National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe by Roy A. Gallant, 1980. Front cover art by John Berkey

RIP legendary Italian movie poster artist Renato Casaro 1935 - 2025

Daily bunny no.3094 has been caught red-handed

🎶 Alright, hold tight I'm a highway star! 🎶

AOC: When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves

"Why not agree to immediate funding, you negotiate ACA funding at a later date?" "Because Republicans won't negotiate those things! This is the same Republican party that just cut a TRILLION dollars from healthcare. Those are the people we're gonna trust to come to the negotiating table?"

"War is hell." Ethel Merman cameos as the lieutenant who thinks he is Ethel Merman in Airplane! (1980)

"Scarborough, Tyne, West or southwest 3 or 4 increasing 5 or 6. Showers. Good." #Photography Mark Power, from ‘The Shipping Forecast’'. /Magnum Photos

🕯️𝕴𝖓 𝖏𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖞 🎃🅷🅰🅻🅻🅾🆆🅴🅴🅽🦇𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝖞𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖌𝖆𝖎𝖓!! 𝕴𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖓𝖊𝖜 𝖙𝖔 𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙, 𝖆𝖑𝖑 🕷️𝕆𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕓𝕖𝕣🕸️ 𝕴 𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖞/𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖉 𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖞 𝖆𝖗𝖙.⚰️

Tuesday is done! Time to get in some rest; tomorrow we cross the Hump!

Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging. Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time. More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Enter a city of #portals in AMPYRIUM, a #sharedworld anth from ZNB ed by @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Kindle: amzn.to/4b9hbaW Trade: amzn.to/3W3evVJ B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ampyrium-j... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #readingcommunity #booksky #fantasy #urbanfantasy #sff #scifi

Republicans control the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the White House, and the U.S. Supreme Court. They're blaming "The Radical Left."

We feel ya

I can confirm from my fed contacts this PoS garbage was sent to everyone. It's also all over Federal websites, in violation of the Hatch Act.

Yeah, so the propaganda on all the government sites? Hella illegal. REALLY ILLEGAL. But, what to they care?

Private eyes are still (or should be) adherent to CFPA and FCRA laws and restrictions. We also make sure it’s not for illegal/nefarious means. But thank god 3rd party brokers are just giving the information out on the internet to a credit card without checking.

Look what just showed up in the mail! THE FLESH KING, the sequel to THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL, will be out October 7th. It continues Ford, Neuland, and Tilda's story back to where it all began—New York. It's available for preorder everywhere you get your books.

Thank you @clclark.bsky.social for this amazing essay. I'll bring it up every time this is discussed in comments. Or a panel. Or anywhere!

<clears throat> www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FP...

Last day for this deal!

Thank you, C.L. Clark, for this amazing essay. I'll be pointing to it every time someone mentions sexuality as being 'gratuitous.'

Showing up to work to avoid a shutdown is apparently a minimum threshold Republicans can’t be bothered to meet.

Fascist is as fascist does.

"History teaches?" Yang Wen-Li would disagree with your conclusions. DWI hire Pete sounds *exactly* like all the bad leaders in Legend of Galactic Heroes who kill hundreds of thousands of service members believing patriotism + force = VICTORY!

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Dear publicity/marketing folks: Please stop putting “blurb opportunity” in the subject line of your emails. Are you really sending every critic that crap with every pitch? Who the fuck am I to blurb a book on pregnancy or a romcom? Pitch books, but ask the right folks for blurbs. Much love.

DIFFERENCE = BAD COMPROMISE = BAD COMMUNITY = BAD These guys are permanently fourteen with their dicks out on the lunch table and they think it makes them look strong.

"I'm giving cart blanche to Col. Yoran Peruzen to develop and deploy the 24th Strategic Armored Trooper Special Operations Corps Unit X-1 - the Red Shoulders!"

The reason for military rules of engagement and adhering to laws of armed combat is not “political correctness,” it’s better strategy, serves long-term national interest, and is a way to make an awful part of the human experience a little less awful, based on lessons learned from centuries of blood.

Is he... is he forcing generals and admirals in their 50's and 60's to join his workout routine?? Is that what it's all about?? The latest from our DWI hire Secretary of WAAARRR Buff Plankchest!

Oct 8 at 4:30 PM I'll be at #FallfortheBook w/ @natcassidy.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social If you're in the VA/DC/MD area you won't want to miss this #FairfaxVA

Again, we cannot understand American politics in the 21st Century unless we take into account abuse culture.

It's what we're all thinking, isn't it?

“There’s just corners and corners in there! Bookcases to the ceiling! It’s just a maze! This after 12 hours caught in one-way streets it just kept us ending up on Park Ave!” “War” is hell. But the food cart plaza is amazing…

Omg, just joining. Who knew the “Captain” had a hairy chest?? I must confess, it’s doing things to my “lady bits and parts”. #TCMParty #TheReturnOfThePinkPanther

Ooo I wasn’t expecting sexy Christopher Plummer. #TCMParty #ReturnOfThePinkPanther

Racist is as racist does.

I don't think this is limited to elite pundits, writers, etc. I think it's a common trap to get to a certain point in your life believing you'd be in one future, and discovering you're in another, and then failing to plan how to move through that actual future.

a superlatively horny book for all those who might have a thing for the Thing

Let me preface this by saying I'm not fond of Forest Gump outside of parody. The one line that sticks for me is always: "Stupid is as Stupid Does." It applies to so much: Racist is as Racist Does. Fascist as Fascist Does. Look at actions, not at words.

Kudos to the state of Oregon for immediately fighting back against Trump’s authoritarianism. Tyranny is only possible when we submit to it. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-sues-trump-administration-deployment-national-guard-troops-port-rcna234307

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.

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