@towntaker.bsky.social
Historian, educator, librarian. I collect fashion, borrow books, and lend attention.
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Librarian Josh Westbrook, “Kids are living stories every day that we wouldn’t let them read.”
Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens, Bodart 2009.
Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens, Bodart 2009.
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Well this has been a most exhausting day. Goodnight!
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Well this has been a most exhausting day. Goodnight!
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Trek fans in 1995: We need to learn from this so we never have the Bell Riots
Trek fans in 2025: God, I wish we’d had the Bell Riots
Trek fans in 2025: God, I wish we’d had the Bell Riots
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Trek fans in 1995: We need to learn from this so we never have the Bell Riots
Trek fans in 2025: God, I wish we’d had the Bell Riots
Trek fans in 2025: God, I wish we’d had the Bell Riots
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Showed up in my memories today.
One of my better OC memes.
One of my better OC memes.
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Showed up in my memories today.
One of my better OC memes.
One of my better OC memes.
“Computer wheel of Parmesan”
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“Computer wheel of Parmesan”
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"Computer 8 miles of soup no bowl"
June 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Computer 8 miles of soup no bowl"
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Book Cover of the Day:
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
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November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Here is how I spend my days now. I live in a beautiful place. I sleep in a beautiful bed. I eat beautiful food. I go for walks through beautiful places. I care for people deeply. At night my bed is full of love, because I alone am in it. “
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“Here is how I spend my days now. I live in a beautiful place. I sleep in a beautiful bed. I eat beautiful food. I go for walks through beautiful places. I care for people deeply. At night my bed is full of love, because I alone am in it. “
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TNG: Kids aren’t “resilient.” They just survive until there’s space & time for their trauma.
February 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
TNG: Kids aren’t “resilient.” They just survive until there’s space & time for their trauma.
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Georges de La Tour (1593-1652), “Magdalene with Two Flames,” a.k.a. “The Penitent Magdalene” (c. 1638-1643), oil on canvas, 102.2 x 133.4 cm.
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Georges de La Tour (1593-1652), “Magdalene with Two Flames,” a.k.a. “The Penitent Magdalene” (c. 1638-1643), oil on canvas, 102.2 x 133.4 cm.
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Bruce Cohen
Interior with Unmade Bed, 2022
Oil on canvas
36 × 54 in
Interior with Unmade Bed, 2022
Oil on canvas
36 × 54 in
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Bruce Cohen
Interior with Unmade Bed, 2022
Oil on canvas
36 × 54 in
Interior with Unmade Bed, 2022
Oil on canvas
36 × 54 in
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Georgia O'Keeffe. Autumn Trees – The White Birch, 1924. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Georgia O'Keeffe. Autumn Trees – The White Birch, 1924. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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"To a woman who knows her own mind, men can only be a minor consideration."
🎨 #MarieBashkirtseff, Russian émigré diarist and painter, was #BOTD 23 November 1858. A great talent, she passed away aged 25. #Art #Painting #Literature
🎨 #MarieBashkirtseff, Russian émigré diarist and painter, was #BOTD 23 November 1858. A great talent, she passed away aged 25. #Art #Painting #Literature
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
"To a woman who knows her own mind, men can only be a minor consideration."
🎨 #MarieBashkirtseff, Russian émigré diarist and painter, was #BOTD 23 November 1858. A great talent, she passed away aged 25. #Art #Painting #Literature
🎨 #MarieBashkirtseff, Russian émigré diarist and painter, was #BOTD 23 November 1858. A great talent, she passed away aged 25. #Art #Painting #Literature
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✒🎨 #AgnoloDiCosimo (#Bronzino), Italian Mannerist artist and poet, #DOTD 23 November 1572. #Art #Poetry #Painting
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
✒🎨 #AgnoloDiCosimo (#Bronzino), Italian Mannerist artist and poet, #DOTD 23 November 1572. #Art #Poetry #Painting
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Los Angeles in the Rain
20-22 November 2025
Ink and watercolor on paper.
7” x 10”
#art #fineart #drawing #illustration #watercolor #ink
20-22 November 2025
Ink and watercolor on paper.
7” x 10”
#art #fineart #drawing #illustration #watercolor #ink
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Los Angeles in the Rain
20-22 November 2025
Ink and watercolor on paper.
7” x 10”
#art #fineart #drawing #illustration #watercolor #ink
20-22 November 2025
Ink and watercolor on paper.
7” x 10”
#art #fineart #drawing #illustration #watercolor #ink
So many more things make sense if we include the possibility of dental anesthesia
Finally made it to TNG in the Star Trek rewatch. Glad to be back home in my favorite 90s dentist office (enterprise d, the d stands for dentist).
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
So many more things make sense if we include the possibility of dental anesthesia
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I like it when near future science fiction has people talking about their great historical figures and they list a couple we already know and then one from their past/our future. Star Trek talking about all the big baseball heroes like Babe Ruth and "Buck Bokai"
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I like it when near future science fiction has people talking about their great historical figures and they list a couple we already know and then one from their past/our future. Star Trek talking about all the big baseball heroes like Babe Ruth and "Buck Bokai"
Now I too can live the greatest adventure
finally found a tosk
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Now I too can live the greatest adventure
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finally found a tosk
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
finally found a tosk
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Okay BlueSky, we need a palate cleanser. Here’s Dr Bashir and Gay Snake’s meetcute #DS9 #DS9sky
youtu.be/ZR1zgRYL530?...
youtu.be/ZR1zgRYL530?...
Garak and Bashir meet, credit to @wellsbering on twitter
YouTube video by Ellie
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November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Okay BlueSky, we need a palate cleanser. Here’s Dr Bashir and Gay Snake’s meetcute #DS9 #DS9sky
youtu.be/ZR1zgRYL530?...
youtu.be/ZR1zgRYL530?...
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Some British dinosaurs that I reworked from the warmer months.
Featuring Iguanodon and Baryonyx, the former with an updated background and the latter with a complete overhaul of the kingfisher design.
💚/🔄s are welcomed!
#ArtistOnBlueSky #AS05 #Dinosaurs #Paleoart #SciArt #DigitalArt
Featuring Iguanodon and Baryonyx, the former with an updated background and the latter with a complete overhaul of the kingfisher design.
💚/🔄s are welcomed!
#ArtistOnBlueSky #AS05 #Dinosaurs #Paleoart #SciArt #DigitalArt
![Baryonyx walkeri.
Out of all the dinosaurs I worked hard to redesign, Baryonyx was genuinely very difficult.
I kept elements of the original kingfisher colors, gave some new pattern designs, and also gave some quills on both the head and the arms while also slightly tweaking the third claw on both wrists to make them bigger, hence Baryonyx's name means, "heavy claw.
And the background was changed to reflect the nighttime with the full moon as the Baryonyx is feasted on two fish it caught from the river stream which it resides next to.
(Originally drawn from May 2025)
[Also, just a disclaimer, Baryonyx is not related to the platypus. It is a spinosaurid first known to have a piscivorous diet based on fish. Have a nice day.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aak5mvjoe75z4bfj4xoiuh5a/bafkreibbuc3xfk33bjglhpk5unql77nneqlvtfajgftpfd2mgaa7igehom@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Some British dinosaurs that I reworked from the warmer months.
Featuring Iguanodon and Baryonyx, the former with an updated background and the latter with a complete overhaul of the kingfisher design.
💚/🔄s are welcomed!
#ArtistOnBlueSky #AS05 #Dinosaurs #Paleoart #SciArt #DigitalArt
Featuring Iguanodon and Baryonyx, the former with an updated background and the latter with a complete overhaul of the kingfisher design.
💚/🔄s are welcomed!
#ArtistOnBlueSky #AS05 #Dinosaurs #Paleoart #SciArt #DigitalArt
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VOY S4E17, “Retrospect”: Seven recovers blocked memories of a weapons merchant stealing her Borg nanoprobes. This episode is about the importance of not believing assault allegations, and the toll it takes on the poor accused. I have rarely been left so angry by an episode of Star Trek.
September 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
VOY S4E17, “Retrospect”: Seven recovers blocked memories of a weapons merchant stealing her Borg nanoprobes. This episode is about the importance of not believing assault allegations, and the toll it takes on the poor accused. I have rarely been left so angry by an episode of Star Trek.
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Calling "Threshold" Voyager's worst episode is the coward's way out.
the worst episode was the one where Seven of Nine accused a guy of assaulting her and by the end the Doctor apologizes for believing her, and it's never addressed why she had traumatic memories of being assaulted.
the worst episode was the one where Seven of Nine accused a guy of assaulting her and by the end the Doctor apologizes for believing her, and it's never addressed why she had traumatic memories of being assaulted.
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Calling "Threshold" Voyager's worst episode is the coward's way out.
the worst episode was the one where Seven of Nine accused a guy of assaulting her and by the end the Doctor apologizes for believing her, and it's never addressed why she had traumatic memories of being assaulted.
the worst episode was the one where Seven of Nine accused a guy of assaulting her and by the end the Doctor apologizes for believing her, and it's never addressed why she had traumatic memories of being assaulted.