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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope

@redsage.bsky.social
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liminal being. she/they. bi/pan. nonbinary possum. professional email expert. art / tech / politics / too many reposts. childless hedonist. i follow a lot of interesting smart people. oakland, ca. -><-

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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A 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.
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Barista: 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...
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An 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... 
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Had 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.
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Lauren the Flute @laurentheflute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The 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!
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I 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.
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Almost missed voting for this one, but I got in my underdog #Anorthite vote a couple minutes before the next round.
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I 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.
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Banjoherder @banjoherder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A 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,
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Enjoyed this article about fantastic local rap artist Lyrics Born and his YouTube cooking show: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
sfgate.com
The Bay Area rapper-turned-YouTube cooking sensation
Lyrics Born's cooking show was born out of the pandemic shelter in place.
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My 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.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I 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.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 21/08/2026
My 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/-
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/08/2026
Last 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...
A foreground of dozens of cars, including a camper right in the middle, and someone on the right side with their parking lights on, in front of a mountain and trees. above that is the milky way with air pollution which fades into a larger star field, that looks like old pictures of space. That star field was taken with a nikon lens from the 70s so it gives a different sense, and the milky way was taken with a new 20mm lens, 14 shots, merged. the retro sky is 2 shots. there are 14 meteors that mostly focus on the center of the picture, but these aren't where they were in the sky. I shot 8 to 10 different areas of the sky that night. All meteors but one were with my new camera and new lens.

The Milky Way has a flare on the stars due to moisture on my camera lens, which I kept given the chaos of the situation. It took me 50 minutes to capture 14 usable milky way pictures because so many people had car lights on. 60 second exposures on the milky way, tracked in move shoot move, 10-15 seconds on the meteors.

This took about 8 hours to edit.

Milky way light pollution processed in GraXpert, foreground stitched in lightroom, milky way stitched in Kolor Autopano Giga, saturated and recolored in lightroom; everything finalized in photoshop, including the meteors. In total 19 layers and about 33 final shots used of the original 2723.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Trying 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...
sweater with the Fibonacci Death Spiral logo, showing a painting I did of a skull with two golden fibonacci spirals wrapped around the eye socketsT-shirt of a painting of a woman riding a dragon
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The Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.net · 14/08/2026
Politico 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.com
White House's new push to block state AI laws could ride on kids’ safety
Separate 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.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/08/2026
Every time a new person sees Tom Holland's "Umbrella" performance for the first time, an angel gets their fishnets.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A Black Swallowtail sips nectar from a thistle bloom.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Seconded. Also, if you can give blood, especially if you're O+, need is dire right now.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
in 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.
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Mina @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...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
doi.org/10.1093/slee...
doi.org
Sleep 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),
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’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
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Say what you want, but Trump's gift for understated - almost monastic - elegance is simply unmatched.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good-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.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hear What Homer's Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek | Open Culture www.openculture.com/2016/10/what...
openculture.com
Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek
Thanks 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.
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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My 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.
Trojan horse depicted on the Mykonos vase ca. 675 BC, so around the time of the Odyssey and Iliad. Found with human bones inside (like the horse!) and now in the Archaeological Museum of Mykonos. Image shows the horse with little windows in its side so you can see the men waiting inside.
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Ian Campbell @neurovagrant.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I 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.
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Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Fun 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.
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For 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...
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Jeux sans frontières — Wikipédia
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Bay 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.com
Albertsons is infuriating Bay Area shoppers over vacant grocery stores
The company is focusing on housing projects, but not all include grocery stores.
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
bsky 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.
A wide shot of an action figure diorama on a shelf, featuring a bunch of queer characters, random C-list supervillains like Arcade, a beautiful figure of David Bowie in his Labyrinth costume, the Hypno Hustler on a tiny stage with tiny spotlights, trans pride and Black trans pride flag colors everywhere. Everyone is eating gay ice cream, except Bowie, who is having a kebab because after all they are in Berlin. Rogue is having a birthday cake and her moms are behind the cafe counter running things. Vampirella has a tiny ice cream cone in Bi Pride colors. The Micah Bazant quote often attributed to Marsha P. Johnson runs along one rainbow picket fence: No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us. On the far left window of the cafe is a beautiful tiny poster by beloved trans Berlin artist Rory Midhani.
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sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 20/07/2026
this is literally why they're focusing on taco bell dude this is LITERALLY WHY
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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We 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.com
Don't Look Back by Eartheater on Apple Music
Song · 2026 · Duration 3:05
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The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I guess it’s Time to Make the Doughnuts, huh?
Madeleine L’Engle’s Proginoskes from 𝑨 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒐𝒓
[apparently also] by Richard Bober
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The Sian from Atlantis @parthenoid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This 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/b12b11677
gofund.me
Donate to I'm not going back, organized by Sian Penny
My 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
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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
‘Silver’ #art #painting #topiary
A painting by Lee Madgwick. A topiary garden. Five crows take flight from between the trees.
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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
HOME 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.
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16/07/2026
Autistic trans catgirls are a load bearing part of technology, and I'm not even joking
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.
Line art drawing of a barrel with a sign that says bobbing for apples, and another barrel with a sign that says bobbing for razor-sharp shards of glass, with a person face first into the second barrel.
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Public health & graphic design is my passion
Bad photoshop meme image that says:

cyclospora prevention guide:
Should you toss that salad?

No: Mickey Mouse is tossing a salad
Yes: a hand throws a salad in a trash bin
No: a butt with a dining symbol over it and a mouth licking its lips in a central location
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I’m shocked, I tell you - one can hardly imagine three less-likely culprits!
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sometimes I like to pretend it’s 20 years ago on the internet and enjoy a good cat video.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/07/2026
My 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 night
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Structural Integrity - 99% Invisible
When 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...
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Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope @redsage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Initially 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!
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