COMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 14h ago

Textes from Sisyphus: UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE 🪨

Still struggling for financial stability and security anything helps Paypal: caislino2@yahoo.com Cashapp: $Cashlinrap

Might do these out of order or skip some, but okay will try.

Extremely niche--anyone know if in ancient regime France the day of a nun's profession might be termed her 'journee?' (Script is clear, abbreviations not an issue, inscription grammar is often...condensed.. so I'm brainstorming)

Re: genre stuff: there are sometimes periods where I basically only read one genre (stages of my MPhil were a lot of Agatha Christie, also the early pandemic) and there's nothing wrong with them but they seldom happen when I am at my best as a reader or, you know, generally.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · yesterday

Typically good take from Pete. Literary devices or tropes (“this murder mystery exists to explore the world I’ve created”/“this fantastical concept is an allegory”) are interesting. Genres are just a marketing tool, and not a very interesting one.

This is your annual reminder that if you inadvertently write on a whiteboard with a Sharpie, you can trace over that with a whiteboard pen and then the whole thing will come off.

This is my last August in Vancouver, so I'm looking for suggestions of places to go or things to see that I should not miss and might have overlooked. What arcane joy have you knowledge of that I must see before I leave the city and the province?

If I ever feel like I want to put my phone away, two-factor authentication is there to say “tough luck buddy”.

Fra Angelico • detail from Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven •

I’ve seen in two culture /higher ed magazines recently the claim that the printing press engendered a crisis of authority at universities bc anyone could publish what they wanted and people could learn things without universities. This is not true.

I know a person surnamed Duckworth and a person surnamed Duckless and I want them to hug and see if it would be like an antimatter explosion negating their existence and leaving behind a single duck

since Ancient Greeks mythology is all we’re talking about these days, who wants to read my poem about achilles and patroclus (but specifically their appearance in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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i am not interested in homosexuality. /there should have been a warning.

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This should serve as a warning...

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My boyfriend always sings "Business Time" by Flight of the Concords before sex, obviously this means that I make sure business time doesn't happen very often with him.

Looking for interesting work. Freelance writing, consulting, creative advice, I don't know really, whatever, nice things, with nice people, something that doesn't give me too much anxiety, teaching positions, visiting lectures, literary agents welcome, something that lets me have weekends.

As a result of the recent news, we have received an extraordinary number of messages, and it has been incredibly moving to read so many heartfelt expressions of support. www.jodrellbank.net/explore/stor...

A message of Thanks from Jodrell Bank Observatory - Jodrell Bank

As a result of the recent news, we have received an extraordinary number of messages, and it has been incredibly moving to read so many heartfelt expressions of support.

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IS it? Quick, let's all panic together!!

Bluesky, help me out - an old manuscript where a young person draws their (teacher?) as a (wolf?) monster? Some kind of glorious doodle from history? Not Onfim's drawings of himself as a glorious monster - my brain wants to say that this is Old or Middle English? Weird little guys? Thank you!

Had a look today at a late medieval devotional miscellany in Irish now @rialibrary.bsky.social MS C ii 2 containing fun interlace initials and a copy of the Vision of Tundale, opening with a drawing of Tundale himself! 📜🎨

Now, we all know the Bayeux Tapestry is currently visiting the BM &tha t there is a replica in Reading. But do you know there are quite a few embroideries inspired by the BT around the UK? Today I went to see the Invasion Tapestry in Fishguard lastinvasiontapestry.cymru #skystorians 🏺1/

Enjoy, from being in the room while The Sopranos is on, to learn that Tony Soprano canonically quite likes the L Word.

Right, do I know anyone who knows about asbestos/decants & my rights as a decanted person? Because I've been shoved in a hotel *at my own expense* after an electrical fault happened at my insurance-provided flat and the insurance company are being extremely 🤷 about moving me somewhere more suitable

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

I've just had to explain to someone that you can't see wildfires on Google street or satellite view because it's not live.

Here is a story about that time I saw an opera performed largely in Pidgin, on a rainy night in Lagos, because the owners of the guesthouse I was staying at refused to accept that I was an introvert. 😂🧵

Song Queen: A Pidgin Opera | Trailer

YouTube video by TheVenusBushfires

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This appears to be the summer of Two Really Great Jobs Per Month. It’s great in that the jobs are really good and that I have a lot of free time to take my children to the beach but it’s probably not quite enough to scare off the looming bills. Anyone needs me, I’m over here!

Silly policy idea: every young person from age 11 to age 18 gets to spend a week doing out doors-y stuff at a residential retreat/youth hostel/outward bound centre somewhere in the countryside. This includes young people who are working. Just a week, expenses paid, doing fun outdoors-y stuff.

I know this will not happen, but as someone who now accesses a (quite small) amount of social care it would be really good if we could find ways to discuss it which were not just about it being a drain on other services or solely something which is needed by the old etc.

the smugness level in a dog who has been permitted bed access is incalculable

Dan Devine@yourmandevine.bsky.social · last wk.

Grizelda comfort level: increasing