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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 3h

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some good things to work on this week as collapses and power grabs surround and the operating instructions of the industrial growth domination and supremacy worldview are further revealed and clarified (remember apocalypse means "uncovering")

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...

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We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights

Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?

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Cat Lady🌈📚🍂 @librarycrone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are only three kinds of mainstream culture articles now: 1. Won’t You Please Consider the Feelings of Abusive Parents? 2. Men are Lonely and Women Should Fix It 3. If We’re Nice to Trans People Society Will Be Ruined

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 26/09/2026

brother ignatz where the hell did you get those sausages from

this bittern's got way too many snausages

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"commission me" -heron @thxnywy.art · 22/09/2026

OH WOW HOLY COW LOOK HOW CHEAP THESE GOODS ARE NOW 20% off my shop for the rest of september! bargain of bargains! deal of deals!! come get you some!!! ko-fi.com/thxnywy/shop

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Septembroke: 20% off thxnywy's shop

Septembroke. Save 20% in thxnywy's shop sale.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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library of alexandria d'addario @punkbong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

melania looks like you just stole her amulet

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's time for eels & contract law! In 1890, Charles Hobbs sued the Massasoit Whip Co. He'd delivered a load of 2k eel skins to the company, but not been paid. Hobbs won, with the court finding that the company's silent acceptance of the shipment constituted purchase of the eels. 🗃️🧪

Photoshopped picture of a jar of Miracle Whip, edited to read: "Miraceel Whip."

Below that, the un-photoshopped text reads: "The one of a kind taste of creamy mayo and tangy dressing." And let me tell you what, folks: if it were infused with the souciance of eels, then it would really be a "one of a kind" sorta taste.

The jar announces itself to be 30 fluid oz, or 887 mL, of DRESSING. Why is it shouting about dressing? Is it trying to shame you for your naked, undressed slices of bread? That sounds puritanical in ways that you might not expect in a tweet about a dude who was a purveyor of whips for the masses.

There is a sticker as part of the label that looks a bit like a gold medal with a serrated edge, and it reads "Gold Standard Recipe" which suggests that this is the sort of thing that Williams Jennings Bryan would object to. He's not going to let you spread mankind upon a sandwich of gold. Free silver (eels), baby.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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alicia 🍳 @acorviart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

so I technically already closed shop, but I had the 2am urge to organize sock inventory and ran out of shelf space, so all socks are $5 off their original $15, no code needed. but socks are the only thing u can buy

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy first day of fall! 🍁🎃🍂

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brad (so-called free thinker) @bradicality.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'guy who used Grok to invent a new skateboard trick then convinced his coworker to try it' is the median voter

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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey

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gsmhorseart.bsky.social @gsmhorseart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A selection of work on paper! www.equineartiststevemessenger.com #art #horses #painting

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An amazing Buckeye butterfly on a pink zinnia for #ColorfulMonday #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋

Medium-sized brown butterfly with brilliant orange markings and six eyespots, atop a large pink flower.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rightwing authoritarian parents raise rightwing authoritarian children. There’s research (Altemeyer) about how it works & when it doesn’t. If rightwing authoritarian children go out into the world & meet the “other” & have a good experience, then it can negate the whole of their parents’ teaching.

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I still have too many stickers! All my older stock is 60% off through September 23rd. All are made of durable vinyl for indoor or outdoor use. Quantities on some, such as the Sabbatic Goat and Standing Hare are extremely low. Others, such as Toad are plentiful. xylographilia.etsy.com/listing/6011...

Photo of an over the door hanger with clear pockets. One pocket is empty, but the rest contain vinyl stickers. Designs include rabbits, a goat head with a candle between the horns, a fishy looking demon, toads, the yokai Amabie, and partially visible designs including a silver moon and a salamander.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My phone sends me a notification whenever there's an owl nearby. I don't remember asking it to do that and I don't know how to make it stop. I tried throwing my phone into a ravine but it just reappeared in my hand moments later. The owl notifications are growing more frequent

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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

With gratitude to the friend who shared this one with me - a poem before Yom Kippur by @josephfasano.bsky.social. poets.org/poem/instruc...

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Instructions for Having a Soul

Take it out in the rain sometimes.

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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Alexis @patterned.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had a good productive printing day today for the first time in a few weeks. A fresh edition of cobalt blue pigeon prints! #art #linocut

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 18/09/2026

I think the degree to which no one is really fine is so much more severe than anyone wants to admit.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.

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Raven of @theravenof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i mean this guy is clearly from the UK but i feel the solidarity with the whole anglosphere losing its mind here

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A drawing from this evening. A bit of a sad bird-thing

Art. Black and white ink pen drawing made of abstract shapes and lines that might look like a tall bird, like an ostrich, but with dumpy, slumpy shoulders and wings

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I do still have flower closeups I am just distracted by the larger scale at the moment. balm / bee 🌱 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling 🦀⛵ #Maryland 🌎 #ecoregion65

Spotted bee balm, dramatically lit, multi-layered, magnificent.

A sluggish bumblebee on late boneset in morning light.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah i could photograph real bugs and do naturalist things and let my joy about it be infectious enough to inspire others or I could type prompts into the theft machine to generate soulless things that don't exist you piece of shit, you absolute forgotten pantry potato.

User Raymondreamer says, “If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you’re doing”

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Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My daughter’s latest masterpiece

A painting of a round cat with small ears in a McDonald’s fry bag

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Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Slowly learning to be comfortable with palette knives. Of course, I only have one but I'm trying. I really need more oils, some grounds, and some wax medium to investigate this more. When I do get more oil supplies I will definitely be pursuing this.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Saw one of my favorites, a nugget-y little resin bee, enjoying an afternoon snack, and then things took a Turn. These shots were taken a couple seconds apart. #BugSex Anthidiellum perplexum

Nugget-y black and orange bee face deep in a little cylindrical shaped white flower tower

Little nugget bee still snacking, but a male has arrived and they're doing it bee style (doggy style but with the normal number of legs)

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 14/09/2026

Bonus closeup

A macro head-on shot of a small monarch caterpillar, yellow/white/black-striped) with black horns splayed out, sitting on a chewed leaf

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Houndsaint🔜 MFF @houndsaint.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My shop will close TOMORROW EVENING (so, Monday about 7 EST) until sometime in October! My top surgery is this Wednesday so last shipments will all go out Tues. ✌️ Also I’ll see you all in the MFF den!

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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's my birthday 🎉 so in Bluesky tradition I'd love for folks to repost my art today! 😊 #artistSupport #illustration #darkArt

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Spacenerd19 @spacenerd19.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sooooo many of them!!

A fat monarch caterpillar munching on a short leafless stem.

A very small monarch caterpillar with my hand for scale

A hanging leaf with caterpillar on each side of it

Small caterpillar in the topmost leaflet

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026

Beef Tallow Homunculus Escapes From HHS Building theonion.com/beef-tallow-homunculus…

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're trying to propose to people with trans children in their lives that their lives are a worthwhile sacrifice for other Democratic priorities, consider whether you'd be convinced that your children should be sacrificed for the greater good of someone else's family.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today I'll be reporting live from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, for @dmagazine.bsky.social, which applied for press access but never received a response. Consequently, I will have the general admission experience. First step: drive ~30 minutes outside of Dallas to Grand Prairie. 1/

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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Audrey II, our pumpkin plant, is getting so close to reaching the sidewalk. Get it, girl! 🎃

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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is certainly true, that with indigenous languages go important ways of understanding nature. But it is also true with respect to 'modern' taxonomic knowledge. Many groups of organisms have lost or never had dedicated experts, leaving them invisible or unitelligible to the broader community.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If hell exists, those who profit from logging ancient forests deserve it.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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