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Clear thinking, empathy, & right action maketh the man. That's the goal. Allowing Ukraine the rights of any independent, sovereign state is not a “concession”. It is an obligation. - P. O'Brien I often use memes. If you don't like it, tough.

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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She nailed it. Exactly right.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anonymous - Denmark trolling Trump epically. #cdnpoli
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's hard, but here's hoping we can be occasionally optimistic as that old R2 Unit.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
so today I learned that Canadian engineers take a sacred oath written by Rudyard Kipling which is *clearly* worded to bind them as defenders against the fae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling...
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Calling of an Engineer - Wikipedia
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead:
Infographic titled "Six Ways 'Rigged Election' Rumors Mislead." A two-column table pairs six labeled categories with descriptions. The first three categories are:

No Evidence: The rumor is entirely unsubstantiated. There's no evidence to support the rumor.

Fake/False Evidence: The rumor is based on fake or synthetic evidence (e.g. AI-generated content), manipulated evidence, or false witness testimony.

Misinterpreted Evidence: This rumor is based upon real evidence that has been misinterpreted or intentionally mischaracterized to create a false impression.

A black banner then introduces the final three categories: "Real Evidence, Real Voting Issue, False Narrative."

Exaggerated Impact: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but falsely insinuates or exaggerates impact on election results.

Ignored Remedies: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but ignores and/or obscures the remedies that would address this problem

False Blame: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but either falsely attributes intent for an accidental issue or places blame on an innocent party.

Source: UW Center for an Informed Public, September 2026.
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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s a handy graphic I actually have saved on my phone for such interventions 😅
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Do folks know Einstein spoke at the 1946 National Urban League Convention? “There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.” - Albert Einstein
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How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism
The world-renowned physicist was never one to just stick to the science
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking
Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth
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German Car Scene @germancarscene.com · 20/09/2026
Fifteen Eleven's reworked 914 in Etna Blue is just unreal. They wrapped a carbon fibre widebody around a classic shape, dropped in a 4.0L flat-six pushing 400hp, and hooked it up to a 6-speed manual. At just 975kg, this thing has to be an absolute riot to drive.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Along but very worthwhile overview of this small but historically and currently important state.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hear me out : A new Jurassic/Miocene Park movie with a pack fight between Daeodons and Velociraptors.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is what I'd spend my money sponsoring if I was a bilionaire. Archaeology across the globe.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce the “Safeguard Swiss neutrality” ballot initiative, which goes to a nationwide vote in Switzerland on 27 September. Superficially, its promise can sound appealing: peace, sovereignty, and permanent armed neutrality. But most of that is a distraction:
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From the BBC documentary on the Bayeux tapestry. I love that this is a dance, then it becomes a forensic cop show, then it’s a dance again. The rhythm of it. Lovely as he is we don’t need Michael Palin’s narration. Brilliant camera work and editing here as well. Leaving the wide shot until last.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell will be wheeled into the Rotunda and roped off to replace the current statue for Kentucky until he passes. No video of him falling repeatedly out of the wheelchair will be allowed.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Monitor & Merrimac Level. We live in changing times.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More AI history slop. Elephants w/side saddle riders (!!!) in the battle of Sentium 295 BC Romans vs. Samnites & Celts, primarily. Both sides using imperial shields, stylized for shelf display fake Greek helmets, and a 1st c. AD-ish Roman all by his lonesome on the right - with a longsword. JFC.
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Art by Philippe Bouchet (born 19 March 1956), better known as Manchu, a science-fiction illustrator with hundreds of book & magazine covers to his name. He also contibuted to French / Japanese animated series Once Upon a Time... Space and Ulysses 31.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who Was the Mysterious Gallic Warrior Buried in Britain with a Unique 2,000-Year-Old Helmet? | Arkeonews arkeonews.net/who-was-the-...
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Who Was the Mysterious Gallic Warrior Buried in Britain with a Unique 2,000-Year-Old Helmet? | Arkeonews
A unique 2,000-year-old helmet buried with the North Bersted warrior raises questions about his identity and links between Britain, Gaul and Rome.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump an Pour-Me-Another Hegseth have unleashed a shit show.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.
A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13/09/2026
More superb living history. "Amateurs and hobbyists", as they're often called, doing a better job at recreating the past than most films/tv shows. Love it. 14th century event in France. © Barry's Photography Full set: www.facebook.com/BarrysPhotog...
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Watching Gamera (1995), and I gotta say Japanese defense ministers need to figure TF out how to handle Kaiji better in urban areas after 30+ attacks. #kaiju #japan
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Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz: Do BETTER.
ALT: Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz: Do BETTER.
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@muchoray X @stingray2090.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it—those are the real things; the honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors. — Richard Feynman
A black and white portrait of Richard Feynman wearing a suit and tie, leaning back in an office chair with one hand raised in a gesture. He is surrounded by a desk with papers and a chalkboard in the background.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Fun fact"
Since Roe v Wade was overturned, more women have been prosecuted for miscarriages than men for being in the Epstein files.
Over 22 to O.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"AI is just a homunculus fabricated from the stolen art of others." --- C. Tishman Great summary
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Applying this type of analysis — known as ‘full-cost accounting’— to transportation is commonplace in Europe, but rarely undertaken in North America…Poulos says the calculator enables voters to consider the broader transportation costs to themselves and to society as a whole.” #CityMakingMath
More details on the math and calculations, from the attached article.
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a lovely sketchbook I was assessing yesterday - by Welsh artist Calvert “Richard the Rev” Jones, largely of maritime scenes. He lived in Swansea so many are of the sea there in 1828-1831, elegantly rendered. But there’s a couple of nice bonuses in the book…
A watercolour and ink drawing of boats at sea, full sails billowing, executed in blacks and greys and pale brown and dusky pinkAnother boat scene, this time monochrome in dark blue-grey
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
16 splashy and spectacular images from the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards www.popsci.com/environment/...
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16 splashy and spectacular images from the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards
From a pod of dolphins riding a wave to a seahorse the size of a grain of rice.
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Roman Military Equipment @equipmentroman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today, we are going to tell a story of interpretation. Here is my photo (from 1982) of the tombstone of G. Valerius Crispus of legio VIII Augusta from Wiesbaden (DEU). Note those dinky little scaly shorts; we'll come back to those.
Tombstone of C. Valerius Crispus of legio VIII Augusta from Wiesbaden. Image: MCB
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you all have not read THE LOOMING TOWER by Lawrence Wright, I suggest you give it a go. Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Covers Bin Laden, Afghanistan, & everything else up to 9/11. A helluva lesson in how the impacts of events carry on & errors of judgment at high levels. #9/11
Cover of the paperback edition of the Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness #monstrosilist #ttrpg #dragon
black and white illustration of a dragon sleeping on a hill, with trees growing up from its back head and tail.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All this talk of 'advanced civilisations' is annoying me to fuck. A faint awareness of how these terms have been weaponised against Indigenous people and mobilised to further colonialism, and a willingness to engage with the disciplines who analyse and critique them, would go a long way! 🧪 🔭 🏺
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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
From Finland: the largest ever Viking age coin hoard - 4.5 kg, in two birch-bark containers. From Sysmä, north of Lahtis: archaeologists excavated, finding Swedish, English, German coins & dirhams dating it to 1000–1050, a silver ring & a few other small silver objects. fof.se/artikel/reko...
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Rekordstor vikingatida skatt hittad i Finland | Forskning & Framsteg
Den rutinerade fornfyndsletaren Kalle Lappinen var förra veckan ute med sin metallsökare i hopp om att hitta spår av ett gravfält från järnåldern i orten …
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 09/09/2026
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): Making the drydock scene
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great looking car. Damn.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 08/09/2026
I love how the interior of Spock's Jellyfish in Star Trek (2009) is inspired by the IDIC symbol. Ryan Church: "You can see the chair/console is based off of the Vulcan IDIC symbol, PD Scott Chambliss' idea. We had a little art room, Leonard Nimoy came in and looked at all our stuff, mind blown..."
SpockIDIC necklaceJellyfish cockpitJellyfish command, art by Ryan Church
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The ending of the phone call was Putin saying 'Pucker up and do it' followed by a lot of kissing noises from Trump, interspersed with compliments about Putin's butt" - my own reporting.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Turns out using AI well requires actual people well skilled in the processes www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...
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Ford Hiring 350 Engineers After AI Failed Shows Human Value In AI Era
Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI systems failed to maintain quality. The decision is attributed to lead in JD Power's ranking for the first time in 16 years.
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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Oxfords not Brogues 🇺🇦 🌻 🚜 🏁👻 @tancred1098.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Helluva thread - succinct with direct points. "Since the mainstream discourse stipulates that extremism must be “fringe,” anything that has broad support - regardless of how substantively extreme - is reflexively sanitized as *not* extremism and treated as respectable. "
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