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Lol the ‘you’ve reached your limit on Bluesky for today’ message popped up immediately after I saw someone conflate Maine & Boston accents. Yes. Yes, I have.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WHAT IF... a man opens only 2 emergency commission slots for BW sketch portraits just like these? this weekend, hand-drawn. photo reference or fictional character. 40USD paid upfront. would this work? hit me up via DM if you want to try it.

six black and white portrait sketches. three girls, two bearded guys, one non-binary teen.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 29/09/2026

or a silk scarf with a pattern of purple and blue neurons artologica.etsy.com/listing/1811...

silk scarf with pattern of blue and purple neurons

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technically it is better to lose power today when I don’t have work I’m finishing & need to submit but, not so technically, I was going to play a little Stardew Valley. As a treat.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep bribing myself to get through the week by deciding I’ll do a little stationery order or something when I’m done. I can just use the same bribe every week because by the time I get to the end I’m way too tired to want to figure that shit out.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/09/2026

I assume everyone who follows me knows who Ashley is because I mean HOW COULD YOU NOT but if you just arrived, she spends untold hours organizing to protect people being targeted by ICE and abandoned by their politicians, and any quarters we can shake out of the couch can help her heal in peace

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lol only just realized why I keep going, “Wait, that guy’s in Kansas, I thought he was Michigan,” and vice versa. Roger Marshall Mike Rogers Oh well, all these guys are really just the same guy in the end anyway.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Start to finish making of process for one of my porcelain tentacle handle cups! Throwing, trimming, glazing You can buy a unique cup like this on my website, www.roseschmits.com

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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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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's Saturday, which is as good a day as any to remind you that my #LoTR subway map makes a great gift for yourself and/or others. It looks great on my wall, so I assume it'll look great on your wall too! This map, and other such things) are available here: www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...

Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named:
"Shire-Bree Commuter Line
Old Forrest Crescent
Wildland Scenic Line
Fellowship Line
Gollum / Sméagol Line
Uruk Hai Express
Three Hunters Line
Fangorn Slow Service
Rohan to Gondor Business Line
Black Ships Ferry Service
Oliphant Direct Line
Army of the West Line
Gandalf Express

A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines:
"Eagle Express
Paths of the Dead Line
Nazgûl Search & Resuce
Valinor Ltd."

A note at the bottom reads:
"* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly."

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okay, I’m now getting into bed before 7:30pm, my brain chemistry miiiiiiight need a bit of a boost. Lil extra Wellbutrin on the menu. (This is prescribed & just a thing I need to do periodically - it’s safe! Very grateful to have a med I can do this with.)

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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

These rainbow heart socks have been sitting in my shop for a while waiting for someone to take them home. I think it's just cause they're a size small, but surely one of you knows a queer child who might like them? I ALSO sell this as a knitting pattern! ko-fi.com/s/469a3547e4 #BSNM #pride

A pair of rainbow knitted socks on wire blockers. They're damp while blocking, so the colors are a little darker than normal. They have variegated rainbow stripes and a repeating heart eyelet pattern, though the latter is hard to see with them folded so you only see the sides

A pair of rainbow knitted socks laid flat on a blanket, showing off the repeating heart eyelet pattern

The socks laid flat to show the back side of the socks, which also has the eyelet pattern on the ankle.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TFW you take a photo of your work in progress & can suddenly see tons of mistakes you didn’t notice while you were working on it. 😩

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What drugs do I need to do to be one of those happy-go-lucky people that just never worry about anything? Just bopping along doing whatever & not giving a fuck.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The way I want to turn this assignment in half-done with my reflection statement being ‘Fuck you’…

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The worst thing for me with perimenopause is the completely random hormone storms. There’s no looking at the calendar & realizing why I’m in meltdown, because it just happens whenever with no warning. And then I figure it out when I bleed all over the place in the middle of a cycle. 🫠

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Faking a resume to get an NPR interview so I can pull a Cup Noodle out of my bag at just the right moment.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every night a wave of dread and resistance about classwork & other life stuff washes over me & I panic a little thinking I won’t get anything done the next day. Eventually I remember it’s just my ADHD meds wearing off.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How many days in a row can one go to bed at 7:45 to read before it becomes A Problem*? *for my neck

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As it turns out, I do not enjoy drawing corners of rooms. Especially on giant pieces of paper. Fuck corners of rooms TBH.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today is better than yesterday and simple, straightforward tasks are very doable, but decision points are kicking my ass. Going to try ‘change of scene’ & run an errand & hope that clears the blockage. Brains, man…

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

l'm holding my botanical illustration& mental health w'shop just once this autumn-7 Nov I'll teach you how: 🌿to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading 🧠creative activity alters brain biochemistry-like taking 3 different meds for yr mental health: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

Autumnal finds from my local wood on a Kraft paper sketchbook and my illustrations of them alongside

Finds from the garden on a white paper sketchbook and my illustrations of them alongside, with a cup of tea and posy nearby

An autumnal collection of nature finds from the garden and seasonal walks on a kraft paper sketchbook and my illustrations of them alongside, along with some art materials and a collection of shells on a wooden table

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MadLibs conspiracy theories. “He will force us to use SUGAR CEREAL in our CATS LITTER BOXES!” “He’s in the pocket of Big DETERGENT. They’re putting it in all our LIME RICKEYS!”

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Please excuse Karyn from completing her homework this week as she has come down with a severe case of ‘AuDHD-related crying’ complicated by ‘preferring to knit, actually’ and requires an extended weekend of rest.” Signed, Definitely Karyn’s Doctor

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Neither angry cleaning nor listening to ‘Backwards Walk’ by Frightened Rabbit has coaxed my brain off the meltdown ledge. We’ve reached ‘Only You’ territory. Break 80’s synth-pop glass in case of emergency.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Instead of getting anything done today, I am having a complete meltdown over the whole world being a sensory nightmare. Also everything is simply too hard to do & takes too many steps.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have too many personal connections to annoying Bluesky discourse topics & have a very long to-do list, so I really should just be off here for the next few days. Someone yell at me if you see me hanging around too much!

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

in the interest of truth in advertising i feel i must report that the quoted post is bobby's energy only about 5% of the time. the rest of the time he's like this

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

morning dose of stress relief

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s one poll with a large margin of error, so Bluesky is going to be basically unusable for anyone in Maine for at least the next week or so on the basis of it. Fun.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why is this man’s head a pencil eraser?

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Bob Heller @bobheller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you put a lasagna on top of another lasagna, it’s no longer two lasagnas. It’s one giant lasagna. THAT is the power of lasagna.

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every single Democrat pushing this bullshit needs to lose their next primary to someone with some bloody sense. I’m so disgusted by these capitulating jackasses. How the hell do they think we got here?!?!

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“The Haunted Pencil figured it out?! The Haunted Pencil?!? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.”

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, so the problem with spending all day getting a bunch of classwork done is that I just desperately want to goof off tomorrow. Just…so desperately. The ADHD part of my wiring has zero chill.

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A. Faë @anaisfae.art · 22/09/2026

It's that time of the year!!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An old favourite, taken on this day in 2019 up in the Westfjords of #Iceland 🦭🍂

A seal sits on a clump of kelp, looking around at the camera. Beyond are autumnal slopes with a couple of ephemeral waterfalls and some fog above the hills. The colours are reflected in a fjord.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

20 seconds of Dave the robin relaxing near the bird café-he knows he’s well hidden from cats & sparrow hawks & is *very* well fed and watered. He’s basically at a birdy spa day rn…🪶 Also v relaxing for your brain, as footage of appealing animals & birds alleviates anxiety in humans…

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Felt better enough to get my one must-do-today assignment done & submitted. Not a huge thing, but it meant reading & understanding something and then writing something coherent in response so…hopefully I did that! *collapses again*

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The plan was to get a ton of work done today. So far I’ve half-assed a couple errands, eaten lunch & now I’m laying down? It’s going great!

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21/09/2026

Hey so we're going to see a lot more of these polls. They have a chilling effect on voting bc we think someone else will do the work. If we've learned ANYTHING over the last ten years, it's that we cannot count on anyone else doing the work. WE have to do the work. Voting is work.

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."

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Karyn @conundrumk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Managed to finish my art work, photograph it, write my reflection & submit it all before lunch. Phew! Feels super nice to have the leeway to actually sit & chill a bit before I launch into the next batch of work.

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