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What Would Cthulhu Do? New Weird, Old Weird, Any Weird. The Gothic. SF. Liminality. Ailurophile.

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WWCD 🐙 @drhbh.bsky.social · Nov 20

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22d

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

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WWCD 🐙 @drhbh.bsky.social · Aug 4

omg I just stumbled upon this and can’t stop laughing, absolutely top tier meme

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · Jul 11

“I think it says so much about their connection and their friendship that all Murderbot has to say is, ‘I need to check the perimeter,’ and Gurathin knows exactly the implications of that.”

It was utterly lovely!
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Gurathin in the “You need to check the perimeter” scene

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 22

"If you want to make me love your work, take a scene or a character who could have been flat or cliche or basic, and write them a wildly new direction."

@leahschnelbach.bsky.social discusses Dr. Gurathin in Murderbot, and how the show adds new layers to his character

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I Didn't Expect Dr. Gurathin To Be My Favorite Part of Murderbot - Reactor

I'd offer Dr. Gurathin a hug but he'd HATE that

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Redshift Art @redshift.bsky.social · Jul 28

A self-indulgent sketch of dr. Gurathin from Murderbot, which I recently watched and became obsessed about. You can't judge me. There was no chance I'd get past these two anxious, socially awkward, depressed augmented human and construct.

A light blue and grey sketch of dr. Gurathin sitting at his desk, looking slightly worried about something (probably Murderbot). The sketch has glitchy effects that emphasize how conflicted he is.

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Tina Roland @bilious.bsky.social · Jul 11

Gurathin in the books: twitchy background noise
Gurathin in the show: BEST BOY

Gura looking ready to do some THINGS for an appliance he clearly HATES

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NotafanofTACO @notafanoftrump.bsky.social · Jul 18

CBS and Paramount: This was solely for financial reasons and had nothing to do with Trump.

Trump on Truth Social today: “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.”

Things are really bad when the liar in that scenario isn’t Trump

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Jun 17

"I only use AI to generate ideas."

Why? You're carrying around the greatest idea-generator in the history of the world right between your ears.

All you have to do is oxygenate it, feed it, and prime it. It's ready to adapt to whatever use you decide is important to you.

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Katie @zizifothsi.bsky.social · Jun 17

Anatomy of online laugh transcription:

“Haha” - normal, respectable, nothing to write home about

“Hoho” - speaks of a certain Victorian jollity, or perhaps an owl. Delightful!

“Hehe” - this person is a despicable pervert

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · May 5

Interesting that 'resilience teaching' has failed in schools ... couldn't one reason for that be that 'resilience' isn't a cure for bullying, or bad teaching, or a trauma that nobody has helped with? Kids are told to 'learn resilience' when it's often the stressors that really need to change.

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · May 4

We need to feel some stress to achieve our best, but if we feel too much, we can flounder. That’s where resilience comes in.

We talk a lot about being ‘resilient’. But what does it actually mean?

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Apr 18

Teach a man to fish, and you'll probably get endless followup questions about technique and gear etc.

Teach a man to become a fish, and you'll never hear from him again

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WWCD 🐙 @drhbh.bsky.social · Apr 7

PLEASE DO NOT GIVE THEM IDEAS!

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the seed oil sommelier✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · Apr 7

If you need a short-ish break from the real disasters, you might enjoy the adventures of my S&S heroine, the lovable (?) disaster knight Thevin Galois!

Nathan Long @nathanrlong.bsky.social · Apr 7

The City of Tears by @mollytanzer.bsky.social was lovely. Heartfelt, crisp in its prose, and delighting in invention, its secrets revealed like peeling back the petals of a rose one at a time. And amazingly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies are sharing it for free! Read it now before they change their minds!

the seed oil sommelier✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · Apr 3

If anyone wants to take a break from the constant horrors, my sapphic S&S psycho-epic “The City of Tears” is free to read over at @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. This is my first appearance in this venerable magazine and I couldn’t be prouder. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Apr 7

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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WWCD 🐙 @drhbh.bsky.social · Apr 7

The Curse of the Paradox of Preparedness

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Blake Hurtik @bhurtik.bsky.social · Apr 3

This whole exercise feels like the TV show LOST. We’re trying to discern the importance of the smoke monster and a bunch of cryptic numbers when really we’re all just dead. 🤷

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Ingrid Brodnig @brodnig.bsky.social · Apr 2

Trump:

Oprah says: You get a tariff, and you get a tariff. Everybody gets a tariff

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · Feb 21

A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · Feb 21

I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

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Andi Ewington @andiewington.bsky.social · Dec 20

The Paladin laughed as the Rogue’s dagger whistled past his ear. But the mockery soon faded from the Holy Knight’s lips after he spied the Rogue reaching for yet another blade…

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JStar @jstar2.bsky.social · Jan 20

Elon Musk | American History X

I cut the clip. You decide.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · Jan 17

Be as weird as hell today. Make him proud.

David Lynch in one of his weather report/updates.

First pic is him looking at the camera saying, "Good Morning, everyone. It's...

Second pic is him looking off to his left, saying, "It's an absolute shitshow out there, today."

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Jan 17

Look at this magnificent structure.

Star guts. Exploded out into the interstellar medium.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Jan 17

🔭 Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (University of Gent)

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Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After only a few million years for the most massive stars, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the supernova explosion that created this remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light 11,000 years to reach us. This sharp NIRCam image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the still hot filaments and knots in the supernova remnant. The whitish, smoke-like outer shell of the expanding blast wave is about 20 light-years across. A series of light echoes from the massive star's cataclysmic explosion are also identified in Webb's detailed images of the surrounding interstellar medium.

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WWCD 🐙 @drhbh.bsky.social · Jan 17

As a young teen I adored the novels, & have such a clear memory of going to see this film at the cinema! Huge fan of Lynch from that moment on - loved the aesthetic so much. For all its flaws, this movie was a visionary work of art. And I still have such a soft spot for it.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Jan 16

A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.

We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.

R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.

Issue 51: David Lynch Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room

September 2017

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

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