Politicians crying that they're just "protecting the children" while doing the exact opposite is nothing new, but if this becomes law it could effectively end the careers of some of you favorite queer creators (including mine!)
Clue isn’t just a cult comedy. It’s a Cold War satire.
Historian @juliocapojr.bsky.social joins me to explain why that ridiculous dinner party is really about paranoia, anti-communism, and the politics of the 1980s.
🎧 Listen here and share this if you miss the 80s:
Did you know books have been bound in leather not just from cows, but from reindeer, seal, and even shark?🦈 Learn more about historic bookbindings in my new episode of Bite Sized Book History! youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...
Hello internet friends! I am working on a feature about the people making whistles and popup leftist supply depots and looking for people to talk to; sometimes casting a wide net yields people I haven't found yet! I am in touch with Bree and Courtney, but if YOU are a whistle logistician...
Here's ep. 392D: Juliet Izon shares her debut THE ENCORE, a story about two classical music students who reunite years after a single event shatters their relationship to tour with their teenage daughter. @julietizon.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social
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Now serving ep. 392C: Shelley Noble chats about THE SISTERS OF BOOK ROW, a thrilling and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row in 1915 Manhattan. @harpercollins.bsky.social
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Get ready for ep. 392B: Jenn chats with award-winning writer and journalist Elizabeth Arnott about her riveting mystery, THE SECRET LIVES OF MURDERERS’ WIVES. @prhlibrary.bsky.social
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A delightful chat about a delightful series- thank you @deannaraybourn.bsky.social!
A well-preserved Roman leather shoe with elaborate cutout patterns. The design features a high ankle and open section
An adorable #Roman shoe, made for a #baby too young to walk. The shoe imitates the footwear of Roman soldiers (caligae). The cut-out design would have shown off the kid’s socks!
From Bordeaux, dating 1st/2nd AD.
📷 Bordeaux, Musée d’Aquitaine
🏺 #archaeology
On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!
Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
Sully the Seagull in The Lighthouse, in gloomy black and white, standing on rocks and dirt and clawing defiantly at the heavens
Sully in The Shallows, depicted in vibrant color standing on a sandbank above an injured Blake Lively. I wonder what their on-set relationship was like in retrospect
Today I learned that the seagull from The Lighthouse (2019) is the same seagull as the seagull from The Shallows (2016). What a career
How dare they. I’m calling SAG AFTRA
seagull dive-bombs Tippi Hedren in Hitchcock's film The Birds
Even spookier-I think that's him in Hitchcock's The Birds too
Sully’s got an aging portrait in an attic somewhere
😂😭
The John Cazale of seagulls
![Two extra seagulls were used to portray Steven Seagull in The Shallows (2016). According to producer Matti Leshem, she added "They were all good but not nearly as good as him. Peggy was the vocal one, the very squawky bird. Gaviota (which means seagull in Spanish), I think he's almost 30 [as Steven is estimated to be about 15 or 20 years old]. The most challenging thing about Sully Seagull as an actor is that seagulls are remarkably clean. They self clean a lot, so the blood on Sully, obviously fake blood, he kept wanting to clean it off, so we had to deal with that.".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vbkj3tj6lc2po3kazmjjlbm/bafkreibytnfinxu3e2xafznnfioja6e5grbqjo4toxv3qmln3gyuf6ovve@jpeg)
Two extra seagulls were used to portray Steven Seagull in The Shallows (2016). According to producer Matti Leshem, she added "They were all good but not nearly as good as him. Peggy was the vocal one, the very squawky bird. Gaviota (which means seagull in Spanish), I think he's almost 30 [as Steven is estimated to be about 15 or 20 years old]. The most challenging thing about Sully Seagull as an actor is that seagulls are remarkably clean. They self clean a lot, so the blood on Sully, obviously fake blood, he kept wanting to clean it off, so we had to deal with that.".
Sorry this is a Sully stan account now
Another IMDb screencap that reads “Trademark: Cleanest bird on set”
😭😭😭
A screencap of Sully’s IMDb page which shows that he had an uncredited tole as a seagull on a tire in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
AND he’s in Barb and Star oh my god what an icon
His name is Sully the Seagull
Sully the Seagull in The Lighthouse, in gloomy black and white, standing on rocks and dirt and clawing defiantly at the heavens
Sully in The Shallows, depicted in vibrant color standing on a sandbank above an injured Blake Lively. I wonder what their on-set relationship was like in retrospect
Today I learned that the seagull from The Lighthouse (2019) is the same seagull as the seagull from The Shallows (2016). What a career
An explanatory text from my sister: “First phoebe named him Listo, then Cano and finally settled on BounceHouse”
A small blond toddler holding a pink otter study up to the camera. It’s huge and it obscures most of her face and bod.
My niece named this stuffy “BounceHouse Otter Jordan”
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.
Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
It's the weekend, baby
SURPRISE! IT IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT!!
@susanlbridges.bsky.social and i wrote this very trans, queer YA romcom graphic novel that’s out in august
it’s funny, it’s sweet, it’s about learning to love what makes us different
YOU ARE GONNA LOVE THESE GOOFY TEENS
☀️🌴🎭🚜🐄🌈🏳️⚧️🩷
