Mythical creatures from Konrad von Megenberg’s ‘Buch der natur.’ Augsburg: Johannes Bämler, second ed, 1478. I saw this book at McGill Library. #Buchdernatur #naturalhistory #incunabula #historyofbooks #rarebooks

Is it concerning that I immediately recognized that as Interlac and not Kryptonian?

cheating here because tumblr but

We're doing classic funny tweets? This is among the GOATs for me.

if we’re discussing best tweets, this is the objective best.

… Does he think it’s physically closed?

Not great the amount of news organizations that appear to do basically no confirmation on their own before sharing out a story based on a tweet from the Nazi site!

ahhhh looks like the old Pretend To Be A Famous 193-Year-Old Tortoise's Veterinarian And Say He Died And Then Solicit Crypto Donations Through Social Media scam i've seen it a million times

I've seen some pedantry today about how Trump has low approval on inflation despite inflation being relatively normal, and I think pundits really need to internalize that the average American neither knows nor cares much about broad-scale economics. To most people, "inflation" means "prices go up."

The GOAT Moon Tweet

“By naming the film The Mandalorian And Grogu, Disney is leaving money on the table from consumers who have no idea who Grogu is but would immediately take out their phones and buy a ticket for any movie of any genre with ‘Baby Yoda’ in its title,” said report author Heather Flynn

Has anyone asked Pope Leo what he thinks about Daredevil? He’s the first pope who might plausibly have Daredevil opinions

BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948) A convention of repressed British nuns in the Himalayas spiral into madness due to temptation and misfortune. One of the most visually sumptuous films ever made.

George Harrison had a second legacy, separate from the Beatles. He mortgaged his house to finance Monty Python’s Life of Brian, which proved too controversial to secure financing from any other source. HandMade Films went on to make some of the most acclaimed British films of the 1980s.

April is a big month for Kaleidotrope. A new issue today, on the first, and then re-opening to submissions again in a few weeks, on April 19.

🐈 New comic: You Have Cats?🐈

I'm biased, but:

In a similar spirit.

Photos meant to illustrate what Viking age graves might have looked like. Pictures were originally taken to show the personal clothes, tools and utensils of these re-enactors about to go to a re-enactment event. facebook.com/andrimners/p... © 2017 Andrimners Hemtagare

I have never used AI for this and would not know how to begin.

"A sequel to YOJIMBO set in the '60s?" "Hear me out. . ."

i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him

I don't know why I'd want to discuss writing with the entity that, when asked to give me a list of female fantasy authors, gave me a list with Robert Jordan on it multiple times.

Result from the Pleistocene Sicily #paleostream! This piece was a fascinating up and down to construct and to research. While certainly iconic our understanding of these faunas is not complete and misinformation and memes plaster ones way. Center of this piece...

Anyone saying this has never spoken to any writers, who mostly have two modes, either hyper "I *need* to get these 15,000 words out *right now* to make my brain shut up" or agonising for a literal hour about whether to use "a" or "the" in a sentence they then delete.

"on" April 1? hm, if still open and you liked em: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories (collection) is listed, Uncertain Sons (novelette) harder to find but temp free to read below, and In My Country (short) listed. undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

valid

Or, counterproposal: We send Princess Anne to the US but tell her she's absolutely allowed to fuck people up.

“There was an AZRAEL comic that ran for 100 issues” is the comics equivalent of “I wrote two album reviews and it paid my month’s rent”

Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to Israel's genocidal famine, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again.

‘You never get bad fortunes in cookies, ever noticed that?’ ‘That, Corporal, is because of one of the fundamental driving forces of the universe.’ ‘What? Like, people who read fortune cookies are the lucky ones?’ ‘No. Because people who sell fortune cookies want to go on selling them.’ - Pratchett

And the model for the woman on the cover to House of Secrets #92 introducing Swamp Thing was the great comic book writer/editor Louise Simonson!

Orbital Harvest for Kitchen Table magazine

Janet Stephens is amazing, and also an example - as @bretdevereaux.bsky.social pointed out recently - of how if you do the work academic historians are excited by and welcoming of outsiders making serious contributions!

There's a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope today! www.kaleidotrope.net

I guess it's no surprise that originalism and right-wing Christian evangelism are so intertwined. Both believe that quotes that support your position are unambiguous and need no context while the quotes that support your opponent's position are unclear and require nuance and context.

The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone. Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another. They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently. At long last, the economy is perfect.

unfortunately for Trump the birthright citizenship question has hit this version of Neil Gorsuch

“Imagine if something resembling a dodo was ever revived, how would that being learn to live as a dodo? Who would teach it to sing the dodo’s song, or raise more dodos?”

One thing I really love about this film is that V'Ger feels genuinely enormous.

GROND!

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

Thrilled to announce a follow up to my fully illustrated writing guide Wonderbook!! Out from Abrams Image next year.

Why is writing so uniquely attractive to people who don’t like writing? I genuinely am so baffled! You don’t make money, you don’t get famous, there’s zero glory, the only thing you get is the chance to WRITE because you love to tell stories!

oh you don’t like telling stories? Get the fuck out of the storytelling lane