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Just reading an essay in which someone anglicises Jormungandr as "Ermengand" and now all I can think of is this

A fantastically sinister hoplite - a heavily armed Greek solider! He looks ready to fight all day… Met Museum.

Willing to overlook the footwear here on the grounds of heroism.

Dress for success.

Someone's obviously borrowed Jeff's rocket; first book of the day was "Meet the Planets". - Michael

Fafnir: the ultimate in "if the wind changes you'll stick like that"

#NewRelease in #Audiobook! Called home by her ambitious father, Anne Boleyn enters the court of Henry VIII... The Lady Anne #Tudor #AnneBoleyn #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audible #Histfic #BooksWorthReading #HenryVIII #Booksky 📚💙📚 www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FJZJ2QW...

#NewRelease! Trusted to defend her son's empire, Eleanor of Aquitaine faces challenges not only from enemies but from her own kin, as her youngest son plots to steal the throne of his brother... The Narrowness of Death $4.99 #Free #KU! #medieval #Histfic #Booksky 💙📚💙 www.amazon.com/Narrowness-D...

Going back to work in the bookshop this afternoon for the first time since getting COVID a couple of weeks ago. Feels like months.

Got angry about a spoiler for a tv show. Realised I already knew the spoiler cos I read the book a while back. But had forgotten the spoiler. Does it count as a spoiler? And other philosophical questions at breakfast.

I read What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3) by T. Kingfisher

‘Enoch Powell helped turn Britain’s relationship with Europe into an all-consuming struggle for the soul of the body politic. Nothing became more frightening than the idea that the shadow play might be the new reality.’ David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

That's easy! I'd pitch a kickstarter at my fellow cursed squillionaires to all pitch in 90% of our unwanted wealth towards buying the space launch capacity to build burial pyramids on Mars! (And a giant face next to them, visible from orbit, just to fuck with NASA.)

You guys want to see my one billion dollar water slide?

Mech suits for whales so they could come on land and fully express their feelings about humans. Especially orcas. I guess that makes me the crazed villain?

And this morning the Shed is a particle, travelling at a speed hitherto considered unimaginable…

THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR's evil AI Max goes worldwide in this anthology of 13 horror stories set across the globe! Featuring James Lovegrove, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, James Goss, MK Hardy and many more, including me! Coming from Rebellion Spring 2026; cover by Sam Gretton. But wait, there's more...

What’s your favourite low effort meal? Cheese omelette

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

I love the smell of hardbacks in the morning. - Michael

It was an entirely predictable stupidity, one of many which massively increased the number of our dead. Johnson will face no consequence, because the bad choices of leaders never do, but I will always believe he should.

Reading about Snorri Sturluson's life apparently he was a right shagger. Also: trying to imagine a shagger MP these days also being famous as a poet. Bonkbuster set in parliament, sure. But poet? Can anyone recommend a good Snorri biography? Def stuff in there worthy of a saga!

Huh. “In fact, one way of looking at AI is that it’s main use is as a vehicle to give the fossil fuel industry one last reason to expand.” Fascinating newsletter from @billmckibben.bsky.social

I read The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

"Calling shame without shaming"

A local north london charity called Akwaaba is raising money for a creative art space for refugees, unhoused ppl, and the wider community. Even small donations will make a big difference! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #UKKidlit

Hades 2 has been really fun, but reading up on what you need to do to actually reach the ending of the game, and I don't think I have the patience to do all that. I might beat it the old-fashioned way (just stop playing when it gets boring)

@colleendoran.bsky.social Mine has arrived, thank you for your gorgeous art x

Oh Lynx and Vape don’t mix 🤢 had to open the bus window and it’s cold 🥶

This song has such a melancholic sound to it. Close your eyes while listening—where does the melody take you? I imagine lightly snow-covered, wooded fields at night. I always see that image when I think about vampires. I don't know why. 🩸 #vampires #goth #music #Dracula youtu.be/vhG8zC4npsE

This song has such a melancholic sound to it. Close your eyes while listening—where does the melody take you? I imagine lightly snow-covered, wooded fields at night. I always see that image when I think about vampires. I don't know why. 🩸 #vampires #goth #music #Dracula youtu.be/vhG8zC4npsE?...

It's crazy to think that some people actually rode those. A piece of candy could kill you in the Victorian era, so no thank you to inversion rollercoasters. 😳 #Victorian #themeparks #rollercoasters #rides #history youtube.com/shorts/pfZER...

The majority of the country couldn't be bothered to vaccinate annually but they're looking at disabled people masking like we're the problem? Nah, bud. I don't have patience for it anymore.

@louiestowell.bsky.social

Please admire a dog who is committing nighttime crimes to avoid getting her ear meds. #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky

Who Can Afford Three Kids in New York City? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/n...

Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other #WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚 alt text please

One wall of my living room is now a sheet of glass looking onto my personal naked mole rat colony.

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." —from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/w...

Trump Targets Democratic Districts By Halting Billions During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How and why did we turn the human experience and civilization's existence into this lame artifical struggle for no reason? For this orange shitbag That guy? That fucking guy? The escalator guy? Fucking seriously?

The hilarity of this letter coming from Salt Lake City, the LDS faithful have been voting for this shit for years

JUST PUBBED!

the state of my birth has a statewide case of pathological oppositional disorder, and I really just think that all the same things that worked against Sara Gideon when it felt like outsiders were telling them "you dumbasses gotta vote for who we tell you" could blow up in Schumer's face with this

Timeline cleanse:

If I could make a perfume for my very talented wife @sarahday.org 's book GREYHOWLER it would have base notes of animal musk and petrichor and leather, middle notes of dry mummified desert wood and dusty earth, and top notes of sagebrush, ozone, and the slightest coppery hint of guilt and blood

INTERNET QUICK I NEED TO WIN THIS AUCTION FOR A MOBILE COMMAND CENTER www.govdeals.com/en/asset/171...

Honestly, what is that? It's like I am legit two people in one skull at some points.

Hotel Chelsea #2 (Kidz Bop version)

Private, we're going to show you a drunk guy yelling and if you say it's not the coolest thing you've ever seen you go to jail

Deleted 28 messages on phone. 30% were from United Healthcare saying they wanted me to know about "exclusive benefits" (this is always teledoc service) and 70% same script from "a lender" asking for "final details" to process a $64k loan I'd been approved for. This is why no one picks up the phone

My niece sent up a note with my isolation dinner. 🥹

This movie is so damn funny.

The moon had no chill. That's not a lamp. Thats the fucking moon. On my brick phone that's 8 years old. I think even the vampires would have had sunburn last night.

taking a year in exile due to having phone sex with an evil blender

I'm so sorry. You're mistaking me for someone who will ever give a shit about anything Olivia Nuzzi says from now till the end of time. Or 20 minutes after it.

two different posts on the TL put this song on the jukebox in my head so enjoy the band that really should have hit like a giant

Oh, the more it changes, the more it stays the same, And the hand just rearranges the players in the game. --Al Stewart, "Nostradamus"

They won't need to transfer *much* land. Haven't you seen the architectural drawing for the upcoming Trump Library?

The funny thing is, several of these countries HAVE kings...but not ones that fuck them over.

Worried That Things Can’t Get Worse? open.substack.com/pub/mollyjon...

new ancestry results have updated to ONE PERCENT french canadian what an exciting revelation

...does anyone remember the 1st edition cover of the game Shadowrun null perspiration if you don't, chummer, it was 1989

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It's not as if he had any to spare.

Hot headline of the day, right? Sure!

It's too late. He done did it.

So I'm reading the whole kingston cycle straight through, and holy smokes, the things I don't remember 1. Miles can sense people's pain and illness when he touches them. It's not something he *sees* so much as it's something that he visualises 2. Miles is trying to quit smoking and he sucks at it

There is no such thing as the perfect Hallowe...

A school without a library is like a car without a steering wheel.

Me showing up to DM jokes across a minimum of 10 apps:

I have paid no attention at all to news or politics today. That feels good. Most exciting thing that happened was a Cooper's hawk sitting atop the streetlight pole in front of our house while I was writing. It squawked and chirped and intrigued the cats.

We stand with Leila Little, all of the plaintiffs, and Suzette Baker. We will never stop defending our nation’s libraries.

Honestly did not realize this was paywalled because I subscribed to them and it has been a far better use of my money than WaPo or NYT, and also this was a really interesting article. (if occasionally enraging)

Are people really that into bedhead?

Timeline cleanse! My grandpup is 8 today! Penny ♥️

After two days of heavy rain, including a destructive microburst, I went out to see the mountain. Look at the green! There’s even grass! Everything is like, “Omg, it’s my chance! Now or never! Lock in!” Butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers everywhere, too. And the creosote bushes smell so strong!

It’s baking weather!! I made some chai-spiced #snickerdoodle #cookies from @inspiredbycharm.bsky.social's classic recipe on his blog. They’re perfect for a rainy day, or any day! #baking #homebaker #baker

Oops, don’t want to be fooling anyone: was visiting a class today, and someone showed me that what I thought was only in the omnibus is in 1776 (I see so many mock-ups/versions, in lose track of what’s where):

Announcing THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, the new novel from @matthaig.bsky.social, to publish in May 2026. A time travelling love story from the world of The Midnight Library, it's available to pre-order here buythebook.online/the-midnight...

It’s zombie drink time of year at Applebees. Brains!

I think I will have to finally watch S1 so I can listen to the podcast and also find out if any of them do play Space Hockey

I’ll give @nytimes.com free content when they make the puzzles free for non-subscribers.

I love these little rainbow T-Rex desk friends! When you need to be super colorful but still say RAWR! thebrokencircle.etsy...

Hivemind! @seananmcguire.bsky.social wants to know where this wallpaper comes from.

I posted about my miniature books on Twitter (yeah, still there, though barely) and it went mini-viral. I guess people who like books are still are on there, heh. Interesting.

Caution: contains contains bats, black cats, cosplaying wizards, haunted houses, and Ultimate Evil kicking back with a pumpkin spice latte to watch the action go down. At #Ebooks Direct: "Not On My Patch." ebooks.direct/products/not...

Here’s some Abel Klaer art to make your Tuesday a little better.

I'm a little bit absurdly excited to be attending the Sea-Meow cat convention in Seattle on November 1-2. I have a spot in the programming to chat (pun intended) about my journey with Elsie, the tiny talking tyrant (ahem, I mean, cat) who lives with me. www.seameowconvention.com

There. Are. Four. Lights.

Tsundoku, nerds! Buy more books!

This is pretty wild reading & if you like me are a gym enthusiast who knocks back a protein shake or 3 throughout the week & thought plant protein was better for your body than whey, probably important to read!

feeling this after my "just go to a place to tell them you still want to do things" appointment lol

Anyway REMINDER! I am at @canconsffh.bsky.social very soon and I will be SCUTTLING AROUND doing... THINGS! In a Canadian fashion! And then there is a book launch with the amazing @kateheartfield.com on the 20th! Be there or be a rectangular thing

The formerly titled The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy is finally available as an ebook from Open Road. We had to change the title for legal reasons but here it is. openroadmedia.com/.../the-big-... Here's to a new life for one of my favorite, mixed-genre anthologies.

THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS.

I guess i'm bringing paints on my next hike because this is a way I would like to sow mild and temporary chaos into the world. IS IT A TOE?! No, but it was left there by an asshole!