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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 8m

There's something about the way speed skaters move that just seems to break physics a little. Their strides are so slow, but they go so fast.

Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 3h

GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦

BRONZE FOR CANADA 🇨🇦

It’s a double dip for the Canadian speed skaters here at the World Tour in Montreal. Will Dandjinou flies to 500m gold. Steven Dubois secures bronze. What a race. What a start for the Canadians.

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Janice Braden @janicebraden.bsky.social · 1h

My condo building hired a falconer to control pigeons and today, we had a chance for a demo and to ask questions. Here is Gizmo, munching on a turkey neck while his handler tells us all about how falconry is done. Did you know they can see a pigeon 1.5 miles away? All very cool.

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Sea⚡Kelpie @seakelpie.bsky.social · 1h

Beware the P3TA UK has joined 🦋 & the repost propoganda brigade is active. You may want to add to your block list - #Iditarod #MusherSky #UglyDogs

@ tojo562001 . bsky . social posting PETA propaganda about iditarod

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 36m

TIL they're making a movie out of this fantastic book.

Deadline @deadline.com · 14h

Hugh Jackman's comedy Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie is now titled The Sheep Detectives and will be released on May 8, 2026.

Hugh Jackman’s Amazon MGM Studios Comedy ‘Three Bags Full’ Changes Title & Moves To Mother’s Day Weekend 2026

Hugh Jackman's comedy Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie is now titled The Sheep Detectives and will be released on May 8, 2026.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 39m

That's heading for us tomorrow, and I'm almost glad our friendsgiving plans were cancelled, because I don't think hanging out at the farm when it's 3°C and dropping while raining would exactly be a good time.

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 1h

I used to get so many emails. And letters. The letters crammed with absolutely frothing content, in tiny hand on multiple pages, both sides. And then added to in all four margins. And then added to on the envelope in a halo around the address. In green ink.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 12h

Seeing a man carrying multiple lacrosse sticks on public transport is not supposed to happen in London, I am upset. For starters if you play lacrosse you have enough money for a taxi

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 49m

“…build a city where trans New Yorkers are CHERISHED”

cherished 🥹

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 49m

Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom the weaver.

Kevin Kline as Nick Bottom in full asswear. He has scratchy hairs on his face and long pointy ass ears.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8h

Whenever you hear a tech CEO spinning out *absolute fucking nonsense* using star trek language, some of what you're hearing is a screeching positive feedback loop between him and the crackpots he's spending all of his time listening to.

Some of whom he literally created.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
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Sign Up

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Mike McIntyre @mikemcintyrewpg.bsky.social · 18h

I hope Seattle and Detroit play until early Sunday morning. And it’s only decided when both teams have to bring in a position player to pitch because they’ve run out of arms.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 19h

I love this.

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

“she placed the frogs under interdict” that’s a curse guys

she cursed them

you canonized a witch

a gay witch probably

this is my new favorite saint. team Ulphia forever. just a baby lesbian and her old man hermit bestie vibing in their French swamp

a portrait of two Saint weirdos standing on a swampy marshy riverbank with a bunch of frogs looking up at them. one is a very very old bald man in a brown robe with weirdly voluminous sleeves. the other is a young woman in a kind of sand beige gown with a white head scarf

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 18h

That's a beautiful fuzzy blanket you have there.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 18h

Hell, I've got H's, and I'm like, half that. Maybe with some serious push-ups. And padding. And possibly tape.

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 18h

😯

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I'll be in my bunk.

Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 18h

I ~was~ doing okay until I was reminded that I don't have one of these either.

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

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Biological Riley @biologicalriley.bsky.social · 20h

I’m sorry but no one should take fashion advice from a Michigan man wearing a cowboy costume

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 20h

Credit to @WolfeyNHLUtah on the other app

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 20h

I just remembered that in uni I wrote a paper about cultural references in THE MATRIX and as an aside, I was like, "isn't it interesting how often Neo is compared to/evokes female characters (Alice, Dorothy, Sleeping Beauty)? Anyhoo, back to the real meanings of the references in this movie..."

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 2d

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis

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Cat Care Network of Central Iowa @catcarenetworkiowa.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend holding hands with a snuggly kitty in These Trying Times 😻

A grey foster kitten named Sneffels sleeps with his face in the palm of his human’s hand. Both front paws are wrapped around the hand. Photo owned by CatCareNetwork.org

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