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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 02/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Jack from British Channel 4 TV series "Ultraviolet".

extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 23/09/2026

Or maybe reaching out about this app feels frustratingly like it might not do any good. ripta.com/contact-us appears to be the right place to go and I will submit something, but this is a lot of work for an annoyance, so you can see why I grumped online instead.

A page from the RIPTA WAVE app, with various options like "customer service website" and "customer service phone".

A screen showing a page from the RIPTA website reading "Page not found", "The requested page could not be found."

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 12/09/2026

I put big inadvisable silver fenders on it and have gotten many compliments. ☺️ In its younger days:

Touring bike with large but not huge black tires, a sort of sky blue color frame, and silver fenders. It's a Surly Bridge Club.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 08/09/2026

Also also, thanks you for adding 100 amusement points to my day when I suddenly sat fully upright, said "wait a minute!" and turned in my seat to look two feet to my left. 😂😂😂

Part of a bookcase full of books, including the Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien among many others. The books have call numbers ranging from 82.P89*L37 for "Last Call" by Tim Powers to 82(082)*B48 for "The Best of Uncanny". Additional books are visible on the shelf below.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 08/09/2026

To me, the point of the TOC here is to let you know that there _is_ an Introduction, Notes, and an Index. (My edition has no foreword). I can see in comparison that other edition is expanded and updated from mine. I know I can look things up by subject. And the main obvious order wastes no space.

A page reading:

Contents

Introduction ... 1
Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien ... 5
Notes ... 434
Index ... 455

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 08/09/2026

I mean... let's look at my copy of this book that I just reached over to take off the shelf... 😂 This is how many pages I had to visit to get to the start of 1953. I am not sure that knowing the page range for the 1950s (pp. 134–301) or just 1953 (pp. 165-172) would have made it faster.

A book open to pages 358 and 359, showing dates from July through September of 1965.

A book open to pages 210 and 211, showing dates in April and June 1955.

A book open to pages 142 and 143, showing dates from September 1960 to "probably ... late in 1961".

A book open to pages 166 and 167, showing dates from March 1953 and April 1953.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 03/09/2026

I want to say Bound or Romeo + Juliet. But assuming the 12 months following my birthday, it really has to be...

Still from Grosse Point Blank (1997), where Blank is on his knees in a high school hallway kneeling next to the body of Felix, who has just stabbed in self defense. Blank looks towards the camera viewpoint, having just been caught in the midst of this scene.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 31/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 26/07/2026

Dear indie (TTRPG, in this case) publishers: Please, *please* get ISBNs for your books. I know it's a hassle, but the struggle that potential buyers and booksellers will have finding your books (new or second-hand) in future years is way way bigger.

A pair of absolutely gorgeous books. They are hardcover, and their covers have black and white printing and light embossing over a marbled background. The one on the left shows printed in black a stone obelisk in a circle with white printed lightning striking from above. The one on the right shows printed in black a tree in a circle with white printed roots reaching far below.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 07/07/2026

Speaking of @lizbethmyles.bsky.social's work... this just arrived in the mail, and now I'm even more looking forward to reading it!

A book titled "Where We Stand, Where We Fall: the politics of Doctor Who", by lizbeth myles

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 07/07/2026

I kept everyone up entirely too late last night playing the Beautiful Game*. We lost, dramatically. (*Nemesis)

A table set up with the Nemesis board game. Most of the ship has been discovered. The photo is from the position of the Captain, who has lost the use of both arms. There is noise everywhere. Numerous alien bodies are scattered around. Part of the ship is on fire. One alien is fighting the Scientist while the Captain is in the next room (the airlock control). The Pilot is on her own on the other side of the ship. There are five rounds left before the ship goes to warp.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 05/07/2026

Seeing Boston Legacy FC play some home matches at Tidewater this year? Also very good.

A giant inflatable swan with "Boston Legacy FC" on its side, outside Centreville Bank Stadium.

The BLFC supporters' section at the start of the match, waving numerous flags including pride flags.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 04/07/2026

It's good to be back watching our local club, @rhodeislandfc.bsky.social, in person. ☺️

Sunny day view out from the seats towards a soccer pitch, with players warming up and groundskeepers wetting the pitch.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 23/06/2026

He might be on to something. youtu.be/fJwzsw5_tSc?...

An unhappy-looking Scottish person wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses in bright sunlight walking down a wide roadway. Automatic captions read "... that we took from the airport to the hotel, but ... I don't really think Miami is designed for walking. ... Very much designed ..."

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 23/06/2026

I may have taken this too far...

An iPhone and an iPad, each showing a different World Cup game at the same time. The devices are on a lap of a person in the rear seat of a car.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 16/06/2026

So excited by this match. Youth and vigor against age and experience is always fun. And both teams are going hard.

A scene from the movie "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night". The Girl stands on a sidewalk lit at night by the harsh glare of bright streetlights.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 12/06/2026

Spent a fun couple of hours watching Canada vs Bosnia Herzegovina in Providence's "fan zone" where the city is showing every single match free to the public. (It helps that we are closer to "Boston Stadium" than Boston is.)

Me in a gaucho hat with random other people in the background in a park.

Some inflatable swan chairs with Boston Legacy scarfs on.

A few Scottish fans with a big Tartan Army Scottisb flag reading "Southwest Angus" "Tartan Army" "from Birkie" "to Turkey" in front of the big screen between halves.

A view of the waterfire basin in front of downtown Providence with a ton of World Cup participating country flags among other things.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 12/06/2026

She asked me if I wanted her to sign something in better shape. I said no—this was the copy I had checked out of my local public library when I was in elementary school, and that's how it got this way.

A tattered mass-market paperback copy of Jane Yolen's "Dragon's Blood", with library tape on the spine.

An interior page of the aforementioned book signed "For Katherine. Read on! Jane Yolen 2025". Ink bleeding through from a stamp on the other side of the page reads backwards "No longer property of Spokane Public Library".

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 29/05/2026

POV: Your arm is comfortable to sit on.

A close up image of a friendly black cat loafing on some cloth which apparently covers the writer's arm. In the background are a white ceiling and blue walls and bookcases full of books and topped with stuffed animals, boxed gunpla, and other random items.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 24/05/2026

Almost time to begin my read-through Cherryh! Starting with Gate of Ivrel. It's been quite a while since I've read many of her older works, and I am really looking forward to this.

Three mass-market paperback novels side by side on a black background, all by C.J. Cherryh. From left to right: "Gate of Ivrel", "Well of Shiuan", and "Fires of Azeroth". The three are obviously connected, as the cover art for each shows a sword-and-sorcery style white-haired woman with a white cape and a sword and a young man as a retainer.

Over the course of the three covers their clothing and equipment becomes slightly more practical.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 19/05/2026

My classic, which, well, never supported color.

Aldus Digital Darkroom 2.01 icon from an early 90s Apple Macintosh running System 7.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 16/05/2026

Today's status: Vamos Rhode Island!

View from the mid-front towards the rear of a bus full of people wearing Rhode Island FC kit. Your correspondent faces the camera on one side in 2025 RIFC amber kit while her friend (who is wearing Defiance 1636 kit) laughs at something off-camera to the right of the viewer.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 05/05/2026

"What's a girl like you doing in a job like this?" "Well, when I was a little girl I thought I'd like to be a scientist. So I *became* a scientist." From the Doctor Who episode "Web of Fear", episode 1, first aired 3 February 1968.

Black and white still from the classic Doctor Who story "The Web of Fear" (1968). In the foreground, a young woman with short hair is speaking. She is wearing a plain dress and holding a tool while looking down at a work area. Behind, a pair of men in military uniforms are standing. The one on the right is looking towards the woman scientist with a slight smirk.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 30/04/2026

I assume you've read Port Eternity, then? ☺️

The cover of Port Eternity by C.J. Cherryh. Two men stand next to each other (or the same man?) one in a space suit, the other in shining armor, both with appropriate helmets. In the background is a castle with its base in a bank of clouds.

The back of a book, with text:

CJ. CHERRYH

Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Modred, Lynette and Vivien, but they were not characters from legend. They were made people, clone servants designed to suit the fancy of their opulent owner, the Lady Dela Kirn. And they worked aboard the Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship, decorated with swords, heraldic banners, old-looking beams masking the structural joinings, and lamps that mimicked live flame.

They lived in a kind of dream, and had no idea of their origins, their prototypes in those old, old story tapes of romance, chivalry, heroism and betrayal.
Until a wandering instability, a knot in time, a ripple in the between sucked them into a spatial no-man's-land from where there seemed to be no escape. And they were left alone, with the borrowed personas of their ancient namesakes, to face a crisis those venerable spirits were never designed to master!

A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 30/04/2026

It does all add up. Especially when you do stupid things like I sometimes do. 😅

A few shelves of mass-market paperback books, dominated by C.J. Cherryh

A few shelves of hardcover books, dominated by C.J. Cherryh

Four copies of C.J. Cherryh's novel _Heavy Time_ in descending order by size: standard hardcover, book club edition, trade paperback, and mass-market paperback.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 04/04/2026

There we go. I dug up a photo from working there...

View from a second floor nook at the Providence Athenæum, showing more nooks amidst the stacks across the way, and a view down to the first floor. The shelves have busts at their ends. The library is fancy.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 15/03/2026

Search your camera roll for “hell”

A Korean food critic speaking on a TV show saying "Tofu hell isn't a place where you can easily survive."

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 07/03/2026

www.instagram.com/p/DVkMNCzkYt... Solidarity with the USL Championship players here. I hope the league is listening and sees their resolve.

Four panels showing players from both teams standing still at the start of a game.

We are united.
Tonight, we kicked off the 2026 USL Championship season with a moment of stillness.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 06/03/2026

I almost gave up on my9games due to too many search failures. 😂 (Xagon (198?), Star Wars (1983), Rocket Arena 3 (2000)) But, I guess this set works.

Three by three grid containing across each row:
Elite Beat Agents
Star Wars Galaxies
Ultima IV
Final Fantasy Tactics
Left 4 Dead
World of Warcraft
Icewind Dale
APB: All Points Bulletin
Unreal Tournament 2004

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 28/02/2026

This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies we could ask Mothra to help.

A Mothra plushie held in one hand in front of a door.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 21/02/2026

This arm belongs to Nip now.

A black cat (Nip) sitting on top of my left arm as I am
lying on my side and trying to take this photo with my
other hand.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 15/02/2026

Runners up were: Throwing Muses, University. David Bowie, Outside.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 15/02/2026

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

Cover of the Siouxsie &The Banshees album "The Rapture". Siouxsie's face with dark grey eyeshadow, deep red lipstick, and purple-black hair against a textured purple background.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 11/02/2026

I have repaired a tear! Very poorly! Although towards the end you can see that I clearly started remembering some of my home ec class skills from the *mumble* 1980s.

Close look at a poorly mended piece of clothing, with two distinct woven patches, one of which is wretched and the other of which is starting to become passable.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 02/02/2026

I'm sure there's a very reasonable explanation for all this.

Still from the Third Doctor TV story "The Green Death", featuring from right to left Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, the Doctor, Jo Grant, and Professor Clifford Jones all in front of the brick wall of some sort of industrial building.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 23/01/2026

When I unlocked the mahjong tile cosmetic I had no idea what it did. Then when I equipped it I was 😮🀄️

An otherwise normal video game character from the game Where Winds Meet... with a giant mahjong 1-bamboo tile for a head

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 14/01/2026

Tuesday night mahjong night! 🀄️ It's pretty quiet this week, so we are on our second game of sanma after I busted in the first game on the first dealer's third repeat. 😅

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 13/12/2025

Nip is here with an offer.

A distinguished looking black cat sits atop a red blanket under which there is obviously a pair of legs. His paws are folded over each other. He is looking suavely into the camera.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 04/12/2025

It may be a toxic hellpit of terrible gameplay and worse people, but at least I can make gear to rep my local soccer club and slap a "Hooligan" title on my character.

Character in the game APB: Reloaded wearing a dark blue dress with orange accents around the hem, cuffs, and collar. She wears matching flat shoes and thigh-high stockings. On the back of the dress is the badge of Rhode Island FC.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 26/11/2025

Poco Loco, my local extremely white taco shop, is having a seasonal special "grande gobbler" for a few days. A flatbread with turkey, cheese, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and a cup of gravy. I've added some of Sauce Leopard's Bird's Blood cranberry Habanero hot sauce to it. Not bad!

A pita sort of food thing filled with cheese, thick turkey aloces, cranberry sauce, and stuffing. A hand holds a hot sauce bottle labeled "Bird's Blood" containing a thick dark red-purple liquid.

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extra haruspicy @hypatian.org · 25/11/2025

My copy of this Mothra book arrived. Nice!

Cover of "The Luminous Fairies and Mothra" (the original story), by Shinichiro Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta, translated by Jeffrey Angles.

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