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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 13h

Hey... if you wanna pay me I can make you a neat little painting like this. I doesn't have to be a beetle. I can paint lots of things: dogs, hubcaps, great-uncles, lots of things. Anyhow, this size is $150(Cdn). DM if you need one.

David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 20h

"autumn (emerald)", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 (commission) #art #sciart

A small painting of an emerald ash borer beetle on a fallen, golden-brown ash tree leaf. The beetle has a sparkly burgundy abdomen & emerald wing covers open to show the filmy, reflective wings beneath.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 1d

Since I have a lot of rural Alberta folks who follow me: the Edmonton police are looking for anyone with property with an old well north of Edmonton to contact them (more details in the video). It's for a cold case.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtRo...

Cold case: Edmonton police searching for remains of Ruth Clarke who has been missing since 1990

YouTube video by CTV News

www.youtube.com

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 23h

"Make our offices look like the set design in Industry, but without the young, hot people."

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

I'm curious what they filter into "climate anxiety".

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 4d

Copying is cool! Everyone learns from copying! (But yes, this does make me feel a little better :-)

BTW, this guy painted for 365 days, mostly copying masterworks, and he genuinely did seem to learn a lot.

I painted EVERY DAY for an ENTIRE YEAR

YouTube video by JohnYAYart

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 4d

I am so envious of what you achieve with some blocks of colour and that scrabbly line of link.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 4d

I've just started making various kinds of daal and black daal sounds intriguing. This is going on next week's menu. (Also: damn straight that you should be able to opt out of the Discover tab!)

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ESMirelle @esmirelle.bsky.social · 5d

I love whatever is wrong with them 🙂‍↕️

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HB 👻 @heebiebeebies.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 7d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 6d

the difference between a wonderful audiobook performance by a gifted voice actor and this "digital voice" horseshit masquerading as legit audiobooks makes me steaming mad. good narration is important and deserves to be paid for!!!!!!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Oct 18

it do be like that

buff/wimpy doge meme

buff doge: Bacteria In Nature
eating literal dirt
defying the physical limits of life
this is my third eukaryotic extinction event in a row

wimpy doge: Bacteria in the Lab
not my favorite sugar =(
the pH is off by 0.001
is this tap water? I'm allergic

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SlayBeans (or Stephen) @jaybeans.bsky.social · Oct 31

Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door

95 Reese's nailed to a door next to a pumpkin carved to look like Martin Luther

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 7d

NEW EPISODE OF MAP MEN!!! 🗺️

How did the Netherlands delete the sea... and get rich?

Share and enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-k...

This country is 17% fake

YouTube video by Jay and Mark

www.youtube.com

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t make me tap the sign.

Tap the sign meme saying “Using AI ironically is still using AI.”

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 8d

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Bald-Headed Demon 😈 @such-a-frknlady.blacksky.app · 8d

absolutely not. IYKYK

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8d

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8d

Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.

Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)

The technology you use is a choice.

In many instances, the choice of platform or technology that a publisher makes can no longer be seen as neutral. Nowhere is that more clear than in journalism in the 2020s.

We are proud that The Up Front and all of our supporting digital infrastructure (like our email servers, data storage and collaboration tools) are either self-hosted and managed, or use trusted third parties who have policies that align with our values.

We reject platforms and technologies where our use would represent tacit support for — or tolerance of — the views of their owners or major funders where we disagree fundamentally with those views and the impact they have on the world.

We’re very selective in the socials we operate: we’re on Bluesky as our network of choice and use its atproto as our commenting system, curating a community of thoughtful feedback on our work and elevating other voices. We also have a LinkedIn page, because we understand its importance for our industry audience.

Perhaps more importantly, we don’t use toxic socials like Instagram, Facebook, Threads or X, which drive really unproductive behaviour in media outlets, journalists, readers and companies.

We choose our technical backend and partners carefully, selecting independent European vendors rather than US-based Big Tech, for ethical reasons, for data privacy, and because we care about supporting the good parts of the digital sector in the same way we know our subscribers care about supporting the good parts of the media sector.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 9d

If anyone is wondering why I can quickly do alt text for photos and videos - it’s because 90% of the time I dictate it.

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A highly edited image of a clown statue wearing a Harlequin outfit that is half red blue yellow, green and light blue polkadots and the other half is red with three big blue pompoms down down in the middle. The skeleton is wearing a red wig and exaggerated face makeup and is standing in a backyard with a large apple tree behind it.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 9d

Their slices are surprisingly adequate.

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 10d

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10d

It's the exact equivalent of being mad at NASA for telling you that your idea about Mars being closer than we thought is wrong, and then acting vindicated when you run into an asteroid on your otherwise-doomed voyage into space.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 10d

"Columbus Day:" No one wants it. No one wants to celebrate it. Perfectly decent Monday in October saddled with the name of a rapist.

"Titus Pullo Day:" 100% participation. Wine flows freely. Someone says "THIRTEEN!" and everyone responds. Boring old October Monday turned great fun.

A picture of Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo from ROME

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