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Entering middle age at the end of the Anthropocene: am I starting hot flashes, or is it just 80 degrees in October?

Can’t DM because we’re not mutuals here, but elsewhere 🌝🌚

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

We should all be fucking screaming about this! Where are the detainees??? We need answers NOW.

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illustration of sherlock holmes steepling his fingers and saying 'girl...' to a housekeeper who is saying 'girl.'

"I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them." from the Golden Pince-Nez, the Return of Sherlock Holmes

Perfection

And if my brain quits, well I guess then that’s just it
And if my hands stop working you can call me lazy

Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey (2009)

the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked

Attn: @sphealposting.bsky.social

Art.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

I used VERY cobbled together Latin for this Crow Time joke, but a few folks are asking me to make sure it's correct for a print version. Are there are Latin profs on Bluesky that would be down to correct silly Grim Reaper sayings?

I’ve been talking to the wall and it’s been answering me

Oh phew. Boycotting YouTube, fine, easy. I was afraid something meant we’d have to cancel MST3k!

Oh shit, what was it?

I googled nonbinary ren faire outfits last night and the first result was a rat costume

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Tumblr normal-horoscopes Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture The whale looks delightfully round and seems to be smiling.

We have always made delightful little guys.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Oh dang, how did I only just find out that the sequel to REAL HERO SHIT is kickstarting? I backed it just in time!

Detail of a medieval manuscript ca. 1350 showing a person, their hose pulled down to expose their ass, crawling into a snail shell decorated with white, purple, and yellow stripes and outlined in black.

The nonbinary urge to BECOME SNAIL
Le restor du paon, PML G.24, fol. 139v

!!!!!!!!!!!Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

The beeeeeeeees!

Naked and Afraid of Long Covid, written in green on the background of a savannah.

✨ New comic: I started thinking of my long COVID as a survival reality show... Naked and Afraid.
www.crucialcomix.com/comic/naked-...

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done?
Thou art a pynke ponye girle
Yn the daunse at the clubbe!'
'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe
On the stage yn myne heeles
It ys wher Ich belonge:
Downe at the
Pynke Ponye Clubbe!
Ich shal keepe on daunsinge,
Downe yn West Hollywoode'
[lute solo] 🎶

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government