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U.S. government has a duty to promote the general welfare. It's right there in the Constitution. #VoteBlue 🌊
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

"Why did they never find a vegetable that was bad for you, hey? And what was so wrong with onion gravy anyway? It has onions in it didn’t it? They made you fart, didn’t they? That was good for you, wasn’t it? He was sure he had read that somewhere."
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 1d
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
February 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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scalzi.com
Here, have a kitten, this seems like a day where one might come in handy
Saja looking up at Smudge and wondering how much trouble he can get into
February 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
maiainmi.bsky.social
It's Not Easy Being Green
youtu.be/51BQfPeSK8k?...
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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science.org
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
A child drawing of a female scientist. The hedline is: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
February 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
maiainmi.bsky.social
The British History Podcast (@thebhp.bsky.social) has a great series of episodes on the Staffordshire Hoard, including interviews with museum staff. It starts with episode 61.

www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/79-staffords...
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
Death stood alone, watching the wheat dance in the wind. Of course, it was only a metaphor. People were more than corn. They whirled through tiny crowded lives, driven literally by clock work, filling their days from edge to edge with the sheer effort of living. And all lives were exactly the same length. Even the very long and the very short ones. From the point of view of eternity, anyway. Somewhere, the tiny voice of Bill Door said: from the point of view of the owner, longer ones are best.
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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xkcd.com
Carbon Dating

xkcd.com/3205/
Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating
February 10, 2026 at 7:43 PM
maiainmi.bsky.social
Big. Damn. Hero.
elainerichards.bsky.social Herself @elainerichards.bsky.social · 2d
#BlackHistoryMonth Ida B. Wells. Born into slavery, emancipated as a tot, educated, kept her family together after an epidemic, teacher, investigative journalist who described the root causes of racism and lynching, feminist, activist....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._...
Ida B. Wells - Wikipedia
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February 10, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Opera singer Leontyne Price was born #OTD in 1927. She's 99 today!

Rising to international acclaim in the 1950/60s, Price was the first Black woman prima donna (principal female singer) at the Metropolitan #Opera. She has won more Grammys (19) than any other classical singer.

#legend #music #BHM
Black-and-white close-up portrait of legendary American soprano Leontyne Price, gazing upward with a dignified and expressive expression. She wears a dark headscarf (turban-style) framing her face, pearl earrings, and multiple strands of elegant pearl necklaces over a dark dress or top. The dramatic lighting highlights her strong features, poised neck, and commanding presence, evoking her iconic status as the first African American soprano to achieve international acclaim in opera. Born in 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, Price made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore, became renowned for roles like Aida, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, performed at La Scala in 1960, won 19 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), and broke racial barriers as a trailblazing Black artist in classical music during the mid-20th century.
February 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
One of the remarkable innovations introduced by the Patrician was to make the Thieves’ Guild responsible for theft, with annual budgets, forward planning and, above all, rigid job protection. Thus, in return for an agreed average level of crime per annum, the thieves themselves saw to it that unauthorised crime was met with the full force of Injustice, which was generally a stick with nails in it.
February 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
🏈🦉

#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026
A naive representation of an owl on a small flat slate sheet. The body is depicted in alternating white and dark triangles. Crucially, this owl is not playing American Football.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!
[photo of a pottery bowl with the stylized face of an owl] Columbia River region, Washington or Oregon Owl Effigy Bowl, Pre-contact
February 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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legendarium.bsky.social
Please please please for the love of god don't fall for the "AI is democratizing creativity and making it more accessible" lie that AI companies have been pushing ever since this shit first started.

If you think AI "art" is good for anything besides making tech bros rich you have been fooled
yrpalchris.bsky.social chris @yrpalchris.bsky.social · 6d
no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.
the stupid 'talent is a gatekeeping mechanism' thread that's going around, three posts reading: tired of having these arguments so i'm gonna lay out the STARK reality of AI for some of you privileged fucks: 1. "talent" is a gatekeeping mechanism that has created a culture of professionalism that is no less of an ivory tower than academia, a moralized proxy for access to time, training, money. 2. being poor means having to make hard choices like: [a] drawing something yourself in a way society would call "bad" (i.e. unprofessional) [b] sacrificing resources you don't have to pay a real artist what they're worth (or learn yourself) [c] not doing it at all, or [d] using AI. “just don’t use AI” is a luxury position. when people moralize choices made under scarcity, they’re pretending the menu is the same for everyone. it fucking isn’t.
February 7, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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parchmentscroll.bsky.social
Reminder that the Luddites were not opposed to technology, they were opposed to technology being used by the wealthy to oppress the poor. They only went after factories where advancing technology was used as an excuse to lower workers' wages. So I'm PROUD to be called a Luddite when it comes to AI.
loosf.bsky.social Luis @loosf.bsky.social · 4d
Amazing.
Amazing. This is the framing

Ah yes, it is authoritarian to say "I am not spending a cent here if this direction remains"

Can't even fucking vote with your wallet huh
Not sure how that came up, but we don't have any straight up political discussions here. What we do have is an overabundance of arguments about things such as AI, where authoritarian luddites are fighting libertarian technocrats
February 8, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Ich koude wynne a gold medal at the olympics yf ther was an olympic sport called worryinge about everyethinge all the tyme
February 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
maiainmi.bsky.social
Look at this #AbsoluteUnit.
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 5d
This is Kinako. She is a phenomenally proportioned pup proving that bulbous is beautiful. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: nao77001048)
a reddish brown toy poodle stands majestically in an all-white living room. her body fur is teased out into a magnificent squishy mass, but the fur on her head and paws is groomed short, so it looks like she has a tiny head balanced atop an orblike body. and that she’s balanced atop four tiny little catlike feet. the fur around her snout is white, because it has taken her a lifetime to perfect this flawless aesthetic.
February 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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astrokatie.com
GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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lizrummy.bsky.social
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 7d
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 8d
Discworld QOTD, from Men At Arms
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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joshuaraclaw.com
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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buitengebieden.bsky.social
A guardian angel.. 🥺
February 6, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Dr. Patricia Bath & Marian Croak were the first two Black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2022.

Bath saved the sight of millions with her Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment. Croak did pioneering work in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.

#WomenInSTEM #BHM
Color photograph of pioneering ophthalmologist and inventor Dr. Patricia Bath (1942–2019), the first Black woman to receive a medical patent, smiling warmly in a white lab coat over a blue blouse, sitting next to her invention in a research lab surrounded by books and scientific equipment. Dr. Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe (U.S. Patent No. 4,744,360), a revolutionary laser device and technique for removing cataracts that restored sight to millions and advanced minimally invasive eye surgery. She was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 as one of the first two Black women honorees. #PatriciaBath #Laserphaco #InventorsHallOfFame #WomenInScience Professional color portrait of engineer Marian Croak, a trailblazing innovator in telecommunications, standing confidently in a blue tweed jacket with black trim against a blurred indoor background. She has short hair and a warm smile. Croak pioneered advancements in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology (including U.S. Patent No. 7,599,359), enabling modern audio and video conferencing used in tools like Zoom, FaceTime, and WhatsApp, and holds over 200 patents. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 as one of the first two Black women honorees. #MarianCroak #VoIP #WomenInTech #InventorsHallOfFame
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 8d
Discworld QOTD, from Men At Arms
February 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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weratedogs.com
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM