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Angry artist, passionate cat mother, snake goddess, lover of waffles.
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you are living the life!
this has been interpreted as an intentional mistake, ie., the character is making the mistake, not the writers (hopefully!) to show what a dweebish asshat he is.
We have eight medieval courses coming up in the next several weeks - this week you can use the code 'backtoschool' to get 15% off - go to medievalstudies.thinkific.com to check out all the courses #medieval
My eyesight is so bad I was doing this in high school
But you have to say "moo000oo000ooo"
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I guess robots will work the fields and factories in Gault's Gulch?
15.5 years ago I gave birth to my beautiful daughter Bella. I'm very proud.
I think it's suspension pending inquiry re the Big Burrito Board of Directors
I think there should be a parking test to allow for buying larger trucks and suvs. if you cannot parallel park it, you cannot buy it!
oh come on, we all know you are in the pocket of Big Soda Pop
just one nood!!!
I might be in (good) trouble if my 20 houseplants become sentient and aroused!! 🪴🪴🪴
He's a clown 😁
That was a blast! You were all having so much fun I wished I were there.
Arrrr
not quite that but we had HBO quite early (lived in place with poor reception, HBO did not have huge library yet): Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flash Gordon, The Man From Snowy River. could probably quote them all from start to end.
is not skwerl, dave
I've got my broomstick fired up 🧹
TREETZ TREEEEEETZ!! GIB DEM NOE!!!!
haha my husband got one of those years ago and still hasn't remembered to fill it out lol
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Bella's eye is much better today #bella #cats #catsofbluesky #kitty
Whoa
I feel like we're going to wake up tomorrow and there will be AI in breakfast cereal and shampoo and cat litter and and and. not everything needs AI, I scream into the void!
If there’s one book about the Middle Ages that I think everyone should engage with right now, it’s Karl Shoemaker’s _Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500_ Fordham University Press, 2011. Also wish more presses pushed for updating / second editions of important books (not just textbooks)
Current read app.thestorygraph.com/books/82d1f2... #booksky #history
Yes she seems to have some irritation 😞
Congrats!!! Reading the Paladin series rn, so fun!
Just been reminded that this was published about a month ago - a new (3rd) edition of The Archaeology of Britain. Very chuffed to be a co-author of a chapter on the middle and late Neolithic. Add it to your student intro reading lists! www.routledge.com/The-Archaeol...
Belly is crying over the state of the world #cats #catsofbluesky #kitties #Bella 😿
PEAK metafilter (but, like, in a good way!)
Made a post on MetaFilter about the 'performative reading' thing. The comments so far are, well, very MetaFilter. www.metafilter.com/210133/Perha...
I went on Vikingology to talk about how I am obsessed with the Normans, and also to go off on a lot of tangents. Check it out! vikingology.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
that harness really brings out her eyes 👀
Naturally this happens in New Jersey
we luf you too! 😻
Burning Man memories from way back in the day (dust storms are forever) #burningman
thank you, I had a dreadful feeling that might be it...
Fun, lighter-hearted works are so important right now. I used to read all the grimdark dystopian stuff but having some fun romps that are still smart and well-written is a dogsend right now. (yes, I said "dogsend". I just made that up.)
dare I ask?
24 years ago this week I met a cute boy in the desert. a year later we were back there, just engaged and ready to celebrate. Happy Meetaversary Week, @markbeekeeper.bsky.social! #burningman
He need a see-pab!
Take my money 💵
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Patriarchy?
I would far, far rather go to Narnia, even if it were always winter and never Christmas, than Tallahassee!
what's interesting is that post-menopausal women are 100% in the latter category, every day of the month 😁
joined!
I’m delighted to be in conversation with one of the most exciting scholars in Asian American studies, Takeo Rivera, in Boston. We will be discussing my book To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, but I’m sure we’ll be talking about a lot of other things as well.
Turn arownd 🎶
well that was not AT ALL what I was expecting. I really like it!
A few years ago when I was at Forbes, I did timeline and map of hour-by-hour breakdowns of what happened during the August 24, 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius 🌋 (and yes, I still hold faith in this date over the specious charcoal evidence). www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...
Authors supporting authors: Saturday share. This one is worth a wee read. Delta Operatives Retired: Introducing a school for the people who thought second chances were a thing of fairy tales. Welcome to Lightbeard’s School for the Broken. 📚💙🪄 buy.bookfunnel.com/8576h0r73h?t...
pass da nip pleez sez Bella (she want to join da croow!)
this is a good lesson. I had my own biz website for years (webdev) then I let it go in favor of using LinkedIn (har). then LinkedIn froze my account for some bs security issue & won't open it unless I submit photo ID. so that's done. 😑
Kitten farts are lethal
also meant to say: rulers are your friend, friend. I love a good drafting tool.
ooooh I love this!! (I already have a dragon tattoo but this would make a really cool one)
better than a hollywood star!
given your artistic output, why do you even want to?
right? you work your way to the inner sanctum, enjoy the coffee the books etc., but in order to leave you have to solve a relevant puzzle in each section to get out. this sounds really fun!
I drink my decaf from the vessel of evil itself #Cthulhu
ours are a lot smaller but very prolific this year. so much caprese salad!!
The humans are fostering a trio of kittens, which makes them Temporary Scamperbeasts. Here they are. More details about them (and also how you could adopt one!) here: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/21/p...
must work on my floof game!
make it also an escape room and it will be so perfect!!!
sometimes I try to lean into this by doing a creative thing that is dark. like, let the demons out to play. YMMV.
Big news! For the US only (unfortunately) Orbit are producing a 10th Anniversary edition of Children of Time with a beautiful signed hardback. The pre-order page has just gone up here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adria...
I think the goat ate some funny mushrooms 🍄
mine husbind (of the stonky farts) duz this too. soo annoying! I sez "hunny, stop sneesing!" (that duzn't work btw) think aboot fat mousies runnin arownd! 🐭🐁🐀
"This is the first time scientists have found a Denisovan gene that came to humans via Neanderthals."
very cool!
ew. glad to hear they made a change and an apology. talk about tone deaf 🙄
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Bella's getting the butt scratchies from dade. #bella #kitty #cats #catsofbluesky
Caprese salad with barrata this time 🍅🌱 #caprese #tomatoes #yum
MAKE W E I R D E *ART*
Klassy
Why yoo screeming, Gonz? Is Munsters? 🧌🧟♂️👹💀
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this is amazing. they should do Troy next.
This is the most literal and amazing candle 🔥 🕯️ I have ever seen—and I need to dress as Alaric and buy 410 or 455 of them as holiday presents. Thank you @illdottore.bsky.social for alerting me to this product. jdandkateindustries.com/products/rome
The tomato plants really rose to the challenge this year (not pictured: several other bowls this full that we already ate/canned/dehydrated) 🍅🍅🍅
Maybe it's just Wales too. One of my favorite movies is Dragonslayer. It was filmed in part on location in Northern Wales and it's gorgeous. Gorgeous in a dark and ominous way. Of course.
also (very low bar) Machen was a much better writer, like, prose-stylist wise.
Great read. 1000% catnip for me.
Agreed dark academia is not the right fit but that book possesses (!) a powerful pull. One of my favorites
Was NOT expecting to run into a St Teresa of Avila reference here... #medievalist
I think I found it! www.sciencechannel.com/show/ancient...
I should be able to google around and find it!
iz toosdays better?
Chris Twat, amirite?
Janicket do you remember the title of the docu?
Mine huzbind probally 😁🤣🤢
this is a very monday monday
