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Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression!

A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!

An amateur wildlife photographer off the coast of Seattle captured the dramatic moment when a seal narrowly escaped a pod of killer whales by hitching a ride on her boat.

Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank Angry Robot for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Angry Robot Published – Out Now Price – £9.99 paperback £6.85 ebook ...

New Review -today I am on the blog tour for #ProjectHanuman an excellent space opera by @stewarthotston.com with wonder, spectacle and an emotional punch that really worked for me - out now very strongly recommended! Thanks to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

All Voice Actors on Blue! We’re officially casting the voice of Agent THUNDER (yes, this gentledog below)!

Show us your stealth voice, your heroic bark or “I just stole a toy and feel fabulous” charm 😉

Audition lines + details👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#VoiceActing #VoiceActor #Casting

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Certain species of bats can glow under UV light. Scientists don’t know why | CNN Six species of North American bats glow under ultraviolet lighting, according to a new study. Researchers don’t know why certain mammals exhibit this odd trait.

Glowing bats may sound like Halloween decor, but researchers in Georgia have discovered certain species of North American bats that are capable of the unusual trick.

With so many things to hate in this world why would I choose myself? Asks Skeletor feeling especially hateful but not towards himself.

REQUEST: For my book, I’m looking to briefly interview 2-3 women aged 75+ about their lives, their loves and what advice they’d give to to their 50 year-old selves

Send me your nice moms, cool aunts, groovy grandmas please ♥️

Two humorous social media posts about cats believing their owners can control nature, like rain and sunlight. Transcribed Text: Feline_Tales My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the ‘problem’, they look back at me, clear message. What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my ‘power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet” “Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain. purrfect_logic I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that. But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he’s fairly certain I’m just not applying myself properly here.

RULES Read an Abigail Hilton (@alhilton) book. Get them directly from the author at https://shop.abigailhilton.com/, or through the usual channels on Audible, Amazon, etc. Leave a fresh review in a blog or social medium of any language. For legal reasons, I can't accept reviews on commercial sites, but Goodreads, Tumblr, Bsky, Mastodon, VK, Facebook, or what have you, are all good! Message me (here or on Tumblr @ikrutt) with a link to the review in question. It does not have to be long or fancy, but it has to be a written review. Using AI to generate it will get you booted from the contest - you don't have to stoop that low! Just read and/orlisten a book and write some words. Each new review is assigned a number (which I'll tell you) which counts as a ticket for the draw. I don't care if you crosspost the review to other sites, still counts individual tickets! The final draw will be on the 1st of December. I'll assign a number to each review and draw winners tombola style over at random.org

PRIZES 1st prize A full illustration by me. I can work in any style, but am most known for my paintings. Check my gallery for examples (see profile) 2nd prize A painted portrait by me and a book of your choice by Abigail Hilton (ebook + audio) 3rd prize A book by Abigail Hilton (ebook + audio)

WHY THO?? Because I want people to read Abigail's books and am willing to be your art slave to spread the good word. Happy reading!

📖 REVIEW FOR ART-CONTEST ✍️

Read an Abigail Hilton (@alhilton) book, leave a review in a blog or your preferred soial medium, send me a link, and possibly win some art by yours truly!

Contest is open until 30th of November. See alt text for links and detailed descriptions.

Appreciate all shares!

MICROSOFT: We'll keep providing Windows 10 security & service updates but you gotta fork over 70USD for the first year, 140USD for the second year, and 210USD for the third year. You bitch. You fucking piece of shit

MUSCLEFUR VTUBER: Open Powershell and hit three keys to do it completely free

slope of darkness with mist over the ocean cliffs

huge antlers over low bushes, in the mist

the bull elk slowing appearing out of the mist

bull elk framed by mist, suddenly come clear to us, casually eating a plant, with plant stalks draped over part of his rack.

The mist-shrouded morning at Point Reyes National Seashore, hiking with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social, felt not just haunted or ethereal, but otherworldly. The zenith of that sensation came when a huge bull elk appeared out of the landscape as if a ghost from another land entirely.

It's a really incredible article, great read.

Many may know him as Mephisto,but this demonic highwayman weaves alluring temptations and desires.He can't make hell look beautiful,so he leads us down beautiful roads to get us there.
Meet Mephisto at the Oddities&Curiosities Expo, Denver this weekend!
This is our biggest and best hometown show!

A front-facing formline design of a leopard seal with it's flippers in front of it and it's tongue stuck out

Leopard Seal 🦭🐆 #formline #telekitneticart

Two Nuthatches visit a spigot for water

These Pygmy Nuthatches visited our campsite's water spigot this morning at Tumalo State Park, Deschutes County, Oregon #birding

Our award-winning tabletop roleplaying game! Almost 500 pages of an alternate future where colonization of the Americas never happened and Indigenous nations rose to prominence. Great if you want to roleplay in a world where Donald Trump and, in fact, all Republicans never existed at all.

A quick roll-and-write, push your luck dice game reminiscent of Yahtzee and other classic dice chuckers. Plays in less than 30 minutes and the dice even double as set for the Coyote & Crow RPG. (Pronounced NAW-see)

If you're feeling like you want to support small and/or minority owned businesses as we deal with more and more unethical and awful behavior from major corporations, you can can great games from Coyote & Crow! Get them here:
www.allplay.com/board-games/... #NativeSky #tabletop #ttrpg #rpg #games

I know a fae trap when I see one

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

The friendliest cat around these parts
Sketch page for the wonderful @contritecougar.bsky.social 💛

This one burns, sets something alight

Exploring Gender and Trans Identity in the Worlds of C.J. Cherryh - Reactor The Chanur series poses key questions about gender roles, expression, and identity.

In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective.

reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

Black-and-white photo of a short haired, tabby cat sitting on the stoop of a wooden house. It looks toward the camera, but it’s eyes are mostly scrinched shut.

Perfect scrinchy face. 🥰 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

A mixed media drawing of a wisent and her nursing calf. The wisent are both shown in shades of brown, with blue extremities.

#SciArtSeptember Day 13: Bottleneck
Wisent herds have been reintroduced to Eurasia and now number in the thousands. All living animals are descended from 12 individuals.
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#SciArt #wisent #wildlife #conservation #sketchbook

Photo of a cardboard box with "Violence Store" written on the outside. Inside the box is a tux cat peeking out through a small hole.

nypl book of the day

Woman of Light

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

In 1930s Denver, Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader, has visions of her Indigenous homeland. She must save her family's stories from vanishing into the Lost Territory's oblivion.

Book cover with a hooded figure in black with and black feathers on a gradated grey background. Book title overlayed on the figure in white letters.

A friend lent me this beautiful book to read. This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. It is more than good. #reading

shampoo bottle creatures

In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.