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Today's nap-dream involved attempting to contain a serial killer (unsuccessfully) and I woke up with my heartrate double normal. My brain does not appear to comprehend the idea of *resting* during nap. C'mon, dude. You're missing the whole point here. I don't even like slasher flicks!

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 10h

I haz a Rhell! Been meaning to pick it up for a while. Check out the most excellent sale if you like inventive-solution puzzles.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 10h

My ballet knowledge *does* in fact begin and end with Nutcracker (and barely that), but some of the performances in this thread now have my attention. Giselle and Dracula especially.

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“E.C. Horror” Myers @ecmyers.com · 17h

"It’s magical; I walk into a bare room, and when I walk out, I’m somewhere else that looks pretty much the same. Except for that one world, with the pteranodons . . ." Multiverse matchmaking—what could possibly go wrong? Find out in my story "Carbon Dating," fresh at @morningtransport.bsky.social!

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 02/10/2026

“My husband is home again." This House of Hopes, This House of Bones by Cynthia Zhang Narrator: Kitty Sarkozy Host: Scott Campbell Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2026/10/02/p... This story is a PseudoPod original. C/W: domestic violence, murder

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PseudoPod 1050: This House of Hopes, This House of Bones

My husband is home again. I cannot hear him well, not with the ringing in my ears and the throbbing headache making every movement agony, but the ghosts keep me informed. There he is…

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 23h

I really need to get some work done but I keep one-more-chaptering Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning. I usually wait until I finish a book to say something about it, but this is fantastic.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Congratulations to Rati Mehrotra! “The Teleporting Disaster Fairy” is a 2026 WSFA Small Press Award Finalist! You can read it here! buff.ly/J2pHgC3

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick. One moment she was brushing her teeth in front of the bathroom mirror in her apartment in Toronto, wishing she had the money to go on vacation, and the next moment she was thrown upward,

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My newest story "Duet of Tears and Laughter" is out now at @translunartl.bsky.social! This story of two villages separated by a mirror-clear lake is full of soft feelings. It's about connection and hope and showing up in hard times. I hope you love it: translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/08/15/d...

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Duet of Tears and Laughter by Jo Miles

There exist places where the walls between worlds grow thin. Places like this one, where two villages press together like lips on opposite sides of a glass: Renna-tal and Renna-ba, both perched on …

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For fans of "found media" tales, this story is GREAT! I love how it unfolds! 🦾 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum" by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum

I am not here to talk about how i got my arm, i am looking for hel p trying to fix it . Apologies for typos the f fingers lag a lot

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

The rat-dog things in Willow. I promptly had a nightmare about being chased by them that I have never forgotten. Honorable mentions: Critters, Killer Klowns, and Lord Kuruku (Unico in the Island of Magic).

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

I've been exclusively using Libre for a decade now, and it makes a perfectly good drop-in replacement for MS Office. This lovely decision is just a cherry on that sundae.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

This is adorable. Also reminds me of the one random time I was going through an airport after a visit home and the TSA guy stopped me and said hey, I remember you, we went to (my elementary school), you were a couple years ahead of me. You never know who might remember you, decades later.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

Nap-dreams are a whole Thing, goddamn. One with my dead mother (very much alive in the dream) having a whole meltdown rant at my long-suffering father. One that was for damn sure some eggshell-chipping. I just wanted a nap, brain. I just wanted a nice restful nap.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

Second time in a row this has happened. Last time it was subtle and there were So Many Maggots before I noticed. I guess "even worse this time" is actually better? Souring pretty hard on Chewy at this point. And really not in the mood to wade through their AI helpchat.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is Huckleberry, an animal ambassador at the Nashville Zoo. Huckleberry is a Javan ferret-badger (Melogale orientalis) & I think he is amazing, but you need to meet the rest of the ferret-badger crew (babies incoming 😃). Let's learn about ferret-badgers!

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

"Alt text is contextual" means if I post a photo of my dog with a toy on a thread or forum about digital photo editing, my alt text is going to very briefly skim over the details of my dog and the toy and I'm going to describe other qualities of the image, like background blur, sharpness, tint, etc.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

Random facts added to my notes vault today (French, which is sadly lacking so far): "WTF is 'jour' coming from? That's nothing like any word for 'day' I know in Romance lang--" Etymology: Latin 'diurnum.' Ah-HAH. It's just a jour- vs. diur- thing. Bonus fact: Journal is the same root!

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 03/10/2026

Stress levels never really drop these days, but at least I have cats. This one is *utterly obsessed* with being brushed right now, and cat, I really need to work. I know you're using the Brush button constantly because I keep saying no to Kibble and Treat, but-- --that *face*. #Caturday

A black and white cat making a squinty-eyed, slightly jaw-dropped, bristle-whiskered face of bliss while having the top of her head brushed with a cylindrical-type brush.

Same mostly-white-faced cat with eyes completely closed and face forward, little teefies visible in the little gape between a smudged black chin and a pure black nose pad, head tipped up into the path of the brush.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hate that AI has removed curiosity and rabbit holes for people. No don't ask that damn bot, instead spend four hours reading everything you can on a weird topic and getting lost in tangents like nature intends!

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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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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 01/10/2026

This guy is DESPERATLY cute. (And yeah, fierce...)

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With alt text. I yelled

INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works.

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind.

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast.

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a new short story out today, in Ginan! ginanstories.substack.com/p/the-stone-...

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The Stone Walk by Kathleen Jennings

What is the cost of prosperity in an unforgiving land?

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 25/09/2026

River's an active dreamer and often startles herself awake with growling or hissing, but this is the first time I've seen her bush out her tail in her sleep. (My reaching for the phone woke her.) No idea if it was a scary dream or an exciting one; awake, she puffs up for both.

A dilute tortoiseshell cat curled up in a sleepy ball on a pillow. Her tail is partially floofed.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 25/09/2026

It's River's gotcha day! Eight years since I met her at the shelter, where the staff kept letting her out to run around because she was hanging off the cage door yelling her head off. Now she just catapults herself up doorframes and the various climbing towers, when she's not stealing my chair.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Get in loser, we're tilting at windmills! countercraft.substack.com/p/the-roots-...

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The Roots of the Novel Are Parody, Pastiche, and Play

On reading Don Quixote in 2026

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 25/09/2026

The bubble 'n squeak turned out looking like a dog's breakfast, but it's not how it looks that counts, now is it? (It's delicious.) And the honey-bacon-cheddar cornbread worked out just fine too. 🍜

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 25/09/2026

Decades of World of Darkness... mostly Werewolf (Bastet and Corax in particular). But if I'm picking just one of the systems as a favorite, it is hands down Changeling the Lost. It just really captures *Fae*. In the "It will twist your identity and drive you mad" sort of way.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 24/09/2026

I've just heard Kathy Mar passed away yesterday. Her music provided so much color to my college years. Merlin, Forty Thousand in Gehenna, The Word of God.... And my favorite, an anthem for programmers: World Inside the Crystal. Hail the Traveler.

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World Inside the Crystal

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you feel overwhelmed as an adult? Then I've got just the trick: The Last Adult Superstore. It's got everything you need. They promise.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 23/09/2026

Random travel memories. What surprised me most about Poulnabrone was how small it actually is. I'd only seen pictures without scale and envisioned something like Stonehenge, but it's only around the height of a tall person.

Poulnabrone, an Irish stone dolmen structure in the Burren. One very large flat slab of stone rests on narrow walls constructed of other upright slabs, surrounded by a landscape like a puzzle of flat rocks filled in with grassy grout.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 23/09/2026

Absolutely relentless spam calls today, good grief. And the irony of the first version of this immediately being reposted by a spambot.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Video from Maura Hennelly captures her sunbeam snake named 'Vespira' in all her glory. Sunbeam snakes (genus Xenopeltis) are non-venomous snakes from SE Asia that kill small prey (frogs, rodents) by constricting. They burrow through soft dirt or leaf litter in humid jungles. (📷:@maurahennelly IG)

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 23/09/2026

Judge who has had Enough Of This Bullshit is my new favorite genre.

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Worms & Bones @homemadehorrors.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy Mothman Monday! I forgot to post this lurk of mothmans earlier, but they'll all be in the shop tomorrow at 1pm est. #art #artdoll #mothman #handmade #furryart

A pumpkin spice coloured mothman art doll. They have tiny clawed hands atop wings, long leggies and four clawed owl-like feet with scales. This one is a combination of pumpkin colours and cream with matte yellow eyes.

A jack o'lantern coloured mothman art doll. Their body is the dark brown of a dried stem, with a gold fur flecked with orange, an their face is a brilliant pumpkin orange with poison green eyes.

A classic black mothman doll holds up a crochet pumpkin. Their eyes are a luminous red, and their clawed fingers suggest they're not actually offering to share the pumpkin with you.

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Villiedoom @villiedoom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

"Shared vulnerability" /We are haunted by the same nightmare, being on the different sides of it. And yet, we make it easier for each other to go through it/ Illustration for the story, and also a personal vent. #originalcharacters

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 21/09/2026

This is a dance off. If you see this, post a dance! Peter O'Toole being utterly unhinged.

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Ruling Class: Varsity Drag

YouTube video by Mike Choi

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 21/09/2026

... landlord office hours have always been 9am-1pm. Me being a night owl, I'm mostly asleep at that time of day. So I stayed up all night to go do my paperwork bright and early. Note on the door now: Hours - 1pm-5pm. Welp. The universe thinks it's funny.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 20/09/2026

And part troix: Barley chicken vegetable soup. Mirepoix, extra carrots, garlic, tomatoes, yellow squash, turnips, corn, basil, pearled barley, chicken, Florida seasoned pepper, oregano, cracked rosemary, bay, chicken powder. I should use barley more, I love the texture.

Close view of a pot full of chicken vegetable soup, with loads of visible chunks of carrot, turnip, yellow squash, barley, chicken, fresh basil, all in a light broth. A ladle lifts a big scoop of the chunks into view.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 20/09/2026

Weekend cooking part deux: Hungarian mushroom soup. One of my all-time favorites. Aside from needing a touch of salt (I suspect the recipe expects salted chicken broth), I don't mess with this one at all. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17897...

Close view of a Dutch oven full of creamy mushroom soup, with visible slices of sauteed mushroom, bits of onion, flecks of dill, and chopped parsley. Some of the mushroom chunks are lifted into view on a soup spoon.

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