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Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏 www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...

I went there many years ago, and oh the corbels! The Sheelagh na gig especially

Beowulf poet talking about a king voice: That was a GOOD door.

Discover what the buzz is all about in @neilwillcox.bsky.social’s new story “The Beekeeper’s Daughter.” kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

The Holmwood Foundation is a wonderful horror audio drama series from Big Finish writers @fiotrethewey.bsky.social and @georgiacooked.bsky.social. And you can back its second season. 😁 www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...

Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones. Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare. Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

I once made the cricket bats for Dowton Abbey. All shaped as ones from the 20's. The TV props dept then made them all dark brown like 'old bats' rather than the clean white willow they would have been at the time it was set.

“The books would have all looked new,” I scream impotently at another costume drama.

jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away

Now I’m curious as to when the “Old Disguised Barn” last showed up. (It was decades ago at least, right? I don’t think I’ve seen it in a post-Silver Age comic.)

I don't think it is reasonable or fair to put short story writers through months and months of contract negotiation, and have them have to argue through every clause to get a fair deal. This is unacceptable and my advice is not to submit there. I haven't in years.

The level of back and forth that this publisher is dragging writers back and forth through....is upsetting to me. Their contract over steps bounds and then they also don't care about "our" time. We don't get paid very much per word. And then here you're put through a gauntlet for a fair contract+

Durin’s Bane, the Balrog from Moria

I’ve discovered the first Bluesky poster

Proud of my profile of JAS in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Imagine that you’re a world famous reporter who starts running a diner to impress your alien demigod boyfriend and you put a bowl of soup in front of him and he just starts eating a salt shaker while maintaining perfect eye contact with you.

Johnathan Frakes goofed around too much to appear in the pinball game is so funny for me

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

Never forget that the director of The Fly played a small recurring guest character that originated in Star Trek Enterprise who also somehow owns Siskos baseball from DS9 nearly 1000 years into the future.

Pennies no longer being made is ruining the day of this ONE Gotham Citizen! 👇

One of the prettiest late medieval monuments IMO: Robert Sherborne (d. 1536), at Chichester Cathedral. Got the post of Bishop of St Davids (1505-8) by forging a papal bull to promote himself. Cheeky.

The whole world in his hands..... BnF MS Français 9561, f.1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, 1921 #edwardhopper #museumarchive

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

Something I do wish non-historians would internalise is that (modern) historians are not (generally) just making shit up. We do in fact have sources and evidence and proof of things which have happened in the past

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

So do I, space-born jellyfish, you ain’t special.

Musk: joyce carol oates? she a very meana lady! Musk: she usa too many semicolons! Mortal Kombat Announcer: FINISH HIM Oates: i hear you have a cool daughter Oates: a normal dad would be very proud Mortal Kombat Announcer: FATALITY

AI “artist” trying to follow me.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...

House Mormont knight(ess) 🐻🔨

REH's letters to HPL show that he had a deeply Texas small-L libertarian and populist streak, and once you see this, you can see it all over the place in Conan. (Also leads to moments of, "Come on, Bob, you are this. close. to getting it!" re: racial issues.)

I am LITERALLY recorded performatively reading a Kalediotrope story in a file that you can listen to on the Kaleidotrope website. The evidence is IN THE MAGAZINE. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Illustration by Jeffrey Alan for 'The Sword In The Stone'. #WyrdWednesday #KingArthur #Arthurian #legend

Going after troops who identify as Norse Pagan is so funny to me. Those are your guys!

If you're reading for awards, please consider my novelette "Cupernicity". I'm really pleased with it, and it's free to read! futurefire.net/2025.72/fict...

Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

Meet the head of @starsandsabers.bsky.social, @jendiagammon.bsky.social!

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

the thing to know about gothic architecture just like. as an overarching statement. is that medieval Europe did not have calculus. they were largely working off of vibes bsky.app/profile/book...

I once attended a panel of top robot scientists and someone asked them if they were afraid of robots rising up against humanity and one of them said “you have any idea how long it takes to build a robot that can successfully cross a room?”

Look, the film opens in Heaven with James Bond stealing an angel's wings after strangling the angel with harp strings, then he throws a halo at the pearly gates to keep them from closing all the way, he flies out sideways and finds himself back on Earth reincarnated into a royal corgi. It's easy!

The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands

Ballon's day

A couple of photos from Tom Baker’s recent MBE Investiture ceremony. Louise Jameson was there too to show her support on Tom’s big day. Photos: Olly Mc. #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor #TomBaker #LouiseJameson