I’ve been reading Mistborn b/c I am in the mood for something trashy, & I clearly wasn’t paying attention to character descriptions, b/c in my head Kelsier looks like a young Harold Perrineau, but I guess he’s supposed to be a blond white guy?

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

This was a really fun commission I did a few years ago for a fantastic ttrpg project that I hope sees the light some day. A city where its residents represent the different stages of death? Yes please. #ttrpg

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

80g of saffron is a war with another country for their saffron

I need to know how one uses 20kg of ghee sparingly.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8h ago

we must recover the old wisdom

current discourse feels like

all the primitive caveman diet stuff is so funny because wdym cavemen never ate vegetables, what do you think the gatherer in hunter-gatherer means, are they gathering steak sauce

I'll stick to fiction or we'll be here all week: The Making of Incarnation, Tom McCarthy; The Virgin in the Garden, AS Byatt; Prophet Song, Paul Lynch; Moby-Dick; Our Lady of the Lost & Found, Diane Schoemperlen; The Pets, Bragi Ólafsson; Attila, Aliocha Coll; Gnomon, Nick Harkaway...

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 2d ago

this is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous

Hey, I'm a book person. I'll do this.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

White Sands Missile Range was testing a GPS jammer, which disrupted commercial air traffic across southern New Mexico. While Albuquerque Center was juggling multiple aircraft all struggling with the loss of GPS, a medevac flight flew into a mountain, killing everyone on board.

WIRED@wired.com · 4d ago

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

Years ago, Adam Greenfield was arguing that this was also part of the underlying politics of services like Uber; the idea that “interpersonal exchanges are more appropriately mediated by algorithms than by one’s own competence.” He called it “socially corrosive mobility.” It’s all connected.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d ago

What people using AI crave at root is an end to the uncertainty of human interaction and connection and its replacement with endless hollow affirmation and instant gratification. They should be pitied but never enabled or excused.

I thought I’d be a poet of modernity and technology, but I seem to be a poet who writes about the moss in his garden and the void at the heart of our understanding. I have no idea how this happened.

The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.

'A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold steps to provide good, affordable food.' jacobin.com/2026/07/zohr...

Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One

A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold ...

jacobin.com

Local dumpster. They’re probably not wrong. 

I love these little zines.

Johan Nohr@nohr.se · 4d ago

A little something for the next Pit Trap Zine issue, free with all pittrapshop.com orders. OSE, for some reason.

I got a new tattoo!

War now only occurs when the markets are closed is actually very cyberpunk

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

theonion.com

this owl has just about had it with the bullshit and me too

I do like the sign.

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie.bsky.social · 7d ago

Toronto's hosting of a half-dozen World Cup games reminds me of its Pan Am Games experience, in that superior organization turned a pricy nuisance into something resembling a public good. Though this time we got neither a giant sign nor new commissions from Crystal Pite and Robert Lepage.

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Even the housing plan launched by Trudeau was only, at peak, supposed to deliver about 30% of the housing his dad’s government got built in the mid-‘70s. They called it a record, but that’s only if you go back to ‘79. Peak units-per-year building in Canada happened in ‘74/‘75. And it was gov led.

Kevin Wilson@kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 7d ago

This was something a lot of housing advocates saw coming a mile away when the immigration cuts were announced. The fundamental stance of Canadian cities is that they prefer high prices to building housing. They love high prices. Easing off immigration was never going to change that.

Soldier, handy man, house cleaner/tobacco picker, cashier.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

I worked on the Internet Archive's book scanning project for 5 years when they were only doing public domain books. I used one of these machines. Google was doing destructive scanning of copyrighted works at that time, and we constantly got bad press for their practices. It was so frustrating.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · last wk.

if elected president, i will dissolve the Department of the Navy and hand their funding, and nuclear fleet over to the Internet Archive. They'll know what to do.

I have somewhere around 1,300–1,500 books divided into: Literary, SF/F & Horror, Comics, Poetry, Crime/Mystery, Non-Fiction, Art, Design, and alphabetical within those categories. I used to sort them biographically (i.e., by how they relate to my life) but my gf said she could never find anything.

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?