I am the gar I long and thin I have a jaw things fit within Yet sometimes shapes are wrong for head so do my best & lik the bread

APRIL - 1805 NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM THERE IS NOTHING IN NAVAL LAW STATING THAT A GOLDEN RETRIEVER CANNOT SERVE HIS MAJESTY AS CAPTAIN OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Days where I can’t quite get to “another world is possible” there’s always “avoiding doom is possible”

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

ID shouldn't include any gender indicators and it's fucking batshit that it does

Regurgitron pretending to be in marketing: Why won't you reply to meeee, it's been more than a day! 😭 Actual person in publishing: Thanks for your email last April and sorry for the delay in responding...

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.

SPRING HAZE Old style test for MUTI.

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

although now I'm quite taken with "this colonialist expansion could have been an email".

We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025. Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky

I know they say you should never judge a book by its cover, but this cover 110% communicates the book’s vibes. It is an exquisite gay gothic confection, witty and self aware. 10/10 do recommend.

WATCHING THE TUMBLEWEEDS OF ETERNITY ROLL PAST

Shana tova u’metuka / Good and sweet new year this Rosh Hashanah Did you know griffins were important symbols for Medieval German Jews?

All the dinosaurs disappeared in the velocirapture

Today is the feast day of St Robert of Knaresborough, who died today (September 24th) in 1218. He's my favourite saint, and I visit the cave where he lived whenever I can. Here's a thread of some poems I wrote about / for him.

“Just a cat”. Rude! Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Oh no the construction equipment rapture is apparently ahead of schedule

I am in an airport and I'm mad about it

i don't know much in this world but I do know men, intimately, regrettably, and I am 100% ironclad sure that underlying all other arguments, deep down, the sex segregation of sport exists because they cannot abide the possibility of losing to a woman

suddenly realised that the reason i hate travelling is because i am disabled (: like yeah i'm only going for two and a half days but i have to calibrate my packing exactly so that i don't end up too exhausted to function by the time i've walked across the airport terminal

hell yeah brother

They're similar games, in that Pasiones de las Pasiones lets you do any story in the style of a telenovela while GURPS lets you do any story in the style of a spreadsheet.

Don't you just wanna go apeshit

21st of september sheet music trombone part

i'll let scott mccloud explain the concept for anyone that might not get it

I'm not saying boycotting is useless, but very specifically looking at a zoomed in graph of 2 days of Disney share prices and thinking "we've got them on the ropes" is...optimistic

Your Honor, I demand the championship title be revoked from the Timberwolves not because Air Bud is a dog (the referees have ruled on this matter) but because this golden retriever is not enrolled in Fernfield Junior High class of 1997, bypassing student athletes' Standards of Academic Progeess.

This case should be a slam du-oh no.

more doves, i guess #bird #turtledove #animalart #birdart #digitalart #smartist

It's seriously great and makes a good entry point to see if maybe you'll enjoy reading absolutely everything else @kjcharleswriter.com writes, which I do. She's on my "auto pre-order" and also "auto bump up to top of TBR" list

A little lost

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Out of curiosity I did a google trends search for "are orange cats dumb". As you can see, there was nothing for 17 years and then a distinct change in late 2021 which is when @jortsthecat.bsky.social hit the internet. 😆

regulating how and when and in what tone and in what art and on what platforms and what feelings you're supposed to have about it when it comes to discussing sexual assault is just a tool to suppress discussion of it. It is another way to force sexual assault back into the realm of secrecy and shame

Tbh I don't think enough people have considered the alternative. There is so much sexual violence in porn because we experience so much sexual violence. Because navigating sexuality in this society includes navigating that violence and fear regularly, and that shapes our fiction and fantasy

yeah I'm talking about porn too. It is fine to be uncomfortable with noncon, it's fine to avoid looking at it. Regulating it out of the public sphere is a loss for free speech, for art, and for honest discussions and reflections on the world we live in, a world that is full of sexual assault.

A thing you can do is go on redbubble or similar and buy yourself a sticker sheet of a whole bunch of Hieronymus Bosch Weird Little Guys and just. Stick them on stuff. Cannot recommend highly enough.

She yelled and yelled at me to bring her special supervisor chair into the kitchen so she could watch me make dinner and then promptly fell asleep.

by the way machine translation works PRETTY WELL and does NOT need generative AI to work well IN ANY WAY what the fuck are you doing shoving the torment nexus in everything even when it doesn't actually nexus any torment and it's just THERE argh

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

*also taps sign*

oh no I have an art idea that requires me drawing a hand oh dear

whoever released a gremlin in my flat that ate all of my tape measures, ha ha, well done, that was very funny, now can i have at least one of them back please i need to measure my tits

am i preparing to submit a story for the very first time ever? bitch yes will i entirely give up on writing and go live in a cave when it inevitably gets rejected? bitch also very much yes

Bruh

A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊 #fox #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

lrt: the entire reason why my handle is hauntedtoasters is from an old cyberpunk-with-ghosts story (based on the ttrpg orpheus) i wrote back in the day the equivalent of cleaning the latrine for cyberpunk ghostbusters is exorcising ghosts out of rich people's "smart" appliances.

Grug needs to go back to cave Grug not like present times Grug preferred it when things were easy why can't life be normal, asks Grug