Nathan Andrew, who is almost certainly procrastinating
@feralharp.bsky.social
I live in the borders between. Total nerd & crackpot. Musician (electric harp, synth, etc.) interested in too many things: food, drink, nature, astronomy, history, languages, anthro-archaeo-paleontologies, movies (SFF-horror-comedy-arthouse), books, etc.!
Pinned
A harp has strings. A harmonica does not. Sometimes slang is stupid.
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I am fascinated by the alien/bigfoot split. Republicans are less likely to believe in aliens than Democrats and more likely to believe in Bigfoot and The Yeti.
I need to know why.
I need to know why.
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am fascinated by the alien/bigfoot split. Republicans are less likely to believe in aliens than Democrats and more likely to believe in Bigfoot and The Yeti.
I need to know why.
I need to know why.
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People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
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Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you! 👁️
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you! 👁️
I’m going to need to sit with this for a while.
ME:
ME:
Also ME:
ME: Sancho! My trench coat! My phurba! [too niche? probably]
@karenstollznow.bsky.social I think the world needs a MonsterTalk/In Research Of crossover episode about this. No?
ME:
ME:
Also ME:
ME: Sancho! My trench coat! My phurba! [too niche? probably]
@karenstollznow.bsky.social I think the world needs a MonsterTalk/In Research Of crossover episode about this. No?
Nothing else is quite like the feeling of running into a gonzo paragraph like this one.
![A screenshot which reads:
"Inspired by Theosophical lore and several visiting Mongol lamas, Gleb Bokii, the chief Bolshevik cryptographer and one of the bosses of the Soviet secret police, along with his writer friend Alexander Barchenko, embarked on a quest for Shambhala, in an attempt to merge Kalachakra-tantra and ideas of Communism in the 1920s. Among other things, in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police, Bokii and Barchenko experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques to try to find a key for engineering perfect communist human beings.[17] They contemplated a special expedition to Inner Asia to retrieve the wisdom of Shambhala – the project fell through as a result of intrigues within the Soviet intelligence service, as well as rival efforts of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat that sent its own expedition to Tibet in 1924."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekew4wtc2m4ctroumek7kr4l/bafkreidabk6ljvos3wdgnum2ao7enwzc46kdkcxc2afw5ahfchncacn5tm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m going to need to sit with this for a while.
ME:
ME:
Also ME:
ME: Sancho! My trench coat! My phurba! [too niche? probably]
@karenstollznow.bsky.social I think the world needs a MonsterTalk/In Research Of crossover episode about this. No?
ME:
ME:
Also ME:
ME: Sancho! My trench coat! My phurba! [too niche? probably]
@karenstollznow.bsky.social I think the world needs a MonsterTalk/In Research Of crossover episode about this. No?
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In every aspect of my life I am "not enough", "never enough". Never making the cut. I can contort myself, overwork myself, destroy myself in the process but I will still never be enough.
So. What.
I'm just going to keep doing what I do and sod everyone else.
So. What.
I'm just going to keep doing what I do and sod everyone else.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In every aspect of my life I am "not enough", "never enough". Never making the cut. I can contort myself, overwork myself, destroy myself in the process but I will still never be enough.
So. What.
I'm just going to keep doing what I do and sod everyone else.
So. What.
I'm just going to keep doing what I do and sod everyone else.
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When you stare into the abyss this Black Friday, the abyss takes a whopping 25% off!
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
When you stare into the abyss this Black Friday, the abyss takes a whopping 25% off!
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This is shit. We have no reason to do anything in Venezuela.
Impeach the bastards — Trump, Hegseth, Rubio. They can't do this without Congress. Hold them accountable.
Grow a spine, congresspeople.
Impeach the bastards — Trump, Hegseth, Rubio. They can't do this without Congress. Hold them accountable.
Grow a spine, congresspeople.
Rep. Salazar: "We're gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies to be able to liberate. And to Venezuelans who wants to be free."
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is shit. We have no reason to do anything in Venezuela.
Impeach the bastards — Trump, Hegseth, Rubio. They can't do this without Congress. Hold them accountable.
Grow a spine, congresspeople.
Impeach the bastards — Trump, Hegseth, Rubio. They can't do this without Congress. Hold them accountable.
Grow a spine, congresspeople.
I’ve heard that The Past was a dangerous place. This is proof enough.
I feel like this comes from one of @moviessilently.bsky.social’s vintage cookbooks.
I feel like this comes from one of @moviessilently.bsky.social’s vintage cookbooks.
"Instant Pizza." A grilled biscuit topped with tomato puree, salami, a pineapple ring, and stuffed olives.
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I’ve heard that The Past was a dangerous place. This is proof enough.
I feel like this comes from one of @moviessilently.bsky.social’s vintage cookbooks.
I feel like this comes from one of @moviessilently.bsky.social’s vintage cookbooks.
Here’s my ranking, although of course no one asked:
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
.
.
.
3. Return of the Jedi
.
.
4. - 11. who cares?
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
.
.
.
3. Return of the Jedi
.
.
4. - 11. who cares?
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Here’s my ranking, although of course no one asked:
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
.
.
.
3. Return of the Jedi
.
.
4. - 11. who cares?
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
.
.
.
3. Return of the Jedi
.
.
4. - 11. who cares?
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Only the best people!
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Only the best people!
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“The Thing with Feathers boasts a darkly beautiful imagination and enough transfixing performances to make it worth a look.” Hitting theaters this week.
A Murder of Crows - Maddwolf
The Thing with Feathers by Hope Madden Novelist Max Porter puts readers into headspaces we might just as well not want to visit, but he creates a territory that’s slyly hopeful. In Shy, beautifully ad...
maddwolf.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“The Thing with Feathers boasts a darkly beautiful imagination and enough transfixing performances to make it worth a look.” Hitting theaters this week.
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YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
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If you know someone who wants to learn how to make fursuits, may I recommend my book Fursuit Making 101? It goes over the basics of working with faux fur and even includes a nub tail pattern.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSLDFLY4
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSLDFLY4
Fursuit Making 101: The Basics of Making and Repairing Fursuits (and Otherwise Working with Faux Fur)
Do you want to learn how to make your own fursuit? Are you a sewist trying to learn more about working with faux fur? Maybe you just want to learn how to repair and care for a fursuit you already own....
www.amazon.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you know someone who wants to learn how to make fursuits, may I recommend my book Fursuit Making 101? It goes over the basics of working with faux fur and even includes a nub tail pattern.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSLDFLY4
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSLDFLY4
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🖤🖤🖤 Happy Birthday, KARLOFF! 🖤🖤🖤
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🖤🖤🖤 Happy Birthday, KARLOFF! 🖤🖤🖤
I’m at a point in writing this story where the characters have to think their way out of a situation. All I know is that, if it were me, I’d be screwed.
But it is me! How am I supposed to tell them what to do?! FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF, CHARACTERS. YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.
But it is me! How am I supposed to tell them what to do?! FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF, CHARACTERS. YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’m at a point in writing this story where the characters have to think their way out of a situation. All I know is that, if it were me, I’d be screwed.
But it is me! How am I supposed to tell them what to do?! FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF, CHARACTERS. YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.
But it is me! How am I supposed to tell them what to do?! FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF, CHARACTERS. YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.
a movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
a movie that takes place where you’re from
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BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
The ball’s in your court, Mamdani. Let’s see you return *that* serve.
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The ball’s in your court, Mamdani. Let’s see you return *that* serve.
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On this day 22 years ago, the Rose Revolution happened in Georgia.
Its ideals of a modernized state and building European democracy clashed with the (post-)Soviet corrupt and crony elites, who had their revenge in 2012 through installing the Georgian Dream, now the dictatorship in Georgia.
1/
Its ideals of a modernized state and building European democracy clashed with the (post-)Soviet corrupt and crony elites, who had their revenge in 2012 through installing the Georgian Dream, now the dictatorship in Georgia.
1/
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
On this day 22 years ago, the Rose Revolution happened in Georgia.
Its ideals of a modernized state and building European democracy clashed with the (post-)Soviet corrupt and crony elites, who had their revenge in 2012 through installing the Georgian Dream, now the dictatorship in Georgia.
1/
Its ideals of a modernized state and building European democracy clashed with the (post-)Soviet corrupt and crony elites, who had their revenge in 2012 through installing the Georgian Dream, now the dictatorship in Georgia.
1/
The Rubber Chicken Revolution
✊🐓🇬🇪
✊🐓🇬🇪
Two days ago, the regime police in Georgia arrested a man over squeaking a chicken toy towards the police.
So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Rubber Chicken Revolution
✊🐓🇬🇪
✊🐓🇬🇪
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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In the latest episode of Uncanny Japan, I talk all about moon lore, myth, superstitions, and more 🌛🌙🌓🌔🌕
"Selfless Rabbits, Murdered Goddesses, and Tsukimi"
uncannyjapan.com/podcast/japa...
#Japan #moon #myth #folklore
"Selfless Rabbits, Murdered Goddesses, and Tsukimi"
uncannyjapan.com/podcast/japa...
#Japan #moon #myth #folklore
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In the latest episode of Uncanny Japan, I talk all about moon lore, myth, superstitions, and more 🌛🌙🌓🌔🌕
"Selfless Rabbits, Murdered Goddesses, and Tsukimi"
uncannyjapan.com/podcast/japa...
#Japan #moon #myth #folklore
"Selfless Rabbits, Murdered Goddesses, and Tsukimi"
uncannyjapan.com/podcast/japa...
#Japan #moon #myth #folklore
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Dead 💀 Whoever made this please step forward for your award #teslatakedown
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Dead 💀 Whoever made this please step forward for your award #teslatakedown
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Unfortunately regularly necessary reminder that End-to-End Encryption does not protect you against needing to thoroughly and routinely vet your comms.
“The FBI gained access to conversations in a ‘courtwatch’ Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Unfortunately regularly necessary reminder that End-to-End Encryption does not protect you against needing to thoroughly and routinely vet your comms.