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Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books

If you see this, post one image from your device with no context.

Everyone from New York is Jewish in the same way everyone from New Jersey is Italian, everyone from Boston is Irish, everyone from Chicago is Serbian, and everyone from Philly is Online.

THEY DO NOT BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON THE CONTRAPTION IN JAY JONES' REC ROOM

ah, america

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do! #birds 🌿

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

[Victor Frankenstein joins Bluesky] No longer will I be mocked by those hidebound fools at the University of Ingolstadt! Here finally I will be understood in good faith. [Half an hour later] Ok I’m releasing the monsters

Oh no it is a person after all

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

My mom’s protest signs, as always, are a helluva thing.

note that the white supremacist weirdos real obsessed with their masculine Nordic heritage never, ever dress as cool as this

Ideas are easy. The difference between an idea and a story is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning.

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume. They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit! This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

anyways

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

Bring back art nouveau you cowards

Classical Chinese for When It Happens or Possibly Already Happened: 丞相斯為上崩在外，恐諸公子及天下有變，乃祕之，不發喪。 Because the Emperor had died while away from the capital, the chancellor Li Si feared rebellion among the princes and the rest of the empire, so he kept it secret and announced no mourning.

Old Joke from the USSR: An American and a Russian are arguing. The American says, "In my country, we have free speech. I can stand in front of the White House and shout 'The American President is a dumbass!' and nothing will happen to me."

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week. Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.

working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting

This only happens to you once

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Especially not those of us who learned Greek with Hansen & Quinn…

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

Des Moines has you all beat

dudes rock

There was an American red-brown party that was ended by an event known as The Night of The Wrong Wives. Don’t sleep with your step-mother-in-law.

Happy birthday to J.R.R. #Tolkien’s The Hobbit, published #OTD in 1937, with a gorgeous dust jacket and illustrations by Tolkien himself! @tolkiensociety.org @tolkienwonder.bsky.social @uofgfantasy.bsky.social #Hobbit 🐉

The person being quoted is shitty but he is not wrong; I did not work in tv for 45 years, but I’ve worked news/mag advertising and/or digital marketing for 25 or so - and if you want to grab a media company’s attention by the short hairs, yes: bitch to their advertisers, not their inboxes.

IT IS EXACTLY ONE MONTH UNTIL THE BIGGEST PROTEST IN US HISTORY! Pass it on. #NoKings

Might just start spamming “you can’t vote/peacefully protest/etc. your way out of this” doomers with pictures of it happening, help me curate a thread

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

look, Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson can join the resistance, but are you familiar with a penal battalion is?