We have a neat temporary exhibit at the museum called Bizarre Headgear featuring, you guessed it, weird animal skulls.

Share a TV show you love where the main characters are doctors. MONDAY MORNINGS, only one short 10-episode season in 2013. Alfred Molina AND Ving Rhames? Hot damn. Also had Bill Irwin (Cyclops in THE ODYSSEY) as the hospital's transplant chief.

Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl@tvfanaticgirl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Share a TV show you love where the main characters are doctors. 📺 My choice: House

Okay, how many more of you are finding yourself taking mental notes of Big Words other people use in their Bluesky skeets, for possible use in upcoming Outlier games? #Outlier

That inspired a thing my wife and I did in our recent remodel where we took a space and walled in a rubber skeleton with a note saying “2023 Hide And Seek Champion!”

These pictures are to encourage you to buy the re-release of my how-to guide for short fiction and non-fiction STARVE BETTER. Get em signed at @ebbooksellers.bsky.social www.ebbooksellers.com/item/PMT_BEJ...

🧵 So my darlings, here's a little story about the importance of preventative health. Spoiler: I'm fine. I'm going to be just fine. I mean. Most likely. But one thing I know for absolutely certain, if I had delayed taking action by a year, or even six months, this would be a VASTLY different story.

Here is a weird thing about comics right now. Do you know who is actually practically a guarantee of quality storytelling in comics at the moment? Godzilla. I kid you not. For a long time in America, the Godzilla comics were mostly okay, meant to be fun, lots of monsters fighting. 1/

Lucky combo pic of a butterfly and Mexican Bird of Paradise blossoms against a picturesque sky.. #photography #flowers #insects

"Book vs. Movie" is one of the classic discourses. Sometimes even a Classic discourse.

Artist Tom Kidd sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kidd_tom was born on this day, so here's some examples of his work:

MAGAZINE MONDAY | Recently, while examining a dusty box of old reels donated to the Library of Congress, archivists rediscovered a long-lost film that hadn’t been seen for over a century. https://lcm.loc.gov/issue/july-august-2026/a-long-lost-film-finally-found/?loclr=blsky

A Long-Lost Film, Finally Found

In a dusty box of old reels, the Library discovers a short by a filmmaking pioneer.

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My birthday is coming up and hospitals are low on blood. If you want to do something for me and can donate blood, maybe look up a drive?

#writinglife

Some of the eeriest ten minutes you might ever spend. Puts the "awe" back in "awesome".

Colossal@thisiscolossal.com · 2d ago

Just in case you missed this incredible moment of glacial acrobatics

Look out, Donny! RFKjr's eyeing the dead animal thing on top of your head! He's going to pull a knife and lunge for it any second!

All he did was bend the post so the camera pointed to the sky. Flock took their camera back unharmed. Hypothetical lawyer to the prosecutor: "He'll pay for the pole if you drop all charges and give his truck back. Because you don't want to make him any more of a public hero than he already is."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“While he says he understands that what he did was illegal, despite his arrest and still not having his work truck back, he says he does not regret his decision.”

Tales of Three Planets https://pulpcovers.com/tales-of-three-planets/ Covers, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Paperback, Roy Krenkel

Ok folks, Sheila and her family need our help. You might know her as the editor of Asimov’s, but she's also a good friend and one of the best people in the field. If you can, please... www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...

Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce

Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care

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A disappointed tomb-robber is pictured in STREIFUGE IN DEN URWALDERN VON MEXICO UND CENTRAL-AMERIKA ("Forays into the Primeval Forests of Mexico and Central America"), written by Felix Leopold Oswald, 1881. #SpookySunday

Hello Saturday. 🖼️ The Flapper, F. X. Leyendecker, 1922.

Hector Garrido, 1976. From: “The Devil’s Sonata” by Susan Hufford #illustration #coverart #bookcover #1970s #HectorGarrido

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Weekend links 842

An illustration by Charles Keeping for The Golden Shadow. • At the BFI: Alex Ramon selects 10 great British TV shows of 1976. (And 50 years ago the American term "shows" was most often applied to the variety format. We would have called these "programmes".) • Illustrations by Charles Keeping for The Golden Shadow (1973), a retelling of Greek myths and legends by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen.

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Seconded. Also, if you can give blood, especially if you're O+, need is dire right now.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 4d ago

World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...

Exquisite c. 20,000-year-old laurel leaf point. Expertly worked, this beautiful Solutrean-era flint tool is 28 cm long and 1 cm thick, with edges so wafer thin they’re translucent! ✨ From Volgu, France. Musée d'Archéologie nationale Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.

Enjoy short SF/F fiction? @sffmagazines.bsky.social keeps track of numerous short fiction publications, including many that don't get the mentions or reviews of the Bigger Folk. An occasional look at other editorial choices and other writers can find some pretty impressive work.

Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions@sffmagazines.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome new followers! We're glad you've left the Fascist Propaganda Network Known as X to join us here! Let's try and keep this social site a bit less evil. We promote short fiction! Keep an eye on us for reposts of free fiction, AND calls for funding. Give short venues your love and support!

Most sidebar clickbait ads just slide off my brain. But a recent one for a toenail fungus remedy has an animation of blue goo being applied to a toenail. Followed by SMOKE rising from the toenail. (!) WTF? Who thought up that ad? Who produced it? Who approved it? Who would ever click on it? WTF?

Perk and Gander frequently share the recliner. If they learned to use the tv remote, and taught me to bring them a beer, they'd be set for life. #Caturday

Selections from my annual lists of books read. These particularly stand out in my memory. 2018: DAUGHTER OF MYSTERY, Heather Rose Jones BINTI, Nnedi Okorafor UNDER THE PENDULUM SUN, Jeanette Ng PENRIC'S DEMON, Lois McMaster Bujold 1/8

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hey guy readers! Quote this with some books by women and nonbinary authors that you recommend. A few from me: Meg Elison's Book of the Unnamed Midwife R.F. Kuang's Poppy War Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful Fonda Lee's Jade City Sarah Gailey's Echo Wife Premee Mohamed's Annual Migration of Clouds

#BookWormSat The Catastrophically Creative Edward Gorey (1925-2000) in perfect accord with his feline companions. He spoke of them often, reflecting 'A house without a cat is a house without a soul, a place where the books remain dusty & the shadows lack a reason to dance.'