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A LavLobster 💜🦞
@lavlobster.bsky.social
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Artist, geek, nature, social justice lover. Any human pronoun. Disabled. No SWerfs, Terfs, or fascists. Land Back. Gen X oldster. No AI, support human creators. Including AltText means getting shared.
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One of the ways I deal with my anxiety is keeping my Machine of Death prediction in my wallet. If I’m not performing a daring rescue, there is no need to worry. And if I do die, I would want to be performing a daring rescue. @ryannorth.ca
Old aged card saying “Performing A Daring Rescue” Flip side of card with logo for Machine of Death.
June 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Reading this now. “DIARY OF THE DARK YEARS,
1940-1944
COLLABORATION, RESISTANCE, AND DAILY LIFE IN OCCUPIED PARIS” by
JEAN GUÉHENNO
TRANSLATED & ANNOTATED BY
DAVID BALL
A book: DIARY OF THE DARK YEARS, 1940-1944 COLLABORATION, RESISTANCE, AND DAILY LIFE IN OCCUPIED PARIS JEAN GUÉHENNO TRANSLATED & ANNOTATED BY DAVID BALL.
January 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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IYKYK

(If not, there was a study about weasels chewing on car wiring. Also a problem at CERN.)
A “Technical Difficulties Please Stand By” sign with a weasel chewing on wires.
November 15, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Why yes, daily tarot card pull, I think you might be on to something.
A pic of the tarot card “The Hierophant” upside down aka reversed. It has the words “rebellion”, “subversiveness”, and “new approaches” written underneath.
November 9, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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With AltText
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 6, 2024 Governor JB Pritzker's Statement on the Presidential Election Results Chicago, IL — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has released the following statement on the results of the 2024 Presidential election: "Today, I stand with the millions of Americans who voted for our Democratic values in this election. It is clear now that, nationally, a majority of those who came to the polls chose a different path, and President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance won the election. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz, their team, and the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who put their heart and soul into the campaign. "This morning, our most vulnerable communities woke up to new uncertainty about their future, scared that their rights will no longer be protected, and unsure whether this nation still stands with them. To women whose healthcare is under even greater threat, to our Black, Brown and AAPI communities, our LGBTQ friends and their families, immigrants and first-generation Americans, our most vulnerable Americans and those with disabilities, to all who have been made to feel unsafe and unwelcome by the Trump campaign and its allies - know that Illinois is your ally. You will always be welcome here. "In 2017, I sought public office in large part because of the threat Donald Trump and his allies posed to Illinois, and as governor, I have helped enshrine into state law protections that uphold our common Illinois values. That work will continue, and it remains my north star. I will always strive to do what is best for the people of Illinois. When that means working with the next presidential administration that is what I will do, and when that means standing up to it, I believe my record is clear on where I'll be."
November 8, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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The Onion front page. Article headlined are: “AMERICA DEFEATS AMERICA”, “Tireless Civil Rights Crusaders Not So Smug Now”, “DNC email pleads for $20 to cheer them up”, and “Mentally Broken Nation Starts Dressing Speaking Like Frank Sinatra”.
November 6, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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@colindickey.com If you haven’t read it yet, I’d like to recommend the new book American Scary. It’s a great companion to your writings.
A book: American Scary: A history of horror, from Salem to Stephen King and beyond. By Jeremy Dauber
October 30, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Happy Halloween to me! 🎃👽

I’m ready for some fun times talking with my subconscious. 🔮
A box of Uri Geller “The Extraterrestrial Oracle” cards. “52 divination cards to channel the wisdom of aliens”.
October 25, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Explain your username.

Soon after I joined twitter, a fisherman caught a lavender tinted rock lobster. (Similar to below non-rock lobster). I was quite taken by it & used LavenderLobster but then shortened to LavLobster to save space. Now Lav has become an offline nickname. lol
A picture of a person holding 2 lobsters. One is calico colored and one is lavender colored.
October 22, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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A little light reading inspired by American Scary: A history of Horror, From Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by @jeremydauber.bsky.social
Title page: The SALEM WITCH TRIALS Reader BY FRANCES HILL
October 16, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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So apparently polar expeditions are my version of Rome/WW2 obsession? What happens to us when we get older that we get so obsessed? 😂
A photo of a masted explorer ship frozen in the ice at night. Very haunting & cold.
October 6, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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My pet rats LOVE pumpkin season. I buy them mini pumpkins to eat and small pie pumpkins to eat and hang out in. 😂🎃
A cute pet rat inside a pumpkin that has a large hole gnawed in it. She has a witch hat sticker placed to look like she is wearing the hat. Text days “Scary cute”.
October 1, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Happy visibility day to fellow fans of The Mummy (1999)!
A wi-FI signal in Bisexual colors and the words “my bi-fi signal is strong”
September 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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There is an update. (You can go to the App Store to click to make it happen sooner). Once you have the update you will see a party hat at the top of the screen like in this screenshot. Click on the party hat and you will see your number.
Screenshot showing the party hat icon to click for your joining number.
September 17, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #117,526!

Thanks @artologica.net !
Bluesky notification that I joined June 11, 2023 and was #117,526.
September 17, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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I just finished the Never Whistle at Night anthology. Lots of good stories but it also made me kind of anxious. I don’t know any of the warnings for the area I live in. Like, I don’t know the behaviors to avoid in the woods here. Why do I only know European fairy lore when I grew up in the US? 😬
AN INDIGENOUS DARK FICTION ANTHOLOGY NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
September 15, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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"You‘ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?"
Detective Columbo.
September 6, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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If you see this, post the undead.

This is something I drew for a past Drawlloween.
A skeleton stands in a gun tilted up, hand on hip, gunfighter pose. They are in a vaguely western desert at night setting and wearing a cowboy hat.
August 29, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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I’m not a working artist so you don’t need to repost but I rarely have the opportunity to share my cat art so here.
A digital pastel drawing of a black cat with long pointy ears blepping.
August 23, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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Added alt text to the excerpt. Had to post over two images for length.
The word "fascist" gets thrown around a lot in politics, but it's hard to find a more apt one for "Unhumans," which came out last month. The book argues that leftists don't deserve the status of human beings - that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped. "As they are opposed to humanity itself, they place themselves outside of the category completely, in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman," write Posobiec and Lisec. As they tell it, modern progressivism is just the latest incarnation of an ancient evil dating back to the late Roman Republic and continuing through the French Revolution and Communism to today. Often, they write, "great men of means" are required to crush this scourge. The contempt for democracy in "Unhumans" is not subtle. The contempt for democracy in "Unhumans" is not subtle. "Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans,” write Posobiec and Lisec.
August 6, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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Please scream inside your heart.
A Star Wars propaganda poster of a soldier on the ice planet Hoth. Text reads “The Empire is Listening. Information Security Begins With You.”
July 13, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Cheers
A can of Athletic brewing company non-alcoholic beer. Hoppy Helles Trailblazer.
June 28, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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There are signs in Hawaii against this. lol
Sign reading “please remove your shoes. Don’t take better ones on your way out. -Mahalo”
June 24, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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Having a carton of Phish Food ice cream next to your dead pet fish is certainly a choice.
A Mary worth panel
June 14, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Got a nice lining up of skeets.
Two skeets next to each other. The bottom is a pic of a red winged blackbird with its beak open & the caption “Very Shouty”. The above skeet is the Endless Screaming bot going “Aaaaaahhhh”. It looks like the bird is screaming.
May 22, 2024 at 3:37 AM