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Irritating Oysters

@irritatingoysters.bsky.social
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Writer, mom, gamer, theater maker, known as Kathryn or Catrin. Been called the irritating grain of sand in an oyster when I have an idea. Not wrong.

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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This could be my house.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hadn't thought about this production in years, but boy howdy did watching women say the men's lines make people squirm. 10/10 would recommend to others, especially as someone who had to figure out how to play Kate once and be comfortable with it.
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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 12/07/2026
THAT IS 2 MILLION DOLLARS RAISED FOR @doctorswithoutborders.org!!!! All of your generosity has helped us reach this amazing goal!!! 💙 #SGDQ2026
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Another new blog post! This is a bit more in-depth. 10-15 minute read. I designed Destiny encounters for years but haven't ever talked much about what that actually means. So here you go! #GameDesign #Destiny
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The Basics of Destiny Encounter Design - The Nameless Quality
I realized that despite working on Destiny and Destiny 2 encounters for years, I’ve never really talked in any sort … Read More →
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Knowing it had to be coming isn't the same as knowing it's done.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The comments are spectacular.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Five authors I've read at least five books by: @deannaraybourn.bsky.social @seananmcguire.bsky.social @nghivo.bsky.social @gailcarriger.bsky.social @jasperfforde.bsky.social @kevinhearne.bsky.social I know it's six. Be amazed I got the list down to six. It was hard.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This in Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio by the way. Could not love this any more :)
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
If you, like me, wanted to hear Adam Lambert sing the beginning of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl, found a good clip here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6rd...
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“Heaven on Their Minds” - Adam Lambert, Hollywood Bowl
YouTube video by Dan Saunders
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Based on the first episode, I can imagine they didn't know how to market it - but it has the potential to be good in a not standard issue MCU way. Agatha All Along did that. This might too. Give it a try.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/05/2025
"Gosh, we could go back to the days when we all chatted on the village green and had church fetes" like you do realise we have literally an entire publishing genre of "British People Trapped With One Another Become Rapidly Murderous".
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The East Coast Society for Creative Anachronism is huge into rapier. Last weekend for the first time they were allowed to use rapier instead of heavy armor with wooden swords to determine the East Coast heads. Somebody made a very pretty video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2GV...
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SCA - East Kingdom Rapier Crown Tourney 2025
YouTube video by Sage of the Sword
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Maybe you could use some nice birds in your feed.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The laughter is painful, but still laughing.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Whatcha doin? Printing out my social security records on paper. Why? I've programmed COBOL.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Meme format of Marge Simpson yelling War Thunder No! Bart walks in marked as War Thunder saying What? Marge replies Sorry, force of habit.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@deannaraybourn.bsky.social When I read the name Carstairs, I cannot help but think of Mrs. Pollifax. It's probably a coincidence? But the older women spies element makes me wonder a tiny bit.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@pandemoniumpress.bsky.social
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BigSlim @imbigslim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What’s happening in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary! Mount Etna is erupting while its summit remains covered in snow—an incredible clash of fire and ice. Here are some explorers skiing between lava flows and snowy slopes—a truly unprecedented sight! ⛷🔥❄️
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MatthewParis @matthewparis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This parent is having a very bad day after a very bad night... Bald Eagle nest in California - there was howling snowfall last night - and this is what it looks like today. The pair have three eggs. More here: laist.com/news/climate...
View of a bald-eagle nest covered in snow with a long view of the nearby river and woods.  In the center of the nest is a very cold, snow-covered and wet bald eagle looking up.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If you see this, and you're in the mood for this kind of thing, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
Seagulls on a spit of sand looking at the ocean on a cloudy day
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Me too. I would play this.
You know what I want?  A post-apocalypse farm game.  You're a wanderer who happens upon a farm.  It's overgrown and decayed, looks like it's been abandoned for some time, but as you investigate you meet the old man who lives there.  He's been living on this farm for years, but as his health has decayed he's been increasingly unable to take care of it.  He sees that you are interested and asks if you want to it over.  You of course say yes.  The old man gives you the tutorials, shows you around, introduces you to the traveling trader who sometimes comes by.  Not long after you have settled in he passes away, at peace now that he knows his beloved farm is being looked after.
You do your normal farm game things: clean up the land bit by bit, grow some crops from the last of the old man's seeds, repair the buildings.  You scavenge the land around for old world artifacts that can be broken down for supplies and resources to upgrade your farm.  The trader comes by, and as you trade with him more and more, he spreads word and other traders come too, offering greater variety.  Other people come too, slowly attracted by news of your farm or just passing by.  They have valuable skills but they have requirements you have to meet if you want them to stay.  The nearby town, long since deserted, fills up again.  You help the new residents clean it up, repair the abandoned home, plant flowers along the cracked old streets.  There's no fighting , no violence save for some subsistence hunting.  Just a quiet game about life and community regrowing from the ashes.

I would love to play a game like this so very very much.
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waxtablet @waxtablet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is spectacular and worth every moment of your attention You will feel better after you watch this
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The SCA is a hobby with a stated belief in chivalry and honor. Reality is messier. A satire blog about the messiness reminds past and present members of our better angels and how to draw on them at this moment - and to hold on. Well done @thescallion.bsky.social thescallion.blog/2025/01/21/t...
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To the People of the SCA from The SCAllion: A Serious Post
A serious post from us here at The SCAllion. We are still on an indefinite break, but this was too important to not share, especially in light of y’know, everything. Please share this far and…
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Sound on for the lapping noise
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"...this show has done an impressive job of evolving from a show I barely tolerated to one I will seriously miss." @kradec.bsky.social summarizes my feelings about Lower Decks. That was a great finale. reactormag.com/tv-review-st...
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“All hands, brace for weird!” — Star Trek: Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation” - Reactor
This is, without a doubt, the best series finale Star Trek has done.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
AI is like many tools. The problem is how the humans use it. This use is a solid example of ways it can add instead of taking away. www.sciencenews.org/article/arti...
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Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century
A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Watching this brings me a ludicrous amount of delight. Original is here - imgur.com/yexIMe0
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Thank you @kateelliottsff.bsky.social and @marthawells.com because your posts about @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social's Steerswoman books are why I started reading them.
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AshravenBlu @ashravenblu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I had to snip out my favourite moment from #TheGameAwards. @laratlarian.bsky.social's words echo the heart of every developer. The industry needs to listen. We just want to make cool stuff for people. #indiedev #gamedev
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It's Star Trek meets Marian Carey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvW...
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"All I Want For Christmas..."
YouTube video by John C. Worsley
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Sure, social media has its downsides, but I cannot say enough good things about being able to see everybody's pets without having to leave my house or speak to a human first, really just knocked that one out of the park
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MatthewParis @matthewparis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Here's another visit of one of the skunks - they are coming just about every night.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
@jahennrikus.bsky.social @maddieday.bsky.social @cleasimon.bsky.social @danacameron.bsky.social Maybe there are more SinC authors with female sleuths over here? Great idea for a list @msemilyedwards.bsky.social
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Me: We're expecting a hard frost tonight
Robert Frost: *kicks in door* I've got miles to go before I sleep, motherf cker
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Today is St. Crispin's Day - and this movie is responsible for years of actors telling me they wanted to be the herald before I told them to go read the actual play. It is a glorious speech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFH...
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Henry V (7/10) Movie CLIP - Saint Crispin's Day (1989) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Photo by Alina Silaeva (Алина Силаева) instagram.com/p/CFIK_bNh2P9/
Woman with a book, earphones with the cord wrapped dangling down and around her hand, and a shawl wrapped around her head in front of a public transit map that makes a halo around her head so she look like an illumination from a medieval manuscript
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Scene from Star Wars - "an analysis of the plans provided by princess leia has demonstrated a weakness in the battle station"
Luke - "damn did many bothans die for this information?"
Leia - "no I found it on Warthunder"
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Al MacBharrais unequivocally had my support as a character from the beginning. Finished his story. No spoilers, so I'm just going to say thanks @kevinhearne.bsky.social.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Have a ladybug for my test of posting video.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
u have been kidnapped the characters from the last tv show u watched are trying to rescue u who is coming to save u
Slow Horses Season 4 - I might be okay, but something or someone isn't going to be.
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
During challenging times, I have slammed back whole series. They were a balm to my heart and a distraction for my mind. The value of those books is beyond their words. Years ago, they were the Mrs. Pollifax books. Tagging more recent authors on Bluesky on that list for me.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 15/08/2024
the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
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Irritating Oysters @irritatingoysters.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
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