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@wordivorous.bsky.social
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the mysterious turtle who controls the clouds. huge nerd, works at the library. here to follow interesting people, not necessarily to be interesting myself. he/him.

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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is so fucking stupid and I could not stop myself from making it
An earthworm atop a pile of rich, dark dirt, with lush green grass behind. The earthworm wears a tiny tan-and-black baseball cap, backwards, to show he is a chill dude. The tiny hat reads "Women Fear Me, Fish Want Me"
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Brb, gonna go figure out how to punch a cricket
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 17/06/2026
Luposlipaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.
Luposlipaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Finally took the time to watch Paddington (2014), and I am grudgingly forced to concede that it is, in fact, charming as hell.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I really need to start paying closer attention to the calendar. Somehow I'm always caught by surprise on "It's Okay Sweetheart, You Don't Need A Driver's License Today, Just Give It Your Best Shot" Day.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
What if "baby yoda" is actually just the standard size for yodas as a species, and the yoda from the original movies was, like, the Andre the Giant of yodas
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Dammit, my brain is going to be coming up with these all day now. The Upper Management of the Flies The Martian Novellas The Oort Cloud My Destination
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sorry, but I will never "maxx" anything, ever. Did we learn nothing from the '90s
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo format (top, red parallelogram with black border and white text; bottom, standalone green letters with black borders, textured somewhat like a stylized turtle's skin).

Instead of the original text, this logo contains the phrase "Oh Look, It's Another Shit Show"
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year, and good riddance.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo format (top, red parallelogram with black border and white text; bottom, standalone green letters with black borders, textured somewhat like a stylized turtle's skin).

Instead of the original text, this logo contains the phrase "Made It Through Another Shit Show"
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Time for one of my inexplicable favorite Christmas specials, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas! Super condescending, but some dang catchy tunes, and I guess that's all I need?
Title frame from "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (Rankin/Bass, 1974)The Mouse family as they spy Santa Claus flying through the sky above - frame from "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (Rankin/Bass, 1974)
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Every time I see a baby, any baby at all, this headline pops into my head. Every single time. It's been nearly thirty years.
Article from The Onion: "Study Reveals: Babies are Stupid"
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Airplane is flyin' Up in the sky Making a pattern With the white lines Looks like a heart Or maybe A pie
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Not beating the allegations that I shouldnt be allowed access to library book sales when I already have too many unread books lying around.
A stack of library-bound books. From top to bottom:

Ancestral Night, by Elizabeth Bear 
The Atlas Six, by Olivie Blake 
Day Zero, by C. Robert Cargill
Forever Sea, by Joshua Phillip Johnson
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Surely they could have phrased this differently.
AP news story: "Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation"

Includes a photo of a multitude of framed, wall-mounted... um, decorative hair wreaths, I guess?
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken." - me, after learning that Taco Bell brought back my beloved Ranchero Chicken taco, only it's spicy this time
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
THX 1138: marginally more watchable than the Star Wars Holiday Special. Marginally.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The Croissan'wich craver
In a home kitchen, a husky's eyes and ears are visible as she peers intently over someone's jeans-wearing leg.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I worked at a movie theater for many years, so I have a handful: 1) sold Elliot Page a pretzel 2) gave Allison Brie directions to the nearest restroom 3) Edward Norton complained about the speaker system in his auditorium
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The fact that all of this shit is exhausting by design, sadly, doesn't make it any less exhausting.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The horrors persist, but so do I. And therefore, another small Bluesky-themed, post-birthday book haul. Featuring @djangowexler.bsky.social, @robbpearlman.bsky.social, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @annleckie.com, and @brandonsanderson.com
A decent-sized stack of books. From top to bottom:

~ How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, by Django Wexler
~ What Would Skeletor Do?, by Robb Pearlman
~ Tidal Creatures, by Seanan McGuire
~ Absolution, by Jeff VanderMeer
~ Translation State, by Ann Leckie
~ Dragonsteel Prime, by Brandon Sanderson
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Well shit, I guess I didn't want to live in precedented times either.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I really, firmly believe that every movie would be just that little bit better if it ended the same way Buckaroo Bonzai ends.
youtu.be
So what? Big deal.
YouTube video by AlgaSci
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A small Bluesky-themed book haul, to distract myself from the horrors. Featuring @scalzi.com, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, and @tkingfisher.com
A small stack of books. From top to bottom: 

~ The Interdependency trilogy (The Collapsing Empire, The Consuming Fire, The Last Emperox) by John Scalzi
~ Feed, by Mira Grant
~ What Feasts at Night, by T. Kingfisher
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Kinda embarrassing, but it took me five whole episodes to catch on to why a one-eyed, peg-legged droid, who has a ridiculous stereotypical accent, and is first mate on a friggin' pirate ship... Is named SM-33.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
After all, there's only one more sleep 'til Christmas
Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, on a lovely snow-covered London street at night, watches a falling star pass by
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Finally got mad enough at myself to sit down and watch Morbius. It couldn't even manage to be bad, it was just aggressively not-good. It simply never felt like there was anything at stake.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Moana 2 was... very pretty, I suppose? I wish they had remembered to write some songs, though.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As kids, my sister and I had no idea that this was a reference to anything... probably because we weren't particularly familiar with oddball Hitchcock marketing campaigns from the '60s. The episode was fantastic, though, and I still quote it too often. starsandletters.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-...
Title screen for the short U.S. Acres segment "The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming!"  Wade Duck grins out at us, dressed in a bunny costume with whiskers and prominent buck teeth.  (Sept 1990)
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Post a picture you took to bring some zen to the skyline
A white great egret perches on the roped railing of a bridge on a sunny day at Walt Disney World.  She looks over the lagoon surrounding Tom Saywer Island, with the Liberty Belle riverboat docked in the background.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In keeping with tradition, of course.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Hard same on all of this.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Hey, I did the thing! You, too, should go and do the thing.
A hand holds an "I Voted - Go Vote!" sticker.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Aurora Borealis? You mean the Lights of Northern Aggression
Aurora Borealis, visible in the southeastern United States
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Finally, some good news
apnews.com
Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug
Scientists now know what the head of the biggest bug to ever crawl the Earth looks like. Most fossils of the extinct creatures, which grew to nearly 9 feet long and more than 100 pounds, have no heads...
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Ad Astra (2019) dares to ask the question: What if... - Brad Pitt & Tommy Lee Jones - SETI as a religious obsession - moon pirates - murderous space apes - a rocket hijacking on Mars - antimatter surges from Neptune threatening all life in the solar system ... but make it all boring?
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Just finished Service Model by @aptshadow.bsky.social , and whoo, what a ride. Alternately hilarious, unsettling, ridiculous, depressing, ultimately hopeful... all in one book? How?!
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Not gonna lie, I kinda want to try to track down a set again for nostalgia's sake.
Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia, vol. 1-15
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Turns out Tenet is a much better movie with subtitles turned on so I can actually follow the dialogue. Who knew?
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
I, for one, can't wait to unllock the secceltts fon resttfulll nights
A laughably terrible AI-generated cover for a definitely terrible AI-generated book, sold through Amazon and promoted on the Kindle lock page. 

The Science of Sleep

Unllocking the secceltts
   fon resttfulll nights
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
It's amazing how much a return to a steady, full-time, 9-5 job has decimated my obsession with "keeping up with" social media.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
My first week and I'm already having "can't close the library because people keep coming in so we can't lock the doors" dreams. That's the stuff right there.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Finally had a chance to start watching Scavengers Reign tonight, and jesus CHRIST this thing is gorgeous and fucking WEIRD.
Screenshot from Scavengers Reign - a beautiful silvery alien flower against a backdrop of a nighttime sky filled with countless starsScreenshot from Scavengers Reign - glowing red clamlike alien critters fill a rocky valley as a burning object crashes through the sky above
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
This is a cat who is supremely happy that the visiting dogs have finally gone back home.
A cat sits in a lap at the kitchen table. She is supremely smug as she receives head scritches.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Well, that would be a pleasant change.
Screenshot of a headline from a news article: "The Next X-Men Movie Might Have a Writer" 

Attached is a still frame of Sophie Turner from the terrible "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" (2019)
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Easy peasy.
"The Truman Show" (1998) original score by Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
Finally watching Rise of the Silver Surfer, and I did not realize it was so educational! For instance, I had no idea that digging a giant hole in a riverbed would drain literally the entire river, upstream and down. Science!
Scene from "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" (2007) - a giant crater in the bed of the Thames, in the middle of downtown London, has somehow made literally all of the water in the entire river disappear. How did it affect the source of the river too? Who knows? Cosmic something something, probably.
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That other guy @wordivorous.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
I cannot be allowed to go to library book sales unsupervised. Not again. Not any more.
A stack of books recently purchased from a library book sale. From top to bottom:

The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Permafrost, by Alastair Reynolds
Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest
Willful Child, by Steven Erickson
Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson 
Perhaps the Stars, by Ada Palmer
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