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impq.bsky.social
Some big Judas Priest talk happened today.
September 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
kirkie.bsky.social
Young male Ornate Uromastyx this morning. That adult colouration is becoming vivid now.🦎
A photo of the head, forelegs and body of a lizard sitting on a rock. His colouration is blue, yellow stripes and dots of red
September 18, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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chesterzoosci.bsky.social
🌺 UK Gardens provide important pockets of biodiversity in agricultural and urbanised landscapes, but just 38% of people are willing or able to make their yards more wildlife friendly, a new study finds.

www.chesterzoo.org/news/better-...

#conservation #UKwildlife #UKspecies #zooscience #gardens

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Better planning could help gardens support UK wildlife, study finds | Chester Zoo
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September 17, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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edyong209.bsky.social
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
September 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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anothersmd.bsky.social
Lmao they made a sequel to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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nicolashenin.net
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
September 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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aistear.bsky.social
Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo.

"Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."
September 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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jlimb.bsky.social
Ep.5 of Why Haydn is Best now available! Contains strong references to Terry and June from the outset.
shows.acast.com/why-haydn-is... via
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5. Symphony 41 | Why Haydn Is Best
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September 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
kirkie.bsky.social
Not really the point but one person in the article compares herself to the obviously french womble Madame Cholet,
who one would assume emigrated from France to Wimbledon Common.
September 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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stoo.bsky.social
Shout-out to the brave motherfuckers chopping the collapsing, rusting masts off the SS Richard Montgomery on the bottom of the Thames between Southend and Sheerness today. If it goes badly, we're all going to very much know about it. Fascinating, also terrifying stuff youtu.be/R9u41aeItss?...
Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery
YouTube video by Tom Scott
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September 15, 2026 at 7:54 AM
kirkie.bsky.social
Ahh not big Ludo ⚒️

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Ludek Miklosko, former West Ham and QPR goalkeeper, dies aged 64
The former West Ham, QPR, Czechoslovakia and Czechia goalkeeper Ludek Miklosko has died at the age of 64
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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smnstuttgart.bsky.social
Sometimes they even make it clear who survived.
@garybugsyou.bsky.social
An Egyptian goose is perched on a dinosaur model
September 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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impq.bsky.social
Brand new episode out today and it’s BLOODY BRILLIANT!!!
September 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
With the collapse in advertising, and the post-pandemic shift towards corporate podcasting, there is literally zero reason to make podcasts any more, unless you’re behind a paywall. But nobody’s quite worked out how to tell everyone this.

Thanks to anyone who understands!
September 12, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
New followers: Thank you. I post a lot of wildlife photos that I've taken here and there, and always with ALT info. Here's a Pyrenees Asp (Vipera aspis zinnikeri), observed out in the open on a cool and foggy morning in NE Spain last year. More deets in the ALT. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿
A top-down image of a coiled snake resting on open ground. The snake's ground color is a grayish-brown, with darker brown markings running from the neck to the tail. These markings consist of short transverse bars that are connected by a stripe of the same color. The result is a zipper-like effect. The snake is a viper, and as such has a solid, stocky body, together with a triangular spear-shaped head. It is perhaps 20 inches (51cm) in length. The snake was encountered crawling in the open on a hillside trail, and immediately drew itself into a defensive coil. Thanks to its small size and my protective footwear, the shot was achieved by leaning over the snake with a 12-60mm lens.
September 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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ewacat.bsky.social
NICOLAS CAGE IS THE NEXT DOCTOR WHO
September 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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impq.bsky.social
We record the next episode of IMPQ on Wednesday, so get your dream setlists in. Don’t make Cyndy angry. [email protected]
September 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
kirkie.bsky.social
Two men take on the daunting task of compressing Use Your Illusions into one listenable album.

Finally, an answer to the question “Can you make a diamond out of a pile of shit”?
impq.bsky.social Iron Maiden Pub Quiz @impq.bsky.social · 12d
Tomorrow… it begins!
September 7, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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houseofreggae.bsky.social
Willi Williams' powerful Armagideon Time came out on Studio 1 in 1979. The Clash then covered it for the B side of their London Calling single.

In 1982 Willi did this 2nd version over a thunderous Channel One cut of Real Rock...

youtu.be/e5ovZILKStg?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinyl #music #musicsky
12" of Willie Williams - Armagideon Time / Willie Williams and I and I Music - Justice Tonight on WLN Music label. Released in 1983.
September 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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impq.bsky.social
Hey, everyone! Dan has written an absolutely hilarious sketch for this month’s POTOm podcast (available on Patreon). Give it a listen. There’s plenty more great sketches by him (and the rest of The Trap) too.
POTOm - Cod
YouTube video by Dan Mersh
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September 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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wangleberry.bsky.social
My beloved husband knows me well; he has bought me an absolutely batshit 1970s book on 'divination' from a charity shop
'the conplete book of fate and fortune'
September 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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mariancall.bsky.social
bugs is a trickster god, an ageless elder being one should take pains not to cross. he must be treated with respect or dire consequences follow
aelkus.bsky.social ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12d
bugs bunny is the scariest opponent genre fiction has ever produced
willowcatelyn.bsky.social Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 13d
Biggest problem with modern Looney Tunes, even COYOTE VS ACME (which I like) is that Bugs Bunny has been sanded down into a mascot. You watch him in the 40s or 50s and he's a freaky lil dress-up pervert who is down for anything. Assigned diva at birth. Nowadays, he's just a regular guy. Not my Bugs.
September 6, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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impq.bsky.social
Tomorrow… it begins!
September 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM