THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 09,1947

Tell bad jokes. Dance clumsily. Play your instrument like an animal. Make unintelligible meeping noises. Karate chop anyone & everyone. Be the best Muppet you can be.

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

"If you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?" End of Enterprise's 5 year mission J.T. Kirk promoted to Commodore commanding a fleet of six ships sent out beyond Klingon and Romulan influence. Full 20-odd episode seasons, each week a different captain solving a different problem.

Goddam kids! (Complimentary)

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

For very important reasons:

"-'It was a monster with one red eye, A crowd that saw him die, not I.-'" –from Horae Canonicae: Nones by W.H. Auden

Burlington VT has a vast murder of crows. Come up for a visit.

As a historian, you might appreciate this one somebody sent me from LA.

Boston was #NoKings before it was cool.

#worldpoetryday Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills. Its light poured softly in her lap. She saw And spread her apron to it. She put out her hand Among the harp-like morning-glory strings,

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

@sadiablo.bsky.social Happy Saint Patrick's Day and may you live so long as you want but never want so long as you live!

I have a farrier's joke. Steel youself.

@rdonoghue.bsky.social 🎵And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no And whether the skin be black or white as the snow Of kith and of kin we’re one, be it right, be it wrong As long as our voices join the chorus of song🎶 Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, my rebels

Cyberpunk ficlet: I'm ready to crash the warehouse. I spent a year talking up the job, a month raising the funds (just one more medical fundraiser among thousands, but if you knew, you knew), and another three months getting my swarms ready. 1/

Saw someone say the world is a boring place because there are no elves or dragons, so I'm legally obliged to share this:

*mumblegrumble* some snakes I'd like to chase out of my homeland. *cue Come Out You Black and Tans*

Goodnight from Lewis Bramwell, comforted by the thought that if he dies due to tripping on one of the hundreds of books on his staircase at least his ghost will have a lot to read. Goodnight from Gemma Cross, scrabbling to make a chalk circle around her bed. Goodnight from Hookland.

The mechanic removed the back plate and inhaled through pursed lips. "Who did this?" "I did," the robot said. "How?" "I took one arm off, put in a wireless interface so I could still use it, and put it in a vice, then turned-" "OK. Why?" "I needed fixing." "You are allowed to ask for help."

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom gold medal by 1.50 seconds If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds

When I become uncontested queen of everything I will create a mandatory high school course featuring various children's novels where characters die of treatable illnesses and people will be tested on what modern day intervention, like a vaccine, antibiotics, etc., could have saved them.

Everyone with fountain pens has one of these for cleaning their nib section.

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

1958, Tom Sims & Bill Zaboly

The dragon heard someone disturbing their hoard. Looking in, they saw a knight checking a bejewelled sword. "There you are! May I buy this?" "You have a sword," said the dragon. "It's for a valentine!" "A sword?" "What better gift to give?" "Hm. That one is blunt. I'll find a sharp one."

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

I just flashed on the phrase: "Statler and Waldorf and the Ginger Twins," and I'm not sure if I should be committed or named Executive Producer for the next Muppet movie.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I am very, very pleased to announce that I have a new short story out: “Deficiency Agent”, published in ASU Center for Science and the Imagination’s Future Tense series.

Congress brainlessly legislated "within a reasonable distance from any external boundary," 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(3). Just a little wording change and it can be "within ten miles from any external boundary, and only with the consent of state and local authorities."

So for Dems, the win is: reiterating 3 things that are already law, 1 thing that is a best practice, and 1 thing that was already a rule up until 6 months ago? From the bottom of my heart: fuck off with this. And they didn't even include ICE out of hospitals, healthcare facilities and daycares.

Goodnight from Ashcourt Paranormal Exploration Society (APES), whose monthly meeting has erupted into an unholy row about whether recent Fethrower reports are hoaxes. Goodnight from Josie Carpenter, wishing it was easier to hold hands with a ghost. Goodnight from Hookland.

From what I've seen, 90% of fountain pen users self report having terrible handwriting but only 20% of them are right.

Saw the image on the left making the rounds today, so I made a version on the right with the correct Latin (for “in space, no one can hear you scream[ing]”). Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.

Goodnight from Petra Briers, fiercely praying to St. Benedict to stop the Weir Witch’s bones ever drifting together again. Goodnight from Rosie Mundell, waiting for the birds to stitch dawn to the dark sky with their urgent songs and end a night filled with tears. Goodnight from Hookland.

Pray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?

I repost this every time I see it now.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So we be rid of them, do with ’em what thou wilt.

This killing is overtly a state-sponsored murder. The video is astonishing in its ugly simplicity. That the Iranian mullahs aren't broadcasting it to the world in direct reply to Trump's fatuous claims about defending nonviolent protestors on the streets of Tehran is simply bad public relations.