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Ah! My time to shine! «As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“ 1/3 ... continued

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

My whole life is a lie. 😭

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

*excited Shesheshen noises*

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Was watching an academic lecture on Caravaggio on YouTube (premium is so worth it) and found myself irrationally angry when people in the audience started asking questions. "I'm not here to listen to the comments section!!!" 🤣 Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

Here's my 2024 roundup of several of the books I read and loved this year, including titles by @veronicaroth.bsky.social @edenrobins.bsky.social @scalzi.com @katrichardson.bsky.social and more. maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/what...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

Name a Non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Also, connecting from the combustibility of hydrogen to hydrogen (fusion) bomb to the more generic atom bomb. I can actually see the way that guy connects factoids and comes up with his dumb electric shark scenarios and it's always like the dumbest thing you'd expect from an LLM.

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Historians would like to have a word with Mr. Bezos about what was happening between 1933-1946.

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Let's celebrate #WorldOctopusDay with this lovely jug with an #octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. 🏺 AncientBluesky

submitted 145 days ago • 4 comments

This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky:

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

Woot! Look at that

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

They want no non white people. That's the whole cake and all the ingredients. Everything else is just marketing

submitted 168 days ago • 3 comments

Maybe you've heard of the #BirdsArentReal movement, but here's an equally wild idea that is nevertheless true: TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically). By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.

submitted 168 days ago • 20 comments

Me, a person whose memory stretches longer than the racist story that people like Naomi Wolf tell themselves, remembers that she’s actually been good at this the entire time.

submitted 172 days ago • 19 comments

A lot of people miss the point of science fiction. Ursula K. Le Guin didn’t, of course.

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submitted 176 days ago • 41 comments

I am delighted to report that a shitpost I wrote a year or so ago in response to the question 'who was the first person to boil an egg?' is now being repeated by AI-penned spam pages

submitted 183 days ago • 41 comments