Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A tiny stupid glimmer of joy in the mud: a scenario in the hour-long mandatory online anti-corruption training I'm completing for work happens to include a person with they/them pronouns, and this scenario has nothing to do with their gender. I love this & hate that it's noteworthy. 070
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Barista: Got any fun plans for the weekend? Me: No, I'm having surgery in a week and a half and I have a ton of stuff to do at home to prepare. Barista: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that! I hope you recover well. The other day, I had one of those moments where I freaked out... 150
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeM. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026An old acquaintance from the 90s zine days is selling these vintage Occult magazines (1970s) Some of you might be interested #WitchSky #Paranormal #Occult www.ebay.com/itm/39840195... ebay.com 1102
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Had a beautiful moment of human connection with a customer support person from Amazon. I called to check delivery status for items on my “surgery recovery” registry. She asked about it and I mentioned my recent cancer diagnosis. She also has cancer and she was so uplifting and kind. 060
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeLauren the Flute @laurentheflute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The correct answer is to vote for quartz, please. Childhood whimsy, a beautiful selection of colors, it makes wonderful jewelry under several gemstone names - things don't have to be obscure or uncommon to be worthwhile! Vote quartz! 1216
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I swear, sometimes just looking after a body is a full time job. I know, no surprise. But just, I'm trying to handle a healthcare incident and also some ongoing conditions and just all the phone calls are a lot! And I haven't even gone to the dentist or optician in a while. There's so much. 150
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Almost missed voting for this one, but I got in my underdog #Anorthite vote a couple minutes before the next round. 000
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I am so fucking tired of all the scam loan phone calls. These assholes keep filling up my voicemail and making it impossible for me to get messages from important shit I actually need. Fuck these fucking people. 162
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeBanjoherder @banjoherder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A tricky one for day two on #MinCup26 . I almost succumed to the bling of Erythrite but then found that shiny but dull, Skutterudite, plays a part in producing materials that convert waste heat into electricity. Is that cool or what? Skutterudite gets my vote today. Image Credit: James St John, 0227
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Enjoyed this article about fantastic local rap artist Lyrics Born and his YouTube cooking show: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...sfgate.comThe Bay Area rapper-turned-YouTube cooking sensationLyrics Born's cooking show was born out of the pandemic shelter in place. 010
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026My partner is the biggerTori Amos fan between us, but when I saw her tour & album would be titled “In Times of Dragons,” I knew this was one we shouldn’t miss. 010
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeMartha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I don't have the figure for this one, but if any suspiciously beautiful recent widows of wealthy men need something for their wardrobe before the detective comes to question them, this is it. 3152
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 21/08/2026My Ukrainian publisher Ranok asked me to pass along the news that on 8/1 a warehouse was bombed by Russia, burning about 8 million books, including the print runs of their translated Murderbot editions, + The Cloud Roads & Witch King. This really hurts the publishing house, and 1/- 6866457
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/08/2026Last week I had drove 4 hrs, shot 2723 shots over 7 hours with 2 cameras, hardly slept, then drove back to LA, had a dentist and doctor's appointment Worth it This is the Perseids Meteor Shower over the Milky Way in Mt Pinos with 100s of my newest friends 🌌 PDFs: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo... 622634539
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Trying to kill the part of myself that feels embarrassed for asking, but I'm between freelance payments right now and really hurting for money if anyone has interest in buying some sweet threads www.fibonaccideathspiral.com or prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/velv... 24665404
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeThe Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.net · 14/08/2026Politico looks at the closed-door discussions between the White House, tech companies, and anti-LBGTQIA2S+ hate groups to push Meta's preferred solution: a kids safety / AI package combining KOSA, the App Store Accountability Act, and preempting state AI laws www.politico.com/news/2026/06...politico.comWhite House's new push to block state AI laws could ride on kids’ safetySeparate meetings this week with children's advocates and the tech industry came just days after a bipartisan House proposal on AI got a chilly reception. 13032
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/08/2026Every time a new person sees Tom Holland's "Umbrella" performance for the first time, an angel gets their fishnets. 621526
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Popelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi 154128943255
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A Black Swallowtail sips nectar from a thistle bloom. 034637
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Seconded. Also, if you can give blood, especially if you're O+, need is dire right now. 412077
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026in honor of his death today - at 84, a good run - a John Crowley books appreciation thread. His greatest is LITTLE, BIG, which is an astonishing book - a North American fantasia in which, for most of it, the fantastic is *just outside* the direct experience of the narrative. 622734
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeMina @minaschultz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026@darthbluesky.bsky.social the shelter where I volunteer is raising money to build new cat condos, so their temporary residents have the best experience as they await new their homes. This shelter is completely donation funded and they do amazing work. animalhumanenm.givevirtuous.org/donate/cat-c... 718624
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeDr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 31/07/2026doi.org/10.1093/slee...doi.orgSleep Pattern Differences in Women at Midlife: A Large-Scale Multi-Country Smartwatch Study (SONAR)In this analysis of ~3.8 million nights’ data from 192 500 female users of the Galaxy Smartwatch (United States, South Korea, Germany, France, and the UK), 1164
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It’s amazing how you can be so cynical that you believe that liberals would rather vote for republicans than a progressive but apparently credulous enough to just believe things published by Larry Ellison? Put on your thinking cap for two minutes 331937
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Say what you want, but Trump's gift for understated - almost monastic - elegance is simply unmatched. 240
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it. 4759461336
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Poperogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Hear What Homer's Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek | Open Culture www.openculture.com/2016/10/what...openculture.comHear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient GreekThanks to Georg Danek of the University of Vienna and Stefan Hagel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, we have some idea of what Homeric songs may have sounded like. 041
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeDr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026My favorite depiction of the Trojan Horse, and the earliest known version. I love the windows, like an airplane, and that the windows go up the neck too. 27817185
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeIan Campbell @neurovagrant.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I was a 911 dispatcher for a decade. To really understand how terrible an idea it is to have AI answer 911 calls, I'll present you with a single real-life call: Upon answer, the caller calmly began ordering a pizza. Large, pepperoni. Side order of chicken wings. To be delivered promptly. 6441203
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeKivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Fun game: if someone is being a smug prick about The Odyssey and talking about accuracy, try enthusiastically asking them what their favorite translation is. Do it friendly, not adversarial. You are so excited to hear which version they like best. Enjoy their panic as they try to bullshit out of it. 1175
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeGabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 22/07/2026For 46 years, my sweetie didn’t realize that the Peter Gabriel song “Games without frontiers” referred to an incredibly dumb French TV game show initially promoted by Charles de Gaulle as part of the radiance of France. Perhaps you didn’t know that either? fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_sa...fr.wikipedia.orgJeux sans frontières — Wikipédia 2113
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeYours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂 194136073864
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Bay Area NIMBY folks should read this article on supermarket vacancies. There are allegations that Albertson's (Safeway, etc.) is keeping some stores empty to block competitors, and may be proposing housing when they close stores to prevent grocery competition. www.sfgate.com/food/article...sfgate.comAlbertsons is infuriating Bay Area shoppers over vacant grocery storesThe company is focusing on housing projects, but not all include grocery stores. 2123
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeSuzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026bsky exclusive: unveiling of my first #actionfigure diorama in years! It's my #queerwrath #prideseason project and it is so silly. Remember, they can drop as many corporate doomsday trailers as they want, but my nostalgia will stay queer, wild and unmonetized. 2143
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Popesam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 20/07/2026this is literally why they're focusing on taco bell dude this is LITERALLY WHY 2595211
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeThe Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We are the future, it's already happened Folded in a figure eight of time and space We stood our ground, flew our kites Found solutions that seemed out of sight….music.apple.comDon't Look Back by Eartheater on Apple MusicSong · 2026 · Duration 3:05 111
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeThe Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I guess it’s Time to Make the Doughnuts, huh? 231
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeThe Sian from Atlantis @parthenoid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is one of those things that I fought with myself over doing. But the fact is, the UK is a hostile environment for trans people. There is no other way I can get this. So this is a thing I have launched, and for it to succeed, it needs reach. Help me out? gofund.me/b12b11677gofund.meDonate to I'm not going back, organized by Sian PennyMy name is Sian and I am crowdfunding for gender confirming surgeries. Note that the goal on this pa… Sian Penny needs your support for I'm not going back 22532
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeLee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026‘Silver’ #art #painting #topiary 516728
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeHunter Felt 🏳️⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026HOME DEPOT: We didn't tweak the design or anything. The skeleton just started doing it on its own. And the only thing it says is the exact date that you will die. We cannot kill it because it was born dead. 7952220
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16/07/2026Autistic trans catgirls are a load bearing part of technology, and I'm not even joking 715522
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed. 020
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Public health & graphic design is my passion 072
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I’m shocked, I tell you - one can hardly imagine three less-likely culprits! 285
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Sometimes I like to pretend it’s 20 years ago on the internet and enjoy a good cat video. 0102
Reposted by Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future PopeKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/07/2026My favorite NYC building almost collapsed story is the old Citicorp building in midtown that failed to factor in cornering winds until an MIT grad student emailed them to ask about it, and then they had to secretly fix the building at night99percentinvisible.orgStructural Integrity - 99% InvisibleWhen it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world. You can pick it out of the New York... 1022336
Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Initially misread this post as being about hippies rather than hippos. To be fair, I wouldn’t want a feral colony of hippies living in my back yard, either! 250