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Michael Pratt - GentleMaple

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📚 Sci-Fi reader | 🎮 Gamer | AuDHD Currently reading: 📚 ReDawn 📱 Eversion 🎧 The Collapsing Empire rn: 🌳 Terraria

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Michael Pratt - GentleMaple @gentlemaple.bsky.social · 28d

#PromoSky
🎮 Video games

Including:
• Horizon ZD
• KotOR
• Minecraft
• Arkane Studios
• Tomb Raider trilogy
• Life Is Strange

📚 Books - mostly Sci-Fi
🖖 Star Trek
❓ Doctor Who
🧭 His Dark Materials
👽 Alien

🐦 Birds
🐱 Cats
🍪 Cookie Monster
Been collecting 4k Blu-Rays

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

Trump will open the entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.

These are sacred lands which belong to the Gwich’in Nation.

Just last week catastrophic storms hit indigenous communities in Alaska and were largely ignored.

We must speak out.

Trump Administration Opens the Entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Leasing

At the expense of communities and our climate, this massive public lands attack auctions off treasured lands in the nation’s largest wildlife refuge to benefit fossil fuel companies

earthjustice.org

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Rui Huang @ruihuangart.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20h

Shielding Chart

xkcd.com/3158/

Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 1d

I have too many pins I never put anywhere but also I needed to order this two pin set. Like, it was a moral imperative, ya dig?

two enamel pins. One is text in a balloon that reads You Turned the page! the other is grover with his hand to his forehead. It's a pin set of the end of the book There's a Monster at the end of this book

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Josh Abraham @thejoshabraham.bsky.social · 22h

Space Cats!

[New print available: thejoshshop.etsy.com/listing/4392... ]

Cartoon portraits of some favorite interstellar cats: The Cat from Outer Space; Jonesy from Aliens, Mr. Bigglesworth; Orion from Men in Black; Spot from Star Trek, Sox from Lightyear, Goose from Captain Marvel, and ... uh ... Lucky from Alf.

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Michael Pratt - GentleMaple @gentlemaple.bsky.social · 1d

Had a slime rain happen while mining a meteorite (mostly to stop Meteor Heads from spawning) next to my west ocean. Ended up with a King Slime fight underwater.

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Harry Potter.

Read your kids The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy*, and teach them how absurd the universe is and how wonderful it is to be in it.

Never Ending Gory @neverendingkory.bsky.social · 12d

Fuck Harry Potter.

Read your kids A Deadly Education by @naominovik.bsky.social and expose them to the rot at the very center of “civilized society”

Brian is in Cyberpunk dork mode @briantransplant.com · 12d

Fuck Harry Potter.

Read your kids cyberpunk fiction so they know what they're really up against.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2d

Okay so the final list of big name actors who willingly signed on to the new Harry Potter audio books:

Bill Nighy
James McAvoy
Hugh Laurie
Matthew Macfayden
Riz Ahmed
Kit Harington
Kiera Knightley
Iwan Rheon
Ruth Wilson
Simon Pegg
Gemma Whelan
Matt Berry
Michelle Gomez
Mark Addy
Alex Hassell

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

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RosaMaria @rosamariaav.bsky.social · 1d

Blue!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Emperor Palpatine

xkcd.com/3157/

Comic. Scatter chart with Emperor Palpatine character age on Y axis and Ian McDiarmid age during filming on X axis. Plot with descending arrow beginning from Return of the Jedi (emperor age 90, McDiarmid age 40) → Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones, and The Phantom Menace (emperor age 50-70, McDiarmid age 50-60) → The Rise of Skywalker (cloned body, undefined age) with a gradient vertical line (McDiarmid age over 70) → Now (emperor age under 10, McDiarmid age over 80). [caption] To continue the trend, they should make a Star Wars movie where 81-year-old Ian McDiarmid plays the emperor as a toddler.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

It's official! 🏛️ 🎉 The SF Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.

Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...

Joyous crowd gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall celebrating the Internet Archive.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 2d

October 21st is international Back To the Future day, I love that film, but it should be October 26th because that's when he left... and it's my birthday... coincidence or evidence of me being part of some secret shadowy organisation of time travellers?
I deny everything. ;)

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Michael Pratt - GentleMaple @gentlemaple.bsky.social · 2d

spongebob and patrick are standing next to a coffin and saying okay get in

Alt: Spongebob and Patrick in a room with a wooden floor and patterned blueish wall. With Patrick holding a coffin open. Caption of "Okay, get in."

media.tenor.com

Michael Pratt - GentleMaple @gentlemaple.bsky.social · 2d

Found the Aether / Shimmer

Screenshot of Terraria. Aether biome. Purple themed. With the liquid shimmer, a very light violet.

A shimmer in the dark - achievement banner on the bottom

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Monkey D. Kewchie @astoldbyterry.bsky.social · Dec 7

Crow
Travel in Groups Habitat is Urban
8-year Life Span
Caw Caw
Fan Shaped Tail
Smaller and Flatter Bill
Extremely Intelligent

Raven
Travel in Pairs Habitat is Wild
30-year Life Span
Gronk Gronk
Wedge Shaped Tail
Bigger & Curved Bill
Extremely Intelligent

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Michael Pratt - GentleMaple @gentlemaple.bsky.social · 2d

a sign that says " all these worlds are yours except europa " on it

Alt: GIF from 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Jupiter, now as a white star. Text printing out on a screen in large white text: All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

media.tenor.com

Michael Pratt - GentleMaple @gentlemaple.bsky.social · 2d

Finished Eversion by Alastair Reynolds.
Completed read #38 of 2025. Digital format.

3 main time-frames with the same characters.
A sailing ship, a Zeppelin, and an expedition to Europa.

I suppose this is comparable to Children of Memory.
Recently bought 2010 used on Blu-Ray. Might watch it soon.