Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds www.abc.net.au/news/science... via @ABCaustralia

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once. And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

#Tolktober Day 18: Thranduil I was delighted to take part in this year's Tolktober by @rogueprintco.bsky.social as it gave me the excuse i needed to draw Lee Pace shirtless Available for preorder as an A4 print on my shop bossrushstudio.etsy.com/ie/listing/4... #Art #lotr

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

In case somone in #germany are still awake: The Government moved the vote for creating a register of trans, inter and non-binary people to 17th October...so basically now. This is unacceptable legislation. If you aggree, make yourself heard, sign this #petition : weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

Critical vulnerabilities in 7-Zip (CVE-2025-11001 & CVE-2025-11002) allow remote code execution. Update to version 25.00 immediately! #CyberSecurity #7Zip #Vulnerability #UpdateNow Link: thedailytechfeed.com/critical-7-z...

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

quote with your very first #art of your OC vs the latest let’s see that glow-up 👀 Rune & Revna ('20) vs Rune & Tali ('25)

quote with your very first #art of your OC vs the latest let’s see that glow-up 👀 Rune & Revna ('20) vs Rune & Tali ('25)

quote with your very first #art of your OC vs the latest let’s see that glow-up 👀 2021 vs 2025

blew up the chantry with anders would have been cool

tumblr posts always fit these guys, huh William Hawke - he/him (east asian) #dragonage #dragonage2

It was, if the spirit of Iain Banks will forgive me, the day the pope exploded Or, to be strictly accurate, today is the 67th anniversary of the day a botched embalming saw Pius XII’s rotting torso break open while he was lying in state (Yes, sorry*. This thread is disgusting) (*Well, kind of)

Sometimes I consider googling "Can you die from anxiety" but I always decide that whatever the answer is, it's probably going to make my anxiety worse

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

250.000 mensen die zich uitspreken. Stop de genocide. Stop de apartheid. Stop het kolonialisme. Wij eisen rechtvaardigheid en gerechtigheid. Alle medeplichtigen aan de genocide moeten vervolgd en veroordeeld worden. Sluit ze op. Wij stoppen niet voordat er een vrij Palestina is! 🍉

Hang in there, struggling artists

Hey, everyone! Adios is on sale today for just $10! That's right: it's cheaper than Arby's and will make you cry in a completely different way! Get it while it's hot! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...

About an hour until it's October and I can officially kick off this year's #NovelGauntlet 😱🎉Hoping to add 30k-60k words to this draft over the month, I am excited!

Getting ready for the #NovelGauntlet writing challenge starting tomorrow? Want to track your progress with other participants? Join our TrackBear leaderboard! You can set your own goal for the month and watch that progress bar rise! trackbear.app/leaderboards... #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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Hades 2 in my style!

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

Melinoë: Zagreus:

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

We’re long past “post-truth.” The right openly doesn’t give a single solitary fuck about reality whatsoever anymore — that’s the political expedience element: embracing and inflaming their base’s mass willful suspension of disbelief.

3 countries have moved to UNDECIDED on Chat Control, meaning we're now down to only 8 countries opposing. I know it's exhausting, but please keep calling, mailing and spreading the word. Maybe even make posts like this calling for action in your native tongue? fightchatcontrol.eu

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

YOU consent to the scene by deciding to read it. whether the characters do within the fantasy or not is completely irrelevant

Yeah. That's him there. #dragonage

We're the Ones in Motion - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kS2NPb

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

Art motivation 💪

NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on. I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands. It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

qrt with fanart I don't remember if I posted this picture, so... Senua really impressed me, so much so that I really cried at the end. Probably one of the best games I've ever played. #train #arttrain #Senua #Hellblade #elleylie_art

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

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a reminder: yes, it sucks that they actually managed to patent the concept of summoning, but I do think "you owe a percentage of your income for the rest of your life to Nintendo" is fucking atrocious and it's insane people forgave them for that.