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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 2d

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 3d

Mia Couto.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 3d

Also on sale on Kobo, for avoidance of Amazon. :)

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 5d

underrated pleasure of having cats:

putting any rubbish that enters your house in the middle of the floor, and then leaving the room. knowing full well that, when you return an hour later, they will 100% be perched uncomfortably upon it

black cat perched upon a tiny box. there are two very comfy cat beds in the background which obviously he is not sitting on

close up of black cat sitting on box and not on the comfy cat beds behind him

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 5d

A couple of places on the page mention a Linux version -- is that in the plan?

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 5d

Not to defend the "plan", but do we have an idea how many irregular immigrants are overstayers? (I'd guess quite a lot, since relatively few come on boats and it's otherwise hard to get in regularly.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 6d

Watching you come up the drive...

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

media.tenor.com

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 6d

The only compatibility problem I had with Libreoffice and Word is that Libre allows you to attach comments to footnotes; Word doesn't, so they disappear when you save in Word format. Obviously one can just not do that, but one needs to know not to do that.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 8d

There's a slogan for a T-shirt!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 9d

Was there a reveal for this one?

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 10d

Requiem Moon — C. T. Rwizi
I Heard What You Said — Jeffrey Boakye
Não fossem as sílabas do sábado — Mariana Salomão Carrara
Grenzenlos und unverschämt — May Ayim
Captive: New Short Fiction from Africa — Rachel Zadok and Helen Moffett (ed.)

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 10d

Zwei Herren am Strand — Michael Köhlmeier
Jubel und Schmerz der Mandelkrähe — Jurij Koch
One Boat — Jonathan Buckley
Whites Can Dance Too — Kalaf Epalanga, tr. Daniel Hahn
Roots — Alex Haley
Black — Tobias Taitt and Anthony Smith

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 10d

I finished 11 books in September, 8 by women/POC, seven of those for my Black writers monthly topic, with three in German and one in Portuguese.

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Covers of Black, Grenzenlos und unverschämt, and Jubel und Schmerz der Mandelkrähe.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 11d

Anything by Jeff Vandermeer -- maybe City of Saints and Madmen?

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Yard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 11d

Today’s all new episode in the series:
How Much Opossum Can Fit in this House?
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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 12d

So exhausting..

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 13d

I didn't know this existed, but I'd already randomly chosen speculative fiction by PoC generally for next month; the stars have clearly aligned. Enjoying Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds.

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 15d

When I think of a cranchiid, I think of a Taonius squid.

Transparent body? ✅
Ammonium filled sac for buoyancy? ✅
Steve Buscemi eyes? ✅
Arms making it look like they got funky hairdo? ✅

I mean, what else could you want in a squid?

#SQUIDtember

A Taonius sp. floating in the sea. It is facing toward the caemra. Its limbs are all held together and pointing up, making it look like it has a big spiky for a hairdo. It has large beady eyes with shiny photophores on the bottom. Its mantle is transparent and its limbs are translucent. You can see a long thin orange organ that is its digestive gland.

A Taonius sp. swimming in the ocean. Its body is transparent, except for its digestive gland, which is a long thin red organ, and eyes which are reddish. Its tentacles are translucent with orange tips.

Two photos of a Taonius borealis. The squid has deep red chromatophores all over its body. The first photo is from straight on and slightly above. Its eyes are looking down, its limbs are all pointing straight up, and its mantle is going straight back. The second photo is in front of its head. It is looking forward with sad, depressed eyes and its limbs are up and going back. Its mantle is going back and slightly down. Its siphon is just below its eyes, looking like a mouth.

A Taonius sp. inking. Its body is oriented on a diagonal, with its face pointing to the upper left. Its arms and tentacles are raised above its head, at a 90 degree and to its body. Its body is translucent, with some red chromatophores on its mantle. Its eyes and limbs have more visible chromatophores, so you can't see through them. You can see into its mantle, including a long orange digestive gland that is oriented vertically. Its mantle is filled with ink that it is slowly releasing from its siphon, so it is looks like someone exhaling smoke or a vape.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 15d

Two peregrines illustrating the size of their absurd nest.

#birds #WildlifeBrandenburg

Two peregrine falcons sit on a pylon, at the base of a ridiculously large and chaotic nest built between the struts.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 16d

"In" is a suffix used in naming various chemicals, including proteins, so this is just an adaptation of Huntington to fit that convention. It's related to the -ine suffix in vulpine, etc., I believe.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 16d

Respect to whoever put this sticker on a post box in Baker Street.

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Slnieckar @slnieckar.bsky.social · 17d

Get it!

Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 17d

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

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