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Here be dagrons
@davidnyer.com
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Biologist, bicyclist, occasional baker, aspiring botanist. Likely some other B words as well. Should probably adopt a dog.
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schellbrewer.bsky.social
Hey winter cyclists: the smartest thing I've done after threatening to do it for too many years was actually write down what to wear based on temperature. This helped immensely last year, and winter is coming 🥶
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
davidnyer.com
Heat pumps are sorcery from some dark warlock's pact and you cannot convince me otherwise
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22d
I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"Somehow, James Bond returned" seems easy enough to me! Worked for Star Wars re: Palpatine, no reason why it won't work here.
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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hahaha, whoops

Actually though, weightlifting is great for basically everyone and the benefits far outweigh the risks. Highly recommend, just don't make it an ego thing.
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Life is pain.
snellarthur.bsky.social Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 27d
Violence baguettes violence.
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Some adventurous souls are already doing 1-day rides along the full length of it bsky.app/profile/nota...
davidnyer.com Here be dagrons @davidnyer.com · 28d
Just wikipedia unfortunately en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central... I've been following the progress of the rail trail though and they now have >60% of the route open! I'm excited to ride it someday.
Central Massachusetts Railroad - Wikipedia
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November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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a film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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swampvids.bsky.social
It’s Halloween in the swamp, which is a time to remember all the bodies that are buried in the woods. Abandoned cemeteries are certainly on the “hiking in New England” bingo card. Did people used to just bury their dead in the middle of the woods? Sort of… ⬇️
#history #halloween #curious #newengland
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
davidnyer.com
"Vagina-compatible bullets" is my new favorite phrase.
vaginamuseum.bsky.social Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Oct 28
It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
Fesshole screenshot: I may have nearly knocked out my gynecologist by shooting a speculum at his head. It wasn't my fault. He made me laugh, my muscles contracted, and suddenly my twat was a cannon.
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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If BttF ever did a remake (and they won't, the rights are exclusively held by the director who is Done with the franchise), it would have a Cybertruck time machine.
emmahouxbois.bsky.social véronique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · Oct 19
satire that people misunderstood: they picked the delorean for back to the future as a joke because it was a failed vision of the future
October 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Now this is cool: a "House of Hades" piece of street art, right at South Station! These are made from colored linoleum pieces and asphalt sealer; they appear solid black at first until the car tires rub away enough of the sealer to reveal the piece. City erosion becomes art. #HouseofHades #Boston
A photo of a piece of street art made of pieces of grey, white and green linoleum to form an abstract pattern; part of the piece says "HOH24", indicating it is a House of Hades art piece made in 2024. Photo of South station intersection in Boston, MA. A crosswalk is visible with pedestrians walking nearby and tall buildings in the background. The House of Hades piece can be seen in the bottom right of the photo.
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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elsplice.bsky.social
some guy: bluesky is dying it is a hell hole
some other guy: this site, bluesky, is eating itself alive
yet another guy: this site will be dead by october
me: here's a cool duck riding in a roller skate
a very dopey drawing of a roller skate zooming along. we see a duck's head coming out of the top of the skate, they are wearing sunglasses. the skate has a little flag that says: captain cool
September 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Paging @swampvids.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"Will we be charging you an additional $5 per month to use this feature? Of course not. If you read our newsletter you would have seen it's $10"
ricklane.bsky.social Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · Aug 19
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Spotted this in a local free things Facebook group. My delight at seeing the arrows is perfectly balanced by my disgust at the text. Why is the yellow axis labeled with green text? Why is the red axis text colored yellow, and why doesn't it use a double quote? Why is the green axis label BLUE??
A photograph of a chair overlaid with colored arrows indicating its length, depth, and height, with corresponding text labels for each dimension.
August 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Asbestos, lead paint and leaded fuel, radium watches, etc etc etc.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 14
Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.
August 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This is how I flirt
August 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.
August 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
It's 40 years since Kate Bush first ran up that road, ran up that hill and ran up that building and 20 years since I made this ̶d̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ gif.
August 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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dadrummond.art
Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓
August 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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herorareheart.bsky.social
Finally, I can post this video I've been hanging on to since somebody sent it to me.
July 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM