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Sarah wants ALL of the pumpkin spice things
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Web manager/content strategist/etc. Placid but prickly.

[banner alt-text: During the wars of prehistory, the gods brought jellyfish to the Earth from another planet and used them as messengers.]
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Sarah wants ALL of the pumpkin spice things @sarahbee.bsky.social · Dec 5
So I did the Bluesky "roast" thing and it said, Sarah, maybe lay off the jellyfish posts.

But there should only ever be MORE jellyfish content. Everyone knows this.
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biologizing.bsky.social
But this is extremely accurate because I did once go on a quest with some jellyfish colleagues to find somewhere that would serve us a proper edible jellyfish dish. My labmate in the sea cucumber lab spent a week following his grandmother's recipe so we could all eat braised sea cucumber
October 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
The two rules of software development:
- Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we can only learn by shipping
- There's no room on the roadmap for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time

Bosses love AI because they think it can give them up-front certainty on the cheap. But it can't.
The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.
AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
October 4, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
A throwback for Ctenophore Day! 🧪🐡🪼 If you ever wondered how to pronounce Ctenophore, today is October 4, the 10th month, fourth day and it sounds like ten oh four. They are a phylum of marine invertebrates, like this comb jelly which look a bit like jellyfish, but instead of stinging tentacles 🧵
This multimedia piece combines my linocut comb jelly on translucent Japanese paper, and self-flashing rgb LEDs to replicate their incredible bioluminescence. The translucent white comb jelly in in a dark blue glowing rectangle with two stripes of dashes along its body where changing coloured light glows through. There are white bubbles and part of two other comb jellies on the top and bottom edge of the box. It’s shot on a white background and is approximately 8”x10”2.5”
October 4, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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sevensixfive.bsky.social
OH at the American Natural History Museum (from a seven year old): “team, we did it, we found the whale.”
the whale
October 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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sleepyjez.bsky.social
Day two of inktober, making tiny scenes is fun.
Decided to switch up the inks every day - Pilot iroshizuku tsukushi with J.Herbin Ambre de Birmanie for the accent.
#inktober #inktober2026 #ink #art
A small sketch done in brown and ochre inks on white paper, bordered by pink and orange tape. The sketch depicts an underwater scene with ruins on the lower right. A jellyfish girl is diving downwards towards a large golden cup placed on the ruins.
October 3, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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riversidewings.bsky.social
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October 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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waiterich.bsky.social
This somehow got turned off automatically for me, so I had to go back into my settings to turn on “require alt text” again. Might have happened to you too; worth a check to keep your posts accessible to all.
waiterich.bsky.social Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Jun 28
Here’s how! Go to “Accessibility” in Bluesky settings and turn that first switch on. Never forget alt text again.
October 3, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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70sscifiart.bsky.social
Moebius, 1986
Three light blue people emerge from a giant parked flying saucer to inspect a small pyramid in a lush field that has a star hovering over it.
October 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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samm-the-human.online
Last year one of those immortal jellyfish got a PhD.

Whether they retain it on regeneration has become a real hot-button issue in academia.
October 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured this slightly less spectacular specimen at 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) deep in Monterey Bay during the summer of 2021.

The scientific name "Halitrephes maasi" honors German zoologist Otto Maas, with Halitrephes meaning "sea-nourished".
October 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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lauradavy.bsky.social
The Pacific Northwest is so gorgeous. And I loved seeing all the plants and wildlife - we even saw jellyfish as well as several sea lions swimming through the marina!
A gorgeous tree A marina at night A jellyfish swimming along
September 30, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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elowtheartist.rhythmicintelligence.com
but can i recruit the jellyfish into my gang is the real question
September 29, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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kansappa.bsky.social
I won't need a pension. I'm just gonna revert back to a polyp like a jellyfish and start again
September 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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kateelliottsff.bsky.social
@aliettedebodard.com at art museum and thought Cyril might enjoy this
jellyfish sculpture made of glass beads and wire, small differently colored jellies hanging in front of dark blackfround
September 27, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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51st.news
“There's nothing wrong with you if you planted something and then your plant died. Just try again.”

So ... what can you plant now? @samdelgado.bsky.social asked a few experts:
What foods and flowers to plant for fall in D.C.
Autumn is actually the best time of year to put in perennials (and there's still time for many veggies, too).
51st.news
September 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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blueeyedlady.bsky.social
There's freaking Jellyfish swimming in the streets of
New Jersey!!🫪🪼🪼🪼🪼🪼
September 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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propublica.org
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story.

For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards.

Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
September 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
What if my interviewer offers me Turkish Delight?
September 25, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
It’s SUCH an important framing to change from ‘here is the solution I want’ to ‘here is the problem I have’. I see it all the time in teams of scientists and engineers (software AND hardware!).
msched.bsky.social Marian Schedenig @msched.bsky.social · 10d
This is exactly why I always say that instead of having sales-oriented people promising customers features they're asking for and then forcing devs to implement them, you have to involve the devs by asking the customers to explain the reason why they actually want these features -
doctorow.pluralistic.net By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10d
Even so: the experience of working through your requirements with someone else is clarifying and disciplining, because while *you* are the domain expert on *your* needs, that doesn't mean you're the domain expert on how to *address* those needs.
September 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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libraryaac.bsky.social
Rethinking #translation - that's the idea of Douglas Robinson's book "Translating the Nonhuman". How do humans and non-humans communicate in #sciencefiction ? Robinson looks at Delaney's "Babel-17", Elgin's "Native Tongue" & Chiang's "Story of your Life"

#LiteraryStudies #TranslationStudies
Holding the book "Translating the Nonhuman" in front of a wall with colourful graffiti of a jellyfish (top) and planet Earth seen from afar in space (bottom)
September 25, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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design-law.bsky.social
Remember the "hot, sexy, dangerous boys" copyright case?
mrose.ink Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 10d
Christ on a cracker, this judge (in the "Crave" lawsuit) is PISSED.
storage.courtlistener.com
September 25, 2026 at 5:24 PM
sarahbee.bsky.social
Just put myself on the waitlist at my library. Seems like this would pair extremely well with Daniel Kraus' Angel Down.
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10d
started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed
“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.” “What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged” “on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,” “movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.
September 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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almsnatalie.bsky.social
Come for the GitHub drama. Stay for the plan to use AI to make sure the government's core web design system is accessible, something that experts say is not possible and dangerous

www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/ai-...
Inside the Freakout Over AI Testing in Government Websites
A rush of AI into government web development is worrying tech workers over accessibility.
www.washingtonsun.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:21 PM
sarahbee.bsky.social
The Jellyfish Problem by @theptessadactyl.bsky.social
Cover of The Jellyfish Problem showing a diver in deep water pursuing a huge brilliantly colored jellyfish
September 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM