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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

'well this isn't for me but you all have fun' is a very healthy spirit toward many things

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 12h

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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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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JimBob SparePants @jimbobsparepants.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Long-termists in 1800. "No, helping abolitionism isn't the best thing I can do with my time. We should be worried about existential risks that might only occur in the future, like the plague coming back. I'm going to devote all my money to research about the plague."

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 04/10/2026

Anything we can each do on a personal level to move into more comfort talking about race and caste and talking about disability is going to get us to a better place with the use of computers. lesscomputer.ca/say-eugenics...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...

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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot

An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is a little disconcerting that so many people who know a lot about LLMs on a technical level appear to go a little insane. It would be like if there was a really cool and effective new kind of pen, and for some reason about 40% of the people involved in the pen making process went mad.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah the biggest human trafficking bust in 21st century US history went down in 2021. Operation Blooming Onion. They took down a $200 million slavery ring in Georgia. 100% H2A visa workers who immigrated legally. This was HUGE NEWS for anyone who was paying attention to farm worker & labor issues.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our fault for installing a seismic station at a high school, really. Article: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti... Signal from “At risk: Earthquake & Tsunami on the West Coast”

Photograph of a book page with a seismic signal. The rest of the page reads: “1 minute
The characteristic signature of an earthquake - a P wave followed by a higher-amplitude S wave - is clearly missing in the record at the top of this page, collected on January 11, 1996. This recording shows a series of irregular waves interrupted by periods of quiescence. The record came from a seismograph located on the grounds of the Port Alberni High School and was telemetred to the Pacific Geoscience Centre. Based upon his experience and the character of the recording, one of the seismic technicians thought that someone was trying to break into the concrete vault that housed the seismograph. He phoned the Port Alberni RcMP who promised to immediately investigate. A short time later, the technician received a return phone call reporting that a young couple was found in flagrante delicto on the roof of the seismic vault. To our knowledge, this is the world's only seismograph recording of an act of love.

This seismogram was recorded by a seismograph located in a vault on the grounds of the Port Alberni Secondary School on January 11, 1996. The repeated waxing and waning of energy and the lack of distinct P and S wave phases indicate that this event was not an earthquake. It was discovered that its cause was a young couple getting to know one another on the roof of the seismic vault.”

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 28/09/2026

live your life in such a way that you dont have to hide your company's swag

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Etaoin @etaoin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favorite i saw recently: "What should you do if you get a phishing email" A. Reply with your credit card info B. Reply and ask "are you legit" C. Use the "report phishing" button D. Call 911

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Station Master Mikan comes out to inspect the passengers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

sammatey.substack.com

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Beatricks 🎃 @beatrix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A screenshot of a post on X.com by JEFF (@jeffisrael25). The text reads: "Massachusetts absolutely cooking right now. Hub of the universe." Below the text is a trending bar that lists: "NOR'EASTER | LESBIAN BAR | RAT SUMMIT". The post has 979K views and was posted at 20:23 on September 24, 2026.

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
...
just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Necromancy is legal in Somerville, MA - but you have to get a license from the city. That's what I came here to say. G'night. 4/4

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is so cool. your body contains so much genetic info that it doesn't use unless you encourage it. hrt is the real life limitless pill.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

update: if you are in the Chicago area and want a small gray tabby kitten maybe 8-10 weeks old, dm me (don't congratulate me on our new cat, we have four cats already, we are not keeping this one)

a gray tabby kitten in a cat climbing tree

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wishing an easy fast and a meaningful Yom Kippur to all who observe. May this day bring reflection, renewal, and peace.

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fundraiser for Scarleteen, which is still going strong after nearly 30 years of providing free “inclusive sex, health, identity, and relationships education” online. pro.gofundme.com/campaign/sca...

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Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We impulse-bought some fresh lo mein noodles at the grocery and used this recipe as a side to ahi steaks last night and I’m shocked how great it was, even though the only veg we had was cabbage and red onion and we subbed rice vinegar and mirin for shaoxing wine thewoksoflife.com/lo-mein-how-...

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Lo Mein: How to Cook It The Right Way

This is a basic lo mein recipe that will teach you how to make lo mein the right way. Customize the protein/vegetables you use in the recipe!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026

this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud

Hill was willing to speak bluntly and on the record. But not every scientist I contacted felt able to do that. I called one Florida scientist who studies sea level rise to fact-check some of the agents' comments, but before we got very far, they asked not to be named. They explained that their current research depends on cooperation from county and municipal governments, which means they have to "tread very carefully" when speaking about real estate development in the
area.
That made sense to Hill. "If we get in the way of developers, their attorneys can go after us through our universities," she said. "It's not uncommonẠỊi
For the most part, she said, silence about climate risk in housing is incentivized. Because if climate risk tanks a property's value, she said,
"everyone's going to be pressuring everyone else not to talk about it."

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did you know Disney's The Little Mermaid almost got delayed because some of the bubbles in the sea got caught up in the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

offering a coupon for free money and being shocked at the redemption rate

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

trans people are by and large the working class. we get paid less than cis people overall (trans men make less than cis women, and trans women make less than everyone). we face housing and job discrimination. when will the conmentariat get this into their goddamned heads

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s this one!

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 14/09/2026

I am absolutely livid. The Teal Deer is: NEVER give ANY information in ANY of the "race/gender/disability yes/no" questions on ANY job application. Yeah, I KNOW every job coach and resume tips website says to do it. They are lying.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

5 years ago, there were over 100 multidisciplinary gender clinics for trans youth. Today, there are less than 31 (as of July 2026). bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yeah i mean there's a lot to disagree with in "they go low we go high" as it turns out, but "tethered to factual reality" really needs to be the touchstone. hannah arendt etc etc

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Benny Six Six Six-Cats @teeveeben.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

DUNCAN.

A top-down view of an old floofy gray cat perfectly snuggled into a large Panda Express takeout box.

An angled view of an old floofy gray cat perfectly snuggled into a large Panda Express takeout box. Same moment as the previous image.

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