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Avon Loves Blake

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Dinosaurs. Disabled disability advocate. Quolls. Wombats. Not accepting unsolicited advice at this time. No embedding posts in news articles without explicit consent.

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Smiling sibling gang gang cockatoos 😍
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Whodunnit? - Final Drive (21st July 1975). Steven Pacey and Simon Williams are amongst the suspects whilst the lovely Aimi MacDonald, Alfred Marks, Anouska Hempel and Patrick Mower play detective.
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Tatiana Trifan #FBLC @tatianatrifan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
People with disabilities/chronic illness need accommodations to work that are almost never offered by employers to the full, including working under 50%, they have often dynamic health issues that can come out of nowhere, and need jobs with a lot of flexibility in terms of output and hours worked.
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PoP Nova Scotia @popns.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
If you're hosting an event and there's no one in attendance wearing a mask, your first thought shouldn't be "no one's masking anymore." The reality is you've decided not to make the space safe enough. Many people still want to avoid infection and your event isn't worth the risk.
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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I'm nearly done with the cave lion and ngl this might by my best work yet
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I needed very little encouragement for this, I'm very excited about it: The colorwork is from the Penguin Classics chart by Catherine Waterfield (mostly) www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
front panel of a knit sweater, the sweater is currently half orange and half white with black lettering. It says "Frankenstein Mary Shelley"
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ferrutxoart.bsky.social @ferrutxoart.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Since I’ve already finished the reconstructions of the thyreophorans from the Iberian Peninsula, I’m sharing here a couple of poster-style visualizations showing the different genera and the sites where they can be found Let’s start with the different genera, arranged by clade and size #Paleoart
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Iain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Your reminder that you can create your own Bayeux Tapestry at home, using: htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/
An archer with a bow confronting an unarmed man. The archer is saying "Hast thou betrayed us? Hast thou betrayed me?". The unarmed man responds "Avon, I was waiting for thee".
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
So last year I found out I had a pretty bad iron deficiency and like I thought how bad could it be. So the normal amount should be like minimum 50 to 150 mcg. Mine was 12 😭 no wonder I was tired and weak for so much of my life lol
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A lot of dinosaur tracks are technically undertracks, from layers beneath where the foot met the sediment and smushed it. When we get the preserved track surface, or close to it, we get stuff like delicate little foot scales. How pretty is this?
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 18/07/2025
New review of the revised Emily Books:
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
these, however, do not hold a candle to the time a family friend, EXTREMELY hung over when the Jehovah's Witnesses knocked on the door early on a weekend morning, opened the door naked, saw who it was, moaned, "No...no...oh, *fuck*, no..." & closed the door again. The JWs never came back. Ever. :))
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 17/07/2025
Taking a break on the to-do list today as I descend into the mossy, odiferous depths of gremlinhood
Writer Gremlin Bingo, nine squares:
1. Never stretch
2. Refuse to leave writing cave
3. Things growing in uncleaned house
4. No screen breaks
5. Sittin like a scrimp
6. Only eat snaccs
7. Forget how to talk to humans
8. Lost in research hole
9. No sleep till deadline
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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 18/07/2025
One thing I'll say about being so tired that I have no fucks left to give: door to door solicitors don't know how to deal with someone who could not give less of a fuck about the social contract and will just keep saying "nope, not interested, go away" before closing the door mid-sentence.
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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thursday at noon Pacific, I’ll have these five pieces in the shop. Two carved planters, two fossil mugs, and one more piece that I have to put in the next post because they only let you do four pics....
Four views of a ceramic mug decorated with a fossil of a rutiodonCeramic planter carved with designs of skeletal fish Four views of a ceramic mug decorated with a fossil of a mosasaur Ceramic planter carved with designs of seaweed and small fish
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Joseph Cherabie MD MSc (They/He) @jncherabiemd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Today I reviewed a paper for an academic journal. Please stop using “health literacy” as an excuse for why people don’t take up an intervention. It isn’t that they “don’t know better”, it’s that they have their reasons that are valid and it’s your job to figure out what those reasons are…
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Avon Loves Blake @avonlovesblake.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Yes! Side effects like crushing fatigue from medications like Metformin are a major reason for stopping a medication - it doesn't matter how good for you a medication is in the long term if it leaves you unable to function in your day to day life.
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Allison Pregler 📼🎃 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
sometimes I think about the "eternal friends" xena trading card. just gals being pals
A Xena trading card. Xena and Gabrielle kiss romantically. The text says "eternal friends"
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Some people think that the cat food bowl is half full. Some, that it is half empty. And some, that the current halfway status is a MAJOR EMERGENCY THAT HAS TO BE DEALT WITH RIGHT NOW CATS CANNOT LIVE LIKE THIS WHAT WERE WE ALL THINKING also where are the cat treats clearly not in the bowl.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 16/07/2025
Preparing to do a copy edit and the publisher's notes say: "Do not leave extraneous notes or explanations within the body of the text, as they may end up being typeset as part of the book text." Ah yes. The publishing equivalent of safety regulations being written in blood.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 15/07/2025
Pianos, silk looms, secret labor unions, and a heist! THE HELLION’S WALTZ is an 1824-set sapphic romance with hate makeouts, bisexuals up to no good, and found family taking down exploitive capitalists:
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The Hellion's Waltz — Olivia Waite
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.
Photo of a Nanboku Line 乗り換え 出口案内 (transfer and exit guide) on a station platform.
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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Lesser Nighthawk perched at sunrise 🪶☀️🌵
Lesser Nighthawk- heavy crop
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A fancy edition of the beloved @tkingfisher.com's Hemlock & Silver is on the way! Out on August 19th!
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Hemlock & Silve by T. Kingfisher
DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring bright green sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers illustrated by the author. From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Hemlock & Silver, a dark reimagining of “Snow White” steeped in poison, intrigue, and treason of the most magical kind
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8th creation ✨ @8thcreation.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Birb. 💙✨ #art #oc #ocsky
A kiwi-shaped bird with dark blue feathers, light blue beak and legs, and white starry markings. It's holding a flower in its beak. The background is dark blue, full of stars.A kiwi-shaped bird with dark blue feathers, light blue beak and legs, and white starry markings. It's running very fast. The background is dark blue, full of stars.
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The Broken Binding @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We are delighted to unveil our special editions of Hemlock & Silver and Swordheart by @tkingfisher.com 🎉
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Shicheng Guo @shihcheng.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Food allergies, affecting 1-10% globally, may start at the skin, not gut. Skin exposure could lead to IgE sensitization. Mast cells play a key role. PMID:40571771, Nat Rev Immunol 2025, @NatRevImmunol doi.org/10.1038/s41577-025-01185-y #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
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Food allergy: begin at the skin, end at the mast cell? | Nature Reviews Immunology
Food allergy is an acute IgE-mediated reaction that occurs in response to food components and affects 1–10% of the global population. It is often thought to be a disease of the gastrointestinal tract, in which oral exposure to a food allergen induces an IgE-sensitizing response that primes the host immune system to react to the eliciting allergen following subsequent oral exposure. However, emerging evidence from clinical and basic research studies suggests that maladaptive immune responses in the skin also contribute to the development of food allergy. These responses can promote the development of food-specific IgE and reshape the gut immune microenvironment in a manner that predisposes to IgE-mediated activation of mast cells and clinical manifestations of allergic disease following subsequent food exposures. In this Review, we discuss how different routes of exposure to food antigens can contribute to allergic sensitization and describe how mast cells ultimately drive the allergic
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Got my hands on a pterosaur stamp from DDR
A stamp of a pterodactyloid pterosaur
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 15/07/2025
New Murderbot interview! collider.com/murderbot-fi...
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'Murderbot's Co-Creators Break Down the Heartbreaking Season 1 Finale and Making Changes From the Book: "You Can Actually Make a Good Show While Having These Extreme Things"
Murderbot co-creators Chris & Paul Weitz break down the behind-the-scenes secrets of the Season 1 finale and tease what's next.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
Title: Papers Released by the Influential Research Group 

A graph with a Y axis labelled 'Citations' and X as 'Time'.

Hit Debut Paper (high up)
Difficult Second Paper (a bit lower)
Break-up Paper (lower still)
Unsuccessful Solo Papers (bobbing along the bottom)
Greatest Hits Paper (climbing back up)
Reunion Paper (high up, but still not as high as the debut)
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice
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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Readercon next weekend: P Djèlí Clark is Guest of Honor. I'm moderating a panel on his work! A Griot of this Galaxy! Cecilia Tan is also a GOH. We're doing Bisexuals in Science Fiction! Here is program schedule: schedule.readercon.org @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @ceciliatan.com @readercon.bsky.social
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I'm looking for romance novel recommendations: - historical (any time/place, light fantasy ok) - moody - no wealthy/aristocratic MCs - no preference re: gender - must be an actual romance novel w/HEA comps: A Bloomy Head, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Beautiful Wreck, The Craft of Love, all KJ Charles
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/07/2025
Caught the final episode of the first season of Murderbot last night. The whole first season was just lovely, and I'm delighted that it's gotten a second season. Congrats, @marthawells.com, and everyone else involved, both for the season that's wrapped up, and for what is to come.
Alexander Skarsgård and David Dastmalchian, in a scene from Murderbot, looking at each other awkwardly.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 14/07/2025
I'm *obsessed* with the badass women writers and artists of the Georgian era. The "libertine" era of the Restoration was over and women were once again being told to behave. To be modest and virtuous. Some larger-than-life ladies just kept on being brazen and gay. buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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I'm So Inspired By These Brazen Women From 300 Years Ago
The Sixties saw the beginning of a long period of glorious liberalization. Women gained more rights and outlets for self-expression. Art and literature...
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Mark @ferl67.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy - AP News apnews.com/article/tida...
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Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.
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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
today is the last day for Solaris' 99 cent post-Pride queer sff sale! geni.us/Solarissale (although I have attached the Lady Eve's graphic here, tbh I am mostly posting to remind myself to go on extremely unwise ebook spree before the deadline tonight)
#StillProud 0.99 eBook sale! Lady Eve's Last Con 0.99 

*Website exclusive. Ends 23:59 14th July '25. DRM free. Titles available will vary by country.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Okay I have read all the graphic novels at my local library branch that I actually want to read which means it's time to get into the inter-library loan game. What are your favorite graphic novels and what do you like about them? I need rec's to put in the library requests.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 13/07/2025
This is the best way of describing Lessons in Magic and Disaster that anybody has come up with so far and I am like... ...I guess I wrote that??? 😳🥰
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We are attuned to the idea cold can kill but somehow still think we can just tough out heat without help. This is incorrect. Heat will kill just as surely as cold, and it will kill at shockingly low temperatures when humidity gets involved because your body cannot efficiently cool itself.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 13/07/2025
An incredible song on an unlikely topic: North Face puffers! (Just trust me on this—once you’re past the first few seconds it’s an utter delight!)
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 13/07/2025
A really thoughtful essay on Murderbot: ‘Even If They Are My Favourite Human’: Murderbot Just Explained Boundaries countercurrents.org/2025/07/even...
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‘Even If They Are My Favourite Human’: Murderbot Just Explained Boundaries | Countercurrents
Murderbot might seem like another sci-fi show about robots and space missions. But it turned out to be one of the most emotionally resonant shows in recent memory. The Apple TV+ series is based on All...
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I've got such great news
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Bats are feasting on invasive spotted lanternflies, Rutgers researcher says
As it turns out, New Jersey residents can help the situation by installing a bat house.
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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
re-sharing this terrific article on what's good about Blakes 7
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I didn't expect the #Murderbot finale to hit so hard and land so perfect "Often, as an actor, you try to get those tears, but this is very much the opposite, where I was desperately trying to keep them in. I blew a couple of takes because I started crying." collider.com/murderbot-fi...
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Alexander Skarsgård Breaks Down the "Messy and Complicated" 'Murderbot' Finale: "I Quite Enjoyed That Murderbot Didn't End Up Having Answers"
Skarsgård also discusses Murderbot's biggest relationships, why he likes the finale's open ending, and more.
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 13/07/2025
A UK student has identified a new Cretaceous mammal, Novaculadon mirabilis, from a 145-million-year-old jawbone in Dorset. Its sharp teeth suggest it was an omnivore that lived alongside dinosaurs. ⚒️🦴🧪 #Paleontology #Novaculadon #FossilDiscovery #Cretaceous www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...
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New species of tiny Cretaceous mammal discovered by University of Portsmouth student
A Portsmouth palaeontology student's fieldwork discovery reveals a 145-million-year-old prehistoric mammal from the Dorset coast.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 13/07/2025
my boy just got his first cat after a lifetime of dog ownership and hearing him talk about it is killing me. last night he told me he was worried the cat is spending so much time looking out windows that “he’s becoming an iPad Kid but for windows”
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 13/07/2025
Step 1: Enter darkened room, try to pick up blanket on floor to put it in laundry basket Step 2: Why is the blanket saying "Meep?" Step 3: Turn on light
a black cat on a navy-blue blanket, in a darkened room. nothing really visible to the casual viewer. to the attentive viewer: a pair of eyes in the middle of the blanket.SURPRISE there's a black cat on the blanket (which itself is on a floral patterned rug). there is also a cat toy on the blanket.
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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 13/07/2025
One of the things I really love about @neolithicsheep.bsky.social is how much he loves animals. That said, I did not expect to come outside and discover he'd bought a filter and water fountain for the tree frog that has taken up residence in the $10 kiddie pool we bought for the puppy.
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