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Maxim Newman @maxiprince.bsky.social · 25d

For anyone in the UK, Vodafone broadband has completely crashed. With their customer service number no longer working, their website no longer working. Basically nothing is working.

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Apr 7

Beneath the lilies

She dwells the day long

Iris Compiet @iriscompiet.art · Apr 6

Jenny, a personal favourite I sculpted a couple years ago. She’s a Swamphag, a creature I absolutely love and have painted often. I felt it was time to sculpt her. I had great fun experimenting with materials

Photo of a sculpture of a Swamphag in progress with sculpting tools on the desk. Green skinned grisly woman partly submerged in water with lily pad on her head and lily pads surrounding her. She wears a necklace with fingers and skulls and has the suggestion of water running off her

Detail of a human skull and bone floating in the water with lily pads and duckweed

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Mar 12

Plenty of chat about the 2nd gen #chromecast global failure this week including advice *not* to factory-reset

I wonder why Google don't think it's worth updating their own support page?

Might have saved me a few hours (multiplied by everyone misled by these)

Guidance on troubleshooting Chromecast setup includes advice to factory reset your device

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Original Art Dolls & Sculptures by Svetlana Polupanova @sweetsign.bsky.social · Nov 23

By looking at the underwater cyclop's prankish face expression, you guess the creature is on something and the idea,making its only eye shining and sparckling,probably involve you, like it or not. I've put the story I wrote about the cyclops into alt text in case you'd like to know them better❤️
#art

Underwater Cyclop, One-of-a-Kind Fantasy Art Doll. These creatures usually settle at the sea bottom finding a cave or a cavern and making it comfortable for living. Unlike their giant relatives from highlands and mountains they are quite small and prefer living in groups of 4–6 members as it is easier to defend your house from underwater predators and some aggressive merfolk kinds when you’re not alone. There is always plenty of work, so you can hardly see any of them resting in a garden with a tasty snack in hand. Some clean walls of urchins, some take care of oyster colony they breed as food, some maintain their algae gardens and some shepherd fish flocks with help of pet octopuses or sometimes even small-sized tamed sharks. These creatures adore beautiful things and home decorations. Once in a while they go for a treasure hunt searching for pretty-shaped shells, rounded stones and glass pieces, pearls, old coins, lost dragon scales - anything they can use later to add some more beauty into their life. They also collect plant stems to make soft ropes of it and weave nice net-like cloaks decorating them with their findings.

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jul 31

Very exciting programme!

Mushrooms, monsters, magic, and space spiders (loving the panel discussion themes)

Fan meetups, author readings, and elaborate performances

#Glasgow2024

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 16

got me thinking... why do we call the short articles published in SM 'posts' anyway? virtual postcards through the letterboxes of our eyes, the verb/noun is also redolent of hammering a heavy stick into the ground for the purpose of displaying signage like 'vote for X', 'buy Y', or 'this way to Z'

Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 16

Satirical pottery - activism through the medium of comedy stoneware (noting that the iconography bears the plausible deniability of wild man mythology)

Apparently the Cardinal depicted in leering fury as a jug was opposed to drinking alcohol

See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartman...

Bulging features of the clay caricature are etched in scrawled lines that evoke the deranged expression

Antique jug in a museum display, labelled as: "Salt glazed stoneware jug, late 17th century. Made in the kilns at Frechen, Germany. Jugs like this were known as Bellarmine because their rotund shape and bearded face were meant to ridicule Cardinal Bellarmine, a major opponent of the Dutch Protestants in the 17th century"

The other interpretation signage from this Historic Scotland display in Linlithgow Palace reads: "Bellarmine English late 17th century", confusingly contradicting the claimed German origin, or perhaps referring to the location of collection.

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 16

Same! I think traveling for work made me realise that the majority of food on restaurant menus is only a viable option for up to 1 day, then you get homesick for actual nutrition. You've raised an important issue! May your plates be filled with colour

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 16

Note to self: zebra giraffe

- exist
- they stripy
- dance with cetaceans on special occasions

#eventoed #ungulates

pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · Apr 11

Okapi

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 16

I buried my laptop in a hole in the woods - and it fruited. A mole used the battery to jump start the mycelial network and its kids hotspotted the flyagarics to download acorn metal from the badgers. Each springtime I return to harvest the Doomsday Bluebells

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 15

A meal without veggies isn't really a meal. Most restaurants serve oversized snacks

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Having worked in restaurants, I suspect this is a lot to do with practicalities of stocking and prepping vegetables)

Diagram from Harvard medical school indicating that half the plate should consist of fruit and vegetables (potatoes don't count)

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 14

Ginger marble kitten

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 14

I keep seeing the black rabbit of Inlé

Several wild bunnies graze in an open field, most of them are light brown while one has black fur

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Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 14

Dogs: there for you when you need your face licked

Bsky: there for you when you want to see more art that looks like the mythology of Watership Down

Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · Jun 14

People who need people, are the luckiest people in the world

Marker, gel pen, colored pencil, ink pen on Bristol

Twelve dog heads of varying dog breeds and colors, representing the beautiful diversity that is found in people too.

Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 14

Summoning a litter of these winged gremlins from the ancient past, to do my bidding and tidy up my house while I sleep at night

Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jun 8

Some flying muppets, Anurognathid pterosaurs

These were small, likely insectivorous pterosaurs that are known from almost complete skeletons which preserve important details of the filaments that covered their bodies

They were probably nocturnal and highly maneuverable flyers

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology

Reconstructions of Sinomacrops (top) flying and hunting an insect, Cascocauda (center) flying and Anurognathus (bottom) on the ground in a defensive posture

Geonim @geonim.bsky.social · Jun 14

Does anyone remember Loncon 3 academic presentations, from 2014? I went to one about imagined music of utopian societies, focussed on Iain M Banks Hydrogen Sonata. Looking for a list of presentations to track down the paper
@glasgow2024.bsky.social #WorldCon

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