J. R. Pyle-Carter
@jrpylecarter.bsky.social
A welder, writer, and eat-my-feelings gal.
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A Pembrokeshire Christmas, available now. This little icon is painted on 23 carat gold leaf that has been laid on vintage Italian folding wood panels. Possibly the perfect gift you could buy yourself or someone special. Dm for details if you’re curious
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A Pembrokeshire Christmas, available now. This little icon is painted on 23 carat gold leaf that has been laid on vintage Italian folding wood panels. Possibly the perfect gift you could buy yourself or someone special. Dm for details if you’re curious
This was the largest man made explosion until the atomic bomb.
On this day in 1917, at least 1,782 people were killed, an estimated 9,000 others were injured, and large portion of the city of Halifax was destroyed due to a maritime accident involving a boat carrying US weapons to France for use in the inter-imperialist First World War.
Halifax Explosion - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This was the largest man made explosion until the atomic bomb.
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I’m doing a second auction for Patch, a local charity that provides food, cloths and toys for people in poverty. At Christmas time they gift toys to kids who’ve had a referral. What could be more in the spirit of Christmas? This little wren is up for auction to raise money for toys. Please dig deep
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I’m doing a second auction for Patch, a local charity that provides food, cloths and toys for people in poverty. At Christmas time they gift toys to kids who’ve had a referral. What could be more in the spirit of Christmas? This little wren is up for auction to raise money for toys. Please dig deep
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I could change USPS to Canada Post and the United states to Canada and federal agency to Crown corporation and the sentence is still 100% true
USPS subsidizes a *lot* of shipping in the united states and characterizing it in terms of profit and loss is fundamentally a bad faith exercise given how many of it’s benefits are truly universal in a way that not all federal agencies are
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I could change USPS to Canada Post and the United states to Canada and federal agency to Crown corporation and the sentence is still 100% true
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Y'all this past week I've seen some baffling takes on Heated Rivalry by people who have zero knowledge or enjoyment of romance novels, romance narratives, or sex scenes as a storytelling device. "Uh where's the romance? Why are they boning so much???"
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Y'all this past week I've seen some baffling takes on Heated Rivalry by people who have zero knowledge or enjoyment of romance novels, romance narratives, or sex scenes as a storytelling device. "Uh where's the romance? Why are they boning so much???"
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Good advice for identifying and avoiding the kind of scams that send you bogus copyright infringement notices
Copyright scams are becoming increasingly common. As I learned, no one is safe from impersonation and manipulation, even me.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/12/02/h...
#Copyright #ScamAlert #Security
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/12/02/h...
#Copyright #ScamAlert #Security
How to Avoid Copyright Scams
Copyright scams are becoming increasingly common. As I learned, no one is safe from impersonation and manipulation, even me.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Good advice for identifying and avoiding the kind of scams that send you bogus copyright infringement notices
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
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There's a Bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
There's a Bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
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Things I saw, a thread.
#Photography
#Photography
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Things I saw, a thread.
#Photography
#Photography
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Snow has fallen followed by a blanket of ice. Beautiful but lethal. The studio is snug. The dog on an eiderdown. Through the window I see the Sunshine catching ice crystals and droplets falling from the field gate turn to diamonds before they hit the ground
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Snow has fallen followed by a blanket of ice. Beautiful but lethal. The studio is snug. The dog on an eiderdown. Through the window I see the Sunshine catching ice crystals and droplets falling from the field gate turn to diamonds before they hit the ground
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
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Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
Stand on the Appalachia Trail at night and you will know the answer to can a mountain haunt itself?
They're older than trees. And dinosaurs. And were maybe once as tall as the Himalayas.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Stand on the Appalachia Trail at night and you will know the answer to can a mountain haunt itself?
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Singing Jenny, painted on 23 carat gold leaf laid on vintage folding Italian poplar wood panels. Available now dm for details
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Singing Jenny, painted on 23 carat gold leaf laid on vintage folding Italian poplar wood panels. Available now dm for details
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This morning we are waking up to a farm blanketed with snow, and it’s absolutely beautiful
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This morning we are waking up to a farm blanketed with snow, and it’s absolutely beautiful
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#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where it snowed!
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where it snowed!
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
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First I've heard of the Anthropic scam (towards the end of the article).
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
Update on those flattering AI book marketing scams
Those AI book marketing scams are proliferating like Tribbles. Here are the new variations authors are getting now.
annerallen.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
First I've heard of the Anthropic scam (towards the end of the article).
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
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the way I am putting every single author I know in a headlock over the next few months.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
the way I am putting every single author I know in a headlock over the next few months.