It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

#pikmin (2025) 🌼 🌱

Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), “Oedipus and the Sphinx” (1891).

Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cú Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment

His time approaches #kaseyart #penandink

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Untitled - Owl and Rabbit Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe 1981

wow you'd think this would have been bigger news huh weird that i keep getting told by the grownups that Labour under Starmer gets the roughest possible ride by our media

Using ai to put personal details in the scam emails, "you've done THIS and THIS and THIS," and honestly I was momentarily touched before I realized no human soul sent the email. Writing can be a lonely pursuit. I hate that they're exploiting our very human vulnerabilities for minor gain.

almost ten years ago this lady at brunch ordered a “piglio griglio” (pinot grigio) and ive been calling it that ever since

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

Goodnight. Sweet dreams. 🖼️ The Dream, Fritz Schwimbeck, 1909.

She's flying in a little late.......

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social and I.

The Familiars'Joyride, Kat Philbin. #31DaysOfHalloween

snoot long head empty

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton. No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE, now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

POCKET SQUEAKER. THATS HIM.

"Oh, well. You'll join us someday."

heal your nervous system with this one weird trick

Drawtober Day 27: Deception #drawtober #Halloweenie

Used RGB colors in your zine and it's causing problems? Well, I can't fix that for you. But I can make it less likely that you'll make those mistakes in the future! Behold, the EP CMYK (Mostly) Safe color palette: exeuntpress.itch.io/cmyk-color #ttrpg #zines #layout #cmyk #rgb #affinity

I JUST ATE FIZZY HUMMUS ON TOAST AND I WANT TO DIE. I accidentally put it on a plate where I'd had a bunch of sour candy and the citric acid got on it and 💀💀 0/10. eaugh.

a portrait of me, c.2017-8 whilst president of Durham University Poetry Society

I'm not saying a writer's retreat is a bad thing. I'm just saying that it should be a tactical decision designed to lure your enemy into a trap so you can turn a difficult situation into a successful writer's attack.

why does my gross pet rat (he's not gross bc he's a rat, he's gross because he's old and stinky) smell of prawn cocktail crisps

WEIRD VISUAL/COMIC ARTISTS YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS TO ME

for me, @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social is a national holiday 🌟

The book fairy eats paper and remembers but also believes everything written on it (cont.)

I used to make this exact drink for a friend, but with a dash of milk and three sugars and we called it "death coffee". It induced academia-related religious manias.

The thing about Kym and I is that we were born on the same day, in the same year, to mothers with the same first name. We're both poets. We're both gay. We're both 5'2". We're both deeply into our own respective religions. We're just the same person in different outfits. We share a single braincell.

‘One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that — to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to one by others.’ — Sylvia Townsend Warner #WyrdWednesday

Baron Nathan, the celebrity dance teacher of the 1850s who danced the hornpipe blindfolded, surrounded by eggs. There's something SO malevolent about this image. It's powerfully frightening.

shells! 🐚

Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/

Isopods!! 🧡

The popularity of the "the pressures of modern life make me feel totally disposable and escapism is my only joy" genre makes perfect sense but is also deeply concerning.

Within the Oxenham Arms in the village of South Zeal, Devon is The ‘Roman Pillar' propping up the roof in the restaurant at the rear of the pub. In the next room is an enormous Menhir built into the fabric of the wall too. One pub - two standing stones.

Three years ago today, I was dog-sitting Richard, a french bulldog, for a pal of mine, and him and Baxter did this for TWO HOURS. (Sound up)

This is Macduff, my deeply cursed cow plushie I bought in Edinburgh for pittance because no one could bear to look upon him. Macduff was, in the factory, untimely stitched.

A dagger to my heart.

@shortestwitch.bsky.social It’s this week’s #PoemInTheWindow ☺️