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Craft Lass @craftlass.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Decades ago, when I first started learning guitar, I picked up a really weird habit of using an alternative open G. When @urbanastronyc.bsky.social pointed it out, I was scratching my head on where I got this. Finally found the answer: Jimmy Page In Tangerine, one of the 1st songs I learned. 🎸

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Hey yall. We started to foster this lil guy a week ago and have moved to adopt. We’ve almost pinned down a name. We think he’s a lab/pit mix, and possibly others. He is the sweetest bundle of love… when he’s not in a puppy zoomie state being a razor-wire-mouthed Baby Shark 😂🦈

A puppy sitting on a big stone in my parents backyard during golden hour. Grass and a shed can be seen in the background.

A puppy stands at the steps to the deck. His bottom half can’t be seen, but you can infer he is standing in grass and his front paws are in the first step as he stands. The immediate foreground has the deck, the background shows grass of the backyard

A selfie of me lying down with the puppy laying on my chest and arm. His head is tilted upward laying against mine. His eyes are closed and he appears to be smiling.

A selfie, although my face isn’t seen. I am laying on the couch. The puppy is laying in my lap, belly-side up. His front legs are down by his side and his bottom legs are stretched downward.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thank you all for your kind words about the passing of my dear Oscar. It was nice to see so many familiar faces from the Twitter days who used to see pics of him regularly. I miss him terribly. The Best Boy. 🌈🐕💔

One of my favorite pics I’ve ever taken of my boy. It is afternoon at Cold Spring Harbor and the sun is reflecting off the blue water. In the distant background is tree-covered land on the other side of the harbor. In the near background are boats and a floating dock. Near center frame is a tennis ball floating in the water, right beside the reflected sun, as small circle ripples emanate around it. Oscar is the foreground, lower in the frame, swimming away from our view towards the tennis ball, leaving ripples and waves in his wake.

We are taking his late afternoon walk. In the distant background center, the sun is low giving everything a golden hue. Oscar is walking in the center of the tree-lined neighborhood street. His outline is glowing golden as the setting sunlight passes through his fur. A green leash is attached to his harness and extends towards the camera and out of frame. The picture is from my perspective, and he is walking in front of me, leading me. His back is to us but he is looking slightly to the right

Just a picture of the pavement during an afternoon walk. The sun is behind us causing us to create long shadows on the road. Oscar’s shadow is looking up at my shadow, his mouth open like a smile.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

not sure if this is in the current bluesky consciousness, but the Nuclear Block is what makes this place great. a block ends everything between you and the blocked person. it robs them if all engagement. it’s very much why the troll problem here is much more limited than the everything app.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’m rarely on here and I don’t know who of my old Twitter friends are still here, but at the risk of screaming into the void: We will be saying farewell to my boy Oscar today. He just turned 14 last Wednesday. It’s all very sudden. I’m absolutely devastated. He is the best boy.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year from New York. May your year be filled with love, joy, and good health. We face some big challenges ahead but remember to take care of yourself too: You can’t pour from an empty cup. Love to all.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Okay, here's part of my painting process for The Horsehead Nebula on an angled cup!

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I’ve decided to rewatch Attack on Titan. Just got to the opening title and sequence and I never noticed it starts with singing in German! „Sind sie das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger!“ Are you (the) food? No, we are the Scouts*! 1/2

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

You are currently in line for Box. There is one Cat ahead of you. Thank you for waiting.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/12/2024

*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

What does the perfect Christmas movie have? Snow Sitting 'round a lovely fire Hanging out on a couch with friends and getting to know them better Feeling change deep in your heart

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a man with a beard is holding a flashlight in his hand .

Alt: Kurt Russel as MacReady in The Thing, half frozen and about to dynamite the facility. This is a Christmas movie

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This gag never gets old for me.

Color photo of a two story house at night. The occupants have set up what looks like a single giant tree — really three individual parts — that begins in the first floor living room and extends through the roof.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/12/2024

Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!

A 6-panel comic. In panel 1, two people talk against a snowy backdrop. In panel 1, the first person says "Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in SANTA, you get something sinister?" and the other says, "Yes: A ANTS." In panel 2, the first person says "Wait, no, that's-" The second says, "How do you think Santa finds his way to all those homes at night? Pheromone trails!" In panel 3, we're down in an ant nest. "Once the night is over, Santa returns to the North Pole, mates with the Queen Claus, and dies." There's a festive ant nest with an ant-bodied Mr and Ms Claus looking at each other lovingly. Panel 4, "The Queen begins laying eggs that will hatch into next year’s workers." The Queen lays eggs, and the workers are ant larvae with elf heads. Panel 5, "Next December, she will produce fertile Queens and Santas and the cycle will begin anew." The Queen lays eggs with both Santa and Ms Claus heads. In panel 6, we return to the two people talking, and the second person says "Of course, one queen must best the rest in combat, and the workers can't interfe-" "Stop." "But I haven't told you about the Santa-mimic spiders!"

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language. So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks? Start calling these folks pro-segregation.

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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 22/12/2024

Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar: Choosing and felling the perfect tree is a Canadian tradition! #wildlife

A beaver chewing through a fallen tree. A pile of wood chips is seen beneath the spot he is chewing on.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I just wanted you to know that the first two episodes of season 3 were absolutely SOLID. The ending of 1 was a banger and they - correctly - played different during the credits. I cried a few times during eps 1 and 2 which means im more invested and they’re doing their job. 1/2

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Once again I am obliged to mention that I recently worked in a school district where the policy was teachers were not to accept gifts from parents worth more than $5 lest it affect our grading.

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm Interviewer: please leave

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 22/12/2024

DONE! FINISHED! THE END! December's #InsertAnInvert2024 and the final month of these paintings. I thank and curse @franzanth.bsky.social for this year long project. #SciArt #TradArt #Invertebrates

An open sketchbook with watercolor illustrations of fort invertebrates, the top is long slender and brown goldish. The second is a rotund springtail. The third is a black and white owl fly. The last is a back swimmer, upside down floating on its back

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: I’m sorry, Frodo… I was… delayed… Interviewer: Alright then, keep your secrets.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I just watched the second season of “From” and I’m really sorry to say… I was grateful disappointed. It wasn’t a “Heroes”-level drop in quality but… it just didn’t work for me. So much unmotivated yelling, swearing, and decision-making. (I love swearing but this felt oddly forced). 1/2

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Tea Pain just saw his first Tesla truck in person. Looks like a 12-year-old made it on Minecraft.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

CUT MY WORM IN TWO PIECES NOW I HAVE TWO LIVE WORMS - Papa Roach as a kid, probably

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

when I was a kid I heard another kid arguing about why he had to do service for others in the gurudwara and his parent was like "if you won't help others what is the point of you" and I've never forgotten that line.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

PBS News has activated their account on Bluesky.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 21/12/2024

me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

There is no good music streaming platform but spotify is absolutely the most evil one and also has the distinction of sounding the shittiest

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Andrew Sheeler @andrewsheeler.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It's the 1920s, and the head of an American car company has endorsed a far right German political party. It's the 2020s, and the head of an American car company has endorsed a far right German political party.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

as an ex-twitter employee, I can confidently speak for us all: this hits on EVERY level

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Rewatching the 2004 Dawn of the Dead and I just wanna say, I’m glad it was the first feature film in Zakk Snyder’s catalogue. This movie would have been much worse with that extreme shallow depth of field he employed in Army of the Dead and the Rebel Moon movies. 1/3

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Xmas ghosts are stirring @toffph.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

People are still unearthing the old stories, and I'd argue that new movies and books of Christmas horror stories are in the same tradition. www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (1963, Pola & Wyle) there’s the lyric: “We’ll tell scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago.” Speaking as an American Jew, I feel commercialized Christmas is missing out on the ghost stories aspect. 1/2

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Happy #WeevilWednesday - this broad-nosed weevil looks like it's been dipped in licorice sprinkles (zoom in). Seen on creosote at night in CA's Anza-Borrego Desert. Guessing it's in the same genus (Ophryastes) as a similar, smaller one I found 2 weeks ago in the Mojave, but not sure. #insects 🐙🌿

A closeup photo of a chunky weevil perched on yellow-orange creosote bush leaves at night. The weevil is black and white, and up close is covered in tiny, bead-like scales which look like candy sprinkles. It is holding on to the creosote stem only with its back two pairs of legs, while the front pair are held out in front of it.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

🇩🇪 An meine deutschsprachigen Freunde, hier ist ein toller Artikel in der Süddeutsche Zeitung von Theresa Palm, die mich über die wunderschöne und besondere Firefly Sparkle-Galaxie interviewt hat, die von JWST entdeckt wurde. ℹ️: www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/firef...

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James-Webb-Weltraum-Teleskop bildet Milchstraßen-ähnliche Babygalaxie ab

Das Webb-Teleskop hat im jungen Universum die kleine Firefly-Sparkle-Galaxie vermessen. Dafür war eine kosmische Lupe nötig.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

On This Day in 1978: I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York. She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history. #HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

So while I’ve been ill I decided to rewatch/binge the first season of The Punisher, which I have not watched since 2017. I did not realize that David “Micro” Lieberman was Ebon Moss-Bachrach. So Jon Bernthal and Moss-Bachrach went from partners in The Punisher to best friends in The Bear (2022).

Scene from The Punisher in which Ebon Moss-Bacharach as Micro and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle clinking glasses in a cheers gesture.

Scene from The Bear in which Moss-Rachbach as Richie and Bernthal as Mikey are laughing in a kitchen.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

What’s got two thumbs and body aches from having the flu This guy! 😷 👍🏻👍🏻

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

the year is 2034. there are thousands of specialty accounts on twitter. stair guy. smell doctor. cutlery gal. sports them. liquor baby. chef raccoon. finally, men can no longer post any photo without being criticized.

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Clayton Hove @adtothebone.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I have found my people.

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Justin Starr @urbanastronyc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

@timisham.bsky.social hey man. As a choral guy, I’m a lot less familiar with the orchestral/band composers. So I asked my coworker who just came up to the middle school from the elementary school if he knew your name and he was like “I just did one of his pieces last year!” :)

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

[bene gesserit voice] giddy up jingle horse pick up your feet

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I stand by it, Elf on the Shelf is ACAB

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Morpheus: You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. me (42 years old): which one is ibuprofen

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