No cheating post your lock screen

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterday

No cheating post your lock screen

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Hello we are last minute in need of someone to edit an episode of our podcast this week, does anyone have the skills/knows someone who does, in exchange for monies?

Announcing Terror Camp VI! After a much-needed break, we’re so excited to be back for our SIXTH YEAR of polar conferencing! Terror Camp VI will take place online, February 6th & 7th, 2027.

Celebrating #HermanMelville ‘s birthday remembering the time I celebrated with a cake. And an exhibition of works on British Influences in #MobyDick at Burton Constable Hall. The cake was delish. And I was quite pleased with the exhibition.

Ah, my fav road, #totp

It’s #WorldEmbroideryDay so here are a few of my favourite sewing projects from the last year. Modern corset with arctic whaling scenes Sea life inspired abstract hanging Shetland navigation chart reinterpreted Fun sewing an old walrus. Which one is your favourite?

Had to go and investigate the strange sound outside… 🚨🌧️🚨IT’ S RAINING 🌧️🚨🌧️

It’s #WorldEmbroideryDay so here are a few of my favourite sewing projects from the last year. Modern corset with arctic whaling scenes Sea life inspired abstract hanging Shetland navigation chart reinterpreted Fun sewing an old walrus. Which one is your favourite?

This time next week I’ll be sailing down the Thames estuary from Tilbury on this adventure! www.ambassadorcruiseline.com/cruise/a1261... There will be lots of photos.

this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux

Looking for something highly specific, and it's a real test of whether Bluesky has the juice: is there an artist out there who's similar to John Akomfrah making art about pandemics / infectious diseases?

Me this week: I’m away next week so lots of prep and planning to do! Also me: I could hand embroider that complicated pattern on the vase but using the colours I selected for my limpet studies

What’s your sign?

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.

what’s your sign

This morning I’m reviewing some #beading/#Embroidery studio studies using a range of techniques and stitches. These were mostly inspired by the #BenthicZone OceanFloor.

Sorry, wtf is this? #totp

I love that many of the usual Friday night #totp crowd here are bringing their usual insight and wit to the Prog Rock #Proms that has bumped totp to later in the schedule

I quite like that they are using different instruments to the album (mostly) #totp

Oooh I recognise this one #TOTP #BBCProms #TubularBells

Update: if the SciArt Feed gets 40 more Likes, it will be the #33 Most Popular Feed on Bluesky. A feed of visual art about science, (with no generative AI allowed 🥳). Tap the link below, then tap the 3 dots at the top to 🩷Like and 📌Pin the Feed (not the pinned post). bsky.app/profile/flyi...

Squirrel teeth!

"So we've stopped calling you 'killer whales' because frankly it made you sound like aquatic psychopaths." "Oh, okay, cool. Here, hold this sunfish for me a moment will you?"

Helen Grant@helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hmmm, definitely not this Hack!

Joey Esposito@joeyesposito.bsky.social · 2w ago

if you see me at SDCC and ask for one of these i will give you one

Finally getting round to working with/working up the #limpet shells I collected in #Cellardyke #Fife last month. Some sketches in Freehand #MachineEmbroidery (including a bit of #trapunto), adding colour with fabric (R) and watercolour (L). Possible thread colours for some hand #embroidery next

Finally getting round to working with/working up the #limpet shells I collected in #Cellardyke #Fife last month. Some sketches in Freehand #MachineEmbroidery (including a bit of #trapunto), adding colour with fabric (R) and watercolour (L). Possible thread colours for some hand #embroidery next

Hey marine biology colleagues? If you can learn how to pronounce Strongylocentrotus, you can learn how to pronounce the names of the people presenting in the conference session you’re moderating.

Absolutely loving this new merch design from New Bedford Whaling Museum store.whalingmuseum.org/en-gb/produc...

A couple of #WorkInProgress #watercolour #Sketches from my trip to #Fife #Cellardyke last month. The shoreline near the tidal pool and some seaweed from the rocky shore just down from the Chinese Takeaway.

How France played last night #WorldCup2026

I wish I could tell you that I have consumed any other culture/thought about anything else in six months but I haven’t, and here’s a little bit about why. Thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social and anyone who has allowed me to talk at them about HR and MD: www.publicbooks.org/heated-rival...

“Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows - Public Books

The literary genre of contemporary MM romance realizes an imagined world that Melville was trying to write into being.

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