René Bruckner
@renethoreau.bsky.social
Career academic and cinephile. Picturegoer. Vitagraph enthusiast. Phantasmagourmand. Rarebit fiend. Supporter of civil liberties.
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This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head!
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
This Sea Slug Can Chop Off Its Head and Grow an Entire New Body--Twice
It is one of the “most extreme” examples of regeneration ever seen
www.scientificamerican.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I didn’t manage to turn a poem into a scarf this year, but I did turn a handful of dreams into half a rough draft of a book
My new years resolution for 2025 comes from something Walter Benjamin said in a dream while under mass arrest in Paris: "'Il s’agissait de changer en fichu une poésie' [It was a matter of turning a poem into a scarf]"
December 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I didn’t manage to turn a poem into a scarf this year, but I did turn a handful of dreams into half a rough draft of a book
Christmas snack
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Christmas snack
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Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Cunk spittin Christmas cheer
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Henry David Thoreau is like “damn my vacation is so important to humanity”
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Henry David Thoreau is like “damn my vacation is so important to humanity”
Some of these Vanity Fair photos need to be photoshopped into the black lodge
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Some of these Vanity Fair photos need to be photoshopped into the black lodge
Love and communion across vast distances of space and time (
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Love and communion across vast distances of space and time (
Great catch
Sorry to put this on the TL, but please do not transcribe this as “sycophant.” He audibly says “syncophant” because he does not really know the word or what it means. To pretend he said a word whose meaning he does not know is carrying water for him. “Syncophant [sic]” is how you transcribe this
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Great catch
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The future is not foreclosed.
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The future is not foreclosed.
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hmm? oh... nothing, sorry. just thinking about last years Lexus December to Remember event
March 26, 2024 at 6:56 PM
hmm? oh... nothing, sorry. just thinking about last years Lexus December to Remember event
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simple really 💅
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
simple really 💅
Animatronic Boogaloo
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Animatronic Boogaloo
2 Five 2 Freddy’s come on guys
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
2 Five 2 Freddy’s come on guys
Sandwich puns are the highest form of low humor
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Sandwich puns are the highest form of low humor
The invention of the submarine paved the way for the paninimarine
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The invention of the submarine paved the way for the paninimarine
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If I met any of you in real life I would make myself appear so large
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If I met any of you in real life I would make myself appear so large
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I smell like a dog, which is to say extremely well, I can detect even faint scents
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I smell like a dog, which is to say extremely well, I can detect even faint scents
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edibles is actually short for edwardibles
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
edibles is actually short for edwardibles
This may be niche, but I truly believe that synesthesia scholarship would be more popular I’d it was rebranded as Franken-sense
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This may be niche, but I truly believe that synesthesia scholarship would be more popular I’d it was rebranded as Franken-sense
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