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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 03/10/2026

A tiny sunrise for you! Tisha Mark ©2026, Tiny Dream by the Sea No. 2606, oil on cradled panel, 3"x3" This one-of-a-kind original tiny seascape oil painting is available: tishamark.com/product/tiny... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Photo of a hand holding an original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Tiny Dream by the Sea No. 2606" oil on cradled panel, 3"x3" (2026). This seascape painting has orange cloud formations in a bright blue sky over a dark sea on the right meeting a shore on the left that is reddish brown with bits of green. There is much texture throughout the painting.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never assume that just because people hate something that you love, they MUST be ignorant or not understand it.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Now that I think about pond trolls, the pond trolls are amphibians. This means that they must be born from spawn like a frog. Maybe initially they are tadpoles and they gradually grow into trolls.

photo of a troll miniature with writing which reads Glumfry the Pond Troll Available Now!

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m @cowboyadjacent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"create an account to continue" oh my god just fucking kill me

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Sound of Azure @soundofazure.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the keyboard enthusiast in your life (printing instructions included): youtu.be/DAn34l_YrUM?...

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Gboard くるくるバージョン

YouTube video by Google Japan

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Skinnie Talls @skinnietalls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even if you've only done the Macarena once, you're still a carrier

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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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Sound of Azure @soundofazure.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aussie ratings board is going to pitch a fit

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

i wrote about the rule my friend and i have: we call each other to cry and scream and rend our garments in moments of agony, but at the end of every such conversation, we have to tell each other a joke www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...

To feel pain in an appropriate moment for it—to ache with angry sympathy for a young woman's suffering, in this case—is to be seduced just a little. You know you're right to be sad and enraged. You don't want to let any of it go after you've acknowledged it. That's your sadness and rage, righteously felt. The pain bears witness and says I can't do this anymore through your mouth, but the pain won't have to suffer the consequences of not doing this anymore. You will. That's why we end our calls with two jokes no matter how much we don't feel like it. Doing so halts the seduction. Even a very grumpily delivered joke tells that pain to take a beat, please, because we're using our brains for something else right now. It's not exactly good we feel after telling these jokes, but it's not exactly unequivocally miserable, either, which is a start.

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New tech should mean: Shorter working weeks. Earlier retirement. More abundance. More time to actually live. If instead it means mass unemployment while a handful of corporations become unimaginably wealthy, that's not technological progress failing. That's ownership working exactly as designed.

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💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 01/10/2026

These wages range from $7.15 to $9.80 per day, far below the minimum wage in the community. This means that incarcerated people working on Victoria’s roads will be paid as little as 90c per hour. End forced and underpaid labour in Australia @ourfairgo.bsky.social

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‘The Opportunity Doesn’t Make the Conditions Fair’: People in Prison to Be Paid $1 Per Hour to Fix Victoria's Roads

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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My reporting on the genocide in Gaza and the wider Middle East has come with serious risks, including death threats and legal action. If you value this work, please consider supporting my work. Thank you. buymeacoffee.com/josepgodedf www.patreon.com/josepgoded www.paypal.com/paypalme/Jos...

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Headline is reminiscent of something I saw in News Corp. Accusation is reminiscent of something I saw on X.

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"this new form of denialism has our political leaders assuring us they understand and accept the warnings about climate change — but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy..." This applies in Australia too. The ALP are climate deniers.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2) Are there people you want to follow but who repost things you don’t want to see? You can now turn off reposts for an individual account. (This is pretty new.) Just go to the account and hit the little button with the three dots. There’s an option to turn off reposts in feeds.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While the women left out of this story ‘wait’ for answers on sexual assault allegations, the bloke made centre of this story ‘can’t wait’ to have it all swept under the rug & be able to hang out with the boys again.

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Sound of Azure @soundofazure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This sure fits with all of the artists I’ve known. Heck, probably all of the creative types.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rebel News is still selling t-shirts mocking the rape and murder of Indigenous children. This is the kind of racism that is common place in Canada. Not only can you promote Residential School denialism but you can profit from it youtu.be/e0WhWOz7NSs?...

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Might be the most racist thing I've ever seen

YouTube video by The Serf Times

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

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

weird how the government considers it has a duty of care about what information young people can see but not one to ensure they have a livable future, it's almost like its entirely about control and not protection in any way #auspol

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our 2 catering vans that were stolen have been found! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fuck the ABC for this framing. How much of what remains of the human friendly climate and the living world it supports will be destroyed as a result of this decision? How many children will die of heatstroke or have their homes washed or burned away? How many jobs will be destroyed? Fuckers.

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⧖ big rock big water ⧖ (they/them) @bigrockbigwater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me: sharks are older than trees Mr: change the lyrics- "sharks are old there, older than the trees"

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If we cut off military aid to israel, israel would conjure up Mk84 2000lb bombs from a Stargate dimensional portal and continue to drop them. Because Israel has access to psionic dimensional mages, we must sell them regular bombs made in Garland, Texas instead

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 29/09/2026

⚡️NEW: The US State Dep't announced visa restrictions against foreign nationals it says are “undermining democratically elected governments” in countries across the Western Hemisphere. The list of sanctioned individuals features prominent politicians including a sitting Senator with the left-wing...

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⚡️NEW: The U.S. State Department announced visa restrictions against foreign nationals it says are “undermining democratically elected governments” in countries across the Western Hemisphere. The list of sanctioned individuals features prominent politicians including a sitting Senator with the left-wing Historic Pact in Colombia, and the sitting Attorney-General of Bolivia, who they link to "narcoterrorism" and "corruption."

“This is yet another example of Trump abusing the machinery of government to punish those who do not share his views. Justifying authoritarian behavior in the name of democracy has become a hallmark of the Trump administration,” human rights lawyer
@mrtommybecker
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More details from Drop Site News in thread below. 🧵⬇️

Juan Pablo Segura

@WHAAsstSecty
The U.S. stands with fellow Shield participants Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru as we deliver on our commitment to defend democratically elected governments against the corrupt and narcoterrorist networks that seek to undermine it. Today the U.S. is taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on corrupt actors in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru who threaten democratically elected governments across our region, such as designating Bolivia’s Attorney General Roger Mariaca for corruption. This is what hemispheric partnership looks like. -JPS

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/09/visa-restrictions-for-foreign-nationals-undermining-democratically-elected-governments-in-western-hemisphere-countries/

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026

I showed Godzilla Minus One to my family—and it was a huge hit. It took me months to convince them because of the US Godzilla movies. 😅 It’s truly one of my fav genre films of the decade. The way it blends kaiju, a heartfelt human story, and powerful themes—all on a shoestring budget—is fantastic.

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Godzilla Minus One: Ocean Emergence

Alt: Godzilla Minus One: Ocean Emergence

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Slab Graveyard xkcd.com/3303/

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.

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Immanuel Cunt @sheogorath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

> guy makes a fully voiced mod and releases it for free, having done the voices himself > official TES account posts about it > a bunch of outrage addicts blindly shit on it because it doesn’t credit a voice actor. who is himself. the guy credited in the below post.

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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luna( @lunaoi.bsky.social )oi! and NonCompete( @noncompete.bsky.social ) "The Scientific Basis of Marxism - Marxist Theory 101" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSPN...

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The Scientific Basis of Marxism - Marxist Theory 101

YouTube video by Luna oi!

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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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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...

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Aussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarm

A phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney.

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Scary!! 👻🎃 @kobayashimaruu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

which one is cuter??

digital sketches of two cartoony cat faces. the first, labeled “A”, has big ears and eyes, and a small nose. the second, “B”, has small ears and eyes, which are set far apart, and a big nose.

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ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

rumination

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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I drew this fancy goblin and I would like you to see this fancy goblin.

drawing of a goblin wearing a fancy outfit with a ruff collar and a big hat decorated with a fish skeleton and they have big round shorts with stripes on them and a cloak and a wavy long sword.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Strange days have found us Strange days have tracked us down

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