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George Penney

@georgepenney.bsky.social

🧵Spotted at a Vineyard Picnic in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A very friendly dog (red cloud kelpie), her bottom square with age, is sprawled on a picnic rug as numerous small humans compete to see Who Can Pat Her Best.
Friendly Dog is in her element, a doggy smile on her face.
This is the life. (1)

November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion

Tom Davidson @tomdavidson92.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM

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Jane

@jane.meangirls.online

me upon arriving in the British Isles: I'll allow these people to keep their celtic culture as much as possible and make peace

me after seeing them eating eels: get ready to learn latin, buddy

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

1 hour into anno 117: i will build an equitable rome for all romans

10 hours into anno 117: i'm sorry but someone has to live by the glass factory

November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM

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Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets

From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

www.fastcompany.com

November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM

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Kate Compton

@galaxykate.bsky.social

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Conversation with Claude about tracery parsers, and it advises me to look at kate comptons parser, to which i reply “but Doctor i am kate compton”

November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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Courtney Milan

@courtneymilan.com

The sense I am getting through all of this is that Larry Summers used his position to get a substantially junior colleague to listen to him whine about his marriage, then tried to get her to “have a drink with him” and stormed off when she was like no thanks I have a presentation tomorrow.

Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 1d

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Richard Kadrey

@richardkadrey.bsky.social

Good morning

"I spent two years at a top university, was taught by some of the finest modern archaeologists and THIS is what I learned."
Ancient civilizations
Preppies: Persia, Mycenae
Goths: Egypt and Assyria
Nerds: Babylon, Greece
Jocks: Sparta, Macedonia

November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM

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Louie Stowell

@louiestowell.bsky.social

The Screwtape Letters is a premium feature, lads.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Hold up

November 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM

Vaishnavi S

@vaishs.bsky.social

@swumboh.bsky.social Are you teaching ToC this time? How’s it going?

November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM

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Ben Williamson

@benpatrickwill.bsky.social

Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...

November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM

Vaishnavi S

@vaishs.bsky.social

Wombats think the style should be called “pootalist”

Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 2d

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there.

💩🧊🧪

By @chazhutton.com

Wombat architecture critics.
Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.

November 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM

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Ryan, Perdido en TX

@ryanlostintx.bsky.social

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM

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davidkinney.bsky.social

@davidkinney.bsky.social

Waxing poetic in the last paragraph of my final lecture notes for formal methods this semester.

November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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Mary Gillis

@marygillis.bsky.social

Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.

November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵

@radobrien.myatproto.social

blues brothers ass pope

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 4d

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM

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Janel Comeau 🍁

@verybadllama.bsky.social

he was a boy
she was a girl
can I make it any more obvious?

he went to work
she stole his plums
forgive her, they're cold and she wanted them

November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM

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SMBC Comics

@smbccomics.bsky.social

You ever notice how weird it is that an immortal bothers to kill a bunch of people instead of just waiting 100 years?

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prayer-6
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update where a woman is by her bed, praying to God. She asks Him why doesn't he answer prayers. God responds by asking how many times she has wishes death on a co-worker. She says that those were wishes not formally put into prayer. God asks what she she would do if she knew it'd work, prompting her to say that that's a trick question because someone else would have offer her first.

November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Nate Wolff

@natewolff.bsky.social

me when I see your aurora borealis pics

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within

November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie.bsky.social

Tired: em dash (long literary pedigree; now terminally associated with AI gotchas).

Wired: Frankendash (a nameless mode of naming the unnameable; gothic af; hey AI bros, let's see _your_ ungodly creation do _this_).

John Stuart Chill ☃️ @jsthrill.modphi.com · 5d

For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:

“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”

www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...

But lo and behold! I found myself famous. Frankenstein had prodigious success as a drama, and was about to be repeated, for the twenty-third night, at the English Opera House. The play-bill amused me extremely, for, in the list of dramatis personce, came
"———, by Mr. T. Cooke." This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good.
On Friday, 29th August, Jane, my Father, William, and I went to the theatre to see it. Wallack looked very well as Frankenstein.
He is at the beginning full of hope and expectation. At the end of the first act the stage represents a room with a staircase leading to Frankenstein's workshop; he goes to it, and you see his light at a small window, through which a frightened servant peeps, who runs off in terror when Frankenstein exclaims "It lives!" Presently Frankenstein himself rushes in horror and trepidation from the room, and, while still expressing his agony and terror,
"———" throws down the door of the laboratory, leaps the staircase, and presents his unearthly and monstrous person on the stage. The story is not well managed, but Cooke played ———'s part extremely well; his seeking, as it were, for support; his trying to grasp at the sounds he heard; all, indeed, he does was well imagined and executed. I was much amused, and it appeared to excite a breathless eagerness in the audience. It was a third piece, a scanty pit filled at half-price, and all stayed till it was over.
They continue to play it even now.

November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Dak

@dak.myatproto.social

The internet isn't fun anymore. I miss when it was just pictures of cats with bad grammar, not a global prison that monetizes despair.

November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM

Vaishnavi S

@vaishs.bsky.social

Bonzy buddy took unemployment hard

Chembu🌺🧶 @chembarathi.bsky.social · 5d

When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky.

You must offer her what's left
of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish
you must put aside
and make her a place to sit at the foot of your bed,
-MATTHEW DICKMAN
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀