You ever see a campaign ad that's so good that you don't believe it's real? youtu.be/-qC35btGsBs?...

How to Not Start Foreign Wars

YouTube video by Todd Achilles for U.S. Senate

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Even as a former librarian, I try not to wade too much into literacy discourse, but hells bells anyone asking if audiobooks are reading isn't smart enough to be asking the question. Socrates famously decried the invention of written record, because it would create a crutch, allowing people's memory

As a person who has generally always dressed up as harmless or sometimes humorous things for Halloween, and doesn't even immediately associate Halloween with horror, I find myself at a funny crossroads of the only two costumes I'm actively considering this year

I once had this line in my DM notes and thought "who said that? Shakespeare? It sounds like Shakespeare." A quick Google was humbling.

Castlevania: Dracula's Iconic 'What Is A Man?'

Alt: Castlevania: Dracula having monologue, 'What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets" while smashing a goblet on the floor of his throne room

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Before I had a smart phone, so like, sometime in the early 2010s, I had a phone with a video screen that did have Internet access. I had Brodyquest saved on that phone and would watch it regularly on my commute. In case anyone wanted to think about what it was like before doomscrolling.

WHO DOESN'T LOVE TO HATE A VILLAIN? ❤️‍🔥 Calling all rivalmancers, heel-enjoyers, and lovers of the baddest of us all: 'Smut Peddler: BADDIES' is officially open and taking submissions! We're fiending for the fiendish, so don't hold back! Can you make them worse? 🔮😈 ironcircus.com/smut-peddler...

the mathematics award winning fields medalist and known himedanshi yu deng just said that if ai puts all mathematicians out of a job he's gonna go home and write yuri novels. girl please do it anyway i need to see what yuri a fields medalist mathematician can do omfg

canva and royalty free/stock images exist, but also LOTS of illustrators, me included, do discounted rates for indies because they want to build portfolio and/or they dig the genre and they are ok with earning less to work on a story they enjoy/help uplift new voices. literally there is no excuse.

Mia V. Moss@magicrobotcarnival.com · 2w ago

"Indie authors HAVE to use AI covers, they usually don't have money." Dang I didn't know that broke authors simply couldn't make covers at all before 2023!

I'm playing the bird mental health app correctly by making it dress like Taskmaster and celebrating the weed number.

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? Fun fact: I have the movie poster signed by Mignola & GDT. They are both as nice irl as they seem in interviews.

Hellboy: I'll Always Look This Good

Alt: Hellboy telling Liz Sherman "One: I'll always look this good"

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Sho | Dora Ingrid@doraingrid.bsky.social · 4w ago

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? I've loved Her when it released, I wonder what it would be like to watch it now all things considering 😅

Acronyms / abbreviations. My brain refuses to decrypt them. Which is bad enough for fandom bullshit but once in a work meeting I asked "wait what is SDF on the agenda?" "That's us. That's the name of our business"

victoria scott@victoriascott.bsky.social · 4w ago

when random people being nice to me on the street say like "hey what's good" I always, always, always pull the wrong response like "not bad how 'bout you" but then it's too late to correct myself and I think about it for the next six to twelve hours

Times like these, I need a gif of Dylan Baker in the far background of the zoom call going FUCK

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4w ago

you've got to be kidding me

A coworker complimented my bag the other day and it reminded me of the origin story. In 2003, the only thing I wanted for Christmas was a rust orange Yak Pak, sized to hold my sketchbooks. My east coast artist friends loved theirs. At the time, I didn't go anywhere without my art supplies. (1/2)

Angler has kind of an airy, raspy voice, and the sound that really nailed it for me is one of the vocal styles of Frances Quinlan. So if you want to hear Angler, especially as she is in her band, this is the perfect song youtu.be/4ValhV8NprU?...

Tibetan Pop Stars

YouTube video by Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Topic

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨@cometkins.bsky.social · 4w ago

Who do you imagine your MC sounds most like? (Or if you happen to have an audiobook, share who voices them!) #WritingPrompt

Like all of us who perform some version of womanhood, I had aspirational figures when I started figuring mine out. Elvira, Dolly, and my mom. Each of them, to their own degree, fictional. Now that only Elvira is left, I will need to call my psychiatrist if anything happens to her.

I also learned today that James Lew passed away this week, so it's really been a monster week of losing faces and voices that have been with me since childhood

my favorite cryptid

I think it went really well 🙏 They are very cool and I want this job

Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon@vidtuesday.bsky.social · last mo.

I have a third round interview this morning for what would be a pretty cool job with real benefits, so I am accepting well-wishes

I have a third round interview this morning for what would be a pretty cool job with real benefits, so I am accepting well-wishes

元気玉 悟空 ドラゴンボール

Alt: Goku summoning the world's energy for a Spirit Bomb

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I'm still working my way through the @trangirlismo.bsky.social backlog but I do wonder if anyone has pointed out that Slipknot's Duality is about the Shapes Place

Was talking to a friend about how daunting incredibly long series are these days.

hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please

Angler hosts so often that I made up a magic item, Capsule Outfits, which are a full set of plain clothes in a little capsule that disintegrate 24hrs after opening, so no one does the walk of shame

🔞Daily NSFW OC Questions🔞@nsfwocdaily.bsky.social · last mo.

When it comes to hook-ups is your OC the type to host the other person at their own place, go to their hook-up's place, or go to a third location? #nsfwocdaily #ocnsfw #oc #ocsky

I haven't been to a theater very much in the last several years, so it's surprising to me that there are now four movies that I'm watching the release date for: Coyote Vs Acme Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma The Devils Street Fighter

My girlfriend enjoys teasing me about my specialist ice cream scoping knowledge gained from my first teen job at Braums. I feel not enough attention is paid to my finicky towel folding that came from when I worked at a gay bathhouse.

Meet Sean (she/her) Remember, it's the quiet ones you've gotta watch out for

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? - a rubber band so old and dusty that it breaks as soon as you test it

Kelly Sue DeConnick@kellysue.bsky.social · 2mo ago

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? a bit of hardware you won’t recognize until two days after you clean the junk drawer and throw it out

no future ✌️

I was just googling "graffiti artist masks big teeth" because I couldn't remember their name, and did you know that GATS has an Instagram? Has a bluesky ( @gatsptv.bsky.social )? It never occurred to me. They're a cryptid that I see on Oakland BART trips and in Portland bathrooms. Anyway, cool.