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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

--
[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having fun with a batch of new scale drawings for the upcoming book about prehistoric birds. :)

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, the Damiano trilogy! Those were lovely reads, and I also liked MacAvoy's "The Grey Horse" and "Tea with the Black Dragon" 🍵🐉

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of my favorites is "War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull. A high-stakes musical urban fantasy, set in Minnesota! (apologies in advance if this happens to be DCC, I'm not familiar with the acronym!)

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Alright everybody, time to text the teachers in your life. The fall semester is open at SkypeAScientist and we are ready to match classrooms, scout troops, library groups, and more with scientists! Tell the educators in your life, and send them to SkypeAScientist.com

A frog uses its comically long tongue to catch a fleeing fly and the words say “send this to a teacher” pointing right. Then under the tongue it says “Skype a scientist matches classrooms with scientists for free Q&As” and there’s a little pond scene with lily pads and spatterdock flowers and a rock with a snail on it and a salamander with the words get a match at Skype scientist.com

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Kate Avery @kateaveryart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Head’s up- big sale starting tomorrow night!! Loads of original art at crazy low prices!!

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 27/08/2026

"i have done my part", i say, proud and weary, gesturing at my carefully, painstakingly-tilled field of HTML elements and their accompanying CSS. "i have done my part, and the rest is in the gentle and calloused hands of god"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

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Ev_l0 @evl0.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Punk raccoon shouts his feelings! #furry #oc

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🚀 I made a little app for #webcomponents called CEM-to-CSV that creates a lil' spreadsheet to help with naming audits across your entire design system. It's all powered by your custom element manifest. Upload, drop, or paste your CEM today! cem-to-csv.netlify.app

Screenshot of the application showing a loaded custom elements manifest. There's a table with components, their attributes, their properties, and the default values.

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 05/08/2026

💡 CSS Tip! Save this code for the future. It's another way to create that famous breakout effect. A strange code, right? Learn how it works 👇 css-tip.com/breakout-bac... Until better support for border-shape, you will find another way using border-image.

Overview of the CSS code from the linked post

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/08/2026

The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Sehad tentacle lord @sehad.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@tbskyen.com Made a video commentating a few weeks back that it would be hilarious to see the Scooby scene being fully realized. I tried animating it in CSP. But when adding it into the "original" scene, it got some weird piece of color correction. No idea what that is about. Fun to do anyhow.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 28/06/2026

It's never easy to do something new and challenging, and it's even harder if you're used to being the expert or the best at something else. Why be unexceptional and struggle when you can stay where you are and enjoy praise and regard? To learn, we must feel comfortable feeling a bit stupid

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rufus⁷ @rufuss.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In case you, too, needed this today:

Op is novelconcepts: Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic / want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again.
You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I’m torn between "This is an impossible goal" and "But you *need* to do this to get back on your feet." So, marking the spot - currently at 1703 sales. If I can get 40 sales over the next 3 weeks, that should cover July rent *and* replace my dying laptop before I turn 40. oishiny.etsy.com #Goals

Large grey larvikite drop pendant wrapped in wavy silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.

Silver wirework spiral and green marbled beads pendant sitting in black and white gift box.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 19/06/2026

At the eve of the summer solstice, I pick seven different flowers, in seven different fields, all in complete silence. I tie them into a bouquet and put it under my pillow. Doing so means that tonight, I will dream of my true love. I already live with her, but I like dreaming of her too.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

well, here's a nice metaphor as we work on dreaming the next chapter after this one:

Tumblr post from weasselle arguing that Community should be run like a household not a business- focusing on keeping people safe and healthy rather than turning a profit

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Yikes -- hope that you and Marc can catch a break (and go home) soon!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Galapagos Octopus O what a Joye to us! Galapagos Octopus Do what you do! Raucous and Bumptious, Galapagos Octopus! Azure and Splendorous -- Tinye and blue!

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Scott Jehl @scottjehl.com · 18/05/2026

If you want to learn all about web components from a human then check this out: Web Components Demystified online course is $10 this week (it'll go back to the usual $25 deal after that). It's 8 hours of video lessons, or 4 if you listen at 2x, which wouldn't offend me at all. Use the code Just10.

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A comprehensive, premium course about building dynamic, fast, resilient apps with standard web components.

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Ethan @ethankomoroski.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Everyone’s calendars are filling quick but just wanted to give you a heads up

CROW PICNIC
Saturday May 30th, 1 PM
Harriet Bandshell Picnic Ground
• Exchange trinkets with fellow crow-lovers
• Dress in your best crowcore attire
• Receive a free crow T-shirt designed by a local artist Special message for our corvid attendees: CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW
# you come to the Crow Picnic and mimic a
Crow call so accurately that the Merlin Bird ID app thinks youre a real bird, I will Venmo you $100 on the spot.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WANT TO MISS THIS ONE!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

the love song of j. alfred prufrock the power ballad of j. alfred prufrock the country-western crossover hit of j. alfred prufrock espresso [remix] feat. j. alfred prufrock the love song (j. alfred prufrock's version)

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

the phrase "do it scared" has done so much for my mental health i cannot stress how lifechanging it is to realize: if you are scared of doing something (especially if it can be beneficial to you), you cannot wait for yourself to not be scared. it will always seem scary. you have to do it scared

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

DRIVE is an amazing story -- well worth the read, and the nomination well-deserved!

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is huge -- I will *not* miss calculating the sizes attribute on responsive images! `sizes="auto"`, here I come!

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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

“And what I think is so amazing about that is not only do you start to feel like you you are welcome in and belong in this place, the public library, but also you start to learn what it means to be part of a community. Because, let’s say you love Curious Georgebooks and you take out a Curious George book. You get the generosity of your society because it’s like “Here, take this Curious George book home, it’s free. Just bring it back and keep it in good shape. Don’t tear out the pages. Don’t write in it.” And you learn that you want to do that—not only because they tell you—but also because when you return it, you want to get the next Curious George book. And you realize that if the other kids in the community don’t return the book, or don’t take care of their books, you won’t be able to take it out. So, you learn mutual obligation and reciprocity from an early stage.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Yay, I’m not the only one who reads aloud to their partner (doing all the voices, of course)!

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

One of the most surreal skies I have ever witnessed, as vibrantly blue undulatus asperatus clouds rolled over the St. Mark's Lighthouse at sunset to create this dreamy scene. #Photography

A photo of a white lighthouse with a black top standing among green trees and palm plants during sunset. The sky features strikingly layered, wavy clouds with shades of blue and yellow.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“I'll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still... hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.” - Sharon K Penman

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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

When I saw this the first time I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe. It still hits me.

Assorted restaurant logos and names that are wrong:
DONKIN°
SBUBBY
DUNNTS®
AMURICA RUNN NO DUNDUN
eef freef:
BUBGER
TINKLE
WerDys
.D TAR
KONED
HURGUSBURGUS
KIRG
OUTSIDE
TACO
THE BINKLE. BACO
HAVE IT
IN A WAY
Applebapple's
Nehhborhor Grib & Bib
McNaldo's
filike the it"
INOOT-UT
BRUBGE
AA.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Flower goldfish 🐟🌸

16 goldfish on a light pink background.
It has fins shaped like flowers such as orchids, poppies, peonies, dahlias, iris, crocuses, roses, and freesia.

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Fact Walrus @factwalrus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

May thy tusk chip and shatter

Movie poster for Dune 3 but instead of Zendaya and some twink it's Walrus on a sandy, dusty, rusty background with the words Walrus: clams must flow

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Sherri Alexander @sherrialexander.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have an art joke, but it's definitely a little sketchy.

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Ryan McGovern @tekgadgt.dev · 07/03/2026

Watched March MadCSS and thought "what if we could do this every day?" So I built it. In a day. cssdaily.dev — a daily CSS challenge. Write CSS to match a target, get pixel-diffed in real-time. New challenge every morning. Scoring adapted from @wesbos.com and @tolin.ski's open-source SynHax.

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CSS Daily - A Daily CSS Challenge

A daily CSS challenge - like Wordle, but for CSS!

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