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TheKittymeister
@thekittymeister.bsky.social
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River rat, cloud enthusiast. Myriad interests: anime, FFXIV, crochet, knitting, hiking, all music, kaiju films, plants, birds, weather, logistics/transportation. Will brake for a good mushroom/mycelium. Paheli aficionado.
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
I come with yarn tidings: Knit Picks is giving away interchangeable needle sets with orders over $100 rn (there’s a code), AND everything is 30% off. I stocked up on Tree-Rex yarn big time ☺️
Quality Yarns & Knitting Supplies | Knit Picks
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www.knitpicks.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3154 "how's the water down there?"
A bunny going ice fishing has just cut a hole in the ice, in the middle of a lake in winter. A turtle emerges from the ice, to the surprise of the bunny. Shouldn't he be napping?
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
Hampstead Heath, 07:54
Sun rising above trees beyond the edge of the Mens' Bathing Pond, its light reflected in the surface of water disturbed only by a scattering of ducks and waterfowl.
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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mc.frontalot.com
Peace out to Tom Stoppard, who wrote a lot of very wonderful stuff, not least among that stuff Brazil (1985).
Original movie poster for Brazil, I think. Definitely it served as the retail VHS sleeve.
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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bowdie.bsky.social
The Miku plushie can’t hurt you.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
A totally cursed Miku plushie that’s all spindly legs and distorted shapes. I hate it.
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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skiles.blue
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
danteatkins.bsky.social Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 4d
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 5d
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Bushtit flock! 🪶
Male bushtit on an oak Female bushtit on a branch Female bushtit on a branch Female bushtit looking right at camera.
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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leahshaffer.bsky.social
"Uncle Bob, the only reason you got your ozempic is because a scientist was curious about Gila monster venom." 🧪🩺🌱🐀🐙💅
... And more found here.
whysharksmatter.bsky.social David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4d
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.

Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!

🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 3d
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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pegushi.bsky.social
Shop open from Nov. 20th to Dec. 6th!!!!!!
✨ The new Ghost Pokemon prints, Large Ticket posters are all in shop now!
✨ Also offering bundles that offer $70+ worth of merch for less than half the price
✨ If you love my work and would like to support , 'tis the season!

[ #nightmarket #merch ]
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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parliamentarygoose.bsky.social
My contribution to #SuperSeabirdSunday: Blue Fulmar, Svalbard, June 2023.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
Hampstead Heath, 07:58
Leafless trees wet with rain stand on a slope with brambles growing over fallen timber in the foreground.
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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perfectorb.bsky.social
More mushrooms from this great mushrooming season
Bright orange wrinkly gooey looking witch’s butter surrounded by moss growing from a rotten fallen log Large charismatic orange golden chanterelle growing out of mossy duff Bright orange red aminita muscaria with lots of white warts growing in garden mulch
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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bowdie.bsky.social
When the grass hits just right. #caturday
Neeps inspecting a blade of grass I am holding for her through the mesh of our catio Neeps enjoying every molecule of the grass
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Fabulous windfall stick with a bouquet of lichen ...
Windfall stick with pale gray-green lichen
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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shanfiction.bsky.social
Shenandoah Mountains sketches + cabins + road trip ⛰️🌌

November 17-19, 2025
Sketchbook drawings from the shire inspired room me and my partner stayed in at this cabin resort. Pictured on the left is a page with a wood stove, a semi circular window that looked outside and a circular hobbit like door to enter through. The page on the right is our room with an elaborate wooden door with a tiny door to look through and eccentric furniture The left side of the sketchbook shows individual panels I made to do studies in from the skyline drive. There’s overlooks of the mountain, a road sign, a person’s parked truck. The right side shows a panel of me talking about su*cide on the mountain, parts of the inside of the other cabin we stayed in the following night, a drawing of my partner listening to music and a few outside the window to the fire pit These sketchbook pages are studies of the road heading back (we switched drivers), more of the skyline the following day, some close ups of plants on the mountain and quick studies of some older folks who stopped at the outlook spot we stopped at before heading home
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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secondlina.com
Time has changed me.
Doodle of a medieval crow and a cartoon crow side by side with the caption "Time has changed me. But i'm still here."
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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neilslorance.com
Okay everyone say goodnight to Herman please 🐢💤

He’s a bit late this year, wanted to stay up for the Scotland game.
A tortoise in a cardboard box, ready for hibernation.
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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shaferbrown.com
a short rest in the dungeon (2025)
2025 limited tone portrait with animal companions In a water temple, an adventurer sleeps clutching his sword, drool hanging from his mouth. He sleeps nestled between a broken column, a burlap sack, and his dog. atop the column, his cat gazes at a puzzles solution on the horizon. His dog raises an ear and opens an eye cautiously.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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elleskinner.bsky.social
A little octopus with a sprinkle donut having the best day in their little octolife, painted for a lovely individual at RCCC this year :)

#watercolor #art #cute 🐙
watercolor painting of a tiny cartoon dumbo octopus holding onto a giant donut
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
Deep Texan cultural snark

Older man, to a younger man, one who isn’t his son: “I got a pair of boots older’n you are, son.”

Younger man, if he’s heard this before: “Don’t call me son ‘less you put me in the will.”
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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kjcharleswriter.com
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM