Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

Wait, Die hard is a Christmas movie AND a retelling of The Odyssey??

moby dickgirl@eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 13h ago

OMG I finished a short novella about sex with Santa & Kobo Plus recommended White Fragility for my next read.

He's electable if we elect him.

Goodnight

So many possible answers and I thought wait, what if all these nostalgia people not getting vaccinated made it so we actually had less measels cases 40 years ago? Nope. Even with the surge in science denial we still have fewer measels cases. For now... ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...

Measles cases in the United States

An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

ourworldindata.org

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.

More than 2 million acres burned as Oregon sets new wildfire record

The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.

oregonlive.com

In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Let's talk about airplanes or restaurants filled with cigarette smoke as a norm. Public life before the mid 80s was like living in an ash tray. People smoked defensively just so they wouldn't have to breathe other people's smoke.

Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h ago

As someone who grew up in SoCal and remembers smog alerts and maybe being able to see the mountains once a year, yeah, air quality is soooooooo much better these days

Don't go looking for the video footage. It's awful. If you do see it, play Tetris for about 20 minutes or so. Science: www.sciencealert.com/advice-to-pl... Play Tetris online in your browser: play.tetris.com

Advice to 'Play Tetris' After a Traumatic Event May Have Some Basis in Science

In the wake of witnessing tragic events, many people turn to online communities such as Reddit to discuss and process their experiences.

sciencealert.com

Julie Benson@juliebenson.bsky.social · 16h ago

Is that Perez Hilton mental breakdown thing real cause oh my God!

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Good picture of how the teal hair turned out with the puppy one of my friends adopted from the litter.

Miniature Birds Day 18 - Eurasian blue tit (or 'titw tomos las' as we say in Welsh)

x-ray #ceramics drop on aug 8, 2pm CT

mantis #ceramics drop on aug 8, 2pm CT

Time to watch a buddy movie.

M Mrylin Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Alt: Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

static.klipy.com

Spouse has magical reality ability. After being around the puppies he thinks fleas are gross, do I have fleas? Then he feels with his skin & says no, no fleas. I skip directly to I can feel the fleas everywhere whether they exist or not.

AHHH!!! Just 7 more Backers!!!!

Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 3d ago

When we reach 775 Backers in the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter, we will publish an exclusive Mini-Interview from solicited short story writer Senaa Ahmad! buff.ly/SQbzTHA

mola abduction #art watercolour

‘They are such neat, busy little folk’: the unexpected superpowers of the common woodlouse

‘They are such neat, busy little folk’: the unexpected superpowers of the common woodlouse

This detritivore – known by a range of colourful names – tidies up our world and can withstand toxic pollution

theguardian.com

The use of AI described here, like for an initial sifting of mountains of data and using it to build databases, IMO, is totally appropriate. It was done by truly expert investigators who were not going to accept bogus hallucinations in results. I'm ignoring environmental impact for the moment.

Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2d ago

A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

I need to get back to sleep. I need to be less anxious. I need to get my life sorted. I need to go to work tomorrow. And the next five days after that.

I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the puppies. At least it's a worry from afar. Not 9 puppies crying. My own puppies didn't even bother getting up. They are comfy in bed. What a strange day.

Spouse recently said that someday tech will need someone to fix all the fuckery. I replied that the tech industry wasnt going to hire a 50+ yr old woman who hasn't worked in the field since 2022 who tells them it's going to be a slow process. They are going to hire optimistic recent college grads.

Shayna Moon (she/they)@themoonis.gay · 3d ago

"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald

bug is out of the rug, I got commissioned by @theguardian.com to #SciArt illustrate this year's goobies for #InvertebrateOfTheYear there are some really good ones stay tuned! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Today, the common woodlouse – come back on Tuesday to find out who else made the top 10

theguardian.com

Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6d ago

something exciting coming your way on Monday #BugSky

I should get to sleep. It's been an eventful day. It's been non stop puppies since 2:30pm. I'm beat.

"Rule of thumb: if you hold your thumb up and it covers the moose then you're a safe distance"

KOIN 6 News@koin6.bsky.social · 3d ago

A Florida woman left Colorado with a close encounter she’ll never forget, seeing a moose on her first-ever mountain hike. https://www.koin.com/news/national/video-moose-swims-near-swimmers-hikers-in-colorado/?cid=bluesky_ 

Excellent laptop sticker

Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith@livraineysmith.bsky.social · 3d ago

And Zoog vinyl stickers based on a color artist proof! These guys are on UV and water resistant vinyl, so they're great on vehicles, travel mugs, computers, whatever you want a really sturdy vinyl sticker on! xylographilia.etsy.com/listing/1429...