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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Hear me out: get yourself a pig bladder. Hours of entertainment

An illustration from Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. A blonde girl in a blue dress is tossing what appears to be a white balloon to a younger brunette girl in a red dress. The accompanying text reads:

"You can't beat hickory-cured ham," Pa said.
He was blowing up the bladder. It made a little white balloon, and he tied the end tight with a string and gave it to Mary and Laura to play with. They could throw it into the air and spat it back and forth with their hands.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 14/08/2026

The politics of that game were fucking atrocious.

A tumblr post by "animedads" summarizing Bioshock Infinite's approach to racism. It ends with Booker saying "racism.. goes both ways" then killing the only named black character in the game.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's hard to beat 1980's Bowie in his own movie, and yet Catherine Deneuve pulls it off

Catherine Deneuve plays the hottest vampire of all time in the Hunger (1983)

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 05/07/2026

Perhaps one of these fierce creatures is reflected therein!

Some hand-drawn characters from the game Mouse Guard. A yellow mouse with an eyepatch and a notched ear holds a shield. A fox-coloured mouse uses a fishhook as a grappling hook. A brown mouse with multiple piercings wields a halberd. A grey mouse, pointing offscreen, has two swords strapped to its back and holds a leather bag. A buff (both in colour and physique) mouse holds a battleaxe.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 04/07/2026

Go home sparrow, you're drunk. 🪶

A photo from a smart feeder. A house sparrow appears to be falling off the feeding platform, ass over teakettle.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 03/07/2026

Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in July

A phallic-looking sweet potato sits next to a sweet potato that resembles a butt in a grocery store.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm enjoying this thread so much. So much variety! Here's my list.

Nine games that capture my taste. In no particular order: Tactical Breach Wizards, Return of the Obra Dinn, Chants of Senaar, Abiotic Factor, Rise of the Golden Idol, Blue Prince, Oxygen Not Included, Sunless Skies, Papers Please.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 03/06/2026

"it's okay that we used AI since the character is an AI"

A Renaissance painting of a cherub pinching the bridge of its nose and looking extremely exasperated

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 29/05/2026

Canada geese just love hanging out in the grottiest places imaginable

Two Canada geese sitting next to a speed bump in a banged-up parking lot. Absolutely no plant life is visible.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 28/05/2026

Oh my goodness a spitting image of my late lamented

Extremely fluffy tuxedo cat displaying his belly fur

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 20/05/2026

Yes. Even though as an individual he's pretty sweet, ACAB all day.

Lorne Cardinal as Davis Quinton from the Canadian sitcom Corner Gas.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 13/04/2026

The famous one in the Vatican had the head reattached wrong by someone who didn't understand tauroctonies (or maybe it was a fresh head carved badly for the occasion? idr). But this one doesn't seem to have a crack like CIMRM 548 does, so I fervently echo your wtf.

A tauroctony, which is to say a cult statue of the god Mithras slaying a bull. Ask me about all the symbolism! I would be THRILLED to tell you!!

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 09/04/2026

Someone on Reddit imagined these Adrian Chiles headlines as JRPG dialogue boxes and I will never unsee it.

A screencap (not mine) from the game Chrono Cross. A character portrait accompanies a snippet of dialogue about a boat ride in a layout that uncannily resembles a Guardian headline and author photo.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 12/02/2026

Post a tree that you photographed

A photo of a pine forest in Western Canada. A single tree in the foreground rises above the rest.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 01/02/2026

The labelers never lead us astray

The Transphobia (General) and Harper's Signatory labels applied to the account of Nicholas Christiakis, the Epstein associate that Mark Pachucki is defending in Cait's OP

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ontario, Canada reporting in! (Why does one of these labels have a poop on it)

A series of bottles of "PoP Shoppe" sodas in wildly unnatural colours

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 05/12/2025

Pleased at this timeline juxtaposition

Two adjacent posts on my timeline. The top one is an announcement that today celebrates the roe deer in the French republican calendar. The second is a trailcam photo of a surprised deer lit by a flash at night.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 08/11/2025

A friend asked about dream interpretation, which inspired me to see if the dream dictionary that I had as a teenage occultist is still in print. Not only does Amazon still carry the same bright purple edition, you can also get some bonus marriage drama!

An Amazon review by "Monday's Destiny" that reads:

Fourteen years ago I had this book, and actually... "I lived by it," dream by dream. Because I'm a dreamer, and my dreams always come true. Believe this: I actually slept with my dream book, therefore, when I got married my husband made me get rid of it. I never stop dreaming. My husband not knowing...I tried several other dream books to interpret my dreams. Then I found this dream book, which is: the Zolar's Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Dreams by Zolar Entertainment, and I ordered it. As of today, I'm living proof the ZEDOD is the most accurate dream reference book to have for one's self.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 28/10/2025

Awww, Lapras is giving Esquie

A screencap from the game Expedition 33, where the Esquie character (a lumpy giant wearing a wooden solar mask) says "I too am 'Whooo'. But I'm also 'Wheee!' So the 'Wheee' balances the 'Whooo.'"

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 22/10/2025

Drop an old person you're gonna turn into in the future

The character Chrisjen Avasalara from The Expanse, played by Shohreh Aghdashloo

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 04/10/2025

I just started playing a game where you have to craft candles and I got this incredible line

Screenshot from the game Final Profit which reads, "There used to be a guy called John in town who made Wicks, but he disappeared recently. His dog is still around, though."

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 11/09/2025

sorry to be all earnest and everything but I love snow

A rushing river, mostly but not entirely covered in snow. The sun is low in a cloudy sky

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 01/09/2025

I loved this article about why the trolley problem (not the situation the problem describes, but the thought experiment called "the trolley problem") makes people less caring and sloppier thinkers. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/11...

With philosophical hypotheticals, you’re supposed to set aside the question of why things are the way they are, and just accept that the choices are the choices. That’s exactly what we should never do, though: in order to assign moral responsibility for a particular set of bad outcomes, you need to understand who had agency in causing things to be the way they are. In the case of a trolley accident, probably the least important question is what the person who was frantically trying to stop the trolley should have done, since all of their options are bad and they will be improvising. We should spend far more time inquiring into the trolley company’s lackadaisical attitude to safety precautions, and whether it’s morally justified to cut down on voluntary brake inspections in order to decrease operating costs and maximize quarterly profits. It sounds as if we’re “arguing with the hypothetical,” of course, which you’re never supposed to do.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 24/08/2025

This passage from Zork STILL surfaces in my mind unbidden occasionally, decades later.

An excerpt from the text adventure Zork:

>go down

Entrance to Hades

You are outside a large gateway, on which is inscribed

Abandon every hope all ye who enter here!

The gate is open; through it you can see a desolation, with a pile of mangled bodies in one corner. Thousands of voices, lamenting some hideous fate, can be heard.

The way through the gate is barred by evil spirits, who jeer at your attempts to pass.

>ring bell

The bell suddenly becomes red hot and falls to the ground. The wraiths, as if paralyzed, stop their jeering and slowly turn to face you. On their ashen faces, the expression of a long-forgotten terror takes shape.

In your confusion, the candles drop to the ground (and they are out).

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 03/07/2025

I can't really judge, given the shit I wore clubbing back in the day

Three goth shoes (variously known as winklepickers or creepers), in slightly different styles, all in black leather with endless sequences of buckles and very long toes

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 01/07/2025

The juvenile magpies are so loud I kinda can't hear myself think, but I love them beyond all reason. 🪶

A magpie stands on a suburban balcony railing, looking down.

The same magpie, now with its mouth open as it chatters excitedly.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 23/06/2025

This was on a big cloth flag that I hung on the door.

A promotional photo of the Cure from The Top era, in black and white.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ours have been spending the WHOLE DAY yelling. It really feels like they're testing their boundaries (and the acoustics in the neighbourhood)

A fledgling magpie, its tail stubbier and its beak paler than an adult's

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 07/06/2025

The city I live in has an interactive map of all municipal-owned trees and each of them has a dollar value attached. It strikes me as so strange, like are these trees on the market? Why talk about the "worth" of a tree in this way at all?

Screencap of a municipal website, identifying a spruce with a 39cm diameter and a worth of $7,752.28

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 28/05/2025

Years ago, a friend texted me saying that the narrator of "Oblivion" annoyed him, and I didn't know at the time whether he meant the game or the David Foster Wallace story. So I made this, which I recently rediscovered and now share with you