Emma

Introducing the incomparable @smolrobots.bsky.social

We noticed the adverts on TV have all suddenly become very festive. I did hear Mr Bublé last week, but it was a non-festive song (my pool had a really weird selection on, he was straight after Guns and Roses).

Honoring heritage through art.

Step backstage with ROH World Champion & AEW World Tag Team Champion Bandido as the AEW Glam Team creates his Día de los Muertos-inspired masterpiece!

A black background decorated with gold illustrations of branches, stars, swords, ravens, and tiny ghost shapes. In the centre, bold text reads: “BIRDS BUT THEY GET SPOOKIER EACH TIME.” Two ravens perch on bare branches at the bottom, with candles glowing beside them.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪

I do actually call them "cheesy bugs" but I don't know where I got that from.

Who puts a picture of a car above the bed?

Three round robots with banded arms and legs, wearing witch hats and standing around a robot cauldron with legs. One is looking into the glowing, bubbling contents with a malevolent smile, one (with a wart) is raising its hands, speaking some sort of spell, and one is holding a broomstick. In the shadows at their feet, a Cattobot stalks an oblivious Frogbot.

944) Covenbots. Double, double toil and troublebots. Witchbots three who meet to places hexes, sow curses and generally get up to witchy mischief. Cauldronbot is a repurposed prototype Brewbot. Frogbot not included (but they can turn another robot into one anyway). #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

A round robot wrapped in bandages like an Egyptian mummy, lurching forward with its arms raised menacingly. Behind it is a stone wall marked with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that also include images of Teabot, Notokaybot, Unicornbot, Cakebot, Spiderbot, and what might be part of Bigbot. The scene is shaded normally, but there is some stark lightning coming from one side (an open tomb door, perhaps?) overlaying it so Mummybot seems to be advancing from the shadows. The logo in the bottom right reads, "SMALL ROBOTS REMONSTERED".

503) Mummybot. Defends your tomb from opportunistic thieves. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

Oh no! Hope you feel better soon.

Eating them like sweets in protest.

A round-topped robot with banded arms and legs. It has a determined expression on its face and is shining a torch under a bed, which it is just short enough to walk beneath. Under the bed is a lot of dust and fluff and various toys and books, including a Lego brick, a Lego minifigure, a soft hand-puppet, and a wrestling action figure.

372) Monsterbot. An intrepid robot that checks under children's beds for monsters. #SmallRobotsRemastered

We saw so many rubber duck shops in Barcelona.

You'll get sticky paws.

Ooo they look amazing

🏺 This thread is cute but also so useful to remember what Ötzi teaches us about dynamic temporal lives of prehistoric people: he died on an epic journey, carrying a huge range of kit with tools part-way through being made, and with embers and medicine in anticipation of his next fire, & his future.

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

You would think so, but we have a digital alarm clock that runs fast too.

Graph showing heart rate over the day. There is a big spike around the time we encountered the other people.

Look what social embarrassment did to my heart rate.

An enormous robot that looks like a cartoon whale, surfacing above the water next to a sailboat and spraying from its blowhole. It has tiny little fins (relatively speaking), a banded tail leading to its wide fluke, and a ridged underbelly. The whale is mostly dark, with a lighter underside, and the view is a cross-section of the underwater environment with most of its body below the rippling waterline, partially obscured by water fading in a gradient from light near the surface to dark down below. There is a person in the sailbot, pointing at the smiling whale, and a giant speech bubble with a heart in it coming from the whale's mouth (which is, anatomically incorrectly, not in line with the top of the ridged belly section on account of that would prevent it from having a little smile). Text in the bottom right reads, "suggested by @hollybaleen.bsky.social

358) Whalebot. Just a big, friendly cetacean pal that loves you. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Could do with one of these. There's a door release button not working quite right at work and the number of times I've almost smacked myself in the face this week walking into it.

A robot shaped like a lengthways ovoid, with four banded legs on its underside and an equine tail on its end. It has a banded, unicorn-like horn on its front, and a smiling face beneath that, which is sticking out its tongue. It doesn't look anything like a unicorn: it's just an ovoid with legs, tail, and a horn. Text in the bottom right reads "suggested by @ayymanduh".

339) Unicornbot. Is a unicorn for some reason. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Someone was singing the badger song at work and one of the younger staff seemed confused. When I asked if she knew it she said "is it from the 80s?"

Had to go find a lighter room to get the age verification to recognise I had a face. In order to do so I stood up and my hip twinged. I feel that there should be an input for that.

Stylised drawing of a 'bigfoot' on which is written "Hello. I am your dear friend Bigfoot and I am here to bring you the peace of the forest

Oak trees will release chemicals when it is being predated which warn other oaks and the increase tannin levels in their leaves in response to deter being eaten too.

Is this about the new little bar that's appeared at the top of bsky?

I feel bad for the one under the table.

Fingers crossed for a Darby Allin return.

Not saying it's hot out but I've just seen an abandoned, saturated bra on the pavement near my house. Not sure if the owner discarded it in a fit of heat-induced frustration or literally melted and it's all that's left of her. Either way, it's not great

Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns!

www.nps.gov/articles/000...