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picture book writer with too many hobbies

kidlit / horror / ecocrit / japanese lit

nor / eng / 🇯🇵 OK
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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jorunnjoiner.bsky.social
#CFP! "Rewritten Water Myths in Times of Global Warming", arranged by Barbara Barrow (@barbarabarrow.bsky.social) and Monika Class – Lund University, Sweden, 11–12 June 2026.

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 2 February 2026.

Further info: lnkd.in/d9A78_4x

#bluehumanities #envhum #literarystudies
Still from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, featuring Gill-man or the Creature (circa 1953). A humanoid fish-like monster is half-submerged in water.
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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adlysia.bsky.social
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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unseenjapan.com
A large earthquake, currently measured at magnitude 7.2, has just hit off Aomori Prefecture. A tsunami advisory is in effect for southern Hokkaido and northeastern Tohoku. The earthquake was strong enough to be faintly perceived all the way in Tokyo.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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cait.bsky.social
it's him.......
orange cat looking just like the cat statue
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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@kaihat.su Hey! I don't know if you've seen this news. It's about Fontworks (LETS) and Monotype, you might be interested: automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow  - AUTOMATON WEST
A change in license plans has made it up to 50 times more expensive for Japanese game developers to use commercial fonts in their games and apps.
automaton-media.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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more-whit.bsky.social
Plenty of useful points in here, but I love the way what primarily comes through is the enthusiam for sealife that shines through from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social

www.southernfriedscience.com/what-we-know...
What we know we don’t know: impacts of deep-sea mining on whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other migratory species.
Migratory species depend on a vast, interconnected ocean. Disturbance in the deep-sea isn’t localized, it ripples across a globally-connected ocean and impacts made today may persist long aft…
www.southernfriedscience.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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snowden.st
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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here's an updated guide on how to remove all of the AI from Firefox
mckitterick (ADE.............- Yesterday 601 irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page • browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge • browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.link Preview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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spicymochi.bsky.social
Your month, your duo!
Illustration of twelve pairs of animals, each pair labeled with a month from January to December
September 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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foxlett.bsky.social
cat doodle 🍜
#cat #art #cuteart #animalart
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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easlce.bsky.social
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.

Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025

Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
Poster for the seminar, featuring a ocean waves on a blue background.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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slowbooks.bsky.social
夜汽車には、ドードーの紳士、オオウミガラスの夫婦、リョコウバトの団体客など、たくさんの動物たち。駅に止まるたび、誰かが下りていきます。「ぼくたちは　いつまで　のっていられるの？」 絶滅した動物たちを描く、美しい絵本。森洋子『ある星の汽車』(福音館書店)再入荷しました。 tinyurl.com/yeemrevp
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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gatinarios.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
your moment of calm: huddled least sandpipers on a floating log
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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120minute.bsky.social
Yellow-rumped Warbler 🪶 among the golden late-autumn blossoms of a witch-hazel tree.

#birds #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #warblers #EastCoastKin #WitchHazel
In the tender frosty green of early spring, a pair of Yellow-rumped Warblers built a nest in an old witch-hazel tree. Its bark was smooth and silver, its roots deep in the earth, and buds adorned every branch. The birds wove a nest of grass and moss in a sun-caught crook, hidden from sight. Five eggs rested within, pale as pearls, but only one stirred and cracked. A single chick emerged—tiny, shivering, and fragile. The witchhazel felt his hunger, drank from the soil, and sent its strength upward, unfurling leaves to shield him as the sun grew hotter. Summer hummed with life: insects drifted through the humid air, and the forest bloomed. The fledgling learned his strength in that season. He hopped along the branches, fluttered between blossoms, and found in the witchhazel a patient teacher. Its flowers called the flies and moths he hunted; its leaves fattened the caterpillars that fed him. Each day he flew farther, yet always returned to the same branch—the rhythm of bark and shade became his world. When autumn deepened, the forest filled with voices: warblers gathering, bright yellow and olive, speaking of southern forests draped in moss. The young bird trembled with wonder and one night he followed their song into the sky. The witchhazel watched him vanish and, in the hush that followed, grew lonely. As frost crept through the ridges and other trees stood bare, it drew the last warmth from the soil and blossomed again—gold ribbons of fire in a gray wood. Days passed, and word of its beauty spread. Cardinals, sparrows, and bluebirds came to rest among its branches like bright ornaments. Yet the witchhazel missed its friend. Then one still morning, it felt the faint touch of tiny feet. The warbler had returned early, feathers tipped with gold along wings and crown—a tribute to the tree that had sheltered him. He would stay through the winter, foraging what he could from the quiet, snowy meadows, keeping the witchhazel company through the long hush of the cold.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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etheringtonbros.bsky.social
SHARKS! To get the FREE monthly How to THINK When You draw digital MAGAZINE, (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online) just tap the link in the bio HERE: @etheringtonbros.bsky.social
#anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #illustration
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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basil-mage.bsky.social
Mood
Drawing of a tired puppy with the caption; "this too shall pass but like holy f"
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
🖼️ André Ramil
CINCLUS CINCLUS WHITE-THROATED DIPPER MIRLO ACUÁTICO ELROPEO ムナジロカワガラス WASSERAMSEL CINCLE PLONGEUR Dipper stood in water, autumn leaves, painting.
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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>:\
#critterposting
Crude drawing of a cat. Shaped like an xbox controller.
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM