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A Once Green Antarctica

there are two types of fans of things- those who treat it like a hobby and understand it's ok to laugh at things you enjoy and those who use it to replace church or whatever in their lives and are very vigilant against Blasphemy

More crazy bats. Greater Bulldog Bat has a bulldog face and giant feet, used for the on-the-wing fishing

Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today I learned that Disk-winged Bats evolved suction cups for their arms and legs.

Characters - Spots illustrations for Gwelf book 3. Work continues. Tally Ho!

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say

The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.

mynbc5.com

ok seriously also like...are you all looking at the accuracy stats these companies are reporting, because they are *wild* and 0 access is being given to the underlying datasets used to make their claims

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · yesterday

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Olaniyi Omotayo, Nigerian (1995- ), Empowered Unity 4, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in, private collection

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Revenge for @llawll.bsky.social I've had a blast with this piece. I love mysterious characters! ✨ #artfight #artfight2026 #teamcomedy

the new mountain goats album is out on Friday. presave it please! or even preorder it! the vinyl package is a super cool O-card design by @seenstudio.bsky.social 30tgrs.ffm.to/days

The Mountain Goats - Days

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Phases

The Flight of a Bird over the Plain III by Joan Miró, 1939 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137805

Also this large stain glass door is one of my favorite asset desigfrom chapter 2. Did it in a hurry but it really made the scene its in look so nice #art #solivaga

Daily bunny no.3399 is a fisher of berries

Daniel Sanchez Estrada moved a box full of radical literature. A right-wing judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

motherjones.com

This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!

Politico@politico.com · 3d ago

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

From a glass negative in my collection, no date/info.

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Dynamite blasting and nuclear waste are treated as "ultrahazardous"—strict liability applies no matter the precautions. Reflecting on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, Keith Porcaro of Duke Law argues advanced AI belongs in the same category.

Advanced AI Is Ultrahazardous. Let’s Treat It That Way

Advanced AI creates some degree of risk to digital infrastructure that cannot be fully mitigated, writes Keith Porcaro.

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Wonderful thread

Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 5d ago

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

I did a thread on paleontologists contributing to eugenics & fascism. What about the opposite end of political spectrum?🧵 Ernst Untermann (1864–1956) palaeontologist by trade, painted murals for the Dinosaur National Monument. A prolific socialist, first in US to translate Das Kapital into English.

I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d ago

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

Pokemon: this cute mouse sparks electricity from its cute little cheeks! 🥰 Digimon: *taking a long drag from a cigarette* give that sexy nun boobs and guns

Magazines: Have you tried exposure?

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d ago

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

Such a good passage.

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d ago

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

The natural conclusion to my berrymania is blueberry pie!🫐✨🥧 I also realized that I've accidentally made a short comic about the fate of these blueberries with my 3 paintings haha 1/3 #blueberry #pie #art #painting