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Jenn Mercer, CT

@jennmercer.bsky.social
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Translator, mostly nocturnal, lover of words and shiny things

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 7h
Tomorrow -- I'm at Jurassic Discovery in Seaton, talking SEA MONSTERS jurassicdiscovery.co.uk/events/view/...
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Sea Monsters Past & Present: An Illustrated Talk - Discovery Talks
Join esteemed author and palaeozoologist Dr Darren Naish as he explores our developing ideas about sea monsters past and present, a subject that combi...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 23h
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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Jenn Mercer, CT @jennmercer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's nice to know that the small and spiky have always been loved
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Jenn Mercer, CT @jennmercer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OUTLIER · Day 135 · 820 · 🦅 EAGLE EYES 🟩🟦🟦🟦🟪🟦🟪🟪🟦🟦 🎯 3 words nobody else found · 🦄 6 found by under 1% of players Can you find rarer? playoutlier.com/s/B8ES8V
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mothra_lives scored 820 on Day 135. Can you beat them?
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our friend the Togo Toad lives in western Africa from Sierra Leone to Togo! They are a moderately sized toad, with males growing to about 2.5 inches long! A population in Sierra Leone was once known as the Tingi Hills Toad but is now considered synonymous with the Togo Toad! (photo by Alex Rebelo)
A rather stout looking brown toad with strong looking legs and very rough skin! They are covered in lots of warty bumps and have long, skinny parotoid glands!
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Going live now Friends youtu.be/zxivlvB5NUI
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A Set In Nashville on Dolly Parton Day
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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jacinto pariente @jacinto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feliz día de la traducción. San Jerónimo apedreando a vendehumos
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The charismatic Coppersmith Barbet for datubooty on tumblr! Thank you for the donation! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt The #Waymakers Challenge raises funds for @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US! Donate by Sept. 30 - only a few days left! youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi...
Illustration of a Coppersmith Barbet, a large-headed, large-billed bird with a clown-like face pattern of red, black, and yellow. The bird otherwise is mostly green with spots of turquoise on the nape and wings. It is perched with its back to us on the branch of a fig tree, and has a piece of fig fruit in its beak - likely torn from the broken fruit on the top of a cluster to the bird's right.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re almost at 1500 sign-ups! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/09/2026
The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep; thou for wages followest thy master, thy master for wages follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep.
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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
African Wild dog/Painted dog sketch, in ballpoint and brush pen -3550 🎨🐡 #art
A black ink sketch of the head and neck of an African wild dog/Painted dog, viewed from the side and facing to the left of the image, tilted down slightly
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Darth Continent @darthcontinent.com · 25/09/2026
#NobodyWarnedMeAboutThe "poached beef medallions with a tomato and corn syrup reduction and topped with vinegar infused with ground mustard seed". 🤔
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In particular I am thinking of the obscene and ill begotten wealth of the men who tore these families apart
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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m going to this tonight in Seattle. There is a streaming option if you are interested www.clarionwest.org/event/deep-d...
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Mycology, Decay, and Metaphors for Community
From fungus to slime molds, nature has always held lessons for us in collapse, renewal, and connection—sometimes sticky, sometimes horrifying, always a little weird. Author T. Kingfisher (What Moves…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/09/2026
Welcome to the autumnal equinox, Northern Hemisphere folks, this might be a good day to get your full spectrum lamp and/or Vitamin D supplements back out of storage why wait until things are bad a month from now when you could prevent it from happening by starting now!!
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)
Alt: That clip from Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember) that everyone posts today because it says "Do you remember/the 21st night of September?"
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
since i am working on my first new alt movie posters in *quite* a while, thought i'd share a selection of my favs from over the years ! title and description in alt text all of them are ink on claybord/scratchboard
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Jenn Mercer, CT @jennmercer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Would it really have been so hard to have done this earlier?
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Most accurate cosmic clocks show unexpected instability Millisecond pulsars are the Universe's most accurate natural clocks. Not only do they glitch, changing their period, but their pulse profiles change. By quite a lot, too. #space bigthink.com/starts-with-... Cc: @rami.spaceaustralia.com!
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Most accurate cosmic clocks show unexpected instability
Millisecond pulsars are the Universe's most accurate natural clocks. A pulse change, thought rare, just occurred twice in the closest one.
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Jenn Mercer, CT @jennmercer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I found a Rarity-77 word worth 90 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 813 points · 10 rare words. Only 30 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/4WUU2Z
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OUTLIER · Day 124
player-4130 scored 813 on Day 124. Can you beat them?
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net.
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today's review covers THE DOCTOR (1918), a Danish film about a scientist who struggles to develop a cure for a raging epidemic. He is smeared in the press by his rival and the public turns against him due to a wave of misinformation as the death toll rises. moviessilently.com/2026/09/21/t...
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The Doctor (1918) A Silent Film Review
A scientist in a fictional European capital works tirelessly on a cure for a deadly epidemic but is stymied by a jealous rival and mass panic as the disease takes hold.
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Jenn Mercer, CT @jennmercer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Whew! Registered, flight and hotel booked for #ATA67 in San Francisco!
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20/09/2026
WITH optional analemma! 🙂
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Ripley Arachnid 🕷️🌈🪲🕸️ @spiderdungeon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
pinktoe galvantula #pokemon
A drawing of gakvantula with a bow and pink toes
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When break time is over but I'm not ready to go back yet. 📸 alice7110105519
Tabby cat wearing a collar and tag sits calmly beneath a folded red A-frame floor sign inside a retail store.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!
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American Translators Association @atanet.org · 19/09/2026
Wondering where to start when it comes to translating legal documents or official records? The ATA Compass is here to help! Check out "5 Steps for Translating Official Documents" at bit.ly/4qsoBxz 📑✨ . . #ATABlogs #Translation #DocumentTranslation #Legal #Immigration #xl8 #Language #ATA
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the scaramouch in question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward) @stephencward.com · 19/09/2026
Exactly what an accountant said to me a few months ago
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Jenn Mercer, CT @jennmercer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am actually fine with this.
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Ryan Kelly @ryankelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exciting News: i’ll be officially unemployed as of this Friday. Need an artist? Think of me as a possibility. Paying work only, please. Here’s a page from a recent Funrama as a sample (Funrama written, drawn + created by me on my patreon)
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#translatedlit #xl8 🌐 💙📚
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Guys I’m so sorry. I filmed a BIG STRETCH at the shelter today and forgot to show you. This is Burger and he is the softest and loveliest old man, bonded with his friend Phantom. www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Allison 美林 Chin @allisonchinart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Digital painting of bamboo and trees
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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 13/09/2026
Hey Bluesky! Can you please help me spread the word about this online art auction? Every purchase supports Metro Housing Boston's work to help folks who are facing housing insecurity. View the full collection on Artsy: www.artsy.net/auction/what... #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt
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“What Walls Can Hold”: Metro Housing|Boston Benefit Auction 2026 | Artsy
<p>Walls provide more than shelter. They hold memories, create a sense of belonging, and provide a foundation for what comes next. Art does more than...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/09/2026
“You need to integrate AI because while it will degrade your abilities and make your job less interesting and more shitty, at least you will retain employment” is not the sell AI proponents think it is.
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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When you're not sure what's in your dog's mouth, but you know you won't enjoy finding out 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is a 15th century stone carving of a demon consuming a naked figure on St Michael's Church, Laxton, in Nottinghamshire, UK 😁 Thanks @planet_anus for sharing
A photo of a stone carving showing a demon with their mouth open wide and inside is a view of the bottom half of a figure holding their bumcheeks
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Allan Lorde @allanlorde.com · 13/09/2026
100%. For those unfamiliar, Van Halen had a line in their rider that essentially said “no brown M&Ms.” It was a way to see if the promoter had actually read the contract. They had a shitload of gear to tour with, so if they’re skipping one thing, it’s guaranteed they’re skipping something essential.
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Jenn Mercer, CT @jennmercer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sorry, forgot to post this on Tribble Thursday.
Roundish furry ball. The fur is a soft brown with scattered patches of sooty black.
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