WHY do I have the Stingray soundtrack running through my head today brain? Srsly, why? 🙃

Present Amy regrets past Amy’s life choices ><. Why did I think selecting a 7am-12pm delivery slot on a SATURDAY for a much needed new washing machine was a GOOD idea?

The Forgetful Polar Bear is all happy he remembered to display his biggest Plushy Fish creation 🥳❤️

The river carves the land. Collects its gossip, hears all its spirited stories. Blends them into its own song. Witches listen to this fluid singing of place, gathers omens as they float by. She runs with the river and absorbs its wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries

Anyone interested in a free skills session in a community for geeks? Its mostly business owners, but not limited to them - me being a member being a case in point ;) The Hall of Heroes is a cool little community:) www.linkedin.com/posts/thatso...

Highlighting 19th-century women in palaeoart (Alice Woodward (1862–1951))

"If we have UBI, everyone will get lazy and nobody will work anymore!" Have you seen the time and money people will spend to get premium upgrades and cosmetics for video games and other hobbies? Trust me, people will be motivated to earn money to enjoy life and not just survive.

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

I'm not going back to Substack. I will continue to post my newsletters from Ghost. But I did have to get back in there, just to post this and let people who thought I'd vanished know about this utter nightmare: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Good morning everyone ☀️ Have a wonderful Friday, my dear bsky followers 💖

oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that

Just in time for #Nudivember!

Good folk, fine folk #FF @londonhorrorcomic.bsky.social @jamiedelano.bsky.social @dirkmaggs.bsky.social @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social @mariastrutz.bsky.social @marthawells.com @jonsavage.bsky.social @julianneregan.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social @andy-paciorek.bsky.social

Inner Worlds issue 9 will be out at the end of November, featuring this stunning cover artwork by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social ✨️🌿💜

On the back of this, you should really check out this one from our back catalog as a great example of LGBTQIA & STEM ^^ www.castofwonders.org/2023/02/cast...

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

🌈#TODAY: Nov. 18 is the International Day of #LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, celebrating and highlighting the work and barriers of LGBTQIA+ people in #science, #technology, #engineering, and #mathematics (#STEM). prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/ 🏳️‍🌈#PrideinSTEM #diversity #PRIDE

Hi, it's me again. I'm reposting this today because a whole lot of people who saw this yesterday told me they appreciated it. Know this: I believe in you. If you need permission to have some quiet space for yourself, here it is. <3

🖼️ Franz Marc

She likes to get up on the ottoman to beg for treats by looking adorable. HOW IS SHE REAL?!

HOW is it only half 8?!?! It feels like freaking midnight.

These are the folks I adopted Horrible Babby Kitten from! Like all rescues they do a LOT of unpaid and invisible work for local animals, so if you have even $5 it would be awesome if you could kick in!

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Does the dance of resolved my first ticket in the live system 💃🏻

Happy

We wake to mornings of cold magic. Exhale dragon-breath, crunch frost-frozen leaves as we walk. The year is dying. We feel it as rush of ghosts, a shivering that foretells the blade of ice upon its neck. No wonder this is the season where folklore burns bright. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Folklore

I was looking to see if I had bats and found Bunny Batman and Bunny Wonder Woman

When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

just existing with u >>>

Ah the Fun* (type 2 fun) part of WFH - when t’internet goes down 🙃

This was also the first place we saw Hallucigenia, a species SO BIZARRE that for a long time, nobody knew which end was up! Great poster by Nix Illustration here:

Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.

The witch works with the season. When the year begins its slow striptease, she reads the language of the trees' wooden bones. Reads tomorrow in a fall of phyllomancy. When birds come to harvest high berries, auspicy is her share. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Lets continue with the drawing course plates 🪲 #insects #sciart #dragonfly #art

Using the golden spiral composition for the noctules' illustration #bats #art #SciArt #batappreciationmoth @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

The stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) — from the first sketch to the final drawing. 🪲 First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on. #SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates

🦇 Noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) hunting a Noctua moth. Illustration for "Animals on the Move" series for Dina Dechmann's lab at MPI of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social #SciArt #art #bats #wildlifeart #insects

There are infections of blood. There are infections of the soul. There are I believe, infections of the place. For the land itself may be wounded by our traumas. Where its psychic skin cracks, the spoilings of rot and wickedness can set in. We call such infections hauntings. – Rev. A. Morley

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

Musk: We’re going to give criminals a robot that follows them around to make sure they don’t do crimes SF writer, making notes: Mmhm, mmhm. Go on, go on

Today, we remember all those who have suffered and continue to suffer because of war. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Snooshi wins an award as the most pregnant sterile male bunny in the world 🏆🐰 #MondayMotivation

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...