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Ludibriumventis
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Plaything of the winds. Professional cat herder, part-time writer, dancer, time traveler extraordinaire. Moss gardener, fencer, needleworker, crocheter, and user of the serial comma.
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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · Apr 22
Greetings, new followers who aren't bots!

Brief synopsis:

I'm a nerdy event planner with fantasies of writing or arting full time if I were to ever win the lotto. I'm allergic to the sun (THE SUN!!!) and am a delicate alpine flower who would REALLY love to live above the 50th parallel...
Hey, it's me! Without a hat and scarf and mask on! (Because I was not a) indoors in a public place, or b) outside, where the SUN and pollen live) I'm your average Pasty White Girl with hair that's been going all Rogue From X-Men for awhile. Volume depends upon the humidity level... I'm wearing a cool black tshirt with a Ouija board pattern on it in this photo, but I have a vast (VAST) collection of nerdy tshirts, many of which involve dinosaurs, Star Wars, or Star Trek.
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redscharlach.bsky.social
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
A small cartoon version of the ceramic Mongolian hedgehog shown in the quoted post. Behind him is the word AHHH in very large lettering. The caption under him says "just keep screaming".
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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bookshop.org
In times of uncertainty, independent bookstores are a constant — and we’re thankful for them today and every day. 🧡
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
Farmworkers feed us year-round. This #Thanksgiving we should be even more grateful to the hands that feed us. #WeFeedYou
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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loudpenitent.bsky.social
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
USCIS @USCIS X.com Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols. The protections and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission. 10:04 PM • 11/26/25 • 2.1K Views
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Don't. Put. Your. Cooking. Grease. Down. The. Drain.
neorsd.org NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 1d
grease floats.

when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.

the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.

listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
vertical image of many basketball size globs of grease along a tank and safety railing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Here's to all the high school band parents in NYC, this morning, who've probably been up all night to make sure that their musicians would be lined up on Central Park West at 4:30am.

May you have a restful rest of your weekend!
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Happy Whale-iversary to all who celebrate! 🖖
A parody of the title screen for Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home - to: Star Trek IV The One with the Whales
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
You shall not pass!!!

(Unless you give me some cuddles.)

#PorchKitty
#VoidKitty
A black cat with golden yellow eyes sits on a rainbow-shaped (and colored) bristly door mat in front of a yellow door, looking up at the camera with a sort of, "And where do you think YOU'RE going?" kind of expression.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
I have the rest of this week off work, and though I have some time-sensitive work stuff that needs doing, anyway, I'm still planning to be as lazy as possible, today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Current view
POV passenger side in an SUV driving in the left lane through a flat stretch of land, with a highway driving through farm fields with wind turbines as far as the eye can see
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
The Peacock Door
A Brass Door made of two panels that meet in the middle, each mirroring the other. The entirety of each side is taken up by a large stylized peacock. The door is actually curved, almost as if this entryway was a cylinder. They're almost more of a gate, because you can see through the non peacock bits. In this image we can see the edges of two Christmas trees flanking it, decorated with bows and white lights.
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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lukesteuber.com
“Luke learns design” month, (cheat) day #21:

Star Trek 1971!

In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.

So I ported it! Check it out!
Star Trek 1971 - Web Remake
Star Trek 1971 - web remake
dr.eamer.dev
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Revisiting these happy little bees!

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Small
#EastCoastKin
#Pollinators
#Bloomscrolling
#Florespondence
#Saffron
#TheSpiceMustFlow
A double headed saffron crocus with light purple petals with even lighter purple or even whitish stripes that go up each petal like an ostrich plume or a fountain or some Art Nouveau type of design. In the center of each can be seen the yellow pollen covered stamens, and at least one each of the orange red stigmas, the saffron spice filaments. In the flower on the right, there are two pollen covered bees! One is sticking its head out and the other is sitting on one of the pedals starting to crawl inside
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Srsly WTF is happening ‽
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Hey, Chicago, WTF is going on, down there‽‽‽‽
Looking down from the 21st floor of a hotel down to a street completely filled with police vehicles. There is a crowd outside the building and outside the building across the street. View from the 21st floor of a hotel at night, looking up the street that is completely filled with police vehicles.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
I got to go on a history tour of the behind the scenes parts of the hotel, and it was awesome!

#History
#Chicago
#OldStuff
The vault! A very large and very heavy vault door with one of those little spinning handles and multiple giant steel bars that lock into place. It looks kind of dark and dank, because it is in the second sub basement of the Palmer House hotel. A picture of my hands, in white gloves, holding a bunch of actual instamatic photos taken at the 1893 world's fair. The photo on the top features some sort of multi-columned structure with a large statue out in the front of it. In the background, kind of out of focus, is a place setting of The original Palmer House China that is edged with real gold. Further in the background, our shelves and shelves of the pieces of these place settings that aren't actually used anymore because they are so very old and expensive. But seriously! These photos are so cool! An old elevator in the second sub basement of the Palmer House Hotel, that is so broken that even the resident expert elevator mechanic can't fix it, so there it stays, and nobody goes in it. The floor is covered in dust and bits of concrete Pebbles and other manner of detritus, but one can see that it has black and white diamond checked piles. The walls of this elevator car are covered in molded brass with some ornate decorations on them. The ceiling is gone. This absolutely looks like a haunted elevator, and I might just have to add it into a story. Behold! The only remaining bit of Underground Chicago tunnels from the late 19th and early 20th century. It is probably about 7 ft tall and maybe 5 ft wide at its widest point. It's kind of like a an oval on its end. It has electric utility lights with Edison bulbs, and the remains of a track for a coal cart. One of the things that this tunnel used to do was bring coal into the building without being seen. Also, allegedly, Al Capone and his gang used this and other tunnels during prohibition to smuggle their spirits around. The end of this tunnel, about 30 ft in, is Walled up and covered over with concrete. There is a poster on the wall of what it used to look like, a junction of three other tunnels. There are also some wooden whiskey barrels. The reason that this is the only remaining tunnel is because the Palmer House had already walled it up before there was a huge flood in the 1990s because of some sort of accident that flooded the entire tunnel system.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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mslenakay.bsky.social
It was an ancient ritual we did to stay youthful. It’s why we look so young.

You burn CDs and do 3 laps around the mall on a full moon.
kiaspeaks.us kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 5d
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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motherjones.com
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Attendee chatting with us at the registration desk: *Observes us answering random questions* So, can I ask a question, too?

Me: Of course!

Attendee: Ina universe that will experience an inevitable heat death...

Me: ...

1/2
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
It's so good to be near open water, again.

It was kind of hard to resist jumping in and swimming away...

#Scape
#Chicago
#LakeMichigan
#EastCoastKin
#MightBeASelkie
Looking out over a harbor toward Lake Michigan. The sky is gray and overcast, and on the horizon, there is a denser pack of cloud cover in a slightly darker gray. A break wall can be seen almost at the horizon, with small light beacons on either side of the entrance, one flashing red and one flashing green. On the far right, along the horizon, is the silhouette of a smallish patch of trees and the dome from an observatory. There is a concrete pier or walkway in front, with a dashed yellow line down the center.
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Current sitch

My conference duties finished for the day, I am in the lobby restaurant, having a little bit of supper and a nice cocktail in a fancy glass.

If I time this right, I'll be in my pajamas and in bed by 8:00!
From the center of the Palmer House lobby. On the marble clad walls are multiple ornate Electric candelabras with brass figures each holding smaller candelabras. there are some standing candelabra light fixtures toward the center of the room and the ceiling is ornately decorated with Greek style vignettes and frieses. Every single bit of the ceiling Is covered in some manner of decoration. In the foreground on the right Is a very large Christmas tree decorated with white lights and assorted sizes of baubles in white black and gold. There are a couple of enormous gold and black bows at the top, along with a bunch of ostrich plumes
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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#ShortPeopleProblems

Seriously, though. Why is it way up there‽
A picture of my left hand reaching up as high as it will go to try to touch the metal towel hook on the back of the door. However the hook is still a couple inches or so too high. It is nearly at the top of the door!
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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When your client, who teaches in Helsinki, really *gets* you.

It's not even just salmiakki. It's SUPER salmiakki!
A package of candy with black, white, and red fold designs. In the center is what kind of looks like a giant eyeball? It's a big circle in white, with a slightly smaller circle inside of it that is orange, with a smaller circle inside of that that is black. In a blue circle at the top, in white script, the brand Faizer. In a small orange circle ringed with silver, off to the left of that, and white text, aito suomalainen salmiakki In red and then black font, Super Salmiakki Then, in the red Band of color in the center, in small white text, Salmiakpastiller
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Another delightful quirk of this historic hotel is this mantle with the inset originally designed for an electric heater. Now, of course, the building has forced-air heating and cooling, so this is just decorative.

Still, I love it! It just needs a fancy glass lamp and a vase full of flowers.
A vertically oriented View looking toward one of the walls in a hotel room at the Palmer House Hotel in chicago. In the center, there is a mantle constructed from black marble with swirly cream patterns in it. There is a cast iron inset with heavy ornamentation. There is a diamond checker pattern with a flower inside each diamond shape. In the center of the top of the inset is a freeze featuring Little cherubs or perhaps actual toddlers gathered around a small fire. This image is circled with small round beads, making it look sort of like a pearl necklace? There is a large ribbon tied in a bow at the top of it, and two laurel or olive branches are criss-crossed at the bottom of it. The very back of the inset has another large freeze featuring adult figures, perhaps Greek or Roman gods, or some Greek or Roman humans celebrating a god, because one of the figures is launching on a cloud above everybody else. The others appear to be lounging and eating grapes or holding flowers and other sorts of things. This whole scene is also surrounded by a string of circular beads, reminiscent of a necklace. Around that, is a very ornate frame of sorts, made up of multiple swirling branches or just bits of things. The wall behind it has a light cream colored wallpaper with a tessellated fern pattern in it. There is a large Square picture frame above it, almost as wide as the mantle itself, with a print of some abstract plant like designs in dark red and black. The carpet is dark green with a beige or perhaps creamy gold colored scalloped cross hatch pattern. The base of the mantle has white marble with gray swirls in it on the part closest to the heater in set, and then the edges are of the same marble as the rest of the mantle.
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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clpolk.com
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM