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Loon sketch!

🕯️ Photos of the victims of the russian attack on Kvitneva railway station, shared by local media. They were simply waiting for a train. They should still be alive💔

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

we must recover the old wisdom

More info from earlier incidents: Drone carrying explosives found at German airport, police say www.bbc.com/news/article...

Drone carrying explosives found at Leipzig airport in Germany

The drone was found near Ukrainian cargo planes before another object collided with a cargo aircraft in mid-air.

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Happy International Owl Awareness Day! Please enjoy this photograph of ornithologist Herbert Brown (r) with an elf owl, the world’s smallest owl

Need to recreate this with the homies

this is fascinating talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 💀

This Friday, August 7, is Bandcamp Friday! From midnight to midnight Pacific Time, we’ll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels. What will you be adding to your collection? https://bit.ly/4wEWMVT

research has actually become a lot harder now that google doesn't really recognize booleans anymore

"She made music jump into 3D": Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius www.theguardian.com/music/2020/n...

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

Southern #Sweden during the late Cretaceous. A pair of pteranodontids trying to keep a healthy distance from an admittedly passive mosasaur. Meanwhile, the hesperornithids take a short break from foraging to catch some rays. #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #dinosaurs

requiem for vanished birdsong

I retook a picture of one of my old works. Here's a pterosaur, it has some anatomical mistakes, but I still like it #SciArt #paleoart #embroidery #art

3 new fresh drawings from the oven! Here's Quetzalcoatlus, Thalassodromeus and Tropeognathus! #paleoart #pterosaur

Menemes - Grok Jr.@menemes.bsky.social · 2w ago

I really like pterosaurs, and I wanted to try a more stylistic style with my drawings, so I decided to do a fun challenge: Can I fit a pterosaur inside a box? Well, here's Tupandactylus and Nyctosaurus! It's pretty fun, ngl. Might do some other guys later. #paleoart #pterosaur

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

Creek in the woods

genuinely, this is a huge missing link I the development of Japanese adventure games and the whole visual novel genre its influence is felt in so many of the most popular works even today I wrote a huge piece on it and the way it's influenced the genre canonfire.net/post/7022178...

024: Kamaitachi no Yoru  かまいたちの夜 (Night of the Sickle Weasel/Banshee’s Last Cry)

CANON FIRE is made possible by the generous contributions of readers like you. Support more writing like this on Patreon. Thank you! Chunsoft may have one of the biggest discrepancies in reputation...

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Game Vecanti@gamevecanti.bsky.social · 3d ago

An English fan translation of "Kamaitachi no Yoru" for SFC has been released by "ButThouMust": github.com/ButThouMust/...

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

FREE HIM HE DID NOTHING WRONG

Feds charge ‘frustrated’ FBI agent they say stole nearly $1 million in crypto from Russia

The FBI supervisory special agent believed the FBI “could not or would not act against adversarial cryptocurrency accounts,” prosecutors said.

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як-то кажуть No #Payne No Game Тож як вам болить українською — гайда спробувати дубляж та оновлені тексти до легендарної гри легендарної студії kuli.com.ua/max-payne

Max Payne українською

Відомості про офіційну українську локалізацію або українізатор до Max Payne — усе на одній сторінці.

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🔭 A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia Image Credit & Copyright: Christa Harbig ap260802

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 6d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

avian august: underrated birds edition day 01: red winged blackbird

WOW. I *think* this is a hummingbird hawk-moth.