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@theotherjustin.bsky.social
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I was born near one body of water. I now live near a different body of water. Published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, and elsewhere. He/Him. Boston to Busan. Itch: yesterweird.itch.io Linktree: linktr.ee/theotherjustin

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 58m
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 10h
Today's Pulptober entry where I read one pulp story every day for the month of October.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 14h
Dreamed I was riding a bus on some New England highway, full of longing for the world beyond my window, which I recognized as both profound and an illusion, as the bus drove past boarded up and abandoned buildings. Just utter mundane shit with big feelings attached.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 15h
Played some Battletech: Alpha Strike today. Had a ton of fun.
Mech figures and cardboard buildings. Mech figures and cardboard buildings with one mech hiding behind a building
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 21h
A 21st century country trying to govern with 18th century software.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 22h
Folks in pulp stories going crazy from things anyone now can see at any time with the press of a button.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 22h
This is why William Gibson's future kleptocrats in THE PERIPHEREAL called it the Jackpot.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Started off going good Anthropeum.com · Oct 5 2026 🟦🟦🟩🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩 75,264 · top 23% of players today!
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you think there’s money to be made in Giles Corey themed weighted blankets?
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Double rainbow above Busan
Day time rain slick city street a rainbow in the sky above buildings and a faint rainbow higher in the air
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wow. Lots of random bikini girls will like your Instagram posts if you use the words “Sam Gamgee,” “potato,” and “pervert”. They must be LOTR fans.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some good news at last.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will not share the awful thing I saw in the Discord. I will not share the awful thing I saw in the Discord. I will not share the awful thing I saw in the Discord. I will not share the awful thing I saw in the Discord. I will not share the awful thing I saw in the Discord.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had my book club read THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER. The Rebecca Yarros fan didn't like it. The Elena Ferrante fan did.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OSR as threat.
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Leo @infrabeige.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Want to read some Vaults of Vaarn 2E and aren't a patron or backer? I've released a public playtest draft of the player-facing rules, over 90 pages of material vaultsofvaarn.com/2026/10/02/v...
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VAULTS OF VAARN 2E: AMBER JACKAL PREVIEW
Hello folks, been quiet around here lately. I am still busy as ever on Vaults of Vaarn: Second Edition, which is shaping up to be a real monster of a project. 130,000 words and counting at this sta…
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"But Mr. Landlord, my cat is an Abstract Expressionist!"
Orange cat looking shy beneath the wallpaper she has shredded.
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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop: This Is The Bad Place!
Alt: Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop: This Is The Bad Place!
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I made a bowl of oatmeal, added shredded apple and an egg to it, then cooked it like it was pancake batter, and I regret nothing.
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 02/10/2026
Underappreciated deep cut of the day: Lovecraft's correspondence with a woman who claimed to be descended from an accused Salem witch. I am often surprised some enterprising soul in Salem hasn't compiled HPL's letters on his visits there as a booklet. deepcuts.blog/2020/10/28/h...
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Her Letters to Lovecraft: Unnamed Salem Witch Descendant
The old gentry, representing the two or three armigerous families which came from Salem in 1692, have kept somewhat above the general level of decay; though many branches are sunk into the sordid p…
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My methodology for picking pulp stories for Pulptober is combination of a) previous enjoyment of the author, b) vibes, c) dope and/or dopey title.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Darth Kriss @insanityreport.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Every post from A.I. folks boils down to them a) hating doing anything themselves b) hating interacting with other people c) hating themselves d) all the above
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Say what you will about my achievements but I made a home where a cat can feel comfortable sleeping 20 hours a day.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think I'm going to read a pulp story off Project Gutenberg every day for October.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reading is fun and I should do it more often.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Books read and enjoyed in September 2026: 1) DELUSION'S MASTER by Tanith Lee (Flat Earth series Book 2) CYCLONOPEDIA: COMPLICITY WITH ANONYMOUS MATERIALS by Reza Negarestani 3) A SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez ... so let's talk about them...
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We're looking for a non-fiction editor at Faber on a 12-month, fixed-term maternity cover. Find out more: www.faber.co.uk/careers/edit...
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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earthsea hasn't been far from my mind this year.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Twilight Zone episode that terrified me the most.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Local noodle shop signage. She gonna mess you up.
Red sign with white cirxle with cartoon woman rising from a bowl of noodles and with her palm out like she is saying come at me bro.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is kind of the plot to Stanislaw Lem's THE CHAIN OF CHANCE.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Caldwell definitely paused a VHS tape of Night Court to paint Markie Post here.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Becoming one of those perverts who likes a squirt of lemon juice over cheese pizza.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026
Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)
Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."
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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Surely you know somebody who lives in Massachusetts and could use this:
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Herman Melville in the front pew, nodding like Jack Nicholson.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The true title of the Untitled Goose game is "Are You There God? It's Me, Goose".
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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
here's a few uses from TNG we've got transporter room wall panels, Q's post-nuclear-horror show trial wall panels, ceilings in an underground tunnel, and a whole slew of wall panels in a utility room of some sort
yar standing to riker, who's on a transporter pad. freezer spacer is a wall panel on her leftpicard, data, troi, and yar on a platform surrounded by post-nuclear-horror soldiers, seen from above. the walls behind them are freezer spacerslaforge walkingthrough an underground tunnal, partially exposed rock, with ceilings made from freezer spacersworf and troi talking in a utility room with colorful display panels and walls made of freezer spacers
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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
wanna know one of the dirty little secrets of how to make a cool science fiction set? this bad boy right here, the NFS 4 Freezer Spacer. this fucker shows up EVERYWHERE in scifi set design ceilings? check! floors? check! walls? check! tables? check! instant scifi vibe
a black freezer pallet spacer made of wide-corrugated plastic with cross ridges and grid holes (the majority are square, but there are vertical strips of long rectangular holes as well)
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Had a dream I was playing a game called Elaborate Tunnels.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, who wants a Mordheim inspired game from the guy who wrote the rules for Warcry, Games Workshop’s best wargame for years? Because that’s what you can get* if you click this link. * well, the beta rules at any rate.
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Black Death City
Black Death City: miniatures-agnostic narrative skirmish game of dark fantasy and gothic horror.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The graded shading that radiates outwards from the hip has created the impression of a firework launched into the night sky in a starburst of silver. You can almost hear the crackle of the sparks as they fade. Early #1920s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A flapper style 1920s evening dress of black chiffon decorated almost entirely with silver beadwork in a firework design. It centres over one hip and then burst outwards in shaded silver lines
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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some covers to 'Colecția Povestiri Stiințifico‑Fantastice' ('The Collection of Scientific-Fantastic Stories'), aka CPSF, a Romanian sf magazine published 1955-1974 (it's mentioned in the SFE Romania entry sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/romania ). Artists identified in alt text:
The cover to 'Colecția Povestiri Stiințifico‑Fantastice', February 1963 (#197) and March 1963 (#199). Artists: Dumitru Ionescu, Nic NicolaevThe cover to 'Colecția Povestiri Stiințifico‑Fantastice', September 1963 (#212) and November 1963 (#216). Artists: Victor Wegemann (both)The cover to 'Colecția Povestiri Stiințifico‑Fantastice', January 1964 (#220) and November 1963 (#241). Artists: Dumitru Ionescu and Victor WegemannThe cover to 'Colecția Povestiri Stiințifico‑Fantastice', December 1964 (#242) and June 1965 (#253). Artists: Victor Wegemann (both)
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