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J.S. Allen
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Author of the fantasy adventure novel A BAD PLACE BEST FORGOTTEN. Neurodivergent photographer, artist, data scientist. Lover of nature and wisdom.
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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · Aug 4
Give us your castaways, your tales of remnants and remainders, of subsistence against the odds. What is left behind? Who walks among the ruins? Why do I have this vestigial arm?

Spoon Knife 11: Remnants call for poetry, memoir, fiction:
autpress.com/2025/07/call...
a disintegrating boat on the shore; photo by Brian Smith
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From #MountainMonday straight into #RockinTuesday — courtesy of the Dolomites.

#dolomites 🇮🇹
#landscapephotography 📷
#PhotographersOfBlueSky#ThePhotoHour #StormHour
#EastCoastKin #TextureTuesday
A photograph taken at Piz Boè in the Sella Group of the Dolomites, showing towering vertical rock walls rising sharply from a broad, snow-covered basin. The cliffs have a warm, reddish-beige tone with darker streaks and deep vertical grooves, giving the surfaces a rugged, weathered texture. Sunlight highlights the natural variations in color, from soft amber to shadowy brown. Snow clings to ledges and fills the narrow gaps between the rock towers. In the foreground, smooth, wind-shaped snowfields stretch across the basin, punctuated by a few scattered rocks. Above the cliffs, the sky appears deep blue with faint wisps of cloud. The scene feels bright, cold, and monumental, emphasizing the striking contrast between the warm-toned rock and the crisp white snow.
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Here is a color version. This is a bit of a departure from my usual colorized calligraphy works - it has much more of a "mosaic" feel.
A Hebrew calligraphy work with blues, reds, and light yellow, showing a shofar blasting Jewish texts out into the world.
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Gestern, der Sonnenhut hält sich tapfer. 🌱🍂
Yesterday's echinacea is holding on bravely.
#eastcoastkin #stunday #flowersonsunday #coloraday #pinkmon #macromonday
Eine Blüte mit leuchtend pinken, länglichen Blütenblättern, die sich sternförmig um eine dunkelrote, kegelförmige Blütenmitte anordnen. Die Blütenblätter zeigen leichte, unregelmäßige helle Flecken. Der Stiel ist behaart und grünlich-braun. Im unscharfen Hintergrund sind weitere Blüten und grüne Blätter zu erkennen.
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I cannot get enough of these sunrises and sunsets. #SonoranDesert

The Galiuro Mountains, just north of Tucson - a Sky Island of the Madrean Archipelago
Foreground: a tall saguaro looking out on rolling green foothills and a red-tinged butte. Above it all: puffy white clouds with gray undersides and a rosy, muted sky.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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1 of 3 pelican flight videos from today. Headed out to catch the sunset and then maaayybbeee ill edit the other two 🪶
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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😐....
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Dirk Schulte
Ein Morgen der Möglichkeiten
2022
Winterbäume und Sonne vor blauem Himmel.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Thanksgiving gender reveals
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Note to self: check homeowners insurance.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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goddamn, bird. 🪶
a tern exiting the water with a bait fish, the bait fish has a red face and is not a fan of the situation
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Another #twofer for #BirdoftheDay - #BirdonaWire and #silhouette They are birds - honestly 😂 #BlueSkyArtShow #small
Telegraph wires against a stormy sky. There are birds sitting on the wires although from the camera viewpoint they are very small
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Never underestimate the power
of a quietly stubborn creature💜
Drawing in white ink against a black background of the head and neck of a donkey shown in profile facing left. The donkey has a very sweet expression and its short, upright mane is dyed in the pink, blue, and white colors of the trans pride flag.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives of all trans and Two Spirit relatives our communities lost to violence this year, including the Indigenous trans lives too often left off of the record. ❤️
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Slime mold moves through the forest as a giant grey amoeba.
#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends
A grey myxomycete plasmodium sprawled out over wet rotting wood. At the top you see the first fruiting bodies form: little yellow beans that will soon form spores.
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Water surface study #3 with urban scenery
Trinity River in Fort Worth
music by @billywaynebolin.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Water surface study #2
Trinity River in Fort Worth
music by @billywaynebolin.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Water surface study #1
Trinity River in Fort Worth
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Pondering.
#art
A mechanical being with a glass bubble head full of mushrooms strikes a pondering pose. Watercolor and white gouache on toned paper.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Down with Shlump
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from August 8, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Von Shlump: HELP! HELP! Rescue me from my countrymen! Popeye (peeking out of a submarine porthole): Arf! Arf! Sir Pomeroy (also peeking out of a porthole): Heh! Heh! Angry Effluvians yelling, some holding sign reading "Down with Von Shlump", others holding bottles. Effluvian 1: To jail with him! Effluvian 2: Throw him out! Effluvian 3: Out with him!
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The Rio Grande Bosque is showing off right now. #bosque #newmexico #riogrande #albuquerque #fallcolors
Cottonwood trees with yellow leaves
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Emerging
This #art commemorated my passage out of graduate school
stylized image of train tracks with a light emerging from a tunnel in the distance
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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My goal with Reptiles was to offer social commentary in the context of an entertaining alternate future story. I hope I succeeded. Reptiles is currently available on Amazon for 99 cents. All proceeds go to charity.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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New perspective on things.
Black skeleton, violet sea. It’ll make sense soon I hope.
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A chicken
A chicken walking across the dirt
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Spoon Knife: 9 is up for an Indie Ink Award 2025! 💥🎉📚
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Please consider voting for this amazing anthology, featuring a diverse set of stories based on the number 4, published by a dynamic press.

Thank you XXX
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#Indieinkawards
#anthology
A large rabbit in a field filled with smaller rabbits
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Moon over the Organ Mountains 11/13/2016. One of my favorites.

Landscape photography, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
Telephoto picture of a supermoon rising above craggy mountain peaks.
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM