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Spaceweft

@spaceweft.bsky.social
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Republicans have voted to destroy the United States of America. The rest of us will not allow it. Resist fascism with joy, with anger, with humor, with spite, but however you need to do it: resist!

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 55m
Every time I read about something wonderful #mandani is implementing I have mixed feelings. I’m both really happy that it is happening AND really enraged that it’s so obvious that this is not so hard and yet it hasn’t been done until now.
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Robo AD @robosad.blackskycomra.de · 3h
Not only is she correct, but she's being polite and subtle about it. The response they DESERVE is much harsher.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1h
New zine just dropped at the science library
Sarah's got a little free library in front of her house and she's holding up a zine that is called Philly Nightlife a coloring zine with a silly raccoon on it
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 2h
🚨 ENDORSEMENT ALERT 🚨 Chancleta has been endorsed by a family of three random raccoons who saw him from outside. One of them even stood on our patio chair on two legs, like a person. This is incredible news for Sandal's campaign to represent whatever it is he is running for.
A mock political endorsement graphic on a blue gradient background. At the top left is a photo of three raccoons beside the words “A FAMILY OF THREE RANDOM RACCOONS.” Below, red text reads “PROUDLY ENDORSES,” followed by “CHANCLETA” in large white letters. At the bottom right is a large photo of Chancleta, an orange-and-white cat looking directly at the camera.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 17h
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 3h
New Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 72B features “Children of Calliope” by Seanan McGuire, as read by Erika Ensign; “Butterfly Effect” by Angela Liu, as read by Matt Peters; Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Seanan McGuire! buff.ly/ZJuFxHA
Seanan McGuireAngela Liu
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 3h
zen break: (volume up)
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 3h
My phone says this is a Panicled Aster and I thought it said Panicked Aster and I was like “yeah I get it, it’s rough out there.” #BloomScrolling 🌿
A cluster of white flowers with very thin petals and round yellow centers, surrounded by a lush green background of leaves.
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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · 3h
What are the chances NYPD had anything to do with it? I'm betting it is entirely due to the city's violence interrupters and crisis management teams.
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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · 3h
AURRRR YURRRR! I'm so excite!
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 10h
SPOOKY SEASON is here again, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine Issue 72 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/39JTYSQ
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 72, "Fluid" by Galen Dara: A femme-coded being stares at us with light and dark blue-green skin and red lips. A read heart-shaped organ is in front of her chest with white tendrils and green sprouts and roots with drops of red and a couple of many-red-petaled flowers. Surrounding her are splashes ofyellow, yellow-green, orange, pink, and green-blue and large similar many-red-petaled flowers. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "September/October 2026," Issue Seventy-Two," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.
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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 6h
A new complaint filed Monday alleges a web of new committees funded by the Metro Chamber's United for Portland PAC violated local and state elections laws by obscuring the true funding source of political billboards and filing false campaign-finance statements.
portlandmercury.com
“DitchMitch” Billboard Campaign Violates Local and State Elections Laws, Complaint Says - Portland Mercury
A new complaint filed with the city, county, and state elections offices alleges multiple political action committees violated independent expenditure rules when they failed to properly report informa...
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 16h
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 5h
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 5h
wrote about one of the craziest worms of all time defector.com/this-worm-ha...
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This Worm Has No Ifs And Many Butts | Defector
In the 1870s, as the research ship HMS Challenger passed through the Philippines during its circumnavigation of the Earth, it dredged up a sponge from the gray sludge 95 fathoms (nearly 600 feet) belo...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 10h
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18h
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 11h
1/2 🚨New commentary🚨 in Science Advances (@science.org) Many alternatives to policing strategies have been proposed, but do they work? Michael Ralph and I wrote a commentary on a new study of CAHOOTS, Eugene’s civilian crisis response program. Commentary: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
doi.org
Measuring the effects of alternatives to policing in an American city
CAHOOTS data provide an opportunity to examine how three new diversion metrics clarify the measurable benefits, limits, and policy significance of an alternative-to-policing program.
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 10h
2023: American Simone Biles wins all-around gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, becoming the most decorated gymnast with 34 World and Olympic medals #WomensHistory #SportsHistory
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Back Flip Simone Biles
Alt: Back Flip Simone Biles
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11h
over the years I swear I've had 10+ people ask my permission to get this pic as a tattoo, but not a single person has followed up with the actual tattoo photo surely one of you is out there? you actually did it, yeah? not just a bluff?
painting of two squid, one in bottom left corner, one in top right corner, touching appendages in the middle, a parody of the creation of adam
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 10h
Binx keeping an eye...er...nose on her bestest mouse. #cats #becurious
photo of a thirteen week old black kitten laying on her side on a sofa with a plush mouse tucked up under her nose and chin.
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Lindsey Wailes (looking for work!) @linwail.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Day 5 - Dragon Rat #rattober #rattober2026 #beansrattober
a brown rat with wings
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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · 23h
Questions like "If my editor feeds my manuscript into A.i., should I feed my editor into a wood chipper or a piranha tank?"
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our Fair Share Tax proposal is coming to Committee of the Whole this Thursday morning at 9:30. If you think it’s a good idea to cut taxes for small businesses, raise taxes on large mega corporations, while raising more money to fund critical services then we need to hear from you.
portland.gov
Register for testimony or submit written testimony to Council
Complete this form to register to provide verbal testimony on an agenda item during Council and committee meetings, or to submit written testimony on an item.
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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
my multitudes are anything but contained
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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Malky @themalky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That should about sum it up
Screencapture of the entire profile form. Reads as follows:

More about this artist
Give customers a deeper look at who you are and what inspires your work.

How would you describe your design style?
Jolly colorful critters with beady eyes and poor anatomy choices excused as an unique artistic style.

How do you create your designs? (ex: hand drawn, watercolor, mixed media, etc)
In my silly little portable ‘pooter with my silly little magical pencil that runs on fossil fuel and dreams.

What inspires you?
The crippling anxiety to keep a roof above my head and food on the table, and I’ll take any and all crumbs of sustenance.

How did you get into surface design?
For fun. I like geckos, I drew geckos, I put those geckos in a seamless tile. Bam. Gecko textile pattern for all to enjoy.

When designing, what types of spaces or projects do you envision your designs on?
On the living/working spaces of people who haven’t yet lost their whimsy for the simple cute things in life.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Paleontology
phys.org
Rare insect discovery reveals a new species from the dinosaur age
Some 99 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, a tiny insect belonging to a species previously unknown to science became trapped in tree resin. The resin hardened and turned into amber, a...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Branch Manager loves fall
A yellow lab sits among fallen leaves with a happy expression on his face
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Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The roommate left to go to school.
A black dog stares out a window with red curtains. So dramatic.
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Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Different pilots, different cities; same solved problem keeping this post evergreen. Just pay people to clean them! That's it. That's the whole administrative challenge.
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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"You backalley squidsquishers" And we all fall in (parasocial) love with you just a little more.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026
say what you will about nordic cinema. no matter which country, no matter what genre, setting, or tone, you're all but guaranteed to be made witness to some of the most beautiful, luxurious looking wool sweaters ever put on the silver screen
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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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
Two colonies of young and healthy splitgill mushrooms grow from the underside of an upturned stick in a sunlit forest. All photos by me
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last re-skeet: there is no one solution for accessibility, and we really, really need to do better at accepting that as an immutable fact across all areas of disability. What provides access for one person can even close the door for another. Having *multiple* choices/options is the way ahead.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
avatarstateyipyip on Tumblr

friends: what do you want to do?
my brain: die
me @ my brain: we can't say that. these people don't understand casual existential despair
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
i know it's one of you | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A GRIZZLED MAN pacing in a grey hallway on a spaceship. He's wearing a boiler suit and holding a knife.
GM: NOW I KNOW ONE OF YOU BASTARDS IS A SECRET "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" SENT HERE TO KILL THE REST OF US.
GM: AND *WE AIN'T LEAVING THIS ROOM* UNTIL WE FIND HIM…AND KILL 'EM!

PANEL 2: Three more CREWMEN respond.
CREWMAN 2: I- I TOLD YOU SIR, I'M A HUMAN! FLESH AND BLOOD!
CREWMAN 3: ME TOO! I SWEAR!
CREWMAN 4: HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW *YOU* AIN'T IT?

PANEL 3: Back on the GRIZZLED MAN, who pricks his arm with knife, dripping a small amount of blood.
GM: PLEASE.
GM: HOW ABOUT THE NEW GUY. YOU'RE AWFULLY QUIET.

PANEL 4: Just to the right of CREWMAN 3, a COMPUTER MONITOR is on the table, with a pixelated emoticon smiley face on it.
COMPUTER: Hello there! It seems like you're looking for who the computer might be – I bet I can help! Let's all take a look at the facts together.
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Rustic Acres Wildcat Rescue @rawrsanctuary.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Which box will Manka bobcat choose?
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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#BadWeather? @atlanticbirding.bsky.social's alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay. One of my favorite portraits of a Red-winged blackbird, showing a soft rain can be beautiful. #birds #photography #Rain #PNW
A Red-winged blackbird against the clay colored background of a rainy marsh in autumn. Rust colored scallops in the  feathers across this males back and a shining dark eye and wet beak, as well as just a slender shoulder patch, showing red and yellow.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let's talk eels & colonization! In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough. The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly. So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5 🗃️🧪
Meme. Photograph of a Monopoly board game in Dutch. You're looking at the starting corner, seeing 2 squares in either direction. The directions on the square read:

Ontvang
Bij het passeren
f2000. - salaris
START

So now you know the (or at least a) Dutch word for start.

The game board is sitting on what is probably a table made of a light wood or wood substitute. You can see the grain running  left to right, or right to left. Or perhaps east to west. It's hard to tell with grain. The board itself is edged in red, but fear not. It's only red paint, not blood. A blood-edged board would be a far darker shade of red. And a far darker game, over all.

Meme text reads:
"Who wouldn't be
Nervous?"
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is amazing satire at a time when satire is becoming nearly impossible.
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