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writer. teacher. hoodoo cowboy. Prof. @ The University of Texas at Arlington https://linktr.ee/cedrickmay

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The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books

Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

22.10.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Paul Tremblay is in PEOPLE! Get a load of the synopsis - sounds riveting! Also, they call him "the celebrated author." Darn straight!

23.10.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two sparrows on a horizontal wooden beam.
The sparrow on the left is in profile. 
The sparrow on the right is facing towards the camera with its head turned to look at the other bird.

Two sparrows on a horizontal wooden beam. The sparrow on the left is in profile. The sparrow on the right is facing towards the camera with its head turned to look at the other bird.

"Dammit, Phil, this meeting could have been an email."

#birds
#sparrows

05.10.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0
Submit a Claim

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

02.10.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1055    πŸ” 917    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 103
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Drabblecast 481- The Alamo The Drabblecast Weird Wild West continues, with β€œThe Alamo” by Cedrick May. Cover art by Tristan Tolhurst

Congratulations to Patrick Bazile for being one of the two winners of a Strangies Award for "Best Voice" in the story, "The Alamo" on the @drabblecast.bsky.social podcast! Thank you for making the story sound so amazing!
www.drabblecast.org/2023/11/23/d...
(scroll to bottom of page for audio)

02.10.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apologize for retweeting the same article twice but - and I say this with no hint of irony - this is a pretext to the single largest, easily litigated lawsuit in human history. This is an egregious violation of IP law, law protected quite literally & specifically by the Constitution. Total insanity.

29.09.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 703    πŸ” 205    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 6

YES!!

15.09.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s some Milka Lolo art to make your Sunday a little better.

14.09.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Melbourne city skyline with tall buildings, the Yarra river in the foreground and decorative spherical lights hanging on a wire against a cloudy sky.

Melbourne city skyline with tall buildings, the Yarra river in the foreground and decorative spherical lights hanging on a wire against a cloudy sky.

🎢...when the lights go down in the city...🎢

"lights" - journey

#photography #StunDay #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKaraoke

14.09.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

200+ pages into a second draft, I'm thinking again about how the world of a novel (and the voice you write about it in) ideally gets stronger and stronger as you write. A problem I'm always thinking about: The day you're truly prepped to start writing a novel is probably the day you finish it.

14.09.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 1
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California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.

Have you heard the good news?

California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient.

This article made my day!

www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

14.09.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4476    πŸ” 1326    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 67
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β€˜They just want a better life’: the UK households who host asylum seekers The charity Refugees at Home helps volunteers with a spare room to lend take in people who have sought refuge

I hosted a Syrian refugee in my home for two years (via the Irish Red Cross) & it's one of the best decisions I ever made - I gained another little brother! Here's an article about people doing the same in the UK. If you have a spare bedroom, do think about it. πŸ‘‡πŸ»

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

14.09.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader' Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

10.09.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 26042    πŸ” 7233    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 223
Really 80’s guitar player

Really 80’s guitar player

Really 80’s singer

Really 80’s singer

Really 80’s bass guy

Really 80’s bass guy

Trent Reznor looking like Trent Reznor from age 18-60

Trent Reznor looking like Trent Reznor from age 18-60

Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled

30.08.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1927    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 16

We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves.

All of us get protections or none of us do

28.08.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1794    πŸ” 498    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 33

If this happens I am going to become the Joker

14.08.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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National Association Of Black Bookstores Launches To Preserve Black Literary Culture And Voices | Essence The first-of-its-kind collective was created to unite historic and emerging Black-owned bookstores, promoting literacy, celebrating Black voices and preserving a cultural legacy nationwide.

Happy National Book Day!

www.essence.com/news/nationa...

09.08.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 227    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Chekhov's stick.

07.08.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

07.08.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 11696    πŸ” 2881    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 31
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I generally encourage new / original horror films over remakes in any given circumstance, but I'd love to see a new Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Blob or even The Fly that worked in conversation with How Things Are Now.

06.08.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 379    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 6
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a close up of a man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and smoking a cigarette . ALT: a close up of a man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and smoking a cigarette .

Good, but it’s no -

02.08.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

-- James Baldwin

29.07.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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1986 sword-and-sorcery film made in Lawrence re-edited for new premiere at Liberty Hall β€œSong of the Sword,” a 1986 sword-and-sorcery movie created by a Lawrence cast and crew, has been lovingly re-edited for a fresh premiere at Liberty Hall.

Well, this is a hoot! lawrencekstimes.com/2025/07/26/s...

27.07.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

26.07.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 22371    πŸ” 8030    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 159

Why, one might go so far as to argue that the short story is the superior form for weird/horror work, and that the market-based emphasis on the novel weakens the impact of the mode at large

25.07.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

this is an excellent thread on censorship of games and has multiple ways to fight back. The big point is the storefront doesn't matter nearly as much as the payment processor.

24.07.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE 
Art by Dave McKean
Design by Elizabeth Story

https://tachyonpublications.com/product/the-essential-horror-of-joe-r-lansdale/

THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE Art by Dave McKean Design by Elizabeth Story https://tachyonpublications.com/product/the-essential-horror-of-joe-r-lansdale/

After working on this for what feels like forever, THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R LANSDALE has finally gone to press.

Experience the terrors for yourself on Oct 7

tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

@tachyonpub.bsky.social

17.07.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A brief description of angel down in the New York Times

A brief description of angel down in the New York Times

4th mention of ANGEL DOWN in the New York Times in the past month. Not sure what I did to deserve this attention, but I’ll take it.

11.07.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

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