Jack, Shattered
@shatteredjack.bsky.social
Hyper-specific Oddball, Mechanistic Killjoy. Stirr-er of Pots and Speaker of Heresies. Ancient and Justified. Allegedly Pedantic.
I am compelled to point out that Watership Down started as stories Richard Adams told his daughters in the car on the way to see Shakespeare productions at that same theatre (which he did at every opportunity.) So much history there...
StefLyoness@steflyoness.bsky.social · 3d agoWell. Stick your jealousy goggles on. I’m in Stratford-Upon-Avon with the gorgeous and amazing @obienator.bsky.social ready to be joined by @ragmanspod.bsky.social tomorrow for The Mad King!!!* *if it’s not cancelled.
Latest #conlang dialogue from episode 307 of #HouseOfTheDragon up now: archiveofourown.org/works/871702... #valyrian #highvalyrian #asoiaf
Conlang Dialogue: House of the Dragon, Season 3 - Chapter 6 - Dedalvs - House of the Dragon (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
We should sync clocks more closely to the sun again, with permanent Standard Time.
it’s all fun and games till you get caught fucking in the mouth of a taxidermied blue whale
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
🤩🤩🤩 This is so cool! A possible new single dose treatment for colon cancer that also acts as an immunization from getting it again. It uses bacteria from tree frogs. Short video if you don’t wanna read the article. youtube.com/shorts/VGvuE... www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose
A naturally occurring bacterium from amphibian intestines completely eliminated colorectal tumors in mice with a single treatment by both attacking cancer cells and activating the immune system. The f...
sciencedaily.com
@ragmanspod.bsky.social et. al.
Dr Grace Khuri@gracekhuri.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat happens when some of a young Tolkien's early Elvish (Gnomish) words aren't really what they seem? Reflections on some of the linguistic seeds of Tolkien's poignant and masterful mythology... #Tolkien #Silmarillion #Philology www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NH...
FOR REAL THERE ARE SO MANY I did a queer history lecture at my church and there were literally too many transmasc monk saints to fit in the PowerPoint with the time we had
Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · 2w agoNiche post but if you want to write a story about a queer person in Europe c. 500-1000 CE your best bet is researching transmasc monks because there are surprisingly a lot of them.
MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY
Does the senate have some sort of ritual where they wack Mitch McConnell three times with a little silver hammer to see if he's dead?
@patman.bsky.social @scaddicus.bsky.social For anyone in a development role, this looks worthwhile.
Ashley Juavinett, PhD@ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 3w agoThe result is a set of interesting, deep insights led by Cat's genuinely wonderful line writing. I hope that this will raise the bar for how people on technical teams treat each other. The world needs a little bit more of that. www.routledge.com/The-Psycholo...
Latest #HighValyrian dialogue on #HouseOfTheDragon is up! #conlang archiveofourown.org/works/871702...
Conlang Dialogue: House of the Dragon, Season 3 - Chapter 4 - Dedalvs - House of the Dragon (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
What did the early medieval English think about hell? About guardian angels? About wizards? I talk about these topics and more in today’s interview with UVA’s @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social on his recent book about medieval apocrypha. Check it out ⬇️
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.
NEW EPISODE: @ageofnapoleon.bsky.social, Will from Grey History and I sit down *on camera* to talk about connections between France and the early American Republic:
What France should have learned from the United States
YouTube video by The Siècle
youtu.be
You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!
"But a cat is nobody's slave. You do not own a cat. If one lives in your home, it is because he regards your way of life favourably, and accepts you as a friend, as one gentleman accepts another." —H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, 29 July 1936
