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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 14h

Sagittarius: It's important to look after your emotional health. If you feel the need to dissolve into a puddle of goo and loose bones, just go for it. You deserve to be happy.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s a lie in a molten state under the ceiling fan sort of #caturday here in CA.

A tabby cat named Merlin splays out on a Gray sofa, his head hanging off the edge of the cushion. All 4 feet and his tummy are visible being caressed by the gentle breeze from ceiling fan out of view.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“‘Learning happens as a consequence of cognitive processing. Cognitive processing is typically effortful, & that’s what AI effectively removes,’ says cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham at UVA. ‘People are really worried about that’.”🧪

“And science - in which people need to critically evaluate theories and data - is one important area that's under threat from the Al revolution in large language models (LLMs). "There is a risk that students outsource precisely the activities through which scientific thinking develops: formulating hypotheses, interpreting evidence, considering alternatives and struggling with uncertainty," says Thomas Nygren, who studies education and critical thinking at Uppsala University in Sweden.”

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m in an Apple store with a live demo of “AI” features and hoooooooly sh!t do the photo features look like garbage. “Reframe” your photo with “AI”? Yeah, you can tell. “Extend” the background with slop? Instantly spotted. Sorry for posting so much, I’m about to hand over my phone for repair.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finance: Why are you buying so many snack size Ziploc bags for lab? Shouldn’t this be an office expense? Me: Uhhhh, no? They’re great disposable germination domes for plant experiments to prevent cross-contamination 😂

A shiny-interior grow tent is filled with almost 100 small black plastic pots with soil inside. Each one is covered with a clear snack sized Ziploc bag. A person wearing a white lab coat and blue nitrile gloves is using a hose on a stick to water individual plants.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is what my colleague’s “AI” analysis thought would make a great soluble liquid product. It doesn’t photograph well, but this is an unsurprising, black, congealed mass of horribleness. I’m not sure there even is any free solution. Chemistry jobs remain provably safe from LLMs. #chemchat

a glass scintillation with a white cap vial filled with a black congealed mass of gunk

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oof, had a dream last night that I left my current startup job to go back for a second postdoc and had to explain how my background and years-old proposals fit into the research program of a PI younger than me.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OK, fine. I will scroll and post with just my left hand Morgana

A black cat named Morgana rests her head on the cameraman‘s right forearm, pinning it in place

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

pyr reviewed research 🧪 now available as a print! www.inprnt.com/gallery/byel...

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026

Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best!

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My hot (lukewarm?) take: In an age of growing inequality, we need exponentially-scaling penalties, rather than linear ones. Most fines are a rounding error to the top 1%. No statutory $ X per violation. We need $ Y for the first, doubling every subsequent lifetime violation. *Bury* the scofflaws.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 Save the ANS! On September 1st, Drexel University made the announcement that they plan to permanently close the Academy of Natural Sciences; the oldest natural history museum in all of the Americas The Plan To Destroy America's Oldest Natural History Museum🏺🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...

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The Plan To Destroy America's Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I didn't know anything about X so I asked chatGPT." You still don't know anything about X. You have read what a sophisticated summary-generating tool predicts as the answer to your question. You have no critical insight, no direct experience, no awareness of the underlying evidence. Stop talking.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

i wish the astronomy community would go back to using "machine learning" to talk about machine learning instead of saying "AI" all the time to try and suck up to the feds

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The motorist community needs to clean up its act, especially if drivers expect taxpayers to keep building car lanes.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday snugglies with Morgana. How it started:

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone who just refilled three 10L DI carboys today in advance of a big experiment setup tomorrow… I feel seen

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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cityplanneractual.bsky.social @cityplanneractual.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

add dams, aqueducts, bridges, schools... all the people who voted for Prop 13 did the math and figured out that they would only wear out from lack of upkeep right as the voters were dying of old age it's why we need repeal and retroactive gains expropriation NOW, while they're alive to pay.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SPUR’s new report details how catastrophic it will be for Bay Area transit riders if the public transit funding Measure RTM fails. But drivers will feel it too, w an estimated doubling of Bay Bridge crossing times and more than 3X longer through the Caldecott Tunnel. www.spur.org/sites/defaul...

“The Bay Area's Top Three Highway Bottlenecks After Potential Transit Cuts
The Bay Bridge, Caldecott Tunnel, and I-680 in Walnut Creek/Concord would experience some of the most significant travel delays in both directions if looming cuts to transit service are not prevented.
Bay Bridge
+33
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+43
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
Caldecott
Tunnel
+20
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+27
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
1-680
(Walnut Creek/Concord)
+15
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+20
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK”

“EXHIBIT 4
Traffic Delays at Most
Current Highway
Bottlenecks Would
Double With Proposed
Transit Service Cuts
Line and station closures and reduced service frequency would compel transit users to drive, worsening current highway bottlenecks.
Source: SPUR-Jacobs.”

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My uncle observed that I’ll be turning 40 soon (rude) and he’s excited to celebrate that milestone (laudatory).

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A solid slate, check it out:

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why must work always cut short the best part of my day? #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky #Mondays

A black cat named Morgana occupies the cameraman’s lap, her legs extended parallel to the arm embracing her.

a black cat named Morgana snuggles in the cameraman’s lap & uses her human’s arm as a pillow

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Classic chemistry films... #chemsky @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

A parody of the movie "Corvette Summer". it is a movie poster that says "Cuvette Summer". The stars, Mark Hamill and Annie Potts are standing on a cuvette as opposed to a corvette.

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Sam Gould @form67.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know AC Transit reliability has been bad recently, but this is just unacceptable @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I had leftover caramelized onions that were going to go into a quiche last night, but after grating the cheese and cutting the tomatoes, I realized there was no room for custard. So it became a tart! #ChemistsWhoCook

A round pie crust is filled with have tomatoes, each tiled in an attractive arrangement with their cut sides, spiraling around the pie

The same pie crust filled with cooked tomatoes after baking lightly brown around the edges with white Gruyere cheese, bubbling up in between the tomato slices

A slice of the tomato and caramelized onion tart, showing the history at the bottom, then the brown layer of caramelized onions, then the white layer of cheese, and then the red tomatoes on top

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My dentist uses a “AI” assistant that KEEPS FORKING RESCHEDULING MY APPOINTMENTS to other locations at the same time instead of the office which is 2 blocks from my apartment. Can we please burn down the datacenters already?

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I finished my coffee and was *about to* get up to start my day, but Morgy decided that she wanted computer laps for #caturday so here we are an hour later.

A top down view of the cameraman’s lap sitting at a desk with a black keyboard and empty coffee cup. Snuggled into his lap is a black cat named Morgana.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m very fortunate that my cat came with her own cat (from birth even!), so I accomplished #1 & #2 in one go

A tabby cat named Merlin is curled up on a sofa, his black sister curled the same way just over his shoulder.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Things that are worth spending your money on: 1. a cat 2. a cat for your cat

Jinx the green eyed tabby bobtail cake displaying her awesome long whiskers and bright green eyes

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Welp, when you go to estimate %recovery for a method and find that it’s *analytically zero*, I think that’s a sign to head home early.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gods it is depressing how much more money LLM companies are paying their employees than I (or my regular software friends) make, especially since they seem to have discovered that being near BART in Oakland is closer to DTSF than most of SF is, and prices have started to move accordingly…

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the real toxic cult.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@bikeeastbay.bsky.social opposes Prop 45, which would ease environmental reviews for freeway widenings, among other things. Bike, walk, & transit projects already have CEQA exemptions. Prop 45 isn’t the CEQA reform we need, vote NO. Read more at: BikeEastBay.org/election2026

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Bike the Vote to Win a Better Bay Area - Bike East Bay

Bike the Vote Help win a more bike-friendly Bay Area this election season. This November’s election will be critical for protecting the future of safe and equitable mobility both here […]

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 16/09/2026

hey I heard you like sankey diagrams that show huge populations making terrible decisions

A very complicated Sankey diagram showing the usage of electricity in the United States. Or the left are sources of energy and on the right are consumers, so, for example, nuclear is on the left and residential is on the right. Petroleum dominates.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing ChatGPT ads about Olds having chatty convos with the voice to text feature to help them do stuff on their phone and every single use case is just a thing you used to be able to just google before AI ruined Google

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 16/09/2026

Had a dream about Dia de los Gatos, the night when black cats transition between worlds and speak with the cats of your ancestors. On this night only do cats reveal their secret patterns and allow humans paint them white like a skeleton, which becomes their assumed form on the other side.

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe an underappreciated aspect of bus lanes, but BOY HOWDY would I love if bus lanes came with a pavement standard. The faster buses move, the bigger the impact of pavement on rider experience. The 38R at full-speed in a dedicated lane shakes so bad it’s almost impossible to read a book!

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think I missed the BART stickers for today’s celebration of transit, but in consolation I got an awesome 38R driver who is absolutely laying on the horn with a zero-tolerance policy for idiot drivers in the bus lane. So there’s that!

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Said incumbent just sat through a big item about the reliability crisis at AC Transit and *spoke not a single word*! He does not care about you. He does not do the work. He is stained by scandal and he is out there lying about it. Make a better choice! @valencia4actransit.bsky.social! Yes on RTM!

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Gas is $7 a gallon? I had no idea” starter pack

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The latest cat trap is working flawlessly. Merlin never stood a chance #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky

A tabby cat named Merlin sits in a box that is almost the perfect size for him. The box is on the wood floor in the middle of a hallway next to a green doormat. Merlin is staring at the camera with a vacant look, seemingly confused about this state of affairs.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes the WAR ON WALKING results in no sidewalks at all. Sometimes they put “something” in — but does that really make things walkable for anyone except those without any other choices? The #WARonWALKING takes many forms, but it’s always about making things comfortable for vehicles, not people.

Image of a wide concrete overpass with a huge truck travelling dangerously close to a thin, uncomfortable looking concrete “sidewalk.” The text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Tagline at the bottom says the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth #WarOnCars

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