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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 21/07/2026

This Echinocereus expels tiny galaxies into the night air. Naughty flower left a tiny, invisible spine in my finger. I finally got it out after a month of minor agony. I did get a photo op out of it, though! #flowerphotography

Portrait of a UV-illuminated Echinocereus flower against a black background.

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Andris Kasparovics @sirdna.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Close up of showing the oxidation layer of a newly formed Bismuth crystal. #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #Photography

Close up photograph of the polychromatic structure of a bismuth crystal

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Andris Kasparovics @sirdna.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Close up of the ribbons surrounding the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA. #BlueSkyArtShow #Curve #Photography

Close up of the exterior curved metalwork of the Petersen Automotive Museum

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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 08/06/2026

I'm watching the Apple WWDC Keynote and like, we will never again know what is and isn't real. By Design.

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Andris Kasparovics @sirdna.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Just passed by the neighbors wild passion fruit vines, these blooms are so gracefully otherworldly. #wildflowerhour #stunday #photography

Close up photograph of a passion fruit flower in dappled sunlight.

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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This one. Right in the feels.

The crescent Earth setting in the Moon's limb, as seen by Artemis II.

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Andris Kasparovics @sirdna.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Hollyhock and friend. Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles. #wildflowerhour

Pink hollyhock flowers against a blue sky with a bee in mid flight.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It doesn't have to be the ideal thing, it doesn't have to be huge and splashy, it doesn't have to help millions of people, just pick ONE THING that will use your skills to help people and do it regularly. You will feel SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/11/2025

What’s the difference between an artist and a creator? “An artist is a self-directed artistic expressor” vs. “a creator is a self-directed market expressor”. (Wondering where I fit on the 4-quadrant graph…) [ystrickler.com]

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What’s the difference between an artist and a creator?

In 1973, experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton wrote a letter to MoMA that captures a paradox that still defines creative work today. The Museum of Modern Art had offered the filmmaker a retrospective of his work. However he was also told there would be “no money included at all” and it

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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

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Andris Kasparovics @sirdna.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Layers of rock at Point Dume beach resembling the ocean waves themselves. #texture #blueskyartshow #photography

Textured rock at Point Dume beach with layers of undulating wave patterns.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 16/05/2025

The more I dig into generative AI from the prospective of a retired person, the less I want to be involved, or make use of the tools. I want to focus on using my own model of the world to contribute to society for as long as possible.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Prof. Brian Cox

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/04/2025

stop the train please i would like to get off

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Gints Zilbalodis @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Thank you!

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Gints Zilbalodis @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Flow Away! With our Latvian team in LA!

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/02/2025

Feeling thankful for all the masculine role models I had as a kid

Mister Rogers and officer Clemmons soaking their feet in a kiddie pool

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Andris Kasparovics @sirdna.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here's my contribution for today, some molten Bismuth refractive abstract goodness! #photography #artfuldistraction

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/02/2025

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Good advice ⬇️

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