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Malcolm Toll
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baker and eccentric tootling aboot Alaska

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cyanotypememory.bsky.social
I’m learning there’s a Peter Rabbit ballet. I’m pissed no one told me sooner.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
this is what some of you look like in your chore coats
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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batcon.org
Someone ask for a snowball? ❄️🥶
These little floofs (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴) hibernate in the snow!
Snow provides good insulation and protection from predators -- which is important when you weigh just 4-8 grams. 😮

🦇 Ussuri tube-nosed bat
📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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retr0.id
does a true everything bagel contain itself as an ingredient
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Ever just wake up on the wrong side of the bed and a photographer is standing there with a long lens

(Great Blue Heron)
Large gray heron standing near the edge of a small drainage pond surrounded by thick grass. The bird is really rumpled because it was just preening, so its feathers are sticking in all directions, especially on its head, making it look like it has bed head.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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jamiebgall.co.uk
Normal people: that’s a big leaf

Me, a Star Trek fan: watch me seduce the rebels of Nimbus III
jamiebgall.co.uk Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · Oct 31
These Scottish greens are absurdly huge.
Living my Uhura fantasy while I make dinner.
A hand holding two very large leaves. From Star Trek V, Uhura dancing in the sand with leaves.
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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heddwen.bsky.social
I did a pilot study for longitudinal slang research in February (128 respondents). Got discouraged because of methodological issues (too much slang!). Have now had an idea how to address these issues. Feeling encouraged again!

Also: having ChatGPT help you with R is FIRE.
Horizontal bar graph with the title "Which of the following slang terms have you heard used a lot in the past two months?" (The question was specified to be about young people; so people over the age of 25 were asked to answer according to what they heard from their children/ students etc) The answers show that "Low key" and "Bruh/Bro" were most popular in January & February 2025, with around 73% of respondents saying they had heard these a lot. Rizz, Cringe, Slay, Brainrot, Sigma, Yapping and Skibidi were also popular. Heard very rarely were Cheugy, Fugazy and Basic. Here are all the percentages, courtesy of R: "Low key-74.2%, Bruh / Bro-73.4%, Rizz-68.8%, Cringe-66.4%, Slay-63.3%, Brainrot-60.2%, Sigma-57.8%, Yapping-56.2%, Skibidi-55.5%, GOAT-52.3%, Real-47.7%, Chat-46.9%, Aura-45.3%, Fire-45.3%, I love that for you-44.5%, Sus-44.5%, W-43.8%, Ate-43%, Era-43%, No cap-43%, Cap-42.2%, Mood-42.2%, Main character energy-40.6%, Gyat-39.8%, Baddie-37.5%, Simp-37.5%, Type shit-37.5%, High key-36.7%, Lit-36.7%, Mewing-35.9%, On God-33.6%, Say less-33.6%, Finna-30.5%, Fit (adj)-30.5%, Demure-29.7%, Drip-28.9%, Bussin-27.3%, It altered my brain chemistry-25%, Bop-23.4%, Fit-23.4%, Ahh-22.7%, Ohio-16.4%, Fanum tax-15.6%, Huzz-14.1%, Baka-13.3%, Based-11.7%, Poggers-10.2%, Cheugy-4.7%, Fugazy-1.6%, Basic-0.8%"
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
🐇 A charioteer for the ages 🦆

What do good rabbits do in their spare time? Why it’s duck chariot racing! Purported to have been found at Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli, this scene sets the stage for great animal rivalries on the chariot racing circuit!

#MosaicMonday #AncientRome
The mosaic panel shows a rabbit as charioteer, holding the reins while two ducks pull the chariot. The rabbit’s look of fierce determination is evident. The scene is framed by a simple geometric border with decorative diamond elements in each corner and a red oval in the middle top and middle bottom.
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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xkcd.com
Chess Variant

xkcd.com/3139/
Comic. [chessboard where one block of 2x2 sliding squares is shifted inward, with a blank next to it indicating the direction of the block’s movement] [caption] Sliding Number Puzzle Chess
September 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
cyanotypememory.bsky.social
Frank Lloyd Wright went for Usonian. And while he was a bit of a schmuck as is often the case with architects, I’m partial to expanding the term over eu-zhans, or oo-see-ans.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 25
it’s the weird nerd way to say “American” that l have heard no one other than terminally online people use, and I spend a *lot* of time outside of the U.S.

sure, if you don’t want to cede “American” to the U.S., I get it, but you can just say “from the United States” and not get cute with it
August 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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silveralethia.puppygirls.online
i stg every kink can be subtextually boiled down to:
-i am powerful/in control
-i am seen as desirable
-i am safe and can now be vulnerable
-i can explore taboo in a safe + controlled environment

once you realize that you realize that no kink can hurt you
December 26, 2023 at 4:32 PM
cyanotypememory.bsky.social
Half of days, I think GUI was a mistake. The other half I think it’s a well intentioned albatross.
ernie.tedium.co Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · Jul 23
I think everyone should be taught how to use a command line, as it's fundamental to computing but we treat it like it's not.
July 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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lu.is
(Some day I need to write down the quibbles. They’re related to my somewhat quixotic belief that UNESCO should make Wikipedia the first pan-human intangible cultural heritage, and to my utterly deeply quixotic belief that the entity and servers should almost certainly be under UN jurisdiction.)
July 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
Infographic illustrating different ways to model age. First panel shows two "extreme" cases; including age as a linear numerical predictor (df = 1) or including age as a categorical predictor (df = number of years of age minus 1). Second panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is categorized into broader bins (df = number of categories minus 1, here 5 - 1 = 4). Third panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is included with a polynomial (df = degrees of freedom of the polynomial, here 4). Fourth panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is modeled with the help of splines (df = degrees of freedom of the splines, here 4).
July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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bron.bsky.social
I just discovered John Gluckman's The Science of Syntax on Pressbooks: pressbooks.pub/syntax/, and I already knew about Julie Doner's The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures (morpho-syntax) pressbooks.openedmb.ca/wordandsente...

Anyone know of other OA syntax titles?
July 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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drswissmiss.bsky.social
It looks like Language Science Press has several syntax series langsci-press.org/seriesIndex
Series Overview | Language Science Press
langsci-press.org
July 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
HOLY BIBLE Holy Bible © @Holy_Bible1 Follow Matthew 18:19 MATTHEW 18:19 "He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."
July 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
cyanotypememory.bsky.social
Oh! Oh! Just an opportunity to say the phrase, nominative determinism.
ali-alkhatib.com ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Jul 2
it's like 2 or 3 steps above believing that dating someone named "taylor" means you're more likely to be well-dressed.
July 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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mvmelcer.com
Timeline cleanser
maryruthie.bsky.social Mary @maryruthie.bsky.social · Jun 22
Because of all the hard environmental work in the NY Harbor estuary there are seahorse in the East River! You can learn about them - and tons more stuff- at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s environmental center!
June 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
cyanotypememory.bsky.social
It’s great to see technology work.
A screenshot of the user profile for Vice President of the United States JD Vance’s bluesky account. The profile is blocked by a moderation list titled “MAGA”.
June 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
cyanotypememory.bsky.social
I love how going to a different grocery store just across town is enough to briefly knock one out of the desensitization of protracted abundance. In “my” grocery store, I know where everything belongs and feel disappointed when it’s not there, but here across town, who knows what I will find?
June 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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chibi-verse.lgbt
I hate myself for this.
June 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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evanurquhart.bsky.social
The NYT's method of misleading readers is very canny. They ask questions about gender affirming care that could be asked of all medicine, all healthcare in America, or all healthcare for youth in a way that makes gender-affirming care sound like an outlier.
June 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
cyanotypememory.bsky.social
Canada’s Harper Government was an analogue I turned towards for understanding aspects of the first Trump Administration.
shanahstone.bsky.social Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · May 7
Everyone is celebrating how great Canada is for rejecting Trump, which is great and I support. But the worldwide legacy of toxic Canadian mining and the abuse of indigenous peoples and their lands should not be forgotten. Corrupt corporate greed is no different coming from Canada.
May 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM