Status report, "Professionalism In Action" dep't: Saw this some days back, and had to seek it out for sharing. I would have broken WAY before this gent did. A real pro. 😅 www.instagram.com/reels/DVyvJ2...
A bunny with a piece of buttered toast in its mouth hops on all fours down a footpath in a city. Rounding a corner, it is about to crash into a different bunny, also in a hurry.
Daily bunny no.3255 has a meal on the go
A mockup of a hardback of The Raven and the Reindeer. It is snazzy and has printed edges.
Behold, the shiny cover for the shiny new UK edition of Raven & Reindeer!
A bunny runs excitedly down a beach at high tide, to a greenish bottle that has just been washed ashore. Inside the bottle is a rolled up message.
Daily bunny no.3253 is ready for an adventure
I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.
I tell myself this every time I get takeout or order pre-made meals. Ancient Roman apartment dwellers didn't cook for themselves, so why am I expected to?
THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.
Hawaii: you're up. Call your House representatives and tell them to oppose SB 2761, which is heading to the House from the Senate: it's a total ban on social media for under-16s, not made any better by the obvious typo in the effective date of 2077. legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB27...
Yeah, mine couldn’t take the hint after the first surgery, so now it’s gone. The right one has been notably quiet ever since.
Heyyyy…anybody excited about audiobooks? How about the brand new audiobook for The Raven & The Reindeer? Available now!
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Just in case you missed it, I have a new horror novel out on the 24th! Distract yourself from the horrors with smaller, more controllable horrors?
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The Biting Pear of Salamanca, a large pear bisected with a mouth, sporting an impressive set of chompers. The pear is on a grassy hill, with a river winding its way through the background. A tiny critter sits a few feet away with a camera on a tripod, preparing to take a picture.
@tkingfisher.com Happy 20th Anniversary to the Biting Pear!
The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.
There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.
Describe your favorite games poorly:
Ongoing coercion of carnivores to make vegetarian food they’ll never eat
Dubious-consent amphibian sex
Virtual octopode paper sorting
I was the first person to call my Congresswoman's office about this bill. It was fast and easy, and the aide I spoke to was pleasant--and horrified when she heard what they're trying to get away with. Please. Help protect our trans siblings.
The second button down on the right side of the screen will sometimes shut off the audio. Which isn’t much, but it’s something.
If trans people want/need to leave, that is worthy. It’s also worthy to stay and fight, or to need to stay and still need rights. Queer folks in red states need and deserve our support at least as much as the work being done from “safer” states
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
I JUST finished a (re-re-)re-read yesterday, and as ever, wondered exactly what sucralose does for Mamvish’s species. Should tomato ketchup be sold on adult-only websites? 😆
A bunny sips tea outside, in a little side yard where a table and a single chair are set up.
Daily bunny no.3240 has a great afternoon
I don't know about current conditions but before the genocide in Gaza the entirely man-made famine in Afghanistan was classified by the UN as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. That crisis is still ongoing. It's cheaper for parents to buy sleeping pills for their children than food.
Reposting to fix my fuckup: Ian has raised money to keep four of their immigrant neighbors who haven't been able to work from fear housed TODAY, can you help make it five?
Cover for Diane Duane's historical fantasy novelette THE FIX. A silhouetted gladiator and small boy look out into the Colosseum...
Over at #Ebooks Direct: Possibly *not* stolen by Anthropic! (I have to check) and now available as a standalone novelette: THE FIX. www.tumblr.com/dduane/80943...
We’re pleased to announce The Sworn Soldier, which gathers the three Alex Easton novellas by @tkingfisher.com in one volume for the first time with art by John Jude Palencar. Full details and preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...
