Today is the release of @nataliezed.bsky.social's second novel, Villain. I've watched it develop over the last six and a half years (!) from spitball to hardcover. I've been lucky enough to read the very first draft, its four rewrites, and countless versions, variants, and variations in between.

FOR THE RECORD THOUGH they are as follows Lilith, Abitar, Abikar, Amorpho, Hakaš, Odam, Kephido, Ailo, Matrota, Abnukta, Šatriha, Kali, Batzeh, Taltui, Kitša

Blue Prince (2025)

If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Today's cookie experiment comes from the 1953 edition of "Our Favourite Recipes", by the Ladies' Guild of the Stairs Memorial United Church, Dartmouth NS.

oh my god this gave me EMOTIONS

I've had a front row seat watching this record come together, and it's a monster. Nick Thériault & @jairuskhan.bsky.social have made something special. "Verified Unidentified is a collection of malevolent earworms, the kinds of maggots you might find wriggling through the corpse of a dead star."

WE'RE BACK BABY

Behold the monstrosity I have grown from the single sprouted tomato seed that was in my burger king whopper

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

Godzilla Yuji Murakami

Paddy Pimblett looks like the most dangerous cage fighter in Whoville #UFC324

The Alt Text for the 4th one is so funny

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ai...

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

‪ I BRING GLORIOUS TIDINGS: @jairuskhan.bsky.social's band Antigen Shift has released a single from their upcoming record and it rules: antigenshift.bandcamp.com/track/becaus...

The Night of the Hunter turns 70 today, on the short list of the movies that forever changed the medium

It was my birthday on Saturday which means I have an excuse to show you all one of my favourite things: the extremely normal and optimal way that @jairuskhan.bsky.social cuts a birthday cake.

my kittens are already outsmarting me

CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture Special Issue of American Gothic Studies Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26

So: the “Protect Bathurst / Dufferin” astroturf campaign run by Summerhill Market had videos of a guy talking about the neighborhood & RapidTO proposal. Real grassroots feel. Took a screenshot & put it into google image search. Guess what?

being a knee-jerk cynic doesn't make you more able to detect scams, it makes you less

a lot of people have this reflexively dismissive and contemptuous attitude towards this technology to the point of refusing to even learn how it works, which is going to be a real problem as this stuff improves, because you are going to need to understand (a little about) how it works to spot it

I can't believe I used to run wild in the streets as a child and now I have to pay for credit protection

Telemssage (410 GB) ddosecrets.org/article/tele... Thousands of heap dumps taken May 4, 2025 from TeleMessage, which produces software used to archive encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp. Due to PII in the dataset, the data is only being offered to journalists and researchers.

Our next ANCIENT RECIPE will be Grandma Lena's Oatmeal Cookies, courtesy of Charles Murray and the Winnipeg Mennonite Elementary School. Probably later tonight. The last cookies were more molasses than oatmeal so we're gonna try again.

these are...so weird? And delicious, i think? all of my senses are confused. they're like incredibly strong and incredibly mild at the same time

Today in ANCIENT RECIPES we are making these Molasses Oatmeal Cookies, courtesy of Mrs. Mark Jodrey of the Pinehurst Community Club in Lunenburg County, NS

NOT NOW, MATHEMATICIANS

Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

RIP big George Foreman a titan of the greatest heavyweight era of all time, won the lineal title twice 20 years apart, and made more money as a pitchman than a boxer a true original

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

So I have to start purging political news from my bluesky feed. I'm sorry, I know there's a lot going on, but this used to be somewhere I came to have fun. I can be miserable anywhere, including twitter. Having nowhere to escape it is harming me. I think it's harming a lot of you too.

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

jk rowling ass name

It has been a minute since @nataliezed.bsky.social and I got the cats to sit for portraits. Say hello to Microfiche, Inky, The Beeper, and Dot Matrix. I'll tell them you did.

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." Malcolm X was killed 60 years ago today.

Can I have the body that forgets the score

if you’re neutral milk hotel in the face of oppression you are an oppressor milk hotel

in this thread I share what social media advertising looks like in Canada right now

roses are brown violets are black you're out of plant food here's your keys back

roses are red violets are blue let's play co-op i'll be your P2

roses are red violets are blue let's clean that cat scratch he's jealous of you

I make a lot of bespoke memes just for @jairuskhan.bsky.social but he said I should share this one.

posi content generator let's gooooo This is a pleasing meme. I will talk about nice things and I'd love to hear about yours. 1 like = 1 thing I love

This weekend I'm going to try to find out if I'm connected to the moon.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

I don't think we are supposed to individually prepare ourselves 3x meals a day every day for our whole lives I think we're supposed to have community and sharing