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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 18/09/2026

The time you pictured it in the past also doesn't look like you pictured it

The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 15/09/2026

Almost forgot Before I go here's a shot of a work in progress It's all circles and it's all 3D printed and assembled I think of that six-pointed star as the "star of hope" #geometry #art #3dprinting

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 26/07/2026

#SacredGeomtery Just because it's "sacred" doesn't mean it can't be fun. Fun is sacred too, you know 😉

"Seven circles" design done with seven colors

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 26/07/2026

#SacredGeometry Six circles will fit exactly around a seventh circle, rather amazing in itself, not to mention all the things that flow from it. Like a honeycomb, for instance, or a snowflake

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 26/07/2026

#SacredGeometry This one is actually a meditation in breaking free from preconceptions... there are no circles, only stars. Can you make the circles go away?

Black stars on a field of white. It's very difficult to see only the stars and no circles.

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 12/07/2026

Funny how I was just looking at photos I took in Michigan one Christmas during days of lake-effect snowfall and thinking the same thing Here's one of my favorites

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 06/07/2026

Concussion-capped cascading catastrophes changed me For the better I hope Probably won't be on here much in the future 🤷

Sunset at St Marks with the line of old pilings and perched seabirds

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 22/06/2026

Geez guys I know I'm no Yeats or Whitman but seriously, one 'like' on a poem? 🤦 How People on Bluesky Read Poetry

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 18/05/2026

A little thing I'm up to... MysteryMounds.com

The Mystery Mounds Project
Near Tallahassee, Florida, a site of historical and archaeological significance sleeps, unappreciated and almost unknown. The goal of The Mystery Mounds Project is to bring it into greater public awareness, with an eye to returning a greater level of respect and care to this deserving site.

Thus I'm distributing - at no cost - small effigies of the main mound at the site, embossed on the back with a code which, searched for on the Internet, will return a trove of information.

Mystery Mounds are made from plant-derived PLA plastic and are biodegradable.

I would like to put these in the hands of educators or others who wish to distribute Mystery Mounds at no cost - for instance as the core of a lesson plan.
You can reach me at Bluesky. or MysteryMounds (at) faroutpost.com.

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This effort is currently being funded and implemented by an individual. I have excess PLA filament from a project involving the main mound at Letchworth and hit on the idea of printing the "mystery mounds" as a way to make good use of it. I have enough for several hundred mounds on hand. This isn't about me; I intend to stay in the background and supply them to people who can make good use of them. Just think of it as "recycling".

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 14/05/2026

Lest we forget... Birmingham, Alabama, 1960s

Police attacking a civil rights protestor with German Shepherd dogs

Birmingham, Alabama, 1960s

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 29/03/2026

Stopping by to share a fuzzy photo of part of what I've been up to This is a model of the main (#1) mound at the Letchworth-Love site, expanded from a 2D topo map #TheyWereHereFirst

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 20/02/2026

The #Quantum State of #Cats When the Wave Function Collapses Prematurely

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 12/02/2026

"Owly Scowl" The limestone here is very soft and water sometimes carves out fantastic shapes The first time I saw the banks of Half Mile Rise I immediately thought of gargoyles

Water has carved out what looks like a pair of scowling owl eyes in a piece of limestone

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 11/02/2026

Beautiful image I was struck by what a nice standalone flower graphic this would be so I did a quick and dirty - could use some cleanup but here 'tis

Flower photo with background replaced with transparency

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 10/02/2026

#poem #poetry #rainbow From a scrap of paper Found After a thunderstorm: -- At last After many days' travel We draw near to The end of the rainbow An inaudible hum Infuses the air All vibrancy Is drained From the landscape Fearsome fields + 👇👇👇

Extreme closeup of a rainbow silhouetting bare trees and looking distinctly ominous

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 05/01/2026

Taken some time ago with my old Nikon Coolpix 1600x1200 camera at St Marks NWR Could date them by the number of pilings still standing Cc: @msriffle.bsky.social

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 18/12/2025

This simple design (I've done much more complex ones) was generated by javascript running in the browser A computer program... words You might say I "spoke" this design

An eight-pointed abstract design representing the Sun, the horizon, the Cardinal Directions, and the four Solstice points

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 11/12/2025

A recent poem from Ken Beattie Note: everyone in this poem is *old* LOL

Apologies - I don't have this in text form

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 21/11/2025

This is one I can do... #birdoftheday theme of Grounded Gulls...

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 20/11/2025

Visualization and Validation of Raw Data - East Slope ---- also ---- Welcome the The Hall of the Mountain King

An image generated to validate and visualize some raw data also looks like a grand staircase in an underground palace

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 10/11/2025

Live view of the future of the Democratic Party

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 31/10/2025

When the truth lies hidden in plain sight

A negative image of a topo map of a mound

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 30/10/2025

Before I go How to make raw data beautiful

A display of raw data color coded and in a form that brings out hidden information

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 30/10/2025

Previous one was north-south profile viewed from the west This is east-west viewed from the north Useful for comparing effects of erosion on the two faces

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 30/10/2025

Mound profile generated from topographic data showing slope angles on the two opposing faces

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 17/10/2025

Hold on thar, pardner! Who said those "tomahawks" promised to Ukraine were missiles? No siree Bob! And he's sending/deporting people to wield them, too!

A Native American warrior holding a shield and wielding a tomahawk

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 15/10/2025

The following graphic is educational and informative - e/i For instance, did you know the planets are all men? Venus had us fooled but turns out to be just a drag queen #Sad

A graphic showing the obliquities (axial tilts) of the planets

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 05/10/2025

Here in North Florida humans used to live alongside elephants (mastodons and mammoths), giant ground sloths, and saber-tooth tigers - until they hunted them to extinction 🤦😳

A reproduction of the skeleton of a mastodon recovered from the Aucilla River in North Florida

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 05/10/2025

This is where I was the last couple of days...

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 30/09/2025

Timeline cleanse... St Marks at the lighthouse, 1970 Only some of the pilings remain today Unfortunately I lost the original in a hard drive crash long ago 😳

At the lighthouse at St Marks Wildlife Refuge, 1970

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 25/09/2025

I don't have to... (more where this came from) Please don't try to claim an exception due to the Sun. The sky is darker toward the horizon, which is what started this

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 05/09/2025

The failure of oligarchs,, billionaires, and traitors to understand the cycles of history means they are ignorant of where the consequences of their actions lead It doesn't repeat, it echoes...

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 02/09/2025

This is from **2013** folks And yes it *did* ultimately prove fatal

The GOP party symbol with three parasites (Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, and Rand Paul) feeding on its back, visiting a doctor, who tells it to watch out who it hangs out with

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 31/08/2025

This is from 2013 and I *think* it's my work That's freaking *twelve years* ago

A fake movie poster for a fake movie "Escape From Texas" with stereotypical women prisoners making a jailbreak.

It says "They've been denied health care and forced to have children: NOW... THEY'RE BUSTIN' OUT!!!

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 30/08/2025

(that's a "Cuddly Drone" being shot down and that's another story)

A mashup "cartoon" of a pistol turned into a drone shooting down another drone that looks like a cuddly reindeer. It's staged as an NRA ad with Wayne Pierre (why is he not in prison?) promoting it

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 28/08/2025

What do you see? Man's best friend come to the aid of a human in distress? No, not this time The spiritual forebears of ICE on the streets of Birmingham? Fascism in America sixty years ago? It's always been here...

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 18/08/2025

So Friday we saw what happens when a Puppet POTUS tries to yank the puppeteer's strings Puppet got slapped down hard The whole world saw it, then saw the Russian President give orders to the American President, who immediately said "Yes sir!" A dark day, and I have an exclusive photo from inside

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The Dread Poet Michael @thedreadpoetmichael.com · 11/08/2025

Was sitting here minding my own business when numinosity descended upon the scene "Blue Madonna" (my work) - see alt text for details

A slender Mexican Virgin Mary with her arms raised in a circle over her head, seen from behind

(it's a blue plastic water-mister with a fan)

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