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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I suspect part of it is people just leave them on their cars indefinitely.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today's aesthetic is some of the flags I've designed for a project in the past few days.

An American-style flag with four horizontal stripes of alternating red and white, and a blue "30-60-90" right triangle on the hoist with a white star in the canton (representing the "stars and stripes" family of flags)

A flag for a hypothetical Arab nation with a white star and crescent on a green triangular hoist and horizontal stripes of red, white, and black (representing the "Pan-Arab" family of flags)

A flag for a hypothetical African nation with a yellow star on a red square canton and a yellow stripe over a green stripe (representing the "Pan-African, Ethiopian colors" family of flags)

A flag for a hypothetical South American nation with a yellow half Sun of May or "Sol de Mayo" rising from behind a white horizontal stripe on a light blue field (representing the "Belgrano" family of flags)

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This idea has been rattling around in my skull for over a week at this point.

Morticia Addams (played by Anjelica Huston) holds a portrait of Wednesday Addams (played by Lisa Loring), smiling and holding her pet reptile. Morticia says: "Wednesday, you used to be such a cheerful child. What happened?"

Wednesday Addams (played by Christina Ricci), now holding a bottle of poison and looking very dour, replies "I put away childish things." (quoting 1 Corinthians 13:11)

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Y'knowhat? It's Westsylvania. Ohio can have Pittsburgh; it's Hell with the roof off and we all know it." (I'm roughly from Philly, if you can't tell. 😆)

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September word count Although I'm rarely as productive as I'd like to be, I maintained a fairly respectable output this past month. It'll be interesting to see how OctoWriMo goes. 👀 Low: 330 High: 2420 Mean: 1230 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

A line graph of my word count for September, with a dotted red line representing daily values and a solid blue line as the running average. Although 12 days were below average and 14 were above, with spikes and drops, the average itself remained fairly consistent, staying within a 131 word range after the first week.

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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

Also, I think we should embrace the spelling of "doäble," per the usage of a diaeresis.

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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

ALT:

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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

My other complaint is that this is the only shot in the entire film when De Niro and Pacino's faces are both visible on-screen (and one isn't even in focus). Yes, including the climax and the famous coffee shop scene. I see where the rumour comes from that they filmed all their scenes separately.

Robert De Niro (out of focus) and Al Pacino in Heat

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and director Michael Mann behind the scenes of the famous coffee shop scene in Heat

Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Béla Lugosi) and Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) play chess in Universal's The Black Cat (1934)
Both actors' faces are clearly visible as they face off; Heat needed an equivalent of this shot in the coffee shop, IMHO.

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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

I spent waaay too long trying to find the best species of carnivorous fungus for this joke, but it worked out well in the end, because L. bicolor is also edible if you've got the munchies.

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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 · 01/09/2026

August word count #HotBarbarianSummer drew to a close as I finished my line-up of Heroic Fantasy stories, and after getting back from New England, I returned to my *Urban* Fantasy stories! (Can you spot the week I was away on vacation? 😜) Low: 0 High: 2106 Mean: 810 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

A line graph of my word count for August, with a dotted red line representing daily values and a solid blue line as the running average. From August 10th through the 17th, the word count never goes above 200, even though it only dropped below 600 twice in the rest of the month.

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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

Other animals considered to be the example for the above bleet included the narwhal (Monodon sp.), platypus (Ornithorhynchus sp.), and T. rex (Tyrannosaurus sp.) 😜

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