dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚

Ok this is insane. I just turned 39 and have had a year of health problems yet look like a youthfup impcompared to this guy

Is there a reason why WorldCat can never seem to pull up a list of libraries owning an item lately? I feel like this was never a problem until the past few months.

Stay classy Larry

The US is sending an aircraft carrier to intimidate or invade Venezuela (arguably an act of war lacking Congressional approval) while people can't access food benefits.

Is "Dracula: A Love Story" an adaptation of the novel Dracula or really jist a retreading of Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula"? I don't remember the story about Mina being a reincarnation of Dracula's wife being in the book, just Coppola's version

Reading the BBC's headlines about the United States makes me feel less insane, like okay other people are seeing this too

Also, the inclusion of "Ozymandias" and the Byron reverse-epigraph reminded me that Mary Shelley's circle was full of monsters undone by their own hubris

Frankenstein was an unexpected adaptation but every choice @realgdt.bsky.social made served a theme or a character. The more I think about it the more fond I am of framing literary adaptation like mythmaking or oral traditions, with shifting details revealing and illuminating themes in new ways.

Yes thank you!! Am very excited!

I turned 39 today, but I also duct-taped the sole back onto my Converse so I am also etermally 19

AIs there any news on the Le Guin Rant printing @skeuomorphpress.org? I got the August update but nothing since then.

I'd like to write an issue brief on the detriments of AI in archives to submit to SAA. I don't read much of the discourse but I am mad. I was involved in the archives & environment statement ProjectARCC submitted ten years ago & could use collaborators. Hit me up.

Last night at a work reception a college student asked if I would take her picture because she was too nervous to ask an adult and thought we were around the same age. Since today is the last day I am 38, this was a real blessing.

We’ve done it, folks. Scientists have discovered the next evolution of “is a hotdog a sandwich”

even the FBI under Patel can't keep a lid on this

Unabashedly had to tell the vet techs today that we were a bit late for the cat's checkup because she is smarter than I am

Ever since I got back from the UK I have been taking an evening nap, waking up in the middle of the night, and going back to sleep late. I've brought back pre-industrial peasant hours back from the Old World

Everyone wealthy person from the Gilded Age has handwriting that makes me feel like I've caught the Zodiac killer when I finally decipher it

I have been defeated by two instances of handwriting in this sketch by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. If you have thoughts on what on Earth these words say, I welcome your input. We've got the rest of them.

Hey do you guys think our legislature is, like, ever going to meet again, or is it a wrap?

The contents of my bank account are not my business for the next month or two. I don't want to know

Visiting Europe is always pleasant aimply because everyone says my name correctly no matter what country it is. My name baffles Americans for reasons I do not comprehend

Edinburgh Airport has made some upgrades to its security processes and getting through was smooth af this morning

Saw a silent disco bump out of the horror tour of poverty and human suffering that is Mary King's Close

People vaping on the grounds of a medieval fortress is so silly to me

YouTube video by WeAreManyMedia China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween - Socialism 2013

Obligatory Halloween post: youtu.be/paCqiY1jwqc?...

Barista at Little Fitzroy was making coffee fully dressed as a ghost this morning. Halloween in Edinburgh remains undefeated

White van back door with "EDINBURGH CORE" written on it in block capitals

My content for the next three days