Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

This’ll end just fine

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

This is the way.

Sounds like the did something right, not right after. Syntax matters

Watching Jurassic Park Rebirth. Can someone tell the next creative team you don’t actually need dumb annoying kids to act stupidly and needlessly be put in danger, despite the genre conventions that say otherwise?

There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >

Ummm yello.. 🧐 🍋 …. #art #oilpainting

I guess writing 600 words is better than writing, you know, no words.

Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?

The only reason I got Covid is because people didn’t mask. Namely the people at the hospital where my mother was briefly admitted a couple of years ago. So you’ll excuse me—or fuck the hell off—if I continue to mask.

Nobody: Burpee: TOMATO THE SIZE OF CHARLIE BROWN’S HEAD

Dad just got to the burger scene in Mr. Mercedes @stephenking.bsky.social

“Boy I hope this dog is OK.” —Dad, who could, I realize, be listening to one of several @stephenking.bsky.social novels

I have a 17-y/o niece. I’ve been forcibly educated on what the Upside Down is. Come get me

What is that? It’s really weird. He’s really weird. This is really weird. Wow, that is *weird*. — Dad, in Los Angeles

Me: And this is the lobby of the place where I wo— Mom: It’s hideous

Goodnight from Polly Linwood, regretting giving her dolls pear brandy at their tea party given the things they are now whispering in the dark. Goodnight from the shade of Old Mother Parnella, withering the greensward on her regular patrol of Bray Edge Lane. Goodnight from Hookland.

Reading only first and last chapters #oilpainting #art

Painting by Robin Muller published in OMNI, vol. 11, no. 1 (October 1988), alongside the article, “Lee County’s Lizard Man and Other Unsolved Mysteries,” by Dennis Stacy and Kevin McKinney.

Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.

Authors, if you're being hard on yourself about naming characters, remember that Ladd McConkey is a real person.

the flag carrier! this one i'm tempted to keep myself.. #art ✧ #horse ✧ #painting

For #MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday, Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526] hvrd.art/o/259669 What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag. #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

"Santo Pollero", a new screenprint from Carlos Barberena is in the shop today! justseeds.org/product/sant...

This crazy watercolour and ink sketch was done in the Mary Challis garden in Sawston near Cambridge. I was working at speed because it started to rain. I rather like the frenetic effect and it's all the better for not having been tarted up later. #art #pleinair #watercolour

Just back from the Helene Schjerfbeck show at The Met. It's wonderful to have so much work from this powerful Finnish painter in New York. This is 'Self Portrait, Black Background' from 1915. It's on loan from The Finnish National Gallery.

Wardrobe Malfunction Ink etc. on heavy paper 9x12 inches $100

when i was a kid there were thousands of novels about large families of kids getting into situations. not so anymore

I don't need AI to help me overuse em dashes. I've been doing that on my own since middle school.

One of these is a journalism. Signed, A Former Journalist

Shirakaba-chan is a white birch tree from the town of Sakuho in Nagano, Japan.

I am shopping for a rug in the year of our lord 2025 and are there any grays or browns anymore or is everything just grown and bray

Look around Leaves are brown There's a Brus-sels sprout on the ground

I come here for family content

Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP

None of this is industry naivete

SFWA should revoke their qualifying status if they don’t go back to reasonable contracts…

Have you seen this, @joannechocolat.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social? This is important information for authors who routinely sell short stories. I'm sure more than one person has signed one of these contracts without fully appreciating the significance of "alleged" vs. "sustained"

Bad. Ass.

sometimes an insult is simultaneously so targeted and so uncalled for that it just straight-up unmoors you from reality, like the brief liminal space you inhabit when you hit your head. I think this is that

Goodnight from Joe Waterfield, dismissing his sighting of Corpse Friars’ lanterns as a sign he drank too much at The Windlass pub. Goodnight from William Heywall up at Palefire Farm, writing a petition to the Field Sprite to amend the terms of its blood tithe. Goodnight from Hookland.

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

oh that's weird, Betraybo, my cursed blade that glows before witnessing a huge betrayal, is glowing

the real question is what tony nominee will be found throwing a hoagie on elsbeth this january

QUATTRO formaggi? In THIS-a economi?

shasta blood apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1895

gold dollar strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914

Very normal sketchbook day thanks