The James Webb Space Telescope sent back pictures of the Helix Nebula in phenomenal clarity. The space telescope’s website has the photographs in all their glory, along with comparisons to photographs of Helix taken by older space telescopes like VISTA and Hubble buff.ly/IZ8gDdC #ShareGoodNewsToo

Are there such games today?

Groucho Marx and George Carlin

I just finished "Inventing the Renaissance" by @adapalmer.bsky.social and I really love this book. It's erudite and wise, but also geeky, welcoming, funny & sooo playful. I love how it's packed with the coolest memorable details ever, but also conveys something vital & optimistic on the large scale.

Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles. We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive. Today, we present our 20th sanctions package. Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy. And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)

What we do is assert the wholeness of time.

Cover reveal for the paperback (and hopefully more affordable) edition of ‘Paganism Persisting’ (co-authored with @robincdouglas.bsky.social) which releases on 21 April with @uexeterpress.bsky.social. I'm especially pleased with the Lithuanian cover image 😉 www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/pag... 📚

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

In 1886, Van Gogh painted Skull with a Burning Cigarette while studying in Antwerp. A student prank turned memento mori—mortality lit with a flicker of dark humor.

New Ex Urbe Essay reflecting on "Inventing the Renaissance" being on the #BSFS long list for best nonfiction longform www.exurbe.com/how-is-inven...

2016-03-16 Saturn RGB - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/FhRsdC

A738.2.1 Religious sun and moon.

J701.1 Planting for the next generation.

A489 Gods of abstractions --miscellaneous.

Tell me five classes you took in college: Introduction to Japanese folklore Cultural Semiotics History of European Philosophy Technological conciousness and technlogical culture The treatments of the legend of King Arthur

Navi, Princess Zelda, Link & Ganondorf in LEGO form. Real talk? They look perfect.

solidarity with minneapolis

millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

Every fictional universe is incomplete or inconsistent

Reasons Trump is threatening to invade Greenland: 1. To hide the Epstein files. 2. To get the US expelled from NATO. 3. To divert European intelligence / support from Ukraine and the eastern front to the new western front. 4. He's a corrupt thieving greedy Nazi piece of shit.

I would sum up this (very good!) profile thusly: "The price of getting what you wanted as an artist is having it"

Struck for no apparent reason by the strangeness & versatility of the word “while,” and increasingly anxious by the need to distinguish “awhile” from “a while”; like “apart” and “ a part” (of, from), the irreducible madness of English agrammaticality

Titan 2015-OCTOBER-02 - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/KeaTTz

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

HANG UP YOUR SPEAR, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.

This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.

An epic, 3-player, 5-hour(!) game of Oath yesterday. Many backs were stabbed, several times. I as the Chancellor lost... because of thieving Citizens. A truly crazy finale too. My favorite session so far, I think. Thanks again @colewehrle.bsky.social & @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social for #oathboardgame

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.

One of the books in my office is 290 years old. It’s still in excellent condition and easy to read. I wonder how easy it’ll be to read electronic texts 290 years from now. I expect it’ll be rather trickier.

I've decided all novels derived from Dracula should from now on be called fangfic

This day Milorad Pavić sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pavic_... Numa Shōzō sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/numa_s... Oscar Wilde sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilde_... died, and Jonathan Swift sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swift_... was born [couldn't identify artists) 4th is a 1932 Ukrainian 'Gulliver’s Travels']

The Conjurer https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonora-carrington/the-conjurer-1960

🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

I see it, laying down the fierce defense, as Machiavelli tried to do

I have a habit of using thematically appropriate Magic cards as bookmarks, even if the connection only makes sense to me. For whatever reason, "Konda, Lord of Eiganjo" seemed right for "Inventing the Renaissance" by @adapalmer.bsky.social, even though Konda is from a Japanese-inspired fantasy world.

Funniest victory ever. Everybody's plans got messed up, including mine! #oathboardgame

Pisces https://www.wikiart.org/en/mikalojus-ciurlionis/pisces-1907

"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!

Cassini's 'Grand Finale' Saturn Portrait (Annotated Version) (April 13, 2017) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/UPviDr