If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Columbo Board Game Where is the 'Just one more thing' card.

Irish portraitist John Lavery depicts his wife Hazel in 1927, sketching outside in the sunlight. Hazel was famous for her beauty, & Lavery used her as the model for “a female personification of Ireland” which appeared on Irish banknotes for many decades

Ring Shadows 1 - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/oER11

On Saturn, the rings tell you the season. On Earth, today marks an equinox, the time when the Earth's equator tilts directly toward the Sun. Since Saturn's grand rings orbit along the planet's equator, these rings appear most prominent -- from the direction of the Sun -- when the spin axis of Saturn

22nd September 2025 07.00

Oh FFS, this recurrent idiocy is supposed to be *our* fault? (HEADCLUTCH) 😏 #rapture

I've finally started Chocolat. It has been in my TBR forever. Im really enjoying it.

Good. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/98655-federal-judge-tosses-trump-s-lawsuit-against-penguin-random-house-new-york-times.html

So, looking for something unusual to be part of today? Try this! "Send Diane Duane to the Reichenbach Falls to outline a cyber/steampunk Sherlock Holmes novel": www.tumblr.com/dduane/79531...

Looking for a silent movie? I have reviewed over 770 of them from every genre and era! All organic human brainspace, typos and all, no AI, here's my index: moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

ACARS Message From: N834AW / AA2812 Message: EXTRA EFFORT RECOGNIZED THKS HOPE UR DAY GOES AMAZNG Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N834AW Area: Raleigh, NC, USA #acars #vdlm2 #N834AW #AA2812

This is amazing.

Happy Feast of Opinion to all who celebrate

In casual mode, secondary to completing very basic outline-breaking work on a #SherlockHolmes novel: Discussion of Hacking a Notebook. :) www.tumblr.com/dduane/79521...

Status report, Regional Cuisine Frustrations dep't: NOT being able to eat apple-based things (due to IBS issues) when in the apfelstrudel-making capital (region) of the world. ... GAAAAAAAAHHH.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Seen in Palermo first day (plus very early dinner)

Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at [email protected].

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

Saturn-W00066670-Feb-26-RAW - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/9qCzjA

I should add that there are dozens of them, all over the tree.

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

When the first day's serious outlining is done.... :) www.tumblr.com/dduane/79512...

🏺 This thread is cute but also so useful to remember what Ötzi teaches us about dynamic temporal lives of prehistoric people: he died on an epic journey, carrying a huge range of kit with tools part-way through being made, and with embers and medicine in anticipation of his next fire, & his future.

Ostrakon with a Letter https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/474757

There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve.

O how full of briers is this working-day world!

The perfect hobby doesn't exi...

Today's "everything is bad so let's pause for a second to regard nature and take a breath that isn't poisoned by our fear of a collapsing democracy" pic -- an osprey flying overhead. Photo by me.

Sunset in the Blue Ridge Mountains last night

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

Currently in the hospital for gallstone issues. Been in since Tuesday night. Not sure how much this will end up costing but right now my checking account is 192 under. Any help would be greatly appreciated 💖 ko-fi.com/E1E59TFY www.paypal.me/Aerllette

Lunch! Zanderfilet (*Sander lucioperca*, the Alpine pike-perch) on a pumpkin risotto. The green splashes around the edges are pumpkinseed oil, the vernacular "oil of choice" in this neck of the woods.

(snort) https://www.independent.ie/world-news/train-named-ctrl-alt-deleaf-to-tackle-leaves-on-the-line/a1086375853.html

From NASA: Check out the view from up here! As the Curiosity rover continues to climb the flanks of Mt. Sharp, it has captured an extraordinarily clear panorama of Gale Crater's rim...and even the lands beyond. Details: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...

Background paintings from the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios Pieces by Scott Wills, Richard Daskas and Jenny Gase-Baker

Kufstein.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Cartoon Forum 2025 has given this year's Tribute awards to Denmark's DR, France's Mediatoon, and Belgium's Creative Conspiracy, singling them out as leaders in European animation broadcasting, distribution, and production. www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/dr-me...

Another Pale Blue Dot - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/nbmJ9f

...Gah. 😶

A bit of silliness from 2021. Kong's first line is taken directly from the 2007 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.

Bruh

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

Temptation of St Anthony

Some good quotes from Redford in this.

Reminder that if Air Canada cancel your flight out of the UK and say they can't rebook it same day, you can ring them and say: "You are obliged to check sister carriers." Then they will magically remember to do so. This post brought to you by me now flying BA to Toronto, 5hrs later than planned.