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Fondor Haulcraft @dayuan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Saw a photo of a BART operator from the 70s and incredible energy

BART operator in a jumpsuit and a big 70s haircut, looking like he’s out of a modestly-budgeted 70s sci-fi movie since the interior’s all white with an orange floor

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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

('grand canary' by mead schaeffer)

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This Robert Currie photo of Anne Carson on the phone is part of a long tradition of Nobel prize-winners getting the call from Stockholm. Staged, but still fun. Worth a short thread, I think 📷 📖

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JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Does anyone have a good app for scanning sketchbooks? I find Genius scan does well with pen but not so good with pencil tones. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity.

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JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

incidentally, its a beautiful image.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

47 years ago Pauline Black of The Selecter, Suggs of Madness and Neville Staple of The Specials pose behind the tour bus at the first date of the 2 Tone Tour in Brighton, UK, October 1979. 📸 Chalkie Davies #punkrock #ska #skalegends #skamusic #theselecter #thespecials #madness #skahistory

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Vietnamese restaurant, Hackney.

Brick- and stone-built former Public Washing Baths in Hackney, now a Vietnamese restaurant with banner over front railings, A-frame notice board on pavement, and stone lions to either side of the pair of green-painted doors.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026

Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.

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Dimitri Strobbe 🚧 @strobbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

♻️🗑️ Wow! Super modern underground waste containers in #Amsterdam, seamlessly integrated with surrounding green. No badge card required, a strong suggestion that received applause when I raised it in parliament. Inspiration for #Brussels? #ARP 💚🌷🌼

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

mistakes were made

california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history

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authodizer @doktrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Artist and Scientist Susie J Lee's Biography pieces present people's lives as drill cores through geologic layers. ⚒️ Core Sampling: a Biography of Jake; the other two have the same title, but different names. 2013. Metal oxide, clay, minerals, steel, and mixed media. Fabrication: Jared Bender.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Phil Knutson, PhD @philknutson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lignin chemistry!! I’ve drawn a line tree with the lignin polymer behind it. I’ve drawn it as one single polymer throughout! This messy, highly irregular biopolymer gives plants structural strength and helps protect their cell walls. #sciart #chemsky

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ford-Sponsored Schindler's List Intermission NBC/WKYC 3 1997-02-23 : 74s

Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 74 seconds.

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Lesley Marshall Photography @lesleyam13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is surely one of the most beautiful entrances in London and one shared only with the security guard this morning ahead of my viewing of the incredible Bayeux Tapestry. #britishmuseum #bayeuxtapestry

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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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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This ICBC bank located on Calle Florida in Buenos Aires, Argentina, features a 4-tonne bronze door. Crafted in England in 1924, it sinks completely into the ground every morning at 10 AM to open. TT: @elianagimenez48

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JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1. I recognize antisemitism is a growing problem (again) and that's bad. 2. I recognize social media is a hate machine, designed to enrage participants to generate passionate responses. but... 3. I'm not sure a sampling of random posts on Grok fairly represents "leftists".

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mars Destroying the Arts — Michael Sweerts, ca 1651

The God of War painted as a 17th century Soldier with a sword in his hand. He is doing what such soldiers so often do: he's looking down with contempt as he steps on a broken White marble statue.
on the ground around the fallen sculpture are books, and a violin and sheet music and other tokens of the gentle Arts of civilization

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Study for mâtinawêwin (Sharing Food) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2026

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is my favourite Borges story.

The Witness by Borges and translated by ANTHONY KERRIGAN

In a stable lying almost in the shadow of the new stone church, a man with
gray eyes and a gray beard, stretched on the ground amidst the animal
odors, meekly seeks death like someone seeking sleep. The day, faithful to
vast secret laws, continuously displaces and confounds the shadows in the
wretched stable. Outside stretch the tilled fields, a deep ditch filled up with
dead leaves, and the tracks of a wolf in the black mud where the woods
begin. The man sleeps and dreams, forgotten. The bells calling to prayer
awake him. In the kingdoms of England, the sound of the bells is already
one of the customs of the afternoon, but the man, while still a boy, had
seen the face of Woden, had seen holy dread and exultation, had seen the
rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments,
seen the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners. Before dawn he would be
dead and with him would die, never to return, the last firsthand images of
the pagan rites. The world would be poorer when this Saxon was no more.
We may well be astonished by space-filling acts which come to an end
when someone dies, and yet something, or an infinite number of things,
die in each death—unless there is a universal memory, as the theosophists
have conjectured. There was a day in time when the last eyes to see Christ
were closed forever. The battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with
the death of some one man. What will die with me when I die? What
pathetic or frail form will the world lose? Perhaps the voice of Macedonio
Fernandez, the image of a horse in the vacant space at Serrano and
Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the oldest optical illusions in the world is carved at Tamil Nadu's Airavatesvara temple. The remarkable piece of art from Chola Architecture is said to be 900 years old.

In the image above, a bull and an elephant share the same head. When the body and legs of the animal on the left are removed, the creature on the right side looks like an elephant. But if the elephant's body and legs are removed, a bull remains. The sculpture is an ancient example of ambiguous brain teasers.

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JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe the whole strategy behind creating "human-like" intelligence is lowering human intelligence to a point slightly above that of an iPad and then putting trillions into iPad research to bump it up slightly. Voila! machine intelligence = human intelligence.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

East 61st – NYC (2026) by multi-award-winning American artist, author and architect Thomas W. Schaller (born in 1956). Graphite pencil on paper 51 x 36 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

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The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Klimt was such an under-rated landscape painter. Beautiful.

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Dezeen @dezeen.com · 25/09/2026

Estudio Zero shapes pink Mexican co-living complex after sound wave: www.dezeen.com/2026/09/24/estudio-z…

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JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

EVERYTHING about this post is funny.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nature morte avec couteau, 1888 by Jacques-Emile Blanche

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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A fresh new perspective on the human story, Early Man was a Woman by Ulli Lust is a nonfiction graphic novel that highlights women in prehistory. Originally published in German, the English translation has now hit bookshelves. www.science.org/content/arti... #booksky #nonfiction #paleo

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This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A constant source of inspiration for me, Sogn Benedetg Chapel by Peter Zumthor is also a significant building based on an ecological approach to construction. Photos 2023.

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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Koho Shoda "Moonlit Sea" (1920) Japanese color woodblock print 24 × 16.5 cm (9.5 × 6.5 in). #ArtSky #KohoShoda

Koho Shoda - "Moonlit Sea" (1920)
Movement: Shin-hanga, which revitalized traditional ukiyo-e collaborative printmaking by integrating Western techniques like the realistic depiction of light, shadow, and atmosphere.
Composition: The piece features a small fishing boat moving slowly across a calm sea, illuminated by the soft path of a full moon, framed beautifully by delicate silhouette reeds in the foreground

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JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

with all the discussion of late about art vs. illustration, I want to point out that this is art. With a few strokes of the pen Larson conveyed clear emotion, dynamic action, and told a story everyone can recognize without the need for text to explain it. Like it or not, this is art.

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