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Lover of books and plushies Currently collecting plague people Formerly cthulhu8books over at the other site Lostshadows over on Mastodon Cuteharbinger over on Instagram She/her

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, my local supermarket has an option on their website to place a deli order and they'll text you when it's ready to pick up. It will, however, not text you and let you know that they can't actually fill the order, because they let you select a product the store you selected doesn't have.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just blocked an account that seems to exist to be angry about a book, based on a video game, for not following a ttrpg's rules. People, it's really not that serious.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Woo-hoo! My remaining Libby hold came in, before the weather can knock out the internet.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's late. I should go to bed. Or I can watch this three year old video on why we don't wear hats anymore.
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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Plan for tomorrow: prepare some food that doesn't need the oven or microwave, jic.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just got my state/county's annual "No, we actually want you to vote" flyer. How to register to vote. How to check your voter status. How to request a mail in ballot. Where you can drop off ballots. And where and when you can vote early.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm considering buying vegetables you don't cook from the supermarket. I'm really hoping I don't regret this.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm being informed that I want ice cream.
Plushie green alien, poking out of a purple backpack, in a hospital hallway.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Me: *Trying to figure out if a shipwreck from a song was real* Ad on likely looking page: "Explore watercraft deals"
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wondering if I'm feeling sick enough that I should cancel my doctor's appointment.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I hate it when I pack so quickly I forget my cake.
From a board in a "find the objects" game, where our heroine has gone to the house of a guy who left their date very abruptly, to discover emptied draws and a fancy two tier cake sitting on the coffee table,  along with phone, elephant, and books. 

Also visible is cylindrical pillow, basket, and cat.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hmm… an evil corporation and a discussion of how public transit is a good thing. I think this book series may have gone "woke" Note: The book series had legalized SW and the option for people to earn a salary to be a stay at home parent, like 60 books ago.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ah, it's September 19th.
static.klipy.com
Tim Curry as Pirate Laughing (Long John Silver)
Alt: Tim Curry as Pirate Laughing (Long John Silver)
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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gah! Why is it that everything I can find about doing anything with short hair, has a model with nice, flat hair that's down to her shoulders? This includes a video on straightening short hair. My hair is not that long and goes poof in all directions, because I have too much volume.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Feel free to open a dialog with me or my child at any time you wish.
Two very friendly looking plush, tall, gray robots, with no arms and little black feet, in two different sizes. Both have a black badge in the center of their chest, with a supermarket logo over the name Marty.

The taller one is wearing a stars and stripes themed top hat and blue bow tie covered in white stars.

The smaller one has a loop and plastic bag clip coming out of his head.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How ur emails find me this morning.
A badly taxidermied fox head
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yes game, that's the thing you'll find in the dressing room of ever movie star in the 1920s, an accordion.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/09/2026
I can tell AI is shitty at its job because all the people who use it cannot come up with actual selling points to save their lives.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Meat flavored Pringles weren't a good idea.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Glad I was already kinda awake when that flash flood warning came up on my phone.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reese has started writing the Great American Novel(tm) It's the story of a small alien, stranded on Earth, so, probably on par for most GAN attempts.
A small, green alien, leaning over a blank notebook page, with a pen in hand.A small, green alien admiring a page full of text. The pen is now capped and laying across the notebook. 
A small, green alien rewarding his hard work with a couple of cupcakes.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Just copy itself to other computers" also implies it's capable of thought. Someone would have to instruct it to make copies of itself.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
*checks place in Libby hold queues* Dammit people, read faster. Also, library system, only two copies of Fury in Death? You have five copies of the previous book. Maybe spring for a third?
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do I remember why this book was on my tbr? No. Am I enjoying it? Yes.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Rejected by insurance
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11/09/2026
Not only did the Edsel outsell the cybertruck, it sold almost twice as well. The Edsel sold about 116,000 units over two years. The cybertruck? 63k.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I need to look up where the Victorian technology books fall in the Dewey decimal system.
A Steampunk Plague Doctor
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Currently taking heartburn meds, in case my breathing and chest pain issues is related to GERD. Given it got worse after I walked across town, but not when I had lunch, I'm going to say it's not that.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'd say I just woke up from a nap, but a sudden, overwhelming, wave of fatigue that knocked me out for several hours, doesn't really feel like a "nap"
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm being informed that I need to go get a Labor Day cake.
A group of six green aliens, two big and four little, staring at the camera.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So, we're opening this werewolf book with the protagonist meeting a woman he finds vaguely menacing, but hot. Gee, I wonder who'll turn out to be the werewolf. Did subtly not exist in 1948?
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The perfect pet for my apartment dwelling Sims.
A group of three chickens pecking at the decking of an apartment balcony, next to some furniture. 

Fortunately, they don't roam around from that area.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/09/2026
The thing to understand about romance is that romance will absolutely shank romance in a drive-by romance-on-romance shanking, but that just makes us very good at shanking, and there are so many of us that we have a lot of practice.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Normally I hate clickbait, but I'll make an exception for "I joined a convent of undead seamstresses."
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Game, I'm happy you're being inclusive, but I really don't think a interracial gay couple would be met with, what appears to be, universal acceptance in 1920s colonial Africa.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank you for your handy "cite this page" button, website, but you think Edgar Allen Poe is Southern Gothic, so, no. Gothic? Definitely. Southern? Not remotely.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yup, this book was definitely published in 1930. The couple of uses of the n-word came pretty late*, which made them extra jarring. *Unless I missed some. Audiobook + traffic could have obscured some.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I miss breathing that doesn't hurt.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How did I become a wealthy hedge fund manager when I was only 19, you ask? -I worked hard. -I didn't cut corners. -I murdered a wealthy hedge fund manager and stole his identity. There are no shortcuts in life.
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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We Are Hiring! We're looking for a Content and Community Assistant.  This is a paid, part time remote position from Nov. 1 through June 1 2027, for a US-based person who is as into romance & discussion as they are into details & organization. You can find all the info here: bit.ly/SBTBTemp
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That's the second time I've had a prescription rejected by insurance for reasons that are really dumb First one was wrong brand, of a supplement Today was delayed release vs. regular CVS solved the first one. Don't know if Walgreens would have solved this one, since I was already working on it
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I love how doctors ask weird questions like you'd actually know the answer. "What happened if you leant forward?" It didn't occur to me to do this when I thought I might, possibly, be having a heart attack. "Does it hurt more if you press on it?" Probably, but why would I have done that?
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's publication date says 2020, but I suspect it got a new cover slapped on it recently. That or a human made some... interesting choices.
The cover to an edition of As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner. 

On it is a man wearing a leather jacket, is hovering slightly above the ground, alone in a scenic wilderness, gazing towards a colorful sky.

I assume the Burden family, their cart, and the coffin are somewhere behind him.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Not my best score, but I currently have four words that nobody else has used. Playoutlier.com
My results for today's Outlier.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Found a set of nice colored pencils in a landscape set at Dollar Tree. I knew there were some other themed sets, but wasn't sure how many, so I checked DT website. Nothing. Okay, their website isn't great. Tried Amazon. Also nothing. Okay, their website is huge.
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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'll just watch these comic book reviews to distract myself from how awful reality is. *Watches a review of Ultimatum* 😧😬🙄, but still better than reality.
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