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I'm in a SNIT right now in fact

Incredible cover for Simone Buchholz' "Sharks". A huge red neon shark with its jaws open, and a set of green neon keys in its mouth. Hamburg cityscape on the bottom. Title in large green neon letters above the shark mouth. Winner of the CWA Crime In Translation Dagger.

I would also like to mention the outstanding cover design! Hey @orendabooks.bsky.social who created the cover for "Sharks"?

This is a win for dogs all over the world #uglydogs

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@portybelle.bsky.social OK, "evince" is a bonus word. SURE.
I played squaredle.com 03/05:
*50/50 words (+9 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 6% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 142

Marvel character meme: At top: "We've chosen to pursue other candidates". At bottom: Thanos: I don't even know who you are"

A Steller’s Jay standing on the end of a bird bath, examining the water below it. It has a bright blue lower half and a dark gray upper half

A Steller’s Jay bent down taking a drink of water from a bird bath.

It’s #ThursJay! Enjoy this Steller’s Jay having a drink of water
#birds

#uglydogs #Iditarod2026

A friendly reminder that your Libro audiobook credits never expire 🙃 You bought them...so why would we take them away?

I only see Gunther, an unjustly accused, prodigiously innocent pup.

Using the traditional option for dislodging potential avalanches—explosives—would be difficult, given the timing and the aircrafts the sheriff's office had available. But the night before, at a high-school basketball game, a utility worker with Pacific Gas and Electric Company happened to tell a local sheriffs deputy about an unusual method of dealing with risky slopes. Three years earlier, the company needed to rescue employees and their families who were snowed in at a power plant, and approval for explosives was taking too long. So PG&E had tried dumping water on the slope using a firefighting bucket, Pete Anderson, the senior manager of helicopter operations, told me. It had worked well, and they kept doing it. By Friday morning, Anderson was on the phone explaining the technique to Haack; a few hours later, one of the company's UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters was dangling a 660-gallon bucket full of water from a nearby lake and dumping it on the avalanche slope. The helicopter made seven drops, until the water in the bucket started freezing. Then it dragged the bucket through the slope, like a wrecking ball. "That was pretty effective too," Anderson told me.

Cancel everything, flying a wrecking ball through an avalanche is now my only interest

The most iconic scene in Dr. Strangelove (1964). Black and white still that shows Slim Pickens riding a huge nuclear bomb and waving a cowboy hat.

@bschillace.brandyschillace.com @frankconniff.bsky.social #CatSky 🐈

@afroherper.bsky.social #FindThatLizard

I would like to put in a pitch for "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"!

@annerandomthings.bsky.social

Sharks—Simone Buchholz As always, many thanks to Orenda Books for including me on the blog tour for Simone Buchholz' "Sharks". I reviewed the second book in the "Chastity Reloaded" series, "The Kitchen" in 2024. Click here...

"Sharks" takes you on a wild ride through the seedy side of Hamburg: dive bars, cyclo-punks, and a double murder. My review of the new Chastity Riley mystery. @orendabooks.bsky.social @ohneklippo.bsky.social @racheltranslates.bsky.social #BookSky 📚 💙

www.angryalgonquin.com/sharks-simon...

"Your services will not be needed." Cool.

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YOU MUST DM ME THE WORD

I played squaredle.com 03/04:
*46/46 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 8% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 141

Tonight at 5:30pm I make the dreaded call: Will I be called in for jury duty? Getting up at the crack of dawn to make it to the courthouse by 8am is not necessarily my favorite way to start the day. On the other hand, civic duty yeah.

Cover of "The Concubine Who Launched Modern China: Empress Dowager Cixi" by Jung Chang. Painting of the Empress in color/ Title in red box at right

Cover of "The Lost Heart of Asia" by Colin Thubron. Title at top in large font. Domed building in shadow in background.

Cover of "The Wordy Shipmates" by Sarah Vowell. Orange and yellow on top. Toy masted ship and Pilgrim figurines in foreground.

Sarah Vowell signed page for The Wordy Shipmates

Visited a great #Atlanta #bookstore today, Atlanta Vintage Books. They're not yet on Bluesky but are on IG at @atlantavintagebooks. Lots of treasures to be had there; they have the two books below which I highly recommend. Also spotted a signed Sarah Vowell book I didn't have so...
#BookSky 📚 💙

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Vigil by George Saunders I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Heart the Lover by Lily King Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi The Tainted Cup by Robert Bennett The God of the Woods by Liz Moore Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Red Rising by Pierce Brown The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Long Game by Rachel Reid Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Virginia Highland Books logo. Open book, store name, EST 2021. Black and white.

February top sellers at Virginia Highland Books in #Atlanta #BookSky 📚 💙

Photo of the 1908 edition of Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen. The book is in two clothbound volumes. The front covers have illustrations embossed in green ink, with gilded titles and author name.

Photo of two vintage erotica paperbacks: The School of Venus by Michel Milliot and Jean L'Ange, and The Story of Venus and Tannhauser by Aubrey Beardsley.

Photograph of a paperback copy of Surrealism: Permanent Revelation by Roger Cardinal and Robert Stuart Short.

Photograph of a hand holding up a copy of Herbal Delights by Mrs. C. F. Leyel. Full bookshelves are visible in the background.

Who wants a book haul photodump!? Is it you? Or...you? Or maybe even YOU!?

This is a TINY sample of the new arrivals that'll be on our shelves when we reopen. This is the first photoset in what will become a nice long thread over the next few days ❤️📖❤️

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

You misunderstand. Loren Ipsum is the pseudonym of a VERY FAMOUS WRITER who has selflessly donated his services to THE CRAFT.

GO HAM

#uglydogs

The best goats are the helpful ones

Baby with surprised face saying "I almost gave a fuck. Scared the shit out of myself"

Read about Kyla Zoe Rafert and her work in the March issue of Beautiful Bizarre art magazine, in an interview by @julyandavisfineart

Get your copy at store.beautifulbizarre.net/product/issu... or from one of our Stockists worldwide.

#beautifulbizarre #artmagazine #art #artist #artinspiration

Handsome & muscular tan dog with perky ears & blue bow tie poses on moss-covered rock in County Wicklow’s Devils Glen hiking trail.

#DailyZiggy up for an early morning hike in #Devil’sGlen w/his new friend & dogsitter Tony O. Trails like this helped me fall in love with County Wicklow!
#DogsOfBlueSky