Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

There's tonight sorted. Talks from Icy are always worth making time for.

Moments like this are why Taskmaster is still appointment viewing for me. Also. Best subtitle game in the business. The youtube ones are pants in comparison.

This thread has made my morning.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” "Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

Have you bought your tickets for the M R James online conference yet? We've got so much amazing stuff going on, including a performance from ROBERT LLOYD PARRY of 'A Warning to the Curious' Check out the website and get your tickets awarningtothecuriousconference.wordpress.com

It's 100 years since M R James's great ghost story "A Warning to the Curious" was published. "Dim Presences", Nunkie and ThomThom Films documentary about the story, is now free to view on YouTube. youtu.be/Ne2kYzwvHOI checkidoot!

Specifically this one.

Tax the frucking RICH. "Half a million claimants have tried and failed to qualify for the daily living element of the state’s Personal Independence Payment (DWP PIP) since November 2024, according to Freedom of Information (FOI)." www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

According to Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and the Met Police, this was the largest, co-ordinated terrorist incident in UK history. (📸 Press Association)

It is just a bit less sucky when you remember other people are in the trenches too.

I am beyond excited that Spinal Tap have reformed. This is utterly brilliant 🤩 youtu.be/2WWTzQ-mRFw?...

A damn good list for everyone.

3 years after diagnosis I finally got to talk to a Dr about my A1AT deficiency. Great news is my liver hasnt picked up too much damage in 48 years. Liver hardness of 8 was a lot better than I was dreading. I have noone irl to tell so I'm celebrating here. Any yr now I'll get the lung consult....

I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

A second edition of Sense and Sensibility. On display at Winchester College Treasury. #janeausten250

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

Excited to share my article ‘Combing History: Flax & Linen in New Hampshire’ [Tiny Studio #27] The issue created @fiberygoodness.bsky.social is thoughtful, engaging & beautifully designed tinystudio.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Issue27Digi_... tinystudio.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Issue27Digi_...

24 West Street, Merchant House, Exeter is former merchants house at the bottom of Stepcote Hill which dates from about 1430. Its original location was on the corner of Edmund Street & Frog Street. Threatened with demolition in 1961 due to new development. After pressure from archaeologists it was /1

I love this. Billionaire who is clearly lying about his public persona and keeps volunteering to help the investigation. Columbo would be on him in a millisecond.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

Did a demon write this?

Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).

I felt like making this

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.” - Charles de Lint

Y’all, one of the great joys of bookshop.org is that you can select a bookstore to buy from—pick a fav from a city you used to live in, or a bookstore you’ve always wanted to visit, or your local! If you pick BINC, a percentage goes to indie booksellers who have applied for financial relief. ❤️

This is how I imagine a storm goddess would look. Stunning.

Seldom? I have questions but years of catholic education has left me too scared of nuns to ask.

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

Omg, absolutely incredible reason for AO3 to have been down hachyderm.io/@vashti/1147... (alt text at original)

Instant serotonin boosts below.

A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

This is seriously exciting.

“One girl was on the content moderation team for child sexual exploitation, and it was suggested to her because she watched the same kind of content every day – namely [CSAM] – she needed less time for wellness breaks, because she should be ‘desensitised’ to that kind of material by now." WTF?!

Sarah Montgomery’s death is a devastating loss for her children, family, and friends - but it is not an isolated tragedy. Since 2020, 26 women have been killed by men in NI, exposing an epidemic of male violence that shatters lives and terrorises women and girls. 1/3

Archery guy is on here!

“I’m a remarkable woman, always was, though none of you seemed to think so" -May Morris, making *points* in correspondence w her former lover George Bernard Shaw

I spent hours studying the wild grasses as a kid. Where they grew, when they seeded, which ones had the sweet stems but I never knew the names. This is fantastic.

Alarming news. The number of patients being treated by GPs for asthma attacks has increased by 45% in a year. “… we know that air pollution can be deadly for the millions of people in the UK living with lung conditions like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” @asthmaandlung.org.uk

Ballymena Pride yesterday. The town showed up yesterday against hate in a massive way. This was one of the most important Prides these islands have ever has seen.

Olivia Blake, one of the few Labour MPs with a disclosed disability, has accused the government of creating an “unethical two-tier system” by its welfare bill concessions - and urged rebels to stand firm. My exclusive in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don't forget to register for M R James's rare ghost story "The Fenstanton Witch", livestreamed Saturday at 8pm(UK) and available anytime thereafter. Pay-what-you-can here fennywitch25.eventbrite.co.uk

On top of that, if you use hashtags with multiple words, capitalize the first letter of the word. This way readers can differentiate that those are different words and read them properly. Example: use #EarlyMorning not #earlymorning Same with names, #JensenAckles not #jensenackles