Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸

Does anyone have recommendations for reliable, but not-too-expensive button makers? For financial & storage reasons, I want to start making Bookstore Romance Day buttons myself. Also, color printers that won't completely break the bank? THANK YOU!

I saw #Varietopia in Atlanta. If I could I’d follow it on tour. So if you live in Charleston…YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

Ah yes the sushi in #KPopDemonHunters was CHOICE!

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Better than “Paul Hollywood’s Schweddy Balls”

I just blew through all 153 episodes in a frighteningly short period of time. Now, I am unconsolable.

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The cover of DEAD ENDS depicting a cartoon man in a coffin being zapped to life

A cartoon of Robert Liston holding severed limbs and a knife in his teeth.

A cartoon of a person peering through a ribcage.

Today’s the day! @tealcartoons.bsky.social & I are here to (delightfully) spook your kids with medical history 👻🩺

DEAD ENDS is officially out in the world. If you’d like to support us, every bit helps: buy a copy, request it at your local library, and leave a quick review online.

shorturl.at/FS3nd

It is always a joy to talk with Gina Rippon and Camilla Pang

Epic cover indeed!

Lovely article about Tim Curry; thanks to @isabelrogers.bsky.social for posting!

Sparse Spectral Spaceport, by elkement 2024-2025, digital art generated with computer-code (no AI). Mathematically exact diffraction curves mounted on circles: Intensity of light of different wavelength, diffracted into different directions.

Poinsot's Dancing Cones, by elkement 2024, photo of geometrical construction on canvas board (no AI): Three cones used by French mathematician Louis Poinsot's to visualize the motion of the force-free gyroscope.

Cosmic Cloverleaf, by elkement 2024, digital art generated with computer-code (no AI): Tower-like mathematical function inspired by orbitals (spherical harmonics)

Celebration of Dispersion, by elkement 2024, photo of a drawing on watercolor paper: Watercolor pencils, ballpoint pen (no AI): Crystal reflecting and dispersing white light, causing rainbow patterns.

So, it is #PortfolioDay again!

I am Elke(ment), a physicist turning the math underlying physics into visual art, with hand-written computer code or with pencils. Or I am drawing objects from glass dispersing light! (No AI).

#SciArt #MathArt #PhysicsArt

My website: elkement.art

Cover of signed copy of Joe Hill's "King Sorrow". Satanic horned head in red and yellow, blue-grey background. Words "a novel" appear on demon's head.

My signed copy of Joe Hill's "King Sorrow" has been shipped from the lovely indie Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH! Give @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social a follow.

@isasaxonists.bsky.social

#AI bubble burst in 3...2...1

It's happened before, even with tulips!

London folks, you know you want this.

Happy pub day to me!

Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)

Bowl featuring a solar eclipse in a cloudy sky with one half in golden daylight and the other a cool blue. Steaks of light cut across the eclipse.

Plate featuring Milky Way over a silhouetted landscape with a cabin, evergreen trees, and one deciduous tree.

Teapot featuring a green aurora.

Angled cup featuring a shield volcano erupting with lava against a yellow-grey sky on Venus.

I'm Amy and I paint celestial pottery with glaze ✨

This started when I wanted to take us on an adventure during the pandemic lockdown. Now, offering pots like these to be part of your daily life feels like another way to keep hope alive.

Newsletter for restocks: amyraehill.com

#PortfolioDay

Svalbard 2026 Calendar | Barnard Polar An extremely limited edition A3 size calendar of photographs from my time on the Arctic Circle expeditionary residency in Svalbard. I hope you like sea ice and tallships!**As the situation with US tar...

I just ordered @sarahbpolar.bsky.social's 2026 #Calendar, featuring photographs from her time on the #Arctic Circle expeditionary residency in Svalbard. Like her 2025 calendar, this is one you keep when the year is over. www.barnardpolar.shop/svalbard-202...

Independent bookstores are the lifeblood of any community

Screenshot of Accessibility settings on Bluesky: Accessibility Alt text Require alt text before posting (toggled on) Display larger alt text badges

Once again, please use alt text. Let everyone enjoy art.
#PortfolioDay

This 1936 #biography of #artist #LeonardoDaVinci is a #reprint. Also contains some of his #letters. #Illustrated with 8 #B&W #photos. $20. #Booksky #art #oldbooks #Italy

#AI: The digital Centipede

@alixechristie.bsky.social If I had one of these I'd frame it.

"Data privacy" is not a "style". It's the nemesis of #AI.

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Twelfth Night set, Globe Theatre

Twelfth Night set, Shakespeare’s Globe.

THE GENIUS BAT: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal, one of the most fascinating creatures gets its literary due THE GENIUS BAT: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal YOSSI YOVEL St. Martin's Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $16.99 eb...

THE GENIUS BAT: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal, one of the most fascinating creatures gets its literary due from Yossi Yovel via @stmartinspress.bsky.social #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

If anyone happens to find themselves in Lala Books in Camberwell, ask them to create a Bluesky account and I'll add them to my Starter Pack Part Deux (Part One is full):

go.bsky.app/DYmY7tU