baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 8hBeen ages since I stitched anything. Fun to just play around w thread. Tho, I recently grew my nails for guitar, and long nails make threading a needle impossibly frustrating. 000
Reposted by baezilJason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Spotted Lanternflies… should you squish ‘em? 🧪 45628
Reposted by baezilSarah W. @silvercypher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#ECTOCOMP2026 is coming soon! Starting October 1, submit your creepy, horrifying, or spooky-sweet seasonal interactive fiction. Then we can celebrate all the games on October 31 when the entries are revealed! More info here: itch.io/jam/ectocomp...itch.ioECTOCOMP 2026A game jam from 2026-10-01 to 2026-11-30 hosted by rubereaglenest, Passerine & alyshkalia. "...the witches, who came from the kingdom's most remote corners to gather on certain nights of the year with... 1119
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Aaaand I posted without alt-text. All images are covers of the books referenced, and they aren't adding any info not conveyed by the text. 000
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That was Sept! Let's see what I'm able to get to in Oct. Going to go back to IF and school assignments this month, but I plan to read Bring Up the Bodies and maybe get to some nonfiction. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett. Kaiju biopunk fantasy detectives, neat! I liked how RJB builds his world: no rush, just enough info to contextualize the plot and keep you curious. For a fantasy novel, very restrained. Tore through it, really fun stuff. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wolf Worm, by T. Kingfisher. The weakest of her "woman goes to rural south, spooky things occur" (Hollow Places is my fav) series, but I'd read a hundred of them if she wanted to keep writing them. The twist was a real "well, okay then" moment, but it was a fun & fast spooky season read. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Word for World is Forest, by UK Leguin (prob my favorite author). She grew to dislike this one, said it was too simplistically angry. It's not as complex as LHoD or even Earthsea, maybe, but as I'm angry about the same things she was in '72, this was cathartic. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I read Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury as a teen, reread this month. Re: vintage sexism, "Women are warm clocks, nested in time" is a phrase I'll unfortunately never forget, but I appreciated the thesis that the fear of missing out makes you easily exploited. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. I'd not read her before. I loved the 3rd person present, semi-non-linear voice. The associative narrative flow plays with memory in a way I loved. Really great book. Was I confusing Thomas and Oliver Cromwell until p. 300? Who can say. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A Fire upon the Deep, a 90s novel by Vernor Vinge. Classic scifi vibe w.out vintage misogyny & racism. Loved the nonhuman species & the book's fascination with the commodification/weaponization of information & IT infrastructure. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I spent a LOT of the last year writing things, mostly IF games & library science master's assignments, and I was feeling pretty creatively drained. Made a real effort this month to start reading again, & thought I'd share what I read! 100
Reposted by baezilAdam Pritchett @ajpritchett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Stitchtober N°1 — Beast 👻 So happy to be back doing #stitchtober after a few years break, I really enjoyed stitching this lil bat creature, it’s been so fun doing colourful Halloween stuff again 🦇 #halloween #stitchtober2026 15810
Reposted by baezilDrew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Continued discussion of the RE fangame in Inform. I'm trying to work my way toward a system of initiative (i.e., deciding who gets to act first), but it's tricky. topexpert.blog/2026/09/28/w...topexpert.blogThoughts on an initiative system for Inform.Some basic design discussion for RPG mechanics using the Inform programming language. 031
Reposted by baezilGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 204190225429
Reposted by baezilFawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Merry Autumn! 🍂 To celebrate, I thought I'd reshare my finished Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite marionette. 5392114
Reposted by baezilIsopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just found out my favorite flannel's pocket has a strict one rat limit. 211901393
Reposted by baezilIsopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Here she's throwing hands with a ramshorn snail (dont think the snail noticed/cared). She doesn't seem to perceive anything smaller than a bladder snail, hasn't touched any scuds. However she will charge me whenever I walk up to my computer, has tried to fight my hand, my net, and a turkey baster 61347
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Unscientific human exceptionalism always bugged me, even as a kid. It's now no longer an irritation; the world is being burned for short-term profit under the guise of some unique human right and need. Can we ditch these unsupported biases and start encouraging kinship with the nonhuman? 030
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This should be a story about how much our brains, the organ we use to experience the world and form thoughts about it and ourselves, share even with deep sea invertebrates. What about this makes us distinctly human?! 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The *applications* have human significance (the research is really interesting!); the discovery is really about a deeply shared developmental history. The way it's framed is frankly misleading. 110
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 22/09/20268 paragraphs later: "The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos." Ah, there it is. 6 paragraphs after that: "They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and, remarkably, in acorn worms[...] that share a distant common ancestor with humans." 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So is this a unique trait of the human brain? That seems very, very unlikely, but this science communicator states that the research is a discovery about the human brain and about a structure/development that makes is "distinctly human"! This is huge! This is bizarre! This is... not true. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Paragraph 3: "The new research finding shows that the human brain consists of two ancient nervous systems [...]a more primitive part [...] and another that makes us distinctly human, capable of poetry, mathematics and wondering about our own origins. 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just read this article. Neat stuff, but something stuck out to me early on about how it was presented.med.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 100
Reposted by baezilEle Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The #sciArtSeptember prompt is star-shaped. 🧪 My lino block print of two Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on 8” x 8” (20 cm x 20 cm) delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. A common sea star, 17924
Reposted by baezilKarla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 111406591
Reposted by baezilChris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ve seen it >100 times, but I’ve never been about to capture it until now. Presumably, it is spawning (but I can’t be positive). But what is the green cloud, and what is the smaller blue squiggly??? #blackwater, #blackwaterdiving #polychaete 819960
Reposted by baezilGalling, @galling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gall of the week is caused by the sawfly Euura herbaceae on dwarf willow, Salix herbacea. From the British Plant Gall Society website, Photographer unknown. 0366
Reposted by baezilinvertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I think house centipedes should be considered good luck to see, even if people don’t like them I think they should be universally recognized as a bringer of fortune and prosperity. 1840070
Reposted by baezilDrew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Introducing Infocom's "Bureaucracy," a game that went through a very rough development. It is seldom discussed today, though it can be quite forward-looking. golmac.org/bureaucracy-...golmac.orgAn introduction to Infocom's "Bureaucracy."A critical introduction to Infocom's ill-fated "Bureaucracy." 293
Reposted by baezilSophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Cannot emphasize enough a thing I learned about caribou today which is that you reverentially stand the requisite 30m away from some caribou and then turn around and another caribou has moved much closer than 30m to you 0294
Reposted by baezilMarburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oh my. This Clouded Yellow has just let me photograph it on my phone. Just look at the colour of its eye 😁 So glad this beautiful butterflies have turned up on patch this year. 421737
Reposted by baezilinvertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Take a stroll along a mossy log with this Euryurus leachii, one of eastern North America’s beautiful native millipedes. 9531139
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This recurring adver- I mean news cycle of snake oil salesmen running around warning us of the dangerous power and potency of their beautiful snakeoil is so gd tiring. 000
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Staying spooky, I also played Skeletrom Crew on the Loose! My personal fav so far, this one's a spooky bedtime story for adults, a cozy essence of halloween specials & novelty songs spiced with truly weird imagery and Beowulf references. It's endlessly charming. Also, Kyle's there, ugh.3290.play.ifcomp.orgSkeletrom Crew On The Loose! 000
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There's Necromanceers, which is like lesbian necromancers in space. It's not officially a Locked Tomb fan game, but the vibes are strong. Collect dead peoples' names, summon them to wreck your enemies, see the many different endings the author wrote. Really impressive!3363.play.ifcomp.orgNecromanceers 100
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There's Quackpond, which is a loving, melancholy tribute to the strange, messy intimacy of being on a small passion-project website in the earlier days of the web. Really well done, very short, highly recommend.3285.play.ifcomp.orgQuackpond 200
baezil @baezil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026#IFComp is happening for the next month or so. Lots of very creative people have made some very creative games. I thought I'd share some short reviews of some of the games I've played! 120
Reposted by baezilJavier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Concept for book cover. The book subject is about how the environment shapes brain connections and how animals adapt to the environment through behavior. The mammal species is the owl monkey. #sciart #art 19820
Reposted by baezilfranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I don't check my redbubble enough to notice sales but how did this old shitpost suddenly become one of the highest selling pieces in my entire store lmao #Art #SciArt www.redbubble.com/i/poster/THE... 17520131
Reposted by baezilMeg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I say this because previously I saw phd cohorts as big as 20-30 students. These last few years they’ve been reduced to 3-5, or 0. Damn good scientists used to be included with the best & most accomplished. Not so much anymore. If I had just been born a few years earlier… I’d be in no problem 0102
