Carl Rigney

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

Bryony and Roses Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. The…

“Bryony closed her eyes. I am making an enchanted house sad. God help me.”
@tkingfisher.com, Bryony and Roses

4 star rec - Bryony and Roses!
🌹Beauty is independent + practical
🌹The manor takes a key role, reflecting Beauty's development
🌹Love transcends appearances

#FairytaleRetellings #booksky

Everything by T Kingfisher.
Jeanette Ng's Under the Pendulum Sun about Victorian missionaries in Faerieland.
Nancy Springer's Fair Peril, where a tired middle-aged mom has to deal with Faeries.
Chrysoula Tzavelas has a series of novels starting with Matchbox Girls. "Eyes the color of 'Don't Look!'"

@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today?

Cover for DIE 3 by Stephanie Hans.

We're at the time of year when FOC for an issue is actually before the issue that's coming out. So while DIE 2 is out on the 27th, FOC for DIE 3 is on Monday (8th). Speak to your retailer, and they really will appreciate it a whole bunch.

Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?

Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social

*youth pastor voice*

Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

TOP & REASONS WHY ICE IS SPOTIFY'S #1 FAN 1) Spotify is running ICE ads in between your favorite songs 2) Spotify claims that ICE recruitment ads DID NOT violate it's ad policies 3) While ICE terrorizes communities, Spotify is helping boost their recruitment efforts 4) Spotify would rather be wrapped in complicity to ICE's terror than refuse ICE ad money indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (or deserve) free advertising for Spotify Wrapped: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

Iron Circus Comics Iron Circus Comics is the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest, a small-mid house built from the ground up by founder C. Spike Trotman.

A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.

If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!

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Thank you! the paper this if from is just "Encoding-Decoding" by Stuart Hall. I learned about this from the "Game Studies Study Buddies" episode on Stuart Hall.

Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'. christinanguyenmpls 11h We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'.

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'.

WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

People are being significantly more excited about this Voynich manuscript episode than a typical bonus episode and it's just really fun to see!

If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀

“Dad, she can fire us.”

Me: “Oh no. Fired. Kid, you are a teenager with no bills to pay working retail. Getting fired will not make you homeless, and I promise you that you will quickly find another retail job. Your dignity doesn’t come as cheap as $13.50 an hour.”

Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month

Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month

To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

♥️

To come back to this, I just finished @byharryconnolly.bsky.social's A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark and it was excellent. Urban fantasy + mystery and stand-alone (though I absolutely wouldn't mind going back to that world). Highly recommended if any of those things sound interesting to you.

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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense. NVIDIA claims to hav...

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Clair Patterson - Wikipedia

Thirty years ago today, the scientist Clair Patterson passed away. He campaigned tirelessly and effectively to remove lead from gasoline, paint, pipes, and food cans. The drop in violent crime that correlates with this change? Massive.
Science hero.
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The term in the UK for a person rudely listening to something without headphones is 'sodcasting', and I think we can find a close variant.

Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 12/04/2025 · Bonus · 10m

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I break down how economically irrelevant AI is, and how no bailout is coming to save the Large Language Model era.
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.

Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Call & Molly's Holly Jolly Almost Solstice Singalong! from Marian Call Live Stream from Marian Call.

"Gosh and golly, it's the Call and Molly Holly Jolly Almost Solstice Singalong!"

I AM PLAYING A BANDCAMP HOLIDAY SHOW WITH @mollylewis.wtf!!!!

YOU CAN WATCH IT ANYWHERE ANYTIME*

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My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this?

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@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Hydration check! Have you had tea today?

Things You Can Make ChatGPT Write for You - Hayley DeRoche Your last words But before them What to murmur to a lover in bed What to say in the group chat when someone's Sister mother brother is dead and The apology you could never quite get right for a friend And hell why not make the robot compose your proposal Your wedding toast, too Your best friend's birthday roast You could ask it to write a custom lullaby For the baby snuffling at your breast. You can cradle to grave away Every warm human word You could ever have said And when they chisel your gravestone For your final rest We can ask ChatGPT Because it knew you best

Love it 🙌

@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Post-Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today?

Just started T. Kingfisher's Snake-Eater and my burning desire to see terrible things happen to Walter is second only to my need to have nothing bad happen to the dog, who is the goodest of good girls. I have absolute faith the dog will be OK, and hope for the other thing.