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Mab of the Antipodes
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Family woman, cat lover, fanfic writer and reader
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Fabergé Egg Recovered After Being Swallowed By Thief
https://theonion.com/faberge-egg-recovered-after-being-swallowed-by-thief/
“Shake him around and see what else falls out.” Alan Osorio, Tea Pourer
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
The folklore of Hookland has every mist, every fog, as danger. Tales of it eating certainty, as a warping infection of the land. Stories of sentient fogs, of even a mist on the common providing a cloak for the Hoarse Hag to walk abroad. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1981
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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kristadb1.bsky.social
This is the best music video ever created. I will not be taking questions at this time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25s...
Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass (Official Video)
YouTube video by AnnieLennoxVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
DS9 scene. We're in close on Garak, a simple tailor. His face sort of looks like it's hovering in black space but I think he's just in a very dark place, but like a closet or dark room, not emotionally. Garak is a Carassian, with grey skin and boney ridges that run up along the nose and circle like a spoon on his forehead. Also has ridges that snake from the right and left hairline down around the eye and to the cheekbone. Basically he's got a topographical mountain range across his face. Back to the screenshot--so he's in a dark room and he's making a face that's like if you hated spiders and all of a sudden saw a big spider sitting next to you. Closed caption reads, "But I'm afraid your pants won't be ready tomorrow after all.
December 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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medievalists.bsky.social
Volcanic Eruption Set the Stage for the Black Death, Researchers Find www.medievalists.net/2025/12/volc... #history #BlackDeath
Volcanic Eruption Set the Stage for the Black Death, Researchers Find - Medievalists.net
A major volcanic eruption in 1345 triggered climate shocks, famine, and grain trade routes that helped bring the Black Death into Europe, new research shows.
www.medievalists.net
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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deathbybadger.bsky.social
I see many citing Tanith Lee as a good fantasy author to replace some tarnished names, which is great, love her, but do be aware she is balls to the wall, knee deep in the genre trenches, not safe for work or safe in any way, a wizard will sexually assault a horse skull and it's only chapter three
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
There hasn’t been a wild wolf in Hookland since 1483, but the land is long memory told in ghosts. The King’s Chase Forest has phantom pack. Wolves grown in size with each generation’s telling. Red-eyed, shadow-furred. They howl so we don’t forget our extinguishing sin. - #CLNolan
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
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aaronwfenwick.bsky.social Aaron Fenwick @aaronwfenwick.bsky.social · 4d
Love to see some Tanith Lee love on the timeline from @ironspike.bsky.social She also wrote two great Blake's 7 episodes, "Sarcophagus" and "Sand". She's a super underated Author these days and deserves a look!
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks at Green in confusion, as Green is covered in pink hair rollers. Green: I'm going to find out what I'd look like with curls! Blue sits down to wait as Green leaves the room. Green: It's time to take the rollers out! Blue sits with the most neutral expression possible as Green returns, as a fluffy cloud of uncontrollable curls. With miraculous self-discipline, Blue manages to keep his expression neutral, while Green frowns at him. Blue: Requesting permission to laugh hysterically. Green: Request denied.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
ge-flit, n.n: contention, discord; dispute, quarrel or altercation; separation (resulting from conflict). (yeh-VLIT / jɛ-ˈvlɪt)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
“He wouldn’t be the first radio ham in Hookland to become convinced creatures are living in the cold static between stations.”
“The first to try and blow up a BBC transmitter though.”
“Not even the first to do that. The path between static beasts and bombs is well trod.”
- #DICallaghan & #DSNokes
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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deancasbigbang.bsky.social
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2025 DCBB Masterlist
Posting for the 2025 DCBB is done and dusted! Thank you so much to the writers, artists, betas, and readers who make this challenge such a delight to run! We love seeing familiar names as you return,...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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thoughtfulnz.bsky.social
When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
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Star Trek IV The Voyage Home scene. Famous workplace buddies Kirk & Spock are standing outdoors, outside some large building (it's an aquarium but you didn't hear that from me) with many background folks coming and going, 1980s clothing everywhere. We have Kirk in uniform and Spock in a white bathrobe with wet hair as if he just climbed out of the water. (He just climbed out of the water) They are talking to a woman, standing with the ocean to her back. Pic 1 and 2 on Kirk and Spock, Spock speaking, closed caption reads, "They like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales." Pic 3 is focused on the woman with the ocean in the background, she looks pissed and skeptical, closed caption reads, "I suppose they told you that, huh?" Pic 4 now back on Kirk and Spock, caption reads, "The hell they did." Alt in pic 1! Also fun humpback whale fact, they have some of the most complex songs of any animal in the wild! Alt in pic 1! Also fun humpback whale fact, they have three stomachs! Alt in pic 1! Also fun humpback whale fact, their tails in some ways act as their fingerprint and are unique to each whale!
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
Modern studios expect us to pay good money to go to the theater and they don't offer us even one fish-horse hand-painted by French ladies.
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
ge-endebyrdan, wk.v: to set in order, arrange, dispose. (yeh-EN-duh-BUER-dahn / jɛ-ˈɛn-də-ˌbyr-dan)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2

No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
A bleak and chilly scene of a flat landscape under a hard frost as a pale sun behind thin cloud gives the sky a brown tinge
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
mab-browne.bsky.social
www.rnz.co.nz/life/food/th...
The story behind NZ's obsession with chocolate fish
From their first emergence in the late 19th century chocolate fish have been an ever-present part of New Zealand life.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
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Deep Space 9 scene. The Sisko, Bashir, and Odo (🎵 buckets of fun🎵) are in the kitchen and shoulder to shoulder hovering over a bunch of food. Sisko is wearing some of that classic shimmery & colorful DS9 loungwear and cooking over a stove. He's holding out a spatula for Bashir to take a look or do a taste test. (Side note, I always wonder, does it go back in the pot? Do they use 20 new spoons doing taste tests?) Anyways, Basir looks nervous at whatever it is he's seeing. Odo, like a little brother wanting to be included in the party, stands just behind the two looking over Bashir's shoulder with great curiosity. Closed caption reads, "Beets are a very misunderstood vegetable."
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
‘Fossil fuel companies were given privileged, insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban’ - RNZ
My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #FossilFuels
Cartoon. Title: “Industry Consultation” Image of MP Shane Jones holding a copy of the “Oil and Gas Ban” document in each hand, and a red pen. To either side of him is one man labelled “Oil” and one labelled “Gas”. Jones is saying, “Here…run my red pen through this, will you?”
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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nztransitbuzz.bsky.social
#RailNews: Passengers aboard the Kingston Flyer were robbed at gunpoint when their train was stopped in Fairlight, in Southland.

The bandits were imitating the popular 1975 Cadbury television commercial, the Great Crunchie Train Robbery.

Via Otago Daily Times: www.odt.co.nz/southland/hu...
Hunt tips hat to TV advert
Passengers aboard the Kingston Flyer were robbed at gunpoint by about 70 bandits hunting for gold when their train was stopped in Fairlight, in...
www.odt.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek Voyager scene. We're in sick bay, or six bay if you're a Friend of DeSoto. We see the EMH Doc standing up in front of his medical station. He's in his blue back uniform, holding his hand to his tummy, and looking up like he's thinking about something or doing math in his head. Closed caption reads, "I think I'm hungry."
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
Seltzer was cheap, easy to clean, non-harmful and it showed up well on the screen. What's not to like?
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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mountsthelens1980.bsky.social
Quadbox has been replaced by Pelebox.
A USGS webcam feed, displayed on a television screen, shows a tall, vigorous lava fountain erupting from a vent on the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater at Kīlauea. Sheets of molten lava flow across the crater floor in broad channels, with the inner caldera walls and a low ridge visible under overcast afternoon skies.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
On the lowering of the Clean Car Standard, right after COP30.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #CleanCarStandard #Emissions #FossilFuels
Cartoon. Title: “Where the Rubber Hits the Sea Level Rise” MP Chris Bishop standing in front of his cliff-top car yard, shouting after someone who has just driven off in a petrol-powered SUV, over the cliff and into the sea, “You won’t regret that snorkel!” Down the bottom it says, “Bishop’s Cars - ‘We Make Doing the Wrong Thing Easier”
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM