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"But ID, you have an embarrassment of literary riches on your TBR list already."
"STFU SuperEgo! I will cut you and laugh while you stumble about trying to dial 911." #BookSky #ThomasPynchon
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(heh.)
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social How about a preview copy?
it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: August 9 edition" — buffalo: 1, hunter: 0, and so much more...
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DWARF CONTRACTOR: *on the phone* alright so tell me this, BEFORE hand, how greedily were you digging.. uh huh... and how deeply? okay, I don't even need to come out, I can tell ya right now you gotta balrog. I'm gonna be honest with ya, does this mine hold any sentimental value
28.07.2024 17:32 — 👍 2791 🔁 824 💬 23 📌 30
Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii The cover has a photo of Oshii on it rather than an illustration of him as on the published version
Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii by Brian Ruh
Hey, that’s my book! But these are the uncorrected proofs with a slightly different cover. I didn’t even know this existed until I saw it on eBay one day.
A sign on a road saying ‘Richmond Park 2’. Obviously meaning 2 miles, not a second one.
I love Richmond Park!
So I was happy to see today that they made a second one!
The Grid Compass (1982)
07.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 418 🔁 75 💬 9 📌 710 origin stories about each of the first 10 amendments, culminating in an epic Bill of Rights crossover
24.05.2025 14:14 — 👍 41 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 0That @jmacfee.bsky.social guy is one handsome devil.
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DOJ -- realizing that its homework is in fact due today -- has ordered nearly all of the attorneys in the National Security Division to start reviewing records on the JFK assassination.
www.reuters.com/legal/us-jus...
As a late 2000s MFA girlie, "as well as the tin house trademark" makes me sad.
10.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Love to find out on social media that the rights to my novel were sold.
10.03.2025 21:28 — 👍 68 🔁 4 💬 18 📌 0
If you’re a member of the Hong Kong Royal Geographic Society (or want to join!) i’ll be speaking there this coming Friday….. www.rgshk.org.hk/rgs-events/a...
11.03.2025 10:00 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Moe Tucker feature in the Boston Herald, 1967
10.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 125 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 2
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A small plum tree full of small pink flowers. The thames in the background flowing toward Kingston Bridge.
Taken today along the Thames between Surbiton and Kingston. 🌱✨
06.03.2025 20:42 — 👍 414 🔁 21 💬 6 📌 1Identifying this as a child support database undersells it. By an accident of history (they needed it to enforce child support), the child support system is responsible maintaining in aggregate all state UI wage records. It's called the National Directory of New Hires. Extremely critical stuff.
06.03.2025 17:38 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1This is huge and monstrous. The nasal vaccines are our only hope of getting back to a world where you don't have to fear getting covid indoors. I would like to stop masking some day, and they're going to make it impossible.
26.02.2025 22:56 — 👍 3147 🔁 1211 💬 32 📌 10Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is just the start.
Last night he fired the highly-regarded General C Q Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and replaced him with a retired three-star general, Dan Caine, who on their first meeting put on a MAGA cap and said ‘I love you, sir.’
Recommend "The Art of Failure" here
www.bookforum.com/syllabi/read...
here's today's post: "bizarros, freaks and incels gather at buffoonpalooza" — the CPAC circus is in town.
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Elon Musk is raking in federal $ as he slashes government spending. Just this week:
-Tesla gets $767M from Puerto Rico
-SpaceX nets $8M from NASA
-Tesla gets $400M to sell Cybertrucks to State Dept.
One expert: "We haven’t seen this type of abuse until now.”
kaufman.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Glad to contribute
13.02.2025 04:00 — 👍 97 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 2Oathbreakers:
“Fascinating.” — The Wall Street Journal
“An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers Weekly
"If your going to read a book about knights do not read this one because it was to confusing to understand for me." -- Danny Hanson
Them: Have you written anything I might have read?
Me, looking them up and down, then smirking: You? Probably not.
President Trump pulls out, says no money for condoms
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Tonight, in D&D:
A storm crashes the ship
Uni and Lance find a half orc escaped from cult.
A beach, full of skulls, eye sockets glowing, crabs moved in
Lighthouse
Cultists defeated, more sacrifices freed
Sahaugin attack repelled, the ship sails, a giant head breaks the water and sinks out of sight.
Inspired by recent events to do an anthology called “PUNCH A NAZI”. All stories 4 pages long, only story criteria is that your story MUST be about a Nazi being punched. Digital only. All profits to The Trevor Project. Open to all comers but especially queer and other marginalized creators. Who’s in?
21.01.2025 06:52 — 👍 286 🔁 125 💬 44 📌 30We are thrilled to share this news.
Summer 2025. WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN.
The collection of the year.
