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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 10h

The hunters haven't taken over all the back trails yet. The pack and I found a ground bee nest that had been ripped up by a bear and many giant inedible mushrooms today.

A blue sky with scattered clouds over a pond where the trees are changing color.

A ground bee nest that has been ripped up by a bear.

A ring of huge mushrooms around a decayed stump with medium-sized for scale.

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Bree | PAILBN Art @pailbn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow look. Trans people telling you this dude was shit were always right and we were told to shut up and that we are are the ones ushering in fascism. Huh. Whoddah thunk? Interesting how this keeps happening.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This mighty beast showed up at the foot of my front steps. Should I be building an ark?

A snapping turtle hatchling on the palm of a hand.

A snapping turtle hatchling on a red towel contemplating a leaf of lettuce.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I went out on the state land to hunt mushrooms today. I ended up finding kittens.

Two white and gray kittens with faint tabby markings and gold eyes. They are hanging out on the emergency blankets in the back of the car.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am astonished that the Republicans were telling the truth about Mitch McConnell technically being alive.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We walked the mushroom trail today but found nothing edible. The trail is an old road made of logs and wood chips through the state land. It is host to a wide variety of fruiting bodies in the late summer and early fall.

A small black and tan dog walking past some off-white tiny puffballs.

A humanlike hand next to a speckled yellowish flat mushroom.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do any game coders want to team up for an Asteroids or Breakout-style game with my dice files? I have some experience with simplifying the models and creating new texture files for them in Blender. I don't know where to begin with the physics.

Renders of dice from the Intangle, Thorn V2, Overstuffed, Botanical, and HypnoTech sets in colors ranging from light violet to dark teal.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've been traversing the umbral spaces between dreams and backroads again.

A shed travelling a paved road at twilight.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My bottle labels came in today. It's surprisingly difficult to take a good picture of them between the gold foil and curved surface.

A blue liquor bottle reclining on a wooden surface. The label features gold lettering and illustrations of clitoria turnitea flowers and vines. The label reads "Dor'Phin, The Blue Flame, 30% ABV, Made in MI".

A blue liquor bottle on a concrete surface. The label features gold lettering and illustrations of clitoria turnitea flowers and vines. The label reads "Dor'Phin, The Blue Flame, 30% ABV, Made in MI".

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My dad and I watch TV with the subtitles on, and the subtitle engineers are nice enough to let us know when the birds are chirping. He wanted me to make him a t-shirt to let everyone know the birds are chirping: madebywombat.threadless.com/designs/subt...

madebywombat.threadless.com

Subtitle Men's T-Shirt | Made by Wombat's Artist Shop

Subtitle on Men's T-Shirt – If it weren't for the subtitles, would you know the birds are chirping?

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The nature preserve is recovering from our six week dry spell. The beaver pond was dry last week, but it has a couple of feet of water this week. The turtles were out and seemed to be in good spirits.

A painted turtle in defense mode on a rocky path.

Three dogs on a grassy path that bisects a wooded area.

The Maple River viewed from the top of a dike.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No new data centers until we have federal guardrails.

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DJ Uncle Fishbits @unclefishbits.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Being unknown is the new celebrity. Bo Burnham suggested that if you can live a life without an audience, you should do it. Being completely unimportant is such a freedom. Not mattering makes life so much less of a burden.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It doesn't happen very often but every time I come across a photo of Moby I feel like something's missing so this time I fixed it

Moby with a drawn-in ginger goatee, looking to my mind very much like Rusty Venture of The Venture Bros. TV show.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was browsing through the episode list of the new BritBox series "Gone" and noticed that the first three episodes are included with my BritBox subscription. The last three episodes require me to upgrade to BritBox Premier. Fuck you, BritBox. Or sod off, I guess?

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Visited by a rare Lake Huron Seal.

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Bree | PAILBN Art @pailbn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Literally every day is just seeing people begging for help with basic necessities and we’re supposed to pretend everything is fine and that there’s any more money, time, or labor that can be extracted from us.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Testing the new carousel feature with some old illustrations from Vasty Wilds.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The goblin minis from the first Kickstarter are still in my painting backlog, so of course I'll have to back this one to fill out my goblin crew. #goblinlife

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We walked the north end of the Winter Green trail in search of oyster mushrooms. Oysters are often bountiful in this area, but I think the early summer has been too dry. No shrooms, but it was a good long hike.

Three dogs on a sun-dappled two-track in a sandy but green forest.

Elka the tan dog on a scruffy brown couch.

Zo the corn gremlin sitting on rocks and grass.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I had a good time dogsitting Gibbs this afternoon while his people were out of town. He has boundless energy and loves stick-wrasslin'.

A large black dog on sparsely-grassed, sun-dappled ground with lush green foliage in the background.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My nostalgia and Big Ice Cream have lied to me. The supposed "Fun Dip" for ice cream cones is warm, tasteless wax that makes the ice cream melt faster. And it costs extra!

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It's that time again in Michigan.

A yellow arrow sign indicating a "T" in the road above a square orange sign reading, "Road Work Ahead".

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

An under-explored science fiction concept: What if the aliens arrive and they smell terrible? They could be a wise, pacifistic, impeccably ethical, and otherwise pleasant species, but could we take them seriously if they smell like rancid BO?

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/05/2026

the fuck it will

A white man in a business suit pointing a handgun at an open laptop

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This fella wanted to fight to the death on my basement steps. I scooted him into a coffee can and rehomed him to the daisy planter.

A Great Lakes Anaconda (Eunectes michigandii) on a concrete slab.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The water was high and the geese were feisty today.

Three dogs on a grassy path next to a still pond. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Every year I check this patch of State land for morels, and every year I come up empty. It's a good spot for oyster mushrooms and maitake though. It's also the only patch I have visited this season that's not swarming with ticks.

A grassy meadow under a blue sky with wispy white clouds. There are trees at the top of the hill and two dogs in the middle distance.

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Bees 🎃🍄🍂 @voiceofkosh.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I think it all started going downhill when they stopped putting toys in cereal.

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Planets and Nebulae Backdrops book isn't just for sci-fi. But gosh it frames your models so well. Here we see it in the larger A3 size. It's available now. #jhbackdrops handiwork.games/product-cate...

A photo of a cute robot model against a Planets and Nebulae Backdrop

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I saw a "Support our Troops in Iran" lawn sign today. The grifters and propagandists have cut the turnaround time on war merch to record lows.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My friends and I started playing Magic again after more than a decade. I didn't like any of the playmats I saw online, so I had to make my own. If you like them too, they are available in two sizes in my Threadless shop: madebywombat.threadless.com/accessories/... #mtg #magic #tabletopgaming

Three Magic: The Gathering playmats, roughly 32" x 16", fanned out on a wooden table.

Two boxes labeled "Artifacts/Enchantments" and "Exile" overlaid on a map of Yosemite.

Various card zone boxes overlaid on an arch of stars.

A closeup of card zone boxes overlaid on the Orion nebula.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I don't know if I can handle this torrent of Perry Johnson ads until August. Are the ads an intentional attempt to erode our sanity? Step back from the camera for fucks sake.

Michigan Gubernatorial candidate Perry Johnson with his They Live face all the way out.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/03/2026

why is a war criminal genocidal leader in another country telling us this

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

FYI, I contain about half a multitude.

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I used to hop on to Facebook once a week to see how my extended family was doing. I'd scroll down my timeline until I was served an AI slop post, then log off. There are now AI prompt buttons on every post. EVERY POST. All y'all are now in charge of letting me know if one of my relatives dies.

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Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I think making up little guys is good for your mental health, everyone should make up characters and then spend time daydreaming about them

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 15/02/2026

finally painted the dumbest 3D sculpt i’ve made to date #art

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

My quest for fresh galangal in the Lansing area has proven fruitless (rootless?). Does anyone have tips on any markets that have it in Michigan?

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Chuck Stover @ceramicwombat.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Another five-star review of my Forest Kingdom Coin dice set (shared with the permission of the customer). Yay! There are still a couple of sets available in my Etsy shop. Time to order more pewter ingots. #dice #rpg #dnd

A screenshot of a review of the Forest Kingdom Coin Dice set. The photo is of a gaming mat with the silvery metal coin dice and some standard plastic gaming dice. The review says, "Very well made product. I was looking for coin dice for my dnd character that uses silver coins for his patron Charon. 10/10 product."

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