Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

The Supreme Court:

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

carly rae jepsen x heated rivalry

After six years of long COVID (ME subtype), I still can’t get my head around the specific hatred for people with energy limiting diseases. I get the theory, all the “eww you remind me of mortality” crap, the bootstrap bullshit, the desperate flailing for a way to make it our fault. But at the—

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

lots of recognition of connor's excellent russian accent as ilya, but i also have got to give a shoutout to hudson's autistic accent as shane

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Yuna Hollander circa 2009: fuck Ilya Rozanov Shane Hollander, autistic and extremely literal: Okay.

Be the change you want to see, so here it is: The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics is a sapphic historical where a widow sponsors a young lady astronomer’s translation project. Over science and embroidery and a bisexual awakening, they fall in love! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Periodic reminder: Your friends are still your friends even if you haven't had a real conversation in a bit!! If you're thinking of them, reach out and let them know!

My wife gave me the absolute best hand carved sign this year and I can't wait to hang it above my desk. (Morwen is my role model.) (If you know, you know.)

looking at you, folks who scoff at wearing masks in, at the very least, indoor public spaces even as we watch the wanton destruction of our public health system & collapse of healthcare infrastructure.

Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen!

Shane Hollander autistic sports gay I would die for you

Shane is autistic and he manages by exerting control over many things. Also like the clothes folding. This hookup is completely out of his comfort zone. Also first time with a man not to mention the taboo of the whole situation

And also yeah! We *should* be buying fewer t-shirts and shit as well!

This is why I go nuts when people compare AI water use to agriculture or something. Do we need an overhaul of our systems? Sure! But humans need to eat and we don't need Garfield robbing sexy Pikachu at gunpoint. You're comparing apples to rubber chickens.

This is the sort of shit people mean when they say the two parties are the same

shane hollander fighting the war on autism on the side of autism

‘Heated Rivalry’ has been renewed for Season 2. (deadline.com/2025/12/heated…)

Rabbit locomotion — Brehms Tierleben, 1914

Just got given my Award of Arms in the SCA and only cried like: a tiny bit

Not mythical, but Ottawa Otters would be funny 🦦

Devastated to realize that because they changed the name of the Montreal and Boston teams to More Legally Distinct™️ ones, the Ottawa team in #HeatedRivalry will probably not be the Ottawa Centaurs I hope the new name is equally goofy and mythological themed, at least I vote the Ottawa Mermen

Ornithocheirus simus. A new portrait of this early Cretaceous pterosaur. #SciArt

December 2025 energy

Oh damn, Pantone can paint a room but can’t read one

sexy teen soap set at starfleet academy? why not! they should make every type of show star trek. moody scandinavian police procedural star trek. half-hour family sitcom starring worf. vulcan columbo

*nods gravely* Goncharov

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Let’s hear it out. You have the floor, carnivorous death ball

Fuck that shit

I am very much *not* excited about Universal's apparent #TheMummy sequel. Especially in light of Lee Cronin's other Mummy film already in development with ACTUAL Egyptian leads. Please read my latest for @thenerdsofcolor.bsky.social to understand why 🙏🏽 thenerdsofcolor.org/2025/11/05/a...

Whoops

YEET

There’s some poetic symmetry to Dick Cheney dying and New York electing their first Muslim mayor, on the same day

Me: Dick Cheney is dead My Dad: Good! Like Kissinger! :)

Tim Curry is always first and foremost Nigel Thornberry in my heart

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Yikes

Bats bats bats bats bats bats bats bats bats bats bats bats bats 🦇

Way back in the pause before this announcement, I said that if Doctor Who and Heartstopper (two cultural juggernauts) were to be canceled, it would be a very grim sign of things to come. Both of these shows have now been reshuffled and defunded. This is de facto censorship. #SaveQueerStories

#WoTtober 29: love. If you know, you know. #WoTskies #TheWheelOfTime #art

And thou no more art prince than she is queen.