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J.S. Allen
@jseanallen.bsky.social
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Author of the fantasy adventure novel A BAD PLACE BEST FORGOTTEN. Neurodivergent photographer, artist, data scientist. Lover of nature and wisdom.
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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · Aug 4
Give us your castaways, your tales of remnants and remainders, of subsistence against the odds. What is left behind? Who walks among the ruins? Why do I have this vestigial arm?

Spoon Knife 11: Remnants call for poetry, memoir, fiction:
autpress.com/2025/07/call...
a disintegrating boat on the shore; photo by Brian Smith
jseanallen.bsky.social
Don't care what you haters say, I like the Amazon Lord of the Rings show. Fun to see the origin of the rings and what makes Sauron so scary. And Tom Bombadil!
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social has set #alansnemesis as #birdoftheday for @alan678.bsky.social - so here is a Belted Kingfisher (full frame this was just inside the bottom right hand corner...). #Birds 🪶 #Photography #EastCoastKin
A female Belted Kingfisher, diving towards the water and the prey also seen just making a ripple. The kingfisher is blue on the back, white around the throat and lower chest with both a blue belt top, and orange belt lower around the front. Wings are swepth back, bill is already open. Chance catch (for me) as it was a single shot, not a high speed sequence, and was so nearly out of frame. The bird had made a couple of previous dives from the same spot, so I had some failed practice runs.
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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My happy place
Nerdy white guy with a big grin walking through the woods with his camera
May 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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aepplesche.bsky.social
🥱🥱 😁
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Lichen collage. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a rock surface completely covered in multiple lichen species. Colours include orange, yellow, grey, white and black.
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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aisucks.antifa.meme
instead of AI “creators” they should just make AI audiences

it satisfies the tech bro need to be worshipped while not taking creative work away from humans
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Morning flurries fall gently around an adorable Black-capped Chickadee.

#BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
A small, fluffed songbird with a black cap and white cheeks perched on a branch in falling snow. Photographed in Avon, Connecticut.
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Proof of cat?
House cat stalks in silhouette behind a green curtain
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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antoinnesterk.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
Winter is coming

#autumn #landscape #nature #photography
Reflections of a forest on a rippled body of water. The image is dominated by vertical, distorted bands of autumn colors. The most striking feature is the intense, wavy, and fractured texture across the entire frame. Dominant are deep browns, olives, and darker greens. To confuse the unimaginative, this photo has been rotated 180 degrees.
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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antoinnesterk.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
Straatfotografie

#urban #photography
A brick paved surface laid in a herringbone pattern. They are made of clay, exhibiting a variety of natural, earthy tones, including reds, pinks, browns, and some muted grays or greens. The surface has a slightly rough, aged texture. There are visible gaps or joints between the bricks, filled with dirt, further defining the geometric pattern.
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Leave us bee
Many bees crowding around a hollow in a fallen tree
July 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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The CITY OF THE WATCHER trlogy by @andrewmreichart.bsky.social connects in strange peripheral ways to the storyline of the Weird Luck webcomic! Highly recommended for Weird Luck fans & everyone else!

#books #booksky #webcomics #comics #fantasy #scifi #oc

For more details, see weirdluck.net/books/
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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ellionthego.bsky.social
From #MountainMonday straight into #RockinTuesday — courtesy of the Dolomites.

#dolomites 🇮🇹
#landscapephotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky#ThePhotoHour #StormHour
#EastCoastKin #TextureTuesday
A photograph taken at Piz Boè in the Sella Group of the Dolomites, showing towering vertical rock walls rising sharply from a broad, snow-covered basin. The cliffs have a warm, reddish-beige tone with darker streaks and deep vertical grooves, giving the surfaces a rugged, weathered texture. Sunlight highlights the natural variations in color, from soft amber to shadowy brown. Snow clings to ledges and fills the narrow gaps between the rock towers. In the foreground, smooth, wind-shaped snowfields stretch across the basin, punctuated by a few scattered rocks. Above the cliffs, the sky appears deep blue with faint wisps of cloud. The scene feels bright, cold, and monumental, emphasizing the striking contrast between the warm-toned rock and the crisp white snow.
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Here is a color version. This is a bit of a departure from my usual colorized calligraphy works - it has much more of a "mosaic" feel.
A Hebrew calligraphy work with blues, reds, and light yellow, showing a shofar blasting Jewish texts out into the world.
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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luvundlee.bsky.social
Gestern, der Sonnenhut hält sich tapfer. 🌱🍂
Yesterday's echinacea is holding on bravely.
#eastcoastkin #stunday #flowersonsunday #coloraday #pinkmon #macromonday
Eine Blüte mit leuchtend pinken, länglichen Blütenblättern, die sich sternförmig um eine dunkelrote, kegelförmige Blütenmitte anordnen. Die Blütenblätter zeigen leichte, unregelmäßige helle Flecken. Der Stiel ist behaart und grünlich-braun. Im unscharfen Hintergrund sind weitere Blüten und grüne Blätter zu erkennen.
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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crytzerfry.bsky.social
I cannot get enough of these sunrises and sunsets. #SonoranDesert

The Galiuro Mountains, just north of Tucson - a Sky Island of the Madrean Archipelago
Foreground: a tall saguaro looking out on rolling green foothills and a red-tinged butte. Above it all: puffy white clouds with gray undersides and a rosy, muted sky.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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banditelli.org
1 of 3 pelican flight videos from today. Headed out to catch the sunset and then maaayybbeee ill edit the other two 🪶
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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😐....
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Dirk Schulte
Ein Morgen der Möglichkeiten
2022
Winterbäume und Sonne vor blauem Himmel.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Thanksgiving gender reveals
sundaedivine.lol 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18d
Note to self: check homeowners insurance.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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banditelli.org
goddamn, bird. 🪶
a tern exiting the water with a bait fish, the bait fish has a red face and is not a fan of the situation
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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sheena-mck.bsky.social
Another #twofer for #BirdoftheDay - #BirdonaWire and #silhouette They are birds - honestly 😂 #BlueSkyArtShow #small
Telegraph wires against a stormy sky. There are birds sitting on the wires although from the camera viewpoint they are very small
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Never underestimate the power
of a quietly stubborn creature💜
Drawing in white ink against a black background of the head and neck of a donkey shown in profile facing left. The donkey has a very sweet expression and its short, upright mane is dyed in the pink, blue, and white colors of the trans pride flag.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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nativevoters.bsky.social
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives of all trans and Two Spirit relatives our communities lost to violence this year, including the Indigenous trans lives too often left off of the record. ❤️
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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nuiipointer.bsky.social
Slime mold moves through the forest as a giant grey amoeba.
#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends
A grey myxomycete plasmodium sprawled out over wet rotting wood. At the top you see the first fruiting bodies form: little yellow beans that will soon form spores.
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM