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"These little conversations, if I tried my very best, you know I never could say anything in twenty words or less." Reader, programmer, photographer, gardener, occasional writer.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 2h
Spooky season is upon us! We're posting a free light novel set in the SIDEQUESTED universe and the first chapter is available now, where a very dangerous little girl discovers that magic is real. sidequested.com/lightnovel/t... #witch #Halloween #SpookySeason #novel #book
The preview image (cover and "it all started with a book) for SIDEQUESTED: THE FIRST QUEST
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 4h
Today is Décadi the 10th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate vats. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Vats.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 5h
Goodnight from the phantoms stuck in the cells below Coreham Crown Court, bemoaning their contemptible state of waiting upon judgement. Goodnight from Eleanor Merril, looking for tide-gifted Blood Lace blooms in the moonlit rock pools of Clinker Cove. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social · 5h
Today's word is TREAT. Today's #BookQW is from Direct Descendant (DAW Books 2025) a contemporary fantasy taking place just west of Timmins, ON, where small town values are subject to variable definitions but all the dogs are still good dogs. Available in pb, audio, & digital. Shop indie if you can.
Lower left the cover of Direct Descendant, yellow and green and black with a bakery, a woman eating a cup cake, framing silver birch, and tentacles. Because it's always better with tentacles.

      They tolerated the bloodlines and Daffodil had a somewhat- threatening version of begging for treats. Dexter had come embarrassingly close to eating a train engineer who'd strayed a little too far from the station. Oh, and they were terrified of Alyx's corgis, and it was hysterically funny watching the corgis lording it over a pair of hellhounds. Well, it was funny as long as Uncle Stu didn't catch you calling them hellhounds. Having hand-raised them, he was a bit over-protective.
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Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social · 4h
THE QUARTERED SEA( bk 4 in the Quarters Quadrology) is a Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99 in the US and Canada today. I love the world building in this, she said modestly. www.amazon.com/Quartered-Se...
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 8h
Say you want to pick up some signed books from yours truly; and say that you're also a patron of the arts, somebody who wants to support spaces like The Little Theatre of Walla Walla. In that case, I've got your hookup right here! app.galabid.com/ltww-wdd2026...
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 7h
A Phunky Photo: Snow Fall #art #photography #PhunkyPhoto 📷
Wild clematis in full bloom.

The picture was run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors.

The background shadows are now a deep, flat red. The clematis blossoms remain white.
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Phil Foglio @thephilfoglio.bsky.social · 9h
#girlgenius #webcomics Girl Genius for 9/30 (www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) I don't know about you guys, but I myself am really looking forward to a big dose of frivolous, palate cleansing Halloween this year.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 8h
"I am a watchdog. My name is Snuff." Tomorrow starts our annual reading of Roger Zelazny's "A Night in the Lonesome October" over on FB. It's a better journey with friends. Please feel free to join us as we are experienced travelers in that mythic land. www.facebook.com/groups/32423...
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 13h
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is calmly sitting on his computer when he is startled by noises that sound somewhere between coughing and choking. Alarmed, he rushes to investigate.
Blue: Green? Are you okay?

Blue finds Green on his back on the floor, evidently shaken up but otherwise unharmed.
Green: I somehow swallowed spittle wrong.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 13h
Over at #Ebooks Direct: our #Autumn #Sale is on! All our #sciencefiction and #fantasy #ebook bundles have had prices cut to make it easier for you to pick up some new-season reading. And you get our free lifetime replacement guarantee! Do stop by and take advantage of us. dduane.link/AutumnEbookS...
Screengrab of the Ebooks Direct front page image for our Autumn Reading sale
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 22h
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Perry Mason: Raymond Burr & Barbara Hale - Bored?
Alt: Perry Mason: Raymond Burr & Barbara Hale - Bored?
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 22h
Daily bunny no.3457 always brings an acorn
A bunny in a blue dress brings an acorn to a small grey squirrel, who she is meeting in a clearing in the woods. The squirrel is dressed more rustically, accepts the gift gladly.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Phunky Photo: From Z to Shining Z #art #photography #PhunkyPhoto 📷
A Zinnia blossom, past peak.

The picture was run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors and outlined details in black.

The petals are red, the farther backgorund is blue with cyan and green touches, and the nearer background is yellow with orange touches.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Goodnight from High-on-the-Hill Farm, where the Trigg family are enjoying a stubble-goose feast after having paid their quarter day tribute to Faery. Goodnight from Ralph Shenwood calling on the Archangels for strength to resist answering the Hoarse Hag’s call. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 29/09/2026
Status report, "Just Thought I'd Mention": Noting some Discourse on alternate YA material about young #wizards (without toxic additives). If you're interested (and not in the UK: sorry, Brexit issues...), these nine diverse & inclusive works are on #sale at a really low price!🙂 bit.ly/YWNMESET
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YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set
Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 29/09/2026
Today is Nonidi the 9th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate parsnips. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Parsnips.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The year I lost. Or gained. Time moves differently around the Fae. The realm saw Her for a year, but those attending her spent a day in Her presence. I lost a year of watching my child grow. Of the days to spend with family and friends. Of chances to share Life, and Beauty, and Love with them.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes! Marvelous book, chonky book, very much made by human book! Get book! Read book! Enjoy book!
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3456 goes a-courtin'
Two bunnies are in a rowboat on a small pond, flanked by leaves overhead. One bunny rows the boat, while the other serenades with a small guitar.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 28/09/2026
(sigh) I won't be changing this Summer Reading Sale image (and page) until tomorrow probably. due to being *up to here* with the LIONES'S MANE stuff, but this sale is STILL ON. 🙂 ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...
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Ale @alepresser.com · 28/09/2026
𝗛𝗲𝘆! Side Quested is up and when the VULTURE goes "ew", thing are at another level. 🔗 sidequested.com/page/book2-1... 🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🔹 Start here: sidequested.com/page/1/ 🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser 🔹 #webcomics
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Goodnight from Charlie Hazelgrove, sitting on the deck of the Narrow Escape and listening out for the telltale tuck-tuck-tuck of a black-lanterned canal boat in hopes of procuring certain illicit goods. Goodnight from Lizzie Pecksmith, waiting for the voices to arrive. Goodnight from Hookland.
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 28/09/2026
Today is Octidi the 8th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate amaranth. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Amaranth.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Phunky Photo: Glory in the Rain #art #photography #PhunkyPhoto 📷
Rain-dappled morning glory blossom.

The picture was run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors and outlined details in black.

The blossom is green with a purple throat and orange tinting at the petal edges. The background foliage is shades of orange.
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Phil Foglio @thephilfoglio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#girlgenius #webcomics #magicthegathering Girl Genius for 9/28 (www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) Getting ready our next show, which is in L.A. 10/9-11 (scgcon.starcitygames.com/event/scg-co...) We were just in L.A. for Worldcon, but this will be a whole new crowd, because we contain multitudes.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 28/09/2026
It's Monday at SIDEQUESTED and Our Lad™ is Ladding© again! But this time it's for good and disgusting reasons. sidequested.com #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #GraphicNovel #ew
Leo, brave doofus, says "If I had a sword, I could fight our way out." In the background, Charlie and Peony hold each other tight.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting at a table, in front of a game board set up with several character figurines and various pieces of landscape terrain. On the table is also a measuring tape and a scattering of dice.
Green: Okay, that makes six. How many points did we need to dodge that strike?
Blue: Eight.
Green: Oof.

Both of the foxes look at the board pensively.
Blue: I guess that concludes the campaign. Another party wiped out in their first combat encounter.
Green: At this point we're just feeding adventurers to highwaymen.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics
Two bunnies are standing near a record player, and one starts to play their preferred record, "Something Else" by the Kinks. Next to him, the second bunny is miffed that she can't play her preferred record, "Room On Fire" by the Strokes.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dawn and the first latchet of heavy light was seeping over the downs.
Along the quiet chalk lanes and the old Roman roads, edged with teasels and burnt dock and tall purple daisies, came the Newcomer.
A fox of the North wind, teller of tales, righter of wrongs, bringer of deep autumn and the golden tide of the high angels of harvest.
His wagon was gold too, and the clear blue of September skies and the startling red of rose hips.
Above him, the hawks cried and made their circles, tours known to heaven, as old as the earth.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Goodnight from The Elusive Lady pub, where there’s much talk of the Empress Eel slithering the fields. Goodnight from Geoff Allot, his shade hanging around the sign appealing for witness to a road traffic accident, unable to quite work out what is going on. Goodnight from Hookland.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Phunky Photo: Rainy Day B and C #art #photography #PhunkyPhoto 📷
A bee gathering pollen on a cosmos blossom in the rain.

The picture was run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors and outlined details in black.

The blosson is a very pale ivory, while the bee and background foliage are cyan and blue.
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Ale @alepresser.com · 27/09/2026
Read Side Quested. It keeps getting weirder. #webcomics sidequested.com
a very tiny croped panel with Leopold, Charlie, Robin and Jet, and there are all sorts of expressions here.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3454 loses another one
A bunny with a fishing rod is reeling in a fish, but a seagull steals it from him in midair, dragging the fish along with the line. Another bunny, a fishing buddy, as suffered the same fate, and is climbing out of the water having not let go of their fishing line and been pulled in. Other seagulls on the dock nearby enjoy their pilfered fishes.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goodnight from Madley’s village hall, where the Lord and Lady of the Fields are not the most drunk folk at a harvest supper lurching towards riot. Goodnight from Leah Blundell, fervently saying pagan prayers under the light of a Corn Maiden Moon. Goodnight from Hookland.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A Phunky Photo: Oranged Blossoms #art #photography #PhunkyPhoto 📷
Two Impatiens blossoms.

The picture was run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors and outlined details in black.

The upper blossom is a yellowish orange, the bottom a full, rich orange. The foliage is blue, with red touches. The deeper shadows are cyan.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3453 is looking back
Bunnies sit at a table outside a cafe, called the Luna Cafe. It is on the surface of the moon, looking at a distant planet earth. They sip from mugs while a third bunny watches from a second floor balcony.
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Phunky Photo: Stars in Her Ayes #art #photography #PhunkyPhoto 📷
Multiple Black-Eyed Susan blossoms.

The picture was run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the color and outlined details in black.

The blossoms are yellow-petaled with red centers. The background foliage is purple with some black and red touches.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Goodnight from the St. Urith clergy house, its nuns giving each retired priest their nightly blessing of whisky as members of the Ghost-layers' Club mutter in a corner. Goodnight from Abigail Ash, calling spirits from all five directions of the cunning compass. Goodnight from Hookland.
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 25/09/2026
Today is Quintidi the 5th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate horses. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a Horses.
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Phil Foglio @thephilfoglio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#girlgenius #webcomics Girl Genius for 9/25 (www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) The Kickstarter fulfillment continues! Kaja declared that we'll have a "We can see our living room floor again" party when the time comes. I can't wait. This is the last time we do this ourselves. We're too old for this
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Underscoring that I'm not the main demographic for modern television, I deliberately watched only four of these shows (3 in the top 50, 1 in the bottom.) And I'm not mad about that. First episode descriptions of nearly all these shows made me go "I'm never watching that." (Some, "Why would you?!")
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green looks at Blue as Blue is dramatically laying down on the floor.
Blue: You can go ahead and go to that party. I'll just be here by my self, alone.

Green looks at Blue with a frustrated frown, as Blue sticks his tongue out while making a disgusted face.
Green: You could also come with me.
Blue: I don't like people.

Green raises an eyebrow.
Green: Don't I count as "people?"
Blue: Of course not. You're the love of my life.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3452 can hear the bustle of the city
A bunny stands outside their thatched roof hut, observing a small cabbage patch. Birds are nearby. Their cottage is built against the side of a stone wall, on the other side of which is an old-fashioned city where city-dwelling bunnies roam
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🍁🐉 Please join my patreon & support a writer! Only the price of a cup of chocolate! Daily stories & recipes & a magnificent archive! Today, for example, learn how to make the "Dragon of Kensington Church Street's Restorative Soup for Colds and Influenza." 🐉 🍁https://patreon.com/c/annelouiseavery
The Dragon of Kensington Church Street
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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 24/09/2026
Today is Quartidi the 4th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate the autumn crocus. #JacobinDay See today's page
An old time-y illustration of a the Autumn Crocus.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Goodnight from Prosperine’s Bookshop, its patrons enchanted by Emily c. Banting’s talk on magical garters and the Empress Eel’s folkloric power. Goodnight from the pubs of Store Street, where strange stories are a currency to be swapped for pints of Lazarus ale. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 24/09/2026
The diplomat's last two assassinations didn't take. But this one might—unless she can get #SherlockHolmes and #DoctorJohnWatson to help. At #Ebooks Direct: "The Adventure of The Lioness's Mane." bit.ly/LionessMane
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At Ebooks Direct: The Adventure of the Lioness's Mane - Out of Ambit
It’s 1895, but not as you know it! The planet Earth experienced its first shattering contact with alien life in the year 1690 AD. Only the inspired genius of Sir…
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The Quantum Magician @thequantummage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Phunky Photo: Harlequin #art #photography #PhunkyPhoto 📷
A Cosmos blossom against a background of unmown grass.

The picture was run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors and outlined details in black.

The petals are yellow with blue and pink shadows. The grass is cyan and black.
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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's a recalled DORK TOWER THURSDAY! Concerned new strip up now, at the Mothership! www.dorktower.com/2026/09/24/a... Repost/Reblog/Repeat, thanks so much!
Matt, looking at his phone, says "ANOTHER 167,000
POUNDS OF MEATS HAVE JUST BEEN RECALLED, DUE TO MORE SAFETY CONCERNS."
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