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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 8h

Why look: a box of some sort of newish, bookish things arrived this morning. Seems to be about spinosaurid #dinosaurs... coauthored with @davehone.bsky.social... and published by Bloomsbury. Available 6th of November In the UK; then worldwide in early 2026.

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

Well. Things are pretty bad for the current regime. Look who they've pissed off NOW. (Watch to the end, it's not just footage from Portland. Surprise musical guest!)

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A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

A new drug slows insulin-dependent diabetic deterioration and has sped up development of a complete remedy

A New Drug Slows the Worsening of Type 1 Diabetes and Has Sped up Work on a Full Cure

A new drug slows insulin-dependent diabetic deterioration and has sped up development of a complete remedy

www.scientificamerican.com

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Crash Course @thecrashcourse.bsky.social · 1d

Women have always played important roles in Native societies. In the new episode of Crash Course Native American History with guest host Lily Gladstone, we unpack the ways Native women have shown up, as war heroes and peacemakers, and as matriarchs and activists.
youtu.be/Dj8EjBQJD84

A History of Indigenous Women with Lily Gladstone: Ep 19 of Crash Course Native American History

YouTube video by CrashCourse

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23h

The fundamental problem with "Sapiens" is that Harari doesn't actually know the scholarship he's haphazardly citing. He's a historian of early modernity - his first book was on Renaissance military memoirs - and I'd bet he had grad students doing most of the research for "Sapiens."

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Blizzard Watch @blizzardwatch.com · 1d

Can't stand your neighbors? Come tour PLOT 46 in RAZORWIND SHORES today! An isolated arboreal mountaintop cabin awaits you. Hide away from the sin and strife of the modern day with this rustic oasis. (SUBJECT TO SI:7 BACKGROUND CHECK)

screenshot from video game World of Warcraft, from the new Horde-side Player Housing map. A small cabin with a red wooden roof is in a mountainous landscape with orange grass and pine trees. In the distance is a small lake.

screenshot from World of Warcraft. Map of new Horde Player Housing map Razorwind Shores. Housing plot 46, slightly northeast of the center of the map, is clumsily circled in red.

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 1d

Read the alt text (which Dreadnought always does fabulously)

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

It'd be remiss of me not to wish the US navy a very happy birthday, of course - and unlike virtually everybody else I'm going to include a picture of a genuine American warship to do so...

Yeah, ok - USS Chesapeake was only briefly American before becoming terminally British after a wee bit of "an incident". Having decided that a little bit of giving up the ship would be fine, actually, the Chesapeake was captured and eventually wound up being sold for timber and reconstructed into a mill. It's now a lovely antiques centre with a well-regarded teashop attached. It's also the best preserved of the early US frigates, at least in terms of the number of original timbers and tactfully ignoring their precise arrangement...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about this back when "The Verge" came out for Defector. Loved writing this essay. defector.com/christopher-...

Christopher Columbus And The Replacement-Level Historical Figure | Defector

It’s easy to tell Columbus’s story as one of a determined innovator, triumphing over the backwardness and ignorance of medieval Europe to usher in a new era of global exploration, trade, colonization,...

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 1d

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

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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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 1d

I've done that with a couple series too. If that's wrong, I don't want to be right

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkien is boring

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 1d

What a great opportunity!

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Girls Gone WoW Podcast @ggwshow.bsky.social · 2d

Show is up! We were talking about #LegionRemix on this weeks' show and it seems like you are all loving it! Check out our thoughts over at pod.co/girls-gone-w...

Girls Gone WoW - Show 658: Legion Remix! - Girls Gone WoW

Girls Gone WoW keeps the Warcraft community in the know from a fresh perspective. Join #teampositive and their plethora of guests from the community each and every week! We’re talking all things Legi...

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Blizzard Watch @blizzardwatch.com · 2d

SUBURBAN HOMESTEADERS' DREAM! The newly listed PLOT 5 in FOUNDER'S POINT boasts a view of the lighthouse in a close-knit community. Plenty of land for a vegetable garden or backyard chicken coop. Sheep included!!! (NO CARPET ALLOWANCE).

screenshot from video game World of Warcraft, from new Founders Point player housing zone. A small blue-roofed cottage sits in a grassy field under a starry night sky. There are sheep grazing in the foreground, with a few trees in the background. There is a lighthouse looming in the far background.

screenshot from video game World of Warcraft, of the new Founders Point player housing map. Plot 5 is circled in red, located on the west coast of the landmass.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 2d

A heads up that I'm talking at @NewScientist Live this weekend (Sunday 19th October) about my book, King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex. Details, tickets etc. can be found here: live.newscientist.com/nsl-london-2... #dinosaur #fossils #scicomm #paleontology #books

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SciShow @scishow.bsky.social · 2d

The next Deep Dive premieres on October 17th, hosted by @tomlumperson.bsky.social!!

Here's a sneak preview of the animations.

A cloaked figure standing at a boiling cauldron with orange smoke clouds emerging from the cauldron

A drawing of a scientist in a lab writing something with a feather quill, standing next to a volumetric flask on a table.

A chalice and a collection of mysterious ingredients: a bag of white substance, a chunk of a metallic material, and a yellow liquid in a volumetric flask.

A man with suns for eyes, reaching out toward a paper that is floating toward him.

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Bizarre Beasts @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social · 2d

The first episode of our Endlings miniseries is out now! This has been such a huge project for us, and we couldn't have done it without our amazing audience.

Check it out!!
youtu.be/JbTAVnyHB88?...

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Crash Course @thecrashcourse.bsky.social · 2d

Coming soon to Crash Course Native American History: Lily Gladstone! Before she was an Oscar nominee for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily hosted Crash Course Film Production. We asked Lily to come back and guest host our episode about Native women, which comes out tomorrow!

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 1d

Oof, I remember those days. I hope you get through it all quickly!

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DnDiscussions @dndiscussions.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 144 is now out! Join @tbkzord.bsky.social and @benbumhoffer.bsky.social as we talk about updates to the Psion UA, D&D Video Games, working with deadlines in your games, and much more! Check it out at www.dndiscussions.com/2025/10/13/e... or your podcast platform of choice! #dnd #ttrpg

Episode 144 – Psion Updates and Deadlines – DnDiscussions

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Ginny Di 🎀 @ginnydi.com · 1d

⚠️ This is NOT the only way to play TTRPGs — but it's one of them! This is a segment of last week's video, which dives into Daggerheart's guidance for how GMs can run story-focused, collaborative games.

Check out the full video on my YouTube: youtu.be/c59TIWXOF6c

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 1d

You'll be linking us your Patreon too, right?

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 2d

So fierce!

Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 2d

A young male Crowned Woodnymph this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #hummingbirds #nature

Close-up of a perched hummingbird with iridescent green and deep blue-purple feathers, a slightly curved black bill, and a smooth green blurred background.

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Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 2d

🫂😢🫂

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