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@genrien.bsky.social
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Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.
Frog and Toad hide the cookies in a box. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*
October 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
genrien.bsky.social
I got to be part of something like this at a Super Bowl when I was in high school.
jaysonst.bsky.social Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · Oct 24
The first human giant flag in World Series history.

Very cool
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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uncpress.bsky.social UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · Oct 24
Be honest. How many books are you in the middle of reading right now?
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Reduction block print inspired by the California Gull! 🐦🍟✨
This is the very last print for my Printmaking Pals as the club is now coming to an end.

#art #SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #printmaking
Relief linoblock print featuring a California Gull standing in the center. There are Sego Lillies around the four corners of the piece, as well as bee hives at the top and below the bird serving as iconography representing the state of Utah.
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
genrien.bsky.social
I went and read a bit more about this today. I hate the look of AI mixed with a password manager that people depend on, especially when you shouldn't have to be technical to use it and understand what it's doing with your private information.
September 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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What are they thinking?!
andreagrimes.com Auld Lang Grimes @andreagrimes.com · Sep 17
< screaming as loud as i possibly the fuck can into the unyielding void >

I DON'T EVER

EVER EVER EVER EVER

WANT TO TIE MY PASSWORD MANAGER

OR ANYTHING THE FUCK ELSE

TO A MOTHERFUCKING

AI

BROWSER

YOU ABSOLUTE CONGSHUNTS
A screenshot of a promotional email from 1Password advertising a "partnership" with Perplexity "to demonstrate how trusted security and AI productivity can co-exist to deliver seamless, secure browsing to millions of users. As a 1Password customer, you’re invited to try Comet, the new AI-powered browser from Perplexity. Comet works like a personal assistant, helping you research, shop, and plan."
September 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
genrien.bsky.social
Went for coffee this morning and got a print from a little vending machine.
A small print, black palm-like leaves with a gold circle, numbered 61/150. Next to it is a business card for the artist, Jake Kenobi. The print is just a little larger than the card. A small vending machine that takes quarters. $1 for a print or sticker. There are two prints and one sticker available.
August 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I'm at the Cornell Lab of Orinthology and this display on visitors' hopes for birds is very good.
Nine pieces of paper are on a wall; they all have printed on them, "My hope is ... ", with handwritten responses added by visitors. On the center paper is written, birds gain world supremacy and cats stop eating them There is a sketch of a fat smug bird saying "chirp," holding the paw of a much smaller cat saying "meow." Around this paper are eight others that all say "This," with arrows pointing to the center paper.
July 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Volunteered at the library book sale last week and managed not to come home with any new books, so victory, I guess? Did acquire some impressive bruises from moving boxes.
June 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Really enjoyed this!
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · May 28
Oliver Darkshire's Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil is a delightful, Pratchett-esque story brimming with footnotes and satire, and inspired by one character in Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Read @vfarmstrong.com's review!

reactormag.com/book-review-...
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire Is a Joyful Wizard's Journey - Reactor
A cozy fantasy about self-discovery—as well as fungus, capitalism, and sorcery…
reactormag.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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some tuesday poppies
california poppies, seen from above, mostly in shades of orange, but with a couple pink-ish ones also
April 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Why is this squirrel staring at me?
March 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Just finished The River Has Roots, weekend fiction is Back After This by Linda Holmes, nonfiction is Black in Blues by Imani Perry.
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Mar 7
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend!

I'm finishing up Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword (history/saga-type storytelling is catnip for me), and excited to crack open Amal el-Mohtar's The River Has Roots next.
March 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I love these little green guys!
leslielevings.bsky.social Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · Feb 15
Today at noon Pacific, that shop update with a big batch of pieces goes live at Leslielevings.bigcartel.com
Collage of images of a small dark clay vase with a sculpted porcelain frog on it Dark clay sake set with sculpted porcelain beetles on each vessel Collage of images of two sculpted ceramic creatures Ceramic mug decorated with carved plants
February 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I don't really know anything about it other than the title, but check out this Kickstarter for a board game:

A Place for All My Books

A cozy board game about collecting good books & the joy of organizing them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/smi...
A Place for All My Books
A cozy board game about collecting good books & the joy of organizing them.
www.kickstarter.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Getting in a morning walk before rain makes the trails muddy. Johnson Ranch, near San Luis Obispo CA.
The sun peeking through low clouds/fog above a trail on a hillside. Closeup of a small green plant with a round dark red flower bud. This is a California peony, I think. An old oak tree seen across a green field. The trunk is wide, the branches spread more wide than high.
February 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Guess what, Tantie Merle fans?

There's a sequel coming soon!!

Logic(s) Magazine commissioned LINCOLN & THE HARVESTER C100 in which Lincoln must outwit another bot to save Tantie's garden!

Watch this space for the pub date & read the original until then!

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tant...
Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 - Uncanny Magazine
So, hear nah. This is how it happen. Was years after Malcolm pass through and wash away a lot ah we little islands coasts, and mash up so much ah Florida and Texas and them places, and people say they...
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January 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Fog in the distance on my morning walk
View from a hilltop looking across to some hills in the distance. A finger of gray fog is stretching in front of the farther hills under an otherwise mostly clear blue sky.
January 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.

Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
A round jellyfish with glowing golden stripes on the bell and long tendril tentacles against a background of deep sea sediment. An anemone with many white thin tentacles A close up into the centre of a feather duster worm with radiating striped white and brown tentacles A semi-translucent octopus with a spotted mantle and blue tentacles.
December 31, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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Finding out where critters left sunflower seeds last summer…
Small green sprouts in a bed of mulch
December 17, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Recently read: Interstellar MegaChef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
This is a fun story with some serious things to say about food. I like seeing people just being really good at something, and there's some top-notch cooking in this book.
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The Big Idea: Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Food is more than just fuel for our bodies. According to author Lavanya Lakshminarayan, food is well, pretty much everything! Dig in to the Big Idea for her newest novel, Interstellar Megachef and …
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November 26, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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Circle In and Out of a Polygon 2 by Robert Mangold, 1973

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137905
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection, 1991 © 2016 Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
October 24, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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Dropped off my ballot today. My original ballot got lost in the mail, so I had to pick up a replacement, but that let me get one of the kid-designed stickers instead of the plain default ones.
A sticker saying “I voted!” shown on a t-shirt. The sticker has a drawing of a person with a large smile pointing at a paper they’re holding, with a box containing a checkmark.
October 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM