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Dogs, origami, SFF/horror books/movies/tv, games, neurodiversity, science. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ He/him Cw: spiders, bugs (I think they’re cute) https://linktr.ee/spherewolf Avatar pic is a man in a jack-o-lantern shirt posing next to a pumpkin carved with a spider

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 6d

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 12h

Day 13: WHISPER 😺

#SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

SUPERBATOBER 13: WHISPER -- "Pspspspsps", whispers Supergirl toward Streaky, calling him back from a horrified, scratched up and pummeled Doomsday he looks to be finishing up with. Good thing Streaky is on our side!

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps @franzanth.bsky.social will appreciate the fact that the new Tamagotchi has a giant isopod character to raise:

An illustration of a Tamagotchi character that looks like a giant isopod. Sideview

An illustration of a Tamagotchi character that looks like a giant isopod. Front view.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1h

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 13h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 1h

SFF / horror / mystery reader here! I read for fun, so I read what I like.

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 9h

It's fine to be a genre reader. Don't be a jerk.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 1h

me when I stack the clean dishes / cups underneath the ones already in the cabinet, so they can all get a turn

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silence of the ë̈m̈s 🏳️‍⚧️🐍 @emmeline.bsky.social · 8h

as a poor-circulation-haver, probably the single best addition to my sleep setup is a heating pad just for my feet

its like how when you’re cold, the radiant heat from a campfire warms the front half of you so thoroughly that all of you is warm, and you feel all cozy

like that, but for your feet

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 2h

glad to see my childhood hero out there fighting for us

Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 7h

"Margaret Cho has had enough of anti-transgender South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, calling her a “stupid bitch” who is “killing trans people” in a video posted to social media this week."

Margaret Cho Lets Loose on "Proud Transphobe" Nancy Mace: "You Are the Worst Predator of All"

Cho accused the lawmaker of “killing trans people” to progress her political career.

www.them.us

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 6h

the promise of adulthood is that you can eat whatever you want for dinner

the curse of adulthood is that you have to do that every night

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 18h

I understand the sentiment of "we need to find some way to not all see each other mortal enemies" but it REALLY REALLY needs to be made expressly clear that one side wants to live and be happy and the other side is "that's a line too far and you must suffer and die" and you can't Kumbaya that.

Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 21h

!!!! I did not know about this book!!! Also check out the rest of the thread too -

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 21h

What I'm reading:

56) As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories edited by Terese Mason Pierre -speculative short stories, "envisioning beautiful Black futures"

Book cover. All black with swirly bright blue and white title text. In the center is a neon blue and pink flying insect.

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 18h

yeah I blocked someone on signal the other day because the combination of only messaging me "hello", not being in any group chats with them, and their profile pic which looked like maybe a celebrity made me guess it was probably a scammer

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discover tab replies from lyndsay 👻 @magpie.tips · 19h

I didn't have enough reception to post this from the woods. Please enjoy this very good stump

A mossy Douglas Fir stump with a ton of mushrooms growing on it

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 21h

Crabbage is a study in contrasts:

One ancestral Brassica diversified into different forms

Different ancestral crustaceans converged on similar crab forms 🦀

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 1d

Remember my never-fail rule, folks:

Don't buy any Jeep made after 1995.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The future is great, huh?

"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."

www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...

Jeep software update bricks vehicles

“Please exercise extreme caution”

www.thestack.technology

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Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 1d

Saw Moth Slut at the Star & Garter last Friday and it was phenomenal, like being transported back to 2002. I hadn't been to that venue for 22 years & it was EXACTLY the same, and the band are a billion times better live than recorded (and they are damn good recorded!) youtu.be/ZmUUdqH47Ks?... #goth

Moth Slut - Electrowerkz, London, England (2025.02.06)

YouTube video by Dani

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 1d

Urgent!

Disabled queer trans artist here trying to pay for diabetic friendly groceries & hygiene items.

Goal is $150 to get 3 weeks worth of diabetic friendly perishables. Currently sitting at $50/$150. THANK YOU!!
💕💸🏳️‍⚧️

#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund

paypal.me/rookkilljoy
C/V: foxrook

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 1d

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 1d

I usually pull them one at a time or interlace my fingers and hyperextend them

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 1d

Concept: bat-shaped Cheerios, like those heart-shaped Cheerios.

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 1d

Please share a weird animal fact. Or a lesser-known animal fact.

FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)

Your turn!

Coyote in an evergreen tree. Full story here, including more photos: https://goeddelphotography.com/blog/coyote-climbs-tree-and-steals-bobcats-duck/

Coyote in a fruit tree. 📸: Janet Kessler of coyoteyipps.com—arguably, the most fun and informative website in existence.

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 1d

I'm usually good at separating fiction from reality, but when I'm in the middle of a horror movie about nazis, and I pause go to walk my dogs, and then a white woman pulls up in a huge truck with camo print seat covers and a yorkie wearing a camo vest?

Yeah, I hurried back inside.

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sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 1d

🎵 "cause we're living in a dog-eat-dog world / and I am the hungriest dog"

sph(ooky w)erewolf @spherewolf.bsky.social · 1d

imagine you said something ableist. then imagine that the hottest woman you've ever seen glares down at you with disdain and says, "I thought we all agreed disability is punk?" imagine how the embarrassment of that moment would haunt you for life.

then imagine not being ableist in the first place.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 1d

We are at $2898/$3000 (our first goal, to help James recoup most of the money they've already spent on his care). Thank you all so much! 😭😭😭

GFM has a $5 minimum - to send a smaller donation, hit up the link below & put "for James" in the note - I'll add it to the total.

PayPal.me/vaspider

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