Ioana Andrei

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

YouTube video by Women's Prize Hear from Discoveries alumni on why you should enter

Thinking of entering #Discoveries2026? Hear from #Discoveries alumni Georgia, Zeynep, Tara, Nalisha, Emma, Alice and Genevieve on their experience of the programme and prize, and why you should enter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Vp...

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

Lena Rivo : The Cat, 2025

Soft pastel on UART premium mounted board (400 grit)
16x20 inches

Freelance Writing Jobs: RHS, Visit London, Which? Plus some brand new writing prizes.

All of this week's best freelance writing jobs, prizes, opportunities. Free for everyone to read. Go get 'em. freelancewritingjobs.substack.com/p/freelance-...

Shelter pup LOVES water 🐶

This question on this survey was very satisfying.

It's fast. It's cheap. It can be done by primates with unopposable thumbs. It's inter-species. It's proto-technological. It's out of this universe because the universe is a simulation built by the AI of an AI. It's dope, bruh.

A remarkable thing that will make a handful of men trillionaires, and will help you apply for jobs that don't exist

But hey at least you'll get a "come to my don't-look-up party" invite drafted in 0.5 seconds

Sam Altman @sama someday soon something smarter than the smartest person you know will be running on a device in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want. this is a very remarkable thing.

Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"

Missy the tabby bobtail cat laying on a green rug and peering directly into the camera. Both front paws are tucked under her.

If you love someone, set them free If you don't love someone, set them free
Basically, set everyone free And get a cat!

me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰

also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats):

'Hunger is killing us faster than illness ever could,' cancer nurse in Gaza says published at 11:58 11:58 Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent A cancer nurse, 38-year-old Randa, has just sent me a WhatsApp message, which she calls a "cry for survival" from Gaza. "I watch cancer patients - mostly women - dying one after another," she writes. "Not because of the disease alone, but because they receive chemotherapy in bodies weakened by malnutrition. "One of the most common things I hear at work is not 'I’m in pain', but: 'I’m hungry.'" Most essential chemo drugs and pain relief are not available, she adds. "We try everything we can, but we have so little to offer. We watch them slip away… and we carry that heartbreak with us every single day." She continues: "Hunger is killing us faster than illness ever could. For the first time in my life, I am completely helpless. I cannot provide even a piece of bread for my children, nor the help my patients need."

www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

The image shows the heart of the Rosette Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust in space. It is a vibrant astronomical image, with a cluster of bright stars (NGC 2244) at the center, shining with white or pale yellow light, like a sparkling chandelier. The nebula is illuminated in vivid colors: red (sulfur), green (hydrogen) and blue (oxygen). The red areas appear as soft warm glows, the green/turquoise ones form a diffuse and predominant haze, while the blue adds ethereal touches, similar to thin veils of fog. Filaments of gas and dust, like wisps of smoke or translucent curtains, weave across the scene, with some darker areas where dust obscures the light. The center, similar to a deep cavity, is dotted with distant stars, giving a sense of cosmic vastness. The image conveys a sense of energy, with a wind of particles that seems to radiate from the central stars, creating a dynamic, three-dimensional effect.

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In this gorgeous image, Lyman Insley captured the bright heart of the Rosette Nebula where lies NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50 or Satellite Cluster), an open cluster located some 5,200 ly away in Monoceros.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23020...

NGC 2244 consists of hot, blue stars denoting a young age

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four panel comic of someone fawning over their cat: IT's TRUE! myah YOU HAVE TERMINAL BABY DISEASE! MRAAAA THE DOC SAID SO MRATI yoU'RE JUST BABY mer

i think about this a lot goodnight

🌱 There are three #Hydrangea shrubs right together with the blue flowers. When all three get going, I'll grab a larger photo. #garden #gardening #SummerFlowers #GardeningBluesky #bloomscrolling

Having a relaxing Sunday. #cats #catsofbluesky #siamesecats

Good Morning

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Panel One: A scientist is giving a lecture. she stands at a lecturn. The current slide shows a list of the five kingdoms of living things: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera. She says "Most people assume that fungi are plants. Whereas in fact, they form a kingdom of their own." Panbel Two: Caption : After the lecture The scientist now appears to be in a subterranean cave, before her stand two very large mushrooms guarding a larger, beardedmushroom who sits in athrone wearing a crown. One of the mushrooms says "His majesty is very pleased with the work you are doing."

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

Trump has been proven right about pretty much everything, by Liz Truss

Under my glorious rule, anyone contributing to the Comment pages of the Telegraph would agree to have the headline tattooed to their forehead should circumstances demand it…

There it is, in a nutshell.

Ha.

I suppose we should give it the longest prison sentence ever received by a horse.

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