Rufus's Person

Screenshot of Tweets that say: "Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up. My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people who profess to like it."

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

Fellas, it’s been good to NOAA

From WOTC: "Note that these bans mark a new approach toward our stewardship of Brawl, and we intend to watch and listen for community input as the situation continues to develop. For example, the Brawl Metagame Challenge we ran in early October is an experiment that is helping us gauge interest in a more competitive Brawl space that can be distinguished from the regular casual Brawl queue. We're excited to explore and understand player interest here to see if the population is large enough to support a viable game mode."

Whoa...

A terminal patient contemplates Rembrandt paintings at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, one final time. March 2015.
Photo credit: St. Ambulance Wens.

A very tight image of a light brown deer's face and left front shoulder. Her big dark eyes are staring directly at the camera.

White-tailed Deer pausing for a moment between munches.

St. Andrews, #NewBrunswick, Canada
July 2025

📷 #mammals #deer #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor180600

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

My kids love Avatar (and me too) and they wanted to see the cards, so I went on Scryfall and loaded all the Avatar cards. "set:tla OR set:tle OR set:ftla OR set:ttle OR set:ttla" gave me 529 cards. It was totally overwhelming. But we're excited to dig in.

Mazel Tov!

yup, every one of them

MUST WATCH REPORTING FROM @thebaltimorebanner.com

The post reads: There are no rabbits On the trampoline No squirrels skydiving On the air conditioner The cat is not holding a meeting In a dapper little suit But there’s a fat pit bull at the bus stop And a baby with chubby feet in a stroller And the air smells like fall Real life is happening all around you And it is more beautiful than garbage Vomited up by a machine that eats water and jobs I am begging you to unhook your brain And go eat ice cream on a bench Life is too short To stare at a small screen That turns your dreams into pretty pictures And your brain into mush.

Florence and the Machine Covir Bandes:
Siena and the Devyce
Milan and the Contraptioun
Orvieto and the Mechanism
Venyce and the Gadget
Gubbio and the Whirligig
Spoleto and the Apparatus

The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.

I propose that we all buy Kingfisher's books and make her fabulously wealthy so that she has leisure to write such books. 7/7

Words to live by tbh

I love that you can just casually stroll along a path and discover the homes of sea creatures that lived & strived on Earth before Saturn had its rings.

Deep time is even more intriguing (in some ways) than deep space.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong. A case study in how bad information can spread — and how hard it is to correct it.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong.

My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

everyone's saying the result's a victory for ideas and a love of the city, and it hella is, but it's crucial to see the massive fuckin repudiation of corruption it also is.

OH MY GOD YOU HAVE THE MODEL WITH THE “ELECT” BUTTON I KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU SHOULD ELECT!

Great Egret eating a minnow

Good afternoon, BlueSky! I hope everyone’s week has been kind. I caught them in the act of hunting! It’s incredible how quickly they can locate these minnows and devour them! In real life, it probably takes them only two seconds.

#Canon R5 RF200-800
#photography #birds #eastcoastkin

Hey, that's my congressman!

UC Davis is in our district, and the attacks on funding are hitting us hard. My friends who are professors are taking fewer grad students because of the uncertainty.

Thanks Rep Thompson for fighting for all of us who believe in science!

Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-4) is standing with science! Joining us on 11/5 at our rally to #impeachthequack, he's calling RFK Jr. out on his work to make American less healthy and less safe.

Join the campaign to impeach and remove RFK! zurl.co/G59fa

Hagfish: "Slime In Love With You"

Or just a picture of a hagfish mouth with "Kiss Me"

My 11 year old daughter votes for nudibranchs, “‘cause they’re colorful and awesome and they steal the weapons from other animals”

My vote is for a whale fall assortment. Hagfish, six gill sharks, bone-eating worms, bone limpets, etc.

Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

The barred owl gazes forward.

Good afternoon, Bluesky! This one tried to hide from me. I heard them calling out, but it took me a minute to locate them. It’s incredible how quietly they fly. Sometimes we just have to take what we get.

#Canon R5 EF 100-400 II w/ 1.4 TC

#Photography #birds #eastcoastkin

I'm gonna call it "Chocula, Milk Drinker"

(I would buy this alt so I can build this deck now)

Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker {3}{U}{B} • Legendary Creature — Vampire • 2/4 • Flying Whenever Mirko Vosk deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal four land cards, ...

He’s a vampire

He’s Dimir so you can play Boo Berry

He’s from General Mills

Count Chocula is:

scryfall.com/card/dgm/85/...