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Cynosura

@cynosurae.bsky.social

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31/queer, she/her, ΘΔ. professional space nerd. I try to keep this account mostly SFW, but I still don’t want you here if you’re under 18.

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Avi ➡️ BLFC (Zatzinged and Living) @clam.monster · 1d

Good batch! I'll be using 'em to promote za (probably slightly more limited) slots I'll be opening up for before VancouFur, Furlandia, and Everfree 2026

Photo of a couch cushion populated with eight furry convention badges: Avi (a light maroon female yinglet with brown hair), Fey (a filled-out femme fox), Astrea (a blue tigress in a collared shirt and red vest), Yuzu (a male cat in blue hoodie), Midas (a male green dragon with purple hair and a very long tail), Kochab (a hungry femme coyote), Therra (a small nonbinary dragon), and Dreck (a female yinglet with possum coloration)

The reverse of Yuzu and Kochab's badges, depicting Yuzu emerging from a portal on a brick wall, and Cynosura, a realistic coyote with numerous piercings and a purple radio collar

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Cynosura @cynosurae.bsky.social · 1d

maybe i should follow baseball semi-seriously for the first time in my life

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hi! Nice to meet you, I'm the faceless technician who's job it is to explain what a nanorobot is to the audience in every movie with a magic nanotech liquid metal character. You might have already met my brother, the guy who explains that EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse.

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max 🌌 and 7 others @sneptech.bsky.social · 2d

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Kian @canineblood.bsky.social · 4d

Reverse therian

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Naomi 🔜 BLFC @team-stardust.pmd.social · 5d

emulated mind #vuiart

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ΘΔ Vee 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔜 BLFC @vernox.bsky.social · 6d

Doing a little species swap with @team-stardust.pmd.social

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Bokdan0 @bokdan0.bsky.social · 6d

What was that?
1/2

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 7d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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laney @saltmalk.in · Jul 29

pupy

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Canis Tenebris @canistenebris.bsky.social · 8d

God's not here.
This is an empty box.

#Art #Darkart

a simple digital painting of church pews in a darkened room with a black dog sitting in one row. The dog has pale, glowing eyes and stares at the viewer.

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Rabosa al Forn @rabosaalforn.bsky.social · 8d

Open up your eyes.

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Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥 @jcampbellsmith.bsky.social · 8d

"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

This digitally painted piece honors the survivor spirit of the coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our landscapes today. Below the horizon, carefully chosen ancestors mark pivotal moments in adaptation, each contributing to the form and survivor we see today. Above the horizon, Coyote stands alert at the center, framed by both Denver’s skyline and a mountain backdrop, symbols of their ability to thrive in cities as well as wilderness. Embedded in the ground are the skulls and bones of carnivores whose lineages ended long ago, emphasizing Coyote’s persistence in contrast.

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Cherry Wake @shapeshifter.bsky.social · Oct 3

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Cynosura @cynosurae.bsky.social · 10d

oh fuck there’s a tournament? kickass

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Remmy (allegedly) @remmyzilla.bsky.social · 10d

there it is

web.archive.org/web/20241105...

walking mirage on cohost

In the unlikely event you are ever in a public space and you see a blacklight display with glowing fluorescent colors, but the lights illuminating those colors are electric blue instead of deep purple...

web.archive.org

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earses @howlitzer.art · Jul 27

werewolf snarling, ominous lighting #art

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 11d

william stafford

Journey

You ramble over the wilderness, a bear or
a wolf, on the left a friend,
on the right one to watch. Eyes
give each other their flame and go out
when you meet. There was an event
so great that you study each other, but
so long ago that your shoulders forget
in a rain where later things grow.
You ramble home. What happened?
Nothing. But you study the floor.
Should you say, "I was a bear or
a wolf"? No, you can't.
But you were.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...