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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I cannot believe I saw this on my feed. I'm so angry I squeezed my phone hard enough to... I can't even... Ugh, I think I hid all the identifying factors for this account. These people are missing the fucking point.

An advertisement saying AI writes the book, you take the credit

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

How do you feel about cute lizards? Hang in there, chronic illness is a bitch.

A bearded dragon on a statue of a sleeping Chinese god.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I've already sung the song of waiting almost my entire life for book three of this series, but I do want to reiterate that people complaining about Martin really need their perspective checked. Anyway, last I heard she's doing better personally, which is good.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Not seen: books up to date with modern scientific thought or wrong in interesting ways, at least to me. Used popular science books, unless you're plundering them for references for similarly out of date science books, are always a problem.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Seven dollars. No idea if the stories are any good or not, but seven dollars.

Unknown worlds. Granted, the British edition, but still

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Tell me your secrets. (The secret is gallons of artificial sweeteners)

A bottle of Genki Forest, lemon cola flavour.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Well! I think we can guess. Always tell the punters what the punters want to hear.

Person A:
In a way Australia just voted for more tolerance of this rubbish. Really disheartening the way the west has self destructed.

Person B: Think about that for a second and then consider what that means for Australian values of fairness and acceptance. Lead by a political party who has continued to divide us cannot be dismissed as a contribution. This is who the majority elected either directly, indirectly, or through selfishness and apathy.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I distinctly remember, when I bought this box, wanting Flareon. That was what I wanted. That was what I told the clerk I wanted. I assume it says only awesome things about me that the moment I saw Sylveon, I thought, 'exactly what I wanted'.

A Pokemon Eeveelution blind box, with a Sylveon figure next to it.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

That's the appropriate place for a bearded dragon.

A statue of the Chinese infant... I think he's a Bodhivasta, with a mouse sculpted on his back and a bearded dragon on his head.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have to be the target audience for this thing because I can't imagine who else is!

A Kabuto plush on a table. A kabuto is a Pokemon that looks kind of like a horseshoe crab.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Twice I've seen the proverb 'Only a lame crab walks straight' referred to as of Afghani origin. I mean to dispute neither Afghani culture or capacity for coming up with what may be my favourite proverb. But... That can't be true.

Map of Afghanistan, showing how very far from the sea, oceans, or crabs it is.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hey. Hey, want to see a secret? No? Too bad. This is from 2009. I have one from 2001. P J O'Rourke, a man more supportive of Israel than I am, wrote about the cruelty of the Israeli occupation in 198...7? Yeah. In words that basically describe today.

The Chaser Annual 2009. Headline: Gaza: Israel proposes zero state solution.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I'm aware of the utilitarian benefits of mining, but what are the 'values' inherent to it? Maybe she really, really, really likes money?

Advertisement for BHP Mining saying, "when your values align with the company's, it makes all the difference."

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Does anyone know how screen readers pronounce Turkiye? I'm going to be cautious for the alt-text.

Don't make me tap the sign.
The sign reads 'Turkey has been committing ethnic genocide for more than a century.'

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The world is full of surprises all the time! Make a wish, your dream will come to life!

Infinity Nikki screenshot flying through the Stonewood.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It's forgotten, in all this talk about the ICC's survival, how meaningless it is to the vast portion of humanity.

A map of the world. Countries that have signed and ratified accession to the ICC are marked in green. With a few exceptions (Australia, Mongolia, Japan), all green countries are European, sub-Saharan African, and South American.
Wait, is Cambodia green?

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We can establish this by ontological means. First, as a politician, he is at the very least allied to the snakes. Second, he is a very boring, very normal, man. Third, he plainly knows flail. And fourth, he likes to backpedal. So! Who's that Pokémon?

Who's that Pokémon image, TV show banner. Dunsparce is shown in shadow.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

There is no reason why a civilian needs to access something like this.

A camera set up to look like a rifle. Sorry, this is one of those things that alt-text can't really explain. Failing of my imagination.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I don't know how accurate this Wikipedia map is. Nothing too glaring. The problem for Alawite independence is that without Lebanon and the Alawite territory, we may as well let the desert eat Damascus. As we just saw, without access to the sea anyone who controls Aleppo controls Syria.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Never seen this meme before. Distance/Time=Velocity Ergo

Distance raptor divided by time raptor = velociraptor

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Noooooo it's real if I have to see it you have to see it I hate this

The Real Game Awards Categories
Biggest industry failure
Best Playstation ip
Best Nintendo ip
Game of the year
Shitty ass game of the year
Best jiggle physics

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

First, I'm ruling out the possibility it's English lettering. Doesn't make much difference, but it's helping me. A little. Second, Cler are fairly discernible and I think you're right, that's a z. But what that second last letter is... K? L?

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

And he has spent... Forty years? Fifty years? Arguing That actually, birds are not dinosaurs.

Romancing the birds and dinosaurs, by Alan Feduccia. Atop a pile of his previous books, most importantly Riddle of the Feathered Dragons

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

THAT ISN'T HOW YOU... WORD... MEANING... NO. Non ! Non, monsieur, vous allez trop loin.

The Book of Joshua is pure fiction, a work of propaganda," Osman insists. "Joshua, or Jesus, was the historical successor of Moses," he adds. Caught in the crossfire of religious rivalry he tried to mediate between the old religion and the new monotheistic creed of his father.

"Two women named Mary are placed in close relationship with Jesus in the New Testament -- his mother and Mary Magdalene. The Greek version of the name is Maria, the Hebrew Miriam, but its origins lie in ancient Egypt where the word mery means 'the beloved'."

The Talmud, Osman believes, offers more clues about the real identity of Jesus than the New Testament.

"Only two of the four gospel authors, Matthew and Luke, refer to the birth of Jesus, but their accounts do not agree," he points out. Matthew's account of the conventional Christmas story in Bethlehem places it "in the days of Herod the king", as the King James version puts it.

"This means that Jesus was born before 4 BC, the date of Herod's death," Osman stresses. Luke's version contradicts both Matthew's and Luke's own earlier account of Jesus' birth because it states a census for taxation purposes. "The purpose of

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm not entirely qualified to totally dismiss this out of hand, but... Um... I'm going to say 'probably not'.

A reinterpretation of Egyptian and biblical history that shows the Patriarch Joseph and Yuya, a vizier of the eighteenth dynasty king Tuthmosis IV, to be the same person
•Uses detailed evidence from Egyptian, biblical, and Koranic sources to place Exodus in the time of Ramses I Sheds new light on the mysterious and sudden rise of monotheism under Yuya's daughter, Queen Tiye, and her Son Akhnaten When Joseph revealed his identity to his kinsmen who had sold him into slavery, he told them that God had made him “a father to Pharaoh." Throughout the long history of ancient Egypt, only one man is known to have been given the title "a father to Pharaoh"--Yuya, a vizier of the eighteenth dynasty king Tuthmosis IV. Yuya has long intrigued Egyptologists because he was buried in the Valley of Kings even though he was not a member of the Royal House. His extraordinarily well-preserved mummy has a strong Semitic appearance, which suggests he was not of Egyptian blood, and many aspects of his burial have been showm to be contrary to Egyptian Custom.
As The Hebrew Pharohs of Egypt shows, the idea that Joseph and Yuya may be one and the same person sheds a whole new light on the sudden rise of monotheism in Egypt, spearheaded by Queen Tiye and her son...

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is a weird thing an unrelated search turned up.

The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt: The Secret Lineage of the Patriarch Joseph
By Ahmed Osman

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Cassowaries are scarier than at least 25% of non-avian dinosaurs.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is my southern hairy nose wombat. There are many like her, but this one is mine. I'm not sure it's a her. I think she is. Been a while since I visited, it's not the most convenient place to get to. Anyway, wombats. That's the takeaway I want for you all. Wombats.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Name a TV show you feel like no one remembers but you:

Spellbinder, an Australian-Polish fantasy production that held up... About as well as it was going to.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Didn't think I'd get use out of it so quickly!

A Venn Diagram consisting of What The Fuck in all possible permutations.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

But if he's just going to post the same thing as he does on his other accounts, he's really just wasting this opportunity. I know his social media team is busy, but come on, why not mix it up a little? Tell you what, this one's free. Why don't you wish us a Happy Chanukah?

That wacky Ayatollah again, posting in Hebrew about how the Zionist regime has made a mistake and will suffer for its miscalculations and so on.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I admit, I did not have 'Khameini creating an official Hebrew language Twitter account' on my 2024 Bingo card. His first post being 'In the name of God, the most merciful' tracks, though.

The Ayatollah Khamenei, yes, that one, posting ‏בשם אללה הרחמן והרחום on Twitter on his Hebrew language Twitter account.
In the name of God the most merciful indeed.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

No. But I had this terrible idea because of it.

If Zod said his name, would you just kneel?
Would you throw it in his face?
If you were faced with him in all his glory, what would you ask if you had just one question?
And yeah, yeah, Zod is great.
Yeah, yeah, Zod is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What if Zod was one of us?
Just a man like one of us
Trying to escape the Phantom Zone
If Zod crushed your face, what would that look like?
And would you want to live
If living meant that you would have to believe
In things like Kryptonian supremacy
And that Lex Luthor should rule
Australia
And yeah, yeah, Zod is great
Yeah, yeah, Zod is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
What if Zod was one of us?
Just a man like one of us
Just a jerk like some of us
Trying to conquer Earth our Home
Just tryin' to escape the Phantom Zone
To make Earth into New Krypton
Nobody answering the call
'Cept for Ursa at the mall
And yeah, yeah, Zod is great
Yeah, yeah, Zod is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
What if Zod was one of us?
Just a Non like some of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to conquer Earth our home?
Just tryin' to conquer Kal El’s home
Pushing Presidents around?
Trying to escape the Phantom Zone
Just tryin' to conquer his way home

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

The idea that every opinion is valid and worthy of debate is one of the single worst things to come out of the twentieth century. No, some people are just stupid, wrong, and deserve to be pushed over and then kicked while they are down.

Self justification and appeal to debate fallacy. Sorry, no further detail needed.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

What the actual fuck is wrong with this person and is there a cure or are we talking about letting them go gently into the night. What the actual fuck is happening here. I don't even know what's going on in Trump supporter brains now. This. This is the stupidest fucking take this election.

Random idiot saying 'to be clear, she (Kamala Harris) is running the most right wing and bad democrat campaign in their somehow too short lifetime.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

The vintage electronic in question.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Anyway, here's a wombat. Pudge the wombat.

A wombat, whom I have chosen to name Pudge, asleep in a rubbish bin in an artificial burrow.

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!

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