It's the beginning of June, so that means another edition of "Original of the month", my campaign to fund the production of a new book. 1-buy something from my shop 2-Support my next book. 3- Maybe win a piece of original art. All the rules down thread

Hey wow, rapidly ran out of warning time because of work+health surprises but I leave for Ireland on Friday! So lucky to get to spend so much time with my people there. Gonna be in Glasgow, Brighton, and potentially Cambridge in July so happy to grab a beer with mutuals or play your weird demo 🐙

Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳

Kinky Beatles be like I wanna hold your foot

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Bweh

But the really exciting news is that you can get yourself up Mount Wank every day for a year if you buy a Wank Pass

this classic turns 10 today

Old man blocked by Cloud

Lmao calm down Sephiroth

Haven't checked this in a hot minute and discovered I've got a bunch of new followers, so if you all came from a starter pack and have no idea who the hell I am, here is an outdated but technically correct dossier 🕵️‍♀️

Happy 115th birthday to a small mountain hut in the Bavarian Alps! Why? Because it was opened on this day in 1911, of course. And... um... 🧵

the wikipedia image for sexual roleplay is making my lose my mind

A Japanese carved boxwood group of turtles, 19th century

"this piece of media has gross stuff in it" man damn that sucks, did you talk to your mom about how the parental controls aren't working

I'm here you fuckaas bitch

TEX is the culmination of my PhD research. Not only do we describe & figure our new species in exhaustive detail, but we include a revised phylogenetic dataset for analysis of Mosasauridae, & my measurement dataset for HUNDREDS OF MOSASAURS & EXTANT LIZARDS-& it's ALL OPEN ACCESS

Everything IS bigger in Texas... Introducing TYLOSAURUS REX–“TEX”. A monster animal, a monster paper, & a monster project that I am *so* excited to finally share with everyone after ~5 yrs. Huge thanks to my coauthors, Mike & Ron, & to Alderon Games for bringing our lad to life!! #FossilFriday

This is a really good video on music signatures, even if you don't know nintendo at all www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g00...

There’s been a lot of talk of getting off Google in recent years, but now it’s time for people to get serious. This company believes it has people locked in. People need to show Google there are consequences for its actions. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Lures

Sitting my family down at the dining table and tearfully coming out to them as tall

Over 7500 votes later, the players have spoken! 🇸🇬 Singapore will be coming to Mini Motorways this September! 🥳🥳🥳 Thanks to all who voted - what a turnout from our community!

Truth Coming Out of Her Well - Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896

Thought gained: The Automatic Man Temporary bonus: All dice rolls are 7 Permanent bonus: +1 to all MOT skills; -2 Volition; -1 Conceptualization

Tiocfaidh ár caw #speirgorm

Truth Coming Out of Her Well - Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896

Stuck in Featherston for the evening so I'm gonna go to the Chelyabinsk meteor talk at 6.30, gimme a yell if you'll be there for some reason, I got time for a pint

Our Worldcon bid is run entirely by volunteers, other fans just like you! We have a few key roles we are currently recruiting for various teams listed below. If you are interested, or want to join the team but none of those are up your street you can join the volunteer team at dublin2029.ie.

Aquamariner is in the Ocean Fest Sale now on steam! buyitgoondoitpleaseoohandreviewitpositivelysowecanreachmorepeopleitonlyhaspositivereviewsbutletmeknowifyouseeanybugscauseillfixemiswearsies

ME: Okay—back on track... How do you feel about the modern takes on the Odyssey? HOMER: Show me Grindr again. Show me again now.

I interviewed Tony Leung. www.vulture.com/article/tony...

Can't wait for this one to hit my library - out now!

Artists! Quote with a femme fatale art 🔥

Artists! Quote with a femme fatale art 🔥

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

Man that needle drop at the end of the first EP of Beef still makes me laugh

I once had a sandwich that was so bad at Great American Ballpark that they wrote about it in the Cincinnati newspaper. The good people of Cincinnati responded by denying knowledge of the sandwich, accusing me of smuggling it in to defame the city, and sending me death threats on my wedding day.

Forgive me for discoursing but the focus on political preferences and echo chambers is missing the part where a lot of us left twitter pre-Nazification because the bots were unbearable. At the time, Meta algo weighting was also making it impossible to reliably, chronologically see friends' (1/2)

Forgive me for discoursing but the focus on political preferences and echo chambers is missing the part where a lot of us left twitter pre-Nazification because the bots were unbearable. At the time, Meta algo weighting was also making it impossible to reliably, chronologically see friends' (1/2)

-Hockey players whose team is down by two in P3 of a playoff game: "Machinehead" (Bush)

Thank you very much for every reply. I will get around to messaging you all back but I am treating myself to mapo tofu and baijiu and about six hours of For All Mankind because you should not have to use your brain on brain tumour day

Addiction by Design - Natasha Dow Schüll (2012)