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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt

@aravine.bsky.social
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Hubby, Dad, Grampa, cook/homemaker, writer (not author), gamer, inactive gamemaster, SF&F fan, eclectic, ADHD, curmudgeon, honorary cat, technically but not effectively retired, poly, cancer survivor, he/him. NNITO. Not to scale. YMMV. YNCFT. Fnord.

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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 3h
Senator Schmitt (no relation) tomorrow:
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Peacemaker Birdblindness
Alt: Peacemaker Birdblindness
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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 6h
In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)
The fractal game of epic histories
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 4h
🐻 Animal #1157 🦛 I figured it out in 10 guesses! 🟥🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 🔥 54 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4 metazooa.com #metazooa
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 5h
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Igor Toscano 🏴 @toscanoigor.bsky.social · 13h
Screencap from Tumblr: Original post by @prokopetz, followed by several replies:

@prokopetz: "As a general rule of fantasy and sci-fi naming, the closer to the back half of the alphabet the average letter in their name is, the eviller they are. A name that doesn't contain any consonants north of R is poison frog colouration. If it uses Y as a vowel in a non-terminal position you're basically fucked."

@emotion-xp: "That single 'e' is doing a lot for you, Mr. Prokopetz."

@prokopetz: "Well, yes; a lot of Western fantasy and sci-fi media's propensity to villain-code the back half of the alphabet boils down to Western authors being Weird™ about Slavic cultures, and I'll give you three guesses where my surname comes from."

@gudamor: "One of your parents"

@prokopetz: "*points a giant laser at your house*"
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 14h
Daily Cute for @oakborn.bsky.social
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🦆 Animal #1156 🐈 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟨🟩 🔥 53 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4 metazooa.com #metazooa Huh.
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Metazooa
Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.
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9th Level Games @9thlevelgames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Portland, Oregon Trail launches tomorrow! Last chance to get your Pre-Launch Reservation bumper sticker for only $2, once we launch it will be $6 as add-on. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/9th-le…
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily Cute for @oakborn.bsky.social
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[Reviews his clothing color options] Huh. I did not know that about myself.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What I'm bringing to the job interview.
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Rocky Horror Picture Show: Toss Drink Scene
Alt: Rocky Horror Picture Show: Toss Drink Scene
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🐑 Animal #1155 🐑 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟥🟥🟧🟩 🔥 52 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4 metazooa.com #metazooa
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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hobbies are how we fight the Darkness
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Rolling Stone/Choosin' Texas BS reminds me of the old, old book "Future Shock". Too much information/content is coming at us too fast. NOBODY can keep up with much of it, let alone all of it. Getting miffed that people aren't following the EXACT mix of content you are is deeply stupid.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Daily Cute for @oakborn.bsky.social
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Heard in my house: "Oded Fehr? More like Oh DAMN Fehr." The concensus in our house is he aged well.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name: Ellen Parsons Project
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rewatching "The Hunt for Red October" as part of our "Honoring Tim Curry". Pulling double duty for Sam Neill - Hope he saw Montana. Keep finding people I forgot were in this: Gates McFadden VERY briefly as Dr. Caroline Ryan. James Earl Jones as the CIA guy. Scott Glenn as the American sub captain.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🦗 Animal #1154 🐱 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟥🟧🟧🟨🟨🟩 🔥 51 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4 metazooa.com #metazooa
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So many movies to see in theater, except I don't want to go anywhere tomorrow. I think I'll burrow into my Hobbit hole, eat, read, drink, and generally have a Hobbit day. "Frankenstein" is due on the 1st and I haven't been reading for many, many days. Reading it in 1 day would be a big deal.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Captain Super (Wallace in the background) on the set of the Wallace and Ladmo show.
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Sasquatch @nerdysasquatch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It really feels like people on social media would much rather complain about movies they don't like, harass creators of indie shows that became popular, or bully people for liking something they don't than actually support the arts.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[* novel]
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Lizard Lizard Lizard
Alt: Lizard screaming
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Get out and vote! He literally had people raise their hands and pledge to cheat two weeks ago in Dallas.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Droopy is Happy: You Know What?
Alt: Droopy is Happy: You Know What?
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Bertoni @thebertoni.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sketch preto e branco de uma Morticia Addams lobo guará e um Gomez Addams cachorro vinagre, desenho acentua a diferença de altura dos dois bichos, lobo guará altissimo e cachorro vinagre baixote.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 26/09/2026
Embarrassed scientists reveal alien radio signal was actually meant for a planet behind us
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Embarrassed scientists reveal alien radio signal was actually meant for a planet behind us
Mountain View, CA—Astronomers at the SETI Institute have confirmed that a radio signal originated from an advanced alien civilization, but was intended for a different planet behind Earth.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Current #EarWorm
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Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Missionary Man (Official Video)
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Time to review this... ... and nearly time to rewatch Andor.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Daily Cute for @oakborn.bsky.social
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🎃Farmer GaddAAAHH!!!!🎃 @farmergadda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Coming to Portland in October (Old Church). We've seen the Harp Twins there twice. ... once with the Volfgang twins.
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Paint It Black (Rolling Stones) Harp Twins + @volfgangtwins
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🐬 Animal #1153 🐂 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 50 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4 metazooa.com #metazooa
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, that's two good night's sleep in a row! [Yay!] ... out of the last two weeks. [Boo!] While I was dozing in an out this morning, my brain tried to tell me it was Saturday. My alarm said otherwise.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Epstein Class is very good at a very, very small skillset (anything DIRECTLY related to screwing people over for personal gain). They cannot do basic tasks (cook, clean, shop, drive, ...); they have people for that. Their personal assistants track details for them. They know nothing about life.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
While I am thrilled that billionaires are being exposed as the nutjobs they are, I don't want to sit through hours of documentary about how awful they are. The folks most in support really don't need to see them, but the people who need to see them are entirely unlikely to be willing or even aware.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Daily Cute for @oakborn.bsky.social
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Rude Accurate, but . . .
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🐰 Animal #1152 🐩 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟧🟨🟩 🔥 49 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4 metazooa.com #metazooa
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I AM DAD @iamdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 24/09/2026
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest
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Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest
‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 24/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "I miss the days when bullshit was funny"
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let’s focus our whole economy on churning out middling bullshit no one likes or needs. All our collective productivity channeled directly into the sewer so seven criminal weirdos can have all the money.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.
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Mark "Spooky Nickname" Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daily Cute for @oakborn.bsky.social Also: #Mood
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