I will always bring up Hokusai who said he'd only just started to scratch the surface of his artistic journey in his 80s. "If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist."

this is very @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social coded

This is a wonderful list of comfort read recommendations! I pulled together all the ones I could into a list here to add to TBRs if you want: gist.github.com/sh4nth/b1a31...

Antifascists are a relatively sturdy quarter horse who are ready for things not to work and turn on a dime around a different barrel, the median voter is a thoroughbred who would love nothing more than to break their own legs and hurt everyone around them.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

And remember everyone, while a perfect grade on this test is nearly impossible, it is not pass/fail. Even one makes a difference

“Are you okay?” What words to die on. What a life to have lived, that his last words were concern. Not for himself, but for a stranger. May we all live with such honour. May no more have to die with such honour.

Border Patrol murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this morning. He was a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a U.S. citizen, a legal gun owner. Video shows he was holding a phone when they killed him. This is the second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in 17 days. A legal thread 🧵

I am personally okay, but here’s how to support Minnesota right now.

WH posted AI faked photo of arrested protestor “Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Okay so there actually HAS been a case of someone getting pregnant after she gave a blowjob, swallowed, and then got shot in the stomach later I am sorry for making you read that sentence but now you all know also there’s a very obvious joke here that I get to make but none of y’all do

Going into 2026 like

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

The bank robbery industry which sustains thousands will collapse if banks insist on locking their money in those pesky vaults

July 4, 1776. Read your primary sources, kids.

Fun bit of wordnerdery for the day: So I knew that "butler" was derived from the word "buttery," referring to a type of cellar, but that _butter_ wasn't actually kept in the buttery. But I've just discovered that the words aren't actually connected at all; they don't even have a shared root.

Ha ha WTF

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can like walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it🩷

Ah! My time to shine! «As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“ 1/3 ... continued

My whole life is a lie. 😭

*excited Shesheshen noises*

Was watching an academic lecture on Caravaggio on YouTube (premium is so worth it) and found myself irrationally angry when people in the audience started asking questions. "I'm not here to listen to the comments section!!!" 🤣 Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time.

Here's my 2024 roundup of several of the books I read and loved this year, including titles by @veronicaroth.bsky.social @edenrobins.bsky.social @scalzi.com @katrichardson.bsky.social and more. maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/what...

Alt text: Screenshot of a quotation. "Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling." --Greta Thunberg.

Name a Non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

Also, connecting from the combustibility of hydrogen to hydrogen (fusion) bomb to the more generic atom bomb. I can actually see the way that guy connects factoids and comes up with his dumb electric shark scenarios and it's always like the dumbest thing you'd expect from an LLM.

Historians would like to have a word with Mr. Bezos about what was happening between 1933-1946.

Let's celebrate #WorldOctopusDay with this lovely jug with an #octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. 🏺 AncientBluesky

This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky:

Woot! Look at that

They want no non white people. That's the whole cake and all the ingredients. Everything else is just marketing

Maybe you've heard of the #BirdsArentReal movement, but here's an equally wild idea that is nevertheless true: TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically). By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.

Me, a person whose memory stretches longer than the racist story that people like Naomi Wolf tell themselves, remembers that she’s actually been good at this the entire time.

A lot of people miss the point of science fiction. Ursula K. Le Guin didn’t, of course.

Certainly while the offender is alive to profit from it. The Death of the Author requires the death of the author.

It's never too late to start creating. It's never too late to actually learn something. It's never too late to realize that the work is the *point.*

I am delighted to report that a shitpost I wrote a year or so ago in response to the question 'who was the first person to boil an egg?' is now being repeated by AI-penned spam pages

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I oughta print this out and hand it out like a yellow card in soccer.

it’s frankly getting out of hand

'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

My personal feeling is that in cases of sexual assault "I'm going to wait to see what else develops" is a fine, but if you loudly announce that what you're seeing is inadequate and not enough and should not be believed by anyone, that's not waiting to see what else develops.

Kind of in awe of the dedication to consistency, of the wikipedia editor who started listing every single novel by Margaret Drabble in chronological order as "her nth novel" and stuck to the format all the way to her nineteenth and final novel. (They missed "twelfth" but 18/19 ain't half bad)

A beautiful crash blossom!

Post a non-religious themed photo that you think of as “holy” This one is from a 2016 protest in Baton Rouge, and i cut it out of The Advocate before i found it online, because i never want to forget it.