All the fun and sweetness of life hurt so abominably when it was always just out of your reach.
Adam
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mentally robust https://adamsnotes.substack.com/
the bit where adele exarchopoulos finds one of these was my favourite segment in Dupieux's Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 17h agoThe Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback)
Listening to CBC Radio this morning, they interviewed the peace officer in charge of dealing with overdoses on the Edmonton LRT, he didn't seem to know how to pronounce Naloxone.
Got an ad today that was like... "Grrr Even though I'm a fat slob I still hate participation trophies... except when Bet365 hands them out! Line up three elephants to win." Take your money out of the banks NOW
Women messing w/ men's heads du jour: Salome demurely receiving John the Baptist's head on her plate. Executioner is like Sorry man, have to do this. By Juan de Flandes, whose day is today.
I try not to complain, but this account sucks so bad. Put a little effort in and post a full joke.
Hourly Peep Show@hourlypeepshow.bagpuss.org · 3d ago
This is "A Wet Country Road," an oil-on-canvas painting by the Victorian artist John Atkinson Grimshaw, painted in 1881.
Imagining a woman with an adult child who gets tricked by Rumpelstiltskin and can't guess his name. Actually it's your mom and you have to go live with Rumpelstiltskin. He lives in a log hollow and eats nothing but twigs and all he talks about is spinning things into gold. Sorry that's your life now
Realizing there aren't that many Canadian campus novels. Lynne Coady's Mean Boy, the Anne of Green Gables where she goes to teacher's college, and I vaguely recall a Robertson Davies novel about being sodomized at UofT or something.
Shutterstock class action in Canada clg.org/Class-Action...
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CONSUMER LAW GROUP is investigating a Canada wide class action against Shutterstock Canada ULC and Shutterstock Inc that alleges that for years Shutte
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They claim the stories are hosted with author consent, but that seems to be a flat out lie. They also tell authors to contact them for removal, but there is no contact on the site, no email or form.
Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d agoHey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
Very cool. This is going to sound slightly medieval but I've been thinking there must be some way to embed invisible apotropaic symbols in all those 'this page intentionally left blank' pages
Richard Pace@rpace.bsky.social · 4d ago
@chalicotherex.bsky.social you will be pleased to know the bookstore I was at had a copy of Beloved Son Felix displayed as a staff recommendation!!
I think most people know about the medieval fascination with saintly relics, but I didn't realize there was also an interest in pagan relics
FROM: agamemnon@hades.gov TO: orestes@atreus.house RE: bad news (mom)
Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ barleycorn crossbowman poetic dormant cadaver
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d agoFind the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
it seems like every single person in the tech industry has had their brains thoroughly fried. Like what on earth could they possibly have been thinking?
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
"second-largest sleep retailer" headlines that sound like AI story submissions to a sci-fi zine
CCTV News@ctvnews.bsky.social · 5d ago
Sleep Country Canada Inc. says it has completed its acquisition of Sleep Number, making it the second-largest sleep retailer in the world.
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
The Morning Star Rockford Illinois, 06.27.1916
NEW: Another indie outlet critically covering the far-right has been hit with a lawsuit. @thegrindto.bsky.social now joins the list of outlets facing legal threats for their reporting. I analyze this trend and the consequences facing small outlets even in the result of favourable rulings.
Reactionaries are Trying to Silence Critical News with the Court
Another independent outlet faces legal challenges for their reporting
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ogre beat by someone else as close as we'll get to polyphemus/nobody, I guess
Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins@wittywebhandle.bsky.social · last wk.Save us, Senator Somebody Else.
