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building something new reposting art, research prev: ed tech startup (10M users, acquired), yc, that forbes list, mit https://www.leandra.dev/

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 3d

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 3d

Behold the striking colors of the blue-spotted stingray! Its bright spots are a warning to onlookers that it's venomous—& if its colors aren’t enough to ward off foes, it’s equipped w/ a tail that can inject a lethal dose of toxins.
Photo: Derek Keats, CC-BY-2.0, Wikimedia Commons

A photo of a blue spotted stingray. The animal is a dark greenish gray with a multitude of vibrant blue spots. Its body is flat and pancake-shaped.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 7d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

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British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 7d

become moss

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t think the main character in Friendship was a narcissist. I think he was deeply burying his grief, protecting himself, and ruining everyone else’s lives in the process.

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 8d

#buildinpublic lol or trying to #sftechweek

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 8d

business apocalypse sf is the only sf I function in

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 8d

overstimulated in the wework during tech week.

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 8d

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 9d

#buildinpublic

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 9d

finals (watch + party) -> luma.com/vibe-champio...

Vibe Olympics Finals · Luma

This is not a hackathon The Vibe Olympics marks the dawn of a new era in competitive coding. Combine the US Open and Great British Bakeoff technical and get a…

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 9d

anyway the vibe olympics are only on luma bc I hate random rules. if you're around for #SFTechWeek, come compete! we have a $10k cash prize.

think e-sports style challenges with only one winner. refs not judges.

qualifiers (compete) -> luma.com/vibe-champio...

lea @leeps.bsky.social · 9d

#sftechweek requires events to be on partiful, and only partiful. SF event spaces are usually only reserve-able via luma.

this has led to all kinds of chaos.

lea @leeps.bsky.social · 9d

the paradox of the two baddies that they’re somehow both ridiculously violent and also small time enough that they don’t have anything else to do 😭

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 9d

I like the vibe too! does it get better?? I’m trying to decide whether or not to stick it out

lea @leeps.bsky.social · 9d

finished ep 4 of black rabbit and idk if I can keep watching. does it get good?

that just felt so unearned. you’re telling me these guys are getting away with running around nyc murdering based on rumors all in the hunt of $100k from one dude? like ???

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Max Ernst @max-m-ernst.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Entire City https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-entire-city-1935

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · 21d

I have never understood how figma won over sketch 😭 sketch is so snappy to use! I’ve never agreed 😤

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 26d

John Piper, Bethesda Chapel, 1966
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1118584

Presented by Curwen Studio through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · Sep 16

did you see the assessment? they got it alarmingly on the nose

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Sep 16

I'm sticking with the "2027" date for the Great AI Boyfriend Panic of 2027. These are just foreshocks. arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391

"My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community

Human-AI interaction researchers face an overwhelming challenge: synthesizing insights from thousands of empirical studies to understand how AI impacts people and inform effective design. Existing app...

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lea @leeps.bsky.social · Sep 16

gpt 5 and claude 4 cannot hang and would be left out of the group chat

lea @leeps.bsky.social · Sep 16

and we just got a $5k grant i’m so excited 😭

lea @leeps.bsky.social · Sep 15

space booked ✅ domain acquired ✅ featured on the sf tech week luma calendar ✅

the first vibe olympics are really happening 🤩 www.vibeolympics.com

#buildinpublic

Vibe Olympics - The Ultimate Coding Competition

Join the world's premier coding competition. Watch the finals live or compete in qualifiers. Timed competitive hackathon in front of a live audience. October 11 at Frontier Tower, SF.

www.vibeolympics.com

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fotos la sirena @fotoslasirena.bsky.social · Sep 15

First up in my series, El Maestro, Francisco Toledo. Not a strictly abstract artist, he used geometric shapes, textures, fantastical forms, ancient morphologies & symbols, native creatures in his art painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, ceramics, textiles. 🧵 1/?
#MexicanArtist #AbstractArt

Fin de Otoño (1978) Francisco Toledo (Galería Juan Martín)

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