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Erin Jessup
@erinjessup.bsky.social
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Here for archaeology, sumo, F1, animals & laughs.

Based @ University of Alberta
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smbccomics.bsky.social
The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hundred
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
4-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel shows a framed text that reads : "Discovery: Book titles are way better if you add "hundred" any time the word "a" appears." The next 3 panels show classic literature books with modified titles : To Kill a Hundred Mockingbirds, A Hundred Rooms of One's Own, Death of a Hundred Salesmen.
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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colindickey.com
At long last we have created the Gattaca from classic sci-fi film Don’t Do the Gattaca Thing
jawnthedon.bsky.social Chaotic Neutral @jawnthedon.bsky.social · 4d
I saw this ad on the train and I’m curious how yall feel about it… I’m very much in the center, but slightly more towards than against…
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
Learn to lose to women without having a gender identity life crisis about it!

Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity!

Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. Part 2 of 2:
8. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer runs into a 34-year-old painter at a party and the painter says to the writer that he is just back from Los Angeles and he says with some surprise that he had a really good time there and he asks why does she think that happened and says it's because New York is so boring now that Los Angeles is fun in comparison and that's true and it's one reason but the real reason is that they don't know the people who are dying there. 9. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has dinner every night for 11 nights in a row with the same 32-year-old musician while he waits for his biopsy to come back because luckily for her she is the only one he trusts enough to tell. 10. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer… …trying to make plans to go out of town flips through her appointment book and hears herself say, ''Well, I have a funeral on Tuesday, lunch with my editor on Wednesday, a memorial service on Thursday, so I guess I could come on Friday, unless, of course, Robert dies.'' 11. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when the world's most famous artist dies of complications following surgery at the age of 61 it doesn't seem like he really died at all - it seems like he got off easy. 12. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that at a rather grand dinner held at a venerable New York cultural institution and catered by a company famous for the beauty of its waiters a 39-year-old painter remarks to a 36-year-old writer that the company in question doesn't seem to employ as many really handsome boys as it used to and the writer replies, ''Well, it doesn't always pay to be popular.''
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/red-3 #smbc
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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fossilhistory.bsky.social
Celebrating an incredible coincidence of history today: #OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 115 years later, to the day, Lucy was found. 🏺
Fossil bones from a partial hominin skeleton displayed against a black background. The bones are laid out in anatomical position but many are missing — fragments of skull, ribs, vertebrae, pelvis, arms, and a single full leg are present, creating the outline of a small-bodied individual (Lucy -- Australopithecus afarensis). Close-up black-and-white photograph of an open copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The title page is in focus, with the words “BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION” clearly legible. The page shows slight wear and a faint handwritten note near the subtitle. The background is softly blurred, drawing attention to the historic text.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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thepersistent.bsky.social
If we ever want a truer interpretation of “Frankenstein,” we might need a woman to do it, E.B. Boyd writes. buff.ly/LeEegLe
Why Frankenstein Needs a Female Director
Male directors can't go Mary Shelley's tale justice
buff.ly
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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michaelhendricks.bsky.social
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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etvpod.bsky.social
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x
The Jolly Roger flag
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
erinjessup.bsky.social
I loved this movie so much. Run, don't walk, to your nearest YouTube!
seamas.bsky.social The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 18
The hype is real. This two hour long doc about extreme birdwatching is an absolute delight, and nothing less than a soothing balm in horrible times.

The makers have put the whole thing up on YouTube, for free with no ads, and all of you should watch it right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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jlisayoung.bsky.social
Got so annoyed while waiting to vote that I wrote a substack post. open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
I'd like to speak to the manager!
Go ahead.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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alexusherhesa.bsky.social
There are 11 recommendations in here. Recs 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 are all good, require no comment - just do them! The rest I will talk about in this thread.
October 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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fossilhistory.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." n.pr/3kVZvon
Black-and-white portrait photograph of an older man , darwin, with a long, full white beard and receding hairline, wearing a dark coat. He looks to the right in a serious, contemplative pose. A small piece of handwritten text in cursive ink on paper, difficult to read but appearing to say: “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.”
October 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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rincewind.run
an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously

when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint

the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
Far Side cartoon with a female chimpanzee grooming a male chimpanzee “Well, well - another blond hair. … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
October 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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okomotive.ch
Herdling is OUT NOW! We’re stoked to finally invite you on this journey 🐐🦬🐏⛰️
Get the game now on Steam, Epic Game Store, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S or Game Pass, links below!

We’ll give away 5 Steam keys among everyone who reposts this 🎉🎉🎉
August 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
erinjessup.bsky.social
Just finished this book and had the same reaction. I can't stop thinking about it.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Aug 8
also listening to Careless People by Sarah Wynn-William. man I thought I hated Facebook before, I did not hate it nearly enough
August 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!”
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · Jun 10
Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent

“Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?”
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · Jun 9
Discworld QOTD, from Thud!
June 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
erinjessup.bsky.social
My reading list for 2024. Highlights included @dunnettcentral.bsky.social (whose Lymond Chronicles series completely hijacked my August-November), and @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social and @travisbaldree.bsky.social, who also nailed the audiobook recordings of their works. New year, new reads!
A collage of 37 book covers by the StoryGraph app.
January 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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violetvanguard.bsky.social
Copied (with permission) from a discworld group I’m in if anyone can help even if it’s just a share
Hogfather million to one chance search Hi everyone, this is a huge longshot but wondering if any of you lovely folk might be able to help. My partner just told me that her dad (who sadly died more than 20 years ago) gave her a hardback copy of Hogfather, but it got lost in one of her moves not long after he died. I doubt we'd ever find it, but it would be an amazing New Year miracle if we could discover it and I could buy it back if it's still out there. It's signed in the front cover "To Anthea" and probably says from Dad or similar. Like I say, it's a million to one chance... Thanks for reading.
December 31, 2024 at 11:28 PM