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Christiane Knight @christianek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Accessibility needs to be part of planning AND vetted by people who actually need those accommodations. The lack of empathy repeatedly shown concerning this is nauseating and infuriating.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 01/10/2026

Please accept this perfect photo of Maxx who believes himself invisible as my contribution towards your mental health for the day. Also, take a break, drink some water, and double check that curtain isn’t see-thru.

Maxx hiding behind a sheer gold curtain.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two that I think about regularly, years later, and my personal favourites: In the Hills, the Cities (Barker) Exhalation (Chiang) I have been privileged to “teach” both tales to undergrads.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Like, I literally just met a man in a parking lot today to pay cash for 2 used DVDs I’ve been wanting (he once owned a beloved video rental in my city and is scattering his collection among, well, collectors). Believe me when I say folks are serious about physical media.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know what? There are very few Focus Features gets that let me down. I must share the same taste as their buyer(s). Looking forward to this.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don’t. Use. Any. Of. These. I did it. It was hard. But trust me, not impossible—and zero regrets. (DM me if you want to chat about methods/alternatives).

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eroding privacy, climate change mitigation and labour rights—the hits keep coming. I can’t with Canada’s current PM. Glad it’s not a Poilièvre aka Maple MAGA government, but I was never this enraged under extremely fallible Trudeau.

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Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I swear to Zeus queer writers can’t win.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My thoughts on multilinguality in SFF is always thus: if seasoned SFF readers can absorb conlang, complex structures and twisty plots without much exposition, why can't they absorb earth languages that might be foreign to them?

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's horrible seeing so many people fight *for* the sanitization. Everybody's running away from all genuine emotions, you evoke anything other than an empty sense of comfort and you're the enemy.

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ted Chiang's fav writing quote is from her essay 'Write till you drop' "There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment."

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Look. It’s obvious that the EU wants/needs Canada’s critical minerals as much as the US does. I’d much rather we share them with the EU in some kind of (hopefully) strategic partnership than become the US’s indentured mining camp.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He must have absolutely loved dressing her. What a muse/model.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Man bland really does thrive and persist.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cheerios. I can still remember being sat at the table until I finished my soggy, gronky bowl of Cheerios.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

and like why are we centering the complaints of the parents who think the value of sports is "my kid might become a star" instead of the ones who are like "this is a great way to learn teamwork, move your body every day, work hard at a skill, and learn how to lose or fail at things with grace"

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Once more for the weirdos in back.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is why I know that not every feeling or emotion I have is “valid” and should be indulged by others. Our own minds are landmines.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

such a procedure can do no harm

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Literally the reason I avoid using Tubi: Rupert fkn Murdoch.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i emotionally meet every new post about fancy chatbots with “why would you want this”

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m gonna keep saying it even though my face turned blue seemingly eons ago: The cost of leaving platforms like Xitter, Faschbook and Instascam remains high for some people, but the cost of NOT leaving them is even higher.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labour Day to everyone *except* 21st-century CEOs, private equity ghouls, greedy shareholders, right-wing politicians, austerity politicians, most MBAs, and psychotic techbros!

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Happy Labor Day Celebration Graphic

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Was wondering why I ever DNF'd McCammon’s "Boy’s Life" halfway through a few years back (found it on my reader and gave it another go). WHY THO. It’s great! Just what I’m in the mood for. Slurp. Then I got to "Case #3432". Oh. OH. Wrecked all over again, but this time I will persevere… (IYKYK)

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Arrested Development: Tobias Sobbing

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Trump dyed his hair" is half the headline I was hoping for.

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noahseligman.bsky.social @noahseligman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks for running this one @mcsweeneys.net Dedicated to everyone who "isn't political" as flimsy thin code for: I shouldn't be judged for liking DJT and Republicans Yeah, yeah you should.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Why I ultimately decided not to use my Gander account. 🤷

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

P.S. I always get responses like “this or that physical media isn’t supported” and “what will you do when your player breaks?” There are collectors and archives screening movies that have not been screenable in over a century (or were never screenable) Keep the physical media.

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Jeff Goldblum - Life Finds A Way

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Good evening to everyone except the jackass who let his two reckless, clueless boys play soccer on a narrow, slippery dock above where people were swimming in the river trying not to get their faces hit with a stray while in the water (I bet said jackass totally uses GenAI).

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(I mean, I pronounce the first one more Frenchly because my background itself is more French, but all of this. I said “mo-no-TONE-ous well into my early 20s, and I still have no clue if it’s Zen-DIE-ah or Zen-DAY-ah...)

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I need to put a burning question to my fellow Canadians: Is there a fake butter (ie non-dairy) that doesn’t suck? Haven’t used my precious Earth Balance for a year, but butter still wrecks my system once built up again. Looking for something with pea protein, if possible. NOT made in the USA.

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Okay I know the world is a bit scary these days and we have a lot of nervous energy with nowhere for it to go, but some of y'all need to log the fuck off.

A trending topic "Debate over using 'y'all'"

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I guess this is our “third thing” in this week’s famous octogenarian deaths. The universe owed us this, at the very least, after Parton and Curry.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is true. This is all true. Make your peace with it if you want to be a writer.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The advice is “Think for yourself and do your own research”? And their plan to do this is “ask the chatbot to give you the probabilistically most average answer w a little random error thrown in”? Do I have that right?

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

People who know me know I’m all opera, Joplin, Bush, Björk, Fitzgerald, Gerrard etc all day all night, but my mom had this when I was young and we sung it all the time. Just downloaded & listened for 1st time in…30 years? and still know all lyrics. 🤷‍♀️ Can Ronstadt have a “comeback” like Dolly now?

Cover of Linda Ronstadt’s What’s New album from 1983 (classic covers). She’s wearing an extravagavent pink gown and long white gloves.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don’t need to watch Cool New Show or read Latest Bestseller more than creatives need to earn a useful wage. Sad about, as well as tired of, people putting not just their convenience but their *whims* ahead of other people’s basic needs. (See also tourists + Airbnb, etc)

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Having spent time in Ghent, I know there’s a very particular chamber in the castle wherein there is placed but a single chair. The room and its history chilled me to the bone, but if they wanted to put this creature in that chair for a spell, I’d look the other way.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i hear we're celebrating Canada today. what better way to do that than by supporting one of the coolest Canadian weird fiction indie publishers around (who also happens to be having an incredible sale on eBooks).

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Paleofiction boosting time! Lackington’s final issue touches on this, if only thematically, but check out its first story by Nathan Alling Long (link in reply). Have fun, and wish I could be there.

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yup. And the disinformation ramp-up alone is worth kiboshing the whole thing over. That’s before theft, slop, loss of critical thinking skills and enviro issues. It’s a whole panoply of drawbacks.

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