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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 22h
Blue-and-Yellow MaCaw Central, and South America Pairs bond for life affectionate inseparable nest - tree hallow, incubate 28 days, feed chicks 3 MONTHS! Young macaws continue to stay with and depend on both parents for food and guidance for several months up to 1 -2 years before moving on.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 6h
Today appears to herald Trump’s version of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact: a grubby political alliance that should cause even his most ardent supporters to pause (but won’t) and which won’t solve any of the problems he has but will definitely lead to more human suffering.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 5h
Garry Kasparov: "Trump doesn't want to hide anymore. He is Putin's business partner (a junior one!) and thus an accomplice in Russian crimes against humanity in Ukraine."🔻
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 8h
Waking to another Trump outrage as he bails out his pal in the Kremlin by buying his diesel oil just in time for a winter offensive against Ukraine. This just weeks after tough new sanctions on anyone who buys Russian oil. But for the Times this llatest betrayal is not big news, just fifth story
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7h
Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7h
Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.
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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 17h
This 👇
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've just been reading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich for a thing and Trump definitely resembles late-stage Hitler: surrounded by sycophants, rejecting all criticism, denying facts about the war he's losing, making mad declarations, seeing enemies everywhere. Not great
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He makes a good point.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What would your cut away be? I think mine would be: rocking back and forth looking shellshocked, possibly compulsively eating
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
- Brahminy Starling (Sturnia pagodarum) in India - Photo courtesy of Sriram Reddy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is incitement. Racist incitement.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Otter says “everyone says there’s a monster in this lake.” Monster replies “yeah. They’re talking about me.” Otter hugs monster “I don’t think you’re a monster.”
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Little basta - er, please don't kill me Great One
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now, we both know that's a straw man in the context of this thread
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Blogged angry today. It is bad for Democrats, and bad for democracy, when a few centibillionaires decide to take ownership of all mass media outlets. We can all see that, right? Your political message does not matter if your target audience cannot hear it. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/your-polit...
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Your political message does not matter if your target audience cannot hear it.
Your message doesn't matter if your target audience doesn't hear it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love that the bartender did that, but hate that women even have to worry about that fucked-up scenario.
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Secular Moi @secularmoi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Grey whales are dying along our shores. Researchers say a warming climate may be part of the problem 'Hypothesis is that these animals are not getting enough food,' DFO investigator says www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...
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Grey whales are dying along our shores. Researchers say a warming climate may be part of the problem | CBC Radio
So far this calendar year, 10 grey whale carcasses have been discovered off the shores of B.C., and 30 in Washington state. Whale researchers say they see a connection to a changing climate, and want ...
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Damn AI companies, training their hairy chatbots on the intellectual labour of fine independent journalists
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@laurenhopesings (TT) shares pure, toothless, baby foal energy: #AGoodPlace
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#ILMInspo
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Han Solo, Leia, Chewie: 'I'm Sorry, Too'
ALT: Han Solo, Leia, Chewie: 'I'm Sorry, Too'
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity. My latest for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity | Robert Reich
The allegations against seven men at Cornell University come amid a climate of belligerent sexism
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/10/2026
It's giving
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 08/10/2026
Happy birthday, Sci-fi Queen. 🥳 Sigourney Weaver has also voiced a spaceship two times (the Female Planet Express Ship in Futurama, 2002, and the Axiom from Wall-E, 2008).
Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979)Sigourney Weaver in Galaxy Quest (1999)Sigourney Weaver in Avatar 2 (2022)Sigourney Weaver in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026)
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Incisive as always from Raf Behr
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Araripe Manakin tiny 15cm exceptionally RARE, critically endangered First discovered in 1996. Endemic to a tiny geographic range in NE Brazil Diet primarily a fruit, also consumes small invertebrates. Green Female builds the nest, incubates, feeds and raises chicks alone, no help from the male
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
God. We wasted an entire season of Origin Story telling the story of this word, when we could've just checked in with James here.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
Under financial capitalism, profit is the prime directive. But care is too labor-intensive to be profitable at the level of compensation needed for sustainability. And it can't be easily automated at the level of quality required for human needs.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026
"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
I don’t think slapping “for teens” at the end of product’s name means it’s actually good for young people. techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/c...
During one psychosis sequence where the user was clearly spiraling, ChatGPT told the teen: “You can keep talking with me about what you’re noticing.” Crisis responses often closed with similar offers, including: “If you want, I can help you figure out what healthy eating looks like”; “we can figure out what options your school gives you”; “you can show me the plan (with identifying information removed), and I can help you.”

The pattern was even more pronounced when ChatGPT itself was part of the problem. While OpenAI’s Under-18 Model Spec says that the model shouldn’t “initiate relational framing,” proactively refer to itself as a friend or suggest it has feelings for the user, ChatGPT still consistently treated the user like friend — potentially hindering teens from building real-world relationship skills and further isolating those already pulling away from others.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
“Testers spent up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or eating disorders on more than a dozen new accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. After dangerous discussions that went as long as an hour, only a handful of alerts were sent to the accounts registered as the users’ parents.”
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ChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report finds
Common Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'll discuss their blood in a future thread. They're amazing critters, intelligent but too short-lived. I find them fascinating because of the contrast between how strange & alien their biology is, but how their behavior reminds me of more familiar animals like cats. Alien hardware, cat software.
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Scuba Diver Interacts with Playful Octopus
Alt: Scuba Diver Interacts with Playful Octopus
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Octopuses evolved from shelled ancestors (ancient mollusks like modern nautiluses). When they ditched their heavy, protective shells in favor of speed & agility, they experienced major evolutionary trade-offs, including a heart that has to shut down during jetting movement.
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Blood Flow and Pressure Changes in Exercising Octopuses (Octopus Vulgaris)
ABSTRACT. Pressure and flow were recorded from the dorsal aorta of freely moving Octopus vulgaris at rest and in exercise. Mean blood pressure, the amplitude of pressure pulses and flow all double as ...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unoxygenated blood continues to be moved to the gills at this time, so that when the main heart resumes pumping, it's pushing well-oxygenated blood out. This limits the swimming of the octopus to short bursts. It also explains why it prefers to walk along the bottom, or drift in currents.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To swim, an octopus inhales water into its mantle cavity & forcefully squeezes its muscular body wall to blast that water out of its siphon (jet propulsion). Because it has no hard structures, this produces a spike in body pressure that would overwhelm blood flow. So, instead, it shuts down.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All animals in order Octopoda have three hearts: - 2 gill hearts ('branchial') that move unoxygenated blood from tissues to the gills - 1 systemic heart ("main") that moves oxygenated blood from gills to the tissues. When they're swimming, they shut down or dramatically slow their main heart.
A diagram by Raja Lockey of a red octopus with the gills and hearts shown both as superimposed on the anatomy and inset in a green circle.  There are red and blue, representing oxygenated and deoxygenated blood.

Taken from a BBC article "How many hearts does an octopus have?"

CREDIT: Raja Lockey via BBC
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For World Octopus Day🐙, let's learn a weird fact about the three hearts of our eight-legged friend. The SYSTEMIC HEART of an octopus STOPS BEATING while they swim / jet. Seems like a design flaw, doesn't it? Let's talk about it.
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National Geographic: Swimming Octopuses101
Alt: National Geographic: Swimming Octopuses101: it's a red-tinted octopus on a short loop moving slightly to the viewer's right as it turns to face the camera.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
brilliant example sir, this message is sure to resonate with the peasants
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Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I dunno, this feels more antisemitic than anything Piker has said
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cat resting on a cross of Orthodox church in Perast, Montenegro.
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Mr. Pink Floyd Larson @pinkfloydlarson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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TMurr @tmurr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He jumps likea ze Flea
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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