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Pedro Xisto, Epithalamium, 1969

If the Cavs end up winning the whole thing, the Jazz fans are going to be absolutely insufferable. I can already feel the fomo spin building up in their throats.

The Morning Monty is waiting for that sunbeam to return, dammit.

Today's tale of #horror is based on an a real antique toy that I @halhefner.bsky.social inherited from my friend when he passed away last July. It's called, FEARS OF A CLOWN...

It would be really funny.

Yes. It's INCREDIBLY fucked up. Agree? Disagree?

‘There was work to be done in Britain itself: to establish better treatment of Black people in the face of racism and discrimination and to shape the nascent decolonial project.’ Gazelle Mba on the history of West African emigration to Britain since the 17th century: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Some time ago--months, definitely, but the number is unclear--we went to the grocery store, and my mother bought a shrimp ring. One of those plastic rings of pre-cooked cocktail shrimp. Okay: we both like them. That's fine.

This week on The SFWA Blog... THE COMICS PANEL: How to Write a Comic Script by Tim Susman. Unpack the basics—collaboration with illustrators, page layout, and dialogue mechanics—then check out more examples at www.sfwa.org/2025/04/29/h...

You know what time it is?

Sometimes, I see people backing up into parking spaces and think wow they're way better at backing up than I am but then I remember they probably have one of those fancy backup cameras.

Where all my cowards at? Well, truth be told, you're not mine if you're a coward. Fucking losers.

It is INDEED PROPHESIZED and actually our event (in conversation with the illustrious @cjdwriter.bsky.social ) is already up on the @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social site! 😍 audreys.ca/events/25540...

Mon prof d'arts martiaux disait toujours que la meilleure chose à faire en cas de couteau c'est de courir très vite (J'ai connu qu'une seule personne ayant réussi à désarmer qq1. C'était un pompier en permission qui s'est fait agresser dans la rue et amis son agresseur par terre. C'est rare)

Such corporate bravery. Much citizen. I am so moved.

Sabotage at night Pulling my guts from my nose You still won’t beat me. #haiku P.S. fuck you.

Look at this unit!!! Chilling in attic window of an abandoned house on the corner

only just noticed that if you join oxford and cambridge to london with straight lines, it forms an arrow pointing directly at hastings - a deliberate "easter egg" from william the conqueror

Nice try motherfuckers.

Happy Pub Day to ONE WAY WITCH book 2 in the SHE WHO KNOWS trilogy. Someone called it a book about Africanfuturist witches. Yes. “One Way Witch is another Nnedi Okorafor classic, a statement on politics, gender and history delivered as an unputdownable sci-fi & fantasy adventure.” -BookPage

While Black music is the heart of Sinners, Irish music plays second fiddle. @leahschnelbach.bsky.social dissects the history of the Irish songs in Sinners, from their historical meanings to the context they take on within the film: reactormag.com/lets-talk-ab...

This was why most people joined ICE in the first place. Getting government pay to bully and rob people is a dream job to them.

My local dollar store raised it's price to $1.50 already (it was $1.25 after COVID).

You can see the whole EO at the link, and please see Section 6. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

‘The “experience of forgetting” that inspired A Wound with Teeth is specific: Blakey was sectioned as a child and spent a year at a mental health facility in Manchester.’ Sam Kinchin-Smith on choreographer Holly Blakey at the Southbank Centre, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

Things you only learn in the 𝘓𝘙𝘉. 🦷🪱 Read Liam Shaw’s piece on the history of teeth here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Random Reddit quote of the day: "Don't take punishment from people who'd never reward you for doing good."

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"THE HORRIBLE UNWANTED BABBY KITTY AM IN FIASCO'S CASTLE!!! FIASCO WAS HERE FIRST!!!" I'm sorry buddy but your face is very funny here

The objective of pro wrestling is to hold your opponent’s shoulders to the mat for the count of three. Therefore...

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Updates on my latest book and more! jendia-gammon.ghost.io/updates-atac...

#SPFBO has a new champion!!! This is the book where I read it once, struggled to write a review, went to skim read it to get notes and ended up re-reading the entire book. Big scores from other teams, too! mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2024/09/spfb... weatherwaxreport.blog/2024/12/23/s...

Shout out to everyone with lilacs in their yards. For a few days, you help the neighborhood smell amazing.

goooood morning it is cool and damp out there, and even tho the sun came out as soon as we got home: Lucy Loved That Walk at

The FL Attorney General’s Office will now assist with cases involving “objectionable instructional or library materials” among other things. We wonder if “interference with educational choices” will be applied equally? www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/...

In the #digitalart dep't, "Just *why* did I buy this again?..." division... www.tumblr.com/dduane/78217...

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The new issue of Worlds of IF magazine arrived today, containing my short story 'An Examination of the Trolley Problem Using a Sentient Warship and a Rotating Black Hole.'

Publishing job! We're recruiting a Senior Rights Manager to join our rights team based in either Edinburgh or London! You'll be passionate, hard working, with 5 years+ experience in rights, ready to take your work to the next level. Salary & benefits in the ad. canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/

JK Rowling is a Nazi. That is just a factual representation of her beliefs and actions. Any money you spend on anything to do with Harry Potter is going to a Nazi

First trade review of KING OF ASHES is a starred review from LIBRARY JOURNAL 😎 www.libraryjournal.com/review/king-....

Niche Glasgow question. Do you, a Glaswegian, call this (A) a candy apple Or (B) a toffee apple Or (C) lunch ?

#NewRelease! As the shifting tides of fate wreak havoc on the succession, power and faith in England, Anna of Cleves must make choices which may endanger her freedom, & her life Under the Eyes of the World $4.99 or #Free #KindleUnlimited #Histfic #Tudor #Booksky 📚💙📚 www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

What a cool thing to realize that you’re standing in the room where Slimer was caught in the first Ghostbusters movie, 😆👻! I’ve been staying in this hotel for days and I’ve had a “This place seems familiar” feeling all through. A lot of movies were filmed here, but THAT’s the one for me.

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation'." —Aldous Huxley

We Asked Ten Guys We Found Jerking Off Outside Of Gas Stations What They Thought Of Trump's First 100 Days

‘As great powers Russia and Britain had very few clashing interests. Though both wanted to expand, they could do so for many thousands of miles across Asia without interfering with each other.’ @jonparryhis.bsky.social on Russia and England in the 19th century: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Is a heavy focus on representation overloading your work with borrowed intentions? Does this focus leave little room for you to explore your own intuition about the perspectives and subjects you care about most? This craft intensive is for you! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/spri...

the way the last season of Reacher kept turning to stare us directly in the face and say HE'S RETIRING AFTER THIS ONE LAST JOB just to terrify us

Wait is it Andor day again already??? I CAN'T KEEP TRACK EVERYTHING IS A LOT!

This is so hilarious, I had to share. Mount Trumpmore!

It’s a Rings of Saturn kinda morning. I keep coming back to this one because it feels like you’re inside a video game.

In progress...

It's a day with -day in it. That means some of you out there in Socialmedialand need to buy my books. Laura's, too.

Unexpected, wonderful things.

The trailer for Zach Cregger's Barbarian follow-up Weapons is appropriately creepy: reactormag.com/a-trailer-fo...

Thoughts and prayers, you despicable treasonweasels.

NEW BOOKS TODAY!! @ghoulish.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @pkennedywrites.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social

It doesn't but it's way easier to get angry at powerless scapegoats than challenge the patriarchy

Our son who lives in Wisconsin has been working at a plant in Washington state. Yesterday, he showed up on our doorstep unexpectedly. "I finished early and it was only a six hour drive here," he explained, proving that he's become a true Midwesterner.

Alexander Skarsgård introduces the world to Murderbot - and tells us EXACTLY what it thinks about humanity - in this Inside Look on the upcoming show: reactormag.com/alexander-sk...

We're heading somewhere, all right.

I am not less stressed out this morning! I am disappointed in SO MANY PEOPLE!!

Early experiments from 2011, blending poetry, typography, and code.

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What? Four years weren't enough? They fucking knew. Too many of them liked it.

‘You can pull out a book at random, open it and read, scrawled in the margin, Gray’s reaction: “middle-class nonsense!” Dallas told me he would sometimes return to previous marginalia and argue with his former self.’ Dani Garavelli visits Alasdair Gray’s archive: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The inflation, of course, came from all the money Trump threw into the economy during COVID to keep it from collapsing altogether. I called it on Xitter in April 2020, and I ain't no economist. But these Trumpnazis can't blame the Tangerine Shitgibbon.

Donald Trump, Jr., was first to board the fishing boat, with a cutlass between his teeth and a coke spoon the size of a dumpster in his hand. ***** www.cbsnews.com/news/cocaine...

Time to uninstall that app. Do it now!

Horrific and fascinating apnews.com/projects/tru...

Four years to get through, minus 99 days.

Breaking news!! My wife's YouTube channel is back!!! Please give it a subscribe and check out some Miss Scarytales videos!! #Filmsky youtu.be/oliaLucMcRw

Here's where to find me this weekend at Atomacon in Charleston, SC! I haven't been there in nearly twenty years. Any recommendations for gluten free restaurants?

Is a tiny giant squid not enough for you? How about a giant giant squid??? The photo doesn't quite capture the magical rainbow iridescence of the sealant I used, it's amazing. thebrokencircle.etsy...

Isn't this a lovely graphic?

Oh My Giddy Aunt. Don't these look majestic! The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social Have arrived from our printers. Stunning. Launching May 22nd Waterstones Trafalgar Square Hosted by Catherine Taylor. @thebookseller.com @waterstones.bsky.social @bookcornerhx.bsky.social

Pretty good summary of the current state of America, really

Hello friendos Your librarian here with a tip Ditch Duolingo and their AI and use your library card to access Mango or Rosetta at your library. You can also check out language CDs and DVDs, as well as books, phrase books, dictionaries and e-resources.

Today is the paperback release day for Someone You Can Build A Nest In! My little baby has grown up. 🥹 If any of you see its soft cover out in the wild, I would adore pictures.

Gooooood morning my friends!!

I remember saying ‘You’re flying low.’

I just need everyone to clock that the crescent moon on the right has become a croissant

When we survive this, let’s commit to not taking out our pain and grief on our children. They are not responsible for the world that was stolen from us.

Smoothie Brainfreeze is the name of my next band.

Wondering what @globalvoices.org is all about? who better to tell you than our own wonderful, multilingual community ⬇️

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The Devils is out in the UK in ONE WEEK. Just saying.

One guy shaped like a thumb down to this plan

This one goes out to our brave eighth responders

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It’s all fun and games until you lose your bookmark.

‘In 16th-century Italy, children who asked where babies came from were told that they popped out from their mother’s armpit.’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

(scribbles down potential novel title; *The Woman Who Lost The Moon*)

Good Morning ☀️

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