Absolute chills

December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.

I keep noticing a subtle change to how people phrase questions online. Instead of 'When were bicycles invented?' the question is becoming 'When bicycles were invented?' 'Do' as an auxiliary verb is vanishing; instead of 'Why do bears eat fish?' we get 'Why bears eat fish?'

Does anybody know when the first example of a robot's eyes turning red to show they've turned evil is?

btw, Dispatch is some of the most beautiful storytelling in games I've ever experienced, and I love it to bits

Spent the winter months listening to PROTO by @laurainparis.bsky.social on Audible, then going back to the beginning and listening to it all over again. Recommended.

Discussions of Prometheus frequently refer to an 'early script draft' in which Jesus is explicitly described as a human being raised by Engineers. Said script is a fan-made fake. Read it here: web.archive.org/web/20130511... This is Lindelof debunking it as a fake: web.archive.org/web/20130423...

He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.

'Eye of newt' was NOT code for 'mustard seed', and the debunked belief that the spell ingredients in Macbeth are coded references to plants comes from a single Wiccan author in the 1980s. www.tumblr.com/cavalorn/716...

Warframe Isleweaver: Bringing villains to life with Elsie Lovelock and Wolf Newton

We spoke with @warframe.com Principal Writer Kat Kingsley about the Isleweaver Update, new lore and what players can expect. Read our interview here;

*taking a long drag on my cigarette* Look kid, you never think you'll see a leopard eating another leopard's face but sometimes, if you're really lucky and you log on at the right time,

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

The leopards They are eating each other yes YES The leopards are HUNGRY

"I never thought I'd become THAT meme" sobs man who etc

Writing essays with AI is like lifting barbells with a forklift

Happy #cincodemayo from your favorite leopard lady and the incredible musicians of Mariachi Arcoiris, the world's FIRST & only LGBTQ mariachi in the world!! 🐆 💀 💃🏾 🏳️‍🌈 youtu.be/XaiUHBefIco

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

It's time, once again, to celebrate ancient legends that were made up in the 19th Century. There are just so many of them. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...

Getting a bit in my feelings with the #Leopards.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

in unrelated news, I wish I could show this to my six year old self eating spaghetti hoops on toast and avidly watching Star Trek back in the early 70s

I can only thank Franchesca once again for her patience and generosity of spirit. Time after time she has credited me when it would have been so easy just to let it slide. Please, visit her shop and check out her fantastic designs. shop.franchesca.net

Just been described (approvingly) as a 'joyless pedant'

Sonething I really love about Bluesky is you just know that every single person on here has, at least once, stood in the yellow rectangle of light from their fridge late at night feverishly eating something slightly shameful directly from the jar

Brief summary of my time on Twitter: Eye of newt does not mean mustard seed, the Easter Bunny is not a pagan remnant, 'blood is thicker than water' is not only half of the 'real' phrase, Samhain was not a time 'when the veil between worlds grew thin', and the black goo is not Deacon's blood

Ronald Hutton! The man himself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbG...

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

some large felines publicly selected for their visage-based nutritional habits are about to make a predictable yet somehow shocking dietary choice

Your daily reminder that it’s OK for first drafts of anything to be rough around the edges, like this original concept sketch for the facehugger in “Alien,” drawn by screenwriter Dan O’Bannon

Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals

so what'd I miss

@cavalorn.bsky.social ... Someone sang one of your tweets www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8HpTGuf/

hello my name is jrr tolkien and i wrote a whole book series about what it would be like if some funny little guys who just like to hang out and eat and have friends were drafted into a nightmarish conflict vastly beyond their understanding and were forever changed by it also wwi was normal for me

GENE RODDENBERRY: I’m creating a progressive new science fiction TV show about multiculturalism and having respect for other peoples & societies GENE RODDENBERRY: so this character, from Scotland, GENE RODDENBERRY: his name is Scotty GENE RODDENBERRY: he’s an alcoholic

Performance, line delivery, is music. Without contrast, feeling, sustains, drops, hesitations, dirtiness... the character isn't thinking, feeling, reacting. It's monotone. Unnatural. A lie. But with it, it can break your heart or make you sing.

URGENT BREAKING NEWS

what memes have ruined your brain? for example, if i die in a tornado there's a 70% chance that my last words were "it fucken WIMDY" because of this post

Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

Finding mutuals on here like the dead recognizing one another's faces on the far shore of the river we must all cross

Gorgeous illustration by Ricardo Martinez inspired by The Tiger poem by 6 year old Nael. The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out

problem here so far, as far as I can tell, is that there aren't any real antagonists yet, we look like the villagers in a novel pleasantly going about our boring lives waiting for plot to happen to us