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More highlights from 2025. The old forefinger came in handy a few times this year, usually as a scale. Micro botany on the beach at Sinah Common, Hayling Island, Hampshire with Little-Robin Geranium purpureum ssp. forsteri and Sand Cat's-tail Phleum arenarium. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
More highlights from 2025. The old forefinger came in handy a few times this year, usually as a scale. Micro botany on the beach at Sinah Common, Hayling Island, Hampshire with Little-Robin Geranium purpureum ssp. forsteri and Sand Cat's-tail Phleum arenarium. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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I think normalizing “if this candidate wants to take my rights away so he can pretend to be progressive I’m not going to vote for him and vote for someone with EVERYONE’s interests in mind” is reasonable and necessary actually
#Darkwoke
#Darkwoke
December 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I think normalizing “if this candidate wants to take my rights away so he can pretend to be progressive I’m not going to vote for him and vote for someone with EVERYONE’s interests in mind” is reasonable and necessary actually
#Darkwoke
#Darkwoke
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
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the claim that these are medical devices seems weak as water, but i worry that no matter how weak the claim is, some companies are going to go under if they have to shell out legal fees :/
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
the claim that these are medical devices seems weak as water, but i worry that no matter how weak the claim is, some companies are going to go under if they have to shell out legal fees :/
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Have you treated yourself this holiday season? Would you like to? 👀
🎁 I have a $100 M4F gift card up for grabs!
Just follow me & @master4fancy.bsky.social, and share this post!
Bonus entry: Comment your favorite toy or color from M4F ✨
Ends 4pm EST 12/23/25 - with the 20% off sale still going 😎
🎁 I have a $100 M4F gift card up for grabs!
Just follow me & @master4fancy.bsky.social, and share this post!
Bonus entry: Comment your favorite toy or color from M4F ✨
Ends 4pm EST 12/23/25 - with the 20% off sale still going 😎
December 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Have you treated yourself this holiday season? Would you like to? 👀
🎁 I have a $100 M4F gift card up for grabs!
Just follow me & @master4fancy.bsky.social, and share this post!
Bonus entry: Comment your favorite toy or color from M4F ✨
Ends 4pm EST 12/23/25 - with the 20% off sale still going 😎
🎁 I have a $100 M4F gift card up for grabs!
Just follow me & @master4fancy.bsky.social, and share this post!
Bonus entry: Comment your favorite toy or color from M4F ✨
Ends 4pm EST 12/23/25 - with the 20% off sale still going 😎
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after all, why not? why shouldn't I watch Yuri on Ice again?
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
after all, why not? why shouldn't I watch Yuri on Ice again?
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nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how "busy" you were
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- that one person or fictional character you could NOT shut up about, you made sure they never forget
- your salary
- how "busy" you were
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- that one person or fictional character you could NOT shut up about, you made sure they never forget
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how "busy" you were
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- that one person or fictional character you could NOT shut up about, you made sure they never forget
- your salary
- how "busy" you were
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- that one person or fictional character you could NOT shut up about, you made sure they never forget
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This is such an issue, one I got conned by recently (the "animal shelter lets dogs choose" video) and I'm not sure how useful their guidelines are for identifying the fakes.
Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
The Reality of AI Animal Content – Sedgwick County Zoo
If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen them – bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or “rescued” wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to be…
scz.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is such an issue, one I got conned by recently (the "animal shelter lets dogs choose" video) and I'm not sure how useful their guidelines are for identifying the fakes.
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Reviews, recommendations, and requesting these books for purchase by your local library.
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reviews, recommendations, and requesting these books for purchase by your local library.
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Fail all the tests but take all the jobs and buy all the houses
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Fail all the tests but take all the jobs and buy all the houses
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY!
Tentickle opened in December 2020 (remember 2020? 🤮) so this is to thank you all for helping me to survive 🙏
Win a Made-To-Order of your choice - any size, firmness and colours - and feel free to sprinkle a little extra detail to it, like a cheeky bit of hand-painting 😉
Tentickle opened in December 2020 (remember 2020? 🤮) so this is to thank you all for helping me to survive 🙏
Win a Made-To-Order of your choice - any size, firmness and colours - and feel free to sprinkle a little extra detail to it, like a cheeky bit of hand-painting 😉
December 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY!
Tentickle opened in December 2020 (remember 2020? 🤮) so this is to thank you all for helping me to survive 🙏
Win a Made-To-Order of your choice - any size, firmness and colours - and feel free to sprinkle a little extra detail to it, like a cheeky bit of hand-painting 😉
Tentickle opened in December 2020 (remember 2020? 🤮) so this is to thank you all for helping me to survive 🙏
Win a Made-To-Order of your choice - any size, firmness and colours - and feel free to sprinkle a little extra detail to it, like a cheeky bit of hand-painting 😉
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Deep sea mining is very bad for deep sea ecosystems.
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Deep sea mining is very bad for deep sea ecosystems.
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Since it is the season of giving, we wanted to start a Wandering Bard Giveaway!
Win a custom Xsmall, Small, Medium or Large custom pour!
Must Retweet, Like, and Follow(or be following us) to enter!
Winner(s) will be drawn on Dec 12th at 2 PM ET!
Must be 18+ to enter, rules next!
Win a custom Xsmall, Small, Medium or Large custom pour!
Must Retweet, Like, and Follow(or be following us) to enter!
Winner(s) will be drawn on Dec 12th at 2 PM ET!
Must be 18+ to enter, rules next!
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Since it is the season of giving, we wanted to start a Wandering Bard Giveaway!
Win a custom Xsmall, Small, Medium or Large custom pour!
Must Retweet, Like, and Follow(or be following us) to enter!
Winner(s) will be drawn on Dec 12th at 2 PM ET!
Must be 18+ to enter, rules next!
Win a custom Xsmall, Small, Medium or Large custom pour!
Must Retweet, Like, and Follow(or be following us) to enter!
Winner(s) will be drawn on Dec 12th at 2 PM ET!
Must be 18+ to enter, rules next!
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if you visit
american city
you will find it
very pretty
just TWO things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and Don't breathe the air.
-Tom Lehrer, "Pollution"
american city
you will find it
very pretty
just TWO things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and Don't breathe the air.
-Tom Lehrer, "Pollution"
Zeldin: “We conducted the biggest deregulation of EPA in history, the “green new scam” is dead. Thank you for taking a bullet for this country. I’m grateful for this president for willing to take a bullet for all of us.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
if you visit
american city
you will find it
very pretty
just TWO things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and Don't breathe the air.
-Tom Lehrer, "Pollution"
american city
you will find it
very pretty
just TWO things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and Don't breathe the air.
-Tom Lehrer, "Pollution"
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Please keep it up folks, I am confident I'm not the only artist that wants to be able to make a living again! This move by paypros was a shallow profit-driven attempt to replace real content creators with controllable llms and it cannot be allowed to stand.
anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co
anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Please keep it up folks, I am confident I'm not the only artist that wants to be able to make a living again! This move by paypros was a shallow profit-driven attempt to replace real content creators with controllable llms and it cannot be allowed to stand.
anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co
anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co
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Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Yes! Visuals are part of the communication. Treating them as ignorable decoration completely misses the point and it’s not how they’re received by an audience
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
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no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me