In a better brighter parallel universe, Lovecraft was like that not because of his fantastic racism but because he had a fishmonger bully him relentlessly nonstop his entire life.

(making up a subculture to get mad at) hey did you hear about the new booktok thing where they feed an ebook to chatgpt chapter-by-chapter and have it read the story to them with the boring parts cut out

Playing depeche mode to hide kink sounds is like playing "america the beautiful" to hide your patriotism

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Former flutist here if any mutuals wanna find out if the rumors are true.

Shoutout to my first massage therapist who was a semi-pro MMA fighter; I once caught him with both feet braced against the wall so he could more effectively drive an elbow into one of my QLs and when I sighed happily his response was “this usually makes people twice your size start screaming.”

happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art

Bounced my head off a handhold while bouldering a bit over a week ago and what I hoped was just a PCS flare-up is getting steadily worse and I can’t take time off work and my mental health is fucking Bad right now.

I've said in the past that everyone has a drug, a cult, and a diet out there that will hack their brain and ruin their life, but I lack a certain pity for the people for whom all three are being glamoured by a chatbot that insufferably and smotheringly coddles them.

Eels, in an early life stage called leptocephalus, drift with the plankton, eating tiny invertebrates and fish. Shot using scuba, at night, while drifting with the plankton, out over the deep abyss. #eel #leptocephalus #larvalfish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

Phoebe-versary! I don’t know when her actual birthday is, but today marks five years since Sam, The Cat We Accidentally Stole From Our Neighbors showed up with his barely-tolerated younger sister who became Phoebe, The Cat The Same Neighbors Asked Us To Adopt When Their Kids Left For College.

I hate the extrovert experience where I have one good conversation and then I have too much energy and need to go for a run like the world’s worst herding dog

Mermay is almost over, but I’m looking forward to breaking out my fin in the Caribbean in a few weeks!

“You know, ‘many are saying this’ and ‘I am Legion’ are really just the same statement.” — @hikikomorphism.bsky.social

tfw you sing a loving little song to your pet and they look at you like you’re Florence Foster Jenkins

Post-concussion syndrome flare-ups are lowkey a *little* funny because my manager asked how I was doing and I was like “if I think too big of a thought I need to lay down, and if I think too quickly I throw up.” “Are you taking this call from under your desk?” “Yes. Direct sunlight is very loud.”

AI can't do this. Machines can't do this. Crochet is something nobody has ever been able to mechanise because of the complexity of how it's made. AI can't even figure out how to do this, but a practiced crocheter can look at a shape and work out how to anchor the stitches to make it in yarn.

Reminder: in one sense or another but all of them very real, we're all already dead in a world of death filled with the dying and the dead—so what else is there for us to do but to live? So live. Live fully, live freely, live uproariously, live fiercely, live joyfully—live.

Between James Talarico and Pope Leo XIV, we're in a golden age of public figures who are devout in their faith in an authentic and genuine way that, to many people, scans as vastly more progressive than it is when contextualized by the state of Christianity's public face in the US.

My high school art teacher used to task us with a daily journal prompt that amounted to “You take more or less the same route to school every day. Tell me something you noticed today that you’d never noticed before.” What began as homework at 16 evolved into a spiritual practice at 36.

When you are short and adorable, you have to be tough. Nobody takes you seriously unless they know you're ruthless.

SMOL.

Almost missed wearing my lilac.

Some of the coolest chromatophore action I’ve seen in a while; the original videographer is a dive instructor based near the Red Sea.

We’ve never actually written or drawn it, but I had a reoccurring dream that @cwill.net & I made a children’s book called “Not Everything Is Covered In Spiders.” Never saw illustrations, just agents looking more horrified with each page I turned & they invariably kicked us out of their office

Do u think in the Pokemon universe they sell sexy Team Rocket roleplay costumes and people on PokeTumblr argue over whether it's problematic or not and one guy goes "actually my grandpa died during the Pokémon Tower takeover"

Ten years today of being with Jess @dykemelodrama.bsky.social and it has been the most full and wonderful ten years of my life. They put it so well in that love needs to be tended but also that it feels so easy to do together Love and romance is real, I hope every single one of you finds it, too!

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

one thing that I like about Nothing Bundt Cakes is that every cake looks like it has a facehugger attached

placating my cat as I place her, unwilling as ever, on my desk with soothing praises: - oh she so fluff - oh she so nipple - oh she so grace - oh she knows all the secrets of number - oh she knows all the motions of heaven - oh she has no teeth - oh she so gums - oh she smell like dust (cont.)

- oh she so bag - oh she smell like beef - oh she so regal - oh she so pretty - oh she so fierce - oh she has so many patellae - oh she has them - oh she has me - oh she lack collarbones - oh she hide the mysteries - oh she is queen of all reality - oh she is queen of my heart - oh she so her

Really need to host MONK NIGHT II: THE NAME OF THE BROSE this summer, because having your friends over to work on analog craft projects and feast like a bunch of Redwall characters while wearing cozy cassocks is an utter delight.

showing this to @facilitatrix.bsky.social and they're just looping repeating different permutations of the phrase "why fake head"

there's clearly a skin flap from a mask right around his collar and it's also clearly visible on the fox news youtube channel video so. like. this is clearly real, but also, what the fuck?

A poem wherein each line would make a separate/complete/compelling anthology set of story prompts (SFF/Urban Fantasy/Magical Realism).

graphic design is my passion

Mosquitos have blood type preferences, so in places that are largely homogeneous, they'll all have a preference for a particular blood type from what I understand. When I was in China I got no bites, meanwhile my Type B friends got eaten alive.

i don't think anyone will ever surpass these posts

working outdoor camp. kid who has obviously been dehydrated revealed to have been putting water in his mouth and then spitting it out bc he "got all the nutrients in it"

today at work: a boy said something mean to his classmate so i told him i was writing it down and this was his first strike (3 strikes gets a notice home). a minute later i look over and his face is 2 inches from his chromebook reading bible verses from revelations

I don't believe in sex before returning to your birth river to spawn

i've had this thought too. if you're a person who only eats fast food, panda express/taco bell is like the only stuff that has any substantial amount of vegetables in it

diogenes of sinope, fl. mid-300s bc

one of my favorite examples of this is on The Great Pottery Throwdown, a British pottery-making contest show, with contestants are mostly white & from the UK, thus presumably at least culturally Christian… as soon as a piece goes for firing, they all say “it’s up to the kiln gods if it turns out”

Gymnastic: Double back somersault - from floor, in standing position

oh how i pine for the halcyon days of yore, when people still pined & knew what ‘halcyon’ meant 😬

It is well worth your time this morning to navigate through the QTs to read this entire comic.