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voracious sci-fi/fantasy reader • landscape enjoyer • forklift certified • occasional meme & photo edits • 🚫AI

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 2h
you gotta put a leash on that thing before Brother Herbert goes fucking appleplectic
brother mo the pet woolybear that sisters dot and helga dress up like a little monk got into brother herbert's garden and he is PISSED
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our staff is hard at work on your divination! We will be with you momentarily.
A digital illustration of various hamsters on a table cluttered with objects such as spellbooks, candles, herbs, and mushrooms. 

One hamster is asleep in the eye socket of a cat skull, another is eating a mushroom, two appear to be contemplating a spread of three tarot cards (three of swords, death, 10 of cups), another hamster investigates a bottle of spilled sunflower seeds, one is pawing at a glass bowl containing a newt (which is likewise pawing at the hamster from inside), and lastly a hamster appears to be scurrying off screen dragging a knife.
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 22h
took his hair clean off with it
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Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 22h
Hello there, Week-end is nigh
Dessin noir et blanc d'un corbeau aux ailes déployées et en partie mécaniques. Il tient dans ses serres un livres dont les feuilles s'envolent. Plusieurs livres flottent également autour de lui. En arrière plan, un cercle central dans lequel on peut voir des formes géométriques rappelant un vitrail, tout comme sur la partie basse où trois troncs grimpent vers le centre de la page. En haut des livres étranges sont posés sur des étagères.
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Photo of Bombus impatiens on a yellow flower with a text that says This is Bombus impatiens, and I need you to stay in the fight.
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
beat me to it lol
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Warhammer 40K Techpriest, with a balloon that makes it look like he's saying the quoted post
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil. 

At the top of the piece we see the delicately drawn branches and leaves of an apple tree. Just beneath the tree limbs, a bat is flying with one of the green apples in its mouth. This is when the morphing begins, reader. A sequence of 13 drawings show the bat morphing into a teeny witch (with completion of the morph around drawing #9). The morphing creates a spiral leading us to the center of the page where the little witch is running towards her basket filled with apples. It’s likely she’ll re-morph into a bat again and the morphing pattern will continue.
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lmao, did Disney pay someone to sneak through some new copyright law while we were all distracted?
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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clever display name lacker @pfish.zo... 2mo

new reactor operator: And if I see the gauge rising into dangerous territory, then what button should I push?

me (just got oral surgery):

Colin Campbell @raleighrepor...2mo

Always take the back roads so you can discover a fun-to-say NC place name you hadn't heard before

[picture of a green road sign that reads WAM SQUAM]
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a dark lol (like the mines)
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
shrew monk standing on stacked stools to talk a patient badger monk's ear off girl talking a disinterested guy's ear off meme
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can’t stop laughing
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
... ...the leopards are going to have to skip appetizers and go right to eating faces, huh
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sincerely, thank you for all your reporting on this.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
which one are you?
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 01/10/2026
#boktober 001
doodle of two chickens
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#kimgakaku
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sept. 30 Oct. 1
Galaxy, in her regular costume, from JUSTICE LEAGUE: DREAM GIRLS by Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, Nicola Scott, Annette Kwok, J. Bone, Marissa Louise, Brandt&Stein, Vincent Cecil, Stephen Sadowski, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, Joe Quinones, Dearbhla Kelly, Trish Mulvihill, Hi-Fi, Jan Bazaldua, Rosi Kampe, Adriano Lucas, Triona Farrell, Jodie Troutman and Frank Cvetkovic.
Galaxy dressed as an Amazon, as a variation on Superman, as a variation on Green Arrow, as a variation on Booster Gold, as a variation on Bat Lash, and a variation on Zatanna from JUSTICE LEAGUE: DREAM GIRLS by Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, Nicola Scott, Annette Kwok, J. Bone, Marissa Louise, Brandt&Stein, Vincent Cecil, Stephen Sadowski, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, Joe Quinones, Dearbhla Kelly, Trish Mulvihill, Hi-Fi, Jan Bazaldua, Rosi Kampe, Adriano Lucas, Triona Farrell, Jodie Troutman and Frank Cvetkovic.
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine it chasing off owls or hawks together with the crows 😂 like a B-52 enforcing a no-fly zone
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Should've invested in the unglamorous but useful cyborg bladder upgrade cybladder
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Start to finish making of process for one of my porcelain tentacle handle cups! Throwing, trimming, glazing You can buy a unique cup like this on my website, www.roseschmits.com
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I saw in NBC's earlier reporting that a doctor who was involved in a failed execution in TN this past May "intended to participate in Pike’s execution" which seemed bad enough then but even worse now. "Fowler declined to comment after Pike’s failed execution Wednesday night."
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the notices are misspelled probably half of the time here, a cheap laugh but better than none! definitely spellchecked this thrice before posting lol 🫠
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Chron 🇨🇦 @xhp.ca · 30/09/2026
Listen to The Board, folks
The Board from Control says "Support independent/lonely media as they are underfunded/poor yet essential"
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Disciplined Duelist - for Magic: The Gathering's Streets of New Capenna AD: Sarah Wassell The first painting I completed for Magic and still one of my favourites.
A man strides across a dimly lit hallway, brandishing magical gauntlets. He rolls up a sleeve in anticipation of a fight to come. The shapes of the composition are angular and art-deco-inspired.
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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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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026
This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.
A series of bands cross the image from left to right, brighter at the bottom and darkening towards the top. A band of empty space is at the top of the image. About a quarter down from the top is a complex pattern of jagged, spiky shadows cast onto the rings. The icy towers casting the shadows are seen here at a highly oblique angle.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What did we learn, Palmer?
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AI and the crisis of the author
        

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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the one with the dude catching the sword to the noggin is a-ok though lol
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can tell it's a rebel ship because it doesn't have a big eye or teeth (-‿⁠•)
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fourt dynasty Vase perfec t size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Fourth Dynasty Vase. Put Baby In Fourth Dynasty Vase. no problems ever in vasse because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. friend 4rth dynnasty vase”
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 28/09/2026
kitchen duty
the monks havin a gab while leisurely preparing dinner
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
dissociation: seated, peeling knife in wing; alas, poor Ignatz
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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The #ADoorableThursday portal that leads to the station buffet tea rooms in Barter Books, Alnwick, the incredible secondhand bookshop in the former railway station. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pen #drawing #Artshare
Rows of bookshelves leading the eye to a doorway with an arched fanlight with letters proclaiming the room beyond the door to be a station buffet. It is in fact the tearoom of a secondhand bookshop that was once a railway station.
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"grok, where do I live?" "That's a great question, and important if you don't want to spend a night on the streets (who would?). The address you're looking for is 1060 West Addison Street. Chicago, Illinois, of course."
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trying their god-damndest to land in a catastrophically depressurized super-habitat (which is still under rotation)
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh, and the whole universe she built around that novel and others; any discrepancies the fault of my own memory haha)
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And then space stations were basically built aligned to that plane, and docking approaches and traffic control, radio positioning beacons and navigational charts etc were all keyed to that as well. Everything else was basically "the nose of your ship is 0° of 360 and go from there."
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've seen zenith and nadir used for the up-down directions within solar systems in fiction; if I remember correctly the zero reference was an arbitrary plane containing the orbit of whichever planet was most important, with z and n perpendicular?
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
since i am working on my first new alt movie posters in *quite* a while, thought i'd share a selection of my favs from over the years ! title and description in alt text all of them are ink on claybord/scratchboard
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