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Tom Flood

@tomflood.bsky.social

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Reactor Magazine

@reactorsff.bsky.social

ANNOUNCING...THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2025 POLL!!

Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!

Favorite SFF Stories of 2025

Reactor Magazine wants to know: What were YOUR favorite scif-fi/fantasy/horror/romantasy genre books, movies, and television shows of 2025?? We’d like you to share your favorite genre fiction books, m...

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December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Jarrett Byrnes

@jebyrnes.bsky.social

Want to know how our @livingseawalls.bsky.social from the @stonelivinglab.bsky.social is doing one year after installation? Check out this piece from @wbur.org on how it's grown! www.wbur.org/upnext/2025/...

One year in, sea creatures have turned the Seaport's 'living seawall' into a home

The goal is to mimic the natural features of the shorelines — enough to attract some sea creatures to make the wall their new home. So far, it's working.

www.wbur.org

October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM

&rea

@0ni0n.bsky.social

While I appreciate reporting on this topic, it feels like a distraction from the insanely high number of animals killed on highways??

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10d

For months @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social has been pouring over documents trying to find out how many animals are killed on train tracks in B.C. Companies are supposed to report rail kills but records she obtained found reporting is inconsistent and incomplete projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...

The hidden cost of wildlife collisions on Canada’s railways | The Narwhal

Trains regularly hit and kill wildlife on the tracks but poor reporting means governments aren’t sure exactly how many animals are lost

projects.thenarwhal.ca

November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM

&rea

@0ni0n.bsky.social

I haven't seen this in the news on Canada's #budget so far: $2.7-billion in proposed cuts to global assistance 😢

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Nov 5

Budgets aren’t just numbers; they’re a reflection of what we stand for.

And #Budget2025 shows #Canada turning away from the world when humanitarian needs are rising.

Our reaction: https://ow.ly/ISuF50Xnu7o #cdnpoli

November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Pam Wishbow

@pamwishbow.bsky.social

I prepped 100 of these and I now regret putting a texture on all of them because it keeps forcing my pen into weird directions and I’m struggling to not sand the ones I don’t like down to start again

Photo of a slew of wooden pennants painted and drawn on in various states of finished. The gritty texture applied in the paint gives for good effects on some but caused sloppy drawings on others

November 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social

11/04/2025

a crude drawing of a man with his hands on his head, sitting next to two large shelves full of skulls of different sizes and shapes, looking angry, with a caption that reads "it starts so easy. One person gifts you a talking skull gifted with terrible oracular sight and then everyone else sees it and thinks 'oh that's what he's into' and then that's all anyone ever gives you."

November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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Carter

@flagranttwo.bsky.social

An Air Canada flight right now

November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM

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Tommy Siegel

@tommysiegel.bsky.social

skeptical of our AI future?

October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Tommy Siegel

@tommysiegel.bsky.social

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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Bison

@bisonrimant.fr

Here are the sculptures available on my shop : bisonrimant.fr

You can greatly help me by sharing this post, if you want to ✌️

Group of woodcarvings on a workbench. A bat inspired creature, a pipistrelle bat, a dragon with a duck on its head, a mantis humanoid creature with a long skirt, a humanoid cuttlefish wearing a dress, a goode knight with shield and a mace where sits a red robin, and humanoid creature with 4 eyes in a blue dress

October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM

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JMFenner

@jmfenner.bsky.social

Inktober Day 30 - Vacant

October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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Harold Richer

@haroldricher.bsky.social

Aaaand that’s a month of daily gobelins !! That was a fantastic challenge #floktober2025

A sketchbook full of drawings of goblins

October 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social

Let's Learn about types of ghosts

A roughly drawn chart with large text at the top that says "recognizing ghost types" with a subtitle that says "there are many kinds of ghosts and we can learn about all of them, ok"

Then there are several drawings of different ghosts, mostly sheet ghosts of sorts
Rude - on a skateboard, flipping the bird
Discreet - wearing sunglasses and a hat
Long - long
Hunk - has handsome chiseled features
Forgotten Chores - is looking at a to do list
Satan - has horns
Pervert - has a giant foot
Melting - goop
Dad - has a mustache and wrinkles
Bird - has a beak and wings
Sultry - is laying down with a hand on its head
2 Parter - is cut in two horizontally
Freaky - a weird looking one that has arms and legs and giant eyes and a sideways mouth
Past Memory - inside a polaroid
Floating Head - you can figure this out, it's a severed head
Flat - i think you get the idea
tiny - very small, this is also self explanatory
mouth - mouth
video tape - a small ghost coming out of a tape
silly - wearing groucho glasses and has a fake arrow through head headband
And a big one in the center labeled "normal style"

October 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM

&rea

@0ni0n.bsky.social

I've been searching recommended book lists, but many feel so similar.
I found this one from 2012, "A Year of Reading the World", excited to dive in 😀 The blog posts also look interesting, detailing the lengths she went to track down some of them 📚 #booksky
ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/

The list

This is a record of all the valid book recommendations I received before, during and in the year after my 2012 quest. I chose one book for each nation for the project. These are underlined and you …

ayearofreadingtheworld.com

October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM

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Ashley Cooper

@ashleycooper.bsky.social

"Gary? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Dark Gary. That was my name.

I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."

Screenshot of an online store product selection. It shows a man in the same hat twice, one in dark grey, one in light. The product is misspelled as "Gary" instead of grey.

October 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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Internet Archive

@archive.org

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....