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J Ritchey

@fletcherhawke.bsky.social
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Uncle. Historical Fencer. Amateur boffin. Terminally curious. Flawed but growing and learning. I probably won't respond to DMs if I don't know you personally.

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I've been doing that with books.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.
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Arloween 🎃 @feraldactal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You probably know the most famous T. rex without even realizing it. AMNH 5027, okay so maybe you don’t know it by that name. But you might know it as Rexy. Because AMNH 5027 is the T. rex specimen that was used for the cover of Jurassic Park! Thus AMNH 5027 is easily the most famous dinosaur 🦖
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Columbus used a 15th-century legal doctrine to colonize and slaughter the Indigenous peoples he encountered. And it's still the law in the U.S. today.
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fuck Christopher Columbus 🖕 Fuck ICE 🖕 Fuck transphobes 🖕 Fuck a.i. 🖕 Fuck data centers 🖕 Fuck flock cameras 🖕 Fuck billionaires 🖕 Fuck nazis 🖕 Fuck the gop 🖕 And a huge Fuck you to Donald Trump 🖕🖕 Land back and release the files
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
*Now* they want antitrust laws to be a thing? For this? Really?
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Warm things up a bit
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Was not aware of this
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Diprotodon, the proto-wombat, was the size of an SUV. They lived alongside anatomically modern humans in Australia for about 10,000 years until going extinct about 25-40,000 years ago. If they had proportionally sized cubic poop, it would be the size of a cinderblock, I think?
Something I found on Reddit.  It shows a hypothetical scale-up of the wombat, probably ahistorical, as the Diprotodon is from a distinct lineage from the modern wombat, but it gets the idea of size across by putting it next to a modern northern hairy-nosed wombat.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The next Superman should end with him flying over the Earth from space, like all the other Superman movies, except instead of smiling, he's annoyed AF, because of the non stop rain of busted and junked Musk satellite trash pelting him
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
politifact.com/factchecks/2...
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Election officials marking your ballot won’t invalidate it
If an election worker writes anything on your ballot before you put it in the voting machine, “your ballot could be disqualified.”
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Misleading claims about ballot invalidation spread online
As some US states open polling places for early voting in the country's November 5 presidential election, social media users have claimed that a poll worker marking or initialing a ballot could void i...
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 10/10/2026
YES. I was just thinking about how many useful ideas and real solutions AREN'T being funded - or even THOUGHT UP - because the money and attention is being sucked into tulip bulbs. You've got kids who might have figured out cold fusion spending all their time building AI video apps.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 09/10/2026
I love imagining the 3000-years-ago warrior with a specific vision who found the one metal smith in China who was all like “…yes. Yes! YES!!!”
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He looks like Aku's cheerful brother who just wants to open a bakery and pet cats.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026
if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ponyo
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
However, checking out at the end, unfortunately...
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The Black Beast of Aaaaaaaaaa"
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Classic Firestorm. Almost as cool as the original Nightwing suit.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"this sleeping pill ain't shit" 9 hrs later:
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 07/10/2026
“What is Patreon?” “Uh…like OnlyFans but fewer feet.” “What’s OnlyFans?” “Hey! Look! Ducks!!!”
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Valorie 🐈‍⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seriously 👇
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Jhoo-Nee-Suh-Stee Ooh-Luh-Sah-Tee Uh-Dah-Lee
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are camp crystal lake and pronounced Jhoo-Nee-Suh-Stee Ooh-Luh-Sah-Tee Uh-Dah-Lee
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this simple yet GROUND-BREAKING idea by the brilliant @sputnik2nd! Sometimes the KEY FORMS of ANATOMY can ELUDE us at CERTAIN ANGLES, and this is a great reminder that it's all just STACKING SHAPES! #manga #characterdesign #illustration
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J Ritchey @fletcherhawke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There was an episode of the old cartoon Reboot where the kid, Enzo, wished to be the smartest person in Mainframe. It resulted in everyone else's clock speed being slowed almost to the point of being entirely non-functional. He soon regretted the wish. I think about that episode a lot these days...
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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