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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 11h

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 1d

Friends: Ignore Grokipedia. If you want to look something up and think Wikipedia is too opinionated for you, go here. Type in our tiny search box.

We're even MORE opinionated than Wikipedia. But we're funnier. h2g2: Our motto is Don't Panic.

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h2g2 - The h2g2 Post 20.10.25

h2g2 is the unconventional guide to life, the universe and everything, a guide that's written by visitors to the website, creating an organic and evolving encyclopedia of life

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 12h

Paigetheoracle loves to photograph Scottish fungi. It's good to use a coin for scale, right? So he dropped a 10p next to each clump of shrooms. Not to be outdone, the Editor did a composite. Diameter of 10p coin=24.mm (.96") You never know what you'll find in the h2g2 Post. h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...

Composite photo of Scottish mushrooms - don't ask us anything about them, our photographer is totally ignorant of nomenclature, biological significance, or anything remotely scientific about them. But each and every clump of shrooms has a 10p coin next to it. It's the same 10p coin, mind you: he's not rich and like I said, it IS a composite. Enjoy the realisation that northern Scotland abounds in fungal life.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 1d

Friends: Ignore Grokipedia. If you want to look something up and think Wikipedia is too opinionated for you, go here. Type in our tiny search box.

We're even MORE opinionated than Wikipedia. But we're funnier. h2g2: Our motto is Don't Panic.

h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...

h2g2 - The h2g2 Post 20.10.25

h2g2 is the unconventional guide to life, the universe and everything, a guide that's written by visitors to the website, creating an organic and evolving encyclopedia of life

h2g2.com

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 1d

Once again this week, the h2g2 Post reports the triumphs and tragedies of human existence. Check out these stories. h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...

Angel went swimming in the Nile - and was NOT eaten by a crocodile. Triumph.

Many people, mostly seniors, protested against the government in Massachusetts near the Tesla dealership in Boston. Their signs are a triumph of sorts, from 'My Cat Sleeps Less Than Trump' to 'Kimmel Got the Last Laugh' and 'Cut Crime in DC: Dump Trump'.

Alas, during a particularly severe storm in northern Scotland, a tree fell upon these wheelie bins, tragically crushing them, as recorded by Paige, our Scotland photographer.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 2d

Why Are We Like This? Who knows? Researchers make weird art. More snarky birds appear. Egypt continues mysterious. There is news from all over, cinema, and a few reminiscences.

Find it all at h2g2.com/entry/A88074...

This week's title is Why Are We Like This? Clockwise from upper left: Ancient columns with hieroglyphic inscriptions, a modern art installation consisting of a screaming rubber chicken in a glass case apparently being terrified by a small Dalek, a television test pattern from the 1950s US, another art installation, this one at a beach, with fairy houses and a ship's wheel on a bench, a tiny mushroom next to a British 10p piece, an orchestra and choir, artistically rendered, three fine, fat white turkeys behind a fence, a montage of hands holding signs objecting to the US president and his actions, two crushed wheelie bins and the remains of a tree, an elegant painting of a cat rendered on papyrus, and an equally elegant painting of a red cardinal.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 3d

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 3d

This cat is looking for birds, but not finding any because birds do not hover around the Cat Farm and Petting Zoo unless they are large enough to have a fighting chance. Anyway, you can spot a fair number of birds in the h2g2 Post. Oh, happy #Caturday. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

Grey striped cat looking both elegant and just a little bit pompous while standing under a tree and surveying the farmhouse's backyard.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 4d

POV: You travel halfway round the world to view pyramids, and you see this. There are more surprises in this week's h2g2 Post. Check it out at h2g2.com/entry/thepost

Hot-air balloons flying picturesquely over a palm tree landscape.

h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 5d

Play Spot the Cormorant in this week's h2g2 Post. And try to make sense of our humour while you're at it. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

In this series of 3 photos, a cormorant is standing on rocks right in front of you. You peek through the branches but it's hard to see because it's the same colour as the rocks...

...and now it's hiding behind the leaves.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 6d

“News” article: Reddit cofounder says much of the internet is now dead

Reddit users: Yes, we can definitely trust the opinion of this person, who has nothing to gain from us staying here. The non-corporate internet is useless and broken. There is no reason to ever leave corporate websites.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 6d

SashaQ says this egret is like the Bugblatter Beast of Traal - it thinks if it can't see you, you can't see it. More playful wildlife at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 7d

h2g2 Researchers go out in nature. They see things. Then we get to see them, too. Like little starfish in Paige's Scottish rock pool. Or a lizard giving Sasha a wary eye. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

Small white starfish among the water plants in a rock pool on Shandwick Beach in northern Scotland.

Closeup of a brown Common Lizard in a stony background looking at the camera warily.

h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 8d

h2g2 Post reporters get around. This week: a glimpse of the pyramids. Also watch Angel's partner kiss a Sphinx. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

Kissing the Sphinx: just stand by the visitors' chain, face that way, pucker up. The photographer will do the rest.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 9d

Welcome to the Temple of Snark. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic snark. Animal snark - particularly snarky birds. Humour. Books and films and oh, so many things. Don't miss this colourful issue.

Find it all at h2g2.com/entry/A88074...

This week's title is h2g2 and the Temple of Snark. Clockwise from upper left: a pink-and-white dahlia over a pink tigridia, detail from an Egyptian temple hieroglyphic showing Sekhmet the lion-headed goddess, an art display involving a UFO made of a couple of hubcaps, a grey cat looking absurdly dignified under a tree, extreme closeup of a wise-looking lizard, an egret trying to hide in the reeds, a cormorant hiding in plain sight by a river, a peacock butterfly on sand, a man appearing to kiss the Sphinx (it's a photo trick, he's standing behind the visitors' barrier in the car park), and the sun rising over a pyramid in Egypt.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 10d

Happy #Caturday! In between spying on the kitties, remember to catch up on your reading. The h2g2 Post has Leonard in France, Galaxy Babe in Grimsby, and nature everywhere. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

TJ the orange-and-white cat dozing in the window.

A black-and-white tuxedo cat on the walk, spied from above.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 11d

Our photographers of tiny things have taken to using coins for scale. Unfortunately for everyone else, the coins in question are British. 10p coin=24.5mm (almost 1", Americans) h2g2: solving planetary problems since 1999. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

A crab Paigetheoracle found on the beach at Sandwick, Scotland, next to a 10p piece. The crab is a cute coppery colour and shinier than the coin, but it could sit on it nicely.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · Dec 13

Soon after the T'Chari took over Earth, they filled the air with monitor spheres. Four trillion eyes in the sky.

That's what lead to the Big Shoes Rebellion. To track our movements and prevent us from organizing, they made covering your face illegal. With one exception.

Clown makeup.

(1/4) #vss

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 12d

They're destroying what it took humankind 300 years to build. But they've doomed themselves, too. The thing is, they aren't actually doing it on purpose. Listen to the Editor natter about unintended consequences at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...

Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon. His horse is wondering what would happen if he just threw the blowhard into the river.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 13d

See this sign? The door was AJAR. In the Time Trap Museum at Grimsby. Read the h2g2 Post to see what else the visitors found in there. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

Sign with a policeman on it that says Fire door keep shut.

A one pound reward is offered in this large poster for Henry Allbones, who escaped from Grimsby jail in 1851.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14d

This week, join Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle for a conversation on the past, present & future of the Web.

📅 Thurs Oct 9, 7:30 PM PT
🎟️ In-person
➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...

Headshots of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 14d

We've been places and seen things. Like rushing water and butterflies and pretty flowers. Stop and take a look with us instead of doomscrolling. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

Rushing water and greenery at Mt Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 15d

Leonardo da Vinci in France is one topic in this week's issue of the h2g2 Post. Let Superfrenchie show you some of his inventions and tell you about his next-door neighbour, the king. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

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Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Helix #h2g2

YouTube video by Dmitri Gheorgheni

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 15d

That is downright BEAUTIFUL - and on a Monday, too! Respect!

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 16d

Travel reports, from France, North America, the English coast, and Scotland. Strange creatures and stranger inventions. A dip into history and garden beauty galore. Don't miss this.

Find it all at h2g2.com/entry/A88074...

This week's subject is wizards, sailors, rogues, and kings, and nature, wiser and more beautiful than all. Clockwise from upper left: a tiny crab on a Scottish beach next to a 10p piece it could probably hold in all its arms, a fast-flowing river amid greenery in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, a yellow-and-black swallowtail butterfly on echinacea flowers in North Carolina, a pink tigridia in bloom in northern England, a black, white, and orange caterpillar on grass in Austria, a formal garden next to a chateau in France, a sign from an English museum showing in a policeman, a reward poster for Henry Allbones, also from the museum, and an outdoor model of Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Helix that's on a stand and moves but does not fly. The model is in Clos Luce, France.

h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 17d

The kitties demand to know why you aren't spending #Caturday reading the h2g2 Post. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

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