I can only imagine…
Wordsmith, educator, parent (not in order of importance). Now quasi-librarian. Opinions are frequent and vociferous and very much not representative of my employer who shall not be named. He/Him.
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I can only imagine…
We could use more of #10 in the world.
Okay, but #9 is going to make me think of @gabino.bsky.social and not Herzog.
So I maaaay have artist editions of my latest book, not yet released widely, for RCCC. She survived the puritanical genocide of the only pleasure planet in the galaxy. Now Bubbles is going to murder all the insane far right incel/Puritan warlords behind project 3035. She makes love AND war…
Not crazy about this framing. Yes, point out that Trump's justification for NG troops is bullshit, that red states have higher crime rates, and that it's all dangerous posturing. But deploying the military to Memphis would also be destructive and anti-democratic. And crime is dropping everywhere.
I only just learned who Beth Gibbons is because I finally watched The Tempest and yes, this is entirely correct.
Okay, but the clouds snow falls from are not white, which is where I think this falls apart.
Someone watched Waterworld and went “Ooh, a trimaran! Wouldn’t that be cool!” didn’t they?
Is that what we’re calling it these days?
Not long now. Maybe we’ll do some interviews. Maybe we’ll make some magazine covers. Either way, I’m excited to see many of you. #Bouchercon #BookSky
Why does it have ear flaps?
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You know, I could see this. I don’t want to, but I could.
Might have to borrow that.
Petition to add “Elon soup” to the current vernacular.
if people yell at you for advocating "moderation" on trans rights on Bluesky but not on Twitter the reason for that might be because Elon Musk, the guy who runs and owns Twitter, explicitly censored trans people's accounts and posts.
Fell off a cliff? Or… pushed off a cliff?
Need something a little... expressive?... for your office pinboard for the new academic year? Let me send you a postcard! (These are about the only things I can reliably send to the US at the moment, because they're straightforwardly correspondence and tariff-exempt.) Shares appreciated!
I had no idea the boots analogy (parable?) came from Discworld.
So I know what this is about, but this was still a weird choice by Wendy’s.
This was a fun romp and well worth the afternoon it will take you to read it.
I would not know.
Fair enough, and it was 50/50 because it’s that kind of show, but I just assumed it was the drugs, especially as it was happening around him and not with him.
Look, ALL wins are because the CEO is a genius, all LOSSES are due to forces beyond their control. This is CEOing 101.
I genuinely thought he was hallucinating that in the first episode, and that it turns out not to be in the second, is part of what makes Peacemaker work as a show.
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
It does not get a lot of love but I appreciate Resurrection.
12,000+ union baristas. Nearly 650 union elections won. We're strong, we're united, and we're ready for our union contracts. Happy Labor Day, Starbucks... it's your move.
When they tell you they can’t afford to pay their workers more…
Well, I contemplated becoming a priest and a lawyer and yet ended up teaching so….
Happy Labor Day!
He’s wearing a fucking polo shirt for a sumo match.
this feels like a math problem: if rudy was traveling southbound on the highway and flagged down by a domestic violence victim, why was he traveling northbound when he was rear-ended by a teenager? www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med...
I did not know that’s how he ended up on there and it is a delightful piece of trivia.
Well, dammit. Always a delight when he showed up in a movie.
Has to be, because why else would you not just pull in behind the car up front. Also that tiny car has the turn radius of a twelve-year-old figure skater.
That’s been a hard one to find.
Yeah that is a beautiful poster and one of these days I shall find it (and the dvd as I assume it never got a Blu).
Speaking of things that aren’t streaming anywhere (other than a horrendously shitty one in Youtube).
I had that Death Star.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Is there anyone in a management position who hasn’t bought into AI? In ANY industry??
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
I cannot even with these people. Just the most willful ignorance.
I just need someone to comfort that poor hatless cat.
No, those are sheep. Also there’s four of them. And here I thought my eyesight was bad…
I did not know this was a thing but I am going to go out on a limb and say “no.”
"Bluesky is an echo chamber" arguments all boil down to one thing: asking us to be nicer to people who have shitty, harmful politics that make the world a worse place for everyone. Everything else is just window dressing, that's the ask these kinds of arguments are making.
Because Top Gun wasn’t queer enough yet.
Wonder if there’s video…
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Also someone please give November a hat.
I’ll take it. Arr, matey, I’ll take it.
I didn’t, but also…
Timeline cleanse:
If your heritage is a corporate logo, it deserves to be erased.
This thread was horrifying.
I was only half-kidding (his Bruce Wayne, especially in the first one, is just Beetlejuice with a dampener), but yes, I can see that being a shock.
Wow that really pops! 🤩
Important addition: even if you’re not making “minimum wage” you are most likely at the bottom level not making a “living wage” because the Federal Minimum Wage is a fucking joke.
An important PSA from Batman
Inktober 🤝 NaNoWriMo destroying their own annual creative community event
Call things what they are. Names have power.
Also, importantly, this means I didn’t kill the show when I was a guest. (I may have a small track record of things dying the moment I appear. It’s probably a coincidence.)
Who says we can’t have nice things? The boys are back! @ajmacready.bsky.social @brodieman34.bsky.social
Look, we both know he brought the same energy to both roles.
It was apparently a good year for science when I was born.
Reclining Pair Ep 28 out now. We talk about Alien Earth, I'm quizzed on the popular culture of 1987, I buy enough oats to support a rodeo, Andrew Longleat drifts into our orbit again, and Breadsall says NO to hotpants. Rob and I are blown away by Emperor brewery www.buzzsprout.com/2188080/epis...
Album drops when?
Yea, verily.
BRAND NEW LATE! This one’s all about books! I tell my Anthony Bourdain story and read from Kurt Vonnegut, Eugene V Debs, Katherine Dunn, + more; music from Iggy Pop, Deadmau5, Kate Bush, Serge Gainsbourg, Florence + the Machine, the Bangles, & more! Please share! www.mixcloud.com/KOPN/late-wi...
Yes, I did spend the evening watching Shakespeare, why do you ask?
Patiently awaiting merry word that the knaves have slipped the mortal coil.
As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
This here is SMS Grosser Kurfürst, which was unfortunately rammed from behind - and each subsequent detail to emerge about the accident only became more and more embarrassing. No reason to post this now, but I wonder if Rudi Guiliani is reading?
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
we are examining the night air
I have a union job with benefits, and while I am massively underpaid, I would hesitate to leave my job in this impending economy.
(I want it noted that this was the rare gif where I only had to make one minor vocabulary change to the alt text. Bugs knows where it’s at.)
Do you know how much money could be raised for a good cause with this?
This is seriously the nucleus of the whole present era of transphobia in which we find ourselves: in order for any of it to make sense, we must suppose that the idea of being transgender popped into existence 10 years ago (and it's a rolling 10 years, like Bart Simpson's date of birth).
Look, Pittsburgh! Our sports reputation precedes us!
I am DELIGHTED you know this. Grinning madly.
It was at this point in the story that I went, “Oh. Oh no.”
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Look, as a baseball fan in Pittsburgh, I am firmly aware that “we’re out of contention” can be achieved as early as two weeks after opening day.
Hey LA a great pup went missing on Friday. Keep an eye out for Puma please! Last seen near Beverly and Fairfax/The Grove ❤️❤️❤️
Listen, Freud would for sure have a field day with the men who bought into fascism because they wanted sex mommies, but what I am offering is a LABOR critique, not psychoanalysis. These men want a return to receipt of unpaid feminine domestic/emotional labor PAIRED with sexual labor.
I don’t know what’s going on here (aside from the obvious), but I would watch it happen.
I have flowering trees on my street and for two years in a row they’ve blossomed way early only to get walloped by a cold snap and then the blossoms all fall off. In about a two-day span.
What about with sharp teeth?
My fervent hope this lasts and this is the year we get a proper fall again instead of the two weeks we’ve been getting between unseasonably hot and prematurely cold.
Again??
Oh hell yes. The utter lack of pushback on ANY of it has been such an issue since at least his first term (if not further back under W).
macksting 
Zen Faulkes 
Rebo is back? 