Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

We are the sons of the monsters you couldn't mash.

I'm at the deli. I'm at the central intelligence agency. I'm at the combination deli & cental intelligence agency.

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

just had a thought...

WRYTE WEIRDE BOOKES

People assume they can get this stuff off Wikipedia so do not call. Also, we bite.

"Well there's your problem, right there."

Just found a ham sandwich tied to a piece of string leading into the woods. Probably fine.

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

What a beautiful moment.

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

my neighbor says that he is not a genie yet every time i rub his house he comes outside

i cannot overstate the grip this had on my 8-year-old imagination youtu.be/H0IQBWWabuU?...

If Beike ran this account, she'd be almost exclusively posting about the most important historical event ever, according to her, this one:

everybody get a load of this guinea pig

Call me old-fashioned, but I truly believe soup is meant to be made in a cauldron over an open fire under a full moon with the sound of wolves in the distance.

Because it's not socially acceptable to just vomit everywhere uncontrollably: become a writer and put it in your book

If anyone's lost some tadpoles, they're all over here. #Spring @froglife.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social @stevoallain.bsky.social

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

If you have an Audible subscription, my lawyers vs dinosaurs techno-legal-horror novel is currently over 80% off and going for $2.78.

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Historians mine the past to come up with strategies to avoid the fate of vanished civilizations, but @jdnicoll.bsky.social asks how authors might reverse the same set of rules to bring maximum drama to their fictional societies...

bug doodle compilation

I got to edit upcoming romantasy novel A Vision of Flame. Thanks to my helpful comments like, "I demand to know more about the haunted library" and "I think this is technically a love quadrilateral, not a triangle," the prose now sparkle like a really sparkly thing. Me help make words good.

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

His subtle way of telling her he wants to go outside and play fetch.

I decree it Self-Promotion Saturday. Check out my most widely read novel, CARRION SAFARI. It's about washed up South African big game hunter Denise DeMarco, who has been reluctantly pulled back into the business to hunt a legendary monster. It features Buick-sized bats, like all great literature.

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Godzilla

that's just my mate Gregor he's having a bit of a rough day at the office

I built a couple of bookshelves for my wife for her birthday. (From a kit, not from scratch.) But I couldn't tell her why I had forbidden her from entering the back room where I had sequestered myself for hours amid the sounds of hammering and heavy thuds.

I never would have guessed I’d become so familiar with the e-mail genre: Robot Desperately Pretending to Be a Fan of Your Writing

dying laughing at the strava data for the guy running laps on the french carrier

I wrote a techno-legal-horror novel about lawyers vs dinosaurs. The central premise of "boy, sure would be nuts if powerful people didn't think a big plan all the way through" has been on my mind again for some reason. Consider taking a dose of dinosaur mayhem for whatever weighs on you today.

Whenever I've posted about this fact online people try to catch me out as a liar in the dumbest possible way. They go "erm I THINK that cat would be dead by now..." YEAH M8 THE FILM IS 40 YEARS OLD OF COURSE HE'S FUCKING DEAD. But, and this will shock you, at one point in the past: he was alive.

caught another leprechaun in the rabbit snare last night. tried to bargain with his life by offering me a wish. I said, buddy, we’re in this situation because the last guy promised to make me “luckier.” straight into the drowning bucket with the rest of them

Some inking...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

As a prosecutor, I feel like I have received several email variations of this message from defense attorneys who have suddenly realized that they do not in fact want to have that contested hearing next week.