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Hey, here's a 15 second video of a greyhound asleep. If it autoplays, here's your reminder to turn that off in the bsky settings. If you've already done that, I promise it's just a 15 second of a sleeping greyhound.
January 24, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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desertjason.bsky.social
THERE! ARE! FOUR! BUCKETS!
a bald man with a beard is making a funny face in a dark room .
ALT: a bald man with a beard is making a funny face in a dark room .
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January 19, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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mariabustillos.com
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING

wat

CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
For example, an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing is not allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they do not make quota.
January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
nwp.bsky.social
See down thread for scale if you're brave enough.
schmidtocean.bsky.social Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 27d
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 17, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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aropride on tumblr: "some birds are very intuitively named. looked up a sparrow going chipchipchip in my yard, it was a chipping sparrow. saw a black bird with red wings, it was a red winged blackbird. gray bird that sounds like a cat? gray catbird. the first time i saw a house finch it was perched on a windowsill. However, some birds are the red-bellied woodpecker" someofusarequeer: "I gotta google something real quick" someofusarequeer: "who named this bird'
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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drcraigmc.bsky.social
Meet Duobrachium sparksae: a newly described comb jelly that looks like a glowing hot-air balloon drifting just above the deep seafloor. Transparent, delicate, and unmistakably transfixing, it reminds us how much biodiversity is in the deep oceans.

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...
January 16, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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watershitdown.bsky.social
I can't shake the love for crumbly pastries.
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
nwp.bsky.social
Bonus points for anyone who can persuade Daniel Craig to record and post this...
faitherinhicks.bsky.social Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 16d
Who did this? Because I fucking love it and I want to shake your hand, sir (not gender specific)
[Benoit Blanc voice] and nine to the race of men, who above all else desire --- what? powah. precisely. but they were all of them deCEIved. for ANOTHAH ring was made
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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drcuriosity.bsky.social
Louder for the folks in the back:
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2...
Your digital identity is not under New Zealand jurisdiction
Our most important data is stored on US-owned cloud infrastructure and subject to US laws.
thespinoff.co.nz
January 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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bluealways.bsky.social
👇
October 14, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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cjayanetti.bsky.social
lol Palantir sound like psychos, good thing we've kept them at arms length...
samblum.bsky.social Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 23d
In other hell site news billionaire VC and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale seemingly endorsed the murder of "commies" the other day.
Exactly. What did you think founding Palantir was supposed to be about? Commies aren’t allowed in this hemisphere and every one of them should be blown up along with their gravesites
January 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
ha - NYT has now changed this sentence, managing only to amplify the absurdity and offense of the original: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro describe themselves as socialists, though the policies Mr. Maduro presided over in Venezuela differ starkly from those Mr. Mamdani has vowed to pursue."
pgourevitch.bsky.social Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 26d
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
The Mexican president is:

- a woman
- a Jew
- a climate scientist

A perfect storm for someone Trump would absolutely fucking love to abduct from power and throw in jail.
asherelbein.bsky.social Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25d
I think, unfortunately, the "success" of the Venezuala operation + the previously reported planning for a Mexican operation means the Trump Administration is, unless meaningfully stopped, absolutely going to be invading Mexico. This simply cannot be treated as an empty threat
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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korimakoecology.bsky.social
"The International Visitor Levy was introduced to help manage the impacts of ballooning tourist numbers. So why is it instead funding millions in marketing to lure even more tourists, while DOC warns conservation is about to go backwards, and towns can't afford to upgrade overflowing toilets?"
The tourist tax that’s selling New Zealand, not supporting it
The International Visitor Levy was supposed to help manage the impacts of ballooning tourist numbers. So why is it instead funding millions in tourism marketing, while DOC warns conservation risks are...
www.thepost.co.nz
January 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
OMG 😭

Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."

LIFE SAVING!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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September 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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515mm.bsky.social
I was selling a home cinema to Alun-Wyn Jones & my boss was using 6 nations rugby footage to sell another guy a TV.
AWJ looks over, winks at me & stands behind the guy, dwarfs him. At the point Mike Phillips scores a try he says
"Could've passed me the ball there"
And this guy's jaw hit the floor 😜
bolt451.bsky.social Frey has a free writing Patreon @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos."

It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk

#NukeSKY

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A screenshot of the first page of document by Hans Bethe labeled "The Story of Los Alamos." It is a scan of a weathered document and shows classification review marks and classification markings crossed out. On the right, going horizontally up the page, is a handwritten phrase reading "redacted version." The OCR of the first page is as follows: "the laboratory was established as the the last of the tour maJor proJeots in the atomic bomb program. the purpose ot the three earlier proJects vas to manufacture active materials which could be used in an atomic bomb. 'I'vo of themthe project of Dr. Lawrence at the University of California and of Dr. Urey at Columbia University vere concerned vith the separation of the active isotopes 235 from ordinary uranium using ~o different methods. The third, the Metallurgical La~ratory at Chicago, developed methods to produce the entirely new element plutonium by means of a nuclear reaction. All of these proJecte vere , in the Spring of 1943, at a stage of transition from re- " search to actual production. At this stage it seemed appropriate to establish a furthsr laboratory to investigate the actual construction ot an atomic bomb. ~is laboratory vas built at Los Alamos, near Santa Fe, Hew Mexico. As Director, General Groves who vas in over all charge of the atomic bomb project, appointed Dr. J.R. Oppenheimer, vell-known theoretical physicist from the University of California. The laborator1 vas first in tended to be quite small vith a total staff of one or two hundred. It aoon vas found that the problema in deaigning an atomic bomb were much too difficult and varied to be solved by such a small statf and the laboratory aoon grew to more than ten ti~es its original size"
December 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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It’s nearly that time
Picture of man jumping saying “Yippee 2025 is almost over” and an Alsatian with jaws open aimed at his junk and 2026 on its side is about to make contact.
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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robdickinson.bsky.social
I've not seen someone smashed this hard since uh some YouTuber thought they could box...
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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dethveggie.bsky.social
I WANT TO SEE THE HELL OUT OF THAT.
thespaceshipper.com The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Dec 22
Galaxy Quest (1999)

Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
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December 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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lopatto.bsky.social
as foretold by the prophesy
Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
nwp.bsky.social
This right here, in the UK, is disgusting. As a British citizen, I will view the ministers responsible as guilty of murder if and when any of these hunger strikers die.
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Dec 21
The treatment of the hunger strikers by the British state is truly barbarous

they've been convicted of no crime, are being held w/o trial, & have been on remand for over twice the remand custody limit

they've been subject to degrading & humiliating treatment, & are now in a critical state
‘The British state will let them rot in a prison and die’: The Palestine Action supporters on hunger strike
Five people being held on remand are in a critical state, after protesting prison conditions. The government has chosen not to engage
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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parlei.bsky.social
Traumatic brain injury as entertainment... I can't get behind it, but sometimes it feels like someone may have asked for it a bit too eagerly.

But I have known people with multiple concussions: there is a quite short list of people I feel deserve it.
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM