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Thea van Diepen 🌳📚

@theavandiepen.bsky.social
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Author of fantasy and sci fi, lover of languages, "yes we could definitely put more trees in this book" They/them 🏳️‍🌈 theavandiepen.com/links

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
coroner: it appears the subject died of multiple tab wounds
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caemeron @caemeroncc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
hey, so that AI menu for your restaurant looks like shit. no way I'm eating there. more likely if you took a low-res pic of the actual food your AI YouTube thumbnail also looks like shit. I don't want to click anymore despite being subscribed to your channel. Stop it. go back or whatever
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/saga...
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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
Oh my god, and I just recently learned that there are people who have made it their life’s work to get American chestnuts back… This is going to be devastating on so many awful levels.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.
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Shade 5 @shade5.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Hear Me Out …a fashion line designed for hackers: MALWEAR
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demonica 👹 @monicadominator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
screenshot of a tumblr post. op says "having a friend that's as insane about the character as you is great because you can say something like "he's so chewable" and not only will they agree, they'll say something equally as insane like "he's like children's medicine". a person responds, "vitamin designers discovering fred flintstone." op responds, "the only valid reply to this post everyone else go home"
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a history to this that I think a lot of people don't know. Adult movie studios can operate just fine, movie stars have to protect their wallet names or they'll get de-banked even tho it's legal. There are often city ordinances that make it impossible for the dancers to own the strip club.
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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 04/10/2026
CONTROL (2019)
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Oh, you need your precious Chatbot to help you be creative? These freaks made a giant, tactile troll by hand that has taken up residence as my new sleep paralysis demon, born of their own sick minds.” The best review I’ve ever received. 😭🤌🏼
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/10/2026
if I worked at the secret government agency tasked with suppressing unknowable extradimensional horrors I wouldn't complain so much after finding out my fate is sealed because the unknowable extradimensional horrors have escaped. I would already be emotionally prepared for that
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 03/10/2026
"we can't make video games without AI" only makes sense if you think video games were invented about three years ago. anyway, here's doom played on an old calculator powered by potatoes
two hands holding a ti 84 calculator next to some potatoes with wires coming out of them
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/09/2024
the three genders
three squeeze bottles of sauce labeled 
special, Halloween & Mild
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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Twenty years ago when we’d winter on Maui the local rag had a police blotter section that usually included vehicle incidents. That’s where I became familiar with the construction “car went huli” which has actually gotta be the best form of things doing things ever. *huli: roll over or flip
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one of my most sacred & cringe book release rituals is to buy something that matches the cover and honestly i crushed it this time
a late-thirties white woman doing a bathroom mirror selfie. i'm holding an orange book and wearing an orange sweater, looking pleased with myself
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*
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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 27/09/2026
Wage theft is the biggest form of theft. And because employers force their employees onto poverty assistance, it's also a theft of your tax money. The robber barons love it when you blame the people they decided to rob. www.epi.org/publication/...
epi.org
Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberi...
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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...
scrippsnews.com
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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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/09/2026
the best part about this is that you can then read all the code that makes up muse, and it's like five shell scripts and an extremely lengthy prompt telling it how to make absofuckinglutely sure that it knows how and what you want to shop for.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Help 50501 & @voffund.bsky.social honor Dolly Parton’s legacy on 9-to-5 Day! We all miss Dolly, so pour yourself a cup of ambition, channel that energy, & follow her lead by helping support child literacy, free libraries, & mutual aid drives. #DollyParton #DollyDay #NineToFive #ImaginationLibrary
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026
Okay - this one didn’t make me cackle but did make me stop and say “oh shit”
Ms Hera.
@_littlehuman_
How many chefs do you think were wrongfully execu ed in the medieval times because the King's food tester had a food allergy?
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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
sometime i feel the word disability tax doesnt fully describe the egregious dehumanization disabled folks constantly have to deal with. its the never-ending administrative violence on top of other forms of violence, that makes you physically and mentally unwell.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Your feed now contains one Red Deer and several complimentary ferns. Enjoy.
A Red Deer looks through a curtain of green ferns with its antlers tangled in leafy fronds, giving the impression it's accidentally wearing a woodland hat. The softly blurred background creates a peaceful forest scene.
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human scary bean @humanbean.net · 04/07/2025
my cousin's neighbor's horses got out last night and decided to go for a swim she texted me this and i think you should see it
a man standing in a fenced backyard. He is looking at a pool, and a horse is standing in the pool. The man has his hands in his pockets and is wearing a baseball cap. The horse is wearing a bridle.
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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm seeing more friends get the fall vaccines (hooray!) and also please take a look at this suggested histamine protocol!
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The bread is perfect, the bread is warm, well-risen; the bread, golden, is baked to perfection, the delicacies are a pleasure in my hands. (OGC)
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scarydory @dorianshmorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mood
Old woman looking tired and disgruntled wearing a t-shirt that says, "I AM A GODDAMNED DELIGHT".
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Jake Lawrence @timecowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
some creatures you might find in the woods.
Two panels; top is of some glowing sprite type creatures huddled together in the grass and the second is a big black serpentine creature with blank yellow eyes moving slowly through the forest.
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Skalle Katt 💀 @kallekatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surveillance tech named Rock, developed by a company with the name Alcatraz Satire is dead
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I got this amazing video of one of my ghost shrimp, you can actually see it's heart and stomach (orange sac in the head) undulating like a lava lamp 🦐
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excuse me panicking BCers, but Alberta isn't facing a separatist referendum next month. We're facing a referendum to decide if we want to have a separatist referendum. 🥰
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of two short haired cats on a bench. A tabby looks disapprovingly at the camera while a black and white cat looks disinterestedly off to the right.
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is from my new AI statement, dedicated to Bluesky copyright abolitionists that I haven't blocked yet 🥰
Oh, and to those readers who will load this to “archive sites”
because you’re an uwu smolbean communist or some other bullshit
you tell yourself? Fuck you. Those sites sold my books to AI
companies for their own fucking profit.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bibi Netanyahu is a *secular Jew* and also a terrible person not all Jews are religious just like nobody thinks Trump is sincerely doing Lenten practice eg
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am ok with this. People who are using Ai chatbots for financial advice should learn this lesson.
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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
me: if land in the water is an “island” then water on land should be an “isntland” webster’s editor: how do you keep getting in here
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“While LLMs offer immediate convenience…findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over 4 months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic and behavioral levels” 🧠 only: strongest most distributed networks Search Engine users: moderate engagement LLM users: weakest connectivity
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we don’t talk enough about how mushrooms are just the fruit part of a much bigger organism, one that lives in the darkness of the earth and whispers secrets with trees
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17/09/2026
Enormous skill issue. I would simply have made the precious baby comfortable in my home. Give churu.
In 2016, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a biologist and National Geographic Explorer working in Bolivia, received a call from a local wildlife sanctuary that had just been given what they described as "a weird cat." It came from a local man who found it as a kitten on a road near a
forest. The man took the animal home, believing it to be a domestic breed. But after about a year of living with the clearly wild animal, he realized it would be better off at a sanctuary.
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Lady DEADtera, Wee Ghostie Edition 👻🍁😷 @ladylettera32.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
URGENT The deadline to request a mail in ballot has been moved up to SEPTEMBER 25! Make sure you get yours ASAP!
globalnews.ca
Deadline moved up as demand surges for Alberta referendum mail-in ballots | Globalnews.ca
Elections Alberta says interest is so high that it's moving up the deadline to apply for mail-in ballots by two weeks, with the new cut off set for Sept. 25 instead of Oct. 9.
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On similar note, why sell our financial infrastructure to a US private equity firm? Sign the petition to stop proposed acquisition of Moneris payment system to US control. It would create unacceptable risk to Canadian data sovereignty, privacy, operational resilience and economic security. #cdnpoli
ourcommons.ca
Petition e-7712 - Petitions
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here is the setting you need to turn off if you don't want a human potentially reading through your ChatGPT conversations. I've seen some of the prompts; these ChatGPT users clearly have no idea a human is reading www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Gist" is a great word because it seems like it's part of a larger word but you don't even need to know the rest of it, you got the gist.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Real men make sure babies’ little beans aren’t cold. Photo from my collection, no date/info. 
Black-and-white photo of a light skinned man standing outside wearing heavy winter clothing. He is in front of a clapboard wooden house. He is looking down at a ginger tabby kitten in his arms and tending to it with hands that are covered in heavy duty, leather mittens.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Like among the many many ways this person is wrong maybe primary amongst them is the fact that the entire field of geology came about because of bored second sons going on extended walks through Scotland and England.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I wasn’t meant to be a modern woman I was meant to be a second son born to landed gentry with no inclination toward military or church service.
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