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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...

What you're saying is, the antitrust exemptions in the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. are allowed as a result of the collective bargaining process, whereas the PCSA seeks a similar exemption by circumventing the collective bargaining process. Is that correct?

Generally, yes. When we talk specifically about labor markets, all of the restraints that we see in labor markets of our professional sports leagues—the salary cap, the draft, the limits on player movement, every single one of them—to the extent that they're exempt from antitrust law, are the products of good-faith collective bargaining between the management group and the players group, and exist in a collective bargaining agreement that was reached through good-faith bargaining.

What is being proposed with the Protect College Sports Act is to establish the exact same types of labor restraints, specifically a salary cap, specifically a number of years of eligibility to compete in college sports, and specifically limits on transfers, but not to do so in collective bargaining where there are representatives in the room, on behalf of employer and employee, but rather through a legislative bill, which seems to be negotiated by a number of different constituent groups, none of which is a representative of the players in any meaningful sense, and absolutely none of which have been chosen and selected by the players as a union representative.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

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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slpr @sleeppoor.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

on one hand @defector.com is one of the only things i've ever paid for online that i never regretted & published some of the best blogs but on the other hand it's led to me getting emotionally invested in baseball for the first time since i was a child so it's impossible to say if it's good or evil.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Gandolfini is Italian for "son of Gandalf"

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#246 sun sphere in arcadia

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

the fmv point and click adventure protagonist 'power' stance

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem that we need to solve isn't rogue AI, it's that companies increasingly think they can just price crime into the business model and get away with it

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

music.youtube.com

Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

action therapist trailer 1-4

PANEL 1: Title screen for Action Therapist, "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy...By NIGHT"

PANEL 2: an ESRB rating of MATURE for Blood and Gore, Sexual Content, Attachment Issues

PANEL 3: A cab has pulled up to an airport arrivals terminal and Dr. Mariposa is getting in.

CABBIE: "All the way out to the university, eh? Well, it's your dollar, Mac..."

PANEL 4: The cabbie is driving Dr. Mariposa through the downpour.

CABBIE: "Did they ever find that famous professor lady who went missing up there?"

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is still in his dripping trenchcoat and being talked to by Dean Hondo, a heavyset duck with a beard and a coffee mug.

DEAN HONDO: "We're confident your...memory issues...won't keep you from a full load of case work."

PANEL 6:

DEAN HONDO: "Keep an eye on your Psy points. They can unleash special attacks and combos, but run out and you go nuts."

PANEL 1: a mockup of a video game screen. Dr. Mariposa stands in the foreground and Diane in the background in a building.

DIANE: "The police told me to take an ibuprofen and get over it..."

PANEL 2: the player, as Dr. Mariposa, is prompted to TALK

TALK: "Say more on that" 3 PSY
"That sounds like judgment." 5 PSY

PANEL 3: Diane is crying into her hands.

DIANE: "...Maybe you are the therapist who will break the terrible curse."

PANEL 4: Different view of a break room with stats for Dr. Mariposa. This area is called ADMIN BLDG BREAK ROOM and there are menu options to
MAKE COFFEE
MICROWAVE
BULLETN BOARD
DISH WASHER

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is in an aquarium talking to a different patient. Again the player is prompted to TALK: "Let's go deeper on that." 3 PSY
"You're being pretty hard on yourself." 10 PSY

PANEL 6: screenshot of a cinema scene where Dr. Mariposa is looking angrily at a pouncing astronaut

MYSTERIOUS ASTRONAUT: "You won't traverse the catacombs of my mind so easily, Doc!"

PANEL 1: Dr. Mariposa is standing in ruins under a purple sky and a wrong-looking moon. Its strange light shines on a pinkish lake. Crystal, a duck in a uniform from a restaurant is there.

CRYSTAL: "I'll tell you everything, but we can't tarry here..."

PANEL 2: The game interface shows a 24-hour pharmacy. Dr. Mariposa is a slightly higher level now but he has a CURSE status effect.

24 HOUR PHARMCY (NORTH)
* Fill scrip
* Develop photos
* Browse magazines
* Energy drinks

PANEL 3: Dr. Mariposa is talking to a shopkeeper in the faculty store. A flyer for a Walpurgis Night Sale 20% Off hangs behind him.

SHOPKEEPER: "I can only sell items to tenured faculty. You should publish a peer reviewed article!"

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in his underwear and his hair is messy. He's in his office. Diane is there and the sky is strange.

DIANE: "Maybe this CORN KEY x1 will be useful on your journey. It's been in my family for generations."

GOT CORN KEY x1

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is now talking to an astronaut in his office. The astronaut lays back on the couch in full spacesuit.

CMDR WALLACE: "We are building American pyramids on the moon, configured to strange geometries."

PANEL 6: Close up of a hand holding a book.

Text: "It's a paperback copy of Peter David's 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel 'Vendetta'"

PANEL 1: A spooky clocktower under a strange sky with an unsettling full moon. Bats are swooping around.

TEXT: "Maybe there's someone in the old clocktower who could benefit from talk therapy."

PANEL 2 : Game interface showing a treasure chest shaped like a corn on the cob.

TITLE: Hidden Corn Treasure Chest
Description: The small chest is shaped like a corn on the cob. It hums with a strange energy.

USE KEY:
* Office Key
* Corn Key
* Citadel Key
* Empty

PANEL 3: Panel from a cinema scene where Crystal the waitress is leaning in to confide to Dr. Mariposa.

CRYSTAL (here credited as only WAITRESS): "My mom tried to get me to go to therapy, but the therapist refused to talk about all the disappearances in town."

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in the clocktower at night. His flashlight is pointing at a nude woman, the Clocktower Hermit.

TALK:
* "That's black and white thinking." 3 PSY
* "Would you say that to a friend?" 18 PSY

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is digging through a filing cabinet in a dark basement.

DR. MARIPOSA: "These are all my old patient notes from before the accident! But ... what are they doing here?"

PANEL 6: White text on black.

PHYSICIAN

HEAL THYSELF

FAST.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

pls note the bats have been carefully depicted HANGING FROM THEIR LITTLE BRANCHES on this radial phylogeny (bats drawn by Fiona Reid, whose portfolio is here --> fionareid.ca)

section of the central bat phylogeny figure from this new bat phylogeny paper; the representative bat from each family is hanging from the taxon label by its little toesies

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have been looking at this for 30 minutes straight, there's so much info on it! I think I want to make it big enough that it's basically wallpaper for one wall of my office, take zoom calls in front of it

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Grateful to @peterhuestis.bsky.social for prompting me to look at original drawings by acclaimed cartoonist Winsor McCay in National Gallery of Art collection, including this stunner, "The Lamps of God," 1922. Look closely to see how McCay uses line to evoke light effects www.nga.gov/artworks/142...

Multi-panel comic strip showing various lighting effects, including from a lighthouse, the sun on the Earth, a man reading by lamplight, etc.

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing BASIC Adventure Programs for the TRS-80 (Frank DaCosta, 1982) (Source.)

The cover for a book, "Writing BASIC Adventure Programs for the TRS-80", by Frank DaCosta. The call text reads, "Create exciting computer games while you learn valuable new programming techniques!" A dragon curls around a TRS-80, taking a swipe at a knight who is standing on the keyboard, his sword raised to take a swing at the fearsome beastie perched on the monitor and disk drives.

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Bub 🏳️‍🌈 🐈 @bubotomy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

What exactly makes them atomic? 🤔

old box of ATOMIC RAZOR BLADES
micro-honed with a sharper edge

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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David Blatt @kopfstoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Since Zelda is trending, a friendly reminder how CRAZY good Katsuya Terada is. (1/3)

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Two Earthlings — John Brosio, 2009

Woman looking at the skull of the Tyrannosaurus Rex inside the display case in the museum

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 14/01/2026

watched Nausicaä for the first time last night

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Ollie @ordheist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hey guys, money has been pretty tight this month so if you haven’t already I’d be over the moon if you got a copy of my e-book! just 4 bucks, link is in my bío!

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My current art obsession is this round ass Godzilla by Mike Mignola. Plump but still menacing w/ that classic Mignola line and shape efficiency.

Illustration of a plump Godzilla with their mouth open towards the sky. A smoke surrounding them

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This black dragonfish (Idiacanthus sp.) was spotted at 527 meters (1,729 feet) in Monterey Bay. Black dragonfish are built for life in the darkness of the deep ocean. Their ultra-black skin helps them stay camouflaged from prey like fishes and crustaceans. 🐉🖤⁠

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slpr @sleeppoor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dead-eyed and creamy"

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

OK heavy duty dot supplies you need to chill there is no need to hit me with this level of existential anxiety on my morning commute

Sign in center says good morning... You're running out of time

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slpr @sleeppoor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

got those late night zoomies again! (very autistic chanting/mumbling combined with severe anxiety while pacing around in circles around the house over and over)

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

How did the USA become authoritarian? Two ways: Gradually and then suddenly.

Graph of incarcerated americans showing rise since 1920 and very sharp rise from 1980 at half a million up to two million

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hurf @superduperman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dear friends: 2026 is the year of the Swan Boy and that's no lie

Swan Boy is frolicking in a jester hat he found. This was the highlight of his month

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Always kind of thinking about Marisa Tomei's 3/4 length sleeve (?), mock neck (?), lightly shoulder-padded (?), floral catsuit from MY COUSIN VINNY so I sketched it.

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slpr @sleeppoor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the wood pieces on cheap flat-pack furniture now are cut to have no chill. edges and corners designed just rip chunks out of your shins, arms, hips, etc.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A classic 1973 Bruce Pennington cover to ‘Children of Tomorrow,’ by A. E. van Vogt.

A large, metal flying saucer hovers in a cloudy sky over a field of dry grass, while a boy and a girl run down a hill towards it.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And I'll say it now: more kids have grown up as readers thanks to Dolly than any amount of Harry fucking Potter.

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slpr @sleeppoor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"why can't I have no kids and trey money"

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Absolutely going to about the point here but even if you have zero interest in UFOs, folklore, the paranormal or just general high weirdness, this is an astonishing resource for graphic design inspiration god, I love zines...

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 23/08/2026

Sister Dot seems preoccupied again (1/2)

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The Man with the Getaway Ass @athodyd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" isn't an easy read but it's worth it because he proves over and over and OVER again how no matter how hard eugenicists rig it, they can never make a line of regression that proves any ethnicity is smarter than another

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Here are a few very nice moths I've met Clear wing moth Orange headed callima moth Raspberry pyrausta moth Plume moth #MothWeek

Close up photo of a clear wing moth on a daisy. It has transparent wings with an iridescent body, long curled antennae, and a strange little bristly poof at the tip of its abdomen

Photo of a moth standing on a white wall. The moth has an orange body and pale green eyes with bright pink wings bearing white stripes. The edges of the wings appear to have an orange fringe.

Photo of an extremely odd looking moth hanging off a leaf. The moth's wings are very long and narrow and point out perpendicular from its body, giving it an overall "T" shape. The legs are very long. The moth is an orange-brown color with some white stripes.

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Defector @defector.com · 23/08/2026

The fight to save the remarkable, upsetting murals of Maxo Vanka: defector.com/the-fight-to...

How did Vanka achieve that striking, pallid shade of green? As Naomi describes it, she's forced to be not just an expert on art history and religious iconography, but must also act as a pre-modern chemistry sleuth in order to figure out what Vanka used to create his bindings and colors in the vivid technicolor created with pre-industrial materials. There's no documented "recipe" for Vanka's paint that Ruiz can rely on, thus individual pieces must be tested to find the proper way to clean and conserve them. This can vary from piece to piece, even sometimes within pieces. "He's an artist, you know," Ruiz says, pointing to the dizzyingly high ceilings. "He's on his makeshift scaffolding up there, he's in the middle of painting Moses, and he's not going to climb all the way down. He's going to mix in what he has on hand."

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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