I’d like to see a treatment of the Odyssey which, when going into Odysseus’s traumatic personal history (as it would be bound to do) brought up Palamedes, Philoctetes, and possibly his relationship with Diomedes. He’s a complicated man…

COMIC: Lost and Found

Salvation's Child, my first graphic novel and one that expands the universe of the Final Architecture, is now out!

I think a lot about this excerpt from one of Tolkien’s letters to his son Michael (dated August 25th, 1967). The idea that the Church is like a tree that continues to grow and flourish and which we must always care for.

This is Minoan clay model of a house. Initially thought to be a child’s toy, it’s now seen as a construction model for a real house. Its architectural motifs are typical for the middle Minoan period when the palace complexes were at their height. 🕰️1,900-1,700 BC 🏛️📷 Heraklion Archaeological Museum

Happy birthday to Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula", published on this day in 1897 🦇 #WorldDraculaDay

I do confess it. I take great pleasure in being able to include the sentence "BUT, LO!" in my Mesopotamian game.

The Chronicles of Osreth (the world of @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's THE GOBLIN EMPEROR) has a new instalment: THE ORB OF CAIRADO! A disgraced scholar tries to clear his name but stumbles onto a treasure hunt... Buy in signed, limited-run special edition hardback or eBook! https://geni.us/orbcairado

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com. Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

In Pope Leo's encyclical on our responsibilities in the A.I. age, he cites various sources, *including* - "The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way" - (1/2) www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Frog House (Kamienica Pod Żabami) located in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Designed by architect Emanuel Rost junior and built in 1903. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Ho...

New OOTS! #1344, Maximize Impact: www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1...

#Booksky The Deal of the Day at DriveThruFiction is A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold! Get some terrific gay Edwardian gaslamp fantasy today! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/4...

Ok y'all, on this lovely day of burning plantation a quick thread about an incredibly important and very deliberately-erased part of this region's history that ain't fascist lost cause lies. Let's talk about the widespread anti-confederate resistance in the South...

To White Hall, all our way reading a book writ by a person of Quality concerning English gentry, but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that ever I saw in all my life, but from beginning to end you met not with one entire and regular sentence.

In shops now, Model Actress Whatever johnnyalucard.com/2026/04/27/c...

Labour imposes ban on working with Greens, forces Labour councillors to partner with Tories.

no wait let’s hear them out. how many can we fit on board

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

RIP Michael Keating - a previously unpublished interview from a studio visit in August 2014 scifibulletin.com/uk-tv/blakes...

And out the demons came—from every cave and crevice, through every fissure and crack, from under the rocks and up from the mud, stomping and shuffling, slithering and sliding, through the murky shadows. And all had only one thought in mind: destroy the intruders and protect Ignorance.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

As Sonja and others have admirably shown, that just isn’t how royal portraits work — at all. Portraits aren't Polaroids. They're complex pieces of public messaging that reflect dynastic priorities & shifting alliances more than familial affinity. Let’s consider the portraiture of Elizabeth I. /2

THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...

My wife made me a #DeltaGreen quilt and I'm so beyond excited about it. Playing Impossible Landscapes was the main inspiration @drgonzo123.bsky.social!

"I'm the demon of insincerity," he sobbed. "I don't mean what I say, I don't mean what I do, and I don't mean what I am. Most people who believe what I tell them go the wrong way, and stay there, but you have spoiled everything." "It certainly pays to have a good look at things," observed Milo.

This bird probably speaks French. It has strong opinions about the work of Salvador Dalí. Let's meet the Inca tern (Larosterna inca), so-named because their native range matches the area of the Inca Empire. We're going to HAVE to talk about that mustache first... (📷: San Diego Zoo & Safari Park)

Was investigating Scrap Shop in Farsley - now faced with 40-minute bus ride (slow stopping circuit) or 20-minute walk uphill most of the way back to the station and 10-minute journey. Went with the bus option. (Yes, I am lazy.)

There was a pause, then a yell of support came from the girls which made the rafters shudder and rain down dust, spiders and web-wrapped desiccated mice. #proofreading

As the action opens, the circus has come to Puckleford-on-Beans and the detectives are in the pub with such traditional performers as the fire eater, knife thrower and skink whistler. #MerryshireDetectiveClub #gameNight

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Being a humanities guy in IT has its quirks, like finding narratives in the past to explain the present. Recently, I've been seeing managers and executives going wild over AI because it lets them build stuff which impresses them, and I realized I was having a Henri III in Venice moment. 🧵

“and in many instances you have a volcano open up and perhaps molten lava as a barrier and its going to be so beautiful with our mechanical spider, you wouldnt believe. and the dirigible docking station is something we’re looking at very closely but i can tell you but we’re under budget”

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Sarah Gailey: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the river of teeth Gailey: it's about the most dangerous game of all Stephen King: is it man? Clive Barker: what kind of question is that, steve? of course it's man Barker: it's always man Mary Shelley: phht

The “doubt” mark would save me a lot of ellipses

I wrote a little about my research for Art Review last year, I'm delighted to be able to explore in more depth the salient features of female Wuxia writings and the new directions they're taking the genre. www.sixthtone.com/news/1018447 #wuxia #literature #sff #fantasy #books #cdrama

New blog entry: The Enshittification of History: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

'Whose side are you on?’ ‘Well, I wouldn’t be here telling you about it if I was on *her* side, would I?’ Phil said soothingly. She wondered if regular teacher training included a module on ‘Reassuring the Paranoid among your Colleagues that you are not their Enemy’. #proofreading

The thing about research which AI will never do, can't do, and wouldn't do a good job of even if it could do it, is that reading your citations can let you discover something that one person said sixty years ago that nobody ever picked up on, but that is revelatory, even sublime.

Having a hard time comprehending that this is really & truly happening, but...there are would-be academics out there who are claiming that verifying your citations by checking to make sure they aren't hallucinations & then reading them to make sure they say what you claim they say is too much work.

Today is the feast day of St Brendan the Navigator (ca.484-577), so here's a woodcut by Robert Gibbings (1889-1958), depicting a scene from the saint's life, used to illustrate Helen Waddell's 'Beasts and Saints' (1934).

Like… come on. You can’t beat this.

Here’s the Bishop of Iceland dancing with a comedian who used to be Mayor of Reykjavík and is now a member of Parliament.

Design for a rose window, Louis Comfort Tiffany.

“The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue.“ It’s more intense than a one-year ban. You still can’t post preprints after one year, only papers accepted for publication.

LadyGrogu

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.