Today is May 27th. On August 27th, @laworldcon.bsky.social opens in Annaheim, California. That's three months away! 12 weeks! 94 days! There is still time to join and to download the Hugo Packet. Site selection opens soon, and excitement is *intense*. Vote #Brisbanein28 #Meanjinin28

when you're mad at Edward Teach this is who you're mad at

Bland 🥲

— and you can see reference to that in Bandit’s work study, where there’s a map on the wall of the islands of Sulawesi and Sumatra (where Brumm’s team found 68,000 year old art) So, one brother studies visual art made by the oldest humans, and the other makes visual art for the youngest humans 😁

RE: new #Bluey episodes, a reminder that the reason Bandit (the dad) is an archaeologist is because dogs love digging up bones! However, Bluey’s creator Joe Brumm is also brother of renowned Stone Age expert, Professor Adam Brumm, who specialises in the earliest known cave art found in Indonesia…

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Anyway here's the link, if you'd like to read about these fools finding their way together through thinly veiled fiction: archiveofourown.org/works/400491...

It still remains one of my favourite pieces (both the fic and the art). SUCH WHIMSY!

I LITERALLY JUST SCREAMED WHILE WATCHING POP CULTURE JEOPARDY.

Hurt my own feelings by being brave and being sad at the results anyway.

By the time authorities admitted Covid was airborne, millions of people had already died. The Andes strain of Hantavirus spreads person to person. Everyone on the boat should have been quarantined. You don’t “wait & see” with a virus that has a 40% fatality rate.

To those who are seeing the finale, remember no spoilers! ❤️ #GoodOmens

I know how to relax! I'm actually quite relaxed right now- FUCK YOU FUCKING NATURE FUCK AAH FUCKING MOTHER FUCKING SNAKE FUCK YOU AAH DIE!

One good thing about my truly terrible memory is getting to experience fics very almost like I’m reading them for the first time.

This is my fav genre of season 2 meme ❤️❤️❤️

Ok so when we say each GPT prompt costs "a bottle of water" this is why

The e-book of the short story "Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent," originally published by @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social , then published by Conversation Tree Press as a limited edition, is now out on Kindle and Kobo! Amazon US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZYBK64S Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Still so relevant! #CrewForLife

People who are NOT WorldCon members: you can get a virtual membership for $85, which lets you vote. *And* gives you access to the voters' packet. This has excerpts from many of the nominees, and full copies of a few. In particular: all of the October Daye books are in the packet.

Struggling with the 15 TV shows list because some shows were SO meaningful for a time and they’ve aged poorly. Or something has since happened. Firefly. Good Omens. Brooklyn Nine Nine. Sherlock. OR the writing failed halfway. Dexter. House. Luther. SHIELD. It’s like everything needs a disclaimer.

Actual line in the script according to samba #ofmd "Artsy outsider was always your thing" "You were my thing" "Nah we were just a fling, just like you and Jack"

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Only Murders in the Building The Good Place Stargate: SG1/Stargate: Atlantis Lower Decks Farscape Elementary Broadchurch The Untamed Andor The Pitt The Dick Van Dyke Show Deadloch Frank's Place Shrinking Shetland

Good things still happen.

Get bloods because of chronic health issues. Blood results mean I need an ultrasound. Which results in CT. Which results in follow up in six months plus two more CTs. Fucking hell no.

Best Series Emily Wilde by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey US; Orbit UK) October Daye by @seananmcguire.bsky.social (Tor US; DAW) Old Man's War by John @scalzi.com (Tor US; Tor UK) 12/

Best Novelette “Kaiju Agonistes” by @scottlynch78.bsky.social (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62) “Never Eaten Vegetables” by @hhpak.bsky.social (Clarkesworld, Issue 220) “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” by @marthawells.com (Reactor, July 10, 2025) 5/

@scottlynch78.bsky.social @matociquala.bsky.social !!! Congratulations! Power coupleee! Are there stats as to when this has happened before?

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

she's beautiful. we will make it.

literally one of my favorite lines in any show ever ❤️ #deadlochspoilers

This is what social media is meant to be about.

People (and red pandas!) always are curious about the food astronauts eat, so NASA put out this handy graphic:

My conspiracy: NASA is doing the Star Trek slingshot effect to go back in time to before the election in 2016 and get us out of the stupidest and darkest timeline.

You know the depression is bad when not even putting together Lego is helping. Dreading work tomorrow. I enjoy where I work and most of my coworkers are lovely but my ability to give a shit is tiny. And they keep asking if I’m okay KNOWING there is nothing that can be done

Look at the ones I managed to cling to!

I just donated to this important cause! Together, we can make a difference. Will you join me? immcouncil.donorsupport.co/page/FUNJCVG...

Recently found out that DuckDuckGo has a dedicated No AI search page. It automatically turns off AI-generated answers and filters out known AI-generated images. No more having to change the settings manually. noai.duckduckgo.com

For my stede girlies (gn) writing the 80s/90s AUs 💕 #OurFlagMeansDeath #OFMDFanart

YOU'VE EARNED IT!!!! 🎓 (free high-res digital download here: ko-fi.com/s/e5b1b60187) #OFMD #OFMDfanart

A little bit of co-captains era smut featuring the secret passageway under Stede's bed! Featuring Ed learning many new things about Stede all at once, and the crew being hingelessly silly when they're not able to find their captains. archiveofourown.org/works/79955206

LFG!!!! (Lesbian Fucking Giraffe) I'm an old fart who likes to see things in full widescreen rather than cropped phone format so, if you're like me, here's the YT link... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEu3...

Also, you may have noticed, I don’t care.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Sorry but it's the legislation. No one here can approve something outside of legislation. Who can? Well, the Commissioner - she's the one who authorises what we /can/ do. Or, beyond her, Fair Work Australia."

A weighted blanket is not enough. I need Edward Teach to lie on top of me.

Omg yes please. perchance.org/ofmddressup