Is there a sentence more cursed than “Try our new collard wrap!”?
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I'm a software dev from the UK, two cats, married, and a child of the 90s.
Hi! This sucks. I have to hope these authors will come out and say their names are being used here without permission but looking at the page, I’m assuming they’re in.
AK Faulkner ➡️ NYCC@ravenswordpress.com · 2d agoThis is news to some people, so I present to you: authorsfirst.com Peter F. Hamilton. Conn Iggulden. David W. Ball. R. A. Salvatore. All people who made a good living from writing.
REUNION VIDEO!?!?!? BUT LIGHTNING ROUND!?!?! Please ask questions for our first ever Lightning Round Reunion Video!
That's what it's like in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. They have a walled-off box the size of the Parthenon with recovered masonry and decorations displayed in the equivalent positions, and some are just illustrations because they're in the British Museum (and some other institutions tbf).
Athena Kugblenu@athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3d agoI want to see empty exhibits in British museums, that contain only the story about what they once contained, and why they had to be sent home. The space would be no less profound for me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ruin a book by adding a word. Labour's Redwall
Sulfurous Trans-Face@oxmounter.bsky.social · 3d agoRuin a book by adding a word. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher
For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn (our baby's feet are weirdly massive. We have to buy it adult-sized shoes. They keep growing and it's costing us a fortune. Please help us and our enormous-footed child).
If you're in Colorado and need help...
CZEdwards@czedwards.bsky.social · 4d agoThis was a remarkably useful cheat sheet for us:
Well. Hello. (Is that a debut at #7 on the NYT bestseller list? Why yes, yes it is!)
Fascinating to imagine what activity you could be freeing up time for that would be more rewarding than reading to your child.
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 5d agothis is so fucking sad
Good morning, NYCCC! It is a beautiful morning at the con and you are a horrible author! *HONK*
Theology aside, it's always very telling that there is a cadre of people who want to give Britain credit for abolishing slavery, while simultaneously railing against anything that illustrates doing so was worthwhile.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.
(Windfucker is still the best bird name ever, btw, although it's no longer a common way to refer to them!)
Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…
Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 2w ago"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
Uber is an unregulated taxi service, Airbnb is an unregulated hotel chain, crypto is unregulated currency, prediction markets unregulated gambling…
It isn't like there are no law preventing monopolies. It's just that the government(s) stopped enforcing the law.
Who's the tiny little man at the bottom? Also, related: what the fuck is going on? Like, generally with these freaks? An 88 ft. parody Bayeux Tapestry made with shitty AI. Existentially bleak.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.The Conservatives have commissioned an 88 foot contemporary Badenoch Tapestry for their party conference
1 pm! Barnes & Noble Santa Fe! Be there or be condemned to play the bard in your next campaign!
Hiya! We’re at The Lakes in Kendal this weekend! We’re at table 2 in the Comics Market! (In the Westmorland Campus in the town centre!) Also…it’s my birthday today! 🥳
What anyone not from London sees when they encounter one of these signs:
pixelframe.design@pixelframe.bsky.social · 2w agoLondon residents make up approximately 1.78% of our website traffic - this one's for you! The London Underground Logo Generator is now ready for you to design your own custom Roundel.
Coming up with punny chart titles for my weekly contribution to the @navigatepolitics.uk is becoming a guilty pleasure... That aside, did you know that 20% of MPs did their undergraduate at Oxbridge? Or that more MPs studied at Sussex than Exeter or Bristol?
Navigate Politics@navigatepolitics.uk · 2w agoFriday's regular Weekly Roundup with @electionmaps.uk is out! ...including our summary of all the announcements from Labour Conference, plus everything else that’s happened in politics over the past seven days. Head to our website and subscribe for free to get it direct to your inbox every Friday.
And yet an uneasy truce was brokered by the Dutch, the Danish and Germany. And hence forth bicycles were tamed and set to work by humans for many purposes...
Adrian Tchaikovsky@aptshadow.bsky.social · 2w agoThe war with the bicycles was over and the humans had won.
Two months ago I thought my wife would never walk again and today we walked up and down the street. Every day is better than the last.
dame@dame.is · 2w agoi challenge you to post one optimistic take or belief today on bluesky this needn’t be toxic positivity, just good ol’ run of the mill optimism/hope in the face of a torrential downpour of doom
I am SO GLAD that somebody was HERE for Yousen. This is a lovely thread.
TheLunarVoid@the-lunarvoid.bsky.social · 2w agoSo - the book is officially published. My hard copy is here. I am thrilled. This isn't a "lemme review it and tell you it's shit" post - bc that's overdone, and I like to be somewhat original. I wanna thank T. Kingfisher. I know - that's fucking weird. Sit with me.
