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etoiline

@etoiline.bsky.social
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Reader, writer, dreamer, scientist. She/her. everywhere else @etoiline except twitch: starryjen. Currently immersed in writing fanfic because real life isn't so pretty right now. Many archived posts from the other social media. #stl

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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just backed Sjandiva Outdoors - Puzzles in the Peaks on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
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Sjandiva Outdoors - Puzzles in the Peaks
A deeply unreliable guide to mountains, caves, camping disasters, and why “we’re almost there” is never true - plus puzzles.
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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s been 25 years.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A cat is a little beast to which you say “I love you” and they say “MRRAA!”
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How to be a Writer: Look into void Become increasingly convinced that void is not only looking back at you, but that it hates your novel Tea
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I just backed Whisperwood on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...
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Whisperwood
Use druidic magic to restore the flora and fauna of a corrupted forest in this engaging bag-builder for 1-4 players.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 23/04/2026
she is so beautiful #art
an illustration of the moon. she is soft pink and purple and surrounded by multicoloured stars against the dark oil slick colours of space
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Mathematician Katherine Johnson was born #OTD in 1918. Her orbital mechanics computations played a vital role in many early NASA missions. Astronaut John Glenn trusted her calculations more than those of his onboard flight computer. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: NASA
A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson sitting at her desk. She is wearing glasses and white or light dress with short sleeves and a collar. Johnson is looking to the right of the photographer. An analog adding machine sits on the desk in front of her, along with several papers and a translucent globe with multiple axes used for orbital calculations. She is holding a pen or pencil in her right hand, and wearing a bracelet or watch on her left wrist.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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🦋daria•anako🦋 artist @anako.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AI bros have a hard time on Threads... 🫠
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 19/08/2026
My friend just sent me this and never has my nail been so hit on its little head. Now I'm going to comfort myself with an affogato
post by stynalane

it reads: The problem with people being able to read the books you've written, is that when they talk to you in person they expect you to say writery things.

I don't know how to explain that my mouth and my fingertips have vastly different vocabularies.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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JLS says you can't beat 41.3/50
A color memory challenge on Dialed. See 5 colors, recreate them from memory. Free, no signup.
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Proud to be the 5,104th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Parks Europe - Chalet Edition + Free Expansion! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
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Parks Europe - Chalet Edition + Free Expansion
The hills are alive with natural and historic wonders across Europe! Enjoy the award-winning gameplay of Parks with adventurous new twists on the trail. Featuring art from 8 European Artists!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/07/2026
1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
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AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Really looking forward to playing this! Tickled to be the 1,679th 🦄 on @BackerKit for Let's Go! To France from AEG. Thanks @alderaceg.bsky.social
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Victory #art
A female knight holding a bouquet of red flowers stands in front of a pastel sunrise.
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Bomani-Hamlet Cook 🐈‍⬛ @bomani-hamletcook.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I find the lack of treats disturbing
Darth Feline
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Love this a little bit
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.
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tao @taoren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If anyone gives you art, gift or you paid for it, please view it as more than just a picture. Someone is giving you their time and a bit of themselves to you. Their thoughts and feelings are in it. They're vulnerable in front of you. It is not something trivial. Think about it.
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I have nothing to paint but I want this desperately.
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Been a while, but felt the need to do a Murdle: THE SMALL-HOLE MURDER Murdle for 6/16/2026 👤🔪🏡❓ 🕰️ ✅✅✅✅ 1️⃣1️⃣:4️⃣3️⃣ ⚖️ 👤 murdle.com
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MURDLE by G. T. Karber
Solve a new murder mystery every day!
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I just backed Let's Go! To France from AEG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ald...
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Let's Go! To France from AEG
You've picked the date and booked your flight. Now it's time to plan your dream vacation to France!
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✨Kirm✨ @antonballdeluxe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I just backed The Stormlamp Rituals Vol I - An Illustrated Puzzle Book on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
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The Stormlamp Rituals Vol I - An Illustrated Puzzle Book
Help Anna on her journey through otherworldly challenges in this beautifully illustrated, interactive puzzle story.
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Tickled to be the 59th 🐲 on @BackerKit for Escape Comics: The Alien Ship. escapecomics.backerkit.com/community_sh...
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Tickled to be the 59th 🐲 on @BackerKit for Escape Comics: The Alien Ship.
Check out Escape Comics: The Alien Ship on BackerKit!
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
JOHN FOGERTY: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain JAMES TAYLOR: okay, you’re not gonna fucking believe this
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There are definitely things that read better than they look in real life (I'm looking at you, sparkly vampires) and it's fun to see examples of that. Still gonna write the whole "lifts your chin with their knuckle" though, it always makes me sigh.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
James Pyke
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/05/2026
We have friends everywhere.
and/or
conjunction
ˈand-ˈȯr 
—used as a function word to indicate that two words or expressions are to be taken together or individually
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Ugo Mellone @ugomellone.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New story for @nature.com (my first in their multimedia format): in Greece, where scientists & fishers work together to protect sharks and rays www.nature.com/immersive/d4... (best seen on a large screen)
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Saving sharks and rays one catch at a time — in photos
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animatedjen @animatedjen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy May 4th from the Jedi games :)
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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Michael B. Jordan meets with Elmo. #MichaelBJordan #Elmo
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Texas Chainsaw Writing Workshop @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Hey my friend is doing a podcast! Yay!
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I just backed Escape Comics: The Alien Ship on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jum...
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Escape Comics: The Alien Ship
An epic 4-8 hour cinematic puzzle campaign. Master deep logic inside a tactile graphic novel to be the hero Earth needs.
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Looking forward to a new Carol Berg story! I just backed Unbroken: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...
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Unbroken: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
An anthology of SF&F stories from Brandon Sanderson & Peter Orullian, Christopher Paolini, Seanan McGuire, Matt Dinniman and many more.
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ESO @eso.org · 22/04/2026
Fancy a trip to our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud? Specifically, our destination is N180 B, a fertile source of new stars. N180 B’s shape is made up of a gargantuan bubble of ionised hydrogen surrounded by four smaller bubbles. www.eso.org/public/news/eso1903 🔭
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/04/2026
Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both
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animatedjen @animatedjen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
BD-1 Rocky save galaxies 🌌
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Having a real dissonant day where I'm cheering for the new and beautiful and *human* photos of the Moon, taken by amazing people who are IN SPACE right now, and trying to go about my day when the person in charge of this country is talking about ending civilizations.
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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 07/04/2026
I cannot be the only one who uncategorically does not want anyone to end a civilization tonight
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]
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etoiline @etoiline.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Lovely to be the 379th 🐲 on @BackerKit for Lion Dancers: A Board Game Celebrating the Lunar New Year. Thanks @hotbananagame liondancers.backerkit.com/community_sh...
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Lovely to be the 379th 🐲 on @BackerKit for Lion Dancers: A Board Game Celebrating the Lunar New Year. Thanks @hotbananagame
Check out Lion Dancers: A Board Game Celebrating the Lunar New Year on BackerKit!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026
“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
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