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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 1d

Best thing Byron ever wrote. 😉

"Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog."

~Lord Byron

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 3h

#sensewrds 117 [liminal, endearing, skies] ✨ #poetry

Vespers

That moment when, in the failing
afternoon light, you suddenly remember
the language of dusk

and then you speak it;
speak all of its absences and shades
of bruised

and become a knowing
like that tangled in the skeins of the geese
that there must be a leaving
to make possible
a returning to.

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Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social · 44m

#Gothtober photopoem shared 15th October 2025

Photo shows a spiky cactus-like plant on a window sill. The poem reads ~ spotted tongues explore/ grasp with recurved barbs:/ hungry succulent seeks light

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5h

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 2h

& out to chase last greywater light, muckspreader under the hill tilting & turning its own lozenge of light & at yr feet small buttercup faces open, heavy sky; clenched & blocky across the field buzzard works at carrion, to the SW comms array: stoic efficiency

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

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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Veeren Chauhan @veerenchauhan.com · 2h

Power plant – steel and foliage burst skyward in a radiant lattice of light.
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#SupertreeGrove #GardensByTheBay #Singapore #UrbanNature #Architecture #iPhone16Pro #Photography #Fotographia

An upward nighttime view of a Supertree at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. The vertical trunk is densely planted with greenery and illuminated in shades of purple, pink, and white. At the top, a circular lattice canopy radiates outward against a dark sky, creating a striking geometric pattern. © Veeren Chauhan 2025.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2h

All of this to avoid giving drugs to the “wrong” people.

This is just going to reinforce bias over and over, meaning white men will be adjudged worthy and the rest of us will have to hear all about the “objective” machine.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 1h

You are stronger than you think.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 9h

This from @francescasimon.bsky.social reminds me of what @bridgetemob.bsky.social used to say about her philosophy degree when ppl asked what kind of job that'll lead to: "Oh, I think I'll just sell out and join one of the big philosophy firms". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

www.theguardian.com

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Rex Masters @mastersrex.bsky.social · 5h

Did you hear they arrested the world champion tongue twister ?

I bet he gets a tough sentence

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 5h

I can't find a title for this glorious painting of autumn Aspen, but it's by Oregon based (Ukrainian born) artist, Anton Pavlenko, and I love it 💛

#trees #art #TreeArt #Aspen #Autumn

Painting of Aspen tree with gold yellow leaves against blue sky

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 7h

after the downpour
a child crouches to count
the drowned petals
her fingers learning
the arithmetic of fleeting things

#Photography Mel
@mel789.bsky.social

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social · 4h

Off you go @waymo.bsky.social

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie has a caption that says sighs in british *

Alt: a man in a dinner jacket and bow tie has a caption that says *sighs in British *

media.tenor.com

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 13h

Reading about Snorri Sturluson's life apparently he was a right shagger. Also: trying to imagine a shagger MP these days also being famous as a poet. Bonkbuster set in parliament, sure. But poet? Can anyone recommend a good Snorri biography? Def stuff in there worthy of a saga!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social · 5h

Lovely . . .

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 5h

What an astonishing image.

From Ted Kooser's book, Cotton Candy: bookshop.org/a/862/9781496231291

#poems #booksky #writing

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Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social · 6h

Grrrrr

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

In the month since I was elected leader of the Green Party, we have gained a new member equivalent of every single minute. 24/7.

We're all smiling. But we've also got a big job to do.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Visibly enthusiastic, incredibly articulate and with a winning smile that never left his face, Zack seemed entirely at home

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 13h

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22h

Hivemind! @seananmcguire.bsky.social wants to know where this wallpaper comes from.

A repeating print of white alligators with pink and blue spots on a background of orange and yellow leaves.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 21h

The most annoying thing about the AI bubble is we can all see it happening, we all know it’s going to burst and we all know what the consequences will be. Everyone except apparently, Big Tech and the government.

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 23h

The biggest priority is to flatten Reform in the polls.
Bury them under an electoral landslide from which they will never recover.
They are the biggest threat to Britain and our nations since the Second World War.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges

The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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