Holding hands with a feline species while trying to start your desk work. This 1482 image of St. Jerome and his lion nails it timelessly. #catcontent #academicchatter

Moths are excellent pets as they ask for nothing and all you have to do to acquire lots of them is open a window and switch on seven lamps and put a classic early Leonard Cohen LP on at a pleasant volume.

(starting a constructive dialogue) Listen dumbass,

Looks like we're getting a little 19th century gunboat diplomacy. As a treat.

Strong rec for @aseprite.org, a really well done piece of software, great docs, very intuitive, works on all platforms. Very nice to have is just wanna tweak other folks art like for use in @godotengine.org

Nothing terrifies and delights me quite like a blank page. #CommonplaceBook #Stationery #Analog

how I plan to spend 2026

showing off this absolute beaut today - 16th-century in the binding made for the el elector palatinate, containing vitae of Burchard of Worms and Gall (by Walahfrid), and Paulus Diaconus' Historia Longobardorum!

why do you think these guys here know so much about Marvel's Taskmaster? they learned against their will simply by being on this app with me

I needed crew images for my #Grogmeet Sky Rig game, and I wanted to use original art. What did I have to hand? It'll be fine. What freelance crew could be more capable of handling a mission to a troubled gas giant refinery?

photosynthesizing my own serotonin with 10,000 lux of artificial solar glory like the delicate little tropical plant I am (babys first sad lamp just arrived)

Show me what you can do with just a pen! Does calligraphy count?

Otter pupdate! 💙 Our Asian small-clawed otter pup is growing fast. His eyes are now open, and he weighs 586 grams, right on track for a healthy, curious little otter. Proud first-time parents Pintar and Sebastian continue to do an excellent job caring for their fuzzy male pup behind the scenes.

it’s time

Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year. Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

it's funny how bookseller is considered a quiet, sedate and well, 'bookish' profession when we were the purveyors of banned and unwholesome thought and pornography for centuries and were constantly being prosecuted for it

Wake Up, Dead Man was a DNF for me: - 2.5 hours for a whodunnit? My expectations are HIGH - 30+ minutes of exposition at the start is big 'I didn't have time to write a short letter' energy - considering means, motive, and opportunity, you know who the killer is in the first 30 minutes

i love this guy

chess dot com has deployed an acerbic snowman as an opponent

I freaking LOVE a blue book. As a verbose and speedy writer, being able to ask for additional books amidst the groans and eye rolls of my instructors remains a prided core memory.

Absolutely the best Christmas Novel is JANE EYRE. Up there on the moors with your cousins in “a sort of merry domestic dissipation” etc etc

Jo and I have similar seduction techniques.

As a pre-Christmas treat, allow me to explain the true significance of the famous Lady and the Unicorn tapestries at the @museecluny.bsky.social, which is the story of the unicorn's increasing disaffection with its career as a standard-bearer.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

In the early days of the blue skies, the elders of Bluesky send each other single Bluesky posts with Alf images, printed out on paper, as Christmas gifts via the traditional mail systems. Those were the days.

I have some questions for past me, who scheduled an early morning call for tomorrow.

My friends. Starting tomorrow the daylight returns. Finally. Longer days. Longer and longer and longer days.

The roots were good today

LIFE RULES: Insulate your house with books to ward off evil Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse Never click on a link to the Daily Mail Use double the recommended amount of garlic Always stop to say hi to sheep And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice) I think that's more or less everything covered?

POV: you're walking the road to Hay to post a letter, you have zero prospects, and your life is about to get very complicated.

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔤𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔯 𝔣𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔊𝔞𝔞𝔖

every trans kid brings more value to the world than any chickenshit politician willing to sacrifice them for political points

If “dicking around” means “Moby-Dick jokes” then yes that is why I primarily post on text-based social media

Happy 250th birthday to the brilliant Jane Austen! Here’s our special anniversary episode of BBC You’re Dead To Me about her life, featuring my guests @lucyworsley.bsky.social & Sally Phillips www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’m not saying I don’t do stupid things but I am saying that every thing I do is my own idea, whether it’s stupid or not.

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

The particular perfection of Princess Bride is that it is a movie where 99% of the fantasy elements are unquestioned, but then suddenly characters will be confused about the remaining 1% and it’s funny every single time.

A pet sleeping next to you feeling so safe and comfy is genuinely the most any human can really ask for It makes you feel like maybe you aren’t so bad. You might even be good

The devil couldn't find me so he put me in charge of building Squarespace sites.

Truly one of nature's mostly highly optimized predators

Behold! The majesty of this fierce and uncompromising killer.

BSL-3 lab work, fluorescent microscopy, and Western blots.

I have found the Best Doggo* in museum pictures. (1777, Sir Joshua Reynolds (English), Portrait of Mrs. Elisha Mathew, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas) *(There is not actually competition. All good doggos are Best Doggos)

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Teeth in snow- 2022

It's one healthcare, Michael. What could it cost? $10?

Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes. All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.

currently in my British Police Procedurals era and the way they just casually threw someone out the window of a high rise?!?!?! I was enjoying that character!

The past couple weeks as a professional romance critic begging someone to let me, a professional romance critic who wrote the sports romance list for the NYT and a Letterkenny fan for years, write about the gay hockey romance adaptation. Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!