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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tom is great! His books are great, He does fantastic photo threads with hilarious ALT texts. Go buy his books from blackwell (free intern. Shipping). Oh, and if you want to know more about the Unbound Desaster, there is a free Observer article in the comments. Have a good one!

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wenn to IKEA on a saturday (Derogatory) Came out with under 30 $ worth of guff please clap

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tom Cox has a way with words. I recommend his book "Everything Will Swallow You"! (But check out his Account first for free International shipping and dont give money to Jeff)

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimiste: The cup ys halfe full Pessimiste: The cup ys halfe emptye Alchemiste: The cup [sleighte of hande] ys GOLDE!

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This so cool! Not only am i a sucker for a good book Deal, but fragments (old bindings) are a treasure.

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Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A watercolor that I made #art #watercolor #painting #illustration

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I love Folklore (the original fantasy genre) and it is fascinating how many times the trans homies Pop up. Here, in an unkrainian folktale. Thread broke, but bellow is the lovely D&D-style retelling/Translation.

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Zank yu for travelink wiz Deutsche Bahn. Long gone is the efficient punctuality of german rail from the 90s. It was murdered by decades of austerity measures. Thanks, CDU! My train was canceled at the last Minute. Happily, that freed me up to look for an alternative and jump on sth. Fester.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 18/06/2026

it's the same picture dot jpg

vintage x ray specs ad from the back of a comic

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

TGIF ! We made it. I got off work early, to collect the 4th book of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series from the post Shop. I got a platter of chicken, a bottle of red, and strawberry ice cream. It's gonna be 🔥

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Seven of Nine: Fun Will Now Commence

Alt: Seven of Nine from star tek voyager says: Fun Will Now Commence

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Screenshot of the article
(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Man, my inner sci-fi nerd is at the sci-fi Buffet just stuffing his face this year. These are all great, btw, but come with the following warning: -May cause Addi(c)tion -Part of a series of 5 or more books Please check TBR pile before purchase. Titles in the Alt text. 😁🖖

A fake marble windowsill, the window is covered by a grey Rollo.
5 books are lined up, they are, from left to right:
Matt dinniman's "Operation bounce house", and then the first 3 books from Dinniman's dungeon crawler Carl saga:
Dungeon crawler Carl,
Carl's doomsday Szenario, and
Dungeon anarchist' cookbook.
Last, but definitely Not least, is the small but lovely Volume of Martha well's "Plattform decay",
which is the 8th book in the murderbot diaries series.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Hello. The moment you gate educational videos behind a paywall, a massive wall of bureaucracy goes up. Teachers have to beg administrators for budgets, companies have to wine-and-dine school boards, millions of students get locked out, and people get forced into using material they don't like.

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Matt Dinniman isnt on BSky, so let me shout it into the void: I am on book 2 of his Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and i catch myself saving up smoke Breaks. This is so i can extend Lunch break by 10 minutes and read more. In Accounting culture, this is known as "a good sign your book ROCKS". 🤓🖖

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Yeah, April Fools sucks, but at least we got dropped a fresh Invincible episode. (Check ALT text) #NoSpoilers I think @gailsimone.bsky.social was right - the personal life is super important to our POV on a superhero. And #Invincible excells at that! Happy trails!

A family evening from the show Invincible.
From left to right seated around a dinner table, after a plentyfull meal. Everyone is happy.
Atomic Eve, superheroine and girlfriend to Mark aka superhero Invincible.
Right next to him, at the head of the table, is his mom, "normal" Debbie, in conversation to the right side of the table.
Which are her adoptive alien superhero son Oliver (younger than Mark, but ageing faster) and her new boyfriend Paul to the very right of the picture.
For what happened bovore Pauls to Debbie's ex HUSBAND please check out season 1 of the series.

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Katie, LLTID (little lady till i die) @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/03/2026

well but have you considered that one time people on bluesky were very rude about a journalist who is my friend?

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Cressa Maeve Áine @beeragon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Das ist super spannend. Und John Hodgson nun mein Held. (Fußnoten, nix is besser als ellenlange Fußnoten. Screw endnotes.)

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the timeline

A snow covered garden.
In the background, Walls and houses. A shed.
Evergreen Hedge, at hip hight in foreground. Behind that a tree with red berries above an arrangement of wooden garden furniture.
Behind that something that Looks like a fountain but is actually an old headpiece of a cathedral tower.
Everything is sugarcoated by snow.

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hey @gailsimone.bsky.social do you knoe about @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social ? Great author, fantastic threads. You two have in Common that you both Provide a light in These dark Times. (The Real jokes are in the Alt Text btw). Thank you both, and have a fabulous evening!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 07/02/2026

I like cooking but I am not a great cook or anything. What I do have is a hobo's sense of adventure

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Loot that Drops after defeating me: 1) thick glasses 2) a Letter opener disguised as a golden pen (+1 dmg) 3) a handpainted Token for the TableTop Tavern Shenanigans (magical item?) 4) a 3D printed Pick that unlocks shopping carts (instead of taking a coin) 5) multiple lighters (+2 fire dmg)

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is just one of the many reasons i like the brothers Green.

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look
Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.

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Joe @thethirdjoe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I'd argue that the AI wasn't art until it was eaten

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing rhat nobody Else remembers. Case in point: kill krush n destroy 2: krossfire The jokes are in the Alt text.

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Swaantje Güntzel @swaantje-guentzel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I made this work in 2012. I filled a humming top with plastic objects found in the stomach of one albatross chick on Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian islands). 340 g. Cigarette lighters, plastic fragments, toys and mainly bottle caps. There is a reason why the lids no longer come off the bottles!

Humming top with a blue base and a red handle filled with plastic objects of different size and colour such as cigarette lighters, toys and bottle caps. The objects were swallowed by an albatross chick. The body of the humming top is transparent so the objects are visible.

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Trying to go shopping. Bike lock is frozen. I get it open. Bike stand wont fold in - also frozen. Try the App to rent one of those eScooters. First one, Qr Code has been scribbled over. Second, brakes frozen. 3. Gas Lever frozen Solid. 4. Full Batterie, but acceleration is slower than walking.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

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LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Which one of these enchanted places would you most like to walk into? ✨ Prints of all three are available: b17fcc.myshopify.com/collections/...

A photo of three prints, placed on a wooden desk and surrounded by leaves, flowers, felted stars, and crystals. All three prints show scenes on a black background: the top left one features a purple tree with a silver sickle moon stuck in its crown, rune stones at its base; the top right one features a mossy tree cradling a hovering yellow star between its two top branches, softly glowing blue mushrooms at its base; the bottom one features an arching tree trunk overgrown with moss and different mushrooms, a little lantern attached to a spiral-shaped branch, glowing with warm light.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

So smart

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Caveat Frogs @caveatfrogs.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I Am What I Eat*

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 03/01/2026

Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday! Born in 1892, Tolkien paved the way for modern fantasy literature and his creativity continues to inspire the minds of many to this day. ✨ 📸 | Tolkien, Bournemouth, July 1965 Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien photogr. 7, fol. 75r (c) Tolkien Trust, 2015

Black and white photograph of J.R.R. Tolkien with a quote overlay: 'Not all those who wander are lost.'

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thank God the year of hell is officially over! Hey wait what’s that text that just started hovering over me?

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Papa is reading us a german customer review of a car rental in the furthest reaches of Norway like it is the Christmas story, all is right with the World. Happy holidays 🎄

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It’s Hanukkah, so I’m going to repost the seasonal Marvel fan comic that @brandtandstein.com and @deezoid.bsky.social and I made back in (gasp!) 2018. I’m still awestruck at how great Ted & Ro and Dee’s art is in this. Enjoy!

Right this is four panels of a short eight panel comic. The conceit is that Bucky Barnes (Winter Soldier, white guy at right in first panel with long hair and purple scarf) and Frank Castle (The Punisher, white guy at left in first panel with Rangers toque) are friends because they watch and mock terrible action films together. Bucky drags Frank to his relatives for dinner and Frank is surprised to find out they’s Jewish. He thought Bucky was Irish Catholic. Bucky hems and haws and describes a quick family tree and says he’s jewish adjacent but an elderly relative fondly berates him and tells him he’s a jew

Bucky is told that because his mom was jewish he’s a jew. And he speaks hebrew! Bucky demurs that he speaks hebrew because science nazis injected like 14 languages in his brain. The family’s tween daughter, listening in, is like “can I have science nazis inject it in my brain so I don’t have to go to hebrew school” and everyone is like “NO”. Bucky still tries to say he’s not worthy / not a good jew and the elderly relative is like “no you survived and you never let your light die, also there aren’t many jewish superheroes and we’re keeping you, tough luck, grab the shamash, it’s time”

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thewordshaker.bsky.social @thewordshaker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Hey, @alexdecampi.bsky.social Thanks for Reversal. I thought it was a page-turner, with great characters that tug on the heart-strings. And funny! Thanks, i needed a laugh 🫶

Comics are silly.
A giant griphon climbs out of one of those huge trash Containers.
He says "RROOAARR!"
there are two soldiers standing in front of the container.
One ducks away on the left.
The one on the right is turned towards the reader and yelling into a walky-talky:
"Get me the BIGGEST GUN we have"

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Minor league b3tan bloke @rotatingwobblyhat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My secret Bluesky identity is to protect my employers and more respectable family members from my unvarnished sense of humour.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds 20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20 Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

My snowdrop necklace made by casting a real snowdrop in recycled silver

My lily of the valley necklace made by casting a real lily of the valley flower in recycled silver

My wren necklace, individually handmade like all my jewellery designs, made by sculpting a tiny wren in recycled silver

My bluebell necklace made by casting a real English bluebell from a friend's garden in recycled silver

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