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Otis Swanson

@odometer.bsky.social
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Lurker at best, reply guy at worst. From Zegema Beach, ⛱️🦀 To the Jovian Moons.🪐🌛 Lost in space, but ain't we all.🚀🌌 Friend to Orcs, for real.🗡🤝🛡 Halfway between Chaos and Order. 🏴🏴‍☠️🏴 Just a softie, really. 🤭🤗 He/him.🧜‍♂️💖💜💙🧜‍♀️

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 15h
You ever looked at a guy being alive and went "absolutely not" ? #art #weapon #swordtober
Five beatsticks.
The first thingie is an arming flail with three heads made of a length of chain and a weight each. It has two discs framing its handle, which is covered in blue leather.
The second thingie is a goedendag, it is made of a rough length of wood roughly the length of a baseball bat, with a flared iron cap topped with a broadhead spear tip.
The third thingie is a large flamberge greatsword, with a wave patterned blade featuring two downward curved parrying hooks and a ricasso partially covered in a leather wrap for handling. The hilt is elaborate in shape with two sets of quillions and a side ring with openwork hearts cut out of them, while the grip itself ends in a heart shaped pommel and is decorated with blue tassels.
The fourth thingy is a poleaxe, with a blued steel head and fittings. It has an axe bit and a cloven hammer head topped with a straight awl point, a languette that extends halfway down the shaft and into a shell motif handguard, and a long heel spike.
The fifth and final thingie is an arming flail, made of two lengths of wood hinged together with iron links and studded with large spikes. The handle is wrapped for most of its length with a leather thong.
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Robot Wig @robotwig.com · 5h
One year ago today, I posted this miniature idea I had for a 'Who's line is it anyway' mashup. All shot practically using real figures, lighting and a homemade backdrop. @colinmochrie.bsky.social @gregproops.bsky.social #photography #whoslineisitanyway #visualart #mashup #comedy #horror
Pennywise gets stabbed in the head by Michael Myers doing an improvisation on the show 'Who's Crime was it anyway?' Ghostface and Freddy sit at the back having a good time
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
A Lego statue of Mario riding YoshiA Lego set of Yoshi riding a Yoshi dirt bike
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 9h
32 years of BORT. “Itchy and Scratchy Land” first aired October 2, 1994.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 20h
Three panel comic. Panel 1: underwater ocean camera view of a whale fall on the sea floor, with various bottom feeders and weird fishes crawling around the decomposing remains. Off panel, someone says, “hang on a second…” Panel 2: the speaker is a member of a marine biologist crew, remotely viewing the video footage from a computer monitor. The biologist is leaning against his colleague’s chair. He continues, “pan the camera back.” Panel 3: Back underwater, the POV shifts to the other end of the whale carcass. There’s a large spider crab with a standing just off to the side. It has a human face in a neutral expression, and is wearing glasses. The marine biologist says, “I think I went to high school with that guy.”
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 11h
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🎃 Found Star Trek Episodes 🎃 @foundepisodes.bsky.social · 10h
#StarTrekDS9 "Cenotes" Trapped in a celestial darkworld, Kira must find a way to liberate Odo from a Pah Wraith possession and unlock the key back to her reality before she loses her mind to terror. Nog gets addicted to candy corn. Vorta: Sting.
A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows:

Englund) in a chocolate factory, unable to separate dreams from reality, and face-to-face with an enigmatic host (Gene Wilder).

7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min.
Trapped in a celestial darkworld, Kira must find a way to liberate Odo from a Pah Wraith possession and unlock the key back to her reality before she loses her mind to terror. Nog gets addicted to candy corn. Vorta: Sting.

[SCI] MOVIE(CC)—Science Fiction; 2 hrs.
“Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Puppet Khan.” Ric-
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 8h
Daily bunny no.3460 is a little stuck
Two bunnies look at one another from opposite sides of a small river. The banks of the river are small but steep rocky cliffs, like a fjord. One bunny looks like they are calculating a jump
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12h
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 12h
Sisko skateboarding around the promenade on a Sisko skateboard is a powerful visual.
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Irregular Galaxy Doods @igdoods.bsky.social · 13h
tell me something you made with your hands recently ✨
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Bill Krause @admiralbuck.bsky.social · 12h
Another 1970 Tissot Seastar refresh, this time on a sunburst blue dial. PR516 GL automatic.
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Emilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 12h
#3476 I'm not like other birds
A digital drawing of a bird with weirdly human legs.
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RJB / Mallacore 🇨🇦 @rjb-mallacore.bsky.social · 18h
Some new sci-fi art. The USS Cygnus from The Black Hole. Enjoy. #fanart #scifi #lightwave
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RJB / Mallacore 🇨🇦 @rjb-mallacore.bsky.social · 20h
Some new sci-fi art. The Valley Forge from Silent Running. Enjoy. #fanart #scifi #lightwave
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 15h
32 years ago today, October 2, 1994, #TheSimpsons episode “Itchy & Scratchy Land” first aired on Fox.
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Michelle @cloverjag.bsky.social · 18h
“Maybe save some for the rest of us.”
Two Godzillas at a McDonald’s. One is greedily shoving a car into his mouth while holding an armful of others. The second Godzilla would appreciate if some food was left for them.
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Pusheen @pusheen.bsky.social · 20h
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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 16h
Day 2: Relic
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 16h
WHATS A MATTER - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEN WITH A COOL POLE ARM THEY WANT TO SHOW PEOPLE "ITS NOT A SWORD BUT FINE IF YOUR GOING TO CALL IT A SWORD THATS FINE" AND DA TEXT "WHATS THE MATTER YOU AFRAID TO WORK? THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, OVER 1/3 OF EMPLOYEES DO 6+ HOURS OF UNPAID LABOR EVERY WEEK, 3.9 MILLION AMERICANS GET INJURED OR DIE AT WORK EVERY YEAR, AND EVERY MANAGER IVE EVER HAD FUCKEN SUCKS, LET ME BRING MY SWORD TO WORK MOTHER FUCKER - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN IT IS MORE OF A HALBERD WITH MULTIPLE BLADES. ALLOWING THE USER TO STAND AT A DISTANCE FROM THERE TARGET. REAL SWORD HEADS KNOW - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Lee Draws Stuff @leedrawsstuff.bsky.social · 16h
Spocktober 2026 - Day 3 - Classic TOS Spock "He was much more than the Science Officer for the USS Enterprise." - Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, 2015 Read more on Patreon (leedrawsstuff) #spocktober #spocktober26 #startrek #spock #llap
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Ronnie @ronniewhomp.bsky.social · 15h
comic page + secret wordz: www.whompcomic.com/comic/pootin... beginning of arc: www.whompcomic.com/comic/voyajerk
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 18h
Moebius, 1986
Three light blue people emerge from a giant parked flying saucer to inspect a small pyramid in a lush field that has a star hovering over it.
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a springfieldian werewolf in shelbyville @springfieldians.bsky.social · 17h
backrooms (2026)
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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 17h
"Hello, I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such instructional videos as 'Mothballing Your Battleship' and 'Dig Your Own Grave and Save'."
Season 4 / Episode 7
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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 17h
Purpose
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Robot Wig @robotwig.com · 02/10/2026
'Woody and Co. get an unexpected visit from a member of Sid's Dad's personal toy collection' One year ago today I posted this miniature Toy Story photo I created practically using real figures, lighting and miniatures #toystory #halloween #michaelmyers #toyphotography #visualart #photography
Woody introduces to the gang a toy version of Michael Myers who's come to visit them from next door. They all look very fearful.
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 21h
🐾🤍..
A black cat with enormous round eyes holds out a small red heart towards the viewer. Text reads: “A big thank you to everyone who is still putting good things into the world when the world gives us so many reasons not to.” Beside the cat, an arrow points to the heart with the words “For you.”
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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 21h
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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 22h
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 21h
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green approaches Blue, who listens intently.
Green: I haven't been spending enough time with you.

Green sits down opposite of Blue.
Green: How about we take the afternoon to do things together? You choose.

Blue looks visibly excited, and Green leans in towards him.
Blue: Anything?
Green: Anything you like.

Blue rushes off in delight, while Green remains sitting, watching him go with an unreadable expression on his face.
Blue: Let's set up your controller, we're going to play that game you promised to try.
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 22h
BOOGEYMAN (1986) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28” X 17” I love doing covers for anthologies, especially horror. This piece was commissioned for the annual THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES from DAW Books. #art #booksky 🪐📚
A tall, slender boogeyman with exaggeratedly long arms quietly slides open the closet door of a child's bedroom. Jostled hangers slide to either side as the creature emerges from behind the cover of clothing. Red dots glow like molten beads set in deep sockets. A double wrinkled ridge defines a wide brow while elfish ears knife out and back, framing a sloped dome that nearly touches the top shelf. The closet rod bars its way forward, crossing just below its round, snub nose. Salivating, its jaw hangs open in a V-shaped smile lined with short sharp teeth.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026
I Pushed My Luck, Reheated My Burrito An Extra 30 Seconds, and It Exploded All Over The Microwave. Here's Why That's A Lesson for Democrats
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nancy 10/2/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible Hat” Part 5
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 23h
An illustration done mostly with digital colored pencils. Ok, so we have a wooden coffin in the classic top-heavy hexagon shape. The coffin is propped up at an angle on nothing against a background of gray-blue paint splatters as a spooky sheet ghost rises out of it. Although it’s not a real sheet as it’s translucent and there’s nothing inside of it except a gape-mouthed green skull in the approximate head position within the sheet. The ghost is wearing a big. floppy, black witch’s hat and there’s a little brown bat hanging down from the wide brim. The ghost’s arms are extended holding a jack o’ lantern with a one-toothed frowny face carved into it. Popping out of the jack o’ lantern is a a black cat with green eyes balancing the cap of the pumpkin on his head. And on the stem of the pumpkin cap is a very serious-looking brown speckled owl. A series of spooky speech balloons is chained together around all this , each balloon containing one word and associating back tot he spooks and creatures named in the reverse order listed. The lettering in the balloons is red and drippy and reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 22h
The cutest little sleeping pose
A black-and-white cat sleeping on his back with his front paws crossed.A black-and-white cat sleeping on his back with his front paws crossed.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Daily bunny no.3459 is getting ready
A couple of bunnies haul a gigantic pumpkin home from a pumpkin patch, dragging it down the sidewalk in an old-fashioned red toy wagon. A third bunny rolls a smaller pumpkin sideways along the sidewalk just behind them
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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 02/10/2026
Sony's Sports Line 🔥
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Who, Me? was a top secret, sulfurous, non-lethal chemical weapon developed by MIT-graduate Ernest Crocker for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[1][2] Who, Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer to humiliate him and, by extension, demoralize the occupying German forces.[3]

Who, Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not, the person who did the spraying also ended up smelling as bad as the one targeted.[4] After two weeks, it was concluded that Who, Me? was a failure.
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sid @sidvicious.ca · 02/10/2026
i bring you love
a drawing of mr Burns as the alien in the Simpsons episode but in sids style
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🎃 Found Star Trek Episodes 🎃 @foundepisodes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#StarTrekTNG "Flicker" After recovering from a deadly spore infection, Dr. Crusher experiences terrifying visions of her evil Mirror Universe self every time the lights flicker. Worf is excited for Fat Targ Week. Transporter chief: Zach Galifianakis.
A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows:

Goldblum) teleportation device goes horribly wrong when Moe, Shemp, and Curly try to use the invention on themselves.

7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min.
After recovering from a deadly spore infection, Dr. Crusher experiences terrifying visions of her evil Mirror Universe self every time the lights flicker. Worf is excited for Fat Targ Week. Transporter chief: Zach Galifianakis.

[SCI] MOVIE(CC)—Science Fiction; 2 hrs.
“John Carpenter’s Dune.” Kurt Russell. Adrienne
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/10/2026
Ground Effect xkcd.com/3305/
Comic. [Two people flailing high in the air. Three people on the ground running ahead of them. Arrows and a dotted line indicate that this second group is within roughly one body length of the surface.] [caption] The “ground effect” explains why sprinters can run most efficiently if they stay within roughly one body length of the surface.
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Cagle Cats @caglecats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They are simply two lil shroom children
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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i am experiencing
cat sitting under a ray of light. enjoying the light
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🎃 Rik (but a bit spookier) 🎃 @slightlyonfire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Beware the Goop Grate! A messy and expensive play feature but boy was it fun “I’ve been slimed!”
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🎃 Rik (but a bit spookier) 🎃 @slightlyonfire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kicking off my Ghostbusters month in style with The Real Ghosbusters Fire Station Headquarters! (or Fire House for all you not British-types). A lil sparsely furnished & not quite long enough though still a lot of fun. Slide down the pole! Goop through the goop grate! Smash Ecto-1 through the doors!
The Real Ghosbusters Fire Station Headquarters - though it’s only about half as long as it should be it is still very recognisable as Hook & Ladder 8. The outside is oddly dilapidated (also a lil discoloured as this is my well-loved childhood one) with cracks & visible brickwork under plaster. Not sure why Kenner did that as neither the real building nor the cartoon were like that but it does look cool. And regarding the surroundings, just pretend that it’s an episode where New York gets overgrown with spooky plants (A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn, It’s a Jungle Out There etc)Ecto-1 comes crashing through the doors! This was endlessly fun to do as a child whilst making Ecto-siren noisesThe interior of the Fire House is a bit sparse with most of the decoration provided by stickers (personally I would have used the tooling budget for the white railings on chairs or a desk for Janine). The main action feature is the pole, which has a sort of platform on it that spins the guys down. The platform can be made to stop at each floor (weird). In practice it would often fling figures off as it went but it was fun. Ray is standing under the “goop grate” a skylight that allowed you to slime figures with Ecto-plazm. The Fire House also came with a containment unit which is a fairly decent match for the animated one (if a bit small). It allows you to dump smaller ghosts into which was very satisfying. There’s not really anywhere to put it though, it doesn’t fit on the top floors and the garage area is needed for Ecto-1, so here I have improvised as basement for it (thanks garden stairs)
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