these paintings by German painter Markus Matthias Krüger are pretty much exactly what i envision the zelda 1 map actually looking like in practical terms

I love this ridiculous grocery bag. I can't help but read it as, "Eating organic is a political act, and brother, I vote three times a day."

Cool to see my novella TANTALUS (a standalone excerpt of my forthcoming novel GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE) is on the shortlist for the Novella Prize from @malahatreview.bsky.social

This International Trans Day of Visibility, we are asking you to help increase awareness of our free support line, so that no trans+ person feels alone or unsupported. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are on hand from 10am to 10pm, every day of the year. #InternationalTransDayOfVisibility #TDOV

Not knowing how bad things are for trans people is fine, as @mxthemfatale.bsky.social points out, that’s how privilege works Become informed. this tdov It is not us who should become visible but the oppression we experience

I'm not going to lie, but the ADD hit hard with this one: I wanted to talk about genre, but somehow ended up sprawled across political economy and epistemology. Send help.

I know I'm not alone in this, but I feel moved to note that neither TSA nor ICE should exist. I remember when they were instituted and I'm the same age as The Simpsons.

MY VOLCANO came out 4 years ago as of yesterday. Wild times. Find your volcano at www.johnelizabethstintzi.com/my-volcano

5 years ago!

Call your House Rep, tell them to OPPOSE HR 7661. ☎️ Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 (2/2)

My Work Is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti by me.

"Whistle (While You Work It)" by Katy Tiz was on the playlist at the retailer I worked at for a number of years and man, I resented it then and it seems cruel and unusual now.

I've posted this before for #BookologyThursday but I'll post it again: the Dragon in a 1958 edition of 'Beowulf' illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. #dragon #folklore #folktale #medieval

You've got to cite your sources, and you've got to check your sources.

Never related to a meme harder than I do with this one right now

TFW when you pay no heed to the ides... 2066 yrs ago #onthisday Julius Caesar was assassinated. Listen to Marc Antony’s speech over Caesar's body from Shakespeare’s play, performed with stupendous pomp by Harry Humphrey in 1914 publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... (Image: BLRoyal18EV) #OTD

These thoughts aren't really complete, but this serves as a binding-together of some ideas and a jumping-off-point for some future things.

Here it is again for the morning scrollers!

Another book round-up, friends: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/3/...

Look Into My Regular Normal Average Amount Of Eyes

Star Catcher https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20016

Season of love, season of change

5 weird writing pet peeves: - thoughtless stylistic anachronism - cliche or cartoonish body language - similarly, characters that don't seem to be in their bodies (injuries with no impact etc) - improper usage going to press - sentences and especially analogies that don't track

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

A round of book reviews, containing fiction about gods, ghosts, and monsters, and nonfiction about serial killers, supposed AI, whether or not we'll live in space, and how (maybe) not to go insane dealing with this stupid world. Or maybe to make it happen faster. Baudrillard is hard.

I've played this game multiple times, and every time, with every group, there's something new to find, some new conceptual space to explore.

We just watched this and I really cannot recommend it highly enough: boxd.it/2z6w

Man reading a letter by candlelight, by Rembrandt Peale, 1805. Today was his day.

How is this moldy raspberry so delicious? WOW!! Nature’s expiration date gets blinged. Feels like an artifact from a decadent, decaying dream! Stunning work by Kathleen Ryan shown at Karma via Han Marie Santana-Sayles #beautifulbizarre #modernart #contemporarysculpture #sculpture #laartscene

It's rough on the internet these days. Please take with the caveat that I am a teacher, not a security specialist or a lawyer, but I'm trying to digest and make accessible some of the things I'm coming to understand. If someone understands better, I fully welcome corrections.

Worth noting that, while this is being put forward as a "bathroom bill," the even worse part of the bill is that it invalidates previously-issued ID with updated gender markers.

Some thoughts driven by the observation of a persistent brain bug:

I saw this and started whisper-yelling "YEAH! YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!"

thank goodness it's finally Meat Day

Esteban Maroto can really fuck up a tree (A Scream in the Forest, Creepy 1973)

Sharing again for the daytime scrollers

Exciting to have a new translation!

Some bangers on this book round-up: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/2/...

James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane "May" (née Murray). He was the eldest of ten surviving siblings. He was baptised with the name James Augustine Joyce. #JamesJoyce #OnThisDay #Ireland

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

The world's real fun right now.

a big ol' beautiful poem from Andrew Walker " Chris says I should find an outlet to empty myself into, like yoga or hiking but he is in California & I am substance dependent—" https://www.havehashad.com/0dvve

Shamelessly swiped from the Internet. Rules of Acquisition Afterall

I did actually get this up last night, thereby meeting our self-imposed deadline, but then immediately went to bed. Anyway, some notes on transgressive art: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/1/...

The Quiet In Late January, Before The World Wakes Up

Starting off the year by pushing out reviews of the last...twenty? books I read last year. I, uh, I should have done this sooner.

I didn't cry often before starting T, and since then I haven't fully cried at all but I have gotten choked up to the point of tears in the presence of great beauty (broadly defined). A thread of things that left me verklempt, as I remember to update it:

@cameronlsummers.bsky.social talking about the year we've had: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/12...

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