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Verdigristle
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i like books and scary movies and art made by humans and learning to play the banjo

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dptbirder.bsky.social
I can’t believe an albatross just walked right by me… 😭🪶
December 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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possumeveryhour.io
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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cookiedoves.bsky.social
american wizcock
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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tacobellquarterly.org
We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans
October 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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there are so many cardinals in my back yard are they having a conclave? are they electing the bird pope?
October 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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archive.org/details/Fant...

I hate how prescient this sci fi story ("Captive Audience" by Ann Griffith) from the 1950s about inescapable advertising keeps being
September 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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bryb.bsky.social
Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x
September 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.
September 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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ianfay.bsky.social
"Do you not know, that in the service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?"
Drawing of Russel Crowe in Master and Commander
September 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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clairezagorski.bsky.social
Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
September 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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hushpuppyart.bsky.social
Fear the Old Blood 🩸🧠👁️
September 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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poodlewool.bsky.social
Everyone cheer for the apple boar, bringing fall fun!! :)
(the fun is apples)
a watercolor of a happy, determined looking boar hauling a cart full of apples
August 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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stcymsn.bsky.social
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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learned recently that sometimes "dead" satellites that are still in orbit will randomly wake up and send a little beep boop out into the void
August 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Leech Jar, c.1831. Made by Alcock at Hill Pottery. Now part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
An ornate jar that reads "LEECHES" in gold lettering. It has two gilded handles.
August 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I went for a walk this morning earlier than I have been recently (in part because my power went out for a couple hours) and saw blue and green herons, a belted kingfisher, and some mallards. The spookiness of something underwater, splashing around in an otherwise still pond is also pretty top tier.
August 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!
July 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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ktbryski.bsky.social
If you want to do the thing, do the thing.

Love is the journey and the journey is the destination.

That’s what makes it worth it. That’s what it makes us human. And that’s something no AI can replicate or steal.
July 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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theonion.com
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work
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Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work
July 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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rohmersimpson.bsky.social
you know, they really did do this
legendary dril tweet that goes "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
July 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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seantcollins.com
14yo: Birds are all named either "Red-bearded Black-Bellied Finch," "Stupid Cocksucker," or "Wilson's Little Guy."
May 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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moosekleenex.bsky.social
add yours!
a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting
June 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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June 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM