PENCE: “TARIFFS ARE A TAX… American importers, businesses and ultimately consumers end up paying all of that $300 BILLION. We're paying that.”

You're looking at the largest land animal of the Permian (~290 MYA), Eryops megacephalus, which translates to "long-face giant-head". It's a GIANT AMPHIBIAN. Like somewhere between a SALAMANDER & a FROG, but hog-sized. And, to get this out of the way, bears a striking resemblance to Barney. 🟣🦖

If tech people want to do something useful for historians, one problem that I actually have is that all the links to a less-than-10-year-old digitization project are fucking broken. Maybe get on the whole "making digital humanities last more than the time it takes to write a book" thing.

We feed you. They hunt us.

Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Repost this post and tell us what you want reposted. Me, I’m looking for a few like-minded individuals who want to burn them all. #BookSky 📚🪓 www.bishopriderbooks.com

Every path has a price and every chapter is written by me and only me. Come, join the resistance. See how we make them burn. #BookSky 📚🪓 www.bishopriderbooks.com

Advanced Reviews for BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS are coming in. See what this reader thought of my upcoming fantasy debut. Now available for preorder.

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

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Happy New Comic Book Day Everyone!

If you continue to use chat GPT, you need to unfriend me. I understand being forced to use it for work. But there is no other excuse. You should know by now. It's not fun. It's not correct. It's harmful. Some of you are professors. I hope you know your cognitive abilities are being diminished.

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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Decided that the real world wasn't quite depressing enough so I'm rereading THE ROAD. It's been a couple years. Now, in the place we are, I'm seeing a lot more quite optimism in it than I did the first time around.

Erik here, he isn’t wrong. #elbowsup

Rockefeller was considered the richest person in history at a net worth of 198 billion dollars in today's money. If he were alive today, he'd be only the 5th richest person alive. Somehow they still all had plenty of money in the 40s when we instituted the 90% tax rate. Anyway tax billionaires

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

The thing is if the pope had died a day after meeting Kamala Harris your uncle whose emails you had to mark as spam would be on FB for the next four years sharing 1000-word posts about a vast conspiracy and the posts would be accompanied by AI images that drained you of the will to live

It's a real validating to be an X-Men fan who's always thought Magneto was right.

face down. like a hog at a trough. squealing, grunting, howling my way through the Friendly’s Dutch Fudge Roll

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I will not argue. #BookSky 📚 www.bishopriderbooks.com

When I made the main character of my upcoming debut, BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS, pansexual and put a queer relationship at the stories center, I didn't think it was a act of protest. But I guess now it is.

THE FROG AND THE SNAKE

Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man

They will come for so much, for everything, for the things we love. For the beauty of our country, for its culture, for it's soul. But they can only take your pride if you let them. I will not. America is my home. "Wir werden sie in die Knie zwingen." We shall force them tot their knees. Resist.

As someone who has, for most of my life, been a perpetual optimist, it's gettin' real hard to keep that up y'all. God have mercy.

Reading @kierstenwhite.bsky.social 's HIDE, and it is genuinely great. It feels like the best of classic King combined with the best of modern horror's sensibilities and style. Just fun, scary, and fucked up.

every time.

Fucking Facebook.

NEWSLETTER UP: billyloperhistory.com/2025-monthly...

"Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief." -Lincoln, 1862.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Enjoying my book mail today. Special thanks to the wonderfully twisted mind of @beaujohnson44.bsky.social and his lastest turn in the Bishop Rider series.

If you’re an Active or Lifetime Member of the HWA tomorrow’s the last day to vote on the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards. And then the Recommended Reading List goes live for 2025 (aeeee, time marches ever forward!)

The church didn't make Joe Diffie a saint and I think that's all I need to say about that.

young john milton in sunday school

Hey, guess what? BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS is on Goodreads. Go add it to your shelf, get ready for release, August 2025. Remember. The Song has yet to be Sung. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Working my way through the paperback proof for BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS, making sure everything is where it needs to be. One step closer on the road to release!

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If you've read THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION, my Southern gothic Bluebeard novel out April 21st with Cemetery Gates, feel free to leave a review! Either way, here is Charley Pride's Miller's Cave...a Southern gothic classic country song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBiP...

“Super Mustache Brother” (1/3)

Look, listen, look. I just want to read today, yeah? No work, all read. Thanks.

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See what @jacksondauthor.bsky.social has to say about BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS, coming August 2025. The Song has yet to be Sung.

See what @jacksondauthor.bsky.social has to say about BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS, coming August 2025. The Song has yet to be Sung.