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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tonight's aesthetic: the value of punctuation.

Robby: at the hospitel n my grandpa is still sick n i have to watch him fuckin a man tonite is gunna suck
Mason: Hey robby, I think a comma would help here.
Robby: Dats fucked up man my grandpa already sick in the last thing he need is to be put in a comma fuck you man

Paul: class canceled! all day to do whatever i fucking want! i love fucking college guys!
Tim: Wait? What?
Matt: Dude, You have got to figure out this whole comma thing.

anon1: that imitation crab is banging my wife and I love it
anon2: commas are important

RJ @RedArmband: COMMAS ARE IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Shadio'@onlyshadiomar: COMMAS AREN'T PEOPLE.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tired: angry sex Wired: hate-fucking Inspired: cranky-panky #SundayPunday

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My wandering mind: Is an olive a fruit or a vegetable? Also my mind: It's a garnish. 🍸

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm only about 2/3 through Dungeon Crawler Carl, but I assume crystal meth golems exist in this universe.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It turns out performing photo ID verification with a cat in one's lap is suboptimal but doäble. 👍

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's aesthetic is a good toothy snout.

Skull of an orca/killer whale, Orcinus orca

Skull of a Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Numbats have nothing to do with numbers or bats, much to this man's disappointment.

static.klipy.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump has launched state propaganda on the White House website called Trump TV, a 24/7 stream on YouTube. It’s something done in most authoritarian governments around the world.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s just a constant back and forth. The 8th Circuit has now ruled that Missouri should use the GOP-drawn 2025 congressional map for the November midterms, putting the federal appeals court at odds with the Missouri Supreme Court, which ordered the state to use its 2022 map.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I walked into the room while my uncle was watching Road to Bali, I exclaimed "hey, that's Steve Calvert!" My uncle replied, "No, that's Bob Hope. Who's Steve Calvert?" "He's the gorilla. I'd recognize that ape suit anywhere!"

Steve Calvert, dressed as a gorilla per usual, hold a terrified Bob Hope in Road to Bali (1952)

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I finally got around to watching Heat (1995), and although it's good, I once again question if any movie *needs* to be three hours long. I could watch Kansas City Confidential AND Kubrick's The Killing back-to-back and it would only take an extra fifteen minutes.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you've ever wondered what The Eye of Argon would be like as a hardboiled detective story, you're insane, but I've got you covered. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky www.murderousinkpress.co.uk/crimeucopia-...

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CRIMEUCOPIA - A Coterie Of Dicks

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I need to go through my stories and decide on asterisms or italicized octothorpes as my standard dinkus." #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I finally got around to watching Sorcerer (1977) and I must say, 1/5⭐; contained no sorcery. 😠 I have high hopes for this new Barbarian movie, though.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You, a mycologist: "Laccaria bicolor" Me, an intellectual: "munchroom" #SundayPunday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccari...

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Laccaria bicolor - Wikipedia

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A win! A federal judge has blocked Trump’s USPS rule that sought to place new restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love it when "normal" things happen in Fantasy settings. It makes the world feel like a real place where people live, rather than simply a setting where things occur. #FantasyFriday

"Witch's Broom Joyride" by Greg Luzniak
A witch on the ground yells at her cat riding her flying broom to "get down from there!"
https://gregluzniak.com/

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here's a quick (but more accurate) mock-up I made incorporating the human's larger brain case with the wolf's extended snouth

A composite image combining replica human and wolf skulls (via bone clones) to show what I believe a werewolf skull would be like, with a human cranial capacity and lupine facial morphology.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This needs way more attention. The U.S. Postal Service has built a new system that could effectively turn USPS into a gatekeeper for mail-in ballots. Here are the details on how it is supposed to work.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#TIL the Isles of Scilly have an awesome flag chosen by popular vote, but the fourth place choice looks uncannily like the national flag of Tuvalu. #Flags

the flag of the Isles of Scilly, or "Scillonian Cross"

the fourth place Scillonian flag design, with the Union Jack in the canton and a group of yellow(ish) stars on a light blue field to represent the islands of the archipelago

the flag of Tuvalu, with the Union Jack in the canton and a group of yellow stars on a light blue field to represent the islands of the archipelago

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mandrill skulls are kind of what I imagine a werewolf's would look like. 💀

the skull of a male mandrill, viewed from the front

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today's Aesthetic: Unusual Knuckledusters

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Brian S. Converse @briansconverse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pardon the language, but when does the fucking revolution begin because I'm fed up with this joke of an administration. Public land belongs to the people, not the government. Everyone deserves basic human rights and to live without fear. The rule of law means everyone is accountable. #Change

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I might start identifying members of monospecific genera such as Moloch as "Moloch sp." just to annoy phylogenists. #Biology

Thorny devil (Moloch sp.)
It is specifically (no pun intended) M. horridus, because that's the *only* species in the genus Moloch.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Trump administration is considering giving a private developer access to land inside Yosemite National Park so they can build a road to an 83-acre property they want to develop right outside the park. The National Park Service already rejected the same request years ago, and the previous

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is our generations' Caesar's Comet.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My parents raised me right and now I'm sad.

Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island

Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring Do I go with the one who already has more power than the Ring could offer, or the one with no ambitions for power to corrupt?

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've found a #Fantasy story which rivals The Eye of Argon in its quality of prose. 👀 See for example the paragraph that's one long run-on sentence which describes nipples as "orchidaceous tips." #WriteSky

"Very well," said the lord, smiling. "I shall summon my wife to wash you."
"Nay, my lord, with all respect," said Sir Gawaine. But before he could say he would wash alone, the lord rang the bell again and a robust young man appeared, unclad except for an iron helmet and brass greaves, and carrying a bundle of birches, he smote his other hand with them while smirking in genial cruelty.
"This fellow," said the lord, "is late masseur to the court of Rome, and can soon obliterate the loins' memory of an arduous day in the saddle."
"Sir," said Gawaine, "I would wash me alone, and in a simple tin basin filled with cold water."
"I can deny you nothing," said the lord, and he summoned these things, and they were brought by a withered hag, and Sir Gawaine dismissed her and was left by himself.
Now, when he had finished his bathe, he realized he had nought to wear but his undergarments and steel armor, and therefore he reluctantly rang for his host, for to request the loan of a housecoat, but in answer to his summons came instead a lovely young maid, her flaxen hair flowing over her white shoulders to part at her high round breasts so that the orchidaceous tips were revealed, for she was naked, and Sir Gawaine, an authority on such matters, judged she was in years 16, and in former times she would have been to him as a goblet of cool water to a parched throat, but now he hastily concealed his secrets with the coarse homespun cloth brought him by the hag to dry himself on, and he commanded her to fetch her master to him.
And when, as required by the laws of Liberty Castle, she complied instantly with his wishes, Sir Gawaine knew the first faint pangs of regret, for though he was no longer the un-restrained lecher of old, neither had he become as enervate as a eunuch.
From Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hyenas are dog-shaped cats. Foxes are cat-shaped dogs. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

a simplified phylogenetic tree showing hyenas' relationship to cats

diagram comparing skull morphologies of a grey wolf and a spotted hyena

a simplified phylogenetic tree showing foxes' relationship to dogs

composite image of a cat and a fox showing their similar facial structure with pointed ears and slit pupils

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#TIL New Jersey and Ohio are *both* nicknamed "the armpit of America." I guess that makes Pennsylvania the chest, with Philly and Pittsburgh as a pair of slightly lopsided nipples.

Pennsylvania betwixt Ohio and New Jersey with Pittsburgh and Philadelphia labeled

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This bleet is slightly NSFW, but I love learning other cultures' terms for common ✨positions✨. Before cowboys were a pop culture staple, Victorians referred to cowgirl as "riding St. George," and an Arabic term for missionary is "the manner of serpents."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Trump is now accusing the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the nonprofit suing his administration over the White House ballroom project, of revealing “Top Military Secrets” in its lawsuit.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Aphrodite Areia: the warlike goddess of love Aphrodite REIa: the outdoorsy goddess of love #Puns #MythologyMonday

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

ICE has decided it’s now going to attack the global press, including the Associated Press (AP), because they are reporting the truth. This administration will stop at nothing to prevent the press from telling Americans what’s actually happening.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've had a hankerin' to make these stupid covers for *years*!

Now that's been charitably described as music

Under no circumstances would anyone ever call that music

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

While everyone was asleep, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a 50–49 vote.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/08/2026

I want you to understand that they are jumping through all of these hoops to avoid tax bills that are, in many cases, $50 grand. Or $100k. Yes, to normal folks that is all the money in the world. But these people *routinely* spend that on weekend vacations. They would _definitely_ give it at a gala.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Really important research with clear findings, implications & policy recommendations to arrest the trend of oversized cars & trucks killing & maiming more pedestrians 🙏 & kudos to Milad Haghani, Abbas Rajabifard, Iman Taheri Sarteshnizi, & Neema Nassir @aunz.theconversation.com

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Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it

Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Would you be willing to give up chugging rat poison and bashing yourself in the head with a brick tomorrow!?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"If a dog craps in Akron, does a dog-owner in Cleveland bring theirs in the from the yard?" This strange quote occurred in my dream last night regarding not comparing yourself to others, especially when their performance has no impact on yours. #Writesky #WritingCommunity

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