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Ya wanna fuckin' fight? Them's fightin' words. "This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here." -- Feet of Clay '96' Now STFU and GTFO

Which Pratchett book is your favorite? I think Night Watch is peak Pratchett.

Look, there are plenty of roles for "owner of AI company" in romance novels! The villain, the murder victim...um, the other villain...

The Paddington movies where everything is the same* except that Paddington speaks with a Peruvian accent. *nothing ends up being the same.

Cup of tea; half an hour to kill. You know what that means, Bluesky: #Storytime.

"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?" I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely. tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu

Listening to I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue in the gym. I may be the only person ever to spend most of my time on the stairmaster howling with laughter.

Good morning, Bluesky. August walking stats: Going to end up averaging 6.2, possibly 6.3 miles by day’s end, my highest average since I started shooting for 5 miles daily in December 2020. Related: I have to replace the shoes I bought in May, my beloved Dr. Scholl’s X Milk Bar Rebel sneakers.

The shop has been open for 1,218 days. Today, we sold our 63,000th book.

Living my little Greek island author boy fantasy 📖 💻

‘Satie’s three piano pieces changed the harmonic vocabulary of 20th-century music. The major seventh chord became ubiquitous, first in jazz, then in pop music. Repetition, rather than development, became the guiding principle of composition.’ @jonathancoe.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I just found this in a book, used for a bookmark. I think I drew it last year.

Good morning. I've had a very productive writing session today. 5am start. Just finished. I'll share a snippet later. For now, have some photos of my weekend. 💜💜 #WritingCommunity #SkyWriters #BookSky #Romancelandia #Authors #MentalHealthMatters #Agoraphobia #Photography #Kites

Weekly reminder that if you're looking for a #horror themed #discord server, we've got ~600 members, host three weekly activities, and our doors are open 🙂 We're also a #podcast that delves into the #psychological side of your favorite horror creators! discord.gg/vkbmUdyaXk

I really don’t get it. Is it because he has nice hair? Because he sure as fuck doesn’t have nice policies

Have you overcome any minor obstacles lately? Here is Nike to reward you with an incense-burner of victory! The Met Museum.

‘Hamilton was not only the father of the strong presidency and the American banking system, for which he is already renowned, he was also the father both of US protectionism and of US industrial espionage.’ Ferdinand Mount on a history of tariffs www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Good morning, we are open! - Michael

When I say something stupid here I often think about just deleting the post out of embarrassment but then I always decide not to, because you know what? Even people who own exceptionally beautiful dogs can be stupid on social media. Let’s normalise it.

Your Sunday viewing 📕 📺

I had to get up briefly and then I waited a couple minutes for these tiny dinosaurs from @cinderwing3d.bsky.social to finish printing because who doesn't want a TINY LITTLE FINGERTIP FRIEND 😍

It’s not even been a year since I was telling an English speaking friend about the Icelandic tradition of eating Rock Ptarmigan on Christmas Eve, and friends, I pronounced the t! She corrected me and I realised I had only ever read the word.

20, 20, 24 hours ago We all thought he had bit it

#BookSale! Just 99p! January 1536 The King is dead... but who will live long now? A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos... All the King's Bastards #Free #KU! #Histfic #SpeculativeFic amzn.eu/d/5wpjqZU

This is probably the last time he will visit. He can leave, of course. Several rooms of her house have small windows, too small for anybody to climb out of. As for the garden – yes, there can be golden flecks in it – there is a glow. A story by Diane Willams: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Messenger. "I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books." Beatrice. "No; an he were, I would burn my study" MAAN #ShakespeareSunday

And this morning the Shed is a burial mound, out on the crest of a heather moor, under which an undiscovered hoard of scarlet gold lies burning…

"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends." Cor #ShakespeareSunday

"My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood" A&C #ShakespeareSunday

Whenever I see a post from someone I follow that I do not understand, it is nearly always sport. What's your go-to "this is a foreign language" posting theme?

I think it’s not that no one’s talking about it, but that no one knows what to do about it. Typically in the UK life outcomes are not purely white > non-white. The worst health outcomes are for white Gypsy, Romany, Irish Traveler, Bangladeshi and Pakistani ppl www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Good morning and a headline in @irishtimes.com The lads are travelling the globe. @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Soad needs to evacuate urgently. She now needs 90$ to get on the road. Can you help? Nine people doing ten dollars will get her over the edge!

Morgan is a wonder, always. I’m indebted to the Edwin Morgan Trust for granting me use of one of his poems for The Two Roberts. It’s all storms and rain and love and defiance.

Loki Old English translation when?

Concerns are either concerning or they’re not concerns. Pre-qualifying them as ‘legitimate’ seeks to delegitimise others. It’s also a way of issuing a rebuttal first - ‘My real concerns really are real’. It’s almost like the people saying they have legitimate concerns actually know they don’t…

Are your legitimate concerns in the room with us now?

It is 0737 and too early on a Sunday to be doing anything but passing the coffee quietly.

Next on my TBR is a proof of The Night I Borrowed Time by Iqbal Hussain, which promises time travel, family drama and a seventh son. Oddly I'm also reading a time travel book about someone going back to fix the present via the past in the adult space, 11/22/63! Something in the water... #UKKidlit

Just finished Small Wonder by @mossmontmomery.bsky.social, an immensely pacy and exciting read with a lovely central brother relationship. (I will give spoilers about whether the horse survives in dms if anyone needs...) #UKKidlit

"Colonel" can go to heck. HECK, I say.

Night #5 of nothing but Polyrhythmics.

Controversial opinion, but I think Science Fiction and Fantasy may actually both be a subset of something else, which I like to call "Fiction."

Okay, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

I AM OXNXE AGAIN CAUGHT AT THE SCENE OF A FOCACCIA

Last #PacificOcean at sunset. Off to the airport in the morning.

so he is suggesting that the rest of you should have to follow Alabama voter rules. spoiler alert: they suck

So it turned out I was enjoying my yogurt bites in my smoothies more than I was as snacks, so now I have yogurt powder to add to them!!! the one on the left had dried peaches in it, the one on the right has strawberries.

A little poem: Had a friend who had a little turtle in a big tank full of green water The little turtle would swing and bang its hard little shell into the indifferent walls of its nasty green tank Sometimes when I write I think of that turtle I am that little turtle

May I say how much I enjoyed Felix A-A offering what the announcers called a master class (essentially his forehand, really, it was stupendous) in beating world #3 Zverev just now? The phrase that sticks? ‘Unadulterated brilliance from the Canadian.’

A friend texted and said my art is beautiful, so I am useless now for the rest of the weekend. 🥰

DOES ANYONE FEEL LIKE A GOOD CRY WE GOT OUR HANDS ON FRANCESCA SANTA MARIA TONFAMECASCA KITTEN

DRAGONCON DAY 3: KEVIN: Was that…a sexy Alien Queen? ME: Seemed to be. KEVIN: I feel weird about that. ME: Oh? KEVIN: Like it was a fetish I didn’t know I had and really don’t have time for.

I memorize written names very well, but faces very poorly. So yeah I do a lot of name tag staring. (And obv in a con setting I don't always remember everyone! But if I can't read a name it'll be much worse)

time travel to 2005 and tell yourself that in 20 years, the president is Donald Trump, he's threatening to invade Chicago, no one is 100% sure if he's actually even still alive, and the Governor of Illinois is on the internet asking if we're in a Weekend at Bernies situation.

K1, future goth: "life hurts but it's also full of beauty"

Now reading Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

Now reading Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

The Dragon's Keep dice tower is perfect for rolling dice in melodramatic style! Drop a d20 in the top and it will tumble out in the tray, protected by a dragon. thebrokencircle.etsy...

why is this book 98,000 words and not done, the bree story

Fun with #blackandwhite settings.

Rewatching a favorite movie. Just in the mood for some reason.

Rewatching a favorite movie. Just in the mood for some reason.

Rewatching a favorite movie. Just in the mood for some reason.

Rewatching a favorite movie. Just in the mood for some reason.

@ellenkushner.bsky.social Small but great show! Saw it this afternoon.

It's a day to sell books! But hey, what day isn't?

i have an affiliate link if anyone wants to try 🤣

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN LOLOLOL

My book haul from Skylight Books: @gabino.bsky.social’s COYOTE SONGS, which I’ve been wanting forever, and 2 recommendations by 2 different friends: @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES and Helen MacDonald’s H IS FOR HAWK. Background mixed media art by me. #books

hey, cool. and, I'm doing an event with her Tuesday night, for Tattered Cover. at a church in Denver, I think? details, man. I only worry about them when I'm halfway to wherever I'm sort of supposed to be. at which point I sometimes have to turn around, re-direct. and hustle.

We have an optometrist's shop here that has the same signs in various states of bent... I laughed about it to the front counter woman, and she said she'd never caught the joke.

ALSO PREORDER THE SIDEQUESTED BOOK, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF KOALAS

Painting all of the "r4p!sts, murd3rers, and billionaires in hell" by nero_art_ink at neroartink.com

Have a safe Labor Day weekend and remember to stand up for workers' rights!

Went to @bookpeople.com because Saturday and TEOTWAWKI is top ten for the week there. Long live indie bookstores. @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social

NO NO NO NO WE ARE IN BOOK PREORDER MODE! PREORDER SIDEQUESTED!!! THE GOAL IS TO GET A PROFESSIONAL MANUFACTURER TO MAKE AND SHIP PEONY THE VULTURE PLUSHES TO THE ENTIRE WORLD BUT WE CAN'T GET THERE WITHOUT SHOWING HOW MUCH PEOPLE LOVE SIDEQUESTED!!! sidequested.com/preorder-boo...

As it's currently #invertefest I've unearthed some old art and I give you... the palaeozoic invertebrates of the revolution! Part of a sequence of historical/palaeofauna images I did a while back.

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THE JOY OF 1) OWNING A KOALA AND 2) FORCING @kbspangler.com TO DRIVE IT TO THE POST OFFICE? theagahfstore.bigcartel.com/product/spee...

Every single city and state should be doing this. This is one step towards fighting tyranny. We can't just sit around and send off strongly worded letters.

What are y’all reading and watching this weekend?

“I can’t do this alone” Is the password for so much pain. You can. But most likely won’t have to.

Breathe in the crisp autumn air, & let the warmth of cinnamon fill your senses. Take a stroll through the heart of fall with A Walk in the Woods by J. Fox Bedford 🍂🍎

Let’s say I’m talking about Democrats. I might as well be. But for anyone who needs to hear it? I’m pretty good at words. There are no right words. It’s okay to realize that.

Those who haven’t been through the cycle of abuse rarely realize a massive part of why people stay is the horribly human conviction that if we could just find the right words, they’d understand what they’re doing is wrong & that it’s killing us. There are no right words, because they already know.

A Sidecar this evening, for no special reason, but hadn’t made one in ages. Am aware that some might declare them a later night drink (cognac, after all) but my only firm drinks rule is probably no ice in a good single malt.

Left the house came back Couldn't find the cat for 30 mins Panick! doors shut windows closed. Its like a bad locked room mystery.. Sit down defeated 5 mins later cat comes out from INSIDE THE DRYER No I dont know how he opened it and I wouldn't believe if I hadn't heard him meowing in there 🙄

Quite possibly my actual favorite Le Guin fiction. She jimmies the door of truth open with a knife.

We are loving One Hundred Years of Solitude!! Definitely want to read the book now too—eerie, sexy, magical

Seated for Caught Stealing

Lot of people responding to this saying that they look at name tags for various reasons, and you are misunderstanding. Name tags exist to be looked at. But scanning name tags and visibly registering disappointment when it's not a famous person is different and very obvious

Alternative Eurovision song contest called Dolorvision for sad songs & musical downers only, competing to become the theme song for murder shows with desaturated colors where the detectives are too sad for a bed.

This promo makes no sense. How can she have a husband? She's a lesbian.

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This is such a good thread about LONG STORY SHORT by an objectively excellent person I am utterly unbiased towards, you should definitely read it

The conversations in diners are somehow superior to conversations iin other kinds of restaurants.