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Sarah
@sarahbee.bsky.social
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Web manager/content strategist/etc. Placid but prickly.

[banner alt-text: During the wars of prehistory, the gods brought jellyfish to the Earth from another planet and used them as messengers.]
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Sarah @sarahbee.bsky.social · Dec 5
So I did the Bluesky "roast" thing and it said, Sarah, maybe lay off the jellyfish posts.

But there should only ever be MORE jellyfish content. Everyone knows this.
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homeo.bsky.social
anyways now I'm thinking about a writing system for jellyfish
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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jysaville.bsky.social
Ran across a note from 2022, when I was researching for my Hexham book festival commission, and I needed to share:

John Wallis in the Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland (1769) referred to a jellyfish as ‘the large loco-motive Sea Nettle’

Thanks. As you were.
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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runnerlane.bsky.social
Working on a nature-themed tree this year and my fave addition is this hand-made copper and tin jellyfish.
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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rikibeth.bsky.social
Ok here you go
3x3 grid of photos of undersea creatures on a black background, title caption “Come to the DEEP SEA” Photos left to right: A fish with a black body and light tail and face, captioned “We got spaceships” something ivory-colored and very spidery captioned “spiders” a cluster of red and white tubes captioned “wacky wavy tube mans” something white that looks like a cross between a dahlia and a dandelion gone to seed captioned “flower” something that looks like an angry pale-colored dog tick captioned “Dennis” something that might be a jellyfish? It has a transparent bubble and some sort of internal structure like a skeletal hand, captioned “shinybois” a beige circular thing with many spiky legs and a brownish-orange round thing in the center captioned “Jellyfish I think?” something ghostly and pale against a green background, that looks like a skull sitting on top of radial spokes that have long strings dangling from them, like a monstrous set of fairground swings, captioned “wait what is that” something that looks like a burst of blue lightning captioned “seriously what is that I’m scared”
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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martyessen.bsky.social
Marty’s photo of the day #4893: After 3 days of traveling, including 5 airplane flights and a 2-hour speedboat ride across open ocean, Deb and I are back home from the Raja Ampat region of Indonesian New Guinea. (Click ALT and tap the text for the rest of this post.)

#photography #sealife #nature
Marty’s photo of the day #4893: After 3 days of traveling, including 5 airplane flights and a 2-hour speedboat ride across open ocean, Deb and I are back home from the Raja Ampat region of Indonesian New Guinea. Having traveled all 7 continents and written 3 nature-oriented travel books, I can say with confidence that there is no place on Earth more stunning than the Raja Ampat. I’ll share with you the best of the photos and movies I took there in the coming weeks. I shot this photo while snorkeling in a tiny lake filled with stingless jellyfish. In the ocean, stings from this species of jellyfish pack a wallop, but in the lake, where they are cut off from predators, they’ve lost their ability to sting. Swimming with them was so much fun! They’d bounce off our masks and each other and simply change directions. Lakes with stingless jellyfish like this are extremely rare. The biggest jellyfish in this photo is named Bob.
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Holiday weeks can be busy and stressful on your body, even if you’re having fun.

This Piping Plover is here to remind you that rest is a critical part of life for all living things, including you!
Small round shorebird, light gray brown on its back and head, like the color of the sand, and white bellow. It had yellow-orange legs and a short black beak. It is sitting on the sand with its eyes closed.
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
sarahbee.bsky.social
Well.

I've never seen this movie. I've never seen any of the National Lampoon movies.

But since I'm going to be on here anyway, I guess I might as well give it a go.
waldo.net Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 5d
I made a bot that will post "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," clip by clip, between now and Christmas Eve. That's 12–13 clips daily, 24/7, just so you know what you'd be getting into. (Clips will auto-delete a few days after being posted.) It starts now.
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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fulmerford.com
Today’s #postitdoodle is the failed attempt to introduce Thanksgiving to the deepest part of the ocean.
A robot jellyfish, a capsule containing a turkey, and two regular jellyfish
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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51st.news
Our worker-led newsroom wouldn't be possible without your people power.

Today and every day, @christurdisani.bsky.social writes, we're grateful for you.

(Featuring a shoutout to the inspiring team at @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, particularly @lisasnowden.bsky.social!)
This season, we’re thankful for you
Our worker-led newsroom wouldn't be possible without your people power.
51st.news
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
This is exactly why I made Bluesky feeds for every type of family member—to capture maximum holiday mess
legalcat.bsky.social legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 6d
remember to stream your family fights live tomorrow! share that holiday spirit with those of us without our own seasonal tension!
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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anitasagastegui.bsky.social
Jellyfish

Taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

#jellyfish #nikon #WestCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #photooftheday #UnJourUnePhoto #fineartphotgraphy #Fotografia #picaday #PhotographersUnited #animals #photography
A glowing yellow-orange, white spotted jellyfish floats along. The water in the background is nearly black
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
sarahbee.bsky.social
If you see this post an anime you love
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
I was just looking over the new prints I made in 2025. Think about portraying pollinators. 🧪🐡🐝 This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to
As described this is my 8” x 10” print showing the centre of a purple echinacea flower. The centre of the flower is orange with black outlines and some yellow bits and occupies the lower right corner. Radiating out are several pink and violet petals. The background is green. On top of the centre of the flower is a transverse-banded flower fly facing the lower right corner. It is yellow and black striped with translucent wings and red-brown eyes.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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alexandragallant.com
BRAINS is up for sale on itch! If you'd like to wait for print, you can grab it at MICE or wait til it's available through Radiator Comics sometime after MICE.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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thehappyspaceman.bsky.social
*sigh* Okay, which one of you captured a giant space jellyfish and turned it into a church? Because that's clearly Farpoint Station.
A screenshot of Wikipedia's "Did you know..." section on their homepage that reads, "...that one newspaper described the North Christian Church (pictured) as 'poised to lift off and take man to meet his Maker'?" The image shows North Christian Church, a large vertical spire that resembles Farpoint Station from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The aforementioned Farpoint Station from the Star Trek: The Next Generation series premiere, "Encounter at Farpoint."
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
I have a new piece up at @msnownews.bsky.social, on the recent NJ supreme court case banning shaking baby syndrome evidence, using it to discuss both the generally shoddy nature of all forensic evidence but also the legal profession's on-going refusal to confront our current data-driven world.
Opinion | New Jersey's ban on 'shaken baby syndrome' claims in court points up a larger problem in the legal system
John Pfaff: The state Supreme Court ruling underscores how thin empirical support is for much of the forensic evidence used in criminal cases.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
sarahbee.bsky.social
"We’re not on this planet all that long! Watching ourselves spend hour after hour just dealing with this basic, mundane crud – all so we can log back into our bill pay portal, or whatever – depletes us at an existential level."
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
@chriscolin3000.bsky.social invented Admin Night, a strategy to turn the drudgery of completing dreaded administrative tasks into a party.
"We’re social beings. We’re meant to update our password apps together!"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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quietnovastudios.bsky.social
This is what I've been up to lately, she's approximately 14 feet long and took me a week to make

🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #jellyfish #invertebrate #ocean #Medusa #SciArt #art #craft
A simply enormous crocheted jellyfish in greens and blues and purples, coiled upon a bed
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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oddletters.bsky.social
garbage draft! it's the garbage draft! everyone should do garbage drafts!!
jason.energy Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 8d
my best code is written in a two-step process:

1. kludge a working prototype together, don’t worry about the code AT ALL. the point is understanding how the requirements function in reality

2. destroy the prototype completely. build the app for real using my better mental model
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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jaredcunha.bsky.social
Last week I hade the opportunity to speak at @dotgovdesign.bsky.social about accessibility in the civic tech space, why we should all start using assistive tech, and why improving our skills as practitioners is so critically important in this moment. jaredcunha.com/blog/dotgov-...
My talk for DotGov Design 2025
I had the opportunity to speak at the 2025 DotGov Design conference. My talk was titled “Design for Accessibility and Inclusiveness in Civic Space” which covered topics such as why it's so important t...
jaredcunha.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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jyoolz.bsky.social
Went to a new art installation today, was trippy!
A large neon-lit room with big floating swathes of material that look like jellyfish. It’s dark and the material is glowing purple/pink. A woman and child are walking under one of the big jellyfish structures. A suspended structure of pink material with clay heads on it, like they are peeking out of a cloud. A picture of an inflatable under the jellyfish structure. It’s kind of like a tardigrade and is lit up in red. Looks more like a giant skin cell in this photo but up close reminded me of a tardigrade! Another picture of the big jellyfish arms.
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
When teams don't understand their own product
A usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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riversidewings.bsky.social
I was trying to remember the name of the Chicxulub crater and for the life of me, all I could manage was "Chicks Club," as if a lesbian bar ended the dinosaurs.
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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tomhodson.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
TIL: Box jellyfish larvae have eyes but no brain to connect them to so instead the eyes also swim a bit. Source: Animal Eyes, Land & Nilsson, second edition, chapter 1
A cropped photo of an e-reader. The text reads: « The small pigmented ocelli of the planula larvae of box jellyfish (Fig. 1.4a) offer a rare example of a 'visual system' so primitive that it consists of only a single cell type. Apart from making a pigment cup, these cells also have both sensory microvilli and motile cilia, but no neural connections. It is believed that they are self-contained sensory motor units, steering the larva as it swims. »
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
sarahbee.bsky.social
I knew something weird dropped last night because I logged on this morning to everyone posting about bamboo again.
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM