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picture book writer with too many hobbies

kidlit / horror / ecocrit / japanese lit

nor / eng / 🇯🇵 OK
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tallfroguy.bsky.social
Unbelievable #critterposting
Crude drawing of a cat. Shaped Iike cheese dripping off a nacho.
January 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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kimanh.bsky.social
“Sacrifice zone” has become a powerful label for naming unequal burdens of toxic contamination, too often located in and near marginalized communities. The problem is that naming polluted places as “zones” implies toxic containment when PFAS, dioxins, etc easily move thru air, water, and soil.
Respatializing Toxic Harm: The Case Against Sacrifice Zones
Describing heavily polluted areas as “sacrifice zones” has become commonplace in recent decades, as diverse groups resist their unwitting exposure to destructive and toxic industrial, municipal, and ...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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alanjstedman.bsky.social
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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tanatb.housefuckinggame.com
accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"
January 7, 2026 at 12:09 PM
ibikenibi.bsky.social
can i offer u a lemon pig in this trying time
Drawing of a lemon pig with a coin in its mouth on a transparent background.
January 1, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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othersharks.bsky.social
Lemon pig I love you!
December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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pailbn.bsky.social
This year’s lemon pig is a little worse for wear

#art #digitalart #newyear #nye #happynewyear #newyearseve #lemonpig
Moldy and rotten lemon pig with text “entering 2026 at my fucking limit”
December 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
sweepy
A small Pomeranian-like dog snuggles in comparatively huge, fluffy bed.
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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toyo-illust.bsky.social
"Grass Snake and Pine"
screenprint from 2021
#ArtSky
December 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Shigeru Mizuki's THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE is coming to English this April!

The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.

amzn.to/4jmUDIG

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December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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jorunnjoiner.bsky.social
#CFP! "Rewritten Water Myths in Times of Global Warming", arranged by Barbara Barrow (@barbarabarrow.bsky.social) and Monika Class – Lund University, Sweden, 11–12 June 2026.

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 2 February 2026.

Further info: lnkd.in/d9A78_4x

#bluehumanities #envhum #literarystudies
Still from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, featuring Gill-man or the Creature (circa 1953). A humanoid fish-like monster is half-submerged in water.
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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anikeru.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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adlysia.bsky.social
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
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December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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unseenjapan.com
A large earthquake, currently measured at magnitude 7.2, has just hit off Aomori Prefecture. A tsunami advisory is in effect for southern Hokkaido and northeastern Tohoku. The earthquake was strong enough to be faintly perceived all the way in Tokyo.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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cait.bsky.social
it's him.......
orange cat looking just like the cat statue
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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jau2cr.bsky.social
@kaihat.su Hey! I don't know if you've seen this news. It's about Fontworks (LETS) and Monotype, you might be interested: automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow  - AUTOMATON WEST
A change in license plans has made it up to 50 times more expensive for Japanese game developers to use commercial fonts in their games and apps.
automaton-media.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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more-whit.bsky.social
Plenty of useful points in here, but I love the way what primarily comes through is the enthusiam for sealife that shines through from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social

www.southernfriedscience.com/what-we-know...
What we know we don’t know: impacts of deep-sea mining on whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other migratory species.
Migratory species depend on a vast, interconnected ocean. Disturbance in the deep-sea isn’t localized, it ripples across a globally-connected ocean and impacts made today may persist long aft…
www.southernfriedscience.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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pavlovforgoths.com
here's an updated guide on how to remove all of the AI from Firefox
mckitterick (ADE.............- Yesterday 601 irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page • browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge • browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.link Preview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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spicymochi.bsky.social
Your month, your duo!
Illustration of twelve pairs of animals, each pair labeled with a month from January to December
September 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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foxlett.bsky.social
cat doodle 🍜
#cat #art #cuteart #animalart
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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easlce.bsky.social
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.

Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025

Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
Poster for the seminar, featuring a ocean waves on a blue background.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM