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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 24d
Bsky has crossed 40 million users, and I just need 20 of them to commission me to write a story for them this month.

(This could technically be 1 in a 2 million story 😆)

Want to read a sample? check the link.

#WritersLife ✍️ #WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #WriterSky #HireAWriter #Gift #BSNM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
Well well well!

Munida is a squat lobster and Pylocheles is a wacky symmetrical hermit crab. In fact, both are Anomura (false crabs just like Paralomis

🦀 #CarcinizationNation
biodiversitypix.bsky.social Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 2h
🌊 Illustrations of the zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying steamer Investigator
Calcutta: Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1892-1909.

[Source]
Detailed black and white scientific illustration of four marine crustaceans: two crabs (Paralomis investigatoris and Paralomis indica) with spiny, textured bodies and extended legs; a spiny lobster (Munida comorina) with elongated antennae and segmented tail; and a small clawed lobster (Pylocheles miersi) shown from above with large front claws. Also included are detailed close-ups of shell segments and a leg joint. The drawing displays fine textures, anatomical features, and segmented limbs, typical of marine crustacean zoological studies from the late 19th century.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Another one...

#WriteEditSubmit #GetRejected #WritersLift #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
lucidillusions.in The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 2d
New day, new rejection.

Total rejections this month: 8
I sent out my 7th story last night.

#WriteEditSubmit #GetRejected #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersLift
lucidillusions.in The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 3d
Got another rejection just now 🥹🥹

Anyway, be nice, and go read the new story on patreon

www.patreon.com/posts/last-s...

#WritingCommunity
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Got a couple of test prints done.

#Zine #WIP #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky
Me holding 2 different sized zines ptinted and folded
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Just finished reading Brian is missing by @autobono.bsky.social, whattay fun piece!

theberlinliteraryreview.com/h-a-eugene-b...
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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miss-machete.bsky.social
#nowwatching

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
After listening to the sound track all day, I had to rewatch it.

Brad and Janet run into trouble on their honeymoon - a flat tire, and the only place in sight is the castle of the lovely Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

Don't be shy-who else loves this movie?
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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We’re exceptionally exhilarated to be exhibiting yet another comics publisher on our “OTHER INDIE STUFF” page: the one & only STUDIO KOKAACHI!

The Kochi-based team's “Mixtapes” & other comics have been hard to find online for years… but now you can COLLECT THEM ALL!

www.blaft.com/collections/...
Mixtape Vol 1 By Kokaachi. Cover shows a hand clutching an (anatomical) heart Mixtape Vol 2 By Kokaachi. Cover shows a woman holding her arms crossed in front of her -- her arms are coloured in with an ocean wave Mixtape Vol 3 By Kokaachi. Cover shows two lobsters
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Treehoppers are wild! Like someone hit the "random" button on the character creator.

Look at this weird bug, Cladonota apicalis. from Ecuador.
Now imagine a horse shaped like this, or a wolf!

Why do treehoppers have such weird shapes?
It's a mystery! But we have some ideas.

(📷: Philipp Hoenle)
"Specimen of Cladonota apicalis in Ecuador" It looks like someone stuck a burnt-out match on the back of a locust. It's a long thin black streak of exoskeleton on a standard looking bug that's perched on a green leaf stem. A ant is just out of frame. CREDIT: Philipp Hoenle
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I don't know if anyone wants to sit through nearly 2 hours of 3 middle aged dudes and one younger dude shooting the breeze about not very good albums but if in case you do, here it is:

youtu.be/o9WZ1vLbArc?...
King of the dungheap: Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer 8th album blues for the big 4.
YouTube video by Middle Aged Metalhead
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It’s always a great week to buy art from actual artists rather than enriching billionaires, but this week I will also give you 25% off at minouette.Etsy.com
My 8” x 10” Lino block print ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon.’ It shows a standing polar bear facing forward with one arm around a girl with braids in a dress and a bell between his paws. It’s printed in a dark blue-black. The girl has round pink cheeks. There’s a hint of silver for the bell. Behind the bear the aurora glows green.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I got Gas Station in a bundle and it's great!
Checking out How's My Driving next
dngnclub.itch.io DNGN CLUB | Jack Panic @dngnclub.itch.io · 15h
In the spirit of hobbit birthdays, have some free games!
DNGN Club Birthday Bundle Today I turn 39. For the next 24 hours, 16 of my games are free!
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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August Swinson, a Mississauga of the Scugog Island First Nation, has a new installation in the Great Hall at Union Station.

It’s so emotionally moving and STUNNING.
A long painted mural with blue tones and Caribou on one side of the mural and orange tones and wolves in Canada gate on the other side of the mural they are about 30 feet long in total and there are people sitting on benches and walking in front A third panel of the mural with Canada, geese, Caribou, and a lake and more blue tones in the sky
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"The entire book is abhorrently beautiful. If you aren’t either repulsed or engrossed by it, you don’t have a soul."

#MorkBorg #GiftArticle

medium.com/theuglymonst...
Artpunk Will Save Your Soul
Mörk Borg, HōL, and the savage subversion of tabletop roleplaying games
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Got a couple of test prints done.

#Zine #WIP #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky
Me holding 2 different sized zines ptinted and folded
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
lucidillusions.in
So much traffic, it's almost taken twice the time for this bus ride.

How's your Tuesday going?
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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looking for new lit magazines to send stories to.
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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lucidillusions.in
The alternate theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #YellowEyes so please enjoy this thick-knee

🪶 📸📸 🌿🖌️
#Birds #Photography #nature #jungle #safari #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography
a bird with long legs, and thick knees - the color is mainly white and various shades of brown and black. it has a yellow eye. it has a thick beak, mostly black in the front half. it's in front of dry leaves on ground, which helps the bird camouflage in plain sight.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Day 24 of #NanoFictionNovember 💙📚

Our protagonist was having a normal day at the store, when they slipped and tore the fabric of reality.

#WritingCommunity #Selfpromo #WritersLift #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday #BookBoost #horror #Patreon #FlashFiction #Funny
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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If you signed up for my creator day bundle pls make sure to check your email and approve the bundleeeee! :D
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Leeds Castle's Neverland Christmas was still under construction when I visited last week - and building it looked like the best fun ever. 😀 Much piratical cheerfulness was evident, including sea-creatures galore. ⚓🦀🦜
A cute stuffed crabby, in red fabric with sparkly red sequins on their shell and white applique eyes, as part of Leeds Castle's very nice Neverland Christmas, with much piratical cheer. Photo by Xander's Skyscape
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Just finished reading Brian is missing by @autobono.bsky.social, whattay fun piece!

theberlinliteraryreview.com/h-a-eugene-b...
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Easiest, fastest crust I have ever made. Not bad at all. :D 🍕🍜
2 pizzas with golden brown crust and a lot of hot melted cheese resting on a silver oven tray covered with parchment paper. Crumb shot of the pizza slice with the rest of the pizza in the background
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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twisterbilly96.bsky.social
A volcano with no record of eruption in ~12,000 years has gone off in Ethiopia.
simoncarn.bsky.social Prof. Simon Carn @simoncarn.bsky.social · 2d
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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sansip.bsky.social
Interesting that they specify “plot-driven”. Would have liked to discover non-plot-driven books, too.
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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sansip.bsky.social
Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Varun Grover on faith as amway scheme.

Video from his lecture in memory of Narendra Dabholkar.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rRw...
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM