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FyrDrakken
@fyrdrakken.bsky.social
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I'm into knitting, cats, reading, sci-fi/fantasy, history, archaeology, healthcare, politics, tea, gardening. Deleted my Twitter a few weeks after the Muskrat bought it and went cold turkey on social media for a year or two. She/her.
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gingercatdusty.bsky.social
Need to hear some beauty.

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Lindsey Stirling - Carol of the Bells (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Lindsey Stirling
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December 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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a little bird in a cozy bear costume
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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nocryptographer on tumblr: "I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist. every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you. you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cores about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real."
December 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Try tabasco! A warrior's eyedrop! - Gowron, on an image showing a dude about to drop tabasco in his eye.
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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[image of a baby bunny in a measuring cup] furything on tumblr: "One cup of bunny"
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Windows dialog window: "Executive Function Error The action you attempted: "Start simple task. " Status: Failed to initialise. Possible causes: • Task looked easy, which made it suspicious • Not enough brain tabs open • Too many brain tabs open • Incorrect vibes detected • The task is in another room [Try Again] [Panic] [Open Snack Drawer]"
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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barbwritesstuff on tumblr: "I have learnt today that my library refers to me as 'the specific and highly active user' and has denied some of my purchase requests because 'we can't skew the collection too much toward the taste of the specific and highly active user'. I did suggest roughly 100 vampire books for purchase last year. I think this probably has something to do with that." dragon-in-a-fez: "op is there any particular reason the librarians would feel safer not invoking you by name"
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Wendy Molyneux (@WendyMolyneux) on twitter: "I'm writing Spider Ma'am, about a middle aged woman who gets bitten by a radioactive spider but keeps it to herself because she doesn't freaking need this." Michelle Ochs Windmueller (@MWindmueller) replies: "She probably just assumes that the new powers are another side effect of perimenopause, about which no one bothered to warn her."
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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jlphistory.bsky.social
Just a reminder that the Goat did not burn in 2019 or 2024.
The Gävle goat - a Swedish tradition of building a giant straw goat every year that has been set on fire (or pecked apart by birds) many times. It's labelled "If you're cold she's cold - set her on fire" The joke is that the burning is a sacrifice that ensures a good year (according to the internet). It did NOT burn in 2019, 2020, 2022, or 2024. I am just saying.
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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hellabarnes.bsky.social
ICE are petaQ who fight only grandmothers and the unarmed
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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gyro.bsky.social
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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1980s-style meme that reads "Resurrect John Brown and Give Him Power Armor" in futuristic fonts over a TRON-like background
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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william-in-nv.bsky.social
Addams family cartoon. Gomez is sitting in a picture window overlooking a winter scene and saying to Morticia and the kids, "Suddenly I have the dreadful urged to be merry."
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
This came up on my FB feed and I literally spit out my drink because I was not prepared
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December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) lives in ocean depths between 100-1000 m, where it uses its superbly sensitive snout to detect prey electrical fields with 'ampullae of Lorenzini'. It can grow to 6 m (20 ft), although most are 3-4 m.

Let's unpack the common name & talk about its unique jaw.
A close-up of a goblin shark jaw and nose with eyes visible. The jaw protrudes in a slightly disturbing way, and it has a long thin nose that projects in front of the black eyes. "Goblin sharks can thrust their jaws three inches out of their mouths to catch prey. CREDIT: 'Seapics'
October 9, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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dieseldog97.bsky.social
Reminder, DOGE wasn’t about cutting costs, it was about stealing your information.
mharrisondupre.bsky.social Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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robdickinson.bsky.social
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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lionesselise.bsky.social
This is such a kind and thoughtful thread.
Minnesota Nice at its finest! Ya, sure!
Read the whole thing for lots of helpful hints!
naomikritzer.bsky.social Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 3d
Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.

1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
pailbn.bsky.social Brianna Nicole Pail (PAILBN Art) @pailbn.bsky.social · 3d
Good morning to fuckers in our neighborhood kidnapping our neighbors! Can you see the city skyline? No? You’re wondering if Minneapolis burned down again overnight? Oh no, sweetie. That’s ice crystals in the air . It looks like it will get to around -8F without windchill! Please enjoy your stay!
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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This is evil because: (1) fascist power depends on social media dispensing disinfo, propaganda, and harassment without limit. Banning people who have experience limiting those terrible things furthers fascism.
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This is ASTOUNDINGLY evil.
klonick.bsky.social Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 3d
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
fyrdrakken.bsky.social
Hey hey, I finished a mitten! (Details: ravel.me/FyrDrakken/vm ) 🧶
Teal mitten with colorwork band across hand of white, aqua, and purple in addition to the teal. Mitten top and thumbtip pulled back to display the fingertip-freeing construction and also my red-and-white Xmas mani.
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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spencermcdaniel.bsky.social
This remains, to this day, one of my favorite stories from ancient Egyptian history: the time when the pharaoh's tomb workers went on strike.
sarahebond.bsky.social Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23d
November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...
The so-called “Strike Papyrus” written by Amunnakht The scribe Amennakht is the author of this papyrus in the hieratic script. It is a report concerning a strike held during the reign of King Ramesses III in the village of Deir el-Medina. The workers protested because they had not received their regular food rations, which constituted payment for their work in the Valley of the kings. “Year 29, secondo month of the Inundation, day 10. Today the work squadron passed the control post shouting “we are hungry!” It is 18 days this month that (the men) go and sit at the back of the funerary temple of Tuthmosis III”. Despite various attempt at conciliation, the protest lasted a number of days. To the officials who tried to persuade them to return to work, the workers replied: “We are here because of the famine and thirst. We are not accustomed to not having unguents, fish, and greens. Write to the pharaoh our perfect lord, take note of our words, and write to the vizier, our superior, because we are in need of our provisions”. Inv. no. : Cat. 1880 TPOP Material: Plant fiber / Papyurs Date: 1187–1157 BCE Period: New Kingdom Dynasty: Twentieth Dynasty Reign: Ramesses III Provenance: Egypt, Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina Acquisition: Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824 Museum location: Museum / Floor 1 / Room 06 DEM / Central wall Selected bibliography: Andreu, Guillemette (a cura di)-Andreu, Guillemette, Gli artisti del faraone: Deir el-Medina e le Valli dei Re e delle Regine, Milano 2003, p. 187. Cline, Eric H.-O'Connor, David (ed.)-Cline H., Eric-O'Connor, David, Ramesses III: the life and times of Egypt's last hero, Ann Arbor 2012, pp. 67, 112, 118, 120–122, 136, 141, 352. Edgerton, William F., “The strikes in Ramses III's twenty-ninth year”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 10 (1951), pp. 137–145. Gabler, Kathrin, “Methods of identification among the Deir el-Medina workmen and their service personnel: the use of names, titles, patronyms and identity marks in administrativ…
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
During the Pleistocene & as recently as ~12,000 years ago, North America was home to the American Cheetah, genus Miracinonyx.

Let's talk about them & how their lasting legacy might be the exceptional speed of the pronghorn antelope.

(🧑‍🎨: IsaaCowJ)
The American Cheetah, Miracinonyx. The legendary hunter of North American plains, canyons and valley, feared by his prey even today. CREDIT: ISAACOWJ
March 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM