Pudacat

Pudacat

@pudacat.bsky.social

108 Followers 33 Following 268 Posts Joined Sep 2023
2 days ago
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that."  

Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

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1 day ago

Solidarity against AI theft means everyone. You can't campaign for 'don't use the word plagiariser' while using the image plagiariser. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

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4 days ago

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

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3 days ago
A painting of a bird beside the text "i'm really not sure why i read this shit every day"
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3 days ago
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Copper Script Detective Sergeant Aaron Fowler of the Metropolitan Police doesn’t count himself a gullible man.

#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because COPPER SCRIPT @kjcharleswriter.com is on #sale on #Kindle US for today only!
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#CopperScript #ad #amazoncom

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6 days ago

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

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5 days ago
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The Holey Roman Empire

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2 years ago

"Why do you want to have a 1970s music pavilion at the Shakespeare festival?"

"It features wine made by the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party!"

"But how does that make it anything to do with Shakespeare?"

"Mao is the vintner of our disco tent!"

[Exit, pursued by a bear]

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5 days ago

The drawing for this (and some other pieces are) up now at: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

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5 days ago

Sighs in rural Midwest.

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1 week ago

so this one time a lorry of rice showed up at my family home

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6 days ago
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a pixel art of a yellow pac man with a black line between his mouth and nose Alt: a pixel art of a yellow pac man with a black line between his mouth and nose eating furiously. Clearly sprites taste better than the Big Arch

every fast food ceo rn

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1 week ago
screencap from the above link:

I have found this problem fairly endemic to the romcomantasy (eh? eh?) subgenre to which McCallum’s debut belongs. Oh, I am so tired of reading book after book where nobody has ever done a single thing wrong, or, even if they have, it was all a terrible misunderstanding. I cannot bear these characters with personalities as smooth as Ken dolls, who run dear little retail shops in interchangeable Fantasylands and placeless middle Americas, unbothered by problems of inventory or human frailty. I am going to chew right through the bars of my enclosure, and go rampaging all around the countryside, if I am called upon to read one more book where a character’s big secret finally comes out, and the other character is like: “No problem, babe, I know your heart, and I understand that, while you initially had a scheme to sabotage my dreams, you changed your mind over the course of our courtship. Due to the trust we have built together, I understand this perfectly without your having to explain it.”

real footage of a critic being driven slowly out of her mind

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1 week ago

*pounds the table* POR-TENT! POR-TENT!

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1 week ago

Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be timely?

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1 week ago

GALADRIEL (selectively editing the backstory): and three rings were given to the elves, who were barely involved

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1 week ago

Latin declensiouns and
Bookes yn libraryes;
Arcana and poemes
And portals to Faërie;
Long midnighte talkes about
Cool goblin kynges:
Thes ben a fewe
of my favourite thinges.

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1 week ago

My weirdest creation is almost old enough to drink.

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1 week ago

Enemies to lovers. I'm waiting for the novella or snippet any day now.

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2 weeks ago
Ravens Hiding in a Shoe
Robert Bly

There is something men and women living in houses
Don’t understand. The old alchemists standing
Near their stoves hinted at it a thousand times.

Ravens at night hide in an old woman’s shoe.
A four-year-old speaks some ancient language.
We have lived our own death a thousand times.

Each sentence we speak to friends means the opposite
As well. Each time we say, “I trust in God,” it means
God has already abandoned us a thousand times.

Mothers again and again have knelt in church
In wartime asking God to protect their sons,
And their prayers were refused a thousand times.

The baby loon follows the mother’s sleek
Body for months. By the end of summer, she
Has dipped her head into Rainy Lake a thousand times.

Robert, you’ve wasted so much of your life
Sitting indoors to write poems. Would you
Do that again? I would, a thousand times.

"Each sentence we speak to friends means the opposite
As well. Each time we say, “I trust in God,” it means
God has already abandoned us a thousand times."

- Robert Bly

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2 weeks ago
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Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

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The Scottish Colonial Empire

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1 week ago

Somebody didn't get an ARC.😜

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1 week ago
A painting of a bird beside the text "i'd like to be reimbursed for the time i spent listening to your bullshit"
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1 week ago

We don’t want thunder; we want rum

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2 weeks ago

snow is so wonderful and magical when it's happening to other people

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2 weeks ago
The view out the back of the library. The streetlights are off. The sky is blue with yellow at the horizon.

Okay brace yourself because this is BIG!

It's Monday night and it's 5pm so it's time for EPISODE SEVEN of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?'

OH MY THE STREETLIGHTS ARE OFF AND IT'S LITERALLY THIS LIGHT! 💡

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2 weeks ago

She looks like she's ordering the kid's mud covered Golden Retriever to get out of the doorway, because he is NOT gallumping on her newly cleaned floors. It's bad enough the kids did, but she's drawing a line at family pets.

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Luna Welcomes Tade Thompson’s Historical Fiction novel, Antara. We are delighted to welcome Tade Thompson to the Luna family, and the superb Antara, an historical fiction novel, on the pre-Islamic warrior poet of renown. We have acquired WEL rights from Alexander ...

Here we go.

It's Friday, and this dropped.

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