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Billy2Names

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dabbler in modular synthesis, writing first trilogy of seven novels that include cats and people that live a long time in a transformed America.

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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 02/10/2026
One month from Election Day, President Donald Trump’s long-running pressure campaign over elections is approaching a decisive moment. buff.ly/N8opO3n
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Anxiety is growing Trump may try to disrupt the midterm elections. States are prepping. • Oregon Capital Chronicle
This story was originally published on NewsFromTheStates.com, part of States Newsroom.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sigmar Polke, Watchtower, 1984 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Fractional and promised gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
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A lil Gremlin @krispyhazelnut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wool it arrived!! Crimson after hours. @stjepansejic.bsky.social @lindasejic.bsky.social
Hardcover book "Crimson after hours". By Stjepan Sejic and Linda SejicPrints, postcard, bookmark and stickers of characters by Stjepan Sejic and Linda Sejic
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With my other head on:
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Richard Serra, Equal, 2015 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of Sidney and Harriet Janis (by exchange), Enid A. Haupt Fund, and Gift of William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. J. Hall (by exchange)
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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ugh look at this beautiful rose *_*
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Kit @skeletonpup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why do they always INSIST on keeping their positions of power and influence? Does that not set off alarm bells????
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Kit @skeletonpup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why can't they ever be rehabilitated grocery store workers? rehabilitated bank workers? rehabilitated retail workers? Why do they always have to keep their platform of hundreds of thousands of people? I just don't fucking understand man
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Kit @skeletonpup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Idk I just really can't stop thinking about how if he actually felt sorry and centered his victim's feelings in any of this, why didn't he even one time stop and think "wait, what if I go viral while making video essays and what if she sees my face and it makes her feel retraumatized?"
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy weekend! 🐺👅 🎥Watch our wolves live on our webcams: nywolf.org/meet-our-wolves/webcams
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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Raccoonosaurus at the water bowl. ❤️🦝❤️ #mammals
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/10/2026
Ate them. They were okay. If you want the actual chickeny flavor (and being barely a whisper at that), twist it and just eat one of the wafers without the filling. Otherwise, the maple-y filling flavor is really the dominant note.
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Pablo Picasso @pablopicasso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Woman sitting in an armchair botfrens.com/collections/111/conten…
Woman sitting in an armchair
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
War is target fixation. War is concrete cicatrix. War is an unbanishable ghost. Hookland knows this. It pillboxes remain manifestations of invasion fears. The abandoned sound mirrors of its salt marshes still listen out for phantom planes. There is no psychic peace. – #DAKilory
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/10/2026
One month until release day! Avoid the chaotic release day rush by preordering it today at your favorite bookseller (and yes you can preorder the audiobook too)! Also, if you are in the Midwest of the United States, come see me on my book tour, details at link: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/17/a...
The cover of Monsters of Ohio, with a cute knitted Cthulhu up on top!
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 03/10/2026
Happy #caturday
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:
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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
George, International Cat of Mystery, ponders the wisdom of venturing out in autumn weather to secure the perimeter and subdue hostiles vs coopting avian allies and accepting visual surveillance reports in exchange for bird-feeder access
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Çaturday Surveillance
George, International Cat of Mystery, ponders the wisdom of venturing out in autumn weather to secure the perimeter vs simply accepting visual surveillance reports from avian allies...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
some photos from that extraordinary stretch of bob straub state patk
mist with sand path reedsfluff puff white flower buzhsandy wide pathmist over ridge
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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, it may be in the 80's and sunny here today but it is also officially Winter as we have our first dark-eyed Junco in the garden. Over the next few weeks more will come in and they'll stay until Spring. #birds
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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🌿🛡️🌿'Elfin Knight' - by Brian Froud. #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Joaquim Gomis (Mural) www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_de…
Joaquim Gomis (Mural)
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goodnight from the women of Weychester, marching the night with torches and placards reading: WEREWOLVES LIVE AMONG US. Goodnight from the Lightfoot Travelling Curiosity Show, its punters journeying home sure they’ve seen spirits trapped in bell jars. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Liana Kangas @lianakangas.com · 21/06/2025
28 Years Later (2025)
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ilya Bolotowsky, Oval Painting, 1955 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your moment of calm
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CPW has temporarily suspended lethal wolf removals. The decision comes amid concerns that the state’s wolf population may not grow this biological year, along with potential evidence of an infectious parasite that could affect wolf survival. 🔗Read more: ow.ly/aXll50ZTCk9
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Colorado to stop killing wolves amid worries over falling population, parasites and low pup counts
CPW says it will continue to work with ranchers to mitigate wolf attacks but that it must address low adult wolf survival rate and pup survival rate expected to fall
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
U2: Carnaval De Luz - their new album (with help from Brian Eno) will be released on November 12 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026
I will be forever grateful to @tristanelwell.bsky.social for his Starter Villain cover art. The moment we all saw it we were all, "Oh, we're gonna sell a LOT of this one." And we were right! Authors, please use Tristan for all your cover art needs.
The cover of Starter Villain, which features a delightful business cat.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Goodnight from Martin Winstanley, run away from home to play tag with ghosts in S.D. Halfwood’s wrecking yard. Goodnight from PC Dash and PC Pell, not sure whether to radio control with news that their panda car has been pelted by flints thrown by Faeries. Goodnight from Hookland.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Joan Miró, Mural Painting, Barcelona, October 18, 1950-January 26, 1951 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look at that lawd dem rings shit right there
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is thrilling. Some initial evidence of hybridization among coexisting seabirds. In this case, you can clearly a cormorant head on, basically, a pelican body. Groundbreaking if I can find more examples. But even as a one-off, it's pretty cool.
a cormorant with a pelican body and other pelicans around on a rock. maybe.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
we all lyve for a yawninge chubmarine
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Étretat, gate and cliff of Aval - 1864 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chubmarine so cute. Chubmarine have no cares.
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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St. Agatha) botfrens.com/collections/109/conten…
“After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St. Agatha)” by Gustav Klimt depicts a serene garden scene where chickens roam freely on a lush, green lawn beneath tall trees. Unlike his typical ornamental and symbolic style, this piece reflects Klimt’s interest in landscapes, showcasing a peaceful countryside setting.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kay Sage, Hyphen, 1954 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Purchase
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 02/10/2026
This past year I figured out how to screen record, and captured my process for coloring my illustrations in Photoshop. I put a flat color layer under my line art, scan and overlay my own watercolor texture, then adjust hue, color balance, and levels until I get it to look the way I want.
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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We met this very old oak tree *_*
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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Guess we got engayged 🌈
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An illustration done mostly with digital colored pencils. Ok, so we have a wooden coffin in the classic top-heavy hexagon shape. The coffin is propped up at an angle on nothing against a background of gray-blue paint splatters as a spooky sheet ghost rises out of it. Although it’s not a real sheet as it’s translucent and there’s nothing inside of it except a gape-mouthed green skull in the approximate head position within the sheet. The ghost is wearing a big. floppy, black witch’s hat and there’s a little brown bat hanging down from the wide brim. The ghost’s arms are extended holding a jack o’ lantern with a one-toothed frowny face carved into it. Popping out of the jack o’ lantern is a a black cat with green eyes balancing the cap of the pumpkin on his head. And on the stem of the pumpkin cap is a very serious-looking brown speckled owl. A series of spooky speech balloons is chained together around all this , each balloon containing one word and associating back tot he spooks and creatures named in the reverse order listed. The lettering in the balloons is red and drippy and reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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heute jedoch nicht @heutejedochnicht.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Meta-Adbusting in der Londoner U-Bahn
Jeffrey Epstein mit Ray Ban Meta-Smartglasses und Denkblase „Finally, a pair that suits me...“
Caption: „GLASSES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO CONSENT“
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re excited to officially share that the Center is undergoing a major transformation! We’re expanding our campus with new education and research spaces, enhanced ambassador wolf habitats, improved animal care facilities and more ways to connect people with wolves.🔗Read more: bit.ly/4djWQmi
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Wolf Conservation Center Breaks Ground on Full Campus Transformation
The Wolf Conservation Center (the Center) is breaking ground on a major transformation of its 32-acre campus in South Salem, New York, ushering in a new chapter for the organization and its work to secure a world where wolves thrive.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey- Boys & Girls👋! Can you guess his SECRET WORD? (Could it be: Ballroom, Helipad, Fake, News, Giant, Arch, Tremendous, Communist, Quiet, Piggy, Rigged, Putin, Illegal, Alien, Tariffs, Yuge, Natalie, Far, Left, Lunatic, Barack, Hussein, Obama, Sleepy, Joe, Crooked, Hillary, Pinky, Herman?)
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 02/10/2026
Gen Z women are more likely than Gen Z men to consider themselves feminist, identify as liberal and Democrat, support abortion access, and believe society should not return to traditional gender norms, according to the new poll.  buff.ly/20VOknN
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Here's what's driving the Gen Z gender gap • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Editor’s note: This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Brenna Vandergeest was a teenager when her grandmother told her about Dobbs v.…
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