the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

It's always a good time to read Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, but with @realgdt.bsky.social's new adaptation hitting cinemas this week, today is an *especially* good time. Tickets booked. Can't wait! 💙📚🪐 #Horrorsky

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

My mom’s protest signs, as always, are a helluva thing.

Pure New England. #nokings

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

“I really like and am knowledgeable about the city I am trying to become mayor of” is part of Mamdani‘s shtick that has absolutely flummoxed a significant portion of mainstream politicos.

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amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

"The zookeepers were like, “Yeah, that bird is evil. We have to put on helmets when we go in, because he’ll run up the wall to try to stab us in the head with his beak.”"

I wrote an article for @publisherswkly.bsky.social on how setting shaped several new gothic novels: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I was lucky enough to chat with @tkingfisher.com for @publisherswkly.bsky.social about “Snake-Eater,” the strangeness of the southwest, and how roadrunners are actually pseudo-velociraptors: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Well. Things are pretty bad for the current regime. Look who they've pissed off NOW. (Watch to the end, it's not just footage from Portland. Surprise musical guest!) youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

"Whoever thought of vanilla with meat? Nasty." YOU DID, NANCY! THAT WAS YOU! YOU THOUGHT OF THAT!

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I’m telling you, they’re velociraptors.

Timeline cleanse: a little Maine beach ASMR.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

A must-read thread to truly understand the culture and humor tied in with the Portland protests.

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

Nghi Vo (@nghivo.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from her novel The City in Glass, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

It’s pronounced cyclist.

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

When you miss the Cape of Good Hope

given that the party that controls all three houses of government is spending every day plotting attacks on an organization that does not exist it seems like the idea moment to release a consumer app that can generate nearly undetectable video deepfakes

I love what Portland is doing so much. Joy is resistance. Dancing animals are resistance. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

It is very important to make as legible as possible as often as possible that various administration administration officials are either straight-up delusional or lying through their teeth, every single day

Okay this is a good headline

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

“Government can make your life easier” is VERY SIMPLE AND VERY POPULAR and yet it’s shocking to hear a politician say that.

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Happy book birthday to A Mouthful of Dust, standalone novella in the Singing Hlls Cycle, out today! This time, Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant the hoopoe memory spirit are investigating the town of Baolin, famous for its pork recipe and its famine. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Real Estate: Wouldst This Suit M’Lord?

Hey. Hey. On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

They want violence. They fear mockery.

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0 #ShareGoodNewsToo

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

A curation of this year's #misautumnfestival lanterns in China. Making your own lanterns (as per the old customs) is back in fashion, especially eco-friendly ones using recycled materials. Like this gorgeous lunar scene lantern, made out of cardboard boxes and packaging. 1/ #moonfestival #lanterns