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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 11h

Hello! 💜

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 11h

hands up if you are a true bug and suck sap from plants

Shivaphis celti, the Asian woolly hackberry aphid, also known as Shivaphis (Shivaphis) celti, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.

Pictured is schivapis celti, a small white bug that looks like a speck of lint, sitting on a leaf

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Funny you mention that

io9: In the west, Vinland Saga is often grouped with Berserk and Vagabond as a kind of “seinen big three,” much like Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece were for shonen. What do you make of that comparison—especially in terms of how these stories center men who endure hell and emerge gentler, rather than perpetuating cycles of violence?

Yukimura: (Laughs) Wow, I’m very honored! Since the beginning of working on this story, I had this really strong feeling that I wanted to say something. This is something about morals and the state of the world. How we are submerged in violence and wars. There was something that was triggering me: “There’s something wrong with this picture.” I really wanted to tell this in a way that everyone could understand. That was a strong feeling that I was focused on writing the story. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how people will perceive my work in the rest of society. I have no real good sense of that.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

projects.propublica.org

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

"sustenance, blesses sustenance. oozing from the tomb" i mutter to myself as i slam my spoon back into a half melted pint of ben & jerry's

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

what precise opinions does Weiss have that are contrary to prevailing center-right thought?

NPR @npr.org · 2d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

n.pr

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 3d

I'm so over breaking news. How about some fixing news.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Jimmy's Hell Cousin @negaversebuffet.bsky.social · 3d

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Jimmy's Hell Cousin @negaversebuffet.bsky.social · 4d

glitched RE4 so hard that every 4 seconds Leon jumps ahead 50ft while running through every death scream at 200% volume for 10 sec and and have 1000x reverb going

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 3d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” one professor told the New York Times.
www.jezebel.com/texas-univer...

Texas University System Bans Talking About Trans & Nonbinary Identities

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” one professor told the New York Times.

www.jezebel.com

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 3d

Tilly Norwood might just be the fourth horseman of the apocalypse.
www.jezebel.com/finally-holl...

Finally! Hollywood Found a Woman Who Can't Age

Tilly Norwood might just be the fourth horseman of the apocalypse.

www.jezebel.com

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4d

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

i hate it here

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BlitzGunner225 @blitzgunner225.bsky.social · 3d

Drawing as much spooky stuff as I can for Halloween. First up is a witch inspired by @b0tster.yeag.gay She’s got great drip so was fun to draw.

#witch #psxbunlith #art #digital #spooky #glow #Halloween #photoreference

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 3d

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GruntyThrst @gruntythrst.bsky.social · 3d

It does suck! Sometimes friend gets scared and injects you with a lil venom :(

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

This exchange is a perfect example of why you can't reform the Democrats. They can't admit they were wrong. Ever. They will always blame the very people who predicted that the situation they're currently upset about will happen. They're not interested in fixing anything.

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 3d

The whole empty, centrist Dem scam is collapsing in real time.

This is a leg sweep, followed by a quick boxing of Schatz’s ears. These hacks need to go away. They are killing us in so many ways.

An exchange from Twitter where Brian Schatz is bemoaning ICE and Adam Johnson points out Schatz voted to double their budget just last year.

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 3d

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Hyrule Interviews @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social · 3d

#Linktober 5: Friendship
Miyamoto on missing his friend, Iwata, 2019.

Source: Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO

#Nintendo
#MiyamotoQuote, #IwataQuote

www.notion.so/9f39f7f356ad...

PEOPLE:
- Shigeru Miyamoto, age 66. Creator of Zelda, Mario, & more.
- Satoru Iwata, age 59. President of HAL from 1993-2000, President of Nintendo from 2002-2015.

QUOTE:
Miyamoto: Iwata may have passed on, but the company is going strong. Thanks to all the ideas and systems that he left behind, our young hires have been able to thrive. What makes me sad is that if I have a crazy idea over the weekend, there isn’t anybody I can tell about it on Monday morning.

When I’m eating lunch, he isn’t there to say ‘I think I’ve figured out your problem,’ which leaves me feeling stuck. I really miss him.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 3d

wowww youtube has a new feature where, i guess, multiple people can collab on a single video?

so anyway if someone you sub to collabs on a video in this way it will just shove a channel you dont even recognize into your subscriptions feed. amazing ux, truly excellent, no notes

youtube subs feed showing a video from davidvinc RPGs. in tiny letters elsewhere under the title it says "davidvinc RPGs and 4 more"

screenshot showing no subscription to davidvinc RPGs exists

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