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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*

ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin

DETECTIVE:

ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Seems like a good time to re-post this - happy Silksong day everyone!
"Greenpath" from Hollow Knight - Multi-Instrumental Cover
YouTube video by Kirk Hamilton
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August 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Tried my hand at dyeing some sneakers! Cactus Plant Flea Market Air Force 1s dyed with Rit DyeMore.
A white Cactus Plant Flea Market collab Air Force 1 sneaker in a shoebox. The word “AIR” is overlaid on the side of the sneaker in large lettering. The same sneaker, now on foot, standing on a mossy rock. It’s been dyed a tangerine orange, with oversized yellow laces. The different panels have picked up the dye differently, so the “AIR” letters, swoosh, and toe are darker, but the panels behind the lettering have remained lighter. The opposite sneaker now, showing “SUN” in large letters, which are the first part of “SUNSHINE” wrapping around the shoe. An indoor picture of the sneakers, taken with flash, demonstrating that there’s a reflective layer outlining the letters.
March 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
samwh.bsky.social
The local nature preserve was full of these guys swooping around and screaming their little hearts out.

Really pleased with the performance of the slightly goofy setup I was trying out: Fuji X-T5 with a Canon 135mm f/2L + Fringer adapter + Fuji 1.4x teleconverter all stacked up.
A red-winged blackbird on a branch. The bird is directly facing the camera and is mid-call, so he’s all puffed out, and both red patches are visible like epaulettes.
January 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If you would like to anthropomorphize some ducks, I took a great pic for you 🦆
A pair of male and female northern shoveler ducks. The male is in focus standing in the foreground with a vacant expression, while the female is slightly out of focus behind him, mid quack. One could choose to project various relationship dynamics on them if one so desired.
January 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
samwh.bsky.social
I just finished “The Dawnhounds”, and it is one of the most stunningly inventive and entertaining things I’ve read in a while. Dove straight into the sequel, cannot wait to see where things go ❤️
understatesmen.bsky.social Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · Nov 1
In 2015 I saw the cops break a trans woman's arm at Pride, and I got so mad I went out and wrote an ACAB police prodecural where the antagonists are all fascist cops, and also while I was writing it my egg was starting to crack and *boy* does it show.

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Da...
at dawn, a ship sails out to sea. In the foreground, the houses are fungal. TEXT: THE DAWNHOUNDS Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it. The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, after a devastating war and a sweeping biotech revolution, all its inhabitants want is peace, no one more so than Yat Jyn-Hok a reformed-thief-turned-cop who patrols the streets at night. Yat has recently been demoted on the force due to “lifestyle choices” after being caught at a gay club. She’s barely holding it together, haunted by memories of a lover who vanished and voices that float in and out of her head like radio signals. When she stumbles across a dead body on her patrol, two fellow officers gruesomely murder her and dump her into the harbor. Unfortunately for them, she wakes up. Reviews I can't entirely fit into the alt text, so I'm crunching them down to essentials a bit: "A wonderful queer noir fever dream." —Tamsyn Muir "Fiercely queer. A strange and wondrous re-imagining of noir that takes its cues from biopunk and SE Asian mythos to create something wholly different. There's real imagination at work here—I loved it." —Rebecca Roanhorse Worldbuilding at its peak. The Dawnhounds heaves with life, a tangible sense of cosmic power simmering from the waters around this port city and from the people trying to save it. Just don’t call them heroes, aye.” —Chloe Gong “The Dawnhounds roots in the mind like a night garden, vital and voracious. I can’t get it out of my head.” —Amal El-Mohtar "The Dawnhounds packs hard-hitting, mind-bending weirdness into a story that’s still touching and human. If you’re looking for gritty queer spec fic that isn’t unrelentingly grim, you’ve found it.” —Casey Lucas The tones of Stronach and Pratchett are enormously similar. . . .Delightful.” —Octavia Cade,
December 7, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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I suppose I should post this, because otherwise how will I remember that I was early but not *that* early to this particular party?

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #299,878!
September 17, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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The anjin wishes to better understand the nuances of your return policy.
Reddit post of a news article. Post title reads: “SoftBank’s new ‘emotion cancelling’ technology aims to reduce stress levels among call center operators by softening the tone of angry customers’ voices.”
June 14, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Loving suede sneakers in the PNW is a struggle, but then you hit a gorgeous spring day and bring your favorite pairs out of hibernation and it’s a deep joy
A pair of brightly colored Nike dunks on feet. The sneakers have bright pink panels with electric yellow piping around the toe, heel, and swoosh, combined with light blue suede on the sides and top of toe, and black suede lace guards with yellow laces. White midsole, black outsole. Cuffed grey pants and pink, blue, and yellow socks that match the sneakers. Standing on a sidewalk with greenery behind.
April 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Some good birds from the local wildlife refuge. Playing around with the Fujifilm 70-300mm (plus 1.4x teleconverter on the first shot).
A small bird (a golden-crowned sparrow) sitting on a tree branch. The bird is light brown with black markings on its wings and a subtle yellow patch on its head. The tree has thin branches with clusters of green leaves. The background is softly out of focus, light green and gold and grey, golden hour lighting. A pair of starlings sit on a tree stump. The birds are dark with bright speckles and yellow beaks. The background is out of focus vegetation in warm light. An even smaller bird than the first bird (American Bushtit) perched on a vining plant. The bird is brown and grey, the plant has brown woody vines with clusters of green leaves. A different golden-crowned sparrow, this one sitting on a branch covered in lichen, in front of more dappled grey and green branches and leaves.
April 16, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Some shots from a beautiful Sunday morning at Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden.
Wide shot of soft pink magnolia blossoms against a blurred forest green background. The tree has twisted branches covered in bright green moss. Picture of the top of a white wall with an ornate, dark tiled cap. A single fern is growing from the top of the wall, and there are out of focus trees behind. A potted penjing (Chinese equivalent of bonsai) tree in front of a rock formation. The pot is brown with delicate gold decorations showing a bird and flowers. The tree has smooth brown bark and clusters of dark green needles. It grows up and out to the right, hanging over the side of the pot. A roof tile shot from behind, mostly in silhouette with a fringe of bright green moss growing around the edge. The out of focus background has green foliage and pink flowers.
April 16, 2024 at 10:33 PM