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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 6h

watching a modern cdrama to improve my language fluency and I'm about 10% better in business and social situations and 1000% better at devastating put downs towards my future daughter-in-law who is not the same social class and station as me

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 2d

So sorry to be That Guy but wasn’t Virtual Light the start?

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome!

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry, was there also an Ice Age joke?? 😹

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 2d

😹

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1992
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120406

Presented by Phoebe Greenwood van Roijen and Caius Pawson van Roijen 1998

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 2d

That’s amazing. I love Gosh Comics. Maybe I need to book a trip to London

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 2d

So cute. Sweet dreams, Masuke!

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 4d

The Joy of Vienna

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

y'all don't need to be here you HAVE WINGS

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 4d

*listening to a string quartet*

why does the cellist, player of the largest instrument, not simply eat the other players?

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 4d

中秋節快樂!
Jung chow jit fai lock!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 4d

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Jan 15

Ferenc Berko, Denture Shop, Rawalpindi, 1946

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 5d

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 5d

lol

Meanwhile, everyone fights one lobster in Liurnia of the Lakes. That is the Instructor Lobster, who teaches you to not fight lobsters.

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Spooky Hispanic pixie dream girl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 6d

It's not that I don't believe in ghosts, I just don't believe in these ghosts.

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 6d

Tube station, Vienna, as a weekly non-Lowry

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skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social · 6d

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Eric Black @ericjetblack.bsky.social · 7d

It’s always wonderful to see you, Masuke!

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 7d

I *want* to read students not just in their own words but in their own style. Give me the errors, the use of phrases that feel too informal, the pluralization for some reason of “vinyls.” The things that feel weird to me, but natural to young writers, are nothing but the birth of future style.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 7d

Who wants to live in a world where everything that’s written is clear?

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 7d

One of my biggest beefs with AI writing is that basically all that’s good in prose, from the chaotic grammar of a dril post to the well-observed imperfection of C. McCarthy dialog to Dickinson’s ambiguous dashes, comes from idiosyncrasy if not error. Writing isnt bloodless communication, it’s style!

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · Aug 30

oh, hello

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