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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 59m

I had a dream I was chasing a young bird in the park, trying to decide if it could fly or not or needed rescuing.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 3h

Hej all, one of own needs some help if you have something extra. Tough times for everyone.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.

People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Marfa Tymchenko (Ukraine, 1922-2009) Evening Stars, 2005 Oil on canvas | 70 × 41 cm

For her foundational contributions to Ukrainian culture, she was awarded the prestigious Taras Shevchenko National Prize in 2000.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last night I finished the Forge & Fracture saga by @brittanyacts.bsky.social Good fun YA-- fae, Orisha, Shakespeare, diverse representation, fun queer throuples-- what is there not to love? If this is what you are in the mood for, then this is exactly the thing. #booksky 💙📚

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me to my cats at 1:00am-- "Jail! Jail for 1000 years!" They were playing some indescribable game of bumper cars by dragging their plastic food bowls around the stone floor in the kitchen and crashing them together.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"A period of wrenching social change is often characterized by anxiety. People feel lost and impotent; living in medias res, they cannot see the direction their society is taking but experience its subterranean transformation in incoherent, sporadic ways." Karen Armstrong, The Bible: A Biography 💙📚

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"From the very beginning, people feared that a written scripture encouraged inflexibility and unrealistic, strident certainty." Karen Armstrong, The Bible: A Biography #booksky 💙📚

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I haven't read any Karen Armstrong in a long time. Just finished The Bible: A Biography and I remember how much I love her voice. Insisting on a religion which teaches primarily compassion. #booksky 💙📚

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had a dream I could breathe fire, but I could not do it reliably.

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 24/09/2026

A new issue of Neon & Smoke is out, and one of my body horror story (cw) is part of it! Check out the issue and my story! The Arachnitect of Jaala-Ghar neonandsmoke.com/september-sm... #WritingCommunity #NewStory #Horror #BookSky #Horror

A story card with my photograph on top half (black and white photo of a bearded man wearing glasses)

And below is details.

Neon & Smoke
In this issue
Suvajeet Duttagupta
"The arachnitect of Jaala-Ghar" — fiction
September Smoke
Half genre • Always lit

Read it at neonandsmoke.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

iankduncan.com

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had a dream last night which has been haunting me all day. In the dream I was at this house with this perfect family with antique furniture and pleasant women in swirling skirts. And they were throwing a party for me. I was stunned and not sure why they would do this.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm learning how to cut matboard by hand and boy am I not good at it.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today I'm low key lazy and running errands.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are two doors to enter the living room/dining room space. One cat has figured out both doors go into the room. The other cat? Bless his heart.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 25/09/2026

Tonight I went to get some crow in front of moon footage, which I've gotten 2 decent videos of in my over a year attempting. Instead of Moon-in-focus I focused on the tree they normally come by - that didn't work, but I did get 49 frames of this small group of some other bird, and stacked them. 🪶

a dozen or so birds flying around the moon, but their movements tracked over 49 stills, merged into one

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Arriving in Copenhagen airport, I only had ten minutes until my train, so I had a Danish hot dog. The big bearded man at the stand teased me for not drinking beer with it. This is such a Kastrup moment.

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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the summer of 2026 russian attacks destroyed 13 million books in Ukraine. Perhaps this line will make it into history books. Today, I saw the program aimed at supporting small Ukrainian publishers. Please read, and maybe you’ll become a donor too. foundation.kse.ua/en/projects/...

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Counting my blessings: The light in my house Greek food with good friends A super sweet card from a young friend

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s got to be a business case in bringing a human centered Internet back somehow. I just watched my first AI generated short drama and my was it terrible.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enough grumpy posting. Please accept this fragment of William Morris 1896 ‘Compton’ wallpaper designed JH Dearle

Compton was originally designed as wallpaper by J.H. Dearle in 1895 for Compton Hall in Wolverhampton the country home of Laurence Hodson. It bears all the hallmarks of a classic Dearle pattern and the two colourways hark back to the original.

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s nearly irritating how often the advice of sleep and exercise works. Yesterday I took a grumpy little walk. Today I’ll go for a grumpy little jog.

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Born 19 Sep 1928, actor Adam West. Of all the Batmans, he is definitely my favourite. Producer William Dozier cast West as Batman in the tv series in part after seeing West perform as the James Bond-like spy Captain Q in a Nestlé Quik commercial. The Batman series ran for 3 years. #AdamWest

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can’t get up and practice self care because my cat with three brain cells has attached himself to my lap. Blame him for the scroll fest.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I was depressed in the past, my dogs would cuddle me extra hard. I’m pretty sure that’s because they knew they’d get extra cuddles. But still. When I am depressed, my neurotic cat gets depressed too. And poops on the couch out of anxiety. I miss my dogs.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin. (1/2)

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I slept for ten hours and feel so much better. It has been a seriously shitty week, but I’m finding my feet.

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moonbird 𓅇 ☾your dreams matter☽ @moonbird.us · 19/09/2026

When stars shine through the trees

Trees at night illuminated by a fading campfire with starlight poking through, unedited

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 17/09/2026

one thing about me is that i will absolutely be the bigger person…in the sense that i will become a giant bitch :)

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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale) @belovedsnail.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have never felt the universe (or God) to be subtle in its messages. I can’t decide if that is a blessing or a curse. ‘Turn the Page’ says the world. And eventually I do.

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