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Boots
@bootsmcgoot.bsky.social
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English, wordish, girlish, nerdish. lvl38 🌱 📚🐘 #elephacts

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omg who is this dapper little gentleman
a robot or similar made from lego or similar, cropped from the previous photo
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Did you know elephants are more closely related to elephant shrews (sengis) than shrews are? #elephacts
A black and rufous sengi, also called an elephant shrew. It's got a mouselike tail, a black body, a reddish head and a long proboscis nose. License: Joey Makalintal from Pennsylvania, USA. CC BY 2.0
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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unforeseen consequence of keeping vaseline in the acorn: accidentally conditioning the wood. it's visibly darker now. i like that
photo from three months ago: a wooden acorn pendant on my hand. It has a dark brown cap and a medium brown nut. The same acorn pendant now. The wood is shiny and noticeably darker brown.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ok this is going in the #elephacts tag, but just know that it makes me super sad. content note for grief, hat tip to Hannah Fry and #TheRestIsScience
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Some pictures from yesterday
A fireplace in the Benjamin Franklin House. A bust of Franklin is placed in the hearth, with artificial leaves on the ground around it. The lighting in the fireplace is sparse and warm, and the rest of the room is in darkness. Neon-bordered signs in evening light say "this way to the dock". There is lettering starting up on the Rack City Ribs stand in the background that reads "merry christmas." The london eye is visible in the top left corner. A bust of Nelson Mandela, with a background of orange and pink geometric shapes that have been projected onto the wall of the Southbank Centre behind. A sticker of a fairly realistic green eye with defined lashes. The sticker background is blue with a pink X, and text that reads "my dog sighs." It's on a rusty, dirty metal background.
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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not saying i'm forgetful but um. happy october
#SpookyShanties cleaver johnny, cleave her the grave funnel line what shall we do with the pumpkin sailor bones in the ocean (no change needed) banks of boofoundland slay me my money down
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Convertible halloween/ christmas decorations, ™ ™ ™
rough sketch in ink on lined paper. shows block letters on october 31st that read "know hell," then the same blocks on november first with the first and last letter of both words removed, reading "noel".
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Text reads "posters for retro formats", on the vaporwave meme template that was going around twitter many years ago: purple, neon, cyber style grid and star field.
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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blotchy, colourful vertical stripes, with black ink doodles in the white spaces between
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Day 2 of experimenting with watercolours
abstract shapes of bright, single colour ombré polygons, made by taping lines across the paper to leave bars of negative space between each panel.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I cut out a bunch of words and stashed them in my sewing kit at some point in my 20s. finally made something with them today and, by god, if it isn't the most Anna In Her 20s thing i ever did read
vivid, clumsy watercolour painting with words stuck to it. They read: I hate to sound rude, but this charming lady she was not beautiful by any means too quiet, too shy, not squeaky clean deprived of it, having no idea at all that she had a really good chance of getting in; and to be charmed or flirted with. But she lacked the courage And where was she now, she had suffered agonies of Yes. / No. That hurt more And it was so unfair.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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poorly edited photo of trump standing impassively in front of the Hindenburg disaster. the zeppelin explodes while he stares at the camera unmoved
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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hope you're all taking your ʙᴏɴᴇs
pot of vitamin d tablets with a sticker on top that says bones
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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daylight compound interest time
Tumblr user that-starlight-prince: The issue with the daylight savings time change is that people aren't used to falling back an hour or springing forward an hour, and people struggle as they take the time to adjust. But of course, if you only do something twice a year you'll never develop a talent for it. You need to practice if you really want to be good at something! Under my proposal, which absolutely everyone will hate,
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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fank yoooou
someone with shoulderlength brownish hair and glasses putting on their very bravest face and doing a thumbs up
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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very invested in the wellbeing of my small bird
a friendly blue cartoon bird waving. he is dressed as a pirate, with a hook on the tip of one wing, and he is in a ship cabin themed bedroom with a map on the wall and a ship in a bottle behind him.
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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don't think this is in the offer
an icicle as long as my forearm that i broke off the morrisons freezer in the background
October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Let's hear from @linzsantoro.bsky.social on the subject shall we? 😁
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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thought this was another knuc tatt
ball mlem post with photo of dog, appended to list of knuc tats
October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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charybdis from video game Hades 2. it's a blue octopus monster with eyes all around its head and a beaked mouth atop it in the centre.
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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decided to write a letter with my human hand. tell me how brown ink turns green when neglected for, admittedly, Some Years
my hand, with sparkly blue nail polish, and smudges of green on the outer edges of my index finger, down the pinky finger side of my palm, on the middle finger, and a huge dark green circle on the side of my ring finger. i look like a zombie if the makeup dept had a budget of £0
October 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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oh look! they've fixed it
Teal birthday card with metallic pink writing, which reads "my ability to remember song lyrics from the 80s far exceeds my ability to remember why i walked into the kitchen."
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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not sure I've ever seen a schism unfold before but it's exactly as silly as i would have imagined
He added: “As has been the case from the very beginning, we have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion”.
October 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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oh interesting! very cool as a scifi concept, but also a jewellery term!
a hololith: a circle carved from a single stone, in this case, jadeite carved into a ring.
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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not just a different era, a different dang timeline 😬
a woman in a purple and brown dress, with long blondish hair worn in a frankly indecipherable style. she is posing in front of some flowers with an anonymised man. they're on a cruise ship. he's seven years older than her.
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM