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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 5h

Still more amazing science that needs to come to public markets.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9h

Chinese scientists have created a oyster-inspired medical adhesive called Bone-02 that can bond shattered bones in just 3 minutes. Inspired by how oysters cling to rocks underwater, the glue forms a strong, biodegradable bond that replaces screws and plates. buff.ly/znJ2jxD
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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 5h

GenX represent. I have seen every movie on this poster.

Hail the master. May his art and energy live on for generations.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 7h

Drew Struzan has passed.

His oil paintings defined pop culture for many of us.

Rest well, Sir.

A collage of movie posters Struzan painted.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 7h

Know where it comes from to better understand where it's heading.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 1d

My big pile of dopamine hits is ready to mail out on its assigned date tomorrow.

With the help of friends, I have 200 get-out-the-vote postcards for Virginia voters written and stamped.

Persist. Resist. & Grow.

A pile of 200 orange framed postcards with the words Virginia Votes Tuesday Nov 4th is sitting on top of the Postcards to Swing States instruction page and address list.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 3d

So my buddy Carlota, who is taking over Dogskull Patch, has a group of feral cats to deal. She’s been trapping and neutering as possible, but one sweetheart named Big Daddy showed up on the porch limping. Some asshole shot him. She’s raising money for his amputation and care. gofund.me/3b6cf293e

Donate to Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot, organized by Carrie Sykes

There's a colony of lovely cats living in a rural neighborhood in Goldston, NC. Fr… Carrie Sykes needs your support for Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot

gofund.me

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 1d

Thread (read all the posts) and quite true. Just ASK animal-related groups that are local: "I'm struggling, do you know of any pet food banks/options around?" because they usually have contacts and might run one themselves.

Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 1d

Gentle reminder: I am seeing more "I cannot afford pet food" posts & if you might face this in the near future/now, I recommend checking your local area's subreddit and posting if anyone knows of local programs for pet food. Many areas have small under-the-radar charities that give out pet food.

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 2d

If you didn’t know, Alaska has been hit by a massive storm, causing severe flooding. Many Indigenous villages have been completely wiped out, with some houses floating away with PEOPLE INSIDE THEM. Please keep posting to spread the info. They need help.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

Well. Things are pretty bad for the current regime. Look who they've pissed off NOW. (Watch to the end, it's not just footage from Portland. Surprise musical guest!)

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

Your yearly reminder that in 1972 the state of Hawaii changed the name of the holiday observed on the second Monday of October to Discoverers Day in honor of all discoverers a& particularly the Pacific navigators whose skill and courage populated the many islands spread across the vast Pacific Ocean

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 3d

Catchy and painful.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 8

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 3d

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 3d

This is an amazing and powerful story. Chicago Catholics are using religious symbolism and pageantry *for good* this time.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4d

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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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 4d

Things I learned! I know that apples on pizza are amazing, but have never tried strawberries.

Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

Strawberries on pizza are delicious and I will die on this hill. Blueberries taste of nothing, BUT they dye the cheese around them purple, and this delights me, so I will always do it if given the opportunity.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 4d

Write it in the sky with hundred foot letters of burning flame

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 5d

I just rescued a frog from the frog ladder in the pool filter intake. Clueless, but pretty.

A large, round, red frog with green sides, two dorsal stripes, and long middle toes is sitting in a mesh pool scoop.

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 6d

I recently subscribed to this newsletter. It’s a calm, factual discussion of science and science-related things like statistics. It’s also quietly hopeful. Try it!

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 6d

oh and by the way, for now and for always, subscribing is free! Feel free to pitch in but having you on board just getting the occasional email for free is enough validation for this overachieving attention-starved last of 5 children.
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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 6d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Cricket @colleencricket.bsky.social · 7d

A fantastic book that starts slow and ends strongly - my favorite form.

Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social · 7d

Today's word is STRONG. Today's #Bookqw from THE SILVERED, an Aurora Award winning fantasy that takes place in the liminal space between magic & technology. Includes shifters, social commentary on shoes, & a part written for a younger Sean Bean.

Available digitally worldwide. ($9.99 CAD)

On the left, the digital cover of THE SILVERED: A wolf's head made of lines of light against a dark blue/purple background. The small text over the wolf's nose mentions that it won the Aurora Award for best novel.

The lieutenant opened his mouth, but before he could speak, before he could make a smarmy pronouncement on what Kirstin had done, before he could claim her pain as his, Danika said softly, "They have very good hearing, our beasts."
The lieutenant's mouth snapped shut. He glanced up at the darkening sky with wide eyes, looked for a moment as if he were about to order a march through the night, then he snarled, "Get those fires lit!" Turned and strode to the other side of the camp. Danika glanced at the sergeant, who nodded.
"Jasine?"
"Pulse is fast but strong. Her nose is bleeding, but I think l'II stop soon enough. The net's left white lines on her fingertips."
"Burns?"
"More like frostbite."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d

These mood jewellery pronoun pins are probably the coolest things I've ever made but I need to sell about 180 more of them to break even.

Anyone want a magical colour-change pronoun pin? canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 19d

Q: What do you get if you cross a mood ring with a pronoun pin?

A: My latest design at canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

Please share!

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