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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 1h

Aww, I hope you’re feeling better now! Have fun in Bangalore!

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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 19h

🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂

So share some of my paintings??

In the pew-lined interior of a dim medieval church lit by rows of candles on tall staffs and pale sunlight coming through a window, a tall humanoid crow figure with flowing black robes and a glowing yellow eye stands beneath an ornately carved semicircular arch in Norman Romanesque style. On the wall surrounding the arch are many colourful murals depicting more humanoid crow figures with halos, carrying various items including swords, spears, harps, and chalices.

A painting set in a cosy shady woodland clearing on a sunny summer's day. In the centre of the frame, two figures sit on a fallen log mostly hidden by vegetation. The figure on the right has wavy blonde hair down past her shoulders, and wears a flowing white floor-length dress with long sleeves, with delicate lacework around the cuffs and neckline. She looks into the distance with a contemplative, sad expression. On her lap rests a small green book, covered by both of her hands.
The figure on the left sits leaning with her head against shoulder of the other figure. She wears a similar dress but simpler, and in a dark slate grey. Her hair is dark and straight, and flows down her tilted face, and she looks off towards a nightingale bird perched on a nearby branch. She raises a hand towards the other figure as if to get her attention.

Both figures are surrounded by various flowers. On the left of the frame are many spires of foxglove flowers in vivid pink and white, interspersed among green stinging nettles. On the right are the purple flowers of monkshood/wolfsbane.

Wrapping around the figures is a clear stream flowing from a distant pond that descends in a series of steps. Around the stream are many small mossy rocks, and shoots of dark green dog's mercury.

Above and behind the figures and flowers are two trees; on the left is a weeping willow with dangling dark green leaves. On the right are the branches of an old ash tree.

A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.

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Megan All Hallows' Eve 🦇 @meganeve.bsky.social · 18h

My sign.

Scary green witch figure with a sign "please do not play with the witch. She is fragile."

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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 1h

Did you leave without meeting up at all? How rude!

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 4h

Tenure-track opening @ U. Colorado Boulder Dept. of Math!

Esp. (but not only) looking for:
algebraic geometry
homotopy theory
foundations
functional analysis
number theory
interdisciplinary collab. b/w math & computer science or the math of quantum physics

www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...

#🧮

MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society

Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.

www.mathjobs.org

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Some environmental good news for once:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday, I guess? 😊

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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KIT Graduate School Cyber Security @kitcybersec.bsky.social · 1d

You are an Early Career Researcher in #cybersec? Here is an opportunity: The AEC chairs of @USENIXSecurity '26 are looking for (self)nominations for the Artifact Evaluation Committee. Deadline: October 17th, 2025, so sign up soon!
@chwress.bsky.social, @kumarde.bsky.social, @aurore-fass.bsky.social

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Inigo Montoya first draft

morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 1d

You have killed someone dear to me. It is a mistake you will not live to regret.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2d

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Rohini Lakshané @aldebaran14.bsky.social · 1d

Wikimedia, FLOSS and all openness folks, yours truly will be in Thiruvananthapuram next month for work. Happy to catch up. Please DM, email, text.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 2d

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 2d

(Not a Byzantinist) Looks like Loss 😁

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sadhominem @sadhominem.bsky.social · Dec 13

my fave Kant factoid is that Tove Jansson's Moomintroll from Moomins was originally a caricature of Kant

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Dec 13

I like that one. But even better in my eyes is the story I heard that when his memory started to fail him, Kant would write notes on the tablecloth at dinner of the conversational topics so as not to repeat himself.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · Dec 13

My fave Kant factoid? Legend has it that Disciplined Kant took the same walk at the same time each day and townsfolk set their clocks by him. In fact, Kant played afternoon billiards with his pal & then fell asleep in an easy chair. Pal's servant would wake him & send him home at same time each day.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 2d

Post docs who bring their own funding

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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 2d

Please, usually there’s at least some neurospiciness included!

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 2d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 2d

Tag yourself, I’m a poor little beastie

Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social · 2d

Florence Nightingale's pet owl Athena

Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 2d

Good fences make good emus

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