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Vanessa Yardley
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Aussie Screenwriter. Raconteuse. Railing Kill enthusiast.
She/Her
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sarahebond.bsky.social
The best place to find an ancient labyrinth? It’s India, not Crete. “A classical 15-circuit labyrinth — the largest such circular maze-like structure discovered in India… — has been found” dating to ca. the 1st century & revealing the many trade & cultural links w/ Ancient Rome #GlobalAntiquity
Rome to Solapur: India’s largest circular labyrinth discovered in Boramani grasslands | Kolhapur News - The Times of India
KOLHAPUR: A classical 15-circuit labyrinth — the largest such circular maze-like structure discovered in India to date — has been found in Boramani gr.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing

TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers

Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11h
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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marcmorris.bsky.social
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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andrealuck.bsky.social
1/n

2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express

This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris

Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
A wide view of the planet Mars fills the frame, shown as a curved, rust-colored world against black space. The bottom edge fades into darkness, marking the planet’s night side, while the upper portion is brightly lit by sunlight. Near the right side are three large, round volcanic mountains of the Tharsis region, each with a wide circular base and a darker central caldera, resembling shallow craters pressed into the surface. North of these volcanoes, stretching almost vertically across the upper right half of the planet, lies Noctis Labyrinthus and Valles Marineris: an immense system of deep canyons and fractured terrain that appears as pale, branching scars and cracks, partly softened by hazy, cloud-like atmospheric features. Near the center of the image, positioned between the volcanoes and the canyon system, a small dark oval appears against Mars’s surface. This is Phobos, one of Mars’s satellites. Its tiny size stands out sharply against the vast scale of the planet below.
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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cofactorstrudel.bsky.social
A 4 panel picture of Jake Paul from his boxing match slowly transforming into a terrified hamster
December 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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vonaether.bsky.social
If Batman was a Santa, would he wear his hat like this, or like this
Batman wearing a Santa hat. The hat has holes for the ears of his cowl to poke through. Batman wearing two tiny Santa hats, each on the tip of one of the ears of his cowl.
November 25, 2023 at 12:32 AM
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theworldsgreatestwriter.com
Oh right, I deleted my old posts but comics should live forever. Here's one about having a cat
Four panel comic, with a lot of negative space in the bottom of the image. The bottoms of the panels together make the shape of the top of a cat. Panel 1: A woman is drawing on a couch Panel 2: A black and white cat gets closer Panel 3: The cat settles in her lap Panel 4: The cat is resting in front of her sketchbook
December 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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delaneyking.bsky.social
Ideas are not a resource that the games industry needs generated. You cannot shoot a nerf gun into a studio and miss someone without a thousand great ideas. It's never been a problem for any of us. Just ask us.

Fuck sake you evil bastards just admit you don't want to pay for staff.
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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emuehlbe.bsky.social
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures

www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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andrewmale.bsky.social
To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.
December 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
A WORD (two words) FOR MY HATERS. Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
I do not have children but this is one of my favourite books ever and we are watched over by the Bear, WITH HAT, to keep us in line.
A large brown bear cushion wearing a red pointed hat.
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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stephengallagher.co.uk
Only ever translated a couple of short stories, but having once volunteered to edit a friend's memoir I can say that it's twice the chore to tidy up a piece of prose than to generate it. Like building a wall where every brick requires another trip to the builders' yard
harikunzru.bsky.social Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
gillossen.bsky.social Emmanuel Chastellière @gillossen.bsky.social · 5d
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"

Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/

#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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aidanmoher.com
A mocked up Time Person of the Year cover with the post below embedded. "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that's on the cutting room floor? I don't think there's anything I missed that I wish I'd gotten. I'll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, "Should I smile or not smile?" and I said, "How would you want to be portrayed?" We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too.""
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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jackbern.bsky.social
🎶he sees you when you're sleeping
he knows when you're awake
his vision's based on movement
and the heat signature you make🎶
An image of Predator (1987)
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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lisaholdsworth.bsky.social
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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derekhill.bsky.social
blocked + reported + familiarizing my beast with your scent
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.
rsagarcia.bsky.social R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 4d
If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.

Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
victoriastrauss.com Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 4d
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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lookitup.baby
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked-"
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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janeespenson.bsky.social
In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*

ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin

DETECTIVE:

ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
this thread is sharp.
rdonoghue.bsky.social Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 5d
I hadn't given much thought to the actual philosophy behind the "empathy is bad, actually" movement, because the people espousing it are so transparently anti-human that I never thought of it as having more depth than wolves having the philosophy "Sheep are tasty".

But I realized it matters to AI.
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM