you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

If people fancy seeing the sort of fantasy stuff I'm doing for Warhammer, my novella "On the Shoulders of Giants" has its paperback preorder starting next Saturday. If you don't know Warhammer, you don't particularly need to. Just the story of a man with a gun who lives on top of an ogre.

@xkcd.com happy birthday!

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

Getting people to understand how LLMs work is a safety and health emergency

Made a phone call lads #prayforchris

Incidentally every time I pick up a heavy box I think ‘if only Bruce Boxleitner was here’. Just a little bit of fun you can have in your day if you want

Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.

random allusions to whales

Happy Tom Bombadil day to all who celebrate

Sam and Frodo threaten the willow with fire, but Merry and Pippin scream; it has started to crush them. Then—a song? Downstream, behind them, they hear: ‘Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!’

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do...

That is between me and my shadow.

Happy International Talk Like A Boxing Pirate Day to all who celebrate

Dracula (1897)

Happy Stanisław Lem's birthday to all who celebrate!

BONELESS [boa•nlus] sb. A corruption of Boreas, the north wind. 'In Kent when the wind blows violently they say, 'Boneless is at the door.'

I think it mostly reveals that a lot of people really want him to die as soon as humanly possible, on account of how he is the worst person in the world

Legally, this piracy makes Trump hostis humani generis - an enemy of the human race. Any government is empowered to capture and punish him.

I am a monster. I can now make people work in their sleep.

@mangmangmang.bsky.social mang-le

NORMALISE BRINGING YOUR PARROT TO THE PUB @anarchoshanties.bsky.social (he is called Chalky)

"Gavin Newsom is America's Keir Starmer" is perhaps the most devastating thing that has ever been or could ever be said about an American.

artist's recreation

A Polish swimmer has ended his latest attempt to become the first person to swim non-stop between Sweden and Poland. He completed a new record of 159 km out of the 170 km total and is fundraising for children's cancer treatment as part of his efforts.

Australia is wider than the Moon

Sure, as long as the dog is a legend

Micromégas (1752), an early/proto #sciencefiction short story by Enlightenment thinker Voltaire (born #onthisday 1694), centres around a visit to Earth from a 37km tall alien who hails from a planet circling the star Sirius. Read it here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

the best noodles are the ones so spicy you have to respect them

The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

Barker: hey jirt do you really care what gollum was doing Tolkien: people want to know! Barker: yeah but Barker: do YOU care Tolkien: Tolkien: no Tolkien: [crying] i can't pretend anymore Tolkien: i just want to talk about tom bombadil

Found the car manual, did all the "weekly checks". #adulting

WHALE FACTS INCOMING

The sun itself was hidden, but there was a glitter on the horizon, almost like the dazzle of the crystal walls of the Undertomb, a kind of joyous shimmering off on the edge of the world. “What is that?” the girl said, and he: “The sea.”

These are the genesis of THE BONE SHIPS. (Its also one of my favourite museums.)

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

So who is now the greatest living maths teacher

Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.

Found it.

Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.

‘Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from their books, since they ate cheese while they read and dribbled fragments onto the page.’ Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New video dropped "The Soviets' Giant Ekranoplans" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bm4...

Well, Magritte, is it or isn't it? www.worldofmoose.com/products/mag...

TFW historians get bored of your failures and just summarise

herons have GOT to be the funniest species of bird to photoshop tiny top hats on. they all look like world weary 19th century english gentlemen

Exhibition at the Tate Britain until October is worth your consideration.

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