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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in floof. Let's start with the *FLOOF* & talk about why they're called "VAMPIRE SQUIRRELS" last. They have the largest tail: body size ratio of any mammal on Earth: the tail is *130%* the size the body.
Taken from "Critter Science" blog: A  squirrel with dark coloration, just an amazingly large tail, and long tufted ears that point slightly backwards.  Along the long-thin body are orange, white and black striping. The tail looks almost exactly like one of those dust-trapping dusters.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bobcat in a box
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Your periodic reminder that the decision to pursue a professional ballet career happens at similar or earlier age to most youth gender affirming care and has significantly more lifetime impact on peer socialization, how the body looks and overall health than social transition and puberty blockers.
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026
Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)
Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@AmySilverberg

One time a writer friend of mine got too drunk and sobbed bc she said there were too many books in the world she wouldn’t have time to read, and this guy down the bar said, ladies—he isn’t worth it and my friend yelled IM CRYING ABOUT BOOKS and that shut the guy up
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Photo of a vintage book cover featuring a bearded man chopping planks of wood in half. Title and copy read

Defeating Wood

Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved

Gary Arkanasse
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026
Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why keep asking what is behind One Nation's organic appeal when "they have a bajillion dollars and saturate low-info voters' feeds and get unlimited favourable mainstream coverage" is all you need. Why did the surge happen? It's when they got a bajillion dollars. When will it end? Money tap goes off
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PMG Revanchist @aworkerwhoposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not enough is made in the cultural imaginary of Sydney about the fucked vibes of this guy, honestly more spooky than the big ones of the famine queen herself. "I've been given the power of speech" what do you mutter to the unsuspecting in the middle of the night you furry little demon?
Talking statue of a dog outside a the QVB in Sydney.
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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What you need to understand is nothing we built was “off the shelf.” Store-bought environmental assets for stop-motion features do not exist. We were given concept art and told “make it look like this.” Everything you see here, down to the dirt and moss, was meticulously designed and crafted.
A forest path from Wildwood
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mags @ritavonbees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i love Wikipedia
see also: breakpoint (disambiguation), Point Break (disambiguation)
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 14/09/2026
I'm not a mad scientist, I'm just a disappointed scientist.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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Maia @maiaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I see the Proclaimers have thrown themselves down a big hole, my sincere condolences to people who enjoy both of their songs xx
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Anyway, this is a good reminder if an LLM-generated text has these strikingly novel insights, it is almost certain that they come from a book that your academic library has lying around in an external warehouse somewhere and no one has requested it in decades.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026
I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront
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PMG Revanchist @aworkerwhoposts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I reach for the can of dog spray only for the Guard to lower his SA80, I freeze and that's all it takes for the Corgis to be on me dragging me down into a sea of stubby legs and fat bellies. In a moment of humanity the guardsman puts two rounds of 5.56 into my temple and then there is only darkness.
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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
*Never Played OoT Voice* I'm just worried whether he'll still be able to *clenches fist* time that ocarina.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026
This is a really good long piece on the human brain wiring that predisposes us to believe in psychics and also in sentient AI. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
softwarecrisis.dev
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15% so enjoy 😊
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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
touch grass is a psyop to convince us that grass lawns are a natural and acceptable form of groundcover. touch local flora. touch the face of someone who loves you. touch the edges of your own subjectivity. you are a bee, searching for the things that your body knows would be here, in a softer world
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 06/09/2026
The reason that the Harry Potter apologists won't just read better books is because they're not looking for good stories...if they were, they wouldn't have glommed on to Harry Potter. They're looking for the camaraderie and social phenomenon that Harry Potter was in the 2000s.
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mags @ritavonbees.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
don't make me tap the sign etc
my 8yo: but how come we're not allowed to read Harry Potter if we're allowed to read Roald Dahl?
their dad: because Roald Dahl is extremely dead so you're not giving him money that he can use to make life hard for our friends and family.
my 6yo, helpfully: oh, I know! if the problem is that the author of Harry Potter isn't dead, we should just push her into a pit of lava!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
???? READ ALT TEXT - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEAN WHO CANT REMEMBER WHAT THERE SUPPOSE TO BE DOING , AT WORK , AT HOME, IN A GAME, DOSENT MATTER, HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO KEEP EVERYTHING STRAIGHT, EVERY DAY 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO AUTOMATICALLY AND 10 NEW THINGS YOU HAVE TO FIT IN YOUR DAY TOO, AND NOW A GUY IN TOWN WANT'S ME TO GO TO SOME OTHER AREA AND RETRIVE AN ITEM FOR HIM???? AND IDK THE GUY AND IDK WHY HE WANTS ME TO DO IT????? HE LOOKED AT MY DUMB ASS AND SAID THIS IS THE GUY TO FIND A MYSTERIOUS AMULET IN THE WOODS AND BRING IT BACK TO HIM , WHY WOULDENT I KEEP IT? DOES HE JUST THINK IM TO STUPID TO STEAL THE AMULET? WHAT COULD HE PAY ME THAT WOULD BE WORTH MORE THEN A AMULET????? ANY WAY DA TEXT "I FORGOT WHAT MY FUCKEN QUEST WAS, PROBLY SOME TREASURE? FORCED TO FIGHT RATS EVEN THOUGH ITS THERE CAVE, RETURN AN ITEM TO A GUY OR A PRINCESS? A GUY I DONT KNOW WHATS ME TO KILL A SECOND GUY I DONT KNOW? GREAT A STEARCASE THAT GOES DOWN TO A HARDER LEVEL " AND THATS ONE MORE THING I DONT CARE WHAT KIND OF FANTASTY WORLD IM IN ,DO NOT ASK ME TO KILL ANOTHER GUY, THE BEST FANTASY I HAVE IS KILLING NO GUYS, THE WORST NIGHTMARES I HAVE ARE WHEN I HAVE TO FIGHT A GUY, ALL I WANT IS 1 FUCKEN QUEST WHERE I CAN JUST BEAT SOMEONE AT CARD'S AND THEN I GET THE ITEM I WANT, ITS NOT REALISTIC TO ASK ME TO COMMIT ACTS THAT CHANGE MY LIFE FOREVER JUST TO PROGRESS A STORY , AND AFTER ALL THAT I DONT EVEN OWN THE FUCKEN VIDEO GAME? THERE SAYING I HAVE A LICENSE TO PLAY IT BUT I DONT OWN IT?????? THIS IS THE LAST ADVENTURE I GO ON - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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mags @ritavonbees.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Next time someone from HR tries to make me do a personality quiz I'm gonna tell them it was invented by the guy who came up with wonder woman through his kinky polycule roleplay and they're actually sexually harassing me by trying to assign me a category
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I just remembered how when I put this on Twitter back in the day, someone told me you’re not supposed to clean a snake with soap, as if this was meant as a guide to the care and feeding of your serpent
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 31/08/2026
in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since
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mags @ritavonbees.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
it's no strategically placed lizards but I love the hair
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A list of lyrics if all lyrics were as profound as “I got soul, but I'm not a soldier” by The Killers... 1. I got hips, but I’m not a hipster 2. I got plums, but I’m not a plumber 3. I got toes, but I’m not a toaster 4. I got badge, but I’m not a badger 5. I got meow, but I'm not a homeowner
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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.oglaf.com/surpriseparty/
comic strip!
panel 1
A woman speaks to a man
woman- Can I grab your dick when you're least expecting it? That's what I'm into

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man- Sure. But I'm kind of expecting it now

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woman- Oh, it isn't going to happen now.
It isn't going to happen soon

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woman- It will happen WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT

panel 5
the man fights spiky green enemies of some sort.
he stands on a big chunk of cracked masonry.
It's what, underground? It all seems very green for some reason.

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the man looks down

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man- Still sort of expecting it

panel 8
we see that the woman has slithered up through the crack in the masonry and holds up a hand between the man's legs.

woman- Fuck's sake
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mags @ritavonbees.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@floralashes.bsky.social fun Talmud hypothetical: imagine the Jewish/Christian split somehow occurred *after* the whole business with the Trinity. what kind of arguments would Jewish scholars (identical to current history except they do believe Jesus was the son of God) have had about Trinity stuff?
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Ferret Every Hour @ferretperhour.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.oglaf.com/calculus/
Comic strip!
panel 1
a woman  shouts "don't you see! Sex isn't sexy"

panel 2
a second woman says "what?"
the first woman replies "Like red isn't reddish"
They're in a marketplace but that really isn't relevant to the comic.
for the next three panels the exchange goes like this-
"sex isn't like sex- it IS sex. So Don't try to be sexy during sex - that's backward! Sexy is whatever you do while you're fucking"
Second woman replies "Why are you telling me this?"
In the next panel the women are fucking.
First woman also holds up a board for the second woman to use a ruler and compass on. Doing some kind of math perhaps.

next panel, the women are post-coital.
second woman- "so what? You're trying to make math sexy?"
first woman- "No! I'm trying to make sex mathy!"

next panel we see a curvaceous woman with graphs overlaid on her curves. There isn't enough resolution to tell whether the math is accurate.

next panel we see some people gawping at math lady's butt.
final panel one of the gawpers says "Is anyone else suddenly excited by algebra?"
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 20/08/2026
I'd have to dig up the link but there was actually a review of what happens if you give extended time to students who don't need it. The answer is nothing. Their test scores didn't change. We don't need to gatekeep to make things fair: accommodations just level the playing field.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Apart from being shitty about folks' identities, calling real people "bad representation" is a category error. People are *the thing being represented*. A person can no more be "bad representation" than a mountain can be inaccurate – if it's not on the map, the problem is the map!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
Panel one shows a bone. The bone says, "I make stem cells!"
Panel two shows a pancreas. The pancreas says, "I make insulin!"
Panel three shows the bone and pancreas and now a brain. The brain says "I make scenarios!"
Panel four shows the bone, pancreas, and brain. The brain is on fire.
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mags @ritavonbees.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
my shoggoth has pronounced all urban dogs NEETs
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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
spiderman should be a poly lesbian not bc she should be in multiple healthy relationships at once but because true to canon Spidey should be fumbling all the time and being poly means she can fumble a relationship with MJ, Felicia, and Gwen at the same time
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
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Vale @vale.rocks · 19/06/2026
There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.
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Mona⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ @monawys.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If your legal, risk n compliance teams are not worried about your AI doing shitty things, your business deserves to disappear some lawyer should be building class actions against immediately rejected CVs for discrimination
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Will Revieu 
@Seeing_Redlines

I just had a deeply alarming 45 minute sync with our Talent Acquisition team regarding their new Al-driven resume screening tool.
They reported that the software's reduced our time-to-hire by 60% over the last month.
l asked them to walk me through the specific algorithmic parameters they established for filtering out unqualified applicants.
The HR manager smiled and said they just told the Al to optimize for digital natives with high runway potential and a youthful energy.
I stopped typing and asked her to run a demographic report on every single candidate the software's rejected since September.The data showed a 100% rejection rate for any applicant who graduated college before the year 2010.
I explained that automating age discrimination doesn't make it suddenly legal, it just makes it highly scalable and incredibly easy to prove in court.
She seemed genuinely confused and argued that the Al made the decision, not her, so we're insulated from liability.
I had to explain that the EEOC doesn't currently accept the robot defense for federal civil rights violations.
I'm currently drafting a memo to halt all hiring until we manually review 4,000 resumes.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 15/08/2026
It’s no low quality copper, but I have always loved this demonstration that people are still people.
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mags @ritavonbees.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TIL Barcelona is named after Actual Hannibal
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Plato: OK class le- Diogenes: I have a question Plato: Oh Zeus... What? Diogenes: WHO LIVES IN A BARREL DOWN BY THE SEA? Plato: Please don- Diogenes: DI👏O👏GEN👏ES👏 Plato: ... Diogenes: WHO SHITS ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASS TAUGHT BY THEE?
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