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Cryptina @uluvlucy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Breakfast fortune is eerily on schedule

A paper fortune from a fortune cookie that says "Your Thursday will be filled with positive surprises." Today is Thursday and we received these cookies last night so the day accuracy is spooky.

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

cat in an anger basket

large gray and white short hair cat sitting in a beige belly basket looking cranky

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy 1st day of #Whistober, a thing I made up! Because why not? Everything is chaos anyway 😭😂 Today's sketch was inspired by an idea by @gettoknownature.bsky.social to do a #TickTockTober drawing animals as clocks. Only owls can understand this clock but only they need to know this kind of time 👀

Digital sketch in white ink against a black background of a whimsical looking owl staring out at the viewer. It is perched on a thin branch and has a round structure in its exposed belly that evokes a clock without numbers or traditional hands. There are six swirling orbs surrounding it and it has an orb-like crown at the top of its head between two fluffy feather horns.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ganymede 05-08-97 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/s9w2mk

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Mel 🍂🍄 @thequietplace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pinch, punch it’s the first day of spooky month! 🥳🎃🖤 so here’s some dark but lovely plants to welcome in October 🌱

The silver and black foliage of a Heuchera

The black and purple foliage of a Heuchera

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026

Can't work, have a cat on me, could be here all day

Spice the cat, laying on my legs whilst I am in bed, looking out the window

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

September was a fantastic reading month for me! #sff #horror Enjoyed books by: @coyhall.bsky.social @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social @pemryjanes.com @kristalstittle.bsky.social @mererain.bsky.social @polenth.bsky.social Readers can check out my full reviews at: www.helenwhistberry.com/blog

Graphic of six book covers: Devilry in Godling Wood by Coy Hall showing a mounted figure with 3 faces and dagger on a strange horse pig hybrid rearing over a dragon like figure with long tail; The Stars Will Be Our Ocean by Lizzie Blackwood showing a humanoid figure and alien with shark like features floating or dancing in space; Unsaved by Pemry Janes showing a robot wearing a cowboy hat and long duster holding a gun and sitting on a fallen mech head in front of a red sky and white sun or moon. Kayak by Kristal Stittle showing a view from above of an orange kayak and paddler moving through blue water between green islands. Come Away Again by Mere Rain showing a person standing with back to viewer in a misty forest, surrounded by glittering lights. Wereconifer by Polenth Blake showing a hand-drawn pine tree with round colored lights.

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Sofiimagines @sofiimagines.bsky.social · 23h

A couple of shots from the garden this morning. The plants are just loving the weather we've been having recently and I'm keeping my fingers crossed the frost comes late this year! 🌱 #gardening #flowers #inmygarden #dahlias #zinnias #marigolds #sage

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23h

Saturn - nIR False Color - September 18 2007 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2ji7nmT

Processed using calibrated near-infrared (MT2, CB2) filtered images of Saturn taken by Cassini on September 18 2007. Data was downlinked with lossy compression. Rightmost tip of the rings has been filled as a copy of the left side due to data cut-off.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 23h

Florence Pugh photographed by Daniel Jackson for Tudum Magazine. 📷 #FlorencePugh #Tudum

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Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 23h

Here's Begonia 'Steve's Leaves Overspray', a Rhizomatous type of hybrid Begonia. Dark green leaves w/ a light spotting of micro sized white dots & purple centers/margins. Undersides w/red edge. Blooms: n/a, likely pink or white. Origin: Josh Brynell, Lewisville, TX. Likes extra humidity.🌱 #begonias

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CindyM: NeuroDivergent AuTist, MicroBloggin' @cindym.bsky.social · 23h

Reading of how pornography and, what I'm using right now? are cousins? is among the most disturbing things I have been reminded of, recently. But gives me more insight; I am a collector of insights even if I don't want them! because it explains another giant gap in my understanding of modern life.🧑‍🌾

trying to capture this Sunrise from my backyard this morning yielded mixed results. a palm growing out of a darkened roof of a ranch house. South Mountain Park communication towers are on red Rocky Hills in the distance. sunrise

Pre Sunrise image of a closing night blooming cactus flower Peruvian Cereus cactus
open to the size of a dessert plate. it has peach colored teeples which are not petals but are where petals would be around the creamy colour flower. you can see the golden pollinated interior which is enjoyed By Night creatures like bats and pollinators like birds and bees.

kind of a dreamy scape desert scape in the pre-dawn hours
a Texas sage which has been severely cut back has purple flowers blooming upon its flattened top; in the distance is a heavily clouded sky and desert plants growing on a gravel ground.

this stump came with this home
it has been embellished with many found items and is actively used by animals in the yard to for example hide from the dog.

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CindyM: NeuroDivergent AuTist, MicroBloggin' @cindym.bsky.social · 23h

The Great Social experiment, Social Media? Has been studied, good notes have been taken, is worth reading about! I was reminded in a piece yesterday, about porno'graphy and Internet. How the two are inextricably linked, due to Algorithm to Get a quick Hit of? What strokes Your Personal Dopamine🫡.🌱

the moon as it appeared in the sky
in the northern Sonoran desert Suburban Phoenix Foothills
a partial Moon cloudless Blue sky as seen through jacaranda tree

the Moon as it appeared to me this morning at Sunrise above South Mountain Park between the Oleander and jacaranda growing in my yard. the Moon looks like a white dot in Blue sky .the sun rising looks like burnished Orange in the distance, with palm trees popping up. the rocky area of South Mountain looks like orange Rock.

back to the topic of what strokes my personal dopamine get a load of that perfectly blue sky with painter like clouds. this is a dividing wall in the Suburban Northern Sonoran Desert of Phoenix Foothills. at the base of the wall are purple vinca and on the wall are three kinds of vines including one in desperate need of attention which I did today and have not yet photographed.

yes my algorithm is mostly stroked by Nature 🏞️

my front yard 2 days ago as the skies were clearing post storms and a single night blooming flower which looks like a dinner plate sized water lily of white and golden interior? upon a tall spiny cylindrical cactus as seen through the Baja California fairy duster with light illuminating it.

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CindyM: NeuroDivergent AuTist, MicroBloggin' @cindym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I commune with 🌿nature🫡. It has always been a tonic, ever moreso as I age. I do best everyday if I can get outside to "interact with something else that isn't computer or human." *Yes, good humans and animals exist outside too!; 2 of them walked past as I was snapping flowers and 🐝, good morning!🌱

a Vine growing on the wall
a white person's hand holds a single trumpet bloom on this cross vine. the trumpet flower is an antique Rose with deep golden Center. just before sunrise in the northern Sonoran Desert of the Phoenix Foothills

I got up way too early this morning
that is the sunrise behind the block wall below that it is still kind of dark
a tangerine cross vine
the trumpet flowers have varieties of orange yellow red colors and they are on a 5-ft block wall in the Suburban Sonoran Desert

attempting a shot of a single night blooming flower on
the Peruvian night bloomer
Sunrise behind it blowing out the shot. also some pretty red feathered looking flowers of a Baja California fairy duster peeking
through the tall spiny, columnar cactus

silhouettes of European starlings
on a leafless tree
against a pre sunrise
cloudy sky
in the northern Sonoran Desert
agricultural zone 9B

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CindyM: NeuroDivergent AuTist, MicroBloggin' @cindym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morn' from dark, soggy NorthSonoran Desert Phoenix Foothills 👋. Unedited📷 The dance of light this time of year is fun! Trying to get a capture before it shifts? Usually my AGZone9B light's quite static--zero clouds, long days of ever-present☀️-shine. Diminished light is a fleeting🎁🌱 European⭐🪶

hummingbird against a full cloud background on a leafless moringa tree branch

deep blue sky and heavy clouds in a Suburban Northern Sonoran Desert ranch home subdivision a cluster European starlings sing from a leafLess branch of an evergreen tree in my neighbor's yard.

European starlings on leafless branches of an evergreen tree in my neighbor's yard, silhouetted by palm trees and a blue cloudy morning sunrise in the Northern Sonoran Desert Phoenix Foothills

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh dear, I am tempted to respond to a person with Influence In Birding who has a belittling, dismissive thread on here but then I’d give them more attention. ARG! Also it may be on purpose to provoke people? Which has definitely worked on me. Posting an awesome bird instead. (Ruddy Duck) #birds 🌿

A small, extremely adorable brown duck floats in lightly rippling blue water.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ganymede 1997-02-21 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/s9nXj7

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

My editor is clearly expecting words in the manuscript this morning. I must oblige her.

Spice the cat, sitting on my desk, looking judgy.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 29/09/2026

The teasel has stopped flowering. Quick, cut it down! Why? What’s it going to do? Steal the car? Kidnap the kids? Leave it standing. It still looks fantastic, it’ll make a great silhouette on a frosty winter morning — and, as this goldfinch demonstrates, the seeds are food. #gardening #gardenSky

A goldfinch feeds from a teasel seedhead in winter

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think this might be my favorite photo in my collection. It's the one I picture being on the cover of a book if I ever make one someday. The light, her face, the way she's supporting the kitten so lovingly. ❤️ No date/info.

black and white photo of a light skinned woman with curly hair wearing a plaid dress, sitting with sunlight coming in from the left. She is holding up a shorthaired tabby kitten.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Enceladus - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/boZRzv

Cassini NAC R+B color view taken on 2011-01-31. The top 1/4th of the image was colorized based on the rest of the image due to missing data for the red channel. The crescent was slightly overexposed in both filters. South pole is roughly at the 6:30 o'clock position.

Distance: 81 000 km
Phase angle: 155 deg

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026

Reverse-engineered from the beloved cookie at City Bakery, Julia Moskin’s Peanut Butter Sandies are made to melt in your mouth. nyti.ms/4e09Ai7

New York's Cult Favorite Peanut Butter Cookie

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Greek myth, Orion fell in love with the Seven Sisters. To escape, they prayed to Zeus, who transformed them into doves and flung them into the sky, forming the Pleiades, aka the "Seven Sisters". app.astrobin.com/i/rrqtf9 #astrophotography #astronomy #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 29/09/2026

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.059 (lookback time 819.8 million years) with coordinates (202.05340, 53.91171). 45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 45 volunteers.

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wider shot of Helianthus microcephalus covered in blooms covered in #bees & other #pollinators. Not species I ordered & chainlink is maybe 4’ tall so she’s not smol but very upright. Be brave & plant big #NativePlants in small places! #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

A towering mass of tiny yellow flowers and so many buds that it will go on until frost even if that isn’t until November. Probably 6-8’ tall but blooms all the way down and pollinators are in love.

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Beautiful weather for #NativePlants #SundayYellow! This late blooming Helianthus microcephalus means even later seeds for our #birds friends as fall goes on. Mr. CMG saw 1st visit from Lincoln Sparrow on our Amaranth this week too! #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

Bright sunshine yellow composite blooms—small but endless.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ESP_019362_1670 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/T9QWwV

Terrain in the Coprates Region

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (Sept 2010, 264 km above the surface, 5 km across; www.uahirise.org/ESP_019362_1670)

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Roses are incredible in the way they can transform. One bloom, 24 hours apart. It’s pure magic! #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

Rosa ‘Mardi Gras’ fresh and unfurling in deep orange-red and bright gold-orange.

24 hours later, the same bloom in soft strawberry and butter yellow wide open for #pollinators.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026

Cat break.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 08/09/2026

Very unusually for me, I have taken myself out to have lunch.

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Museum Objects @museumobjects.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Small vase (19th century) Creator: Chinese 🏛️ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object 460679) #MuseumObjects #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt #TheMet

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Ben Higbie @benhigbie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'X-Men vs. Mr. Sinister : Descent into the Generator' acrylic #painting on canvas, made by myself, available; msg me if interested--- #art #arts #comicbooks #comicbookart #comicbook #illustration #paintings #xmen #marvel #marvelcomics #geek #nerd #geeks #nerds #artist #artists #artsky #superheroes

a painting of eight members of the x-men jumping down from the blackbird above, the sky purple and gold, a large laboratory at the top, mr. sinister is at the bottom with his arms crossed, streaks of red and white energy surrounding him

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's a silly little drawing for today's #SciArtSeptember and the theme of #ruby red forg :)

Stylized digital drawing of a red frog sitting on a green leaf against an abstract blue background that suggests splashing water.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NGC4294 - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2shUoRN

A JWST Treasury Survey of the Virgo Cluster

#NGC4294
Ob: 2026-06-07
PI: Weisz, Daniel R
NIRCAM 277 150 115

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/09/2026

🔥 Tickets are going fast for this rare @Negativlandland.bsky.social live performance in San Francisco! Don’t miss Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive, a one-of-a-kind evening at the Internet Archive. 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 08/09/2026

A clumpy galaxy in a merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GOODS-S-FULLDEPTH survey. It is at redshift 0.74 (lookback time 6.73 billion years) with coordinates (53.05211, -27.74857). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.