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Sarah
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Web manager/content strategist/etc. Placid but prickly.

[banner alt-text: During the wars of prehistory, the gods brought jellyfish to the Earth from another planet and used them as messengers.]
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Sarah @sarahbee.bsky.social · Dec 5
So I did the Bluesky "roast" thing and it said, Sarah, maybe lay off the jellyfish posts.

But there should only ever be MORE jellyfish content. Everyone knows this.
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jyoolz.bsky.social
Went to a new art installation today, was trippy!
A large neon-lit room with big floating swathes of material that look like jellyfish. It’s dark and the material is glowing purple/pink. A woman and child are walking under one of the big jellyfish structures. A suspended structure of pink material with clay heads on it, like they are peeking out of a cloud. A picture of an inflatable under the jellyfish structure. It’s kind of like a tardigrade and is lit up in red. Looks more like a giant skin cell in this photo but up close reminded me of a tardigrade! Another picture of the big jellyfish arms.
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
When teams don't understand their own product
A usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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riversidewings.bsky.social
I was trying to remember the name of the Chicxulub crater and for the life of me, all I could manage was "Chicks Club," as if a lesbian bar ended the dinosaurs.
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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tomhodson.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
TIL: Box jellyfish larvae have eyes but no brain to connect them to so instead the eyes also swim a bit. Source: Animal Eyes, Land & Nilsson, second edition, chapter 1
A cropped photo of an e-reader. The text reads: « The small pigmented ocelli of the planula larvae of box jellyfish (Fig. 1.4a) offer a rare example of a 'visual system' so primitive that it consists of only a single cell type. Apart from making a pigment cup, these cells also have both sensory microvilli and motile cilia, but no neural connections. It is believed that they are self-contained sensory motor units, steering the larva as it swims. »
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
sarahbee.bsky.social
I knew something weird dropped last night because I logged on this morning to everyone posting about bamboo again.
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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helen-rosemier.bsky.social
#medusa #jellyfish #artistsofbluesky #watercolour #marinelife #ocean #water
Painting of a pale jellyfish with a black background
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
sarahbee.bsky.social
Reposting with alt-text because this is delightful
A LinkedIn post by Isaiah Tanenbaum from 5 months ago Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived.... or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived. My understanding is that it was finally released today, not just to COIB's newsletter, but in fact to all 300,000 NYC government employees, an act which required the "highest" clearance. I assume this means that Mayor Eric Adams (or perhaps a close subordinate) found themselves reading about werewolf vendors, a crypto-mining Staten Island Chuck, and a trap that can only be defused if one happens to know that Fiorello La Guardia had a particular loathing for a specific vegetable. As it is in the public domain, there is nothing stopping me from sharing it with you as well. Now you, too, can enjoy this -- either as an adventure module for your existing adventuring party, if that's how you happen to roll (role?), or just to read and maybe even learn something about NYC's very weird ethics law. Link is in the comments. Having fallen asleep during a mandated training, the party awakens to find themselves trapped in the haunted basement of the Dinkins Building. To escape, they must face a series of challenges and find the sign-in sheet that proves they attended, lest they be cursed to repeat the training, forever.
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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waldo.net
Come work for me! I'm hiring at @usdigitalresponse.org—somebody with experience as a government procurement FTE who wants to join me in providing pro bono support to governments in the U.S. who want to move to a user-centered, Agile software procurement approach. Remote, full-time, $145–165k.
Procurement Specialist at U.S. Digital Response
About U.S. Digital Response U.S. Digital Response (USDR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping governments and civic institutions respond quickly and efficiently to support the...
us-digital-response.breezy.hr
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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insidertreat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Any takers?
Hand drawn picture of jellyfish, captioned: "do you want to become jellyfish with me? We could just exist, no brain just blup blup blup"
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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spudart.bsky.social
I did a search in my Google Photos for "jellyfish" hoping it would give me a result that is not a jellyfish, but something that looks like a jellyfish.

It did not disappoint.

Here is a very underexposed image of an Art Institute of Chicago lion wearing a Cubs hat in 2016.
Screenshot of Google Photos search for: jellyfish Hello, jellyfish—I mean lion The regular exposed photo. I took three exposures, because it was for an HDR photo (in HDR photography you capture multiple exposures of the same image and merge them together later to get a wide depth of tonalilty)
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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biologizing.bsky.social
Sometimes I like to go into iNaturalist at the Kingdom level to try and help people who are truly baffled, and I like that the most baffling items are just fungus, fungus, fungus, fungus, ctenophore, fungus, fungus, jellyfish, fungus, fungus, fungus,,,
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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zombieautopilot.swifties.social
I’m a flower hat jellyfish! 🪼
A flower hat jellyfish is floating in the blue sea. It is oblong and clear, ornamented with brown stripes and dangling clear tendrils with purple ends.
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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meeses.bsky.social
Had an idea for a new entry in the Alien franchise, Alien: Perth (this time, it’s in Australia), which sees a xenomorph going up against all the deadly Australian wildlife that’s already trying to kill you, such as platypuses (platypi?), punching kangaroos, those tiny venomous jellyfish, etc…
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
I’m almost ready… #FolktaleWeek2025 starts tomorrow! I’ve only got a sketch for the last prompt. I’m going to do my best to complete a print for the final day and I am excited to post my #folktale & #fairytale inspired new work & see all the gorgeous illustrations from everyone!

#illustration #art
This image shows my framed circular artwork with text. The artwork shows a hand painted polar bear in Renaissance garb with a large white coat made from multiple collaged white patterned Japanese papers and a silver ruff on a snowy landscape made with collaged papers on a nautical chart of the Arctic Ocean. Above is the Aurora made with flowing cut translucent washi. In curved blue text it reads “Folktale Week 2025”. Surrounding the pale gold frame is a circle of silver text reading: 1. Night 2. Echo 3. Rain 4. Book 5. Charm 6. Storm 7. Dawn
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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izandra.bsky.social
The cutest jellyfish
A black smoke cat sits looking adorable while wearing a light blue jellyfish hat. The jellyfish tentacles are under her chin.
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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offlately2.bsky.social
I stepped into the warm waters of Costa Rica and stepped right the fuck out of them. Some kind of Jellyfish. It was like cut by a razor that was white hot. Peeling on it did nothing. Dont pee on yourselves.
rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social Rachael the Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 10d
I love biology facts but it's disappointing that it's both a misconception that urine works as emergency water and that it can treat a jellyfish sting, the sad reality is your pee is useless and your body wants it out of you for a reason 😞
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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alexandragallant.com
They're here!!!!
Frog by Day, Frog by Night, Frog by Transit: four little comics, each one is for a line of the MBTA in Boston, a green line, an orange line, a red line and a blue line - a little frog rides each of the 'trains' (each comic is shaped like a train car), the orange line is on fire and the frog has a little firefighter helmet, the red line frog has a conductor hat and is saying "I got a HAT!", the blue line frog has some seal passengers and is saying "harbor seal of approval"
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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doc000.bsky.social
"Martha, the big jellyfish thing is back. Get the stick."
hayao.lol Catbus and stuffing 🍂🍁🍃 @hayao.lol · 10d
'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
a stark two story house sits on a hill overlooking the sea, floating overhead is a gargantuan jellyfish with rainbow colored tentacles
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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rodeokitten.bsky.social
Light the fancy candle! What are you waiting for?
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Dr Frankenstein: "I believe I will start my story in childhood." Sea captain: *Tosses him into the ice.*
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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premeemohamed.com
Hmm hmmmmm hmm what's all this then
a pre-order image for the audiobook of THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST, by premee mohamed, read by shiromi arserio, $19.11, coming out nov 25, 2025.
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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jessnevins.bsky.social
Also, very important:
Headline: "space-born jellyfish hate life on earth"
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM