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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 15h

That's both adorable and hilarious. 😆

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Untamed Every Seven Hours @hourlycql.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

#cql #theuntamed
#XiaoXingchen

Xiao Xingchen stands in an outdoors location, facing left, dressed primarily in white but for a black layer in between the white outer robe and white underrobe, and cradles a horsetail whisk in his left arm. The horsetail drapes down from over his elbow, and a white charm and tassel dangles from the other end of the wooden shaft that continues a few inches past his voluminous sleeve hidden hand.

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 2d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 1d

Fall [part 1/3]

A cartoon crow is looking up as orange, red and yellow fall leaves dance in tje wind around him.

The crow is walking on the crunchy leaves, saying "what a perfect day!"

The crow is marveling at how lovely all the leaves are, new seeing a stone in his path.

The crow trips on the stone right on his face.

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Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 5d

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

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Antonieta Muñoz Estrada @mariadrawss.bsky.social · 1d

If you disable this on Pinterest, all AI content will not appear when you search. 😉✨️ #kidlit

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly, all praise to anyone who makes jam from scratch. That's just impressive.

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Felicia Day @felicia.day · 1d

HELLO UK! If you'd like to pre-order my new book for a BIG discount right now, just use OCTOBER25 when online ordering
@waterstones.bsky.social on app or browser!
Discount only avail until FRIDAY!!! www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · 8d

Use the coupon MOVING for 50% off all orders over $60. Please buy any and everything so I don't have to move with it!
Orders will ship within a week - please give us a little grace while we're even busier than usual with work & packing!

Get your gay gay goodies here : www.novaandmali.com/shop

S h o p | Nova and Mali

Shop our books and merch here.

www.novaandmali.com

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · 8d

HUGE COUPON SALE!

WE'RE MOVING! Before the end of the year, we're moving into a new place that has an office so we can finally stop working in our living room.

I don't want to have to move all the books and merch with me, so I'm running a huge coupon sale this month.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 1d

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

The policy requires journalists to agree to limits on how they report and access information, something all the organizations say violates First Amendment protections and places unreasonable curbs on press freedom.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning.

TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

XLOV have also got a new album releasing soon, but it's not for another few weeks, so I'll wait to see what that's like.

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

LYKN's new song and MV also dropped tonight, and it's also very good, but a very different vibe. So putting them both on loop is going to make for an odd playlist. But that won't stop me.

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ชอบก็บอก (Feel Like Me) - LYKN [ OFFICIAL MV ]

YouTube video by LYKN

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, DEXX's new song is very good, and I enjoyed it.

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DEXX - อกหักเป็นเพื่อนเธอ (BESIDE YOU) Prod. by The TOYS | Official MV

YouTube video by DMD MUSIC

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

New DEXX song + MV just dropped.

Me: It’s always just kinda weird when there's women in DMD boys' MVs.
MV: *all the women leave*
MV: The boys comfort each other, very specifically TutorYim, TeeTeePor, and (very briefly) AuAu & JamesSu.
Me: ...there it is. 😆

#BLboys #fanservice

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Pam Ronald @pcronald.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkable recovery of the Klamath River salmon. Many thanks to the agencies, Tribes, and NGOs who came together to remove dams and monitor the recovery of the Klamath River salmon. And kudos, too, to the indigenous youth who paddled source to sea on the newly freed river

Colorful kayaks in a circle on the water

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 1d

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

so obviously kids today can do that too, and it's not a bad thing, but I do sit here sometimes wondering if the kiddos I know would read the books I liked at their age and just go "TF is this?" because it just won't make sense or be relevant to them.

TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

And, I mean, I grew up reading things that were written 20, 50, 100 years before I was born, and things written for people older than me or from other countries (USA, UK) and I either picked up cultural context through repeated exposure or just skipped right over stuff that didn't make sense to me,

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

I think of this sometimes when things like 'Animorphs' are being marketed to the current generation of kids. I loved those books as a kid, but I recall them being full of cultural references and colloquialisms that are just not going to make sense to kids today.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's every bit of culture. Movies, TV, plays, music, theater, painting, dance. Everything ages and context is lost and new audiences don't attach to the work the way then-contemporary audiences did. It doesn't make the work bad or suggests it can't endure. But times change.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even think it's just books. Almost nobody understands the Looney tunes references anymore and my children were completely gobsmacked trying to watch the original Aladdin.

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TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

I just registered the actual scale of that fucking enormous lamp.

TheOtherDibbler @theotherdibbler.bsky.social · 1d

Perth looks both hot and cool here, and it's at times like this that I hate that we turned temperature words into adjectives meaning things unrelated to temperature, because Perth looks both hot and cool here, and I HATE THAT SENTENCE SO MUCH.

Thai actors Santa Pongsapak and Perth Tanapon sitting on a couch. I'm not 100% sure I spelled their names correctly, but I tried.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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