Hey! Here’s the first strip of High Viz featuring Wizard Larry and a guy whose name I haven’t decided on yet. Thanks to @cjblandford.bsky.social for the force field blood joke idea. Hope y’all think it’s funny because it’s definitely not good looking. #fantasy #comedy #dyingearthstagecapitalism

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social I'm rereading Annihilation and I always feel like it's got a similar feeling in voice and sense of alienation to The Things They Carried. Wondering if you had it in mind, or are any similarities between Vietnam stories and Area X stories convergent evolution?

While somewhat lacking in the thunder, the debut storm of 2026 delivers a quality performance in terms of a soaker. Arriving well after this reporter returned home and delivering enough rain to excuse any attempt at yard work tomorrow; a decent opening. 4/5 #rain #review #savannah

@joyaz.bsky.social happy blocking!

@annaleen.bsky.social It is 1:00 am and I just finished Automatic Noodle in one sitting and thank you, that was a delight.

GEORGIA! Can yall listen to Hank Green for a minit please ma'am? . and say hey to momenem. youtu.be/UgvE_gPi7Kc?...

@charliejane.bsky.social I finished Lessons in Magic and Disaster at like 4AM. I'm right there with Jaime on Team This Reality Has Poor Narrative Structure. Thanks for the perspective, I needed that to work on a thing about a relationship. It was the right book at the right time.

Y'know what would be cool? @themountaingoats.bsky.social covering Gravel and @anidifrancomusic.bsky.social covering Jenny. Because sometimes someone shows up at your house on a motorcycle and you have no choice but to fall in love with them, at least for a while.

@hankgreen.bsky.social I remembered something you said in a video, basically that "the only person I know I'm smarter than is me in the past" and I could have sworn it was a TED talk. I know you were wearing a lanyard weird. I cannot find the video. What was that from, it's driving me crazy?!

Blogging about making and fixing mistakes in the inking process of the project: theredbromeliad.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/festina-lente

I finally spotted a Mitchison in the wild! @amalelmohtar.com would be proud. Is book hunting a different form of bird watching?

Today's finished page. My favorite detail on this page is that Atlantis is so variable it can't be completed.

Over at the blog: bookbinding nerdery, coincidence, and time travel! theredbromeliad.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/signature-move/

#vss365 I wonder if I even have a mind left; it feels like a #masala of evolutionary urges and vengeance, overlaid with post hoc justifications from my college philosophy classes. I sigh and return to planning my trip. She should be afraid. I know I am.

Ah, Savannah. Home of the six seasons: autumn, winter, pollen, spring, summer, and science fiction. It's currently "All Summer in a Day". Probably be Dune tomorrow.

An introduction to my big weird book art project. At some point I will write about why I put off telling people about it. theredbromeliad.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/the-purple-book/

I was clearly in a deeply cynical place when I first heard Cry for Judas by @themountaingoats.bsky.social bc I just realized the line isn't "some people try to be kind/and then learn from their mistakes". It's " some people crash two or three times..." New favorite mondegreen

This is excellent. Shared it with my horror book club discord and told them it's loosely based on one of the great works of the 20th century. Waiting for their reactions

Mine: "We've got spaghetti! And blankets. But we are not affiliated with that clown. He attracts too many children."

This'll make more sense once I actually start writing the blog I keep threatening to make about my big dumb art project, but I just cracked the solution to the problem with the most complicated part. It feels SO good.

This is Cosima. She is proud and independent and does not cuddle. Except for once a day, when I am trying to put on my socks and shoes, she becomes the neediest cat on earth

And the part about the invasive mink puts Wind in the Willows in a new light

Someone on the Internet is being wrong and pedantic. I have a citation that proves both of these things. I am putting on my shoes and going to the store instead of engaging, please applaud

laughed for the first time in days thanks to this

A new year's gift: imagine all the decisions necessary to design, produce, and install this street sign.

In Savannah, Georgia: The Book Lady The Stacks (new this year!) E. Shaver's

@themountaingoats.bsky.social, thank you from the bottom of my heart for that #savannah show last night! Y'all made my 8yo's *life* by playing her favorite song - Young Thousands - at her first rock concert. 10/10 parenting memory

I am being a good dad and playing the game, but Jesus fuck, Life is a terrible game. Random, long, and with a fuck load of math at the end. To be absolutely clear, I am kvetching about the Hasbro board game, since I realized my description could be about life as in existence

Oh fuck, Kathy Bates's Matlock... y'all need it

WIP, blanket for a colleague's baby. About halfway through

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

@catvalente.bsky.social I'm a little bit drunk and a lotta bit unsure of myself and my choices past and future, but chapters 36 & 37 of Space Oddity fucking slap/pierce my heart/give me hope. Thanks

I wrote this in July but it’s even more true now. We need all hands on deck and there’s a lot of deck. This post will help you find your role. Solidarity and community care are the how. Never forget that your capacity to fight for justice and your capacity to love must stay intertwined.

Based entirely on his performance as Clarence in 3 Body Problem, Benedict Wong for Sam Vimes in any Discworld adaptations in the next 5 years

Do y'all need a gift link? Share this around: wapo.st/4eXgJyg

This brightened my morning a bit

Repost with something you own that most people don't. I have an anvil my great-grandfather made from a piece of railroad track

Oddly one of the most accurate personality quizzes I've ever done.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,460,858!

I am **25 pages** into Rakesfall by @vajra.me and as soon as it's a decent hour, I will be texting friends to get them to read it with me because 1: it's so good but 2: in a "it's dangerous to go alone” kind of way

@theradr.bsky.social I just got your Monday newsletter and was not prepared for "I tell them, God makes peace Like God makes bread" So, skewered through the heart and inspired before dawn on a Monday. 10/10, no notes

To settle the terminology debate once and for all: Fall is from Labor Day to Sept 21 this year. Autumn begins on the equinox, Sept 22

@drnerdlove.bsky.social I was feeling anxious about the idea of dating more than one person at a time, so I searched your site and found good advice, so thanks. Also, the phrase "dumped so hard your grandparents retroactively divorce" made me laugh so hard it woke up my cat. Needed that today!

Crochet stuff: my kid found me organizing the yarn cache a while back, and we talked about what she'd like in a blanket, what colors I had, etc. she made pic 1, and I'm making pic 2, variations on single and half double back loops to evoke the scribbles of her sketch

Watching DS9, S3E13 "Life Support" and it is, considering all that will happen, kind of wild that Bashir is the first one to call bullshit on Kai Winn. Also I feel for Jake and Nog. Double dates might be ok, double first dates? oof.

My "Donald Trump is not weird" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my sign.

Gotta say, I'm not a fan of the pay-to-play model the dating apps have gone to in the eon since I last tried them. This is what I get for growing up on the free Internet. We had a garden and we paved it.

My goal for getting through hard times is to wring every ounce of pleasure out of what is ridiculous. There are so, so many ridiculous things in life. Someone posted a photo of a pregnant squirrel. I laughed for five minutes. Look at her.

Kansas City knows what’s up. Located at Velo Garage & Tap House 📸 ZekesBiken Insta

What's the adverb form of passive aggressive? Passively aggressive, passive aggressively, passively aggressively? Or are those three slightly different modes of the behavior?