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Tiny Octopus Enthusiast

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Translator and language enjoyer. No object permanence so I may disappear for random stretches. I also repost a lot, fyi. Opinions my own. Icon by @fenrishion.bsky.social

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 9h
Searchable scans of public domain art! insideoutlibrary.com
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Inside Out Library
Orbital diagrams, suits of armour, pulp sci-fi covers and wood type, from the pages of public-domain books. Free to use for anything.
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リズ @rizunm.bsky.social · 9h
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Walker Harris 🫜‬ @walkerharris.net · 9h
I don't have as deep of a history with romance as many of you, but I'm already tired of the discourse around romance as a worthy genre. However, this thread is SO MUCH more than that. Formulaicity is such an eye-opening concept for me that this thread has made me a better writer & a better reader.
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Khonri 🫜🎃 @khonri.com · 20h
I'm feeling attacked by @theonion.com but also 10/10.
"How a Book Becomes A Bestseller, The Onion demystifies the publishing process."

1. Proletariat becomes literate. 
2. Author's creative inspiration flourishes upon marrying spouse with high-earning, unethical job.
3. Author chooses magical being to have sex with, then works backwards.
4. Author lands agent by running full speed into them while holding loose-leaf copy of manuscript.
5. Penguin Random House blackmailed into seven-figure book deal.
6. Editor removes typos and originality.
7. Famous author who hasn't read book reminded they got three glowing blurbs last year from authors who hadn't read theirs.
8. Publisher contacts Merriam-Webster to license all words it's using.
9. Marketing completely misrepresents plot, tone, and author.
10. Terrified independent bookstore owners gamble their razor-thin profit margin on this one.
11. PR firm hires thousands of people through Craigslist to performatively read book on subway.
12. Colman Domingo, contractually obligated to appear in all things, voices audiobook.
13. New York Times oracle nods.
14. Book written for sole purpose of becoming movie becomes movie.
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 14h
orange pumpkins on the vine in a field, bright blue sky above
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 10h
I swear that "mountainish inhumanity" reads like Shakespeare briefly time-traveled to today before writing this, seeing the eternal inhumanity of too much of humanity continue to THRIVE. We should have learned. We should be BETTER.
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miviy @miviy19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Katsushika Hokusai Miku 🌊 #初音ミク #hatsunemiku
Digital art - fanart of Hatsune Miku Katsushika Hokusai version 葛飾北斎ミク
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23h
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Workshop opportunity (w Sam Malissa) for aspiring Japanese-English translators who can be in-person in Tokyo on Nov. 11. Deadline to apply is Oct. 9. Participation is free for those admitted 😍 www.waseda.jp/culture/wihl...
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日本語ー英語 翻訳ワークショップ 参加者募集/Call for Applications: Japanese-English literary translation workshop【2026年11月11日開催・10月9日締切】※締め切り延長しました
Call for Applications: Japanese-English literary translation workshop (Deadline: Oct. 9, 2026) ※The application deadline has been extended. ...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My newsletter is up. Eric Schmitt should be mocked and John Roberts should be hounded and I will not be persuaded otherwise. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Eric Schmitt Deserves to Be Mocked Forever
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent relives the senator’s glorious face plant. Plus: whyt John Roberts’s also deserves our mockery.
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minami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I didn't realize my name actually made it on the cover (bottom left) so I guess I can announce it now lmao... But my short story about Jun and Mei will be published in the next issue of Feel Young, on sale October 8th!😊 If you can grab a copy, please do!
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Sax! ⬇️↘️➡️➕🏳️‍⚧️ @saximus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On a related note,
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Square Enix Manga & Books @square-enix-books.com · 30/09/2026
It’s #InternationalTranslationDay! Shout out to all the translators and localizers who work super hard to help bring us stories from around the world. お疲れ様です! 🙇
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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For now, I have nothing to announce and am open for loc work. (Seriously, please DM or email me lol.) But I won't sugarcoat it: my visa expires next July and I NEED another sponsor. I'm actively searching for in-house work and may have to leave games. I badly want to stay, but it is what it is.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IT'S COZY SEASON
a drawing of a cat asleep in front of a fireplace in a cozy room
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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BenoitRc @benoitrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you see this, post some cats
Sleepy cat miniCrab Cat miniCozy Campfire with Cat Mini and Slime Cat mini
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Indicreates Art🖌️ @indicreates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mini painting 🍁
A small painting of nature
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Tiny Octopus Enthusiast @collokation.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
When we moved into the dorm freshman year my friend's very rich roommate's mother handed my friend a vacuum and was like "my daughter does not clean, so you will clean for her." These are the people we have decided should be in charge of stuff
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Btw, here's "Luceros y Penumbras", the largest pop-up book ever created, currently on view at the Los Angeles Central Library. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-T-...
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Classic! The Template! I swear the exact Bob Fosse combo that opens All That Jazz was what we did in every single childhood Jazz Dance class ever. Yours too?
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James W @soukoutaigi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like "actually Japanese game companies just have laws that make it harder to lay people off" usually gets deployed as like a harsh truth, but, like...yeah! They aren't morally better, it's just regulation and worker's rights! You should find that encouraging!
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
do what she says
sailor moon says free Palestine in sticker form 🇵🇸
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 09/11/2024
GENIE: Your third and final wish? ME: I want Funko Pops to be able to feel physical pain GENIE: ME: Not like they’re like animate. They can think and feel but can’t move or communicate GENIE: ME: What GENIE: No it’s nothing I’m just GENIE: Like are you pro or anti Funko Pops
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Tiny Octopus Enthusiast @collokation.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
well that was a ride
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Dolcet | WAITLIST OPEN @dolcet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2 slots left! about $180 till in the clear!
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/09/2026
vibes
a sign that says THIS IS A (burned triangle) AREA. Who knows what it used to say. it's been burned with acid and fire or maybe magic
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Resident Evil Victoria @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Start by offering little miniature vans to warhammer enthusiasts and then slowly give them bigger ones over time
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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ᐋᐧᐳᐢ ᒥᓯᐟ @waposhpyii.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some new work in Edmonton, AB…
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Red POP! News @redpopnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More than 100 works by Indigenous artists from across Latin America will come together this fall at the Denver Art Museum in what the museum describes as the largest U.S. exhibition to date focused on modern and contemporary Indigenous artists from the region. redpopnews.com/i-follow-riv...
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I Follow Rivers: Indigenous Worlds in Latin America Opens This November at the Denver Art Museum
More than 100 works by Indigenous artists from across Latin America will come together this fall at the Denver Art Museum in what the museum describes as the largest U.S. exhibition to date focused on...
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trust the process
comic featuring a puppy named Basil saying; "I think I will do crafts today" next panel shows them freaking out while something is on fire
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 25/09/2026
Happy Autumn 🍂
illustration by Abigail Larson depicting the ghost of a woman walking under a ruined stone arch. Three goblins watch her from the top of the ruins. The image has an Autumnal atmosphere, dead leaves are falling.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/09/2026
fun addition to this: kotick didn't just threaten publications, he threatened individuals. One of his lawyers was tasked with keeping an eye on every post I wrote about him, and they'd hound ownership about them if they didnt like them.
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Tiny Octopus Enthusiast @collokation.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
ONCE AGAIN too many game
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
tricorder install emoji
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
something from the archives, a very strange building from THE FAR HORIZONS GUIDE TO CULTS (available at @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social ) #art #ttrpg
a building with tree root legs
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Open call for Indonesian Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 24/09/2026
I've connected my two antique phones to form a working intercom - deliberately makeshift. A cropped photo of this setup is my drawing reference now. #SciArt More nostalgic details in this blog post: elkement.art/2026/09/24/i...

Photo of 1) a makeshift intercom from two antique phones (1950s and 1970s 2) a cropped photo of this setup on an ipad and 3) an unfinished drawings on black paper using this photo as a reference. (c) elkement.art 2026
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Mel, the Herohom ( • `ω´ • ) ➡️ FFXIV Fanfest 🇯🇵 @herohommel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Was excited for this one. I worked on ArcSys's Qliphah in Providence's Shadow as editor! Rena's reminiscent of Ragna the Bloodedge (fun for this Blazblue girlie). The VN-like story is eerie but straightforward, the battle system unique, and the presentation stylish. It's also only $25! Check it out!
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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
timeline cleanser
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(poster name not shown): knock knock
dismembered-jackalope: who's there
justsomeguycore: deez 
dismembered-jackalope: sigh. deez who?
justsomeguycore: deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise
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