(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.

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

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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.

Happy Friday! Jump into this portal and see where it takes you! @kkoopman.bsky.social magazine.trollbreath.com/frequently-a...

alright, this made me laugh woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...

There is A Lot right now, so I have put www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTwf... on repeat. 0:43 - "Isn't that one of those Justice guys?" "It's just the smart one."

International conventions should not be held in the U.S.

If you never knew about the little dagger symbol in the NYT bestseller list, it’s a fun rabbit hole. Go look it up.

This holiday season, In case you were not aware; tulips, lillies, cyclamen, holly, mistletoe and poinsettia are toxic to cats and dogs; lilies and cyclamen are especially deadly for cats. Please be advised, I do not want anyone to lose a beloved pet just because they werent warned!

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

Cozy horror has been a thing since John Wyndham, and always will be. In the end, cozy is like horror or romance; a modifier rather than a core descriptor. Cozy is a vibe, a "know it when I see it," and none of us, me included, can set hard rules for inclusion.

So it is this squishy, squelchy, kinda gooey definition I ask you to keep in mind when I tell you that HOW TO SURVIVE CAMPING: THE MAN WITH NO SHADOW is the best cozy horror I've read in years. Corpses? Sure. Gore? Yeah. But the vibe is convivial and welcoming, and the setting is glad you're here.

I will go to my grave screaming about how Pennywise being a clown hits completely different for anyone under 40 or 50, because the original intent was that Pennywise LOOKED HARMLESS, because “IT” predates scary clowns, & if the story were modern, Pennywise would manifest as a ninja turtle or Luffy

Look out. #Supergirl lands in theaters June 26.

Jim and I are on the precipice of 13,000 followers here on Bluesky and it seems only fair that we send whoever number 13,000 is, if or when they arrive, a free signed book, right?

Not trying to armchair diagnose or anything, but a whole lot of people who are constantly screaming at other people about Causes on social media exhibit A LOT of behaviors that would make me put them on moral injury burnout leave if they were T&S agents I was managing

My latest @thebulletin.org piece tries to reckon with the economic costs that would accompany the bursting of the AI bubble - and also highlights some of the societal costs we are already paying.

I _love_ everything about this. I wonder how many people turned out to give it a try?

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

jesus fucking christ

if they're all businesses, do you know how much money the military loses

Mongo (before he started turning up at our house, back when he was just a farm cat living in a barn)/Mango/Mongoose/Mangoose/Jim Mangleson/James Mangleson/Jim/Jimothy/Jimblepuss/The Horse/The Fox/Brain Of Britain/The Goose/and now mostly just Jim. www.tom-cox.com/jim/

Oh gosh I saw this as a kid and I'd kind of completely given up on ever finding it again.

Guys, do not use the Discord Checkpoint thing (Discord's attempt at Spotify Wrapped). It requires enabling them access to scrape your data, and has an alarming amount of private data being used for it. Make sure you have these disabled.

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words. I cannot search three words in quotes. Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests. And now we have this.

This is why people who insist that capitalism/profit motive will ultimately trump racism are unfortunately and demonstrably incorrect We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this

NOW ONLY $75 NEEDED!

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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share gofund.me/a5ee0064

(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect; (B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning; (C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer

I wouldn't actually ever recommend *trying* to go out and pet raccoons or bats. It would probably stress them out. But it is something of a shock to find that a course of rabies shots costs about $700 from @shoppersdrugmart.bsky.social when I get it b/c I'm travelling. (When I got bit? Free.)

THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...

I should probably add: only one chapter of the book is in this form. There are also several narrated by a hill, one by an ex-music journalist, and one by a 1930s gravedigger. But some are not as normal as that.

Had an ad in @theguardian.com yesterday!