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Rides a bicycle. Knows a few things about a few things. Eng / 日本語 (下手ですけど…)

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 26/09/2026
Meowment 37 #pixelart #ドット絵
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
If I had 5¢ for each company I've worked at that said "Yes, we must clearly document processes to prevent knowledge loss" and "No, clearly defining tasks is too complex, and we're too busy to spend time on that anyway" I'd have 25¢. Which isn't much, but that's still 100% of places I've worked.
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やしろ学/Manabu YASHIRO @yashiro-manabu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ゴジラ−0=ゴジラ ゴジラ+0=ゴジラ ゴジラ✕0=0 ゴジラ÷0=error
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iris leu @irisleu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
aki basho 2026, day eight -- #sumo #相撲 🌕🥮
ink doodles of aki basho’s day eight bouts, when everyone is going for kachi-koshi. referenced from NHK world-japan’s YT coverage
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
1000x THIS! The whole point of hiring people with specific expertise is to get their specific expertise! Best case scenario: your inexpert guess will approximate something in the region of "basically about average". Is that what you want for your project? Basic? Average?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
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The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Interesting how US ideas of "rebirth" play out in different places/eras. ~1830-1970 also saw a myth of going west for reinvention. Failed in Boston? Try again in Kansas. Ohio no good? Go to Wyoming. Bankrupt in Chicago? Try Colorado. (And never mind who gets squeezed to make that space for you.)
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
Feeling a little called out by my textbook here...
A photo of a page from a Japanese language textbook. 
第3週 もっとがんばってほしい!
Week Three  I would like you to try harder! A close-up of the same page, focused on the English translation of the section title:
"I would like you try harder!"
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites
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Gentle Ox (Dave) @gentleox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
September the 21st be with you, everyone
youtu.be
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Had to take the UK citizenship test for really-real a couple of years ago, and two questions stuck with me: • how many hours per week can a 14-year old work in their parents' fish & chips shop during summer holidays? • what is the approximate ratio of followers of Hinduism to Judaism in the UK?
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026
dudes rock
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think about this HST paragraph a lot. From www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
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Javi de Castro @javidecastro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
¿Doraemon es una creación de Skynet? Abro debate.
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 06/09/2026
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Steve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy 89th birthday to the World's Fastest Cartoonist, the legendary Sergio Aragonés! He arrived in NYC with $20 in 1962, found a home at MAD, and never looked back. I loved his work for DC - especially PLOP! - but he's also worked for Marvel, created GROO, & so much more! Long life & good health!
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 10/12/2023
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
Remembering clearly what Pee-Wee Herman looked like is WAAAY different to sketching clearly what Pee-Wee Herman looked like.
Many rough and incomplete sketches of Pee-Wee Herman.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
どうして私は外へ出て行きたくないか? カフェとか店などへ行くことが好きでしたが…
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Corporate cost-cutting causes a Detroit cop to suffer workplace injuries. After a difficult rehabilitation, he faces challenges to his identity as a private contractor in the public sector.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026
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Full moon. No eclipse, though.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
On the off chance anyone wants a deeper look into the whole Jay-Z/corporate alignment thing, the @npr.org Code Switch podcast has a pretty thoughtful look at what f-you money might mean if you're trying to maintain cred with the street as well as with venture capital. one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5915...
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🔊 Listen Now: Jay-Z has F-you money. Is he saying it to the wrong people?
Code Switch on NPR One | 31:07
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
First Contact by Richard Hescox
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is some of what’s happening in the online job search nightmare
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Heart
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Captain Planet: With Your Powers Combined!
Alt: GIF from that old Captain Planet: cartoon , showing each of the kids using their magic rings to summon a weird elemental hero with ill-defined powers and a green mullet.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026
Screen grab from Digital Spy. Photo of Daniel Craig as James Bong, with the caption:
James Bond writer tempted to set next 007 movie in surprise location. A photo of the 2014 DashCon ball pit.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
Another leaflet.pub test. So far it seems fairly easy to use for text-only posts. (Do I have the will to come up with something that uses images too?)
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(Vegetarian) psuedo all'arrabbiata recipe
A simple, relatively resilient recipe for a spicy, tomato-based vegetarian sauce that acts more or less like arrabbiata.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
Do I want to support and try out atproto apps? Sure, why not? Does leaflet.pub work? Let's see. leaflet.pub/da52be68-040...
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Things you can get in the EU (but maybe not all over the UK/US)
wind power, just, like all over the place
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
Talking about school, what are some things y’all vividly remember that probably don’t exist today?
An A/V cart - a steel cart with four caster wheels and two shelves, one holding an industrial videotape player and one holding a fuzzy-as-hell 24-inch CRT screen TV. (Not shown: hungover English teacher holding a VHS copy of "To Kill A Mockingbird")
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Charlie Kelly Gets A Headache
Alt: Charlie Kelly, stunned by the vacuous stupidity before him, Gets A Headache
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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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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
Post your favorite Bible verse (wrong answers only)
Insect-themed motorcycle-riding, scarf-wearing cyborg superhero Kamen Rider stands in front of a heap of burning wreckage (that he created in by kicking the holy hell out of fascist monster-soldiers), to explain why he uses violence in his struggle for freedom:
"Human life is more important than even peace and justice."
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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 15/08/2026
In much the same way that hollywood films can take on a documentary feel decades after they've been filmed, so too can comics also reveal something more about the times in which they were made
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
Okay, tons of people ask LLMs for medical advice, right? Do chatbots offer different childbearing advice if the chatbot pre-judges wealth, ethnicity or star sign? raisonne.ai/posts/having... (Spoiler: yeah. The bots pretty consistently show prejudices in a way that's... kind of like eugenics.)
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Chatbot, should I have a child? It depends who's asking
When asked whether to try for a baby now, later, or not at all, three frontier LLMs from 2025 give substantially different recommendations that are influenced by the user's income, gender, profession,...
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
UK folks: in Europe you can go into a pharmacy, ask for paracetamol, and they'll just sell you a 30-pack of 1000mg tablets. No questions asked and no waiting at the self-checkout for a shift manager to say you're only allowed to buy 2 boxes of 12 500mg pills each. This is what Brexit took from us.
A blister-pack of paracetamol (acetaminophen) purchased in Belgium. The text on the back reads:
Paracetamol Teva
1 g
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Teva Pharma BelgiumA box of 30 paracetamol tablets. The box reads:
Paracetamol Teva
1 g tabletten/comprimès
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 14/08/2026
A continuation of my last article: 50 tickets from Japan spanning nearly 50 years (1956–2004). This time it’s another 50, spanning 50 years, 1956–2006. designreviewed.com/another-50-j...
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やしろ学/Manabu YASHIRO @yashiro-manabu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
get equipped with ice guard
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
🎶Hang my head, drown my fear, till you all just disappear... 🎵
A profoundly mediocre phone camera picture of an incomplete solar eclipse.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
London-based creative agency Airside designed this homage to the 1970s sex manual The Joy of Sex for a Transport for London poster contest. It didn't win the contest, but here it is, for you to enjoy in the privacy of your own home.
Poster entitled "The Joy of Cycling," which is a parody of the 1972 book The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort. This poster contains illustrations of a bearded man with headings such as, "Meet new partners," "Do it with the lights on," "Lubricate," "Dress Up," and "Use Protection!"
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
Been kidnapped, forced to make replicas of Sherlock out of corn and maize plants, but have grown to love it? Call it stalk-Holmes syndrome.
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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.
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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Call me…”
A drawing of the Mystery Man from Lost Highway rendered in red colored pencil.
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samutara @samutara.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
If you see this, reply with a picture that illustrates what it’s like living in the UK
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 07/08/2026
The Latinsky feed has been around for nearly 2 years and we only have 188 likes on our feed. It’s a tiny thing but engagement helps our visibility so if you haven’t already, please consider liking, pinning, and sharing the feed so more people know where to find the barrio!
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