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Astro 🌈🌎🌙🌌🌠
@astromantsp.bsky.social
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Hiya! I'm Astroman the Space Pengu. Nice to meetcha ^_^

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I wore this for No Kings Day. ✊️
My shirt of the Blues Brothers shouting out "I HATE ILLINOIS NAZIS!" from the loudspeaker atop the Bluesmobile.
October 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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It's Friday night! Know what that means??
Screencap of an episode of Game Grumps. It is of the VN game "Pantsu Hunter." In the scene, Anko is exclaiming that "Today is football!" which in turn makes Arin laugh uncontrollably because of the errors in translation from JP to EN. Also, the game was most likely referring to football as "soccer" and not as "American football."
September 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Wildflower posts 2/2

-Wood Betony (pedicularis canadensis)
-Shooting Star (primula meadia)
-Prairie Trilium (trillium recurvatum)
-EG!! (a blue Jay egg)
Wood betony is a favorite of mine. The stem has a spiral of flower buds circling up to the end. Throughout the flowering period, these buds open up with yellow hook-shaped blossoms. Shooting star features a single stem rising up from a cluster of simple oval leaves. A group of flowers droop down from the end, with light pink petals peeling back, and a black and yellow cone pointing out from the middle. Trillium is also a favorite of mine. The single stem opens up into 3 arrow-like leaves with light green splotches. The flower grows up from the center of the leaves, with 3 reddish maroon petals that mimic the leaves but point upwards. I came across this nest with a single teal colored egg with brown spots. The best I can determine is that it belongs to a Blue Jay.
May 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Wildflower posts 1/2

Jacob's Ladder (polemonium reptans)
Wild Geranium (geranium maculatum)
Red Columbine (aquilegia canadensis)
Mayapple (podophyllum peltatum)
Jacob's ladder has pastel-purple flowers that are bell shaped with lobes at the end. The flowers are at the ends of toothpick-thin stems. Groups of opposite, lance-shaped leaflets are supposed to give the impression of a "ladder" Wild geranium has a flower of 5 distinct petals. The petals are white at the base and become brightly pinkish purple at the ends. The leaves are simple, with 5 to 7 jagged lobes cut into it. Red columbine has red bell-shaped flowers that droop straight down from the ends of the stem. The ends of the "bell" peel away at the end, exposing the yellow inside of the flower. Usually, mayapples are seen from above, in clusters of large frisbee-sized leaves. The stem attaches to the leaf in the center, as the main leaf has many lobes cut into it. Each lobe has further toothed points around the outside edge of the leaf. Halfway down the stem is a brilliant white flower with yellow parts in the center, hiding in the shade of the leaf.
May 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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A beautiful day out was helpful for my mental. I even got a random compliment on my shirt from @harebrained.bsky.social
My wife and I, enjoying sunshine. My shirt, by Harebrained, is inspired by Ferris Buelers Day Off. It combines the word Ferris with the Ferrari typeface. A fine shirt, even though I'm not the sausage king of Chicago.
May 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Suffering...
Today's pollen alert from the Weatherbug app. Pollen levels near me are falling to medium-high from high, but the damage is already done.
April 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Bloodroot popping up as the first spring wildflowers of the year!!
Bloodroot can be identified by the reddish color in the leaf veins, which get much more pronounced down the main stem, and of course into the roots. These haven't opened up completely, but when they do the flowers are white and star-like with 8 petals, and the leaves look greyish-green with almost heart shaped lobes.
April 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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For today's countdown to Earth Day, I want to shout out the tiniest, most delicate things out in nature. If you look close enough, you'll find beauty in everything out here.
Centered is a pair of tiny mushrooms, no bigger than the end of my pinky finger. They are yellowish orange and have perfectly rounded bell-shaped caps. They are poking up through the wood chips, as well as a tuft of moss. This moss patch is extra green and almost shiny in appearance. Delicate fruiting structures, named sporophytes, contrast the moss with needle thin orange stalks.
April 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today i successfully made my own mulch for my baby trees & native butterfly garden.

It began last fall when I collected our fallen leaves and put them in a compost pile. After a season or so of decaying, I turned the pile over and ran it through my small chipper.

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This is the last of my pile of leaves from the fall. The pile was much bigger before I turned it to mulch. Now it is barely enough to fill a wheelbarrow. This is the mulched leaves after putting them through the chipper. When I tried this in the fall, the leaves were dry and just turned into useless dust. By waiting for spring, the leaf pile was able to hold moisture and naturally decay. The result is much easier to work with, and more in common with starter soil than simply dried leaf dust.
April 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Here is Prim and her fluffy belly, if you need something cute on your feed.
Prim, my Russian Blue kitty, was sleeping with her belly up. And now, Prim woke up fully, and amazingly stayed still long enough for another pic.
March 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Ever since we had summer weather last week, it has been snowy, windy, stormy, hailing, and wet.
The pond in the background was iced over until recently. Now it stands out with the snow-covered woods all around it. Today's hail that fell. The snow has been gone a couple of days now. In my palm are 5 hailstones that are marble sized and would've been lost in any snow.
March 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The moss remaining after the melted snow is quite green.
Star shaped bits of green moss with reddish flower type stems growing out. Drops of water hang onto the tips of these stems. A green patch of moss that looks like miniature ferns. Dwarfed by the decaying oak leaf on the left for scale.
March 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Thanks to @harebrained.bsky.social for the delivery! Like the Blues Brothers, let's fight the good fight.
If Astro were a human, he'd look like this. Wearing a blue shirt with sunglasses. The shirt depicts a scene from the movie, "The Blues Brothers." The graphic is of the Bluesmobile (1970ish police car) with a loudspeaker on the roof, blaring out "I HATE ILLINOIS NAZIS!" So do I. But I DO love the movie, AND this shirt! Focused in on the graphic on my shirt. The featured car is the Bluesmobile. According to Elwood Blues, "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas." The loudspeaker is blasting, "I HATE ILLINOIS NAZIS!" Invoking a scene from the movie, The Blues Brothers.
February 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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All I need to be happy is board games and pie! ❤️
Yummy desert is a slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top. I took a bite out of it before taking the picture ^_^ Tonight's board game, Shadows Over Camelot. This pic shows the boxart, with King Arthur and his knights taking on the forces of evil. The starting setup for the boardgame Shadows Over Camelot. The board features the round table of Camelot, as well as the grounds outside the castle. The 2 cards shown are part of the game's primary gimmick. Most players will randomly draw a card in secret, telling them they are loyal to King Arthur, depicted by a white knight with a feather on top the helmet. However, there is a chance you draw the traitor card, depicted by the shadowy figure. As traitor, you secretly try to fail the quests of King Arthur.
February 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Is me. Hewoo!
February 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Following up on an earlier post, I found my clothing choices on the Human Rights Campaign shop. I can't wait to share my support in public!
Black t-shirt with "PROTECT TRANS KIDS" on the front, colored in trans coloring of blue, white, and pink Purple t-shirt featuring a pride flag design and the words "PROGRESS OVER PREJUDICE" underneath.
February 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Just graphic tees and such. I'll share examples from Buy'n'Large
January 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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My first 3 Cobi builds. Cobi is a Lego type building set, based out of Poland. My newest build is going to require an IKEA upgrade. More on that soon...
AU-1 Corsair brick build by Cobi. I identify this fighter as pivotal to the USA success in WW2 Pacific theater. It is a navy blue propeller plane, with wings that fold upwards for storage on aircraft carriers. It is armed with wing mounted machine guns and a heavy bomb mounted underneath. A-10 Warthog brick build by Cobi. One of my favorite aircraft. It is very linear in appearance with straight wings and tail sections. The tail mounted engines are designed to avoid ground fire. It is armed with a cannon under the nose, and has plenty of firepower under the wings. F-16 Falcon brick build by Cobi. It's probably my favorite modern fighter jet. This variation has a 2 seat cockpit and is reminiscent of the movie Iron Eagle. It is streamlined yet simple, with a clean profile and a single thruster out the back. It is packed with missles and bombs and is ready to save your dad from terrorists. My F-16, A-10, and AU-1 Corsair. They are displayed on top of a very worn cabinet.
January 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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SNOW DAYYYY!!!
Red and white holiday lights, and a 5 foot tall snowman decoration. They are along the walk up to my front door, and they have a couple inches of fresh snow on top, making all the lights extra sparkly ✨️
December 20, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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What it's like streaming In Stars And Time for gremlins. Am I right? @cgarmonia.bsky.social
Scene from In Stars and Time, depicting Bonnie soon to reveal an exciting snack. My edit includes that snack being a raw potato, and Cgar in their Siffrin png for ISAT stream. Cgar looks disappointingly at the potato, knowing that their community requests they eat weird things from time to time, and the raw potato is an inside joke.
December 11, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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This morning produced the largest frost flowers I've ever seen!!! And the first ones I've ever seen at home.
Ribbons of ice that form along dead stems that still stand. These were about 2 inches tall; the biggest I've ever seen! The ice ribbons that formed along these stems curled back on themselves. It looked like solid snow, but is hollow inside.
November 28, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Remember spring? That's when I saw these baby cuties!!
Baby bunnies, huddled up in a hole in my yard Baby bird, not quite flight ready, resting on my chair Fingernail sized tiny toad Baby snapping turtle scooting across the sand
November 27, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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My idea, if going turbo wasn't enough, going TURBO GRANNY is next level
November 26, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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The ducks are gone 😢
Though the deer don't mind the snow 🦌🌨
Snowy woods, with a whitetail deer hoping I don't see them Pond in the woods, surrounded by snow, and missing the usual ducks and geese
November 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Words of humanity and kindness, told through a story about a pig
November 21, 2024 at 10:25 AM