If you've ever wondered what it's like to have astigmatism... This'll give you a taste.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

2 weeks left and we're so close to the 75% mark for funding. Check out the campaign here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

Folk Familiars & More - Pins & Patches

A new set of folk inspired designs, to be made into enamel pins and embroidered patches.

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Read on the interweb: Every night I set two alarms. One for the person I want to be. And one for the person who hates that other guy.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

My calendar publisher Andrews McMeel worked with me through this entire debacle (for a long time, calendars were the only publications I was being paid for), and my all-new 2027 calendars are hitting stores soon. Call your local shop or check eatf.art for some online ordering options.

Books, Calendars, Playing Cards and more

Preorder Effin’ Birds: 100 Postcards, coming October 2026, at your local bookstore, or at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters / Indigo, or your favourite online bookseller. Effin’ Birds playing cards,...

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Mouseland in Portland! Come see a collection of mousy vignettes on display this month at Green Bean Books! 1600 NE Alberta St. Portland OR

The beauty of sports is you can just decide at any point “I give a shit about this now. Against all reason.” Ten minutes later you hate one of the teams more than life and it’s all downhill from there.

An exciting year for #Klebsiella #vaccine research! Hot off the press, a first foray into what the human immune system actually recognises with respect to #protein vaccine targets based on a clinical pilot, not just predictions. #MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human systemic and mucosal immune responses support further exploration of a Klebsiella pneumoniae protein-based vaccine

Neonatal sepsis caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, and the rapid increase of infections c…

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Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

The Trump administration has opened 135,000 acres of Montana's Bitterroot National Forest to logging and construction.

Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why

This is the data centre they're planning on building 10 miles from our home... It will use the same amount of energy in a year than half of Scotland’s households, or 20% of Scotland’s total energy use. aprs.scot/auchtertool-...

Here’s the link for custom message mugs: littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/4306...

Happy Monday!! #pottery

Look, even this level of idiocy is not reason to panic. It just reemphasizes the point here:

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

Saw this guy out my bedroom window, grabbed my phone cam & ran outside. 🌊🦭💚⚡️🧡🔥🐉

Sometimes birding is a planned excursion. Sometimes it’s walking out your front door and finding a huge pileated woodpecker standing right there destroying a tree stump 🪶🌿

None of this stops until rich, powerful people — who steal from taxpayers and think they're above the law — start going to jail

Madhusudan 🦉 Katti@leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 3mo ago

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

I tried to attend the Ontario Medical Association annual general meeting tonight in Ottawa, and was removed from the room by members of their executive team Sandy Zidaric and Adam Farber because I wore my watermelon pin…

Three months left to go! Time to wrap up these manuscripts and share your eukaryotic microbe genomies with #MGen @microbiologysociety.org & the world! 🤓 #Protistsonsky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #Fungi #parasites #algae #evobio #IDSky #EvoSky #MedSky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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All these people succumbing to AI psychosis & thinking with a sort of religious fervor that their computers are conscious It's truly sad & fascinating that they will express reverence for a machine But can't be bothered to be awed by animal intelligence, or by the planet Except to exploit it all

4/4 "Throughout 2025, Indigenous data continued to be misappropriated and commodified without consent." by academics, institutions, churches, property records and state registries! iwgia.org/en/indigenou...

— a once in a lifetime shot.. captured by wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

One last rt for the Saturday folk - I need as much traction as possible so my book doesn't end up being one of those nice things that no-one buys.

Martyn Warren (he/him)@martynwarren.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want to see something cool? I'm currently working on chapter pages for my book, and landed on the idea of using slightly more sketchy black and white illustrations to contrast with the full-colour drawings. Here are 2 concepts I've done so far...

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study

The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

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