Diabolical Plots

Mr. Colombo said he had a new bird, and a new mélo-kit, and did Marco want to come over and see it, he asked, as he beckoned his neighbor inside. Marco wasn’t really interested—he just wanted to crash on the sofa and open a beer and forget about the long day at work—but Mr. Colombo, like most people in Rome, never really took no as an answer; he only waved his hands more forcefully and herded him in, talking without pause about plumage and trills and transducers and accumulators, and Marco followed meekly.

music can do a lot of things for sure. Apparently when it comes out of birds it can be converted into power. I’m sure that’ll go well for everyone/society

Really enjoyed "On the Effects and Efficiency of Birdsong: A Meta-Analysis" by @ftberner.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com

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Enjoy your orbital cake!

This is amazing!

No worries, it is almost always a forgot password, or that the person forgot which email they registered with! :D

Have you tried forgot password? otherwise, send a not via contact form and I can help look into it. I suspect its an individual issue rather than a site wide issue or i would get more than one report.

Cover for March issue of Locus, with a shadowy landscape with strange trees wreathed in mist under a sky with a huge satellite or other planet.

My latest short fiction review column is in the March issue of Locus Magazine: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading: Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)

CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"

Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"

The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.

deathgenerator.com

Love the new story by @slharris.bsky.social up on @diabolicalplots.com.

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

a man in a fur coat and goggles says " they smelled bad on the outside " Alt: Luke Skywalker preparing to crawl inside a tauntaun and saying " they smelled bad on the outside "

Live footage of the beanbag disembowelment

Jokes on you then because my favorite jokes are the ones that someone else makes that no one else laughs at (and which are not like offensive or anything just that people dont get them).
So I will ruin any goal of having only the joke teller laughing

Minnesota would like a word.

looks like this lil guy from "the temptation of saint anthony," by a follower of pieter bruegel the elder (ca 1550 or 1575)

#MN #Minnesota #MinnesotaPolitics

Okay, just Minnesotans here?

Angie Craig has taken money from crypto and AIPAC.

Peggy Flannagan has NOT and WILL not.

Angie Craig praised ICE before Metro Surge. She changed her tune now.

Peggy Flanagan has not praised ICE.

VOTE PEGGY FLANAGAN FOR SENATOR!

IT’S HERE ‼️ And yes I cried when I hit send on the issue for subscribers. I hope you love this issue as much as we do.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

So youre saying it is NOT a Taylor Swift branded salted meat product?

[first day as an uber eats driver]

CUSTOMER: you were supposed to deliver my sandwich

ME: *wiping mouth* it’s called uber eats not uber deliver my sandwich

I have never heard of this!
I may have never been as perplexed by an everyday language difference since I heard of "water ice"!

Wait what about pork roll?

Several great blue herons lined up along the edge of a large industrial dock. The heron closest to the viewer is in crisp focus, and the herons behind it get progressively blurrier. Most of them are facing in the same direction as the bird in front, looking out across the dock, which has a few large pipes running along its length. Taken at Ballard Locks.

A photo from today's walk. I sometimes get my ducks in a row, but this is the first time I've managed to get my herons in a row.

#photography #BirdSky #PNW #BallardLocks #UrbanWildlife #herons #BirdOfTheDay #NoBranch #nature #wildlife #WeekHForHs #AlphabetChallenge #UrbanGaze #birds

I went through the mortifying ordeal of being known by video to show off finished copies of SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON! Pre-order it wherever you get your books! Here are some places you can do that, though I’ll always recommend your local indie first. torpublishinggroup.com/seasons-of-g...

The only thing I'm conflicted about on this is whether I am more jealous that Stanley Tucci got to hang out with the USA women's hockey team, or that the USA women's hockey team got to hang out with Stanley Tucci. 😄

cross stitch in progress of Castle and Dragon

Dragon Stitchv okay ready for a new color. Definitely some other shade of stonework

cross stitch in progress of Castle and Dragon

Dragon Stitch: lengthening out those arrow slits

cross stitch in progress of Castle and Dragon

Dragon Stitch: more arrow slits!

Cross stitch in progress of Castle and Dragon

Dragon Stitch: new color! Now we are getting into stonework!

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Erin's reporting is, as always, impeccable.

What many may not know, however, is that once a license is issued, the holder has a property interest in that license that is protected by the 14th Amendment.

This goes back to Bell v Burson (1972).

For more, keep reading... 🧵

The complete Wicket the Ewok! Standing next to a Wicket minifig with an info card

and Wicket from the back

Closer shot of the Wicket miniature. It has the STAR WARS logo Then the name Wicket Homeworld: Forest Moon of Andor Species: Ewok Height: 0.8 m Gender: Male Affiliation: Bright Tree Village, Rebel Alliance

Wicket the Ewok LEGO
Complete!