@heatherrosejones.bsky.social 's latest publication, Skin-Singer, just arrived. I got a physical copy because it would be harder for someone to yoink it.

not all who meander are lost.

Whenever I’m deciding what to do, I say “What would Fëanor do?” and then I do the exact opposite

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

Advice for life: - be kind - tip well - read banned books - let moss into your life - grow antlers if it suits you - become the haunted thing timid townsfolk whisper about in the dark

the jar of water on the left was sewage just 24 hours ago. the jar on the right is tap water. the man in the middle is shift manager Chad.

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

"BlueSky is dead!" Meanwhile, on BlueSky... (sorry, too long to upload, I think) www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_My...

Also:

A 15-year-old who read Rocket Ship Galileo when it was released is now 92 years old.

Fear not, Five-Claw, for even a trek so arduous as your is not wasted. Orakhajit listens to the flow of the spirits... Orakhajit hears... many things.... Such knowledge can also be the Five-Claw's... Orakhajit has many answers to your questions... if you have coin to pay...

Some say this house will end in fire Some say wisteria From what I've cut off the exterior I hold with those who say wisteria But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of plants To say that, for destruction, fire Is pretty much the only chance

Sure, this is just a double sunrise due to the way the eclipse geometery worked out, but it may in fact actually be a DEMON SUNRISE. Fans of Quatermass and the Pit might recognize what it really *truly* is, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkb... h/t APOD

Sands of Forvie - sol 2979 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kjGGsS

Sometimes, the most amazing photos from space are of objects close to home. Or even *of* our home. This is a lunar eclipse as seen from the Moon. That black disk? That's Earth. And the ring around it? Why, that's the magic. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/incredible... 🔭 🧪

Being an astronaut isn't all it's cracked up to be.

This is the year I’m bullying all my author friends to also sell their books direct and DRM-free, apart from the usual online marketplaces like Kobo or Amazon. If Gumroad isn’t to your taste, there’s ko-fi, Patreon, itch.io, payhip #indiePub

Roses are red (pink, white, yellow, orange, purple, and more), Violets are...well, if they aren't violet then I don't even know what we're doing here, Sugar has been overused in western cuisine since the Renaissance, But in my contrarian, over-analytical way, I love you my dear.

Roses are red, But that's not quite true, They absorb every wavelength of the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, *Except* for that hue.

every Pacific naval encounter from late 1943 onward is like the IJN Golden Kirin, Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn versus six identical copies of the USS We Built This Yesterday supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

Daichonaishikyo Zo, an elephant doctor with an endoscope trunk, appears in pamphlets explaining colonscopies in Japanese hospitals.

I need it to clean plates not explain the rise and fall of the goddamn roman empire to me

If “Jingle Bells” has ever annoyed you, well, it probably just means you don’t like secessionists Meanwhile, Longfellow voices some very familiar sentiments in a carol born of the bloody year of 1863 angrystaffofficer.com/2023/12/18/a...

www.seriouseats.com/why-southern... www.newsobserver.com/living/food-...

Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur." I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

You have been blessed by Bishop Sean Squirrel!

Hello everyone. Post your favorite skeets on this website for all the new people.

Mukaron (mascot of Mukawa town, Hokkaido) has a calm personality that makes her not notice that a plesiosaur is biting her head, which is a melon.

Ah yes, the Torment Nexus

There is a special curse for SF writers. Not ‘interesting times’ but ‘may you live to see the future you wrote about.’

Reader, I laughed out loud.

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

Recent Commissions! Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

But I grew up in a house that was haunted anyway... And then we had a carbon monoxide leak. You see BAD SHIT as the smallest person in a house with a carbon monoxide leak. And then nobody listens to you because kids just see things. If your kid starts seeing demons, CHECK YOUR FURNACE.

Your next tattoo

Worried about the election and the state of the world and wanna do something positive about it all? I got some starter packs for you! First, here are a bunch of folks sharing good info about the election and practical things everyday people can do to help. go.bsky.app/JLpiBtE

You can change the default search engine to 'Google Web' and bypass it. There are instructions at tenbluelinks.org

Cartoon: Scooby's Brain. I like to make myself laugh :)

Tolkien thought the elves needed to check their privilege and I am absolutely gonna hang onto this for…occasions

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

She seized the memes of projection

he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned

Cartoon break: Penguins! Except they're Star Trek: TOS. Enjoy :)

⚘️🌱🌾🌴🌿🌍🧪🌶 Few people eat whole raw hot chilli peppers (Capsicum species), but look at this bird! Chilli peppers have evolved so birds distribute their seeds. Birds lack receptors for the capsaicin that gives the heat and pain sensation to people. #BUC2024

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A Mayan scribe (right) and his instructor (left) – the dots and lines between them form an early speech-bubble, and it's thought the glyphs refer to sloppy work. So here we have a 1,500yo cartoon of a writer getting a bollocking from his boss! #Writing #AncientScripts #History

Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy. When I was very young, the Mercury program was doing well, but development of Gemini was over budget and running late.