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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦

@jeannettebedard.bsky.social

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Always writing, I have filled hard drives with ones and zeros that occasionally coalesce into books. I live on a non-tropical island in the Pacific and love a good math joke, especially if there is pi involved. https://jeannettebedard.substack.com

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · Mar 10

If you love a redemption story combining the feel of the Murderbot series with the fun of Indiana Jones in space, this novel is for you! #scifi #spaceopera

books2read.com/TheLostStarC...

Picture of the cover of a new space opera novel 'The Lost Star Chart'

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! I'm Lur Noise and I do illustration, concept art and comics.

I love drawing sci-fi, fantasy, tech, architecture, critters and plants. I'm available for both commissions and longer work!

#PortfolioDay

Poster style color illustration of An Antidote for Strychnine, a song by The Mountain Goats. It's composed of several panels displaying different images based on the song: lab rats, chemicals, fish bones... Green and blue tones predominate, but the band's name and the song title are written in yellow.

Color illustration of a gas filled armored being. The armor is translucent in parts on the limbs and their spherical head, where said gas can be seen.

Color illustration of some red slipper lobsters resting atop of a tiled, half flooded floor. The tiles are blue and yellow, with fleur-de-lis flowers drawn on them.

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 1d

The feline overlord is checking up on everyone.

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 1d

Reworked the isopod terrarium—they seem happy with having more moss to munch on.

#isopods

An isopod terrarium with lots of moss and a Pokémon

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds great! I’m going to check it out

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Rene Astle 🍁🌻 @castle88.bsky.social · 3d

It's autumn in my hemisphere - the perfect time to re-stock the to-be-read shelf. Or maybe you're looking for a distraction from *stuff*.

Check out Kobo's boxset sale. Use the code BOXSET on checkout to get 25% off on a slew of boxsets, including Bloodborne Pathogens.
www.kobo.com/ca/en/p/octo...

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 3d

If she moves in, I suspect we’ll just go out and get cat food

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 3d

Looks great

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 3d

The cat that isn’t mine in front of my TBR shelf

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 4d

This is perfect

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 4d

For #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!): 🦑
Bakufu Ohno (Japan, 1888-1976)
#Cuttlefish (Mongo-ika), 1940
From Familiar Fishes of Nippon (Dai Nihon gyorui hanga-in)
Oban, 40.3 x 28.4 cm
ukiyo-e.org/image/jaodb/...
#JapaneseArt #CephalopodWeek

vintage Japanese color woodblock print in landscape orientation, illustration of an inking cuttlefish (light brown & light blue body, black ink), with seals and signatures on lower left

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve made it through what felt like an infinite week at my day job—now it’s a long weekend.

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 5d

This looks fantastic--and might be on my agenda for the weekend (if rain keeps me inside).

#SoloRPG

SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 5d

New to the #SoloRPG List: The Peace Engine from @carrollastrophe.bsky.social
A solo game of perseverance and hope, and you have possibly the most impossible, impractical, illogical of ideas: build a machine that manufactures world peace. #soloTTRPG
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...

Cover for the RPG, The Peace Engine - a solo game of perseverance and hope by K. L. Webb. Elaborate drawing of a rube goldberg machine. It's pretty epic drawing, I gotta say.

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 5d

Stumbled upon this article this morning and it's great to know that one of my heroes had such a great sense of humour.

Funny or offensive?

The Far Side, Jane Goodall, and a lesson in humor we can all take to heart

mariakonnikova.substack.com

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 8d

Today felt like too much Monday

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 9d

Love this!

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 10d

At this point, if she needed a home we’d take her

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 10d

This one came to hang out with us last night (note: I don’t own a cat)

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 13d

Latest newsletter where I talk about my work in progress (a time travel story) and make a book recommendation. #amwriting

October 2025 - abandoned places

and a writing update

jeannettebedard.substack.com

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 16d

Looks good!

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 18d

Managed 1400 words on my WIP after work today—I consider that a win.

#amwriting

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 19d

Love this!

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 19d

A perfect moody night

Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 19d

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 19d

Important info

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19d

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species.

“Fishes” refers to multiple species.

🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

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Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 19d

I keep getting calls from a number my call display identifies as ‘Important Number’ —I’ll pass on answering

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 19d

Oh no! I hope things turn out okay for you

Jeannette Bedard 🇨🇦 @jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 21d

Let’s call it that.