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Mattias Adolfsson @mattiasadolfsson.bsky.social · 17h

Electric

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

The one that sent me over the edge was the guy, who, after a lengthy exchange about the slow cooker I was giving away on freecycle, asked me to call and remind him to pick it up. No. Not doing that.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 3h

If anyone here lives in the Toronto-St. Paul's riding, our MP @lesliechurch.bsky.social has now officially endorsed Brad Bradford for Mayor. If you would like to tell her how you feel about that, her email is leslie.church@parl.gc.ca! I, for one, am very excited to do so!

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 17h

Happy #CtenophoreDay! 🦑🐙🧪 I’m an equal-opportunity cteno celebratory so I observe both October 4th and April 10th when it comes to appreciating our shared cousins that have been out doing their own thing for hundreds of millions of years.

You’re invited! To celebrate your most distant animal cousins you may not even have heard of… text is rainbow and surrounded by gooey transparent animals with rainbows running down their bodies

CTENOPHORES sometimes pronounced
"Ten-oh-fours
are phylum of marine invertebrates that use little plates of hair called ctenes to swim and/or create currents to bring food to them. Their beating ctenes bend the light, causing rainbows to dance down their body

We celebrate ctenophores on October 4th and on April 105) because their name sounds like 10/04 (ten oh four)

Participating in #Docktober on Ctenophore Day? Join the iNat project and add any ctenos you find from the docks. QR code linking to the project ctenophore day 2026 flanked by two photos of ctenos - a feather boa cydippid and a Haeckelia rubra

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 5h

That looks like a proper taco, yes!

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 5h

For sure, there are ways to make that really good!

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 7h

Not too late, on either front.

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 8h

Quatermass and the Event on Avenue Road

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 9h

Spotted in rural Québec

Pickup truck towing a giant pumpkin in rural Québec

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 8h

If you have chickens and want to offer up your chooks and chonks as artist reference for #Boktober, I have a thread for that!

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 9h

If you capitalize "event", suddenly it's a scifi story.

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Sèafra @woodward.ca · 10h

Too soon Save On. Too soon.

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 12h

My friend worked at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and canonically Indiana Jones went to the University of Chicago so sometimes people would mail them stuff that they thought Indiana Jones would like to see

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403 FORBIDDEN @joshgrant.online · 03/10/2026

I’ve got some time, so here’s a thread about this painting, its story and why it’s one of the greatest Canadian modern art stories 🧵

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 13h

this article conflates Radithor, a patent medicine that contained radioactive isotopes, with the Revigator, a very mildly radioactive water vessel that was supposed to irradiate your water overnight. Radithor could kill you; what this chud is drinking is water with trace amounts of poison.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13h

LibreOffice is free, open source & available for windows, ios & Linux. It does everything that MSoffice does except cost a fortune, spy on you & interfere with your work with AI nonsense.

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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 14h

i can’t stop saying “muggy doo: boy cat” out loud and to everyone i meet

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 14h

60 years ago this week, the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social fall festival

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 16h

i would simply make the bear a friend

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Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday, I met my youngest for lunch. We ate it in the park on the bench next to the off-leash dog run. It took everything I had not to sing “Terri…….. ERS” when two ran past.

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I noticed today that the geese are quite busy practicing their upcoming departure in 1/2 V formations, flying low and all talking to each other "yep that's the right direction for the sun angle, that's what we do when windy, careful of your alignment back there Bob."

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, I have worked with famous people, and I can't even imagine what it must be like, not a moment of privacy, unless you're in disguise.

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And is Big Challenges the size of an alligator, but not an alligator?

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, she is canonically 5 apples tall, which is the size of a cat.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alright, seven was my snapping point. I blocked that account so you can’t send me that link about the dipshit influencer and his Revigator again. Instead, I give you a link.

funraniumlabs.com

Radiation Roadtrip 2024 - Funranium Labs

Herr Direktor Funranium drives through Kansas and Colorado on an adventure of atomic heritage, radioactive fossils, and medical quackery.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please enjoy my newest portrait series entitled “Leader Of Province Wanted Photos Ordering Ice Cream But Didn’t Want Photos Eating The Ice Cream” …i’m not being allowed back on the tour bus, am I

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a DELIGHTFUL thread from start to finish. 🧪

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It really is amazing how there's this whole new angle to see the city from.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am really excited to see more genetic samples being collected in Oregon! Their mystery apples are often also our mystery apples.

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Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Happiness is a fuzzy friend

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TTC Alerts @ttcalerts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Line 1 Yonge-University: Delays northbound at Queen's Park station while we clean an unsanitary train.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1897 the Challinor, Taylor & Co. made a duck on nest to try to steal the fame from Atterbury. It was an OK attempt. May I present: the CT&Co. duck. My very first, original, 130 year old copycat. It’s not often you get an original “knockoff” that is, itself, an antique.

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ha, good question, maybe something from the GE Glow Lamp Manual:

a circuit with a series of resistors capacitors and glow lamps in a satisfyingly symmetrical arrangement

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kind of regretting that @cageyratfish.bsky.social and I didn't actually make fake New Age cassettes back in the day like we joked about. (Recipe: just the black keys and the sequencer on the Poly800, it sounded great)

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Crazy how much cool, trippy kosmische got released, and completely overlooked by "cool people", in the '80s because it was marketed as New Age. I know me and my proto hipster friends were into early Tangerine Dream records, but wouldn't touch a self-reeleased "New Age" cassette on a fucking dare...

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the other hand, my partner tried to sell one of her cassettes in a New Age shop, and they listened to it and gave it back because it had too much "dark energy". :)

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ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not content with what they did to Europe, the Germans created a gun game based on Bambi to fuel your trauma. Schießautomat (Shooting machine) was an influential Dale Gun-style cabinet released in 1956. See more from @cpi.pinball.horse: earlyarcadesjapan.blogspot.com/2024/02/1963...

1957-02 Automatenmarkt. A photo of the Schießautomat machine by Wiegandt in West Germany.

https://www.antik-automaten.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=1709

A color photo of a Schießautomat shooting game, showing off the crudely painted Bambi facsimile.

https://archive.is/Zv4GB

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And because it's infinite, you never have to buy broccoli again!

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a snapshot from Charley Harper’s studio as he left it (and the origin of the title of my essay) 🐞

A hand painted sign leaning on a wooden garden chair in an art studio with the phrase LADYBUGS WILL SAVE THE WORLD in red paint on an ivory background

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scruss @scruss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apart from the groovy lounge jazz, this shows how absurdly complex the pre-decimal system was when you needed different machines for different amounts

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the really funny thing is that she's not even proposing to make it free, she's proposing fare capping! someone needs to tell this guy it's a "subscription model for buses"

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