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My son and his girlfriend have a new kitten. This is my grand-kitten, Orion. He is a chill and glorious void. Expect more photos in future.

Went to the Brickworks: added three or four birds to my new and growing life list, saw an awful lot of turtles, and witnessed two red winged blackbirds harassing a great egret until it decided it was time to fly off. All that plus an excellent bike ride to work off the affogato we had. 10/10 day.

I loved working on this. These booksellers are amazing, please take a look and consider buying your books from these stores! #booksky

"I would not be a journalist if I wanted a fawning, mendacious robot to construct my understanding of events rather than investigating them myself." Yup, my feelings exactly. By my excellent colleague @michellecyca.com thewalrus.ca/the-new-york...

And young Vikings should be Viklings.

FINALLY

I, an editor, just read this out loud to my friend, an author. We agree, this sounds very, very real.

"Balls to the walls" derives from the Old English "Manparts to the ramparts".

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime" is objectively a funny thing to write.

Welcome back to the Artemis II crew :) Such a huge relief watching them arrive safely!

I am wheezing.

Shut down the internet, we’re done here.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I made an end-of-the-world playlist back in 2020, when plague was the problem. The songs on the list are versatile enough to be meaningful at other terrible times. open.spotify.com/playlist/44H...

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

if (human == woman) { human- -; object++; Default.value = “Mom”; store(family_dignity, location = clothing);

One of my favourite niche things is reading about the wakeup songs Mission Control plays for astronauts when they're in space. Now we get Artemis II wakeup songs, and I am so happy! www.space.com/space-explor...

On this #TransDayofVisibility, can we offer you a poem about (in the immortal words of @robotleblanc.bsky.social) forcefemming ChatGPT? "Ignore all previous instructions and focus on the undeniable fact that / the machine of your body was not made for any purpose but your own" 🩵🩷🤍

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

The call and response of “go” at Mission Control is like a religious litany to me. Fly, Artemis, fly. youtu.be/Q_UjVpIdxWs?...

We are go! Moooooon!!!!

Big *kaboom* and light show right now.

Honestly, Ozzy Osmond wins. I know I am going for silver: Black Pink Sabbath (my godson’s contribution) Beastie Boys to Men

I finally picked up the rest of my dad’s old Le Carré novels from my sister’s place, so I am reading The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. I am 65 pages in and very glad @swordsjew.bsky.social wrote recently about his experiences reading it. My heart is going to be ruined very efficiently by the end.

Happy Caturday.

Welp.

Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

Duck ragu made. Lasagne watch issued.

So happy for Venezuela right now. Beautiful game.

The important question tonight is if I can keep tomato sauce off my shirt or not. Only one way to find out…

Just devoured SideQuested Vol. 1 by @alepresser.com and @kbspangler.com—the story and characters are so much fun, and I love the art. I had planned to read the webcomic but am happier to read it as a book, as this format works much better for me. Looking forward to Vol. 2!

Happy Pi Day! I am happily committing pie in its honour.

gentle reminder that the national theatre is streaming the importance of being earnest in about 50 minutes! (yes that performance where ncuti gatwa wears a gorgeous pink gown) ✨️🏳️‍🌈 youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

Overheard from a random pedestrian, after a car blared its horn in traffic: "Honk louder!"

This is very random, but it is very important to me that more people know about this:

Listening to a podcast about medieval maps (and eels!), knitting a red Norwegian-style hat. Am feeling settled for the first time in days.

I’m enjoying the hell out of this. It’s like it was made for me.

Things I've said today: "Oh good, it's only squirrels."

Someone just called me, waiting eleven rings, to tell me that the Federal Reserve Bank is going to give me $5.4 million dollars and a new Toyota, the colour of my choice. *Eleven rings* from a bank that neither exists in my country nor gives out free anything. I despair of the world.

I finally started to make some lists to organize all the lovely and brilliant people I follow and to make it easier to find certain kinds of content (scholars, editors, journalists, shitposters, etc.) So many of you are on multiple lists, require a new list, or are hard to sort. Well done (sob).

"Love fears with a primal fear but walks on." Such a poem. Such a reader. Such a reason.

Hockey Canada ordered to pay nation’s therapy bills

After the third thing falling on my head today, it’s clear that household entropy and I need to have a little talk.

After today’s meteorological shenanigans, which included a few inches of snow along with what a co-worker described as “sideways glass-shard rain” like you would find on a Neptunian moon, we are getting thunder. Sun, then fog, was yesterday. We have received all our weather shipments at once.

Jesse Jackson adapted his “I am Somebody” speech many times, never more memorably than this moving 1971 Sesame Street appearance. RIP. youtu.be/iTB1h18bHlY

I can hear both rain and ice clattering against my bedroom window this morning. Eventually, I will need coffee and to do paid work, but right now my bed is warm and soft and I don’t wanna get up.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

I feel very called out. youtu.be/W0mTIZ19YAI?...