On December 18, 1917, it seems there were one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight patents (including design patents?) published in the United States of America. I have looked at eight hundred and twelve of them. THIS IS FINE.

Icarus says humans are weird, WTF (where's the food), and don't we know that being snugly and bringing gifts is the way to make peace and friends?

None of this is legal, none of this is necessary, none of this is moral.

I am pretty sure this is the worst one I've ever heard. There's a line in Stephen King's DANSE MACABRE about how you feel your mouth trying to laugh and scream at the same moment. I just feel my mouth trying to scream. (NB: I am not listening to "Vermis".)

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"I curse you and all your descendants with long lifetimes of dry and flavorless pancakes, you fuck!" Highly recommended. 😂

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I have begun the day by relearning the difference between BSW and BSF head sizes, worrying about my to-do list, and watching a Paul Sellers video on French cleats. There are worse ways to start. Next time I will try to skip the worrying. :)

I have spent enough time in Hookland to not be surprised by seeing a car park sign that reads: ‘This area liable to sudden flooding. Parked vehicles at risk of partial submersion and Stay Below Vandalism.’ - #MattAdams, 1981

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

Tedious of me to repost this but pretty much every time I do, about four more new people read it, and it seems that at least one of them then tells me it's inspired them to buy the book. Plus the book got absolutely shat on by my ex-publisher. Also, the book's fucking great. So here we are again.

Started the morning with an advertisement for a cocaine prescription from a Martian prince. And this is why I love podcasts.

Today is the last day to read this piece for free. It might work quite well as an intro to my writing for people who only know it via Bluesky. P.S. It's much better if you read it all the way to the end. I mean, I would say that, but I promise: it really does. www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

When I started a Substack in 2022, Substack suggested I charge £70 per year for people to access my writing. I ditched Substack last summer. I now make all my writing accessible for a minimum of £20 per year (or £2 per month if you prefer). I’m more comfortable with this set up: www.tom-cox.com

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

Weeelllll if you want to read about at least one person learning* to see the world through other eyes... may I recommend the anti-war, small acts of resistance and malicious compliance** book ONE MESSAGE REMAINS? *being forced **also occasionally blowing up train tracks

#GoodLuckHaveFunDontDie I... I. What the *fuck*. Will be watching that again. ...no seriously WTF

Exciting news! My mum has just kindly given me this bundle of handmade linocut bookmarks. I'm giving one of these away for free with signed copies of my two latest novels. Please let me know if you'd like to grab one of these bundles for just book cover prices plus p&p. Only sending to UK, BUT...

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury

Just copying this here - This was just for the "drive it from his grieving mother's house to his house, because his mom was scared being alone in the house with this rifle" and I think we were called three times AND the Mounties checked on the mom during this. bsky.app/profile/kris...

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh* "As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The entire purpose of the SAVE Act is to make sure trans people and married women can no longer vote. That's it.

"Oh, for fuck's sake."

$30 closer, and I deeply appreciate it! But I'm still only at $210, with about 13 hours to catch up to $700 rent, which is the absolute minimum that I can survive with. Also badly need help with storage and groceries!. My survival is in your hands! Please help quickly if you can, and keep sharing!

My student loans’ occult advisor says forgiveness makes them really sad. They thought you were a better person than that. :(

I am really not bragging, this is just the bare minimum you can do to be of use

Uhhhh, Ontario? We need to fucking raise hell about this globalnews.ca/news/1155832...

I see it's time to talk about heat waves and caffeine again. All right fine, let's do this. The fundamental problem with coffee in a heat wave is not dehydration! www.newsweek.com/thousands-to...

In my effort to make my art even less digital, I have started building an analog texture library. I got one of those $15 black and white printer cameras, and I’m using it as an excuse to look artistically at things that aren’t my screen. Fuck AI. DIY all the way.

Thanks for the outpouring of kindness, folks. If you want to do something to perk me up? Well, you could pre-order my dragon book! www.amazon.com/Dragon-Has-S...

(please do not be rude to this user, he's a low-follower account) you found my food post in the "discover" tab. This place does not hyper curate the discover tab. Now, everyone's "top of bsky" looks different. Here's mine. Read the post after this one. This is a "thread"

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

No. No. No. Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy. Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.

This is it. "What do you think calling your electeds will do?" Make them feel about me the same way everyone who's ever defaulted on student loans feels about their voicemail.

Perfectly normal beginning to every great Dartmoor love story, in my experience.

Thread, up and down.

TIMELINE CLEANSE old photo of Man Grabbing Leggy and giving me a slightly judgy look for exclaiming that my leggy is being grabbed

Thread, up and down.

So, this happened today... It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them) Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now

Today I looked at PodcastAddict and realized the #TheGhostsOnThisRoad ep was *not* one I'd downloaded for a comfort listen. Linda Wojtowick writes, she and Soren Narnia (Knifepoint Horror) narrate - it's lovely and strange and so worth your time. theghostsonthisroad.podbean.com #podcast #horror

When Soren Narnia says, "My name is," you know you're in for a good time!

I beat @theweaselking.bsky.social at pool! Friendly, non-strict pool. But still.

I'm getting a bit tired of people saying Canada's Liberals are exactly the same as the Conservatives when the Liberals, unlike the Conservatives, are not interested in hunting trans people for sport You may think that's a small difference but it matters a lot to me, and I fucking see you

I don't want to get TOO ahead of myself here but: #iHunt: The Feature Film is now in development. Officially. And we have a casting director, who was responsible for casting one of my all-time favorite indie movies, Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.

Full opinion here. Judge Xinis is clearly hopping mad with the government's repeated refusals to comply with her requests to be forthright about the situation, and suggests she will take it into account in pending sanctions motions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

Can't fit it all in, but: "...and a few million years later the universe arranged itself according to trillions-to-one odds so that you can exist and, somehow, instead of living in a perpetual state of wonder and gratitude, you get annoyed that we ran out of toilet paper." Lovely. Give it a read.