The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

DO NOT APPLY TO OR ATTEND THIS SHOW. I don't care if it's in your backyard. You can bet that every convention runner is watching this and the bad ones are salivating at this idea of $150 application fees, plus jacked up booth rates. If it works for this show, they WILL try it at theirs.

Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev)@hikatamika.com · 2d ago

Imagine the sound of me audibly blinking. aslkdjfh I hope more doujin, small press, and zine events get super active and successful and then the big cons have to look at each other, scratch their heads a little bit, and stop fleecing broke artists/only allowing space for ones that can take the hit.

"At least six commissaries confirmed refrigeration outages this week, forcing the grocery stores to throw out thousands of dollars’ worth of meat, dairy, produce and frozen foods"

Commissaries across the US affected by refrigeration outages

The outages have forced the grocery stores to throw out thousands of dollars’ worth of meat, dairy, produce and frozen foods.

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The Gulf Stream — Winslow Homer, 1899

#ProTip Don't use AI. Buy art.

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 3d ago

And you should! Artologica.etsy.com

y'all do not like when autistic people are not quirky and uwu-ified. y'all cannot handle a boring and shy autistic person and automatically assume we are mean and scary and that is very weird of you!

this piece suddenly started getting attention and i just knew. Rest in Peace to my favorite performer

Corey Brickley@coreybrickley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men

Bonkers. Cops 3D-printed a fake Flock camera to try to catch people who were bashing in cameras. Check out the video.

404 Media@404media.co · 4d ago

A police department in Florida used “decoy” Flock cameras that an officer 3D-printed at home to “bait” would-be vandals and charged a man with three felonies after he cut down and destroyed one of the plastic devices. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYCv...

Every time I see a white person with dreadlocks, I make a wish.

I always knew it would be a rough day when Dolly left us; what I didn't expect was all the joy everyone is sharing about her life. It takes a special sort of light inside someone to do that.

Art people! Found a new reference source called angleref.com, you can rotate a skull and see tons of faces at that angle. I’m sure there’s more to the site but how cool is that? Happy drawing :)

i was just thinking about this. in an economy that increasingly caters to the super rich, friction is a feature

WIRED@wired.com · 2w ago

Overwhelmed theater apps and a scarcity mindset around exclusive big-screen formats for blockbusters like “Dune: Part Three” and “The Odyssey” have led to the “concertification” of movies. www.wired.com/story/why-is...

People just telling on themselves.

r o o@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 2w ago

Chewing my arm off, bloody foam speckling my lips, screaming. Just screaming, forever.

I drew yesterday x3 💙

Cause the 1990s school system really helped but only to fill the military ranks.

Jack@jackinpogform.bsky.social · 2w ago

Funny innit? The risk of misdiagnosing a single neurotypical person is worth dragging each and every ND person back to the 90s where they were 'difficult,' 'thick' or 'disruptive'

By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...

Animation by Steven E. Gordon* | X-Men: Evolution (2000) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

Animation by James Baxter* | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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AUTHORED BY A 92-YEAR-OLD, SEMI-RETIRED JUDGE AND JOINED BY A TRUMP 1.0 APPOINTEE. Okay I'm done shouting. Read this story.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Federal appeals court backs DOJ administrative subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care. The 2-1 Ninth Circuit opinion, issued Friday, prompted a strong dissent from Judge Richard Paez. Tonight, at Law Dork:

C'mon man what the fuck are we doing here with this one precious life we each only get here on this tiny miracle of a planet

Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI

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Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If world governments are so hellbent on making social media safe for kids maybe they should start with getting rid of all the pedophiles and bad actors whose only goal in life is hurting children

Consumer options being reduced, no competition, and monopolisation of the means to market has never reduced prices for any product ever. People really need to think about this properly before reporting and sharing it. The person saying this has been been ragebait for weeks.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Killing PlayStation discs could make PS Store games cheaper, according to a former Square Enix exec www.eurogamer.net/ps-store-pri...

Trump called established climate science “fraudulent” and threatened NAS with consequences. Now, NAS has pulled the climate chapter designed to help judges evaluate scientific evidence. Article: zurl.co/xliei

Top Science Body Deletes Climate Chapter From Judges’ Manual

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine had been under pressure from Republican leaders, including President Trump.

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I wish I could find it again, but I read a research study in maybe 2023 that found that AI companies intentionally designed chatbots to give *any* answer rather than "I don't know" bc when users got the latter response most left the chatbot but when they got the former most kept interacting.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2w ago

the world would be a much better place if we mocked people for confident wrong answers way more aggressively and for saying "I don't know" way way less

Northwestern University said Saturday the Program of African Studies is transitioning away from its status as a university-wide research institute and center, while a staff member says employees were told it was closing.

Northwestern says African Studies program isn’t closing. But staff told otherwise

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The switch to Axon, which is not yet widespread but appears to be increasing as people oppose Flock, signals what might come next—cities entering contracts with another company which has faced less scrutiny and backlash. www.404media.co/cities-are-d...

Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers

Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.

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The waste dump is the historically African American public golf course. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/e...

East Wing debris dumped at East Potomac Golf Course has toxic metals, NPS says

The National Park Service says debris from the demolition of the White House East Wing that was dumped at a nearby public golf course has tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals. An ...

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Note the public now has NO access, as public tours are cancelled. We have no idea exactly what he is doing to the historic interiors.