why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near just like me they want to be having hotdog

Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche Who waccheth ovir thee Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul

despite all my rage I am still just

Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday

Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China

Happy possum

It's the day.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH

How have I been sleeping on the Ormesby Psalter? Oxford, Bodleian Douce 366, details from fol. 147v.

This place was our cathedral, these strangers were our friends

I am in training don’t kiss me

Amazinge that Rilo Kiley hath the temerity to tour aftir thei killed Han Solo yn episode VII

I will never tire of reading medieval Bestiaries. "Elephants have a lively intelligence and memory. They ... mate with their backs to each other. Pregnancy lasts for two years.... They live for three hundred years." Facts!

Entering middle age at the end of the Anthropocene: am I starting hot flashes, or is it just 80 degrees in October?

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

We should all be fucking screaming about this! Where are the detainees??? We need answers NOW.

Want to read ethically by ditching Audible/Amazon, Spotify, &c? 💙📚 1. Your local library needs support & has free physical & audiobooks 2. Queer Liberation Library: free digital library for US LBGTQ folks 3. Libro.fm: Audible but pays indie bookshops 4. Bookshop.org: physical books from indies

"I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them." from the Golden Pince-Nez, the Return of Sherlock Holmes

Perfection

And if my brain quits, well I guess then that’s just it And if my hands stop working you can call me lazy

Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey (2009)

the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked

Attn: @sphealposting.bsky.social

Art.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

I used VERY cobbled together Latin for this Crow Time joke, but a few folks are asking me to make sure it's correct for a print version. Are there are Latin profs on Bluesky that would be down to correct silly Grim Reaper sayings?

I’ve been talking to the wall and it’s been answering me

I googled nonbinary ren faire outfits last night and the first result was a rat costume

(•_•) <) )╯Hey plese do not cut / \ \(•_•) ( (> Artes and Humanityes programs / \ (•_•) <) )> when we neede them the most! / \

We have always made delightful little guys.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Oh dang, how did I only just find out that the sequel to REAL HERO SHIT is kickstarting? I backed it just in time!

The nonbinary urge to BECOME SNAIL Le restor du paon, PML G.24, fol. 139v

Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

✨ New comic: I started thinking of my long COVID as a survival reality show... Naked and Afraid. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/naked-...

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [lute solo] 🎶

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

A true sign of spring: peaceful morning on the deck cut short by leaf blower

Phrases from D&D that would also make good band names / album titles: - Trashcan Coffin - The Wanna-Vamps - Fart Spider Sanctuary

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For anyone who needs it today, here's Claude Cahun chomping on a Nazi medal after being released from prison in 1945.

Greetings to everyone in 1937, it seems that you were never aware that we were here

What if I used this less like Twitter and more like AIM ca. 2003 (10% vague life updates, 90% obscurely relevant song lyrics)?