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audryt.bsky.social
Audry T. ~ she/her
@audryt.bsky.social
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Worked in games, manga, animation, publishing but my fave thing to do is write stories about hot bad guys getting their asses kicked by snarky girls.

Los Angeles girl, dog lover, ally, activist. You always have the right to be you & live your best life!
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When you see the start of a thread and the end of it and you're curious but also not sure you want to know how it ended up there...

(five minutes later)

Stuffed Chuck Pie, anyone?
bsky.app/profile/chuc...
Three posts from Bluesky with a "view full thread" between the first and much later final 2 posts. Text copied and pasted from top to bottom: Chuck Wendig‬ ‪@chuckwendig.bsky.social‬ · 2h STRONG AGREE ‪Tim Marchman‬ ‪@timmarchman.bsky.social‬ · 2h The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others. View full thread ‪Ali Trotta‬ ‪@alwayscoffee.bsky.social‬ · 23m Replied to Paul Tremblay No Titus Andronicus, gentlemen! ‪Liz Thurmond‬ ‪@countmystars.bsky.social‬ · 10m Which author is going to retell Titus Andronicus in his next horror epic? Place your bets now
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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These two posts popped up back to back and now I'm wondering if Tuxita may have a crime to confess to...
Screengrab of two posts on Bluesky. Top: Image of a room in the White House with blood splashed all over the walls. Bottom: Image of a black cat with white paws laying on a brown living room sofa while looking back at the camera with a wary look, like they've been caught doing something bad.
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Are smart phones connection

or isolation
Very tall narrow photo, similar in shape to a long bookmark. A majority of the photo is a concrete patio covered in slashes of light from a slotted roof above that we cannot see. A number of red metal chairs are scattered about a large space. There is a concrete wall at the far back top of the image. There is only one person in the image: at far upper right, sitting in the furthest back of the metal chairs. Short hair, wearing sunglasses, blue shirt is about all you can make out - and the fact that their head is bent down as they look at an object they are using both hands to tap on (which is a smart phone, per the photographer knowing it is, but otherwise you'd be guessing that's what they were busy using all alone in this empty space).
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Your daily moment of #peace:

May you find a peaceful moment in a quiet spot this week and this #Thanksgiving. Sneak away from family for a brief bit if you need a respite. ~~

#park #nature #turkeyday
Photo of a park area with a dirt path and beyond that a green bit of lawn surrounded by lush green bushes that provide shade on a warm sunny day. A lone figure in a white sweater sits cross-legged on the lawn, back turned to the camera, bent over a book they are reading.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Pupperito!

(Photo taken last winter. He was a true California dog; an avid sunshine bather and deeply opposed to chilly weather. When it rained, he would give me the biggest sad puppy "turn the water off so we can go walkies" look.)
Widescreen photo of a biggish dog (65 pounds) curled up on a soft light gray couch. A blanket covers the back of the couch with simplistic graphite black depictions of dogs in various poses and sizes. He has been wrapped up in a gray and white blanket with a triangle pattern on it. Only his big ol' head is sticking out, with one eye and ear covered by a big brown patch of fur and the rest white. He has some scattered brown spots that look like big freckles near his dark nose. Would be mistaken for a "pitbull type" with his big bowling ball of a head and big nose, but he has a gentle, relaxed expression.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Wow there are a lot of MAGA bait phone apps out there. Hope they enjoy being data-mined by China.

(And no the military does not upload "Official US Army Stickers" apps to an app store. They got more important shit to do. 🙄)
Row of digital stickers for digital apps. All U.S. flag themed in various 'Murica emblems like baseball, the outline of the U.S.A., ribbons, hearts, etc. All are blue white and green. Rows of digital stickers for digital apps. Mostly Christian or military themed in various shapes like folded ribbons, U.S. flags, poster shaped with fancy woreds, the outline of the U.S.A., ribbons, hearts, etc. All are blue white red and with holiday ones also green. One says OFFICIAL US ARMY STICKERS by "Officially Licensed" which will be a complete like (I am adding this detail as a U.S. military brat these are not official.) Phone digital stickers shaped like U.S. flags, the outline of the U.S.A., ribbons, hearts, etc. All are blue, red and white. Header says PATRIOTIC AMERICAN OFFICIAL...which will be a complete lie (I am adding this detail as a U.S. military brat these are not official.) Company listed in smaller print is by "Officially owned by 2ThumbZ"
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Goodnight!
Night shot, cloudy sky with clouds that look like a huge pale bird flying over some dark trees. In front bottom of photo is a lit up driveway for a little one level house with plants by the front windows. It is a dark night and no people are out.
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Example:
Screengrab white text black background. Top bar with "Firefox" and orange circular fox symbol for the Firefox browser. The search window next to it has text typed in, which is about:config. Then underneath that is a search bar with text in it: browser.ml. There is a checked box to the right with text: Show only modified preferences. Underneath is a third bar with the following text: browser.ml.enable; then black space until middle of bar where there is the word "false" and that at the right end of the bar is a reverse arrow that represents the "undo" button. A box is checked on the upper right with text: Show only modified preferences.
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Everyone thought our dog was pitbull, but blood tests indicated otherwise! (He was mostly Am Staffy and a little bit Am Bulldog.) It can be very hard to tell visually.
A dog in profile at a fenced in grassy dog park with a bench in the back. At the forefront is a dog sniffing grass. Mostly white head and mostly brown body with white belly and legs. Large but not huge. Thin tail curling upward. His head is quite large on his body and mostly white fur. His mouth is open and he looks like he's grinning.
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Then: Google scrapin all your shit

Now: Startpage NO SCRAPING FUCK OFF
www.startpage.com/en/g

Screengrab link: How does Startpage prevent scraping and abuse without recording IP addresses?
support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/art...
How does Startpage prevent scraping and abuse without recording IP addresses? 1 year ago Updated Startpage is the only private search engine with access to both Google and Bing. Not only are these feeds difficult to secure, but they also cost money each time they are used. As a result, Startpage annually receives billions of requests from parties looking to scrape the results for free, train an AI model, or even DDoS the site. Abuse from these malicious parties not only results in enormous cost, but also reduced performance for our real users. In order to prevent this, we use a variety of methods to filter out these unwanted searches. While we can’t be extremely specific about our methodologies, as these could lead bots to be able to circumvent them, we can provide some details here to help illustrate at a high level what we are looking for, and how we do it. As per our privacy policy, our bot logs only operate off of one-way encrypted hashes derived from details visible to the edge server. A client may be identified as a source of fraudulent or malicious traffic once the pattern or number of requests from that source crosses pre-defined thresholds that we deem to be abusive. At that time, the source will be added to a block list. For all others, the in-memory hash is cleared, so no record remains of even the one-way-encrypted hashes. In addition, these hashes are periodically perturbed—or distorted—so that they are only stable long enough for our system to identify abusive traffic, and thus cannot be used for user tracking over time. We use a similar approach for IP ranges.
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Everyone needs a little tea and errantry in their lives...
Photo of a papberback book sitting on the arm of a couch, with a mug also on the arm. The book: Errantry, Elizabeth Hand. Sticker at left with text: Authographed Copy. The mug abve the book is white with a black sketch of a street in old New York City decades ago. STRAND BOOK STORE sign over a canopied shop. One can see a hint of rows and rows of books beyond the pedestrians walking by. One woman is in an old fashioned dress. A man holds a simple umbrella as he struts down the street in a suit. There is a third figure on an old-style bicycle with large wheels. Strung around the mug's white handle is the tag for a tea bag. Words are pale green and difficult to read the flavor but at bottom are two green words: The Louvre. Beyond the couch are a hint of teal and white bookshelves filled with more books.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Feelin' vibes like these ancient beast bones have just found the Chosen One but she doesn't know it yet.

[Taken at Trinity College while traveling.]
Photo taken from a second floor looking down at an entry area near two huge wooden doors. Interior of a building at Trinity in Dublin. Checkered tiled floor that glows from sunlight radiating through arched old windows. To left is a wooden stand with a fully reassembled skeleton of some kind of moose or deer with massive single shape antlers with spiked prongs. To the right is another skeleton, bugger, with a long neck and narrow head . A man in a gray sweater is looking up at that one. Both skeletons have their skulls arched downward slighty as if looking at the young woman in the center of the entryway. She has a dark jacket, gray pants, fair skin and brown hair pulled back and looks a little lost. Could be a student at the college or even a bit younger, maybe a teenager.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Your daily moment of #peace: A fountain that feeds the soul, and a bench nearby where you can relax and take in the view...

#publicpark #nature #sculpture
Close up photo of the upper half of a light brown water fountain, with water running out of rivulets between scuplted petals. At the center of the fountain, two birds - larger on left and smaller on right - with their wings spread are touching beaks. To the left is a hint of a wooden structure which looks like it's an alcove with a hint of a bench in it. Blue sky and green trees in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Ever felt like someone was watching? Maybe even a mischief maker from another realm...
Photo through a stone peep hole from an old partial stone wall for a castle or fortress. Through the hold one can see a modern home sitting on a hill, surrounded by mist and looking all too vulnerable for a mischief maker.
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I mean, that face... It's like that cat just saw a vision of God.

Or a mouse.
Tall close up crop of a digital photo. Show a mostly white short haired cat with partially black head sitting on its haunches. Their front legs are stiff and their body language is tense. Their eyes are intense, like they've just seen something amazing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Looks like the catnip just kicked in...

(Taken at @catcafelounge.bsky.social in #LosAngeles. Cats hang out w/possible adopters and also there's coffee and tea and cute cat stuff to buy. You should see if there is a rescue cat cafe in your city and if not, maybe you can be the one who starts it!)
Photo of a couple of cats on fake grass carpet with hints of people sitting in chairs wearing only socks in the background. Foreground has a round play tunnel for cats with three exits. To the right of the tunnel is a mostly white cat with black patches on its face and ears. The cat is sitting erect with stiff front paws and butt resting behind it. Its eyes are wide and staring off into the distance, as if it might be in some kind of zen or drugged state. (But that's just a visual impression; the cat is simply watching something off screen, likely another cat or a human dangling a toy.)
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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OK I used #crystal in this MS a lot more than I realized...

#wipsnips #wip #fantasy #warningmightcontainscalesandtails
Next to him, Bevi glances at the livestream that Kenna is attempting but failing to start because five hundred ads keep getting in the way. Bevi taps what looks like a smart watch on his wrist; sleek and digital with a crystal band, it has a magical glow about it. As he taps it, the screen on Brian's phone goes blank! Kenna: Your phone crashed. Brian: (panic) What?! No! It's new and he spent days customizing it, so his pain is real. Kenna and Brian emerge into a rocky corridor lit by iridescent crystals embedded in the walls. It feel markedly colder than it did a second ago. Kenna: Crystal lighting tracks. Amazing effect. Brian: They look organic to me, not man-made... Their human-looking arms are bound to the chair by crystal clamps, any hint of scales gone. Guard Two: The bastard hasn't made a sound since arrival. Just stares at the wall. Newcomer: That's because they have infinite patience. Guard Two: Maybe. But what are they waiting for? The newcomer removes a glass vial from a secret compartment inside her armor. It glows a vivid blue. Newcomer: Triple their original fee and one more assignment. Inside the cell, the prisoner She senses the nearness of the stone wall on one side and the nearness of his body on the other. She swears she can feel heat coming off his slick scales. "Touch me..." she says as a warning, but there is something hungry and eager in her voice as well. "And..." The backs of his crystal nails slide across the glass surface without the slightest of scratches until his fingers are an inch from hers. "...alea iacta est." The back of his knuckle brushes against hers.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Back from my walk. Saw dragons in the sky. ~~
Square photo taken upward at the night sky with a hint of tree tops in the corner bottom. Faint white clouds are streaking through the deep blue night sky. Lower half of sky there is a stretched cloud that looks like a dragon's long head and a hint of an eye alcove and a whisp of brighter cloud that is almost like smoke coming out of the dragon's mouth. To the right and up a littl efurther is another streak of cloud that looks like it's pointing downward toward the groud, with a point that is almost a snout shape, as if another long dragon is heading toward the trees below.
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Your daily moment of #peace:
A vast canopy of green to lie under and dream...

#nature #forest #contemplation
Photo: upshot at a tall thin tree with long skinny limbs mottled with moss that are shooting out in all directions, covering the wooded area in a canopy of green leaves.
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Your daily moment of #peace...

Sometimes sunshine grows right out of the Earth, a glorious blaze of joyful life.

#gardensky #flowers #photography #nature
Close up photo of dozens of bright yellow flowers with thin petals spread out in a circle with dark brown edges at the center and the core made of soft dark brown seeds. Beneath the sprawl of petals lies the green petals nearer the ground.
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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A cozy cat, just because...
Downshot photo of a tiled gray faux wood floor. A cardboard container shaped like a cat's head has an actual gray short haired cat napping in it. The cat is laying on its side, curled into a circle with paws tucked in at the center.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Trying a new (to me) artist: Maisy Kay.

Have no idea what language this is, but she mixes it with English and she's a hell of a singer.
Screengrab of lyrics scrolling up a screen in white text on black background. Top to bottom: THE STORM, TheFatRat (new line) Za'u oe fru iknimaya (new line) Niftxavang ting mikyun, ting nari (new line) Tompaya kato, tsawkeya kato Si 'ekong te'lana oeru teya si (Note on text to speech for this alt text: there are Umlauts over the "a" letters that I couldn't add to the alt text.
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Here's a #view that's oft sublime...
#7syllablesentence #prompt
A view of low mountain ridges tinted by mist. The photo is framed by nature itself, from the branches of trees at the top of the photo and from the tips of green bushes at the botton.
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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SHARE with ALT TEXT:
POLITICO x.com NEW: The Senate has unanimously voted toforce the Justice Department to release more Epstein files - acting hours after an overwhelming House vote to send the bill to Trump's desk.
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Your daily moment of #peace:

Lay among the flowers and dream.

#garden #flowers #sunshine
Tall photo with green bars on left and right side. Close up photo of a half dozen pale lavendar flowers with thin petals that bloom out and curve at their tips. Purple centers. Surrounded by longer grasses near the edges of the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM