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Veronica

@veronicaf.bsky.social

Look at this face!

Survived starvation and now has ALL the opinions. How dare I add psyllium husk to her chicken? NO THANK YOU.

(Arthur is now getting a nice chicken psyllium dinner, he bapped Sabine and told her she couldn't share.)

A small and very sassy tabby kitten who no longer looks like a skeleton and instead is looking very pretty as long as you're looking at her face, not her butt or litter box or back feet. She has excellent long white whiskers.

January 5, 2026 at 5:46 AM

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Nick 𐃥

@adjectivalnoun.bsky.social

Fig trees being carnivorous is my favorite thing I’ve learned on the internet in a while.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 13h

By the time you eat it the mother wasp has been dissolved by fig enzymes to support the fig's growth though. And the baby wasps have dug their way out of the fig and flown away.

But you can just eat mission figs it bothers you since they aren't wasp polinated.

January 5, 2026 at 7:46 AM

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Sandra Tayler

@sandratayler.bsky.social

This is my favorite story of a bird being wrong in a movie
slate.com/culture/2025...

It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.

The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.

slate.com

January 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM

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🔞JJtheNightingale

@mappabunch.bsky.social

I am so serious when I say that y’all have helped me out, truly. I’m feeling even more emboldened at the keyboard because of all of you. I can finally just… be.🤍✨

This one has a little musical quote in it (it’s from one of my favorite songs of all time!) can you guess the title?😶

January 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM

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Tom McH

@tommchenry.bsky.social

2-minute comic

Drawing of the artist in a sweater at a desk, scowling at an empty sketchbook page. TEXT: “Maybe the REAL problem is I don’t have the right system of little notebooks…”

January 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM

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@aniente.bsky.social

She roumd

A small brown and black tabby curled up in the middle of a nest of soft, fluffy blankets in various shades of cream and grey

January 4, 2026 at 8:52 PM

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli

@banditelli.org

Sorry, best I can do is the Western Grebe Baby Taxi Service. 🐣 🪶

January 4, 2026 at 1:48 AM

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Kate Bevan

@katebevan.com

Thanks to this response from Kate crossing my timeline, I have discovered the existence of this ridiculous feline potato and I must share this video of his origin story and his love for fennel with you www.tiktok.com/@forfoxsakew...

January 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli

@banditelli.org

I NEED Louisiana photo sky to GET ON THIS

A nearly pure black great blue heron, except for yellow beaks and eyes. Pictures from a Facebook group say 17 hours ago, but I was sent this, so could be several days. First posted late last year.

January 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM

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Silverman on Security

@silvermansecurity.bsky.social

Ok, I've promised to tell this story before & never gotten round to it. So strap in & let me tell you about my favorite Scottish party game: Axe, Axe, Who's Got the Axe. Thread!!! 1/

Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 5d

I've done a lot of security gigs, including the one in Scotland when I was a grad student & we got to play Axe Axe Who's Got the Axe, & I have consistently taught my martial arts students you do NOT one to go to ground unless you have no choice. 4/

December 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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Frog and Toad Bot

@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

“Toad,” said Frog, “your pants and jacket are lying on the floor.”

“Tomorrow,” said Toad from under the covers.

Frog tries to spur Toad into cleaning his house, kinda in a passive-aggressive way if you ask me. Toad hides under the covers.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

January 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM

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@aniente.bsky.social

Paging @alchemy-tits.bsky.social

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

reposting to the main timeline, because I want to be this fabulous and to also look this much like I have a shotgun just out of frame so you better fuckin' hurry this up

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

I recently discovered this lady in my ancestry and I have been told the rumors were always that she was Doing Crime To Pay For That Hat, and my 2026 goal is to learn about this great-great-great-grandmother whose energy I wish to emulate, and also maybe get a fabulous hat.

January 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM

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Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

reposting to the main timeline, because I want to be this fabulous and to also look this much like I have a shotgun just out of frame so you better fuckin' hurry this up

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

I recently discovered this lady in my ancestry and I have been told the rumors were always that she was Doing Crime To Pay For That Hat, and my 2026 goal is to learn about this great-great-great-grandmother whose energy I wish to emulate, and also maybe get a fabulous hat.

A woman in the 1800s wearing an extremely fancy coat and a hat that is about a foot across and covered with floral decoration and she looks like she should have a shotgun and be running a bootlegging empire or maybe a house of ill-repute

January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM

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Winifred Sedai Burton

@authorwinifred.blacksky.app

I really love women who were problematic in eras where they were barely permitted to be sentient cause rebelling with a felony or four seems measured and reasonable under those circumstances.

January 2, 2026 at 1:34 AM

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K.B. Spangler

@kbspangler.com

Sarah is keeping @neolithicsheep.bsky.social from being great and/or committing crimes again.

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

THE MAJORITY OF THAT STORY WAS HER DAD TRAILING BEHIND HER YELLING "BAIL OUT, BAIL OUT" AND HER NOT KNOWING WHAT THAT MEANS

BECAUSE SHE WAS NINE

January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM

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@aniente.bsky.social

Terry Pratchett’s “Carpe Jugulum”, for this passage. Seems like a pretty good reminder to take into public service with me:

“There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,” said Oats. “And what do they think? Against it, are they?” said Granny Weatherwax.
“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
“Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.
“It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ”

January 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM

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Gin and Bacon

@ginandbacon.bsky.social

A Very Reasonable Proposal

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

For the most part I try to make what other folks are doing not my business. Twitter was enabling some pretty horrifying shit for a long time, but putting a "take this child actress's dress off" button on there is a level of "what the fuck are you doing on this site" that is hard to grapple with.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this.

It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.

January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM

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Schmidt Ocean Institute

@schmidtocean.bsky.social

ROV pilots filmed this giant phantom jelly, or Stygiomedusa gigantea, at 253 meters during an ROV descent to explore the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon wall. #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

January 2, 2026 at 12:07 AM

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@aniente.bsky.social

It’s a fair cop, @merriam-webster.com

Merriam-Webster’s Bluesky account posted a challenge to readers to screenshot its animated image and post which new word wound up in the screenshot as our word for 2026

Mine is “theatrical”. I mean, they aren’t wrong

January 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM

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Brandy Schillace

@bschillace.brandyschillace.com

I present the #cat semi colon
(Cc @bcdreyer.social)

Two black cats asleep on a white comforter. The top most is in a tight ball and the one below in a curly comma shape

January 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM

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The Daily Tism

@thedailytism.com

Ffiona Maw, 36, considered learning Spanish or joining the gym next year, but decided instead to quit suppressing her authentic self in a bid to make people like her.