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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 18h

ellison hyde-your-kids (it's a birdemic) @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 4h

update: brain actually has no idea what it means by "having fun" so i just hit replay on the movie and now both brain and i are sulking because nobody gets what they want

ellison hyde-your-kids (it's a birdemic) @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 4h

why do i find its derriere so distressing

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.

🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1

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ellison hyde-your-kids (it's a birdemic) @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 4h

me: i'm tired can we go to bed now
brain: but i have not yet had fun today
me: ...watched a couple movies. it was nice
brain: that was decompressing. it wasn't fun
me: oh my god who cares
brain: I WILL. DO SOMETHING. FUN. TODAY
me: it's ELEVEN-FIFTEEN AT NIGHT

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Halloween! Hope you are enjoying spooky season and Halloween. We made a jumping spider jack-o-lantern this year! A true collaboration: the 11yo carved the pedipalps (they look like small arms near the mouth) and I carved the 8 eyes and 8 legs. Legs are tricky!
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This is our Jack-o-lantern on a table on our porch. It’s made of a large pumpkin for the abdomen of the jumping spider (from which 8 legs like wide v’s are cut and affixed with toothpicks). The head in front is a smaller pumpkin with 2 large and 2 medium circular eyes are visible. There are two smaller pairs on the sides but not visible here. Below the eyes are furry pedipalps. It’s dark and both pumpkins are lit.

Same double pumpkin jumping spider jack-o-lantern but a side view so you can see the smaller eyes, the legs and the wide v holes cut in the abdomen to produce the legs

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 4h

every year in early september i'm like "i'm gonna be a cute witch or a princess or like a sexy scarecrow or something" and every year on halloween night i'm like i want to be danish arctic explorer peter freuchen,

large fur-clad danish arctic explorer peter freuchen and his small wife, dagmar

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ellison hyde-your-kids (it's a birdemic) @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 5h

currently rewatching one of my favorites www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-liv...

RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill

Is there any possible downside to accepting an invitation from Vincent Price to spend an evening in a creepy mansion that was built on something called “Haunted Hill?” If so, Mike, Kevin and Bill

www.rifftrax.com

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Anthony vs dead turtles @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 10h

Nobody makes good fossil fish masks so this year I knocked out a Protosphyraena for myself!

A little cardboard and superglue goes a long way when paired with obsession

A very pointy brown mask mimicking a fossil billion skull. Curator for scale

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ellison hyde-your-kids (it's a birdemic) @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 6h

I made my dog drunk with calm down pills and now she keeps twirling in dumb drunk circles while I hold her ass up in a sling and I definitely ate too much candy for this shit

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Ilana M(issed Spooky Season Renaming Again)asad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 6h

A haunted house but it's just your tired body

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 7h

#invertober 31, 💀death’s head hawk moth💀

#invertober2025

symmetrical color block art of a death's head hawk moth . it is drawn in simplified colors and patterns on an orange background, with a black frame with cartoony bones and skulls and a moth at the keystone. death's head is written at the center bottom

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 9h

getting spooky out here

People dressed like aliens and monsters with glowing eyes posed before an equally glowing US Capitol building

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 6h

Not handing out candy tonight because for rather complicated reasons, I will be extracting DNA from a strawberry while dressed as a parakeet for a live audience

Jess in front of a sign for the UAA Planetarium advertising a show for this evening with a presentation by them. They are wearing a fleece onesie decorated like a blue parakeet

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 8h

Anyone need a spooky nature story for Halloween? It all happened this summer…

I was on the beach at midnight. It wasn’t actually raining but with so much heavy mist in the air it might as well have been. And it was dark as could be by the bay. I was just out for a walk before bed.
(1/?) 🌿 🦑

A pale full moon with a sharply silhouetted bare branch against it. See in a dark black sky.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 13h

JEREMY IS GETTING NASTY IN THE DOUBLE DEUCE. HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!

Sophie with duck lips of me dressed as Kelly Lynch in Roadhouse in front of a double deuce banner

Jeremy, the giant tortoise, mounting his concrete statue that we obtained for this purpose

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JJ DeBenedictis @jjdebenedictis.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you to the crows for being appropriately goth for Halloween.

Don't know what they were finding there in the leaf litter, but I hope it was as tasty to them as Halloween candy is to us.

A grey, rain-damp sidewalk under trees, with fall leaves strewn across it and the grass to either side. In the grass, there are also about thirty crows picking through the leaves.

A grey, rain-damp sidewalk and grassy verg, with fall leaves strewn across both. In the grass, there are about twenty crows picking through the leaves.

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Tamara Hughes @mamamonkey.bsky.social · 6h

ANOTHER potato rush and we are OUT OF POTATOES.

The kids are out on the street chanting "potato, potato!"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 25

i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 10h

Really cool study: a fully recombinant antivenom made not from horse serum but from nanobodies i.e. tiny, single-chain antibodies derived from alpacas and llamas. These molecules are smaller, more stable, cheaper to produce, and less likely to trigger immune reactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, mamba and rinkhals bites - Nature

A recombinant antivenom composed of eight nanobodies provides broad protection against venom-induced lethality and dermonecrosis in mice challenged with venoms from cobras, mambas and rinkha...

www.nature.com

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 8h

all the dads were so stoked about our costumes

me dressed as j jonah jameson holding a mockup of the daily bugle front page that reads MENACE!!!! criminal or FELON? and a picture of my kid (censored) dressed as spiderman. i am laughing like the meme

little tiny child in a spiderman hoodie holding a halloween bucket

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ellison hyde-your-kids (it's a birdemic) @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 9h

“Ok I just gotta find the dog poop before I step in—oh.”

—every day for the last three days

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 12h

Best. Costumes. Ever.

Happy Halloween 🎃

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ellison hyde-your-kids (it's a birdemic) @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 12h

worn out today by the effort of having to make an important decision with incomplete or little information that will, ultimately, actually be made by my dog

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✺ 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍 ✺ @mothsprout.bsky.social · 13h

🍂 MUSCLE TANKS, WALL SCROLLS, & MICROFIBERS 🍂 NOW AVAILABLE ‼️

SHOP: www.mothsprout.com

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OuttaMyCandyBowl @outtamylaine.bsky.social · 14h

Leading edge of the Atmospheric River literally coming in on waves. #wawx #skysky

A high, thin cloud layer of wave-like formations. They look similar to a sandy bed of a body of water. The clouds are gray above the pink arc of sunrise below

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