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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I will boycott any platform for life that allows the DoD to stream a live execution on its service.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A limited number of crab and frog facts advent calendars are now available at SquidFacts.net! These need to be made by hand, so we’ve been phasing them out but I was very lucky to have some help this week making some more in the lead up to December. Get ‘em while they’re here! SquidFacts.net

Two sparkly shiny advent calendars, one with frogs one with crabs

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If it weren't for all the fuckwits driving the massive monster trucks these days, microcars would be viable. As it is, they are death traps, just waiting for someone to, quite literally, run over you.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey Philly! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum Sept 25-27. It’s the museum’s last weekend (for now!) Sign up here to help docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A flyer with dinosaur bones and beetles and butterflies that says help save the academy volunteer this weekend. Help us hand out flyers the Museum to get more people involved in the fight and save the Academy of natural sciences volunteer at. Save-the-academy.org

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ll take this a step further and say, I believe we should be able to support an average-sized family on a single income at what we determine to be the minimum wage. A lot of Boomers got this. But for whatever reason, we’re considered ridiculous for proposing it.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dear indie dice makers - I want to buy your math rocks. I really do. But if you aren't talking about calibration and balance and assuring me your dice are going to perform their function properly, I'm not buying, no matter how sparkly, glittery, gothy, etc. your dice are.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dear small indie dice making companies: want me to buy your delicious math rocks? Then you need to be talking about calibration and balance.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey friends! I am seeing that a certain Awful Lady and her unbroken record of sociopathic harm is back in the discourse. And boy. She really sucks. But maybe we can take this opportunity to highlight and celebrate children's authors who AREN'T transphobic pieces of shit. Great. I'll start...

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

100% recommend Spiderlight, it was wonderful.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That is incredibly beautiful. I love lichens (and mosses) so much.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Y'all. I know you're tired of my running on about this, and I *want* to give you a break over the weekend, but I CAN'T fail these cats. They need a HOME. They're affectionate, relaxed and in decent health, and their issues are MINOR and EASILY MANAGEABLE. All we need is to find That Person.

Gray cat with white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oooo, yeah, that's gorgeous. And if I had that massive pink diamond, I'd have it cut up into many smaller ones and create a nice set around them.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 24/08/2026

Once again: anyone in the northeast, or willing to drive there - two bonded cats have lost their owner to cancer, and desperately need a new home. (If it matters to you in any way, I know and will wvouch for Shecky, he’s a real one 👇👇👇)

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I would do unspeakable things to get my hands on that pink diamond. Perfect color

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Elias the Extraterrestrial @eliasvarden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the national debt crossed $40 trillion this week and not one person in charge called it unaffordable. that word only comes out for the school lunch, the insulin cap, the raise. the debt isn't a limit on what they'll spend. it's the excuse they save for anything that would reach you.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The allegations of plagiarism that Cofnas surfaced? Liverpool John Moores had already investigated & cleared him & is *still* not being included in most articles. Jason Stanley explains why again there was a basic failure of journalistic understanding & why people took Cofnas’s framing over LJM’s

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#HeadsUp: War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull, is on US Kindle sale for $3; I got some for random giveaway. This is one of the first, if not *the* first, urban fantasy books, dealing with the fae in Minneapolis. Highly recommended.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As someone who has spent half their life first around the Appalachians and now the Rockies (I live in the shadow of Pikes Peak), my impression of the Rockies is that the gods are very much alive and awake and RESTLESS up there. We definitely need more Rockies horror.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This one hits hard. So much of the planet is literally on fire right now, our species continues to wreak havoc on the environment to serve the capitalist overlords who care nothing for the future save for how much money they can make before it all crumbles to dust. A territory of trauma, indeed.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The withering of the year has come early. The land tells its distress in brittle grass bleached as bone, tells it in paths made of furious dust. It screams to us through drought cicatrix of cracked earth. We walk a territory of trauma. We should expect ghosts. – #DAKilroy

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/08/2026

I want you to understand that they are jumping through all of these hoops to avoid tax bills that are, in many cases, $50 grand. Or $100k. Yes, to normal folks that is all the money in the world. But these people *routinely* spend that on weekend vacations. They would _definitely_ give it at a gala.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Thanks for the heads-up. I just went ahead and blocked them.

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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When getting central air installed, what are the top things you wish you’d known before accepting a bid

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

I don't really have an objection to the CEO saying Bluesky is open to all; it's kind of his job to do that. But as others have pointed out, the design of the site means it's harder for trolls/bots/chuds *and also* influencers/hypebeasts to get traction. The "bubble" here is actually normal humans.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'm old enough to remember this one - that drinking from aluminum cans/cooking with aluminum carried a higher risk of Alzheimer's.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Maybe a cherry or pomegranate would be better? Why is my brain telling me one of those would taste better?

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hmmm, I wonder if a fruit juice like lemon or orange would work? The flavor would be different, of course, but if the combo sounds good, it could work?

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Am I the only one who doesn't like em dashes because they touch the letters? I need some personal space between my letters and my dashes

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You know you've hit peak adulthood when you're super excited to receive the new portable Bissell cleaner you just ordered.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tell me more about this really nice honeycomb stuff???

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I didn't know people were touting free-range eggs as better for the environment. I choose them in the hopes they are better for the chickens in terms of ethical treatment and a better life overall.

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Heretek @heretek.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I want the Machine Learning tool that can spot cancer cells through pattern recognition. I do not want the Copyright Infringer 9000 that generates CSAM.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You gotta watch the video for the noise. It's insane. Every time I see somebody ask "hey, why the backlash against data centers?" I'm puzzled because those people don't seem to understand data centers are *bad faith neighbors*. gizmodo.com/this-viral-d...

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This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw

My God, the looks on the faces of the people who have to live next to this...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A journalist has asked me to find them an entomologist for a story they’re doing on mosquitoes. Any entomologists down?

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And he's here on BlueSky @imkeithdavid.bsky.social! Maybe we can entice him to post more often, and then we'd have both Space Dads over here.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Taylor Farms CEO goes to the White House to kiss the ring and a day later the FDA is saying the cyclospora sample was a false positive. Here's the thing: could it have been a false positive? Definitely! Could you have gathered the necessary data to figure that out this fast? No. Fucking. Way.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What's on the shelves? Looks like magazines/journals that are collectibles (judging from what looks like the plastic protecting them)?? I'm intrigued!

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

That might actually help - I've got the lovely "you're now an older peri/menopausal woman, here's some frozen shoulder for you" on top of likely being undiagnosed EDS where my shoulders are stupid flexible (per my last PT) so all sorts of weird things happen with my shoulders.

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Would love to hear more about the posture corrector you're using. I've been looking for something to help with my shoulders

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I love how she refuses to look directly at you, and yet you can *feel* that judging stare regardless. (Also, what a gorgeous cat!)

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Anastasia she/her or they/them @starshadw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hey cat-shaped friends: what OTC allergy meds are safe for cats? I have one feral who has just the worst allergies (yes, they are definitely allergies, it happens every year since he showed up) and I'd love to try a small dose of something to see if it would make him less miserable.

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