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Ludibriumventis

@ludibriumventis.bsky.social

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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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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 11h

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 22h

Pollinator party and royal rest stop in my yard!

#Bloomscrolling
#Florespondence
#NaturePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#Butterflies
#MonarchButterfly
#Pollinators
#Bees

An orange and black monarch butterfly hangs off the left side of a bush full of tiny white daisy-like flowers with yellow centers. Its wings are folded up, and its proboscis is extended into one of the flowers near it. Dappled sunshine is visible on the ground behind it

Closeup view from behind a honeybee with leg sacs full of pollen lifting off from a small daisy-like flower that is barely wider than the bee is long. The whole picture is filled with dozens of these flowers, covering the entire surface of a shrub.

An orange and black monarch butterfly and a LOT of bees are feasting and living their best lives on an aster bush. From here, it looks like the bush is almost entirely comprised of tiny white daisy-like flowers with yellow centers.

A buckeye butterfly with brown wings with multiple "owl eyes" on the back of its wings suns itself while it samples nectar from a cluster of asters on a bush COVERED in the tiny white daisy-like flowers.

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 11d

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉

(general submission window 15-31 October)

Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives:

💙 500 - 2,500 words
💚 £0.02 per word, min £20
💛 Sim subs welcome!
🧡 Reprints welcome!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

#SubmissionCall

Post text overlaid on a photo of a low, wide corridor or tunnel with red lighting.

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 1d

These actually have a more intense flavor than the common kind of walnut that you get in the stores, too!

Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 1d

Snacking, baking.... and the husks (which turn black after they're done looking like tennis balls) will be used to make INK!!!!

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 1d

Who knew that shelling black walnuts could be so... cathartic?

I got tired of looking at all of the delicious tennis balls, wasted on the ground, and finally went and bought a gadget designed *specifically* to crack black walnuts.

And... BEHOLD!!!

#BlackWalnuts
#Foraging
#TennisBallSeason

Looking down into the bottom half of a cracked-open black walnut. The very outside of the shell is rough and inky black, and the inside is filled with (sort of) symmetrical chambers. Some tasty-looking walnut "meat" can be seen in all of them.

This glorious thing is half of the contents of a North American black walnut, and the largest bit I was able to get out in one piece. To be honest, it looks like the top half of a human pelvis, or perhaps a fantastical rocket ship blasting off, with two clouds of steam and smoke on either side. There are symmetrical nodes on either side of what could be seen as a vertically oriented almond, or, if we're going with the top-of-a--human-pelvis comparison, the saccral vertebrae. There is a brown skin over the top of the whole thing, with a vertical split in the middle revealing a white inside. There are filaments going through this covering, almost like veins. Life-sized, it is about 1cm tall and 2-3cm from wingtip to wingtip.

And here, we have a plastic round tray (actually a new flower pot dish) filled with the fruits of my labor - the entire bottom is covered in a layer of walnut bits. Most are very small - smaller than ice cream toppings, even, but I sure as heck wasn't going to waste any of that walnutty goodness!

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 1d

TFW you see your reflection at the end of the day, and realize that when you rubbed your face this morning, you had ink on your fingers, and have therefore been sporting a fake black eye all day...

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 3d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 2d

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 2d

The saffron is peeping!

This is not a false alarm (or some rogue grass)!

I guess all it needed was for the weather to STOP BEING UNBEARABLY HOT.

(Just like me!)

#Saffron
#Gardening
#TheSpiceMustFlow

POV looking over the chicken-wire covering of a raised bed full of speckled soil. If one looks closely, a number of small greenish spikes are starting to poke out of the soil, arranged in lines. Way over on the left is another rogue bit of crab grass that also just popped up in the past couple of days...

Closeup POV looking through the chicken wire covering and some of the tiny greenish spikes popping out of the ground. There are some bright green arrows drawn on the image to point to them... and the word YAY

Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 4d

Yikes!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 5d

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book

The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

www.popsci.com

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 5d

Imma live vicariously for a minute, here, because we've still got temperatures in the 80s F in the 10-day forecast...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 5d

ooOOOOoooo

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 6d

“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”

CNBC @cnbc.com · 7d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 7d

Truth.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 7d

Life is too short for uncomfortable shoes

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 8d

GURL.

Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 9d

In my job, I occasionally get calls from people who are walking their dog, begging a flight attendant for just one more minute, or driving (ack - plz don't do that).

But, THIS caller was in the airport, and just kept me on the phone while he went through security, so I got to go through a scanner!

Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 9d

TFW you wake up from a sound sleep a mere two hours after you went to bed, and can't get back to sleep, so you go downstairs and start playing around on social media for 90 minutes, but the overnight news cycle is stressing you out, so now you're awake AND agitated and you have to work in six hours.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 9d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 9d

All my ghosts have anxiety.
They can't properly haunt
someone who is already
haunting herself.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9d

Science, like every month for about a year now: These chatbots are melting your brains u motherfuckers can't even read or think anymore

genAI guys: Why use lots brain cell when one do trick 🤓 ☝🏻 🧠 and I am very iphyshent

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 10d

Have been working on a near-future short story so long I just had to change the date that its set.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10d

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

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