Pyke Redrock

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Mountain Lion | Dad | Writer | 🇦🇺 | 41 He/Him

The veranda’s rotting planks groaned under Emry’s feet as he surveyed the neighborhood’s ruins. Nature was steadily transforming the suburban remnants into the forest it had been in the time before humans. Oak, maple, and hickory trees grew in abundance, their autumn colors on full display. Many of these trees, in their youth, had given shade to the humans who lived here. Now, they and their own children formed a canopy that the late-afternoon sun struggled to penetrate. The suburban street was so broken apart by invading foliage, roots, and successive harsh winters that it was barely discernible. Lawns which had been unkempt for almost a century were overrun by wild, tall grasses and goldenrod, dotted by splashes of purple from late-blooming monkshood. Many of the broken, decaying houses were barely recognizable from mere piles of rubble. Rusted husks of cars crumbled in overgrown driveways. Emry was less concerned by the steady erasure of human civilization than the effort it would take to turn the tide against nature and convert the former neighborhood into pastureland. Most of the homes they would either burn or leave to collapse into their foundations. That was the easy part. Emry’s eyes darted around the woodland to register the large circumferences of the oldest trees, and he thought about the effort it would take to fell and remove each of them. He multiplied that effort over the dozens of acres they would need to clear. He sighed, leaned against a wall, and looked up at the veranda’s bending roof to give his thoughts a break. The Victorian-styled home he rested against spoke to the long-ago days when the town was still a farming community - before it was absorbed by urban sprawl to become just one more of Chicago’s exurbs. Whereas the house’s timber-based neighbors had almost all fallen into unsalvageable heaps, this house’s brick exterior stood defiant against nature’s encroachment - even as vines crawled up the walls looking for weaknesses to exploit.
An absolute mess of brainstormed, interconnected plot points for a multi-book series.
Two wolves, one with the other’s muzzle firmly in the grip of their jaw.
3D rendering of a would-be lakeside city except only the city walls are present. Mountains are in the background. There is a fortress-like complex on a promontory overlooking the walled area.
3D generated (not AI) terrain + buildings featuring a Medieval-esque fortress with some basic structures and mountains in the background.
Chart showing maximum daily temperatures in Pittsburgh, PA, from 2016 to 2026. It shows that the 2026 temperatures in the low-mid 90s far exceeds the recent average of low-mid 80s.
Headline: "Nearly half of Americans, two-thirds of Gen Z, don't know what America's 250th commemorates." Followed by a donut chart showing 53% of respondents correctly identifying "The adoption of the Declaration of Independence" as the purpose for commemoration. 23% are "Not sure."
Homer Simpson standing beside his invention, “Lazy Man Toilet Seat,” which is a standard reclining chair with a hole cut into the seat for easy pooping. Featured in The Simpsons Season 10 episode, “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace,” which first aired on 20 September 1998.
The dream had started innocuously—one more in a parade of others that would be erased from memory by daylight. But at some point it decided to become more than ephemeral, and soon Dhivra was flooded by recollections of battlefield horrors. Not just the visions of people dying around her, not just the sounds of their final cries, but the weight of terror that replaced the air in her lungs and made her breaths short. Dhivra killed the nightmare by forcing herself awake. But her breathing was still short, and her chest still tight. She blinked out the tears which had welled up while her eyes had been closed. Her mouth was painfully dry. Rehni was still sound asleep beside her, his moonslit chest rising and falling in a slow, steady rhythm. But she felt much too alert to coax herself back to sleep. Dhivra sat up slowly so as not to disturb him, trying to ignore the tremors in her hands. Dhivra stood on unsteady paws and walked across the room to fetch a flagon of wine. Finding one that was still appreciably full, she shakily poured herself a drink and downed it quickly. It barely relieved her parched maw and did nothing for her shakes. She thought to pour another drink, but she heard Rehni stirring in bed, and so she quickly put the cup and flagon back on their stool. Rehni's hand searched the bed where she had been lying a moment before; and, not finding her, he tilted his head up to look around the room. His eyes reflected the moonslight when he gazed at her. "Are you okay?" he asked in a voice caught between sleepy and wakeful. "Fine," she replied as certainly as she could manage. "Just need to go down the hall." Rehni nodded and then lay his head back down.
Two panel meme comic. In the top panel, a hand pushes two buttons, one labelled, "We don't need the left to win," and the other, "We lost because the left didn't vote for us." In the second panel, the Democratic Party logo gives a thumbs up.
Black and white photo of a wolf fursuiter, representing Sickos, pressing menacingly against your window while laughing, “Yes… HA HA HA… YES!” Suiter is @hansfaffing.bsky.social—who also did the text—and photo is by @kilmo.bsky.social.
Two panel meme comic. In the top panel, a hand pushes two buttons, one labelled, "We don't need the left to win," and the other, "We lost because the left didn't vote for us." In the second panel, the Democratic Party logo gives a thumbs up.
Front page of a flyer advocating for the reader to install LibreOffice, Linux Mint, and Flathub as replacements for Microsoft, Apple, and Google-owned software.
Photograph of a mountain lion looking at the viewer. They don’t appear impressed.
Two image meme. Top image: a wolf is lying in the corner of a breakfast nook, with Lenin-era agitprop on the table. Caption: "you're making agitprop in the breakfast nook." Bottom image: Close-up on the wolf's face. Caption: "do you think that's acceptable wolf-like behavior"
“Naumachia Neronis” by Giacomo Lauro, c. 1625. Depicts a mock naval battle being fought in a flooded amphitheater.
Introductory text of a fictional Wikipedia-like page for Korrin Ahoumrek of Rouhkr-at-Aureya. It's way over the character limit to describe fully in alt text. It describes his accession to be the realm's sovereign, his being deposed, his restoration, and legacy as both tyrant and queer icon.
Table of Contents for a fictional Wikipedia-like page: 1 Early life 2 Exile among the felines 3 Accession and early reign, "Korrin the Unready" 4 Third Dynastic Crisis 5 Later reign, "The Tyranny" 6 Death and succession 6.1 The Korrinkin 7 Notable reforms 8 Personality 9 Romantic affairs and sexuality 9.1 Marriages 9.2 Betrothals and lovers 9.2.1 Same-sex relations 9.2.2 Interspecies relations 10 Historiography 11 Cultural depictions 12 Genealogical tables 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 16 Further reading 17 External links
Westminster-style seating chart for a fictional proto-parliament, "Assembly of the Keeper's Peers." This chart shows the balance of power by race and rank. It shows that wolves hold 80% of the seats in the Assembly while being 60% of the general population. Coyotes, being about 20% of the population, have about 10% of seats, most holding seats as wealthy merchants. Foxes, although being about 10% of the population, have a mere four of the 166 total seats. Other species making the balance of the population have a single wealthy merchant to represent them. Horses, despite being five percent of the population, have no members in the Assembly. Interestingly, although the 34 wealthy merchants are far from representative of the quality of life of most people in the realm, they are nearer to the demographic composition of the general population than the Assembly as a whole. The chart also shows that the faction of landed aristocrats (77 of 79 of whom are wolves) pretty much have the votes to do whatever they want.
Former Minister of Information for Iraq Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf insists there are no U.S. troops in Baghdad in March 2003.
An organisation chart labelled "Keepersworn Organisation Chart" that shows a flow of hierarchy from Keeper -> Commandant -> Marshal of the Guard, Quartermaster, and Master of Crafts. Beneath the Marshal of the Guard are the Commandant of the Watch and Master of Drill and Instruction. Beneath the Quartermaster are the Commandant of the Stores and Commandant of the Armoury. Beneath the Master of Crafts are the Master Blacksmith, Master Armourer, Master Mason, Master of Medicine, and Master Clerk.
Tweet showing that novelty “I <3 69” cards have been outsold by “I <3 67” cards, which are completely sold out.
Passage from Abraham Lincoln's 1838 "Lyceum Address": Theirs was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; 'tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader [the Native Americans would like to have a few words, Abe...]; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform. How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! . . . At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny. . . . Whatever, then, their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.
Some of the faiths that were dropped include Atheists, Deists, Druids, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Shaman, Spiritualists and Unitarian Universalists. According to the memo shared with USA TODAY by [Military Religious Freedom Foundation], the following religions are still in the list of "religious affiliation codes” for service members. Agnostic (AN) Baha'i faith (BH) Buddhism (BU) Christian - Assemblies of God (AG) Christian - Baptist (BA) Christian - Brethren (BR) Christian - Catholic (CA) Christian - Church of Christ (CC) Christian - Church of God (CG) Christian - Church of the Nazarene (CN) Christian - Episcopal/Anglican (EA) Christian - Evangelical (EV) Christian - Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) Christian - Lutheran (LU) Christian - Methodist (ME) Christian - Non-Denominational (ND) Christian - Orthodox (OX) Christian - Other (CO) Christian - Pentecostal (PE) Christian - Presbyterian (PR) Christian - Quaker (QU) Christian - Reformed (RE) Christian - Scientist (SC) Christian - Seventh Day Adventist (SA) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (CJ) Hindu (HI) Islam (Muslim) (IS) Judaism (Jewish) (JU) No Religion (NR) Other Religions (OR) Sikh (SI)
Muted Azure pale sanguine, and over all two swords crossing bendwise hilt and pommel Or. That is to say, image of a light blue shield with a burgundy stripe down the middle then crossed by two swords, each with golden hilt and pommel.
Donald Trump tweet from 3 September 2015: "The deal with Iran will go down as one of the most incompetent ever made. The U.S. lost on virtually every point. We just don't win anymore!"
A 3x3 table with the horizontal side labelled "Inflection," and the columns from left to right labelled, "Flattened," "Natural," and "Exaggerated." The vertical side is labelled "Pitch," and the rows from bottom to top labelled "Lowered," "Natural," and "Raised." The cells in the top row, beginning at left, are labelled, "Subordinate," "Deferential," and "Playful (Childish)." The cells in the middle row, beginning at left, are labelled, "Formal/Professional," "Normal," and "Playful (Mature)." The cells in the bottom row, beginning at left, are labelled, "Aggressive," "Imperative," and "*confused head tilt*"
Screenshot from the offical music video for “Kiss From a Rose” by Seal. It’s difficult to tell, but there’s a Batman logo in the background as a subtle nod to the 1995 movie, Batman Forever, that the song featured in the year after its release.
Graffiti-esque white text on slate grey background: "Ask Me About My Fursona"
Screenshot of headlines from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news front page. At the top is a story about negotiations to end the war in Iran, followed by articles on the ongoing mouse plague and a human interest piece about becoming a farmhand in retirement. Below those is the breaking news about shots fired at the White House.
A complex family relationship chart with a Mother, Father, and Children at centre (the "Household"), and then fanning out to four degrees of separation from the Mother and Father, including in-laws. Closer relatives are labelled as "Family," while most 3rd degree relations are labelled "Pack family," and the remainder "Extended pack." The chart notes that under common wolven family-pack structure, the Household is the foundational unit of society. Wolves live in multigenerational houses (noted on the chart by a dashed line marking the usual scale of cohabitation), and that packs span multiple, related families.
Black and white photo of a wolf fursuiter, representing Sickos, pressing menacingly against your window while laughing, “Yes… HA HA HA… YES!” Suiter is @hansfaffing.bsky.social, photo is by @kilmo.bsky.social.
Ancient Tweet by “Mike Primavera”: “My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying.”
Screenshot of Marc Caputo’s profile, replacing “reporter” with “mouthpiece.”
An anthropomorphic mountain lion wearing a t-shirt and shorts holding a beer and turning sausages on the grill.
Text of an exchange between a reporter and Trump: Reporter: "On negotiating with Iran, Mr President, to what extent are Americans' financial situation motivating you to make a deal?" Trump: "Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran. They can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all that is. That's the only thing that matters."
Screenshot of an article published 22 December 2025 by the Hudson Institute titled, “Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Surprisingly Good for the World,” by Walter Russell Mead.
A 3x3 table with the horizontal side labelled "Inflection," and the columns from left to right labelled, "Flattened," "Natural," and "Exaggerated." The vertical side is labelled "Pitch," and the rows from bottom to top labelled "Lowered," "Natural," and "Raised." The cells in the top row, beginning at left, are labelled, "Subordinate," "Deferential," and "Playful (Childish)." The cells in the middle row, beginning at left, are labelled, "Formal/Professional," "Normal," and "Playful (Mature)." The cells in the bottom row, beginning at left, are labelled, "Aggressive," "Imperative," and "*confused head tilt*"
Two Bluesky posts in a feed. The first is by @atlasbun.bsky.social sharing a link to a study that associates voting with lower mortality risk in older adults. The post says, "Out vote them, out live them." The second is by @lilnoodledragon.bsky.social that shows digital artwork of an angry, grey noodle dragon spitting fire. The post says, "Survive out of spite."
Screenshot from Clearsky showing that @why.bsky.team is blocking 310,709 users through the "AI Haters" block list.
Image showing current results of the redistricting referendum in Virginia. The “No” vote leads 52.1-47.9.
Historical photo from the landings at Normandy on 6 June 1944. US soldiers prepare to disembark onto the beach.
Blog post from “The Hill” on 30 March 2026 titled, “Leavitt says U.S. within timeline to achieve objectives in Iran”: “Leavitt said that the U.S. was within the administration’s state timeline to achieve its objectives in the war in Iran on the one month anniversary of the military operation. “The president, commander-in-chief, and the Pentagon has always stated 4-6 weeks estimated timeline. We’re on Day 30 today. So, you do the math on how much longer the Pentagon needs to fully achieve the objectives,” Leavitt told reporters at the White House press briefing.”
An amphibious bus… boat… thing painted like a duck.
The U.S. Army blows up the concrete Nazi Swastika at Nuremberg Stadium.
Still from Disney's "Robin Hood" (1973), in which the anthropomorphic fox shows off his bow and arrows.
Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani in "Friends" showing off his stylish man bag. It's not a purse!
According to the council, Iran's 10-point plan includes: Controlled passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with Iran's armed forces Establishing a safe transit protocol in the Strait of Hormuz, ensuring Iran's dominance Ending the war against Iran and its allies Withdrawal of US combat forces from the Middle East Full compensation for Iran's costs in the war Lifting all primary and secondary sanctions and resolutions of the IAEA Board and the UN Security Council The release of all blocked Iranian assets abroad And approval of all these items in a binding UN Security Council resolution
According to the council, Iran's 10-point plan includes: Controlled passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with Iran's armed forces Establishing a safe transit protocol in the Strait of Hormuz, ensuring Iran's dominance Ending the war against Iran and its allies Withdrawal of US combat forces from the Middle East Full compensation for Iran's costs in the war Lifting all primary and secondary sanctions and resolutions of the IAEA Board and the UN Security Council The release of all blocked Iranian assets abroad And approval of all these items in a binding UN Security Council resolution
Screenshot of stock market futures following Trump’s announcement of a two week extension on his genocidal deadline. All markets are sharply higher.
An anthropomorphic puma looking out over a mountain valley.
Passage from the Declaration of Independence: Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Photo of the Southern Cross and surrounding stars. Quality is poor because it was taken on an iPhone.
Terrible quality picture of the Southern Cross and surrounding stars, but it was taken on an iPhone of all things, so that’s kind of impressive.
View of the Earth from Artemis II looking at the South Atlantic with Africa, South America, and the Iberian Peninsula in view.
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon. Image Credit: NASA (4 April 2026)
"Democrats welcomed the agreement as in line with their pledge not to give ICE any more money without reforms after immigration enforcement agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. But the deal does not include any of the policy demands Democrats are pressing for, such as a ban on masks for immigration enforcement officers and requiring warrants issued by a judge, not just the agency, to enter homes."
Screenshot from the New York Times with the two available polls for the Nebraska Senate race showing the Republican candidate up only +1 over the Independent challenger. At the time of these polls, there was no "Democratic" candidate.