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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 12h

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 · 11h

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 · 13h

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 · 18h

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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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 15h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Finbar Hawkins @finbarhawkins.bsky.social · 12h

Grab one of the best YA books this decade. Loved this so much!

Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social · 16h

UK folks!
I am excited to see that ‘The Call’ reissue is included in Waterstones’ 25% off FLASH SALE on selected pre-ordered books this week! 😍🎉

Enter the code OCTOBER25 at the checkout to redeem your discount and pre-order your copy now.

Offer ends at 23.59 Friday 17th October.

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The Call by Peadar O'Guilin | Waterstones

Buy The Call by Peadar O'Guilin from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 14h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 18h

#completethehaiga 118
#haiga #haiku

@completethehaiga.bsky.social ✨

a withered reed
uncoils in the breeze
north wind clarinet

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 14h

It really costs you nothing to be comfortable in the knowledge that you are imperfect, and will make mistakes, because then when you do the thing that will happen no matter whether you have previously allowed for it, you can just say oh my bad, yeah, dick move.

And fix it and move on.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 12h

Now that Autumn is here and leaves are dying, and the moss and mushrooms are thriving, it's your time at last.
Get out there, hold your head high, and show the world the true beauty of natural decay.

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Philippa R. Francis @philippa.bsky.social · 12h

#Gothtober photopoem shared 14th October 2025

Photo shows scraps dangling from an old ceiling and blurred summoning bells. The poem reads ~ paper stalactites:/ ceiling bats still answering/ long gone servants’ bells

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 15h

I love sports.
My favorite sport is summoning moss ghouls from their loamy tombs and watching them chase townsfolk through starlit meadows, wreathed in eldritch smoke and madness.

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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 12h

Wild rose hips and sumac leaves, roadside. #October #colour

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 13h

Peltigera aphthosa, our Freckled Pelt Lichen, growing on a mossy Ceran St Vrain slope 🌿

Large whited edged foliose green lichen intermixed with Roaldia moss

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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 15h

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…

www.thenational.scot

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 15h

Cloud animals!

ArTrapnell 🍷 @artrapnell.bsky.social · 16h

Timeline cleanser

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 20h

across – many have tragically tried. The river’s power here is immense, carving deep unseen chasms and deadly undertows, making the Strid one of the most dangerous places in Britain’s waterways. Image r_lizzimore CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 20h

The Strid, near Bolton Abbey is a dramatic, narrow stretch of the River Wharfe where the broad river squeezes into a tight, moss-covered channel. It looks deceptively peaceful, but beneath the surface the water surges with astonishing force. The banks seem close enough to leap

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Zoë’s Studio @zoesstudio.bsky.social · 22h

Day 14 of #inktober - the prompt is trunk.
I’ve done a mini study of tree bark textures.

#inktober2025 #inktober2025trunk #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #inkdrawing #art #treebark #dailysketch #dailydrawing

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

Enshittification.
Default typeface; logo created in Word in 3.6 seconds; a name that rolls off the tongue about as smoothly as if you were trying to say it with a snow globe in your mouth. Teejyjo, Teajeedjo, Teagueyjones.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

After 110 years on Cornmarket, stationery shop W.H. Smith has been rebranded T.G. Jones – a name invented by investment company Modella Capital, which acquired the high street shops in June. The Abingdon branch was renamed in August. www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/e...

The new frontage on Cornmarket - alas, not Smith but Jones

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient Woodland Scene

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things the fash want is the right to declare what is beautiful.

They don’t get to.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I also love seeing “amateurish” things. I love watching people try new art forms. I love it when adults try things we usually reserve for young learners, because we don’t stop learning when we graduate.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Art means anything creative, by the way. You can felt cat hair and I’ll be pulling for you right now. If you made it yourself, it’s real art.

(It’s not art if it’s AI.)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Do not ever apologize for sharing your art, even when world events are awful.

I know I still feel badly about it, but think of what you’d tell a friend. You’d tell them to share their joy, right?

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Tsarskoe Selo @tsarskoeselo.bsky.social · 3d

🇬🇧 By the Children's Pond in the Alexander Park
📷 Tsarskoe Selo, Katerina Novak
🇷🇺 На берегу Детского пруда в Александровском парке
#thephotohour #stormhour #worldheritagesite

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