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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The cat named Brie emerges for breakfast:

A tortie standing in a hallway, looking very interested, tail raised.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I wanted to share a picture of our tortie from earlier today but we couldn’t find her.

Definitely not the back half of a tortie poking out from behind a curtain by a sliding glass door.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Snagged these at Third Eye Comics — the covers hooked me, and it’s a fantastic read so far. Nosy HOA and a collective team up(???) over a mystery!

The first three issues of Neighborhood Watch, by Sarah Gailey, Haining, Rebecca Nalty, and Jodie Troutman.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is Brie, a senior lady and a recent rescue. It’s been three weeks and we’re already in love

a tortie on her side in bed, looking at camera, ready for tummy rubs!

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Quote this post with a game that you like but everyone else hates. I love a good tragedy and how easy it is to alienate friends, lose family, and end up isolated, all while chasing a better home as a refugee. It can be a very brutal game, and I’m aware of the repetitive levels and don’t care.

The cover art for Dragon Age II, with the male version of the protagonist Hawke in the foreground and a bloody dragon symbol behind him. Hawke is wearing half-plate armor and holding a sword in one hand. A dark, bloody path lays before him.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We really have been inundated with disgusting transphobic ads in Virginia - every ad break I’ve seen lately has had one. They’re all infuriating, and I hope Sears is having the evening she deserves. Anyway, I’m proud of Virginians tonight.

Flag with the seal of Virginia, where a woman symbolizing Virtue holds a spear and stands over a fallen king. There is a Latin motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis, which means “Thus always to tyrants.”

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Here’s my selfie from a different era — circa 2017! I think this was the night of my weekly tabletop session I DMed for several years, and it was the first time my partner straightened my thick and wavy hair. It was pretty fun!

Me, a guy with brown hair and a reddish beard, taking a selfie

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Given your history of Jar Jar / Picard posting, this felt like serendipity.

A screenshot of the original post with Kim Hu’s drawing of sexy Watto below it. He is a portly blue alien with a snout and I’m not describing what he’s doing with his hand.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

There is always one warm sunny spot in our laundry room and our cat naps in it and yells at us when we disturb him. It is v good

A gray cat looking up from a sunny spot on a linoleum floor

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

“Just two goofs”— OR ARE THEY??? (they are)

the post reaching 666 likes because I like it. imagine music from The Omen is playing

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that’s iconic to you

intro screen for Exile III: Ruined World with a lizard person (Slith), a cat person (Nephil), and twi human adventurers on a mountain overlooking a burning city, with two slime monsters creeping up on them

the Exile III: Ruined World title screen, with menu options on the left and a cinematic gameplay loop on the right

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Reading Naomi Alderman’s excellent “The Future” and this line made me belly laugh. I only went on digs in school for a few years, but long enough to know this is 100% true:

A book passage with the following highlighted: “It was a wild night. Give archaeologists corporate money to celebrate and see what you get.”

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The wording is tripping me up. So the person writing this list put you on it because you didn’t follow back, and they think it’s because they are *not* a peasant and you are a star??? like

Nick Young looking confused with question marks around him

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The later seasons of the Clone Wars have a big shift in tone and show more of the darkness and pointlessness of the conflict. They also show you Jar Jar making out with Pope Big Bird.

Jar Jar Binks and the Bardottan Queen Julia, a bird person in priest / royal attire, kissing

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Using food to show where I grew up

Ham biscuits — put Virginia ham on a whitehouse roll with dijon mustard, poppyseed, and swiss cheese and bake in the oven

Deviled eggs - not a perfect match in the image, but I’m used to them with paprika and bits of pickle

Rainbow cookies (red, yellow and green shortbread cookies), from former Richmond grocery chain Ukrops, still sold at local stores

Butterstar cookies (ridged shortbread cookies with a dab of hard frosting on top, in different colors), also from Ukrops

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Fruitloop is my hero by virtue of having the best possible name

Wooden art piece with pets painted on it to celebrate employee pets at a veterinary clinic, including an orange and white cat named Fruitloop

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A print of Tolkien’s art from Oxford arrived today! With this + framed Beleriand maps, and a small Door of Moria print to frame and hang, I’m slowly turning my office into a mini Tolkien gallery. This brings me joy.

A framed print of Tolkien’s “Glórund sets forth to seek Túrin” hanging above a computer desk. The print depicts a dragon emerging from a tunnel and crossing a river in a mountainous landscape

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Quote skeet with a game that’s nostalgic for you

A screenshot from Exiled III: Ruined World, a pixelated top-down RPG where six characters in an underground chamber are confronted by two gargoyles. Stats, inventory, and action log take up the right half of the screen.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A selfie this instant I don’t know what my hair is doing besides “post workout rebellion”

me, a white guy with brown hair and a red brown beard and glasses. my hair is curling and standing up weirdly

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Watching this horrifying masterpiece has been a yearly tradition for me and @firelight.bsky.social - inspired by @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social ‘s blog review of it.

Tim Curry flying across a TV screen with a giant multicolored cloak in the made-for-TV movie The Worst Witch. This is the prelude to a bizarre visual effects nightmare of a music video. It is important to understand that Tim Curry’s character is the hottest person in the world in this universe. It is also important to understand that this movie is bad.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Voting achieved! Next step: so very many postcards…

A selfie of me! Guy with a beard and a blue Gondor hat and a Star Wars shirt with an “I VOTED” sticker on it.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

Gritty, the hairy orange mascot, ice skating in a neon ensemble. He is beautiful and terrible as the dawn.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

serendipity in the feed (I love your shitposts, these together made me cackle)

The above post followed by a separate post on the feed, with a screenshot from a game that says, “Done Posting,” and the caption: “World of Warcraft continues to provide the ultimate escapist fantasy.”

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

It’s a whole different energy! (The same energy that compels Amy to get me this)

Three Kamalas on a coffee mug. Her pantsuit colors are the bi pride colors

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

On trying days like today, I turn to the good book.

50th anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

the world’s most handsome boy. he’s been adapting pretty well to being a solo cat (to the heat dome, less so)

our gray cat named Blue, who is also my pfp

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

this is completely inscrutable, even by Twitter standards

meme from “Hark! A Vagrant” of Edgar Allan Poe reading a letter, then holding it up and squinting suspiciously at it

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

me every time I find a fellow LOTRO person on here

Meme from Arrested Development of Toby defiantly proclaiming “There are dozens of us - dozens!”

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

This is Blue, pulling a much less silly face than he does in my avatar

A gray cat on light gray carpet, one paw stretched out, looking at the photographer who just made kissy sounds

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

I’m sure other ppl have made this comparison, but I was finally reminded of this:

An electric car from a 2009 episode of top gear. It is made of sheet metal, is horribly boxy, and looks worse than the Cybertruck somehow - yet it is difficult to distinguish them in text.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

A frother! It lets me fancy up a simple pot of coffee, it’s fun to use, and I’m unreasonably proud of the results. It’s the simple things sometimes!

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Every year on Halloween, @firelight.bsky.social and I put on The Worst Witch, a made for TV movie from 1986. It stars Fairuza Balk and features Tim Curry in a spectacular musical interlude. The writing is bad, the sets are bad, the wardrobe is bad, and I can’t recommend it enough.

Fairuza Balk as Mildred Hubble, dressed in a spooky school uniform and felt cape

Tim Curry as the Grand Wizard (yes, really, they went with that moniker), wearing a bat bowtie and cape and standing in front of a geeen screen with a floating jack-o-lantern

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

selfie because I always like how I look after a haircut

me! a guy with a short reddish-brown beard, short and parted brown hair, and glasses, taking a selfie in my car

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Reminder that the Speaker of the House does not have to be a Member of Congress

Jeff Goldblum in a cowboy costume in front of a jail in the movie Buckaroo Banzai. His bags are packed, he’s done the time, now he’s ready to do more crimes!

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

me: “this mobile game looks like Link to the Past. I’ll check it out” most normal gacha game reviewer: exists me: “never mind”

Highlights from an iOS game review: “The first thing I want to change is how you get outfits. The outfits are both pretty and creative, so I feel like you should make it so it’s a bit easier to get them. Another thing is the couples. The couples is an amazing thing you can do in the game, but I feel like there should be more to it. Just like how on certain levels of the couples you can get a prize I think you should keep doing that just change it to where each level you get a prize. Now I’m not saying to make it the biggest thing this game has ever seen, just make some of them small and others bigger like the mount or couple set! Another thing I think you should add! I think you should make it so you can have kids. See it sounds weird and all- but it doesn’t have to be inappropriate. I think you should just make it so you click a baby button and click if you want to have twins or just one!”

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

whenever I lie down in the guest bed, this handsome friend comes to stare at me like this, yell in my face, and curl up nearby. I love him

A gray cat on some laundry on a bed, staring nearly straight ahead because he started to look away when I switched to camera. He has big yellow eyes and many whiskers.

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

this weird gray bird keeps perching on our furniture

a gray cat on the back of a pink armchair. he looks curious!

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Part of the bisexual experience for me is periodically doubting my own bisexuality, questioning my own feelings, memories, etc. And part of the bisexual experience for me is seeing Anson Mount as Captain Pike on my feed and giggling like he just passed me a note.

Anson Mount as Star Trek’s Captain Pike, in the captain’s chair, saying, “Hit it.” 🫡

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The Spacesmith @thespacesmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Behold Turtle and Blue! At 13 and 11 years old, they are Yore-adjacent imo

A cat with a brindle coat in a cupboard full of mugs. She does not see the problem with this.

A cat with a grat coat wearing a blue cloth cone that looks kind of like a flower or a fancy ruff collar.

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