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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 1d

So glad for you!!! Have some celebratory tea??

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💀💀 Deadzy Letueur 💀💀 @daisyletourneur.bsky.social · 1d

J'ai grandit en entendant parler de Badinter qui avait aboli la peine de mort. Hier encore c'était ça qu'on mettait le plus en avant.
La dépénalisation de l'homosexualité, je n'en ai entendu parler que bien plus tard. C'était pas un sujet évoqué en bonne société.

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 2d

What a precious angel!

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 2d

Omg jelly

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 4d

pigwitch
by Rupkatha

"the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight.
She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god."

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

POETRY

by Rupkatha
pigwitch

Quote
"the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight.
She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god."

6 October 2025
Strange Horizons

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched this one for the first time this summer and immediately made as many people as I could watch it too

Lately @lately.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD LUCK FRIEND🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 6d

Long gorgeous thread with some of the most beautiful descriptions and reflections

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 8d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Mathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 11d

cette meuf est GENIALE

Klaire fait Grr @klaire.fr · 12d

Allez on dirait bien que j'ai fait du REACYCLING ou quoi ?
J'ai recyclé Zemmour et je vous raconte pourquoi vous aurez des tracts chelous à la fin du spectacle.
#recyclage
ÉCOUTEZ BATTRE tous les vendredis 19h30 à La Comedie des 3 bornes.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 12d

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly?

Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use!

Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 12d

Oh my GOODNESS. Such magnificent floofs, the pair of them!! 😍 Thank you so much for sharing

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 12d

Oh Ogg you precious lil beast I adore you!!! Thank you for sharing the cutest snores! 💖

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 12d

It may be a short week for me as off to a wedding, but these two days promise to be hideous. Send cute pets or #tinyjoys pls pls.

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 14d

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 14d

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

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Betty Pitch au Lit @bettypiccioli.bsky.social · 15d

Visuel par l'artiste Dyna Moe

Image "Arrêtez d'imposer l'I.A. partout, putain !"

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 15d

« Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. » Dear God.

Silvia Pareschi @silviapare2.bsky.social · 15d

This is a very important study

www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

www.media.mit.edu

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Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social · 16d

"Elles se regardaient toutes deux comme des amoureuses"

Plusieurs cantari du Moyen Âge, des récits versifiés destinés à être récités à l'oral, racontent des relations lesbiennes et chantent l'amour entre deux femmes. Un fil⬇️! #medievalists #medievalsky

Tableau de Pickers montrant Viola courtisant la comtesse

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 17d

Im not enjoying this weather at all

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 17d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 17d

Uhhhhhh quoi ????

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 17d

Alt: Janelle Monae and backing dancers on a set of risers on a stage

Lately @lately.bsky.social · 17d

If you see this, post a concert picture you took

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Lately @lately.bsky.social · 17d

From yesterday: having a nice natter with my sister and seeing my baby nephew smile at me for the first time!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18d

When trees were TREES!

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 18d

In Intriguing Furniture news: yesterday I visited Lichfield Cathedral and found a new 13 metre long table made from a 5000-year-old oak log discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog in 2016. The cut planks took 9 months to dry out, losing 2 tonnes of weight in the process. Definitely haunted...

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