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Lyndall

@lyndallc.bsky.social
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I talk a lot about MCAS and TTRPGs. Canadian-Australian living in Alberta. Probably won't follow you if you're American. I get enough of that on every other social platform. Occasional Christian-posting. Occasional Ace-posting.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 19h
I was 33 years old when I learned that Scott Joplin, composer of The Entertainer and The Maple Leaf Rag, was Black. The education system has failed me.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026
This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.
A series of bands cross the image from left to right, brighter at the bottom and darkening towards the top. A band of empty space is at the top of the image. About a quarter down from the top is a complex pattern of jagged, spiky shadows cast onto the rings. The icy towers casting the shadows are seen here at a highly oblique angle.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 22h
Watch this for the cinematography (I'm serious) if you don't care about basketball or urbanism.
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Jason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
After 1 full week on Moon Base, I’m here to report that, yep, this is gonna be a challenge.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watching a lot of reels of people playing Dressmaker on Twitch and it's so fun watching gamers discover marker design.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s
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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial
The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People are commenting Save The Academy on all of Drexel's instagram posts and I think that's pretty cool. If you're looking for something to do tonight 👀
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My ankle has puffed up to twice its size and is tight and hot and angry and red, and I still have no sign of hives whatsoever. My skin apparently just doesn't DO hives. (Horribly inconvenient when you're trying to talk to allergists.)
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Many people are hating the Vanishing board in Outlier, but I was having a great time. (It's actually easier for me to find words with somewhat fewer letters, creative constraints and all that jazz.)
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)
A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My Adderall isn't for me. My Adderall is for the whole world.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was watching a reel about making hospital birth more cozy to feel like home births, and the comments were all like "Hospitals could NEVER feel like a home and that's why I'M having a HOMEBIRTH", and reading those comments I was like actually, I don't want to give birth at home.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thinking about how yesterday I was watching a How to ADHD video and someone in the comments said something about how they would get stuck watching videos if they were attempting to body double and I was like WHAT DO YOU MEEEEANNN I get bored watching someone talk.
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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A few years back (2018ish) a lynx moved into the backyard of one of my neighbours and missing cat posters went up by the dozens. Squirrels disappeared too but our cats were totally safe. Pictured below, suffering
A grey tabby and a calico cat sleeping on a green pillow
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course the hornet stung me on the ankle RIGHT as I was getting really into ankle mobility work, and now that foot is all puffed up and stiff.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got stung by a hornet on the ankle today. Baby's first hornet/wasp sting. It HOOOORRRTTTSSS. 😭
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cars are the WORST.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anybody who would decide to close this museum does not have Philadelphia’s best interests at heart.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was all sad that I couldn't work the referendum because I do extremely poorly with waking up early, and tbh any time before noon counts as "waking up early" for me right now. . . TURNS OUT there are evening and night shifts though!
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really wish we had leftist email newsletters that LOOK like far-right nonsense, y'know with all the clickbait headlines about "owning the libs" and "woke ideology", and the shitty graphic design, but! instead it's preaching against billionaires. I wanna sign my parents up for these.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just got the email that holiday rate increases for shipping will start on October 4th, so please please get a calendar before then so shipping is cheaper!! SquidFacts.net
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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
americans love justifying writing dates crazy-style MM/DD/YY because 'that's how you say it' and then write prices as $5
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So many indie ttrpgs in the world, so few that speak to me. 😭 Because not many people like me are out there making games.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why the heck are people out here washing their towels in 60C water. Calm down. The bacteria are gonna die in cold water anyway (the detergent will get 'em). Stop wasting the energy and ruining your fabrics! Wash in cold water!
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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
arbutus 🤝 larch defying deciduous classification
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♿️Maestro Fluger (he/him) @nfluger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The owl is back!
An owl in a tree.An owl in a tree.An owl in a tree.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Supporting my local bookstore, NOT adding to more stuff in my house, and removing a toxic book from circulation? WIN SCENARIO ALL 'ROUND.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Went to the secondhand bookstore today and my only purchase was Created to Be His Helpmeet by Debbie Pearl so that I could DESTROY IT. (Tore it up in my driveway and tossed it in the dumpster.) Some books need to be taken out of circulation.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy first day of fall!! Did you know that fall is, perhaps counterintuitively, a great time to plant things? It gives the plant time to establish their roots in the soil so that next spring they can shoot out of the soil confident in the ground they’re in. Be a good witch and cast summon bug 🪲
An absolutely caked up toad with a big ol belly and his hand on his hip, wearing a wobbly
Old witches hat and holding a glowing flower says “feelin witchy? Cast summon bug! With an asterisk and the asterisk says grow native plants
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/09/2026
This isn't the diseased skin of some alien—this is Mars! Taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, this colour scene shows a portion of the planet's high southern latitudes where frost, dust, and sunlight combine to produce these pink and purple tones.
From the source: "A purple–pink–coloured patch of Mars, which is lighter on the left and darker on the right. A dark line runs from the top centre towards the bottom right, dividing the light and dark areas. At the centre of the image is a sharp light-coloured crater. Less sharp craters are scattered over the rest of the image. At the bottom left is a bright white-blue triangular patch; it looks icy."
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Canada's winter time zones this year are going to be so stupid but I don't caaaarrrreeee because I don't have to change my clocks!
A time zone map of Canada but there's UTC-7 (green) time in the middle of a UTC-6 (blue) time zone. Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec are UTC-5 (pink) but for some reason the western sliver of Ontario is also UTC-6 (blue). Oh Northern Quebec and a weird little bit below Labrador are UTC-4 (yellow) like the rest of the Maritimes. And then of course we have Newfoundland doing their half-an-hour-different thing with their own weird UTC-3:30 time zone (purple). But! Oh look, a little nub of Labrador has joined Newfoundland time too! 

And I forgot to mention the little bit of BC that decided they're staying with Alberta time in UTC-6 (blue).
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Going to be smug about my EV again
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you see this, do it (or not) ✶ name: Lyndall ✶ height: 165cm ✶ star sign: Scorpio cusp ✶ nicknames: not telling ✶ siblings: 2 ✶ relationships: have 'em ✶ crushing on: nope (ace) ✶ fave season: summer ✶ pets: box elder beetles that sneak in ✶ fav color: purple ✶ live: mealworms?
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As a hyperlexic enneagram 4, Outlier is a game that is EXACTLY my shit. Turns out I'm pretty good at it too??
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey @stabbyabby.bsky.social remember how I said I wanted a game where you do dressup but with actual pattern shapes? Turns out they made it. store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
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Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17/09/2026
To be clear, I am 100% in support of the Moon having the shit kicked out of it. More impacts, please. (For, uh, science.)
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17/09/2026
HOLY SHIT NEW IMPACT CRATER ON THE MOON This crater is 222 m (728 ft) across, and formed in spring 2024. Statistical modelling tells us this is a 1-in-132 year event. So the last time a crater this big formed on the Moon was 1894.
A large crater with bright rays is situated in the centre of this image. The dark, pockmarked lunar surface makes up the background.
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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Upzone!
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have just discovered an absolutely horrific genre of book: salacious foster child memoirs written by the foster mum. They are supposedly non-fiction memoirs, but the blurbs are written like thrillers (and one author, Cathy Glass, is a pseudonym for an ACTUAL thriller author).
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Been listening to a bunch of home management and organising podcasts lately (Clutterbug, The Lazy Genius, Dana K White), and will also yell about how THIS is management skills and systems engineering and psychology. But because women are doing it in the home, it goes unacknowledged.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will yell all day long about how my Apparel Technology diploma SHOULD be considered a form of engineering and the only reason it's not is because fashion and sewing are considered Girl Things.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rare "white British dude being normal about Trans folks" W.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 13/09/2026
Your periodic reminder that “diets to treat autism” are BS. Autism is not a disease. Also many autistic kids (& adults) have GI issues, food sensory issues, &/or dietary allergies. Sometimes specific diets help THOSE ISSUES, and when autistic people feel better, they ACT like they feel better. 1/2
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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The thing to understand about antivaxers is that they don’t think *they’ll* get sick because in their minds, only morally/spiritually inferior people are susceptible to illness. (This applies to both religious-right and New Age–left antivaxers, they just define morality & spirituality differently)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Guerilla. . . tree poisoning?? (Don't freak out it's invasive.) youtu.be/tRMjyMEJIqU?...
youtu.be
This Tree is Destroying Our Cities
YouTube video by Miranda Pietzsch
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
-Instagram reel about replacing petroleum-based outdoor gear with natural fibre stuff -Uses wool -Comment about unethical it is to use wool -My brother have you ever even touched a sheep
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Parents of girls over 12 all over Alberta are now receiving “permission forms” requiring their birth sex as female in order to participate in sports as a result of the Government of Alberta’s “Fairness and Safety in Sport Act”. The more parents who file a challenge in response, the better.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remember how that video of a sea turtle with a straw up its nose horrified people to get on board with banning straws? Every social media post I've seen that exposes data centre noise and *what it does to animals* has been re-posted by the most moderate, "Is-AI-really-that-bad?" person in my life.
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