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SaraSee
@cliothevulture.bsky.social
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Seeking beauty, venting spleen.
In the end, we are all made of ghosts.
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chicagovtfloor.bsky.social
A vintage tile floor circa 1893 with a stylized “M” for the Monadnock Building in Chicago.
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Print is a rent strike.
joshshepperd.bsky.social Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21h
It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🌵 Addisonia: .
New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1916-[1964]..

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Illustration of an Opuntia opuntia cactus pad with a large, vibrant yellow flower in full bloom. The green, oval-shaped cactus pad has small reddish-brown areoles scattered across its surface. The flower features delicate, overlapping petals with a light orange center and numerous fine stamens, showcasing the plant’s distinctive bloom. The artwork is from a historical botanical publication, presented on a plain white background with minimal text.
February 16, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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digs.bsky.social
The first #kakapo chick for four years hatched two days ago (on Valentine’s Day for those who like to anthropomorphise!). Here’s Tiwhiri-A1-2026 in Yasmine’s nest. 📸: Deidre Vercoe. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds
A kākāpō chick in a nest with an egg. Credit: Deidre Vercoe
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🐻 Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle: .
Paris: Chez les editeurs MM. Renard, Martinet et cie, rue et Hotel Mignon, 2 (quartier de l'École-de-Médecine) ; et chez Langlois et Leclercq, rue de la Harpe, 81 ; Victor Masson, Place de l'Ecole-de-Médecin1847-1849.

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Illustration of a large grizzly bear standing on all fours, depicted in rich brown tones with detailed fur texture. In the background, a group of smaller bears or cubs is shown in lighter sketch style, playing near a tree. The natural setting includes trees and rocky ground, rendered in fine line work. The image is from a 19th-century natural history dictionary, featuring scientific text and classification notes around the edges.
February 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
We all need a a timeline cleanse!

A tiny #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of carnelian (height 0.9 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating c. 1540-1296 BC, New Kingdom.

A lovely weekend to all of you 🐸

📷Cleveland Museum of Art
A small, intricately carved frog figurine made of translucent reddish-orange carnelian gemstone. The frog has a smooth, polished surface with minimal detailing, and its shape is slightly stylized. The figurine is placed on a plain, white background.
February 14, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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coralmorphologic.bsky.social
💗 Happy Valentine’s Day 💗
February 14, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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jupiterbits.bsky.social
A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kyle Lincoln)
View of Jupiter's high southern latitudes, showing the planet's polar hood and the Great Red Spot, an anticyclonic storm bigger than the entire Earth.
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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watchinthesky.bsky.social
Backyard #Native plants being showy on this lucky February Friday the 13th 😱

A short thread 🧵 🌿

Blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium bellum
A grass like native iris has like blue small flowers with yellow centers. Seen in California
February 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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radareyda.bsky.social
Crane On Frozen Waterway
Watercolor, ink, quick sketch.
#crane #waterways #winter #willow #snow, #traditionalart #watercolor #ink #quicksketch #tidalwaters #birds
February 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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birderk.bsky.social
Got outside this morning. Saw some sun. Saw some gulls. Saw some frozen lake bits. Saw some weird ducks. It was a good morning. (Camera wasn’t happy about the light, distance, and cold, but 🤷🏻‍♀️).
#winter #LakeErie #birds #WeirdDuckSeason
Photo of the sun high in the sky with a bank of snow clouds below it on the horizon. There is a bunch of ice covered water all around and a pier. It is a very cold and wintery scene; even being high in the sky, the sun is still very much to the south instead of being more overhead like it will be in a few more months. Photo of a bunch of gulls swirling around against a cloudy sky. There is a surprising amount of adult Great Black-backed Gulls in the mix. The rest are probably our more common Larus species - Ring-billed and American Herring Gulls. A frozen picture of chunks of ice floating in chilly waters. A male Red-breasted Merganser is swimming in a patch of open water, probably wondering why he didn’t migrate further east to a more open lake for the winter. Photo of a trio of ducks in an ice-lined patch of open water. They are all swimming left to right. From front to back: male Common Merganser in breeding plumage, male Surf Scoter in breeding plumage, and male Greater Scaup still showing some non-breeding colors- perhaps a first spring bird?
February 12, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
Politicians and institutions are so goddamn desperate for normalcy that every time someone from the Trump administration sounds vaguely like a civilized human being they breathe a huge sigh of relief and contemplate brunch
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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marynmck.bsky.social
Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped
katemckean.bsky.social Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 6d
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.

Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.

Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
anxiousrage.blacksky.app Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · Oct 10
You don’t need a traumatic or tragic story to deserve abortion care.
February 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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yvonnezlam.bsky.social
because of working on Unbreaking I've been thinking about questions like "what are our units of explanation and why?"
February 11, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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contemprainn.bsky.social
Octopuses 🐙 have been wandering in the oceans for 296 million years.

They have three hearts and blue blood and are amazing
#MondayMorning
February 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 9d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
I feel for the dinosaurs and wrote a little love letter to them a few years back. 🧪
An Ode to the World's Most Average Dinosaurs
They lacked the gargantuan size and spikes of the species museums often celebrate, but these species are how paleontologists learn about the Mesozoic
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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claybennett.bsky.social
2/8/2026- The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/fe...
February 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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tudorcook.bsky.social
"this is fine"

British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r. Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face
November 16, 2024 at 11:36 AM
cliothevulture.bsky.social
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"We need to fix this, otherwise it's a source of truth issue."
k8bowers.bsky.social Radical Left Lemmasmith @k8bowers.bsky.social · 10d
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“Because *this* is the system of record. The data over there is just for access.”
February 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Orange Rock Posy Lichen.
NWT, Canada. Lichen is about 3cm long.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a lichen with a white thallus/body. About 2/3 of the lichen body is covered in fairly large, orange apothecia.
February 7, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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drfishsg.bsky.social
PFAS levels in #GreatLakes fish are dropping, study finds

The declining levels were driven by an industry phase-out of legacy PFAS chemicals

www.wpr.org/news/pfas-le...
PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish are dropping, study finds
A new study shows PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish are on the decline as manufacturers have phased out some chemicals in recent decades.
www.wpr.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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tnaquarium.bsky.social
Share this Aquarium valentine with someone who makes your life brighter! 💚
February 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
🦑📷saschant (inaturalist.ca/observations...), dgafa (inaturalist.ca/observations...), Dan Schofield (inaturalist.ca/observations...), wingwatcher48 (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
Caribbean Reef Squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea)
Caribbean Reef Squid from Les Anses-d'Arlets, MQ-MA, MQ on May 21, 2024 at 01:15 PM by saschant
inaturalist.ca
February 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM