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@scifinch.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎸🏋️‍♂️🎮🍺🌿🤘🐶🐱🍕👨‍💻 Big au naturels 📍 Reading, UK

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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've never had a good experience at a taco bell. Curséd brand
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is there anything more 90s than [record scratch, whine]
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iNaturalist finds @inaturalistfinds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Common raccoon by leha, CC-BY-NC www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Common raccoon peeking and reaching out of a drain alongside a road. It is blurry and its eyes are shining.
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reggie 🔜 BLFC @hoppits.gay · 28/09/2026
been thinking about this video a lot recently
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
crosscountry when
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just watched last week's Drag Race UK, and why was no one as INCENSED by KY's awful mad hatter lqqk as I was? Also frustrated by the outcome
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's so funny to me that this occasionally gets a thirst like from a passing account, despite it clearly not being me and also the caption being absurd
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
cuth pube
A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[rich people suddenly buying Faraday cages for their living rooms]
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: 5 million years ago - a bunch of bedbugs lounge around in a living room, looking totally bored. Panel 2: another bedbug excitedly bursts through the front door and exclaims, “someone invented beds!” Panel 3: one of the bedbugs looks over their shoulder at the other and says, “you’re joking”
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The face of someone who has merrily spent all day playing Nagash on Total War: Warhammer III
A pic of me smiling at the camera in my house with some green bottles and a daruma doll with 1 eye visible in the background. I'm wearing a navy blue tee with a yellow retriever silhouette on it
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A Pint at the Gaslamp, Manchester, painting by Michael Ashcroft.
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The landlord's housing inspector was very complimentary about the house so that's nice I guess
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's my 9 games:
Zelda: Link's Awakening, Eternal Darkness, Pokemon Silver, Tales of Symphonia, Age of Mythology, Populous The Beginning, Fatal Frame II, Final Fantasy X, and Baldur's Gate II
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Racist thugs forming paramilitaries to close ports, attack refugees, intimidate the free press & threaten the RNLI are legitimate concerns but making a sport with known issues regarding violence & wider anti-social behaviour, ban alcohol at pitchside is discriminatory. Give me a fucking break
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'back from the brink' and other short stories, by dan's houseplants
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Song of the week: ‘Femboy Bussy Implosion’, Orbital Gate (2023) [death metal]
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this meeting could’ve been a psychosexual journey into the id
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Maned wolfBush dog
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
6% pints 💀💀
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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not bad, but this one is my favorite:
@prettyliltakemachine

Welcome new students. My name is Charles Xavier. The world around you will judge people like us for our differences, but at this school we seek to teach you to harness - who thought that. I do not look like Mr. Clean's gay brother. Who thought that."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
nbcnews.to
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gigantamax Cinderace has me wondering: who's the ball and who's the creature
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is £6 dear for a jacket potato beans and cheese? Yes/Yes
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026
Some good news today with this becoming TUC policy
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Re-seasoning my favourite frying pan in the oven and it is SMOKY
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excellent reporting here by Rachel Lavin on the ongoing impact of racist riots and arson attacks in Belfast, digging into the data, and the human stories behind the numbers and trends.
irishtimes.com
After Belfast burned: What happened to immigrant families whose homes were attacked?
At least 88 families made homeless in June’s race riots – most have not returned home
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Working on a project where lots of files are entitled "MINOGUE" (after Mike Minogue, Massachusetts GOP governor nominee), and honestly... camp
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rogue Trader is so good hnnnnngggg
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Decorating the house with hops is one of my favourite things to do at the start of autumn. These smell a bit like east kent goldings
A wreath base loosely woven with a fresh hops vine, with green leaves and pale green flowers hanging down
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I wonder what evil I wrought back in March (from: blockcurve.bisks.net)
A blue line graph showing my cumulative blocks since March 2025. It reports 43 blocks over all, with a sudden jump around 13th March 2026
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I watched it. Turns out I could wait, and in fact wish I had, indefinitely
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
[leaning on a giant brain like a mechanic] [slaps brain with a hollow metallic rapping sound] [the cerebellum clatters off] I can get two concurrent thoughts out of this old thing!
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Truly spectacular photo by Jean Marquis of workers clambering on scaffolding inside the parabolic mirror structure of the solar furnace in Mont-Louis in southern France in 1958. The solar furnace in the Pyrenees, built in 1949, was the first facility of its kind in the world 🗃️
B&w photo of workers standing on scaffolding inside a parabolic mirror structure (a solar furnace)
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
753 days into my duo lingo scots gaelic streak and I've just been absolutely bodied by pluralised occupations, positively baffled
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bródnodig | an tóin is mó cúailgne @kweenmedb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sometimes your own mind can appear like a locked door. that's why we're delighted to partner with better help. their range of accredited therapists can help you develop the key to opening that door & living your best life. better help. for those days at the office that start on the wrong foot.
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are locked out of our new office this morning because it has a subscription-based lock (and the management company didn't pay it) — subscription-based locks though wtf
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Craig Everett Nearly Home
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just made an M People pun to someone born in 1993 and they didn't get it 👴🏻
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Witch house as a recession indicator
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
does brutalismus 3000 bringing out a new single suggest we're re-entering the witch house era? or just a recession?
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
trust me to have a cold on my week off
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
a few dozen million years ago this guy got sick of the wicked ground and went back into the sea to become Every Whale
a realistic speculative rendering of indohyus, a fairly small land mammal with a broad, rounded body, a long thick tail tapering at the end, a smoothly sloped head kind of like a borzoi dog's, short and thin hooved legs, and short, tawny fur. its shapes are somewhat reminiscent of a whale's
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
September Octember November December
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the South Downs and seen about 5 separate troops of birch boletes!
A slightly worse for wear pair of birch boletes, one with a snapped off but of cap, revealing blue staining characteristic of the mushroom
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