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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 16h

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Daisy Moon @thedaisymoon.me · 2d

Je l'ai teasé plusieurs fois, voici enfin cette semaine dans ma newsletter mon article sur la fatigue chronique ! open.substack.com/pub/magalimi...

[93] Vivre avec la fatigue chronique

Si j'ai l'air fatiguée, c'est que je le suis... tout le temps !

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 4d

THE POWER CUT #2 OUT NOW!

A fanzine about @imagecomics.com 's The Power Fantasy, by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @casparw.bsky.social

A collection of essays, roundtables, comics(!) and beautiful beautiful art.

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💬 0 🔁 10 ❤️ 9 · The Power Cut #2 out now!!! · The Power Cut is a fanzine about The Power Fantasy. The Power Cut is a collection of meta essays, illustrations, comics, and roundtable discussions.…

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So @solene314.bsky.social · 6d

@lingthusiasm.bsky.social This post would be very weird for someone who understand "frown" as something done with the eyebrows. As I did before, because the french translation is explicit about it (it's "froncer les sourcils", no idea if it's used in Canada too).

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 6d

6yo: It would be cool if we could move our teeth around in our mouth. So when you want to smile you can make them curve up, or curve down when you want to frown, and flossing would be WAY EASIER.

#parenting

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Medusa’s Wink😉 @medusaswink.bsky.social · Jul 11

Me: i’m Autistic

Them: Oh you take things literally

Me: No that’s kleptomania

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Inky @inkythoughts.bsky.social · 10d

I know I am not super vocal about my ko-fi page but if you like what I do and want to lessen my financial strain, you can tip me a coffee there!

I also added a recurring tip membership in case you are interested in that (one-off donations are still available, don't worry!)
ko-fi.com/inkythoughts...

Join Inky's Membership

If you want to support me and my work, please consider tossing a coin so your local artist can stay caffeinated ❤️

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Betty Pitch au Lit @bettypiccioli.bsky.social · 13d

Visuel par l'artiste Dyna Moe

Image "Arrêtez d'imposer l'I.A. partout, putain !"

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Daisy Moon @thedaisymoon.me · 16d

Cette semaine dans ma newsletter je vous parle d'une émission de concours de chant et de pourquoi elle est représentative du jeu que Netflix fait entre progressisme et conservatisme. open.substack.com/pub/magalimi...

[91] Building the band : sortir des cases mais pas trop

Ou comment Netflix se donne une image progressiste tout en restant conservateur.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 17d

We can't review what we don't receive! Check out our submission guidelines to consider sending us your work! We love small press authors and are always on the lookout for New & Notable work.

Submission Guidelines

What genres of books and stories does Locus review? We review science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative, surreal, slipstream, crossed genres, similarly themed YA, art books, and related nonfict…

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Inky @inkythoughts.bsky.social · Aug 2

🌼 Good Vibrations 🌼

some graphic design fun I had yesterday

#GraphicDesign #MyArt #60s #vinyl #LP

Photo mockup of a double LP album front cover with a vinyl peeking out of the sleeve. The cover shows a 60s photo of a hippie man with flowers in his hair, and is cut off by a graphic rainbow band that runs across the cover horizontally at an angle. "Michael's Selection" is written boldly across the front with a rainbow line around the funky font. Underneath, smaller and written in a more simple serif font stands "GOOD VIBRATIONS"

Photo mockup of the inside cardboard sleeve of a double LP album. The outer edge has a rainbow band running along it and the centre is an off-white. Across both sides on the bottom, it reads "GOOD VIBRATIONS" in a black serif font. in the top right corner it reads "Michael's Selection" in a funky font with a rainbow edge. The majority of the spread shows the song list for "Side One", "Side Two", "Side Three", and "Side Four" seperated into four columns. The song title is in bold and connected with a dotted line is the runtime of each song. underneath the song title in a smaller, light font, it reads the artist.

Photo-mockup of a double LP album front and back cover next to each other. The front cover shows a 60s photo of a hippie man with flowers in his hair, and is cut off by a graphic rainbow band that runs across the cover horizontally at an angle. "Michael's Selection" is written boldly across the front with a rainbow line around the funky font. Underneath, smaller and written in a more simple serif font stands "GOOD VIBRATIONS".
The rainbow band from the front continues to the back and makes a curve upards. the lower part shows a vintage photo of some weeds and in bold, funky font with a red outline is written "The 60s are back in a Double-Album!". On top of the rainbow band on off-white ground it reads "Featuring the legendary ..." and then lists several artists in a small font.

Photo mockup of 4 black vinyl LPs with two showing the label. The outer edge of the label is a rainbow band on top of which it reads "Michael's Selection" in bold funky font with a rainbow edge. Underneath that on off-white ground in a smaller serif font it reads "GOOD VIBRATIONS" FOLLOWING THE CURVE. Underneath that, it reads "Side 1" on one label and "Side 2" on the other label. left and right of the hole in the middle are a column each with the track number, the featured song titles, and the artist.

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Inky @inkythoughts.bsky.social · May 8

If you want to support me and my art, you can tip me on ko-fi!

#MyArt #illustration

ko-fi.com/inkythoughts

Digital illustration of Endres in a casual robe sitting in front of a painted divider screen at a round tea table decorated with a vase of blossoming branches. He has a plate of pastries and a tea pot with a tea cup in front of him, grasping the cup delicately and arranging the branches. The mood is quaint with pastel colours.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 23d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 23d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Spooky Season Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · 23d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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Daisy Moon @thedaisymoon.me · 23d

Cette semaine dans ma newsletter je vous parle de l'éthique de se réjouir de la mort des fascistes. open.substack.com/pub/magalimi...

[90] J'irai danser sur leurs tombes...

De l'éthique de célébrer la mort des oppresseureuses.

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Compositech @compositech.org · 24d

Aujourd'hui, nous souhaitons mettre un coup de projecteur sur la newsletter de notre présidente : @thedaisymoon.me. Elle y parle de diversité, d'inclusion, d'éthique, de grossophobie, de validisme, LGBTQIA-phobies, de lutte contre l'extrême-droite, de pop-culture, etc. Les valeurs de Compositech

On Daisy's Moon | Magali Milbergue | Substack

Ici on parle éthique, inclusion, diversité et justice sociale ! Tout un programme ! Et on le fait par plein de biais différents, dont celui de l'étude de la pop culture. Et bien sûr, siamo tutte antif...

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 25d

The annual Gender Census report is now out for 2025.

The report of >43,000 responses details our identity words, titles, pronouns, and some family words.

The full report: www.gendercensus.com/results/2025...

The summary: www.gendercensus.com/2025-worldwi...

#LGBT #LGBTQ #pronouns #gender

Pie chart. Title: Title (with name) popularity.

Title (checkboxes), percentage of participants.
no title at all: 42.6%.
mx: 14.7%.
mr: 11.0%.
non-gendered professional, academic, religious, military or nobility title: 8.9%.
ms: 5.6%.
questioning or unknown: 4.3%.
miss: 3.7%.
a title not listed here: 3.4%.
m: 2.7%.
i choose my title on the day depending on how i'm feeling, even for long-term things like bank accounts: 2.1%.
gendered professional, academic, religious, military or nobility title: 0.9%.
[blank]: 0.0%.

Bar graph. Title: Checkbox pronouns.

They - they/them/their/theirs/themself (for referring to an individual, e.g. "they are a writer"): 75.0%.
He - he/him/his/his/himself: 40.6%.
She - she/her/her/hers/herself: 34.1%.
It - it/it/its/its/itself: 22.8%.
Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 14.4%.
Any: 14.2%.
A pronoun set not listed here: 9.0%.
Xe - xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself: 8.8%.
Fae - fae/faer/faer/faers/faeself: 6.2%.
Ze/zir - ze/zir/zir/zirs/zirself: 5.7%.
Questioning or unknown: 5.0%.
Elverson - ey/em/eir/eirs/emself: 4.4%.
Spivak - e/em/eir/eirs/emself: 3.9%.
Star – star/star/stars/stars/starself: 3.5%.
Thon – thon/thon/thons/thons/thonself: 2.0%.

Bar graph. Title: Title (without name) popularity.

Title, percentage of all participants choosing that title.
No title at all: 66.9%.
Friend: 35.9%.
Sir: 32.4%.
Comrade: 23.5%.
Mx: 18.1%.
Miss: 15.0%.
Ma'am: 12.5%.
Questioning or unknown: 10.5%.

Bar graph. Title: Identity words (2025).

nonbinary: 61.7%.
queer (in relation to gender): 56.1%.
trans: 46.5%.
transgender: 41.1%.
a person / human / [my name] / "I'm just me": 39.7%.
gender non-conforming: 36.0%.
genderqueer: 34.6%.
enby: 30.1%.
transmasculine: 27.7%.
genderfluid/fluid gender: 24.4%.
agender: 24.3%.
fag: 19.6%.
dyke: 14.2%.
questioning or unknown: 12.1%.
transfeminine: 11.7%.
tranny: 11.3%.
autigender: 5.5%.
none / I do not describe myself: 4.5%.
cisgender: 3.6%.
binary: 1.6%.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 26d

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

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Marlène Chinon @marlenechinon.bsky.social · 27d

Je ne sais pas si la règle fonctionne avec un simple partage.

Donc, je le refais :
Vous connaissez la règle
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Aamer Rahman: Is it really ok to punch nazis?

YouTube video by FEAR OF A BROWN PLANET

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 27d

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140/

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Sep 5

well you see when words are polyamorous they can date BOTH a Greek prefix and a Latin suffix

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Sep 3

Timeline cleanse

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Compositech @compositech.org · Sep 4

Le saviez-vous ?

Nous avons aussi un serveur Discord qui n'est pas que réservé à nos adhérent·e·s.

On y parle de plein de choses qui vont du militantisme à la cuisine, en passant par l'accessibilité, l'entraide, les livres

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Expertise is having fucked up in enough different ways that you become able to anticipate it.

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Lapsyrevoltee @lapsyrevoltee.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sur Patreon, j'ai publié en accès gratuit, un podcast d'une petite heure sur tout ce que j'ai testé (avec et sans succès) dans mon parcours de soin pour le #covidlong l'#EM le #SAMA et l'#endometriose
Le lien est dans le linktree de ma bio, si vous voulez l'écouter et en discuter

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Alex' @antipatriarcame.bsky.social · Aug 30

C'est pas les vieux le problème, c'est les vieux bourgeois.

Comme les bourgeois de toutes les générations.

Sauf que plus on vieillit, plus les pauvres des classes les plus basses sont morts...

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