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The Mummer's Dracolich
@mummers.bsky.social
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Denizen of #BlueSkagos. Geologist and mother of an awesome 10-yo who loves dragons, rocks, and dirt, too.

Evie and the Afterlife comic thread here:
https://bsky.app/profile/mummers.bsky.social/post/3lz2ji3chr22j
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The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · Jul 31
The best people are the ones adding to your TBR pile
mummers.bsky.social The Mummer's Dracolich @mummers.bsky.social · Jul 31
Also, for what it's worth, several of my recent purchases and most of my "to buy later" list comes from Bluesky

Honorable mentions:
Galahad (Grant Piercy)
Wearing the Lion (John Wiswell)
Short story in Rewired: ND Perspectives in Horror (Anna Orridge)
The Butcher of the Forest (Premee Mohammed)
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standplaatskrk.pl
A shepherd type dog is on it's back, looking in abject terror at the upside down head of a similar looking dog right next to him. In the second picture the dog yells as if mortally wounded, because his neighbor had the temerity to *lick his face*! AAAAAAAAAAH.
October 15, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
exigencelost I'm getting really tired of the wise serene pacifist trope in fiction. Every committed pacifist, prison abolitionist, antiwar activist, etc I've ever met in real life has been vibrating with compressed rage at all times. Do you know what it's like to believe deeply in your heart that doing harm to others is wrong and the goal of society should be to alleviate suffering for all people and live in the United States of America? IT'S NOT FUN. Show Us The Pissed-Off Pacifists. exigencelost Dude there might be a word for the emotion that is forged when someone's deep abiding love and compassion for all people and living things welds itself into decades of built-up foaming fury at how those people been treated their whole life by those in power to create a sort of alloyed super-commitment to a set of ethical principles but i promise you "tranquility" is not that fucking word
October 15, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Tiny smaug
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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mummers.bsky.social
We've recreated the coin dragon meme
A chain snake guardian of a chocolate coin
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
mummers.bsky.social
We've recreated the coin dragon meme
A chain snake guardian of a chocolate coin
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Your lips only touch for four letters of the alphabet.
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one…

A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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thembauk.bsky.social
We are seeking a Survey Manager to lead the operational delivery of the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey—the longest-running marine biological time series in the world. 

Apply by 18th January 2026 
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/survey-operations-manager-continuous-plankton-recorder-survey.html
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
mummers.bsky.social
...inspired by two real places I know, mashed together!

Neither quite as cool in person, though
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions - The American Prospect
Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.
prospect.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
mummers.bsky.social
Lolololololol
Memento: not sure what to get him for Christmas? Get him a map. Dudes love those things. Robert Summerland: I feel attacked. Luckily I know all the best routes to escape
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I’m quoted in this

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🧪🦑🌎
Column | More than 100 scientists told me what kids books inspired their careers
Want to inspire the next generation of scientists? Here are the best books recommended by experts in ecology, biology, entomology and other fields.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time
You had to hand it to human beings. They had one of the strangest powers in the universe. Even her grandfather had remarked upon it. No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up the evolutionary ladder. Trolls and dwarfs had it, too, that strange ability to look at the universe and think “Oh, the same as yesterday, how dull. I wonder what happens if I bang this rock on that head?”
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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techwontsave.us
🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨

We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
Bracket of contestants in round two of the Worst Person in Tech
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
mummers.bsky.social
If you see this we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation
No explanation here. A drawing of a nighthawk.
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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godysseypodcast.com
While many see winter as a dark time, the winter solstice was a point of celebration among the writers of Antiquity, who marked the solstice as the birth date of Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun. It's all about perspective. #FairytaleTuesday
A disc of Sol Invictus from Pessinus in Asia Minor. It shows Sol Invictus crowned by sun rays, flanked by two horses, with the phases of the moon making a full circle around him.
December 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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swantower.bsky.social
Wrote this earlier in the year for the first Sea Beyond book; sharing it now as I've finished a draft of THE WORST MONK IN OMNU! #sharepoetry
A screencap of a sonnet titled "The Novelist Laments in Verse" by Marie Brennan: Shall I compare me to a wrung-out rag? I am more limp, more grimy, and more drained. The labor of a novel makes me sag; my fervor for this enterprise has waned. Sometimes -- ofttimes -- I’ve craved a restful week, in which no scenes or chapters I compose, no useful details in my reading seek: but sans those things, a novel never grows. So my eternal labor must go on, in word by word and day by tiresome day, until the moment when, quite pale and wan, I can, arm raised in feeblest triumph, say: I may be brain-dead and completely beat, but after all these months, my book’s complete.
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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@byzantienne.bsky.social This is from Chess, yes? I recall you liked that?
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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galaxysantaiii.bsky.social
Mayfly? No, they definitely DO fly
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
A comic called Animals with Misleading Names. There's an electric eel labeled "not an eel". There's a mountain goat labeled "not a goat." There's a maned wolf labeled "not a wolf." There's a king cobra labeled "not a cobra. Also, snakes are typically self-governing." There's a peacock mantis shrimp labeled "Not a peacock. Not a mantis. Also, not a shrimp." There's a horny toad labeled "Not a toad. Only thinks of you as a friend." There's a mayfly labeled "active through the spring and summer." There's an eastern kingbird labeled "found in the west. Many birds do not recognize its authority."
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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achronalart.bsky.social
Chag Sameach! Good wishes to all who celebrate Hanukkah.🕎

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2F...
Holiday Tales: Hanukkah!
YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
mummers.bsky.social
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If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century
YouTube video by Jonasquin
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
reading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you
drawing of Brachiosaurus, a long necked quadrupedal dinosaur, rendered in colorful squares of green and blue with a subtle gradient getting lighter towards the underside
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM