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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 46m

Not just care about him, either. Sympathize with! Worry about!

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 47m

I just finished the print version of this book and it did the impossible: make me care about Mr. Collins

Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 16h

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

www.amazon.com/Mr-Collins-L...

Audiobook cover of Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch, read by Joel Leslie and published by RB Media. Cover is green, with ferns, white potato flowers and red raspberries, also a blackbird in flight and a horse and gig.

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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 49m

The profile isn’t for reading, it’s for framing and displaying on the wall of your cool open-plan office

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 52m

Oh so it’s the magazine equivalent of books that people like this publish to sell at the back of the lecture hall

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Cecil Castellucci @misscecil.bsky.social · 1h

I’m going to make some dinner and clear some clutter and watch this film fair warning that I have only been able to find a Hindi version of this film since it was made for India so it will be a lot of guessing. But who ever said this adventure would be easy? Film 316 of #AllDisneyMoviesOrBust

Cecil Castellucci @misscecil.bsky.social · 1h

Roadside Romeo (2008) Film 316 of #AllDisneyMoviesOrBust

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Lyndon @iamlyndon.bsky.social · 1h

Can’t unsee this 🤣 #ONpoli

Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 1h

Just had the horrible realization that Ontario’s premier is a Weeble who keeps getting in trouble but somehow never gets knocked down.

It’s infuriating.

Anyhoo, here’s some fairly damning photographic evidence that Doug Ford is, in fact, an entirely manufactured relic that should be retired.

A grid of 6 photos.

On the left side of the grid are photos of a pale, blond plastic toy.

On the right side of the grid are photos of a pale, blond plastic premier.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 10h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 1h

Hiya ID and TB people, can someone point me to guidelines for a confirmed TB exposure in a hospital setting? Search is so messed up now that I can find guidelines for active and LTBI but not exposure (shared room). Ty!

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web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 2h

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins

October 15, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=paxos-accidental-mint

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins
Paxos, the issuer of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin, accidentally minted 300 trillion of the supposedly dollar-pegged token. For context, this is approximately 2.5x the global GDP, and around 125x the total number of US dollars actually in circulation.
Paxos later announced that the mint was an "internal technical error", and that they had burned the excess tokens.
While PayPal promises its customers that "Reserves are held 100% in US dollar deposits, US treasuries and cash equivalents – meaning that customer funds are available for 1:1 redemption with Paxos," there clearly isn't much in the way of safeguards to ensure that is always the case. As with most stablecoin issuers, Paxos merely issues self-reported and unreviewed portfolio reports, and monthly third-party attestations (not audits) of reserves.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks to Ben for sharing this contract..a lot in it has made me shake my head so far but this made me scream absolutely not.

NO. Romie, who is great to work with by the way, is correct.

What the fuck. Get out.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

4. This is the one that makes my head spin. Clause 2e. "The first right to develop or license the development of special projects, including, but not limited to, games, toys, T
shirts, calendars, and other items based upon characters, ideas, or plots from the Work"

What. The fuck.

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Peace, for eternity.

"The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct. This is the first-ever recorded global bird extinction from mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia."

— International Union for Conservation of Nature

💔

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4h

it is a short (under 200 pages!) book about the current information crisis that we're living through and comparing it to what happened after the invention of printing and after the invention of writing.

tl;dr, it feels like everyone's going bananas! and we lose respect for other humans!

#dontburn

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4h

my new book is out ONE MONTH TODAY. like all authors I am going to be going on & on about it, & encouraging you to pre-order

I do actually think this topic is genuinely important, I want to grab everyone by the lapels to tell them

but, you can mute: #dontburn

www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...

Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and in...

www.penguin.co.uk

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously, my friends, go and get a hobby that isn't perennially online! I cannot tell you how immeasurably better my life is thanks to stuff like reading, crochet, learning languages, ice hockey, and live music.

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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 4h

Can confirm — if I’m knitting or embroidering in a group of friends, I’m way less tempted to be checking my phone every 3 minutes.

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 5h

Gen Z has turned to analogue hobbies like crafting and reading to escape our current hell world. I wrote about it!

Pajiba @handle.invalid · 1d

Why Gen Z Has Become Obsessed With Cozy Hobbies

I've been getting back into crocheting recently. It's a calming and highly satisfying activity that gives me something to do at night while I watch films that isn't just screwing around on my phone. While visiting my local wool shop,... Read more...

www.pajiba.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 6h

I see y'all arguing with Amanda Marcotte & let me crank up the wayback machine...she hung out with a bevy of white feminists who didn't think they were racist, they just thought BIPOC women should wait until all the other issues were solved. She's one of the reasons #solidarityisforwhitewomen exists

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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you for this. I hold grudges like a champ but I often can’t remember why, and she’s one.

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent work on AI and education.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

docs.google.com

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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 7h

Hey @support.bsky.team, a feature I’d REALLY like to see is prioritizing accounts I follow in the results when I start typing a handle.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 7h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · Dec 16

in this alternate universe, the band is a juggernaught of folk music, ushering in a revival of local singers being comfortable just strolling into places and being welcome as the bards they are

Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · Dec 16

I like to think that an alternate universe exists in which a band called wumbachumba released a song that goes "I get knocked up, but I get down again."

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 1d

This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF
WAYS YOU CAN HELP:
ONLINE FUNDRAISER - DONATE TO SUPPORT
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate online. All funds raised will go directly to assisting communities.
PURCHASE ITEMS - AMAZON WISHLIST
Purchase items of immediate need to go directly to the Bethel Community Services Foundation to be distributed to villages most affected.
DONATION DRIVE AT AFN CONVENTION
Accepting items of immediate need including:
Cases of water, nonperishable foods, diapers, wipes, toilet paper, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, phone chargers, blankets, sleeping bags, cots, flashlights, and hand wipes.
DENA'INA CENTER, ROOM 6 (2ND FLOOR)
Friday, October 17 | 1-5PM
Saturday, October 18 | 8AM-2PM

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone poops therefore.... buttholes are ok. Look at that little sweet baby though! #Primates #PrimatesAreNotPets

Max Waugh @maxwaughphoto.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah yeah, there’s some orangutan butthole featured here… but this was our first view of the species on this trip, made even more special by the little hitchhiker who tagged along with Mom yesterday.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 8h

Most of the time this one is great! But SOMETIMES…

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