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A large acrylic on canvas painting of a baby sitting in front of a TV showing a nice forest scene. The background is barren and polluted.

My dad is decluttering and dumped a bunch of stuff at my place today. This painting's ~1.2m high and the TV gives you an approximate age lol. There's some water damage and the subject matter's a bit trite, but I feel like teen me was right to worry.

#art #ClimateChange

🚨Big News!🚨

Daria Kasatkina has announced on Instagram that she has been approved to receive Australian citizenship and will start playing under the Australian flag.

Pretty major announcement considering the personal and political implications.

Enjoyed Bora Chung's short stories Your Utopia a lot. This and Cursed Bunny (both translated by Anton Hur) - huge fan

Not once have I ever read a book and thought "wow what an interesting plot development to have the student sleep with their professor"

Title: A personalised Valentine's card for bibliophiles Image: A cartoon heart with arms, legs and a smiling face. With an empty speech bubble above. Five options for text to cut out and put in the bubble: I love you more than my books! I love you as much as my books! I love you almost as much as my books! I love you! No more questions! I love books!

A personalized Valentine’s Card for Bibliophiles. My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Against a background of red hearts, white text reads "Fall in Love with Solaris! 0.99 eBook sale". The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner. Black text at the bottom reads "Sale exclusive to our website, ends 23:59 GMT 17/02. Titles available will vary by country. Book covers on eReaders for: THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez, THE TWO HUNGERS OF PRINCE FIERRE by @darcyashauthor, LADY EVE'S LAST CON by Rebecca Fraimow, SNOWBLOODED by @emmasternerradley, GOTHIKANA by @authorrunyx, NETHERFORD HALL and QUEEN OF FURY by @nataniabarron, HEARTBREAK INCORPORATED by @alexdecampi, THE HACIENDA by VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by @isabelcanas_

Against a background of red hearts, white text reads "Fall in Love with Solaris! 0.99 eBook sale". The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner. Black text at the bottom reads "Sale exclusive to our website, ends 23:59 GMT 17/02. Titles available will vary by country. Book covers on eReaders for: WEAVE THE LIGHTNING and THE STORM'S BETRAYAL by @corryllee, REDSIGHT by @meredithmwrites, PARIS ADRIFT by @catamaroon, SOMEONE IN TIME edited by @jonathanstrahan, KID WOLF AND KRAKEN BOY by @sam.j.miller, A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY by R. A. Sinn, THE SPARE MAN by @maryrobinettekowal, SIGNAL TO NOISE by @silviamg.author and THE DIFFICULT LOVES OF MARIA MAKILING by Wayne Santos.

We're celebrating #valentinesday this month with an 0.99 eBook sale exclusive to our website!

Inc: @natania.bsky.social, @maryrobinettekowal.com, @isabelcanas.bsky.social, @alexdecampi.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social & more!

Are you ready to Fall In Love with Solaris? geni.us/Solarissale

They do call it the Autumn sittings, despite a heatwave gripping the country the leaves have started to turn in south Canberra and sulphur crested cockatoos feed on the seeds and leaves falling onto the ground

A caption from an exhibition in the Science Museum in London about a model of an Apollo 11 lunar module built by a 12 year old boy, which reveals at the very end that the creator of the model now works as Curator of the Museum’s Space Technology Collection.

I went to the Science Museum yesterday and as well as having a ball with my nearly four year old in their amazing child spaces (god love free London museums) I was utterly charmed by this caption.

madison keys to win her 1st grand slam title:

ann li
elena gabriela ruse
[10] danielle collins
[6] elena rybakina
[28] elina svitolina
[2] iga swiatek
[1] aryna sabalenka

1st to beat 1 and 2 b2b to win a GS since sharapova at 2006 us open

appreciate the thought! :)

ACTUALLY I FIGURED IT OUT i just had to make an account with a usa address..... sigh

i was literally trying to decide what tanith lee books i should catch up on and now this info about the Tales From a Flat Earth series make it the obvious choice EXCEPT it's out of print and only available as either wildly expensive secondhand copies or as audiobook...

this context for unacknowledged similarities between Sandman and previous works by Tanith Lee... idek man. depressing.

The publishing industry publishes many hundreds of books about people who live in lighthouses.

(Almost no one does.)

But very few about people who live on council estates.

(Many people do.)

To buck the trend I shall be writing a story about a council estate of lighthouses.

Hello! Welcome to the Murderbot Book Club! This community is to connect readers who are interested in participating in buddy reads, discussions, etc. for The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.

Head to the Dreamwidth Community to learn more!

murderbotbookclub.dreamwidth.org

everything is absolutely fine 😭

finally getting around to a book i've owned for a while. the receipt just fell out of it and informed me i've had this book since... 2012!!!!!

i did not need to know that

He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article) How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.

What a fantastic story.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

i'm reading Don't Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee and the whole section about creativity, where they all take their directions from robots, and when the protagonist is told her film has too much plot because ppl just want to tune in and out mindlessly - feels so relevant. 🥲

this is making me want to re-read it...

91!

JOIN ME

current state of mind: "what if i read all of one piece in 2025"

After 6 months of work, 4 VCRs, and an official translation, I am pleased to share my RF rip of Yukio Ninagawa's staging of Euripides's Medea, a tape which has never been transferred. archive.org/details/ojo....

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

Welcome to my thread of scifi/fantasy + adjacent book recs with some flavor of queer characters! Before we begin, a few caveats. This thread will be of books I have personally read and enjoyed. There will be a separate thread of books I have on my radar but have yet to read. All opinions are my own.

Cover of Deck the Halls with Secret Agents. Two men sit on a sofa wearing Christmas-themed sweaters, with a Christmas tree and a party in the background.

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My new short book is live! After twenty years of playing cat and mouse (in bed and out), a Soviet and an American agent meet at a Christmas party in a snowbound French chateau in 1991.

A digital drawing made of nine squares with little doodles, all in a limited color scheme of blues and whites. There are flowers, leaves, a t-shirt, a bunny, clouds, a plant creature and a rainbow. The frame is full of little symbols and the words "grow joy".

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 5
little color scheme experiment
🩵🌿💙

#art #digitalart

Title: MY YEAR-END READING STATISTICS Image: Five colourful diagrams. 1. Most considered authors: Joyce. Proust. Tolstoy Considered reading (all ticked) Actually read (none ticked) 2. Non-fiction Titles consumed (19 blocks) Information retained (2 of the 19 shaded) 3. Unread book pile A bar chart. Last year (high) This year (higer still) 17% increase 4. Loans Books lent vs books returned. The difference between the two is labelled "friendships under review" 5.Audiobook listening A pie chart with 4 sections Concentrating: 42% Passively absorbing: 26% Completely distracted: 19% Asleep: 13%

MY YEAR-END READING STATISTICS #wrapped
(originally for @theguardian.com)

one of my primary takeaways from A Place of Greater Safety is that i do not know enough about the French Revolution