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Pear 🍐 @purelypear.bsky.social · 18m

Ice frost is fall’s RL glaze.

zzorgon.bsky.social @zzorgon.bsky.social · 2h

frosted aspen
#idaho
#foliage

variously colored frosted aspen leaves lying flat where they fell, colors mostly browns, some yellows, a couple still green with yellow veins, and one red slightly off center

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · 16h

Why am I crying over a tiny shrew

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

This got to me. Haunting and beautifully written. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voic...

news.mongabay.com

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 16h

When is the brain like a subway station? When it’s processing many words at once www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

When is the brain like a subway station? When it’s processing many words at once

Trains move through the world’s subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and repeated by other trains throughout the day. A new study by a t...

www.eurekalert.org

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 18h

There are 6 times as many librarians in the US as coal miners

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 1d

There are ten times as many home health aides in the US as there are miners

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!

Which is your favourite? ❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺

#Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif:

Top left: swirling white vine-like lines and round reddish-orange medallions framed by white circles on a black background.

Top right : large white spiral on front of cup with a reddish-orange oval shape with stylised white petals beside it, on a black background.

Middle left: diagonal zig-zag stripes in alternating black and white above and below a band around the middle of the cup

Bottom left: swirling white lines and reddish-orange and white geometric band on a black background.

Bottom right: diagonal white stripes below a row of red dots outlined with white circles on a black background.

This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

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🎃spooky chey👻 @cheygoulet.bsky.social · 1d

6 days until Halloween 🎃

Two small, bright-eyed opossums peer out of a hollow plastic jack-o'-lantern that is suspended in a tree and has a small wooden rope ladder leading up to the opening.

Instagram: itsmesesame

A small opossum peeks out of a hollow plastic jack-o'-lantern hanging in a tree, with a tiny wooden ladder attached to the opening.

Instagram: itsmesesame

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 2d

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 3d

Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved.

☑️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
☑️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🔭

One of the rare meteorite fragments discovered on the Moon’s far side under an electron microscope.Credit: Yi-Gang Xu

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

Not paying out SNAP is a choice, not an inevitable consequence of the shutdown.

Lawmakers could, by the end of today, pause the expiration of existing licenses for businesses that take EBT, move money from non-essential functions and maintain existing beneficiaries for the duration of the shutdown.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8d

No one hand writes paper checks to SNAP recipients in normal times. The funds are disbursed automatically. The majority of infrastructure goes to means testing current recipients or processing applicants. The money clearly exists; this is a choice made independent of the shutdown to squeeze voters.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10d

We have money for a $20b bailout of Argentina, but the acting director of SNAP has just announced that SNAP benefits will be cut off on November 1.

Just as a heads up, the ANNUAL budget allocation for SNAP is $100b.

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/pro...

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 1d

At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians

A unicorn watermark in one of the oldest European paper sheets.
Source: https://memoryofpaper.eu/apccv/apccv.php?Signatura=1475.1

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Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · 1d

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Megan Panatier @batdogwalker.bsky.social · 1d

These two books by Andrea Dunlop @andreadunlop.bsky.social are quite memorable

The mother next-door by Andrea Dunlop, and Mike Weber

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

a man is holding a fire extinguisher with flames coming out of it

Alt: Moss from the IT crowd holds a fire extinguisher that is on fire. The caption reads "I'll just put this over here with the rest of the fire"

media.tenor.com

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 1d

For #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek: The paresthesia/tingling in my hands doesn't usually interfere with my day to day but it worsens during my migraines. This #symptomatology #embroidery maps one of those days: push, pull, & tingle (2018)

An embroidery on deep purple linen. There is a purple outline of a feminine right hand from the side, palm up, fingers curled slightly inward. There are many tiny white French knots covering the fingertips and light blue, gold, and navy French knots on parts of the palm. There are fine filigree lines connecting many of the French knots and white strands of thread strung from each fingertip to an apex above the hand. There is a starburst floating above the palm in white and light blue.

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 2d

North Star - Polaris -

I found my new favorite brush to use on just about everything ;u;

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 3d

Today I am very much enjoying the range of sea creatures depicted in the 1539 Carta Marina (the "Marine map and description of the Northern lands"). We know now that the ocean has even more wonderful things in it (that really exist!), but I love the brave attempt at making a then-unknown world real.