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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 20h

Our subscription drive is closing in on its goal. So far, as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, we've managed to give everyone but our authors a raise. We're only 20 subscriptions away upping author pay from 14 to 15 cents/word. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 12h

Don't mess with these furniture delivery guys.

A very large teddy bear has been tucked behind the front grill of a furniture delivery truck. The bear's head sticks up above the grill, and one of the bear's legs pokes through the grill's bottom.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

wow. that bench placement is making a unique statement!

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s an amazing story, Dorian! How cool you got to see that reproduction so randomly. That man’s dedication to his art is humbling.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love that this sidewalk rainbow was created by light passing through glass at the top of this building.

A rainbow shows atop a wide gray-and-white paved pedestrian area. The nearly straight-line rainbow colors extend about forty feet and start as light through glass at the top of a nearby building.

A tall round building with white highlights is reflected in the glass of a shorter, angular building. The sky also is reflected in the building glass so that from the ground, the sky and its reflection are particularly beautiful. The rounded building takes up about one-third of the reflection area. Glass at the top of the angular building is positioned so that when light passes through, the light shows as a rainbow on the paved pedestrian area below.

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Matt Dixon @mattdixonart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funded in an amazing six minutes! Thanks to all who have supported the campaign so far! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

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Transmissions Robot Art Calendar 2027

Share your jouirney through the coming year with a selection of curious robots from my Transmissions art series.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had a good time at the Palaces of the Public book launch! It's not *yet another* fan email to @streetsofdc.bsky.social's John DeFerrari if I do it in person. andreapawley.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/o...

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On the Fringes of John DeFerrari

Living in DC means meeting the most interesting people. Eventually. I’ve been following DC historian John DeFerrari’s work since 2013. That’s when I first started reading his Stre…

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hope the answer was "popcorn sprinkled with crumbled cookies."

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can do it! Who needs sanity anyway?!?

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Whatever it is sounds like money in the bank! (if only you give them the transfer details and pay ahead of time with a gift card to ensure unexpected fees and services are covered.) #winning

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, but in hiking boots. Twenty minutes later, the other boot also chose chaos.

A hiking boot is shown in a side view and atop a stair. The boot is at the end of a person's leg. One-third of the boot's sole, the part under the forefoot, has come unglued. A void exists between the unglued portion of the sole and the rest of the shoe. In the background of the boot view is the shadow of the person connected to the boot.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The cover for @aptshadow.bsky.social's House of Open Wounds is amazingly detailed! And surprisingly accurate! : ) I love that the Butcher and one of his dubious / deadly concoctions is featured. Poor nearly-naked Maric Jack though.

Cover art for Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel House of Open Wounds. The cover is in shades of gray plus orange and also white highlights. The top half of the cover shows camp tents, a distant battle, and a nearly-naked man run through with various weapons. The bottom half is an interior view of a crude hospital tent tinged with the occult as evidenced by hanging skulls and a ready potion. A short man holds a cleaver at the center of the cover's lower section. Border images include a metal construct, a box containing tiny gods, someone covered in flames, and a person reanimated by a necromancer.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I loved this disturbing and beautiful @clarkesworldmagazine.com story by @bethgoder.bsky.social. The bargain her aliens drive isn't for the faint of heart. clarkesworldmagazine.com/goder_09_26/

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Water-Eaters by Beth Goder

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just a Cooper's Hawk down feather in my outdoor exercise space to give me something to look forward to each time I pass it.

Cooper's Hawk down feather, which is horizontally striped in brown and white with a bit of black at the end. The down feather is atop rock-filled outdoor cement, fallen seed pods, and dried leaves.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

mug + 6 tablespoons (62g) cake mix + 4 tablespoons of water (56g) + 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (14g). stir. microwave for 90 seconds or so. let it cool a few minutes. sprinkle with a bit of sugar. the recipe is guaranteed. i tried it with chocolate cake then vanilla. just for science, obvs. 😜

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bad news -- I discovered that boxed cake mix can be used for microwaved mug cake. GOOD NEWS -- I DISCOVERED THAT BOXED CAKE MIX CAN BE USED FOR MICROWAVED MUG CAKE!!!

Top view of a mug of microwaved chocolate cake. The mug is light blue against the dark chocolate color. The cake, which has sugar sprinkled atop it, has been partially eaten. A spoon rests inside the mug of cake.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If something suddenly has to become sentient, I hope it’s the @merriam-webster.com Bluesky feed.

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Sinners Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 03/09/2026

Gardening, but make it Eldritch horror 😱

An orange bittermelon growing on a trellis that has split itself open like an overripe banana to reveal its rows of blood red seeds, its weirdly sinewy insides.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That is freakin’ hilarious, David! Thanks for the laugh!

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Some days, I really have to wonder if I'm the only one still listening to sea shanties.

Album cover for Pirates for Sail's song The Derelict. The cover shows about a dozen people gathered together on a wooden ship. They are dressed in stylized pirate garb and brandishing weapons.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

DC Indy Car trash or federal crime to touch? Unknown.

Massive Indy Car banners from last weekend‘s race are bunched and piled at the base of oak tree trunks on a DC city street after most of the rest of the nearby race detritus has been cleared away.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Washington DC is a very strange place to be living in right now.

Hundreds of used tires from last weekend’s Indy Car race line the south side of Madison Drive on the National Mall. In the far distance of the photo, the tip of the Washington Monument is visible.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Still questioning my priorities, but The Owl is very persuasive.

Screenshop of an electronic trophy with the outline of the Duolingo Owl. The trophy's caption reads "Congratulations! You finished #1 and reached the Semifinals."

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My favorite piece from the Truman Lowe retrospective at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Photo of a piece of artwork called Skychart III created in 1986 by Truman Lowe. The piece is rectangular at its edges but contains four curved pieces of wood plus ten of what look like thin leaves. The curved pieces of wood are slender, and they cross over each other. There is a lot of open space in the piece, which is made of pine, peeled willow saplings, leather, and watercolor.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So cool to see books by awesome people I know like @wiswell.bsky.social here in my local bookstore (and selling well)!

Photo of the book The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell on a bookshelf with other science fiction and fantasy novels.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Duolingo's effective gamification of learning Norwegian leaves me questioning my own priorities 96 days in. #BowDownBeforeTheOwl

Screenshot of a light blue Duolingo Owl outline in the shape of a trophy that represents promotion to the Diamond League.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What I did on my summer vacation -- sailed the Greenland Sea past Jan Mayen on a very clear day.

This image of Jan Mayen island on a blue sky day shows a snowy peak rising out of the Greenland Sea. Above the peak and to the side are a few blurry white clouds with distinctive ovoid shapes. More about Jan Mayen on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mayen.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Clarkesworld is a unique science fiction magazine that I love and support. It’s worth the subscription price if you can afford it. The magazine also has a very active subscribers-only Discord community that I’m glad to be part of.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm so glad my search for an eyemask led me to this photo of a white collar office child labor sweatshop where mid-day naps are encouraged.

Fake photo of a young teenaged boy in an office setting during the day. The boy is wearing an eyemask. Text on the photo reads "Office Break."

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Went to Vegas. Saw The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere. Was wowed.

Reinvented scene from The Wizard of Oz in which Dorothy has arrived in Oz just after her house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. The scene is filled with color, even more so than the original movie. Dorothy stands in the middle of it looking apprehensive and taking it all in. In the foreground are an array of flowers. In the middle ground are small round houses with thatched roofs. In the distance are green hills and cloud-spattered blue skies. The images are crisp and vibrant.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Maybe not the safest for pedestrians, but beautiful!

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Someone may need to tell Camila from "Amazon's Recruiting Department" that this is not the best emoji to start a scam email with. She may need a raise (or a power top-up if she's a bot).

A scam email reading "Hello, this is Camila from Amazon's Recruiting Department" begins with the "weary face" emoji.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I am legit afraid of the Duolingo owl as of this morning's app icon.

A screenshot of the Duolingo owl app icon. While the normal Duolingo owl icon has smooth edges and looks cartoonish, this owl icon seems to be inspired by Hunter S. Thompson-type drug-fueled road trip glasses.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The world outside the D.C. beltway is a strange and interesting place.

Snack bag of Vlasic "Pickle Balls: Dill Pickle Corn Puffs." The image on the bag showes green-colored corn puffs.

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Andrea M. Pawley @ampawley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This clipart masterpiece I found online is supposed to be advertising vehicle rain guards.

This photo is part of an Amazon ad for vehicle rain guards. On a sunny day, a golden retriever sits in the front passenger seat of a vehicle that purports to be moving given the dog's tousled hair and the light streaks meant to sugest rain spray. Dots of rain are on the rain guard. The cloudless sky is blue. No one is driving the car. The title reads "Let Fresh Air In Keep Pet Odor Out."

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