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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

Even the Space Program used to be more fun in the past.

The Shapson Aquaplane, invented by S. Shapiro, being strapped onto Miss Margaret Travis.
February 27, 1935, Santa Monica, California.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 1d

Flying off the shelves.....your ideal resist costume

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Ernest Hogan @ernesthogan.bsky.social · 9h

‘Tis the season . . . www.instagram.com/p/DPsW8tVkQk...

cuauhtemoc_1521 on Instagram

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 15h

Artist Barclay Shaw (1949-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1982; R, 1983
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Cover for CHerryh's Merchanter's Luck. Main character stands with a gun in the control deck of a spaceship. The stars are behind her.

Cover for Ellison's Paingod and Other Delusions. An angel is strapped to a door. Hands manipulate a device next to her.

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FunHouse Radio @funhouseradio.bsky.social · 13h

► FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
#Halloween #halloween2025 #halloweenart #halloweenvibes #halloweenmusic #spooky

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Ernest Hogan @ernesthogan.bsky.social · 12h

Keep on poppin’!

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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 18h

Twisty weekending.

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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Ernest Hogan @ernesthogan.bsky.social · 18h

Arizona after the rain . . .

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Ernest Hogan @ernesthogan.bsky.social · 18h

Arizona after the rain . . .

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ʚEllexMayɞ 🩷 @ellexmay.bsky.social · 1d

Me and @blossomlatte.bsky.social

🎃 Spooky Chip bitney 🎃 @fragboner.bsky.social · 1d

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Frog on pink cake that reads
Dream big , fart loud

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emdevenport @emdevenport.bsky.social · 18h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 1d

❤️

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

YouTube video by PettyYou007

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 21h

Incredible vintage 1930s Art Deco H. Hoffman Bohemian uranium glass hood ornament/sculpture - measures 9.75" long!

#artdeco #bohemianglass #uraniumglass #czechglass #hhoffman #czechoslovakia #vintage1930s #hoodornament #artdecoglass #glassart #artglass #artdecodesign #streamlinemoderne #movement

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Ernest Hogan @ernesthogan.bsky.social · 20h

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Get in the mood for spooky season and darkening nights with The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic, an in-depth history bringing Nigel Kneale's seminal lost horror thriller back to life. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

Cover design for The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic.

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Nate '𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖆𝖙𝖊' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 1d

Warren Zevon is finally getting recognized at the RRHoF! They'll be honoring him this year with a Musical Influence award. This is excellent news!

Lawyers, Guns and Money

YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 1d

Flashbacks to late 1993.

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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GG 📚✨ @orionhasmoxie.bsky.social · 1d

I finished The Bewitching. I loved this creepy atmospheric story of history and magic. The setting was lush and I'm a big sucker for stories told in an epistolary style and I really enjoyed its use here. The twists were good too. #booksky

The cover of The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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FunHouse Radio @funhouseradio.bsky.social · 1d

"An AI made millions in cryptocurrency. It's written the gospel of its own pseudo-religion and counts billionaire tech moguls among its devotees. Now it wants legal rights."
#weird #weirdnews #offbeat #dystopia
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

An AI became a crypto millionaire. Now it's fighting to become a person

In the past year, an AI made millions in cryptocurrency. It's written the gospel of its own pseudo-religion and counts tech billionaires among its devotees. Now it wants legal rights.

www.bbc.com

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Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social · 1d

Well, isn’t this creepy.

A pink pot with pink-flip-flop-wearing feet holding a scraggly plant

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 2d

At the Boardwalk with Barb in Cruz.

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 1d

Behold: my first ever car decal

The back of a car, with a decal of the flag of the New California Republic

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 1d

A brilliant chapter in the history of radio comes to a magnificently weird end tonight.

Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 1d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 1d

Running a little late but here I am back with #FatBatWeek extended.
This little lad is one of my favourite species – the NZ short-tailed bat, pollinator of the flower of Hades with frybread and a offbrand L&P.
@nzbatman.bsky.social @forestandbird.bsky.social @batcon.org

A little brown bat with pointy ears and a cheerful smile is perched on top of golden brown cubes of frybread. The plate the food is stacked on is based on Crown Lynn ware, a kiwi pottery. Behind the place is a parody of L &P, a local lemonade, but with the label change to read FBW in large yellow letters beneath which is fact that week and "batty good stuff 2025 quote on a red banner.

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