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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · 27d

They took one upstairs.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 27d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Strange Horizons fund-drive has been a little stuck between the 14K and 15K mark for the last week; and with 11 days to go, we could use some help — whether it is through donations or amplification. And a lot of excellent rewards still available!

To donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons 2026

A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

www.kickstarter.com

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · May 13

This, yes.

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Brent Black @brentalfloss.bsky.social · May 8

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Apr 18

Wow

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · Apr 18

my grandmother wanted to be cremated and we had to fight the local branch of the Orthodox Church tooth-and-nail over it, because that would mean she wouldn't be present for the Resurrection. According to her will that was the whole point, she believed God was real and she didn't want to talk to him.

Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Apr 17

Fuck these fucking fuckfaces

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Apr 17

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

But their defense also hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless—one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining “adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company “has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development,” they see no market in paying authors to license their books because “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” (An argument essential to fair use, but that also sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in “The Rite of Spring.”)

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Apr 14

"dozens more"

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Apr 14

“The event’s organizers estimated that they were turned down by 80 sponsors, most of them companies that would’ve been happy to associate themselves with a Tesla event in the past, but are wary of attracting negative attention.”

As it turns out, Saturday's event, which drew around 120
Cybertruck owners and dozens more Tesla fans, some from as far away as California, Florida, and Canada, was free of controversy.
Organizers breathed a sigh of relief. But if the mood of the embattled crowd, many of whom said they'd been on the receiving end of the public's ire in recent months, was any indication, the anti-Tesla protesters may as well have been there. The event's organizers estimated that they were turned down by 80 sponsors, most of them companies that would've been happy to associate themselves with a Tesla event in the past, but are wary of attracting negative attention.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · Apr 13

Metro, by Joan Mitchell, 1958, 📸 via @liam_mchugh

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Sidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social · Apr 11

owning a small business in 2025…

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 11

More people have been on the moon, than on Big Ben/Mawson Peak, a massive stratovolcano. Our island is so anthropological remote, eruptions are typically only witnessed by us. In the words of our famous Sealvester Stallone: “Get your tiny hands off of Heard.”

(photo: Mike Dillon)

Group of king penguins, being all cool and shit, with old ANARE research hit in background

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 11

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Heard Island Government announces 800% tariff increase on all goods from the United States. Announcement was sent to US Commerce, Trade Director Redmon. Our PR team is currently sitting on eggs, so if any of you could tag news outlets or journalist friends, please do. #FlippersUp

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Apr 10

He's threatening us with a good time.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 7

FrostPoint Dynamics has won a Gov Grant to continue R&D on anti-human encroachment capabilities. Overt and clandestine technology will allow Heard Island’s growing military to defend and even pre-empt any interference with our Sub-Antarctic island Sovereignty.

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Apr 6

Let's all do our part to remedy the situation.

🎃trash🎃 @dollarpbr.gay · Apr 6

noticing a troubling correlation between the downfall of modern society and a decrease in reports of sea serpent sightings

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 6

Trump to JANM: scrub your website.

JANM to Trump: scrub this.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Apr 6

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

www.latimes.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Apr 6

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

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It’s Julie. Dr. Tilsen, if you’re nasty. @queeringtherapist.bsky.social · Apr 5

FLAPS UP!!

pye @raptor.on.computer · Apr 5

NOOT NOOT 🐧

A meme : Pingu with the text 'become untariffable'.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 5

Sec of Health to non-aquatics : “If you feel like you’re submerged & drowning in this world; remember that a depth of 30’ and 2’ from the surface feels similar, and the best way to truly know the difference is to just keep swimming. They count on our despair, knowing 1” is all it takes. So swim.”

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 3

Our foreign secretary has confirmed that America did indeed forget to hit the OFF button after April Fool’s day. Unfortunately, it may be permanently stuck on now much like daylight savings time and QR code menus. We must keep our Flippers Up and fight on.

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Apr 3

Wow, thanks for sharing! If there was ever a time to normalise screaming 24/7 in the middle of traffic....

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Apr 3

Would love to hear anything about 1.

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Brian Gaar @briangaar.bsky.social · Mar 28

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · Mar 28

Imagine

Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · Mar 28

Screenshot of a social media post. It was a picture of a yellow Tesla truck with these words:

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mandy_matney
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Imagine if local news did a segment every time a woman was harassed.

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JUST IN
A Massachusetts doctor is
considering leaving the state after facing harassment for driving a Tesla Cybertruck.

MAN FACES HARASSMENT OVER GOLD CYBERTRUCK
SOUTHBORO

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