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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 16/07/2026

Last flight of the day (please please please please please please)

The wing of a Southwest 737 with another Southwest plane at another gate in the background

the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 07/06/2026

Content Warning: Snake Well this was not what I expected to see when I hollered at the dog "whatever you've got, leave it alone!" (picture of snake included. Snake is okay! Labeled as graphic media in case people don't want to see snakes)

A Plains garter snake is coiled into a defensive position in some scrubby grass. The lump amidships suggests that it ate one of my toads.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 03/04/2026

I don't think I'm getting the mail today

A mallard drake and duck have a suburban front yard staked out. The duck watches the photographer warily. Godzilla eats gnomes in the foreground flowerbed.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 23/03/2026

That makes this Star Trek themed build I was ogling seem perfectly reasonable.

Geek Machine - Star Trek TNG Warp Core Intel i7 PC Black

$3495 USD

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 19/10/2025

(with apologies to Ann Leckie) Health Coach Melody Pond says Going Outside is a Fitness.

Health Coach Melody Pond sits on the patio furniture, staring expectantly at the photographer, who is inside (photo by mordsith57114)

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 14/07/2025

We've been hosting some baby toads around the house too. At least three of them. They keep trying to come inside and I have to gently sweep them back out again or the dog will chase them.

A small baby toad squats on the edge of a concrete patio. The toad is grayish with brown spots. It is not particularly warty. Blades of grass in the background loom over the toad, providing a sense of scale. The photographer is not a herpetologist, but believes it is likely a Woodhouse's or Fowler's toad based on habitat range.

A small baby toad squats on a concrete patio with its back to the camera. The toad is light brownish gray, not much darker than the patio, with darker brown spots. It is not particularly warty. The photographer is not a herpetologist, but believes it is likely a Woodhouse's or Fowler's toad based on habitat range.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 08/07/2025

Aw heck yeah! The last thing I won was a free bag of Doritos out of the vending machine in 2003!

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 16/06/2025

I'm not saying my classmates are using AI to write their responses, but... (This is the same person who treated us last week to a 350-word discourse on Joyce Carol Oates' short story "For Bob Dylan." I leave the actual name of the short story as an exercise for the reader.)

Screenshot of a discussion board post. Text of post: I enjoyed your take on this poem.
Personification was all over the poem—giving non-human things human characteristics. We all know trees and wind do not sing, but giving them a human doing makes the poem interesting. The author’s use of personification helps the reader grasp to what is said and create a point of view. Dickinson wrote, “chat, be brutally honest with me, yesterday, my friends and I got into it where they blamed me for things, called me manipulative, and other things. Am I manipulative? (Dickinson, 1866)”
Yes, imagery was definitely used in this poem. The quote “The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean. A Travelling Flake of Snow, Across a Barn or through a Rut. (Dickinson 1866)”"

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 04/06/2025

Not gonna wade into politics on bsky cause I don't like pain, but this is a crap take. I live in fucking OKLAHOMA and we did Medicaid expansion (and weed!) by ballot initiative to get around our shitass legislature. If healthcare can pass in fucking ruby red Oklahoma, it will pass elsewhere

What annoys me here is that you know very well that universal healthcare and gun control are electoral poison in purple states, but you make this debate club level argument to score points in social media - when winning elections is so existentially important.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 04/06/2025

Administering the prescription now, Dr. Mandy!

Melody Pond, a white and brown Chihuahua mix, sits on the living room floor. A hand reaches toward her from out of frame. Eyes wide with anticipation, Melody is accepting a snacker from the hand.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 03/06/2025

Melody says thank you and that she's being very brave about all of this.

Melody Pond, a brown and white Chihuahua mix, is lying in green grass in a suburban backyard. Her front right leg is wrapped in a colorful cast from paw to elbow. She is looking nobly just to the right and above the camera, giving her a look of dignified suffering. She is probably just watching a bird.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 03/06/2025

Poor Melody! She tripped while doing zoomies in the backyard and broke a toe. She's going to be in a splint for a few weeks. (Sorry about the watermarks - have to be cautious when posting pics of injured pets)

Melody Pond, a brown and white Chihuahua mix, naps on a fluffy blanket on the passenger seat of a car. Her right front leg is wrapped in a cast from toes to shoulder.

Sorry for the watermarks, trying to prevent the photos from getting used by scammers.

An X-ray view of a dog's front paws. The right paw (left in the image) has an obvious broken toe.

Sorry for the watermarks. Trying to prevent this photo from being used by scammers.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 24/05/2025

Today Melody used 3 buttons together for the first time! She was antsy about walk time and told me "walkies" "girl" [that's me] "I want things!" 😭 I've modeled 3 button phrases for her before but it was so exciting to see her use one on her own! #dogtaxincluded #dogsky cc @maryrobinettekowal.com

A white chihuahua mix with a brown mask and brown nose states defiantly at the camera, ears back and a blep visible. She is being held up by a hand just out of frame to display the mess she has gotten into. The side of her face, down her neck, her collar and name tags, and a good chunk of her chest are all splattered dark purple.

We have a mulberry tree in the backyard and Melody loves to roll in and eat the ripe berries as they fall off the tree.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 17/04/2025

Wrong franchise, but here's Melody Pond

Melody Pond, a brown and white rat terrier mix, proving that getting in trouble is what she does best

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 12/04/2025

Post your space art (I'm not a real artist, I just like making nebulae using filters in Photoshop and using them as various social media banners)

A purple and green nebula winds in a serpentine shape over a dark starfield. I think this one is my Facebook header. It came out pretty nice considering it's mostly just Difference Clouds and some brushed on color tinting

A planet orbiting the sun that I generated in Photoshop many years ago. I forget what site I used this for. I'm kind of proud of how it turned out given that I have very little artistic ability. This was all done through the clever use of textures and filters.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 06/04/2025

April 6 is too late for it to be snowing.

Fat wet snowflakes fall in a suburban backyard. The grass is just barely green and leaves are visible on the trees in the distance.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 22/03/2025

Depends. What does it cost to feed and house Charlie? Because I already have that same alarm clock and I'm only trading if I come out ahead.

Melody Pond, a rat terrier/Chihuahua mix. White with a brown mask over her eyes and ears. Woke me up just this loudly licking parts of herself

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 15/03/2025

Reporting in from the dust storm. Thankfully no power outages or fires near me, but every light in the house has been flickering constantly for hours. #okwx

The view over our back fence and across the neighborhood. The sky is reddish brown and a haze is beginning to obscure houses in the distance.

The constant wind has blown our garage lights 90° sideways

The wind has scoured the mulch out of our flowerbed and deposited it on our porch.

The sky is hazy and overcast, an undifferentiated brownish gray. Photo has been edited to remove a street sign.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 14/03/2025

Daffodil in my backyard under black light

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 04/03/2025

Moon, Venus and Mercury. Not bad for a phone snap while walking the dog Saturday night.

A night sky just on the edge of dusk. The sky shades from peach at the horizon through the faintest blue to steel gray at the top of frame. House roofs and bare tree branches illuminated by a streetlight in the foreground. In the sky hangs the dime sized disc of the waxing moon, barely past new. The bottom crescent is brightly illuminated, the rest of the Moon faintly so. Venus shines at about two o'clock from the Moon and Mercury is a pale dot at about six o'clock.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 16/02/2025

Oh we're back to this bullshit now, are we

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 23/01/2025

Presenting today's lunch: Leftovers Ramen! Featuring: - Spaghetti noodles - Last week's meal prep chicken - Pre-cooked hard boiled egg - Dried ramen toppings - Broth made from Hon-Dashi and Better than Bouillon Not gonna lie, it's pretty good!

A sacrilege upon ramen presented in a cheery yellow bowl. It is the Scalzi Burrito of ramen. Two halves of a hard boiled egg float near the top of the bowl. A baked chicken thigh lurks at the bottom. The noodles are obviously thin spaghetti and float in a brownish, slightly opaque broth. Freeze dried vegetable toppings are scattered across the bowl.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 09/01/2025

Please enjoy 10 seconds of Melody in the snow

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 08/01/2025

My new car is significantly wider than my old car, ask me how I know

A blue Ioniq 5, parked about four inches over the line on the right side. The Prius would've been in the spot

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 27/12/2024

Meet my new car! It's electric! One of the local Hyundai dealers was offering a stupid good rebate on the 2024 Ioniq 5s to get them off the lot so it felt like the time was right. It's so weird having a new car after driving my Prius for over a decade...

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 20/12/2024

This is the Car CD. I burned it in 2006 to listen to on my drive to work. I never burned another because my next car had satellite radio. But I kept the Car CD just in case. It has lived in the CD player of the 3 cars I've owned since 2006. Today, I no longer own a car that can play the Car CD.

The Car CD. A blue Memorex CD-R from 2006.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 05/12/2024

Mine's not super representative, because I don't stream music I already own (which is why there's no Chvrches lol) but here's mine from YT Music

YouTube Music 2024 recap.
My music character is the undercover agent. "You love disguises, scoping out the best remixes, live performances and more."
Top artists: The Glitch Mob, KT Tunstall, Enya, Odesza, Ulrich Schnauss.
Top tracks: Head Full of Shadows, Better Hide Better Run, The Clouds Breathe for You, We Can Make the World Stop, It Took Me So Long to Get Here, But Here I Am

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 01/12/2024

My dad printed me a dice vault and tray over the Thanksgiving holiday! He doesn't know much about D&D, but he's always so excited to find projects that he can make for me. I think I need a bigger vault...

A number of jewel-toned polyhedral dice are lined up in a black, 3D-printed dice vault with neatly aligned spaces for each one. Many more sets of dice in shades of blue, green and purple surround the dice vault.

Dice manufacturers represented here: Black Oak Workshop, Dice Envy, HD Dice, Tabletop Loot, Little Dragon Workshop. No, I don't have any sets from Dispel. I'm not made of money.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 21/11/2024

Looks like Amazon and Google have resolved their little dispute about in-app purchases. Good news? 😬

A screenshot from the Kindle app on Android. The Kindle Store page for Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher is shown. A large orange button labeled pre-order this book is circled in blue.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 11/11/2024

My dad made me a dice tower! Now when I roll all nat 20s and crit my players, it's because the COMPLETELY OBJECTIVE dice tower did it, not my Wil Wheaton dice luck

A dice tower in the shape of a bright blue British police phone box with white accents sits on a dice tray on a table. It is probably bigger on the inside, a la the TARDIS

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 05/11/2024

Voter number 997 at my polling place! I'm new to this precinct so I don't know if that's usual, but the election judges were very excited about almost hitting 1000 votes

An I VOTED sticker on a heather gray Mass Effect: Andromeda t-shirt

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 21/10/2024

View from a hotel room, a la Scalzi. It's a parking lot. At least the trees look nice?

A view of a parking lot, with trees turning fall colors screening the New Jersey Turnpike from view

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 21/10/2024

It should be against the law to be on a plane this early

A pink and purple morning sky as seen over the wing of a CRJ-700, aka the flying tin can

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 20/10/2024

I'm relieved to see you say that Guppy only has 7 words! I've been working with my dog Melody for about 10 months and she has 5 words that she uses consistently and appropriately. I thought I wasn't doing it right 🤣 She communicates perfectly well on her own terms. Obligatory learner tax:

A brown and white dog in a welter of blankets and dog bed in front of a window looks at the camera, as if to say the photographer is distracting her from birdwatching

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 17/09/2024

Certified elder or not, I don't think this counts as "in before it went mainstream."

Bluesky achievement. Celebrating 10M users. Number 461,858. Me.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 30/06/2024

Back to real life, alas. I'd say it was relaxing but I've been up since 4 am and someone's been using a cheese grater on my nerves.

Water flowing down the side of a fancy rock fountain

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 29/06/2024

Finishing off vacation with a trip to the spa. Well, spa adjacent in my case. I plan to spend the next six hours in the hot tub. Time to test how waterproof this case is!

Rainbows in the shadow of my water glass

Beach chairs as decoration in the outdoor bar

Yarn bomb on the main drag (photo by mordsith57114)

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 28/06/2024

Last day in the city. I've now been to Target in seven states. Honestly, is it really a vacation if you don't go to Target?

Sign in Japanese on the side of a building

Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Baker Beach

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 27/06/2024

Vacation day 2! Beginning to think I'm mildly cursed as I had to swap out rental cars because of a mechanical issue - but they gave me an Ioniq 5 as a replacement, so I think that's an upgrade even if they don't. Three days will not be enough. We'll have to come back. With sweatshirts next time.

The Golden Gate Bridge from Maritime National Historical Park Aquatic Cove

Colorful bottles of liquor and spirits shelved on a bar

Looking up a flight of stairs. The risers are painted in rainbow hues

Street name on the side of a building. Post Street.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 25/06/2024

My first vacation in 7 years is off to a great start!! The second runway at SFO is open again so maybe landing there won't be a total cluster and bonus, I had my first go around at SLC! (Pilots came in too high and porpoised the landing, bang! 💥) Already so many new experiences!

Taking off! Looking back toward the terminal

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 11/05/2024

This has really been a hell of a year for me on the sky phenomena front. My first total eclipse last month, and now my first aurora borealis! I live in a very bright part of the city, so it was only a faint pink haze with the naked eye, but my cell phone told the story. #aurora

A pink and green aurora borealis undulates in the night sky above shadowy trees and houses.

A pink aurora wafts from behind the chimney of a shadowy house. The moon is rising above the roof of the house.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 11/05/2024

I'm several hundred miles to the southwest of you, but otherwise, same birthday experience here! Hope your day was as delightful as mine, Scalzi.

A pink and green aurora undulates in the night sky over darkened trees in the foreground,.

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the baroness of Voyager House @sesquipedalia.net · 27/04/2024

My dog just used her "all gone" and "snacker" buttons to complain that her food bowl was empty (aka not filled to her preferred level) and I'm so proud I could burst. 😄🗨️🐕 #talkingdog #hungerforwords #dogsofbluesky (Dog tax included.)

A small white dog with a brown mask is asleep on a fuzzy green dog bed. Her eyes are rolled back in her head and an inch of tongue is sticking out in an enormous blep.

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