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@pardum.bsky.social
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Scientist doing everything I can to distract myself from the lab. Obsessed with genre literature and TRRPGs. 28 | bi | he/they

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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of my biggest pet peeves in comics is that they don't print the variant covers inside the book. The last page should be a little gallery of all of the covers for that issue. Both for traditional comics and things like Heavy Metal.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can't believe how hard the cubs choked in the postseason. They looked like a college team playing against the major leagues. It shouldn't feel like a miracle to score one point over two games.
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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it’s been driving me insane there are sooo many grad school romance plots you can have that are fun and cute and this is what we get, dating a professor 😬 idk what to expect from fanfic but irritating to watch this become a mainstream film when like every single one of us has been harassed by a prof
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now I just need to get better at my stamp so I get even coverage. I accidentally bought one that's probably too complex.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've had an ex libris stamp for a couple years, but I'm finally getting over my nerves about "ruining" a book if I use it. It was an especially stupid concern considering most my books were bought for <$10 used, so it's not like they have much resale value anyways.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I took a class in college where this was the main textbook. Every week we would watch a movie and discuss one section of the book. By far the best philosophy class I took. archive.org/details/plan...
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Planet of the apes and philosophy : great apes think alike
xii, 312 pages ; 23 cm
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 29/09/2026
Dropout’s Crowd Control would probably be a better show if the crowd was not filled with, ah, people who watch Dropout
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hot take: the NFL shouldn't allow any pauses in the last minute of game time. I'm sick of teams using time outs and whatever other timekeeping trickery to make the last 5 seconds take 10 minutes.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just heard a podcast ad about someone's gofundme for a liver transplant. I generally try to be positive but I just don't know how to hear something like that and not get depressed about how evil this country is and how nothing will make it better.
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Jessie🦇 @atropius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I caught the cutest thing ever on the Katmai bear cams
A photo of a large brown bear, taken from behind, laying on the ground with her back legs splayed out. Her two cubs are laying against her right side, both using her butt as a pillow. They're laying next to a river
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I used to get the magazine of science fiction in fantasy in high school, and I still fondly think back on that. At the time I didn't realize it was the end of an era for that kind of thing, and I probably would have kept hold of the issues if I did.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
About once a week I wish that we still lived in an era where I could get mailed fiction magazines, but then I remember I barely set aside enough time to get through an issue of Hard Drive before the next one comes out. There's no way I would get through a book length magazine.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9/22/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: ICE active across southwest Chicago this morning. Rapid responders confirm at least 2 abductions in the Back of the Yards neighborhood; another person possibly taken from Lawndale area. ICE vehicles also seen near the Cook County Domestic Violence Court.
9/22/2026 alert of ICE detaining at least one person at 51st and Damen in Chicago around 6:30 a.m. 9/22/2026 alert of ICE detaining at least one person off 49th and Justine in Chicago this morning around 7:30 a.m. Image text:

🚨 09/22/2026 – LAWNDALE, IL 🚨
🕥 7:25 a.m.
📍 W 21st St y S Pulaski Rd
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE en el área. Una possible detención
🚗 Vehículos Observados: 
Chevy Tahoe Negra 
Ford Edge Azul Image text:
🚨 ALERTA COMUNITARIA – SOUTH LOOP, IL 🚨
📅 Hoy - 09/22/2026
🕥 9:20 a.m.
📍 W Vernon Park Pl y S Clinton St
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE. Vehículos confirmado de ice en el área.
🚗 Vehículos Observados: 
Dodge Durango Gris 
GC 12063
Chevy Tahoe Negra 
GC 12059
Ford explorer Negra 
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pulling my hair back has got me looking like Mr Norell.
Headshot of Mr Norell from the movie
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My hair is finally long enough that I can put it up. Unfortunately that makes me look like I'm wearing a revolutionary war powdered wig
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wish I didn't need sleep, because I love looking out at Chicago at night. Especially when its raining.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have no evidence for this, but bandaid adhesive seems to have gotten much worse since I was a kid.
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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wiccanery - a short comic about a witch and a vampire.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One unexpected aspect of buying a rotating bookshelf: the shelves are so small that I can sort all my books into self contained vibes-based genres
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion
It is a cartoon mouse, like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, shaped like a wedge of cheese presumably because it has eaten a wedge of cheese. The mouse has Elizabeth Holmes' face. The mouse is saying "Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that."Nathan Fielder, looking into a fridge where the mouse has eaten a cheese, says skeptically "Okay. Alright."
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ME AGE 11: pirates were cool, they found treasure and swore and had eyepatches and parrots ME AGE 41: pirates were cool, they were multiracial, distributed resources and responsibility, got drunk all the time, and turned the boomerang back against mercantilist empire, often killing the English
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/09/2026
putting off sunday chores is goated when long holiday weekend is the vibe
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It kind of sucks that my local farmers market is mostly bakeries and cafes, because it's turned Sunday into a treat buying extravaganza with only a bit of produce thrown in.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm glad I took an extra day off than what I needed for vacation. It's so nice to have a day to basically just sleep.
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Nick C @mr-autumnman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
About to be me (going to Noir City at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social)
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I was wondering why I was seeing so many dogshit posts, then I realized I had accidentally clicked into the discover tab.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
check out this sick trailer we made
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Castledolphyn @castledolphyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My contribution to the trans spidey trend ^_^
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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We raised $57,000 lmfao. lol
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 14/08/2026
me when there are signaling molecules in my body sent to distant organs and tissues by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior:
the soyfacing meme pointing at a diagram of human female sex hormone signaling
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Claudio Pozas — Commissions Open @claudiopozas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you see this, post your marine-themed art!
A pie-rat lifts a candle-lamp to a mer-mouse after rowing his clog-boat ashore.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's cool to live in a city that has a bunch of LGBTQ events, but I always feel so out of place at them. I'm just too far removed from queer culture, that I almost feel like I'm intruding.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yeah man, I'm the one that really feels strongly about my opinion. Surely it's not the person searching out posts from random people they've never interacted with to tell them they have the wrong opinion.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The science didn't have to be wrong though, being correct wouldn't have changed the film in any way. They obviously did enough research to understand the basic concept of siRNA, but didn't do enough to really get it. Suspension of disbelief shouldn't excuse lazy screenwriting.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's not borrowing from scientific concepts to explain the science wrong. Borrowing from scientific concepts is saying that siRNA infused with gamma radiation makes it suppress hulk mutations. It's not borrowing to say that the problem with siRNA is that it is non-selective for specific genes.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If they had just said it was an inhibitor using siRNA I would have been fine. It's the fact that they went on to explain what siRNA is wrong where I have an issue. Again, I'm complaining about the fundamental science, not the technobable of adding gamma radiation to the siRNA.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Did you read that screenshot before you posted it? "Made-up scientific sounding words". siRNA is a real and well understood concept. At a high level it can do what they employ it for in the movie, which makes it worse that they couldn't do the extra research to make sure they get the other details.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yeah man, I wasn't born yesterday. Those things also didn't get an entire scene talking about how they work. Notice how I commented on where they got the aspects of the fundamental science wrong and not the fictional part where they were talking about mixing gamma radiation with RNA?
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The fuck do either of them have to do with any of this? Besides a weird need to force everything into whatever lib crusade you're currently on? Fauci isn't even an RNA biologist, there's no reason he should have been contacted even in your weird fantasy.
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The new Spider-Man is pretty good from a superhero movie perspective, but really bad from an RNA biology perspective. They act like it's hard to silence a specific gene using siRNA rather than the whole reason it's used. Not to mention that they misunderstand the relationship between DNA and RNA.
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404 Media @404media.co · 31/07/2026
A company offering printed books to AI companies to train on because they’re free of AI slop has stopped after our reporting. Thanks to 404 Media subscribers, we’re able to continue reporting stories that bring real life impact. Read now: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Pardum @pardum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
When I started grad school at OSU there was the Save the Crew push and you saw Crew gear and colors everywhere. By the time I graduated it felt like the only time I saw stuff about the crew was driving past the stadium. It always surprised me how quickly general support for them fell off.
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