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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 19h

What a truly delightful piece of research!! 🧪

Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 20h

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

climateages.com

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 19h

Computer... ENHANCE.

Excellent 🤔🐦‍⬛

A display of jewelery and accessories at the Met. I saw this tiny jewel box with a bird and I HAD TO ZOOM IN to see him

Yessssss a singing bird box. He is delightful. Kinda pigeon shaped with blue, green, brown and black. Sing for me my angel of music.

Did you know that pigeons are called cabbage rolls in slang Polish? Delicious 🤤

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 22h

Of all the sculptures of Leda, this has got to be the best. She's grabbing that fuckboy by the THROAT!

Git im! 😂

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 1d

I know a lot of people don't like Aaron Sorkin's writing style but goddamn if this hasn't become more powerful every time I watch it.

It has real applications to our current state. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

Watch The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Netflix Official Site

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

www.netflix.com

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 1d

They have a copy of the 1920's city plan on display outside the performance! I need someone to take a photo since I can't make it 😂

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 1d

Canadians: “We the north! I love hockey, skiing, and taking my kids sledding. Did you hear about a light dusting of snow shutting down some southern US city?”

Canadians, when you suggest
it’s possible to bike past September: “but what if I get… cold?”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 2d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 1d

For all the times that I get distracted and end up scrolling Bsky, I absolve myself of all guilt and culpability

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 1d

Every single stereotype about white collar workers is true in my office. My co-worker just scanned his eye to get through security, while my manager is bopping into the office for a couple hours to pick up some M&Ms and get on a call. Everyone is standing around talking at all times.

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 2d

The NYC office is the fanciest thing I've ever seen - more fancy than my "money coming out our ears" financial office I used to work in. They have FRIDGES built into the conference room cabinets full of diet coke.

And yet, I could not find a water machine. You want me to drink tap like a PLEB?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 3d

I legitimately don't know how business people look so cool and collected in their suits. I'm drenched in sweat and smell like a garbage bin. People who fly straight into meetings are from another species

Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 3d

I have become so competent at work, I'm being called in for an in-person meeting in NYC.

I'm going to need to become less good, fairly quickly, before this becomes a reoccurring thing 😂

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 4d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 4d

The key innovation of Trump's second term is figuring out how to both scale the localized MAGA frenzy beyond just him and his rallies and, also, most importantly, figure out a way to force it on blue states.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Kero @keroan.bsky.social · 4d

I take back everything I've ever said about wanting cold weather

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4d

Illustrations of jellyfish from A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mayer-medusae

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 4d

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 5d

The Queen City Improvement Bureau will be 10 years on the air this Halloween season so join us Wed Oct 29 at the Artesian for a live taping our anniversary show. It will be a night of spooky civics! Come dressed in your most terrifying Queen City costume! #yqrcc #regina

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.

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Polygon @polygon.com · 5d

For a "girl game" from the late '90s, Detective Barbie sure wasn't pulling any punches

I’m still haunted by the creepy Barbie game that knew my name

For a "girl game" from the late '90s, Detective Barbie sure wasn't pulling any punches

www.polygon.com

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