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J.K. Nicolson
@jknicolson.bsky.social
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Communications professional, short fiction writer, enthusiast of all things STEM and space. Gamer and amateur weather and aurora photographer. She/her. 🇨🇦
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jknicolson.bsky.social
Bwahaha my partner has BBQ'd in shorts at this temperature before.
rajio.bsky.social Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 4d
Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.
January 22, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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swilua.bsky.social
Hey. No one is secretly mad at you. Go have a snack. You’re beautiful. You’ve got this.
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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catbus.phd
mood
January 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
It's been up for over a month but today is the last day of my 50% off paper prints sale.

Shipping is $25 (my cost) in Canada, the UK & the EU so pick up a couple. NOT shipping to the US.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Oct 15
I'm an Alberta based artist who has a thing for storms & space.

I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop

#art #painting
Painting of a badlands valley with winding river at the bottom & swirling blue clouds on an orange background sky Painting of a mother ship storm cloud lit from below with swirling clouds above over a butte. Painting of a nebula that looks like a hand with orange yellow clouds and lots of stars on a blue black field Painting of a spiral galaxy with swirls of blue white and red orange arms with clusters of stars and a area of stars in the center
January 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Another 4 hours today. Refining the right side. Getting closer to star time.
Large canvas on an easel. painting with dark blue background & orange & white swirling clouds
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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nora.zone
to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app

select the icon in the top left corner

go to settings

go to content and media

make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off
pointing at the hamburger menu icon in the top left hand corner of a mobile bluesky app screen settings menu option circled content and media menu option circled autoplay videos and gifs toggled off
April 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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mariadunnmusic.bsky.social
Pls sign: Petition to annul or repeal prov. legislation enacted in AB & SK that restricts the rights of transgender & gender-diverse people & has been shielded from Charter scrutiny thru the use of the notwithstanding clause #transrightsarehumanrights #humanrights
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
Original language of petition: English
www.ourcommons.ca
January 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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bisonrimant.fr
Ancient Wisdom III
Woodcarving

Last sculpture of 2025
Woodcarved humanoid octopus wearing a robe, arms wide open, in front of a book standing on branches. On the book, a frog. On the right arm, a kinfisher, and on the top of the head of the octopus, a round duck. The base is burn, on that angle it is not really obvious but is water with a slight wave form arround the octopus. On the background, an old door with old white paint. Seen from a low angle, more on its left side Seen by left profile Seen by its right profile
December 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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anthonymoser.com
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
anthonymoser.com Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Jul 16
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group

1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
cfiesler.bsky.social Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Jul 16
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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anthonymoser.com
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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lpkindred.bsky.social
Dear bluskeeters!

I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.

Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Well it's been 6 months but I finally got a start on a new thing.
Large canvas on an easel. A very rough day 1 painting with dark blue background & orange & white detailing clouds there's a computer monitor in the upper left with an image of a nebula that is the inspiration for the painting.
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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danielshawau.bsky.social
A MUST WATCH as our dear friend Pecos Hank releases Tornadoes of 2025.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyST...
TORNADOES of 2025 - Return of the EF5
YouTube video by Pecos Hank
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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effinbirds.com
My holiday gift to you: three hours of the worst Christmas music known to humanity. Apple Music and Spotify links can be found at shitm.as
a screenshot of a playlist called Worst Christmas with an illustration of a Christmas tree on fire
December 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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sculptedreef.com
🙂‍↕️ Blue Ringed Octopus 🐙

🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and 🪸 Patiently woven from tiny glass beads set on silver wire.

#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
Blue Ringed Octopus sculpture sitting inside a vintage tea cup that lies on its side on the saucer. The tea set is overgrown with hand crafted corals, made from tiny glass beads.
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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philplait.bsky.social
This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.

Read all about it!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...

🔭 🧪
A ridiculously jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system
Apep consists of three immense and immensely powerful stars blasting out a fierce dusty wind
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Do you make...

Paintings, pots, sculptures, sketches, photographs, quilts, digital art, beading, textiles, mini figs, printmaking & any other visual art...

Whatever skill level you're at, if you made it, it's mostly sfw, and not AI (never AI) I want you to participate!

Starts in 4 days!
#art
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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paulcornell.bsky.social
What I love about this article is that there are so many great frames from the comic showing @sophiealdred.bsky.social as the Partheni. Plus it sets up how the book is a Prologue to @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s novel series.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
jknicolson.bsky.social
Tonight won for colours both vivid and visible to the naked-eye!
A man looks over the roof of a house at the sky. It is night. The stars are faintly visible underneath pillars of deep reddish, pink aurora. A green tint of aurora surrounds the rest.
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
HOLY @$^@#($!~@#)!!
A bright red patch of auroras surrounded by bright green, above a metal-sided farm building A swirly patch of red auroras surrounded by green, above a silhouetted spruce tree Looking straight up at a bright stripe of red auroras, with pillars of green mixed in Half of the photo is red auroras, half is splotchy green auroras, with 2 silhouetted spruce trees on one side of the picture
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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vincentledvina.bsky.social
Here is the current view from Imperial, CA looing north! This is literally mere miles from the U.S./Mexico border. ALL U.S. STATES (possibly excluding Hawaii) CAN SEE AURORA RIGHT NOW if clear!

theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM