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TODAY, MY FRIEND MAZE AND I ARE NOT GOING TO LOOK OUTSIDE!!!! in the hit videogame LOOK OUTSIDE.... Video Game. For the Laptop. IT'S MY FIRST TIME SEEING THIS GAME COME AND HANGOUT!!!! twitch.tv/nekolacey

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 1h

Arms up if you love octopuses! 🐙🙋 #WorldOctopusDay⁠ ⁠ Deep-sea organisms use a variety of ways to swim. Most cephalopods, like this gliding Benthoctopus sp., have the ability to move by jet propulsion. This one was observed pulsing its arms and jetting gracefully through the water.

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Grace Kraft - ButchBlueBird 🔜 ASC ’26 @gracekraft.bsky.social · 6h

Happy International Lesbian Day! Consider supporting me (a lesbian) by buying my comics (about lesbians) Available both digitally and physically! You can read it all here! #ButchBunTigerDyke #FurryArt #art #InternationalLesbianDay

"ButchBun & TigerDyke Issue #1"

An ink painting of Aster (ButchBun) looking up at Lily (TigerDyke) who's leaning against a wall and towering over Aster with a friendly expression.

"By Grace Kraft"

Text reads: ButchBun & TigerDyke Issue #2 by Grace Kraft

Lilly leans over the weight bar as she smiles and looks down at Aster who is lying down on the weight bench, looking up at Lily in return and blushing

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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 8h

it's spooky season! have you picked up my nebula award-winning book? it's a spooky queer tween fantasy novel about a girl who can see ghosts on an adventure with her sister, a dragon and a ghost. 🌈📚 #IndieBooks #fantasy #kidlit #booksky books2read.com/u/b6J2E0 vriccithode.itch.io/the-young-ne...

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @office-anomaly.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

happy lesbian visibility week, gang :) #ScoobyDoo

illustration of velma dinkley flying the lesbian flag

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Bow🌈✨ (Vgen) @bowdraws.bsky.social · 8h

Repost for #InternationalLesbianDay ! ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 8h

Coconut Octopuses (Amphioctopus marginatus) are known to use tools. They will carry around shells in order to deploy them as a mobile shelter. It's nice to have some armour when you're a soft and squishy mollusk They also are known to sometimes walk around on two limbs. Take that Plato! #OCTOtober

A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) sitting in a horizontal bivalve shell on the sea floor, and it is lifting the top half of the shell with one arm. The octopus looks very annoyed, and is staring at the camera. The octopus is a dark brownish red, with light orange on the bottom of its arms and white suckers. The inside of the shell is white, and the outside of the shell has dark red or orange stripes alternating with white ridges.

A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) inside a glass bottle trying to pull in a crab it has caught, but the crab is too big. The octopus has its arms outstretched and grabbing the sides of the bottle. The octopus is off white with some dark brown through its eyes. A lot of its suckers have a light blue tinge. There is a bivalve shell in the bottle. The crab is larger than the octopus. It appears to have a crack in its shell, probably where the octopus bit it. It is facing away from the camera. Its left arms and a small part of its body are pulled into the bottle. It has a mottled batter on its body with some blue at the ends of its arms. The sea floor is sandy.

A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) hiding in a glass jar lying in the seabed. The photo is taken facing the opening. The octopus is sticking its head and the top of its arms out of the jar. The suckers are clearly visible and the octopus is giving puppy dog eyes. The rest of its arms and body is in the jar.

A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus trying to leave its collection of shells for a larger shell, which contains another coconut octopus. The first octopus is exposed, and is straddling between the two sets of shells. The original set appears to be three, smallish shells. Two arms are reaching into the new shell. The octopus is purple, with little beige bits breaking up the purple. Its sucked are visible. Its mantle is round. The second octopus is is sitting in two, large mismatched shells. It is quite snug, with its suckers holding on to both shells. It is purple, with a lavender colour around the eyes and white around the suckers.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13h

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson tells Dems caving on trans rights: "You’re doing too much and getting too little. You don’t have to sacrifice any member of our community to win.” www.advocate.com/politics/ele...

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Human Rights Campaign president to Dems caving on trans rights: ‘You’re doing too much and getting too little’

“You don’t have to sacrifice any member of our community to win,” Kelley Robinson told reporters as she outlined HRC’s $15 million midterm investment.

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Fawnduu🐮🔜 Big Chillin @fawnduu.com · 8h

Happy lesbian day to lesbians who snore

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Lou 👻🎃 Comms open @pikaxiu.bsky.social · 6h

happy lesbian day! here’s some reposts of my girls! #witchygirlfriends #internationallesbianday

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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 7h

the lexicon of comicana by mort walker is THE text

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Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social · 20h

I've just learned that Freeplay has removed me as a sponsor for Parallels due to an accusation from a speaker that I am a "zionist". Where did the speaker get this idea? Because Unpacking was included in a listicle in an online Jewish publication a few days ago. I didn't even know about the article.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Siphonophore — the grizzly bear of squishy things. ROV pilots recorded this footage at 1589 meters during the 2025 #AsgardArchaea expedition in the deep waters of Uruguay. (Sound on to learn more.)

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 6h

🦑 Meet Planctoteuthis sp.! 🦑 According to #SamplingGap Co-chief sci Dr. Perez: “Images have finally enabled the description of this tail, but no one knows what it is used for. It looks like a siphonophore from a distance, and one hypothesis is that it could be used for siphonophore mimicry.”

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 8h

New Merch Alert!! Fish. The ocean's full of 'em. And protecting the ocean is a global job, so we better learn the word for fish in as many languages as we can fit on a tote bag. Support @skypeascientist.bsky.social by getting a *sturdy* tote bag with a zipper (with a zipper!!!) at SquidFacts.net

4 freak-ass fish illustrated on a tote bag. We got a barreleye, a mola mola, a gulper eel, and a viperfish

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 16h

The event all Minoan scholars have been waiting for - World Octopus Day 🐙

Minoan vessel with spout, featuring a slightly stunned-looking and highly stylised painted octopus rendered in dark brown on cream.

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Ale @alepresser.com · 5h

The chubby one there is playful, but really quiet. The problem is this other asshole there, that not only runs faster and louder, prrreeows* at every move. * y'know that meow that has a purr mixed up? That's the one.

Two calico cats in a small bathroom. A chubby one is laying on the mat, a slimmer one is standing with her back to the camera. They're both adorable.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12h

A shy Squirrel of the Day for October 8, 2026 #sqrlpix

gray squirrel peering out from tree, partially hidden

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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 4h

Reminder: for the fourth year in a row in 2027, I’ll be introducing the budget amendment to end the data center sales tax exemption, which the Senate of Virginia adopted earlier this year though we couldn’t get it through conference. We need a moratorium on data centers, not tax giveaways to them.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 6h

given Annie Andrews' recent anti-trans ad, gonna re-up this recent essay/🧵:

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Nat 🌷 @fairyqrtz.bsky.social · 4h

I love being a Lesbian!! ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 #art #lesbianart

Illustration of a woman with long brown hair, glasses, and a star shaped pendant. She's wearing a ruffled green tank with white flowers, a denim jacket, and black leggings. She holds the lesbian flag behind her with a winking smile. The background has a soft pink wash, pink hearts, and the words "HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY!" in pink writing.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 4h

Oh happy Lesbian day I'm Lesbians

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Jenn Rostowsky🌸(Hiatus) @jennrostowsky.bsky.social · 8h

Happy International Lesbian Day! ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 Reposting an older comic of mine, but I'm still so happy I'm lesbian. #wlw

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beverlylove / Bev Johnson @bevsi.bsky.social · 7h

happy lesbian day

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 13h

Nancy 10/8/26 “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 10… the epic conclusion

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what in the hell are you doing

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/10/2026

Looks like the Democratic candidate for US Senate in South Carolina, Annie Andrews, is pro-sports bans and pro-surgery bans for youth, which include top surgery and which have even been interpreted to include blocker and hormone implants. She's the latest anti-trans dem.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it’s a reference to this fritzi drawing i did :)

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/10/2026

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Magdaloween! 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 07/10/2026

almost every single trans creative i know is struggling. almost every trans creative i know can't find any goddamn work. almost every trans creative i know has watched opportunities evaporate.

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Cagle Cats @caglecats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Chanterelle: *exists* Me: ooooogh aaaa oogh I can't handle it ouhhhh

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

get along little doggie? no, get 2.

two little brown dogs in cowboy hats and hawaiian shirts are staring expectantly at you

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 07/10/2026

Good morning, Bluesky! I am the Squirrel of the Day for October 7, 2026 #sqrlpix

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George @hannahtempler.com · 07/10/2026

her sky bunker! her palace! her throne!

my cat in a hammock very high up on the wall looking down at the camera

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Cagle Cats @caglecats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All four of them~~

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, Mario never criticizes the player for underperforming and tries to be understanding and supportive. According to Charles Martinet, that was his initiative, as he felt being negative would go against the core principles of Mario's character.

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, even if the player does badly or underperforms compared to previous attempts, Mario will try to be understanding instead of critical:
Uh-oh, that wasn't quite as fast as the last time.
Hmm, are your fingers getting tired? Mine would be by now... if I had any. (laughs)
Charles Martinet, speaking at TooManyGames Convention 2021:
I got this marvelous opportunity to do Mario Teaches Typing. And when I got the script and I'm in the studio - I'm reading the script for the first time, there were things like "You failed!"
"That wasn't very good." "That was much worse... that was bad."
And I was reading that and I said, "Do you mind if I just, like, play with these words a little bit and just change them around?" because, you know, I never say "no" and I never say anything negative as Mario... and the producer graciously said "Sure, go for it!"
And so it became "Oh, that was good, but I know you can do even better!" "Oh, nice one but let's try again!" so it was always uplifting and always trying to be positive. And I think that that is the essence of the character to me - it's that love and that joy.
Source: transcript of speech found at youtube.com/watch?v=k9RywNQXCUM

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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm surprised at how nice these floating platforms ended up looking on first try

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/10/2026

It happens every #BannedBooksWeek. No, you don't wish your book were banned.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The bit where the mice all put on their sunglasses, perfection

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