoOfTheDay Join the Photo Club, or tag #ShareCanGeo for a chance to be featured: bit.ly/3z9QSOi

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Lizzi 🐦🌸 @spiritcrowart.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

‼️ PSA for pixel artists: AVOID uploading pixel art at 400% resolution on Bsky. 800% resolution is a safe bet due to the way WEBP images are compressed. Update v1.121, which increased image sizes, has changed how WEBP images are displayed. (my art below, 400% on the left and 800% on the right)

Pixel art of Gay Dau (OC belongs to @toktonki) at 400% resolution. The WEBP encoding makes this image look like a blurry mess, with many of the pixels blending into each other.

Pixel art of Gay Dau (OC belongs to @toktonki) at 800% resolution. This image isn't as affected by compression artifacts, making it the intended way to view this artwork.

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Celesse ✿ @celesse.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I don't want to be the Negative Nancy in the room, but please remember that uploading big, high res art files makes it a lot easier to steal and repurpose. I have trouble even with crunchy, low res watermarked JPGs being stolen and misused 😟

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ypsilanti Township's board of trustees voted to put a moratorium on water for data centers. Los Alamos and UoM are set to break ground on an AI/ nuclear weapons data center on Monday

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Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center

America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026

We are on a platform with no algorithm which means that we have to post repeatedly because otherwise people who weren't scrolling during the last post didn’t see it. also I spent years writing the book and will post about it as much as I damn well please lol

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

New year, new book thread: (this will be pinned)

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

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The Incel Global Order

modern autocracy as a cult of masculinity

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Bison @bisonrimant.fr · 04/04/2026

April Capybara just dropped! [ID 1 to 4 : Different points of view of a wood carved plump capybara, sitting. Ears, snout, eyes and paws are painted in black. The sculpture is on a workbench.]

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A lot of you are risking your health because of a comforting lie..

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A pediatrician in B.C. told me 3 of his colleagues went on disability due to long Covid. This is why it's hard to celebrate when politicians recruit more doctors while failing to protect the ones we currently have with respirator masks in healthcare

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Here are 5 reasons why I would wear a respirator, if I lived somewhere with a Meningitis B outbreak.

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I think my phone gave me digital dementia..

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

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Prestigious Kennedy Award Goes To 'The People Of The Twin Cities'

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Fun fact: my first magazine feature was 5,600+ words. More than 80% of the people who clicked on it, finished reading the whole thing. It had 1M+ pageviews in its first month.

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Sandy @sandy174.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Day 400 for sweet beautiful 💔. AMBER 💔 being in the shelter. Please give this dog a chance! Check her out below. Repost Bio 👇 24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/... Video 👇 www.facebook.com/reel/9171056... Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 06/03/2026

Josh Turek remains one of the most interesting Democratic Senate candidates of the 2026 cycle. Just a fascinating person and story.

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

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writermusician.bsky.social @writermusician.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A mosaic Lake Superior agate specimen. One of my favorites. #Photography #Agates #LakeSuperior

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Sophie BoooOoOoOOoOoOooo! @pogform.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I mean. Same.

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Effing Candle Co.® @effingcandleco.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Happy International Rescue Cat Day from our internationally-loved rescue cat, DOODLE BUG! She would like to give you free shipping on orders $28+ with code RESCUECATDAY (ends at 11:59 p.m. Central Time | doesn't combine w other offers/codes) Don't snooze on it! effingcandleco.com/discount/RES...

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Geology Wonders @geologywonders.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Stunning blue azurite flower from Katanga Province, D.R Congo. 📷 Gemcongo #minerals #geology

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Happy 30th birthday to Pokémon. Without it, the greatest Werner Herzog quote of all time would not exist.

Interviewer: You might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world.

Herzog: When two persons in search of a pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder?

Interviewer: They do fight, virtually.

Herzog: Physically, do they fight?

Interviewer: No-

Herzog: Do they bite each other's hands? Do they punch each other?

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Terry Nunn 📷 @terrynunnphoto.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I’m sure today’s theme will be filled with incredible moon shots…but this one will always be my favorite I’ve ever taken. Right as I pressed the shutter, a bat flew straight through the frame — turning a simple moon photo into a cool moment. #BlueSkyArtShow #Round #BlueSkyPhotography #Night

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Never forget those who enabled this.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

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Brymo @brymo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Carpobrotus today in Bodega Bay, California #photography #art #flowers #macro #bloomscroll

A photograph of a pink flower with a yellow center and the ocean in the background

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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"It isn’t so much about placing black people in the canon as it is about saying that we’ve always been here, we’ve always existed, self-sufficient, outside of nightmares and imaginations, pre and post ’discovery’, and in no way defined or limited by who sees us." (Moderna Museet)

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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"Five Manchurian Cranes," [Anon.], nd; The Khalili Collections; #asianart #art #birds #cranes #arte #artwork #nature #museum #artgallery

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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Juan Gris, "Still Life with a Guitar," oil on canvas, 1913; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. #abstract #abstractart #abstractpainting #stilllife #cubist #cubism #modernart #paintings #oilpainting #peintures #arte #art #museum #artgallery

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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Cheong Soo Pieng (Singapore, 1917-1983), "Durian Seller," oil on canvas, 1981; photo: Christie's. #singapore #modernart #asianart #art #arte #paintings #oilpainting #durian #peintures #museum #artgallery

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