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Lizzy

@ninnny.bsky.social
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Cats, dogs, sci fi, fantasy

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Then Miki sent a directionless ping. Just a call into the dark, checking to see if there was anyone out there who wanted to reply.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Relaxing with a cigarette while AI prepares my class for tomorrow
A vintage ad or article(?) with a black-and-white photo of an old-fashioned robot holding a bucket and sponge as it washes a car, which a man in a blazer with a cigarette watches. 

The text reads: "The Reckitt Industrial robot is a computerized cleaner. First presented to the world in January 1977, it is 3 ft 2 in. (0.97 m.) high and weighs under three stone (19 kg.). can scrub and polish floors, dust anc polish desks and furniture, sweep vacuum, and remove excess water Dennis Weston's Tinker, which can be programmed to perform any reasonable task"
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Hey, how have you been?” ‘Not great, I’ve had a bit of a frog in my throat for the last day or two.’ “Huh, I’ve been feeling a bit low myself, I wonder if that’s what I’ve got too?” 1st quarter of the 14th century, British Library, Royal MS 19 B XV, f. 30v
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There was no planetary feed (stupid planet) but Stupid Boat had its own rudimentary feed that was heavy with games and pornography but light on anything that might be helpful for a security assessment
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Goblin training. 💪🏻 Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a young white woman playing with a cat that is climbing precariously up the back of a wooden chair.
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Post-it @postlurker2025.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look at these feet!
Jt’s pile of paws.  Comfy pup laying on his bed
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders.
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.” -Alvin Toffler #BOTD
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Adolph Menzel, Death as an Unwelcome Guest, 1844/1845. Watercolor and gouache. 5.1 x 3.6 in. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Death politely recognizes that this is a shoe-free house.
Death, dressed in a top hat and overcoat, rings the doorbell as he removes his shoes. Inscribed: "1844: Plusquamperfectum" ("more than finished")
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m sure you’ve seen Martha Wells on the topic of the use of AI—she is wonderfully forthright… And, of course in the Murderbot Universe we know that if they killed all the humans there would be no one to make media! [and no scientific research…] Clutches function!
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Picking up on my reaction, ART said,
What does it want?
To kill all the humans, I answered.
I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function. If there were no humans, there would be no crew to protect and no reason to do research and fill its databases. It said, That is irrational.
I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WAVE (1994) Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48” Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. #art
An exponential curve expressed as a massive wave of green-blue water that climbs to vertical against a sky of puffy lavender clouds. Light breaks through the cloud cover just over the horizon casting a flat glare across rippling water before the wave climbs. Fin-like ridges emerge running up the wall give the water turbulence and dimension.
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Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels @moonsheen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredibly honored that "We, the Fleet" (Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/singer_05_25/) is the 2026 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner. It's amazing to be chosen, especially among such an fantastic set of fellow nominees. Thrilled to be attending the symposium in October!
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We, the Fleet by Alex T. Singer
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(Nobody grabs SecUnits. I hadn’t realized this was a perk until now.)
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pretty sure this contained my first taste of Wm. Burroughs. Found it on rotating wire racks in a local drugstore when I was about 13. Cost a me a quarter and a dime!
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Lizzy @ninnny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fishy
Biiiiiig stretch from tabby with white tummy, bib, socks, etc, with beloved fish nearby.
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Poster for The Canary Murder Case (1929), starring William Powell as Philo Vance and Louise Brooks as "The Canary".
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Striking artwork by Lionel Reiss (who became art director at Paramount) with a distinct German Expressionism influence. Used in a magazine advert for The Canary Murder Case (1929) and based on a publicity shot of Louise Brooks.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ART paused for 8.3 seconds for no reason I could think of except to make the humans think it wasn’t going to answer the question.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(I knew by this time that on Preservation, dismissal isn’t as bad as it is in the Corporation Rim, so it’s not like she would get killed or starve or anything.)
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026
Logging onto the old email to see if any birds are asking me for donations and... nope.
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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*brings an iced coffee to a knife fight* Hey guys! [rattles ice] What's going on?
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise." -George Gershwin #BOTD
Composer George Gershwin and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra percussionist James Rosenberg with taxi horns, 1929.
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She turned to the display surface and made the completely unnecessary gesture that some humans can’t help doing when they send something from their feed to display.
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SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The ability to directly control symptoms is what first got me excited about the potential impact of the ANS on challenging medical disorders like mine.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“there’s only so much i can do” i say, after doing nothing
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Goodnight from the St. Urith clergy house, its nuns giving each retired priest their nightly blessing of whisky as members of the Ghost-layers' Club mutter in a corner. Goodnight from Abigail Ash, calling spirits from all five directions of the cunning compass. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A pair of Guido Crepax originals from when he was just 18 years old, illustrating Poe stories... The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(Mensah said, “People, please. I’m scheduled to mediate arguments between teenagers on my next commcall home and I need all my patience for that.”)
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
at Hyakusaiji Temple, Shiga @Shinji Aratani
Nestled deep against a dense, shadowed forest backdrop, a small, weathered timber shrine (hokora) rests elevated upon a stacked stone foundation (ishigaki) and a flight of moss-draped stone steps (ishidan). In the foreground, a sweeping curve of dark, damp gravel transitions into a lush carpet of moss, illuminated by soft, cool light filtered through the canopy. Overhanging branches of Japanese maple and mountain greenery cast gentle, dappled shadows across the structure, creating a quiet sensory landscape filled with the aroma of damp earth, lichen, and cool forest air.

Photographed by Shinji Aratani, this image depicts a quiet auxiliary sanctuary within the sacred grounds of Hyakusai-ji (Hyakusaiji Temple) in Shiga Prefecture. Founded in 606 CE by Prince Shōtoku, Hyakusai-ji is among the oldest Tendai Buddhist temples in the Kotō Sanzan region along the western slopes of the Suzuka Mountain range. Such small wooden shrines scattered across temple precincts reflect the long history of shinbutsu shūgō (the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhist worship), serving as localized dwellings for tutelary spirits (kami) guarding the sacred mountain. The understated wooden joinery and raw stone masonry embody an enduring tradition of environmental monozukuri (artisanal mastery in architecture), seamlessly harmonizing human devotion with the natural landscape.
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Lizzy @ninnny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Neighbor cat Purlie is snoozing on Dungeon Crawler Carl, dreaming of a trip to Britain with tiara/sunglasses. @mattdinniman.bsky.social
Floofy part tabby cat snoozing on books: Dungeon Crawler Carl and travel guide to Britain
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Misty path to Dewa Sanzan temples, Japan (Photography by Ah Bee Panda).
Ascending through a dense cathedral of ancient, towering Japanese cedars (sugi), a moss-carpeted stone staircase (ishidan) carves a dark, deliberate path into the veil of a mountain mist. The lower foreground is grounded by deep, ink-like tones of wet slate and weathered bark, where ferns and emerald moss cling to centuries-old roots. Above, a heavy, luminous fog softens the canopy, partially dissolving the distant forest and the silhouetted eaves of hidden shrine architecture into an ethereal, monochromatic haze. The high-contrast interplay between the damp, dark stones below and the pale, misty void above creates an immersive sensory landscape filled with the quiet aroma of damp pine, damp earth, and cool mountain air.
Photographed by Ah Bee Panda, this composition captures the sacred approach (sandō) of Mount Haguro, one of the revered Dewa Sanzan (Three Mountains of Dewa) nestled in Yamagata Prefecture. Comprising 2,446 hand-laid stone steps lined by over five hundred ancient cedars, this trail has served for over a millennium as a pilgrimage route for practitioners of Shugendō—a syncretic tradition combining Shinto nature worship, Esoteric Buddhism, and mountain asceticism. Within Shugendō cosmology, traversing the Dewa Sanzan represents a symbolic journey of spiritual death and rebirth, with Mount Haguro representing the present physical life. The meticulous construction of these stone stairs and the preservation of the sacred grove demonstrate a profound environmental monozukuri (artisanal mastery in sacred design), where human devotion is sculpted into permanent, harmonious dialogue with the living forest.
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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'With fair Ceres, Queen of Grain, The reaped fields we roam, roam, roam: Each country peasant, nymph, and swain, Sing their harvest home, home, home.' ~Thomas Heywood 🎨Walter Crane #WyrdWednesday
Illustration depicting the Goddess Ceres. She wears a crown of wheat and her clothes are adorned with wheat, rye and barley and a pattern of red poppies. She holds some stems of cereal in one hand and a sickle in the other. Text across the top reads 'Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees of wheat, rye, barley' Tempest, Act IV, Sc I'.
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday Harvest Home in Northumberland in 1901 The last corn that was gathered would be made into a human shape, dressed in fine clothes and crowned with flowers and called the ‘Kern Baby’ or ‘Harvest Queen.’ ayearinthecountry.co.uk/tales-from-t...
A corn dolly made out of wheat sheaves and dressed in white fabric, crowned with a bunch of flowers or wheat.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Goodnight from Bill Tanner, wondering if there’s any point in ringing the police to report that there’s a giant black cube hovering above Hobble Woods. Goodnight from Kate Watson, wishing making magical inks from mushrooms didn’t stain her hands so much. Goodnight from Hookland.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh yeah, memory archive active, I remember what happened. Yikes.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately. Of the many times I had been shot, a depressingly large percentage of hits had come from clients who were trying to “help” me.)
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Lizzy @ninnny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beauty shot
Sweet furry tabby with white chin and paws is tucked up all snug
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ART kept quiet, though I could tell it was interested in watching me work.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
let my cat out on my roof deck and was talking to him like you do (“oh you gunna hide under the chair? you think that’s a good hiding spot?? you the best hider that’s ever lived???”) for a good two minutes before I looked over and saw my neighbor sitting on his deck and he heard every word
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
getting ready to go solve a murder on the orient express with this guy
georgiecowboy on ig a hairy brown dog groomed to have a handlebar mustache
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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark
Black and white manga. Batman looks off towards panel right and asks, "Oh! And how can he be so nimble?!"
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The Movie Music Spotlight @mmsradioshow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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