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Mad (ex) Scientist (Ph.D in Nanotech) IIT Bombay
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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 27d
Bsky has crossed 40 million users, and I just need 20 of them to commission me to write a story for them this month.

(This could technically be 1 in a 2 million story 😆)

Want to read a sample? check the link.

#WritersLife ✍️ #WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #WriterSky #HireAWriter #Gift #BSNM
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Love good deals? Love artists? Love not leaving your home or giving money to billionaires??
Check out this epic deal!

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Against a background of wood planks and scattered fallen leaves, text reads: support creators this black friday. From midnight to midnight Pacific Time on November 28th, creators will receive 100% of their profits. Snag a bundle to show your support. $50 for 70+ ebooks, audiobooks, short stories, games, and more. The cover of a book with a city street beneath a story sky, birds swirling above the pavement, everything tinted green. The book is called The Three Faces of Dissatisfaction by MC Burnell.
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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asgwriter.bsky.social
During the #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday blackouts this year, please consider supporting artists through non-corporate platforms such as itch.io, Smashwords or kit.com.

#WeAintBuyingIt
#MassBlackout
#BlackoutFriday
#IndieAuthors
#BookSky
#WritingCommunity
Download the latest indie games
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November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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cacaobyproduct.bsky.social
I HAVE BEEN DYING FOR YEARS TO MAKE AN ALOO GOBI JOKE

ever since I watched the Bend It Like Beckham extra content on the DVD about the director's recipe for Aloo Gobi
cacaobyproduct.bsky.social Cacao Byproduct @cacaobyproduct.bsky.social · 39m
Bracoola does have an albino half-human son. His name is

ALOOGOBI
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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cacaobyproduct.bsky.social
and Aloogobi, who fears the sun but for a completely different reason than his dad
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
lucidillusions.in
Here's a fern for you all.

#FernFriday #FrondFriday #Nature #Leaf 🌿🖌️
Close up of a frond, partially unfurled.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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jerthorp.bsky.social
Sao Paulo, Miami, Indonesia, Brooklyn
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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jerthorp.bsky.social
Cape Town, The Galapagos, Vancouver, Scotland
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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jerthorp.bsky.social
Prints from last year’s big bird+data+art project Every Bird are also 15% off.

These bombastically colored visualization show one year of observations and more than 50 places.

www.jerthorp.me/every-bird
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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cacaobyproduct.bsky.social
One of the best things about learning words including from other languages is an expanded arsenal of terrible puns
cacaobyproduct.bsky.social Cacao Byproduct @cacaobyproduct.bsky.social · 51m
Alucard novel where it turns out that the dhampir combo makes Dracula's half-human son desire potatoes instead of human blood

It's called

ALOOCARD
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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cacaobyproduct.bsky.social
Alucard novel where it turns out that the dhampir combo makes Dracula's half-human son desire potatoes instead of human blood

It's called

ALOOCARD
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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theronshan3666.bsky.social
gotta go with vibes here.
Zigzag- a sharp turn
Arn and Brey’enne decide to take a drastic step to further their relationship
#WIPSnips #WriteSky
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting #OriginalStory #StarWars #theOldRepublic #ArchiveofOurOwn #WownomoreLegacy
ARKARI MEDCENTER - REGENERATION SUITE 3602bby The room was bright white, curved walls humming softly with the sound of bio-reactors. Arn lay inside the cylindrical regeneration capsule, surrounded by pale blue fluid. His cybernetic parts had been removed from the human part that was left of him, head, torso and arms down to the elbow. Brey'enne stood beside the capsule, hands clasped tightly in front of her. She hadn't seen him like this before - half the galaxy hadn't - but watching him being rebuilt like this, vulnerable in a way he would never show anyone else... It hollowed her chest. An Arkanian medic approached, white eyes serene. "He will not feel pain," she assured her. "The regeneration matrix has already shifted into the synthesis phase." Brey'enne nodded, though her throat ached. "How long?" "Two hours for complete internal reconstruction," the medic answered. "Another hour for cellular integration and vascular stabilization." Brey'enne exhaled shakily. "And after that... he'll be whole again?" The medic placed a hand over her shoulder — brief, professional. "He will be fully capable. If you choose the path of family, nothing will prevent it." Her knees nearly buckled. Her knees nearly buckled. Inside the capsule, Arn's eyes fluttered open. Not fully - just enough for her to see the familiar determination under the haze of sedation. "Brey...'" His voice was distorted through the fluid and anesthetic. She pressed her hand to the glass. "I'm here," she whispered. "I'm not going anywhere." His new hands lifted weakly inside the chamber, aligning with hers through the barrier. His face brightened slightly as he reached for her. The regenerating tissue around his abdomen shimmered, new cells knitting into place with soft pulses of blue light. He watched her, even half-conscious - trusting her in a way he trusted almost no one. "You don't have to see this," he murmured. "I am incomplete. I..." She shook her head, smiling wetly. "I'm not leaving you alone with a room full of white-eyed specialists while your insides get rebuilt. Not happening." A soft, low laugh vibrated through his chest, filling the capsule with bubbles. "You're impossible." "I know, but you love me anyway." she breathed. and i'm glad because I want a future with you Arn. A real one. Whatever that takes." His eyes softened - and for once, no sarcasm, no bravado, no battlefield bravado got in the way. He was close to tears. "I never thought this would ever happen to me. I've accepted that I would always be alone, that nobody would ever want me like this..." he trailed off. She looked at him, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I love you you big, beautiful fool." "So you'll have me then? For all that I am? No matter what?" She nodded, keeping her hand pressed to the glass, his hand touching hers on the other side. "I will," she promised. "And when you wake up, you're going to be whole. Not just repaired — whole." The regenerative matrix pulsed brighter. Arkanian tech worked silently, tirelessly. Organic tissue reformed. Vital structures rebuilding. The life they wanted - the one Arn wasn't sure that he could ever have — took shape in the blue light. Brey'enne kept her hand to the glass until the process finished. she stayed until he was complete.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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carlyhiebner.bsky.social
Vibes today with “winding.” a #WIPSnips from A Recipe for Romance 💘 #writingcommunity #writesky

A bit of intro—
Rolling her neck, Maggie hesitantly fluffed her mass of dark curls, which promptly poofed with a chalky mess of dry shampoo. There was probably enough of it to start a small fire if anyone lit a match too close. She was in the middle of the biggest few months of her professional life—on the verge of partnership at Maison Lune. A few more catering events executed to perfection, and she’d have it in the bag. But of course, when her friend Sophie called and asked her to cater Alyssa’s baby shower, she’d said “yes” and immediately put in her vacation request—shocking the entire staff, because she never took vacation. But when your best friend was pregnant and hormonal enough to cry over a commercial for Huggies, you showed up, even if you smelled like duck fat and rosemary. And even if your carry-on was stuffed to the brim with spatulas and a piping gun instead of normal things like socks and underwear. The plane jolted as it touched down on Omaha soil—the dawn reflecting over a sea of golden corn. She gazed out the window at the long stretches of winding, open roads that seemed to lead to nowhere. A familiar horizon, but one Maggie had intentionally avoided as much as possible since the fall-out with her parents over her decision to relocate to LA for culinary school. A brief flicker of something like regret swept over her before disappearing just as quickly. She could do this. She’d cooked for celebrities on three hours of sleep before. She’d once built a croquembouche while battling a case of the flu. She could handle small-town Willow Bend, her pregnant friend, and a gaggle of Midwesterners who thought casserole with cornflakes was gourmet.
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
lucidillusions.in
Today's word for #WIPSnips is “zigzag” and I don't remember using it, but if we go with vibes~~ I have used “winding” part of still a WIP (Titled: The Cursed Guard of Bombay)

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WritersLift #AmWriting
In the morning's paper, a headline screamed: "Radical Journalist Incites Violence and Anarchy in Bombay Docks." A warrant for Kaveri's arrest was issued, and she was forced to flee, going into hiding in the winding backstreets of a part of town Damodar would never dare to enter.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
lucidillusions.in
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight so here's an Ibis photographed early morning.

🪶 📸📸 🌿🖌️
#Birds #Photography #nature #jungle #safari #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography
the photo was taken early morning when the sun was red, and the reflection aligned perfectly with where the ibis (white bird with black head and a long black beak) was sitting. in the background there is also a smaller white bird with black wings and long legs (it is out of focus) -- there are water ripples/
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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chembarathi.bsky.social
🧶 This is my most FAVOURITE hat I ever knitted. If I was not a bedbound person, I would never sell this because it is sooo good. I am pretty sure that you won't get it anywhere else. I have only made one and that is available for 45$.
#bsnm #shoplocal #smallbusiness

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A handknitted hat in a bright purple colour with concentric purl ridges A model wearing a handknitted purple hat with concentric purl ridges
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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PSA if you use the code HOLIDAY25, you can get 30% off of @sorourke25.bsky.social’s incredibly smart, gorgeously illustrated new book—do it! 🌿🎉💥
Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction
O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.   In the late eighteenth and early nineteent...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Some people really don’t seem to understand what retellings are because what do you mean “this isn’t true to the source material”? Yes, that’s precisely the point???
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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advaitarun.bsky.social
This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful to @heatmap.news for their always-incredible coverage, and for the chance to adapt my AI market structure report into a piece for them!
heatmap.news Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 4h
Need a distraction from family drama and/or online shopping? May we suggest this piece from @advaitarun.bsky.social on the financial stakes of the AI buildout for clean energy.

Read it here:

heatmap.news/ideas/data-c...
A Backup Plan for the AI Boom
If it turns out to be a bubble, billions of dollars of energy assets will be on the line.
heatmap.news
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
lucidillusions.in
Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you 😊

(Doubt people get that easily convinced by my art)
A very rotund blackbird with red eye perched on a thin branch #Art #Birds #BirdArt
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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mahendra.bsky.social
Born OTD in 1757, William Blake, poet and illustrator and Supreme Enthused One.

#WIP #illustration #conceptualart
The Bleat, Bark, Bellow and Roar/Are Waves that Beat on heaven's Shore. A tiger, ram, ewe, heifer and hound leaping over the head of a celestial child. One thought fills immensity. A lion enters the bedchamber of a sleeping woman. Would love to do a book of Blake aphorisms.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Still waiting to get into GODKILLER: Qismat? Well, all episodes are out on YouTube!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Shown here is @lesbyearning.bsky.social ‘s Kala dealing with… consequences.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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siddhantadlakha.bsky.social
On Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet," a very good movie that stops short of greatness, but makes an emotionally-driven case for reinterpretation through spiritual musings and stellar performances. Out now: joysauce.com/chloe-zhaos-...
Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ makes the case for re-interpretation
Through superb performances, the Academy Award-winning Chinese filmmaker breathes new life into Shakespeare’s greatest play.
joysauce.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
And the uni sent me this photo -- busy lecturing/ gesturing/ posturing even. I believe I was giving a shot at being someone with gravitas (i.e., posturing my idea of being straight -- a failed enterprise and we're the better for it).
Me wearing a jumper, my scarf on the chair a bottle and computer on desk, clutter of papers, pen in hand and the slides behind me.
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
Remember, if you're not white and a white supremacist grants you some kind of white-adjacent status, it's a threat.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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nehapolitan.bsky.social
Celebrate Thanksgiving AND Black Friday by buying my track:

🍖🔥CHOCOBO ON THANKSGIVING DINNER🔥🍖

Listen to the delicious meat with a STRING QUARTET playing the Chocobo Theme in a minor key, evocating our little birds last moment before utter deliciousness🤤

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Chocobo on Thanksgiving Dinner, by Neha
track by Neha
nehapatel.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM