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Rae

@literatureandlentils.com
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Writer, Reader, Eater ~ they/them I run the Today I'm Reading... feed! “If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world" "I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer" "Then, child, make another"

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 12h
As you get older, you realize the importance of having a large amount of shallow bowls in which to put small amounts of discrete objects
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Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In defense of Tillie and Comics.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
magic: the gathering
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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hey there, Lonely Driver. What are you doing Up So Late? At NIGHT?!
A drawing of the lady from the billboard and the lonely driver in a field.
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 09/05/2026
Another Red-Winged Blackbird warming up the fire breath! #wildlife #birds
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Zombiekaffee @zitronenkaffee.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026
I had so much fun painting this, so I have to share it again... #cats #artsky #kleineKunstklasse
Acrylic painting of a black cat walking through a field of glittering snow
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"The Unicorn Hunters" by Katherine Arden cover, for Penguin Random House Watercolour, acryla gouache, with a heavy dose of Photoshop overtop.
A cathedral that is merging, dreamlike, into a forest. A woman stands in the center, looking out to the forest, as a unicorn runs towards her. The final book cover
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.
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VTDigger @vtdigger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This week from the Vermont Conversation Podcast: Shepherd, farmer and award-winning author Helen Whybrow on life, death and belonging
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Vermont Conversation: Shepherd, farmer and award-winning author Helen Whybrow on life, death and belonging - VTDigger
The Fayston author discusses the history of Vermont’s hill farms as one of struggle and subsistence, and how life as a shepherd helped her deal with the grief of losing her mother.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Paul Evans, British ink and acrylic painting
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J¡m Vaughn @jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The only Data center I'm down with.
An image of Data from Star Trek sitting as the desk in his quarters.
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 05/05/2026
Flat illustration of a majestic American Avocet in three steps- turning to face directly at the viewer. The front-facing view is quite silly!
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Watching it tonight as well
Mulder and Scully, cartoon style.
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Duncan Crombie @the-art-of-web.com · 01/05/2026
Good morning bluesky It touched on freezing here this morning – not very auspicious for the start of summer ❄️ "Beltane Bonfire" #synthart #AIイラスト
painting on black gesso, silhouetted figures in front of a high bonfire, twisted tree with white blossoms, chiaroscuro fiery glow, metallic tracery, deep atmospheric depth, revealing light from darkness, negative space --ar 5:7 --stylize 300 --v 7
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My painting DRIFTLESS AREA
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 01/05/2026
For those who enjoyed the Red-Winged Blackbird photo from yesterday, here's a slow motion video that gives you another perspective. #wildlife #birds (No sound as it was captured at 120fps).
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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Small, quick, constantly in motion, and often in less than optimal lighting conditions the brown creepers are a challenge to get clear photos of--at least that's been my experience. That said, it's always a treat to see one. Ottawa NWR April 3, 2022
Small brown and white bird with a delicate, downward curved beak and small dark eye that, to my thinking, give it a decidedly Dr Seuss-ish appearance.
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We’re watching X-Files and I’m doodling a bit
Walter Skinner from The X-Files. Comic-book style.
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indui @monstermonger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
He’s worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.
A chubby orange cat carefully steps down a bright, peaceful garden path
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I like how this American Tree Sparrow's spiky hair ‘do matches the tree buds. Rock on, little bird! #birds
Handsome sparrow with feathers in a symphony of browns and greys with rufous crest and line through its eye. Its beak is two-tone: black on top, yellow below. Bird is perched on a bare twig on a branch with spiky leaf buds emerging.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Rae @literatureandlentils.com · 24/04/2026
As an LLC resident and then ARLC of an LLC for Housing, I saw first-hand how beneficial these programs are - and how many of the benefits can't be easily quantified for reports, but CAN be seen when actually engaging with students.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The title is fitting. A patient was being treated for Stage IV colorectal cancer. She had qualified for clinical trial, a her last-chance to slow the spread of her cancer. Her trial was about to start when NIH funding was pulled overnight, & it was canceled. She died. Many more stories. 🧪
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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Rae @literatureandlentils.com · 17/04/2026
My character variants! Saw the trend on IG and wanted to post it here, too #BookSky
A grid of characters this user relates to, including Dana Scully, Daniel Jackson, Marceline, Adora, Matilda, Clara Oswald, Tohru Honda. And Elizabeth Bennet
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Stanislav Zhukovsky (1873-1944) Summer Meadow in Pobojka, 1938. Oil on board.
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Night Gull 🍟 @amydwyer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#bloomscrolling
Puffy frilly pink flower front and center.  A full bloom cherry blossom is surrounded by others and connected with wonderful knobbly twigs all around.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
oh hell yeah FOG SCIENCE www.science.org/content/arti...
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Fog is a vital water resource. Could it disappear in a warming world?
California program promises serious attention to an “underdog” area of research
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Nancy Lucía López @cybergata.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Artist Maria Pavlova, Russian born 1979, "Black and White", #CatArt
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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 16/04/2026
guys, this is how you lose the time war
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
- The Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) is a small North American swallow. - Photo courtesy of Christine Haines.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A Black-capped Chickadee on full alert for peanuts (the Chickadee was offered one right after this photo.)
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"The Pitt" vs. its fandom: Why is the show's vocal fandom putting "The Pitt's" characters on trial to be deemed “good” or “bad"? This week's newsletter buttondown.com/NinaWatchesE...
Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby, peaking his head into an examination room, on "The Pitt."
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Rae @literatureandlentils.com · 07/04/2026
Rewatching Fruits Basket again and fighting the urge to cry every other episode. I need to revisit the idea of a Fruba tattoo. Maybe a rice ball... #Anime #FruitsBasket
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a girl with long red hair is wearing a sailor outfit
Alt: A GIF of Tohru Honda smiling from Fruits Basket
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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 30/03/2026
I had a friend who taught ethics and she showed episodes of Star Trek (TOS) to illustrate points she made in her class. When I watched the episodes as a child, I knew that Star Trek was political and showing me a very different world than the one I lived in. I wanted that future. Still do.
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Rae @literatureandlentils.com · 31/03/2026
Breakfast + today's #transrightsreadathon read #Food #BookSky #CurrentlyReading
A plate of avocado toast and a fried egg sits next to a Cholula bottle, a mug of black coffee, a small bowl of vitamins, and a copy of Holler by Denali Sai Nalamalapu
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Rae @literatureandlentils.com · 20/03/2026
Fresh newsletter this week!! Just Do the Hard Thing literature-and-lentils.ghost.io/just-do-the-...
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Just Do the Hard Thing
The last seven and a half months have been full of growth for me. I moved from NC to the northeast, got married, bought a house, pushed through overtime at my job, and then was laid off in the middle ...
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...
“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.”

“For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.”
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Rae @literatureandlentils.com · 20/03/2026
Fresh newsletter this week!! Just Do the Hard Thing literature-and-lentils.ghost.io/just-do-the-...
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Just Do the Hard Thing
The last seven and a half months have been full of growth for me. I moved from NC to the northeast, got married, bought a house, pushed through overtime at my job, and then was laid off in the middle ...
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Eva Eskelinen @evelmiina.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Sylph songstress
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Rae @literatureandlentils.com · 13/03/2026
If you loved Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Rebecca Podos, there's something exciting arriving on March 20th... #BookSky #CuurentlyReading #ReaderSky @jamiepacton.bsky.social @beccapodos.bsky.social
A picture of a cat with an envelope and a question mark with the text "can I interest you in some bok mail?"Strawberries frame an envelope that says "dead cozy fantasy fans, sapphic romance lovers, and anticapitalist adventurers"Strawberries frame a letter that says "we are most pleased to invite you to the cover reveal of Homeward for a Spell upon the date of Friday, March 20. Do RSVP with your excitement"
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Beans and Lentils will save us ❤️ And kindness
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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
nU tReK iS tOO wOkE
Lenara and Jadzia Dax kiss. Star Trek DS9 "Rejoined."
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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
spring ~ 🌱
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The back of my head throughout today
An edit for a Simpsons screenshot featuring a whiteboard reading "do it for her" but covered in stills of Mel King from The Pitt
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chris☀️ @arcanegold.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
when he’s strong and fast and also fresh from the fight 🫦
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Well WW3 did start in 2026 in Star Trek.
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 28/02/2026
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Artcher| looking for work! @artcher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker Pic of the day #photography
Jacaranda trees in bloom lining Fairfax in South Hollywood, CA

I consider this a very mediocre picture but I’m posting it today in contrast to yesterday’s amazing pic as a test. I paired yesterday’s with Malcolm X and those pics never do numbers. Methinks the folks on this platform need a lot more Malcolm in their lives. Ninnys.
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