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Michael Pratt - GentleMaple
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Currently reading:
📚 ReDawn
📱 Revelation Space
🎧 The Collapsing Empire

rn:
🌳 Terraria
SW: Knights of the Old Republic
Pinned
#PromoSky
🎮 Video games

Including:
• Horizon ZD
• KotOR
• Minecraft
• Arkane Studios
• Tomb Raider trilogy
• Life Is Strange

📚 Books - mostly Sci-Fi
🖖 Star Trek
❓ Doctor Who
🧭 His Dark Materials
👽 Alien

🐦 Birds
🐱 Cats
🍪 Cookie Monster
Been collecting 4k Blu-Rays
Beat Moon Lord for the first time on the first attempt. Classic Mode.
Got unlucky and managed to miss the Ancient Manipulator. So no Vortex Beater or Phantasm. Also forgot to switch to holy arrows until his health was half gone.
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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New wave of Nintendo Switch backwards compatibility fixes live on Switch 2 - Xenoblade X, Batman: Arkham Knight, Tokyo Xanadu, more https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-switch-backwards-compatibility-fixes-november-2025/
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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ON THIS DAY... 16 years ago, The Waters of Mars was first broadcast on BBC One. It aired at 7pm and received a viewership of 10.32 million.

Art by Lee Johnson 🎨

#DoctorWho
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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The only #wildlife rehab center in #SanFrancisco is in desperate need of funds thanks to required facility upgrades, and it may have to shut down if it doesn’t get the money. Please consider supporting our urban wildlife by donating (and sharing this info!): yuwr.org/donate/
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Mass Effect (2007): Early Mass Relay design, art by Matt Rhodes
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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So this article blames over-ordering during the height of the pandemic and, maybe. But Trump also has a vendetta against anything approaching sustainability and put tariffs in place during his first term that were a HUGE hit to American e-bike companies, and the newest round also fucked them over.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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When engineers discovered that traditional rock salt was poisoning wildlife during the harshest months, they did something incredible. What they came up with is so brilliantly simple, yet so effective, that other countries are now taking notice. This is what happens when innovation meets compassion.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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This art by John Berkey is fantastic. That's a sci-fi TTRPG campaign setting right there.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Mass Effect Andromeda (2017): Tempest, early designs by Daniel Simon
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

By Florey
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Started a Glowing Mushroom farm. Mostly for the Truffle Worms.
#terraria
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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ON THIS DAY... 5 years ago, Doctor Who: Lockdown! hosted a tweetalong of The Husbands of River Song. Promotional poster by Andrew-Mark Thompson.

#DoctorWho
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars started 22 years ago today.

And it was great. It actually reconciled me with Star Wars. Still available on Disney+.
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Day 16 of inserting a random Muppet into a random Star Trek screenshot
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TheMuppets
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
First successful Duke Fishron fight. This was attempt #13 if I remember correctly. The UFO mount was the biggest change, freeing 2 accessory slots. Plus the nurse and Dryad.

I think it was after this fight I switched to Chlorophyte armor and bullets.

#Terraria
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
So, I forgot to seal the Dungeon entrance post-Golem. And ended up with the Lunatic Cultist summoned in the middle of Martian Madness.
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is 11 today!

Last year, I published this article about the creation of the fantastic docking scene, thanks to the memories of Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Franklin. 🙏
No time for caution: The making of the docking scene in Interstellar | The Spaceshipper
Get more from The Spaceshipper on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM