Lyle
@figurethehorse.bsky.social
teacher, dad, cat owner, reader, he/they
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There was no planetary feed (stupid planet) but Stupid Boat had its own rudimentary feed that was heavy with games and pornography but light on anything that might be helpful for a security assessment
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
There was no planetary feed (stupid planet) but Stupid Boat had its own rudimentary feed that was heavy with games and pornography but light on anything that might be helpful for a security assessment
i've been running a little book club over a group chat and we thought it might be fun to shift to some sort of larger space so more people can join if they want
if you'd like to read THE HOGFATHER with us we'll be discussing it in quarters every saturday this month
if you'd like to read THE HOGFATHER with us we'll be discussing it in quarters every saturday this month
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
i've been running a little book club over a group chat and we thought it might be fun to shift to some sort of larger space so more people can join if they want
if you'd like to read THE HOGFATHER with us we'll be discussing it in quarters every saturday this month
if you'd like to read THE HOGFATHER with us we'll be discussing it in quarters every saturday this month
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I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
this is the greatest blep of all time
It’s extremely important to me that all of you see Rodney’s current blep.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
this is the greatest blep of all time
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This is a great take on what happened for Banned Books Week in many places.
What happened in libraries during Banned Books Week?
Turns out, there was a lot of banning of Banned Books Week, period.
A look at what happened across the country and why.
That, plus this week's *extensive* book censorship news.
bookriot.com/banning-bann...
Turns out, there was a lot of banning of Banned Books Week, period.
A look at what happened across the country and why.
That, plus this week's *extensive* book censorship news.
bookriot.com/banning-bann...
The Banning of Banned Books Week: Book Censorship News, October 31, 2025
Banned Books Week is being quietly banned in public libraries across the US. This is a political choice in an era where libraries continue to claim being "not political."
bookriot.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is a great take on what happened for Banned Books Week in many places.
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BEING MADISON
High school is hard, especially if you’re a shapeshifting monster just trying to fit in. Madison has enough on her plate just resisting the urge to eat the school bully, but when another one of her kind shows up, her life quickly spirals out of control. #2025pit #YA
High school is hard, especially if you’re a shapeshifting monster just trying to fit in. Madison has enough on her plate just resisting the urge to eat the school bully, but when another one of her kind shows up, her life quickly spirals out of control. #2025pit #YA
January 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I didn't realize just how bad it had become until I was looking up some reference pictures for drawing with my daughter and everything is uncanny valley AI slop
Great resource!
Great resource!
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I didn't realize just how bad it had become until I was looking up some reference pictures for drawing with my daughter and everything is uncanny valley AI slop
Great resource!
Great resource!
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It's reassuring that scientists keep finding more parts of me that are susceptible to intimidation.
lotion called “the youthful slatherant” promises to make your pores “too afraid to get big”
January 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's reassuring that scientists keep finding more parts of me that are susceptible to intimidation.
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THE JUNGLE x BALDUR'S GATE 3
Betraying the trusting for his master since he was a boy, imperial spy Itzal now infiltrates a growing labor movement. But as he grows closer to their leader, Itzal must choose between finally deserving someone's trust and preserving his own life.
#A #F #LGBT #2025Pit
Betraying the trusting for his master since he was a boy, imperial spy Itzal now infiltrates a growing labor movement. But as he grows closer to their leader, Itzal must choose between finally deserving someone's trust and preserving his own life.
#A #F #LGBT #2025Pit
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I literally just had this ogre lick me last night in exchange for killing my enemies/not eating me
god I will never tire of this game
god I will never tire of this game
an ogre gave me a horn to summon him to kill my enemies up to 3 times the first 2 times I needed him he didnt show up and the third time he did show up and was like "lol sucker you believed me huh I eat you now" and this is why BG3 is the greatest game I've played in like a decade
January 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I literally just had this ogre lick me last night in exchange for killing my enemies/not eating me
god I will never tire of this game
god I will never tire of this game
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Today is a good day to buy indie books!
Indie authors, share your books in the replies & I'll give them a boost (no AI shit please). Be sure to boost others & maybe buy some books!
Oh and check mine out in the replies
Indie authors, share your books in the replies & I'll give them a boost (no AI shit please). Be sure to boost others & maybe buy some books!
Oh and check mine out in the replies
January 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Today is a good day to buy indie books!
Indie authors, share your books in the replies & I'll give them a boost (no AI shit please). Be sure to boost others & maybe buy some books!
Oh and check mine out in the replies
Indie authors, share your books in the replies & I'll give them a boost (no AI shit please). Be sure to boost others & maybe buy some books!
Oh and check mine out in the replies
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#TheNavigator'sChildren by #TadWilliams is featured in this week's #NewBooks digest! Watch the whole thing on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/x3ZBHEfmiw0... | This book and all the others are on sale at bookshop.org/shop/lo... :)
November 14, 2024 at 6:14 PM
#TheNavigator'sChildren by #TadWilliams is featured in this week's #NewBooks digest! Watch the whole thing on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/x3ZBHEfmiw0... | This book and all the others are on sale at bookshop.org/shop/lo... :)
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Announcing THE BEST TRANS HORROR OF THE YEAR, an anthology reprint series spotlighting trans horror authors. We are now seeking submissions. Learn more here: ghoulish.rip/now-consider...
November 13, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Announcing THE BEST TRANS HORROR OF THE YEAR, an anthology reprint series spotlighting trans horror authors. We are now seeking submissions. Learn more here: ghoulish.rip/now-consider...
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Beshear knows intuitively what so few Dems grasp.
You can take political decisions that are politically controversial, and even SHOULD, if it fits in your value set.
Voters prefer candidates who are genuine and are more willing to forgive positions than lack of sincerity.
You can take political decisions that are politically controversial, and even SHOULD, if it fits in your value set.
Voters prefer candidates who are genuine and are more willing to forgive positions than lack of sincerity.
November 13, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Beshear knows intuitively what so few Dems grasp.
You can take political decisions that are politically controversial, and even SHOULD, if it fits in your value set.
Voters prefer candidates who are genuine and are more willing to forgive positions than lack of sincerity.
You can take political decisions that are politically controversial, and even SHOULD, if it fits in your value set.
Voters prefer candidates who are genuine and are more willing to forgive positions than lack of sincerity.
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Antarctica closes the amber gap.
'It was very exciting to realize that at some point in their history, all seven continents had climatic conditions allowing resin-producing trees to survive.'
'It was very exciting to realize that at some point in their history, all seven continents had climatic conditions allowing resin-producing trees to survive.'
First amber find on the Antarctic continent provides new insights into Cretaceous forests
Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been closed, thanks to a team led by Dr. Johann P. Klages from the Alfred Wegener...
phys.org
November 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Antarctica closes the amber gap.
'It was very exciting to realize that at some point in their history, all seven continents had climatic conditions allowing resin-producing trees to survive.'
'It was very exciting to realize that at some point in their history, all seven continents had climatic conditions allowing resin-producing trees to survive.'
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What sold me on Bluesky vs Threads or any of the other Twitter replacements is that it is actually a conversation platform.
I have no interest in One-to-Many platforms like Instagram where you are basically posting a thing then people comment on it and you ignore their comments.
I like chat.
I have no interest in One-to-Many platforms like Instagram where you are basically posting a thing then people comment on it and you ignore their comments.
I like chat.
November 13, 2024 at 6:56 PM
What sold me on Bluesky vs Threads or any of the other Twitter replacements is that it is actually a conversation platform.
I have no interest in One-to-Many platforms like Instagram where you are basically posting a thing then people comment on it and you ignore their comments.
I like chat.
I have no interest in One-to-Many platforms like Instagram where you are basically posting a thing then people comment on it and you ignore their comments.
I like chat.
This story by @johnchu.bsky.social is incredible. I have so many thoughts that I need to work through and possibly read it a second time. Highly, highly recommend it.
If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You - Uncanny Magazine
Content Note: Racial Slurs and Racist Violence That first video of the flying man goes viral on social media and gets featured on the news. No jet pack. No hang glider. Just him, unaided, soaring ov...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 13, 2024 at 9:15 PM
This story by @johnchu.bsky.social is incredible. I have so many thoughts that I need to work through and possibly read it a second time. Highly, highly recommend it.
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Just finished reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women and it both engaging and terrible history. Like a lot of western writers, Lisa See fetishizes a subservient, oppressed version of Chinese women.
The book Tan Yuxian wrote about her own life and work directly contradicts so much of this novel.
The book Tan Yuxian wrote about her own life and work directly contradicts so much of this novel.
November 13, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Just finished reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women and it both engaging and terrible history. Like a lot of western writers, Lisa See fetishizes a subservient, oppressed version of Chinese women.
The book Tan Yuxian wrote about her own life and work directly contradicts so much of this novel.
The book Tan Yuxian wrote about her own life and work directly contradicts so much of this novel.
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Five Books About Discovering Lost Civilizations
Classic adventure fiction is chock-full of lost or secret civilizations...
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Classic adventure fiction is chock-full of lost or secret civilizations...
reactormag.com/five-books-a...
Five Books About Discovering Lost Civilizations - Reactor
Classic adventure fiction is chock-full of lost or secret civilizations...
reactormag.com
November 13, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Five Books About Discovering Lost Civilizations
Classic adventure fiction is chock-full of lost or secret civilizations...
reactormag.com/five-books-a...
Classic adventure fiction is chock-full of lost or secret civilizations...
reactormag.com/five-books-a...
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If Moby Dick met the Communist Manifesto, this would be their bisexual child.
ON FOUNDATIONS OF WAX asks what if the Roman Empire had airships to conquer the world?
Follow-up question: What if unions showed up with a dragon?
#UnhingedPit #F #OWN #LGBT #Q
ON FOUNDATIONS OF WAX asks what if the Roman Empire had airships to conquer the world?
Follow-up question: What if unions showed up with a dragon?
#UnhingedPit #F #OWN #LGBT #Q
November 13, 2024 at 6:06 PM
If Moby Dick met the Communist Manifesto, this would be their bisexual child.
ON FOUNDATIONS OF WAX asks what if the Roman Empire had airships to conquer the world?
Follow-up question: What if unions showed up with a dragon?
#UnhingedPit #F #OWN #LGBT #Q
ON FOUNDATIONS OF WAX asks what if the Roman Empire had airships to conquer the world?
Follow-up question: What if unions showed up with a dragon?
#UnhingedPit #F #OWN #LGBT #Q
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THIS 💯 %.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
If you are a writer, artist or other creative person and you are wondering if what you do still matters...
...this is a culture war. Which means that you are on the front line. You matter more than ever.
...this is a culture war. Which means that you are on the front line. You matter more than ever.
I've gotten a TON of new followers this week. Welcome, all! FYI: I'm taking a break from social media right now.
I've done a lotta stuff, but my most relevant thing atm is definitely NEVER SAY YOU CAN'T SURVIVE, my guide to using creativity to get thru awful times.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
I've done a lotta stuff, but my most relevant thing atm is definitely NEVER SAY YOU CAN'T SURVIVE, my guide to using creativity to get thru awful times.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 13, 2024 at 8:54 AM
THIS 💯 %.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
hey
I used to be on Twitter (same handle) and dropped out because... fuckin yikes
figuring this place out now because I miss the microblogging format
I used to be on Twitter (same handle) and dropped out because... fuckin yikes
figuring this place out now because I miss the microblogging format
November 13, 2024 at 7:11 PM
hey
I used to be on Twitter (same handle) and dropped out because... fuckin yikes
figuring this place out now because I miss the microblogging format
I used to be on Twitter (same handle) and dropped out because... fuckin yikes
figuring this place out now because I miss the microblogging format