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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 9h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org · 13h

The Oatmeal’s take is obviously much better than ours, but we make several similar points here, just in case you are interested www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

Frontiers | Disembodied creativity in generative AI: prima facie challenges and limitations of prompting in creative practice

This paper examines some prima facie challenges of using natural language prompting in Generative AI (GenAI) for creative practices in design and the arts. W...

www.frontiersin.org

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 22h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

Following this guide. I'm migrating to myatproto, one of the servers Blacksky provides for non-Black users. bsky.app/profile/rude...

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

Migrating to Blacksky PDS: Complete Guide | Blacksky Documentation

Complete guide to migrating your Bluesky account to Blacksky's infrastructure. Covers migration tools, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting, and how to use Blacksky services without migrating.

docs.blacksky.community

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priscilla 👻🚂🎶 SPOOKY EXPRESS @ghoulnoise.com · 12h

I know these things:

1. I work with excellent puzzle designers

2. Spooky Express is really good

How I know it?

1. I sometimes forget I'm testing a level for a specific reason because I just start solving the puzzle instead

2. I still feel smart solving the same puzzle more than once

3. Spooky

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 18h

Also, Makoto Yukimura said trans rights.

io9: Your portrayal of Indigenous and transgender characters—like the Lnu tribe and Cordelia—stands out in a media landscape where such representation is still rare outside of series like Golden Kamuy, Skip and Loafer, and Paradise Kiss, where they’re often mishandled. What impact do you hope these characters have on expanding the narrative terrain? How do you see your storytelling challenging the ethnocentric lens that dominates much of mainstream media when it comes to that representation?

Yukimura: I did have written characters in [Vinland Saga] from a marginalized ethnic group [and] who are LGBTQ featured here. I actually wanted to portray a character with a disability in the story, too. However, because of the setting, I really couldn’t find the right place to incorporate such a character into the story. One thing I really don’t understand, though, is why do people attack such folks? Is it because they’re different? Why do they just focus on bad things about these groups and generalize them? I truly don’t understand why people do such things. I plainly feel sad when it comes to the way people treat each other.

To me, it’s quite normal for people to have uniqueness. It’s almost needless to say that we all individually have a uniqueness that might be considered different than what is the majority. For example, I grew up in an era where higher education was considered to be the most important thing in society in Japan. You almost had no paths in life outside of that structure. I actually do live outside of that structure, and I’m living perfectly fine. I really want to say that uniqueness is okay. I don’t understand why people are making those judgments to say, “This is okay, but this is not okay.”

I haven’t really thought about what this type of storytelling or character would have an impact on society at all. I’m just writing, drawing, and portraying society as I see it and what I think is normal from my eyes in the manga. If people don’t agree with that version of what I think is a normal society, then oh well. (Laughs) That’s too bad. Those people don’t have to read my manga.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 21h

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 16h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 16h

I just realized that the Portland Antifascist Frog has singlehandedly reclaimed amphibians from the “alt right”. Yet another way he is a Great American.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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Dr Perry Beasley-Hall @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 16h

Cooloola monsters are weird, chunky insects endemic to South East Queensland, Australia. They're probably related to king crickets (Anostostomatidae), but not much is known about their evolution. The wingless females live permanently underground. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: Visit Gympie Region

A pale insect with tiny eyes digging underground. It looks almost like a fat potato with legs.

Source: https://www.visitgympieregion.com.au/great-experiences/wildlife/

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 21h

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 16h

This is good but the second post in this series makes it outstanding

Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 16h

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 16h

A typewritten note that reads "this is good"

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Sam Seltzer-Johnston @sbseltzer.net · 16h

i miss those co-op sessions.

Sam Seltzer-Johnston @sbseltzer.net · 16h

wasn't even wearing armor. the character's customization was already so broken and obnoxious looking it was hard to believe we were playing the same game.

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Sam Seltzer-Johnston @sbseltzer.net · 16h

tfw when i have to watch my friends' cutscenes in our Dark Souls III co-op.

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 1d

you can love a character and still admit when they're wrong. we love Iris but we can acknowledge her flaws (she has none) and we can hold her accountable for her wrongdoings (she has never done anything wrong in her life) and call her out on her actions (which are always correct)

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J¡m Vaughn @jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 17h

jiminy's animal reviews: This is a Chihuahuan hook-nosed snake (𝘎𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮), and it is unassuming at first glance. A nocturnal snake found in the Southern US through Mexico, they grow to about a foot long (28cm), and eat lots of spiders. Normal snake stuff. But they have a superpower: farting!

A small snake layed across rocky desert ground. It is soft white underneath, and tan with a pattern of brown markings down it's back. It has small beady black eyes, a black tongue, and a small bump on the end of it's nose.

"chihuahuan hook-nosed snake, naricilla chihuahuense, western hooknose snake" by highsinger is licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=openverse.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16h

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.

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♡✦!valentina!✦♡ @valentinainat1.bsky.social · 20h

Jinshi and Maomao 🌞

Jinshi hugging Maomao with one hand from behind,sitting on the floor

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 17h

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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