10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 226

Blue skies over a Grand Canyon lodge.

Greetings to all you dear Gems readers. Always happy to welcome you here for a little distraction. Today I have a request to those that also find the occasional Gem themselves, but are not ready to write a whole diary. If you find something amusing and worth sharing with the DKos community as a Gem, please repost and tag me on Bluesky as @ozperspective.bsky.social. If I use your suggestion, I will use your repost so you get credit for the find. And with that out of the way, lets go!!

My pretty country, the way most foreigners perceive it. No, I don’t have kangaroos in my back yard or crocodiles in my pool. The most dangerous thing around here are the drop bears. 

Rodney Graetz's lovely photos of a sea trip from Darwin to Broome in NE Australia, whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/01/15/r...

— Jerry Coyne (@evolutionistrue.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T15:47:22.429Z

Silly, but funny

“When I first heard they’d found a cure for dyslexia, it was like music to my arse.” —source unknown

— William Gibson (@greatdismal.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T16:30:48.584Z

Today’s cool science post

Scientist Spotted 🦏 Advait Jukar, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology here at the Museum, quoted in a National Geographic article about woolly rhino tissue recovered from the stomachs of mummified wolf puppies in northeastern Siberia: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... 🐺🐺

— Florida Museum of Natural History (@floridamuseum.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T19:07:29.836Z

I can relate

Roman numerals are one of the only random things that my primary school teachers told me 'would be useful in later life' that really are. I read loads of 17th and 18th century original stuff and need them for date of publication. Every time I read one, I thank Miss Priestley mentally.

— Dr Sam Hirst (@romgothsam.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T23:39:12.066Z

Clever marketing

This knitted bicycle is sitting in front of a yarn shop in Ft. William.

— Hillbilly Highlander (@hillhighlander.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T21:26:07.293Z

This is worth 30 seconds of your life. I promise you!

This is Rufus. He cleverly escaped the shelter to run home after being picked up by animal control as a presumed stray. 14/10 a hound Houdini (IG: huntington_cw_animalshelter)

— WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) 2026-01-15T20:24:32.185Z

This is really funny and clever too. Good trouble..

Man 'trains' crows to attack MAGA hats after saying there's 'no longer a moral option'

— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T02:10:21.964Z

She’ll always remember that day…

today aircraft carrier made her first kill.

— heathen !! ✨ is drawing robots (@heathenish.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T22:02:44.335Z

There is an element of truth to that logic

— MadameNostalgic (@madamenostalgic.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T07:38:11.879Z

And for the timeline cleanse: A puppy with an OFF switch.

This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)

— WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) 2026-01-15T18:19:57.317Z

And with that, as always, I wish you all a good morning, g’day, or good night, wherever you are on this round rock we all call home.