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Bookish. Trying to find time for creative pursuits while working a very uncreative full time night shift. Also @curiouser.house
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The Grammar of Fantasy and the Fantastic Binomial: Beloved Italian Children's Book Author Gianni Rodari on Creativity and the Key to Great Storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2025/06/07/g...

Toad played the piano, and he did not miss a note.

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

The little ink drop was crying, because his mother was in the pen and he didn't know how long the sentence would be. Thank you very much. I'll leave quietly.

WHHHAAAAAAaaaaaa………!!!!

@annaleen.bsky.social and @charliejane.bsky.social I admire their writing, their partnership, their activism, and their points of view. Check out their podcast, books, events, and social media if you haven't already.

TOAD WILL NOW DANCE, AND HE WILL BE WONDERFUL.

Deckled edges are a feature not a mistake! Books with deckled edges and French flaps are great! You heathens!

60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang

How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age

“At least your special effects are improving.” #DoctorWho

Look at these marvellous #DoctorWho Target book covers for: The Empire of Death by @scotthandcock1984.bsky.social The Robot Revolution by @unamccormack.bsky.social Lux by @gossjam.bsky.social The Well by @garethlpowell.bsky.social

New Episode Time! There’s smoke in the library, an owl hooting in the hall of spiders and an Earl unattended on a raft in Titus Groan part 2! Listen here, or wherever good podcasts are found: thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/category/epi...

Luminous angel babby from my collection, ca. 1960s.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

I just saw a theory that FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF is actually a time-loop movie where we only see one iteration of the loop after Ferris has done it thousands of times. I’m gonna have to sit with this thought for a while.

We’re back! We’re strolling through the corridors of Gormenghast in Titus Groan part 1! Listen here, or wherever good podcasts are found: thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/category/epi...

Say hi to Jasper, or Jack for short. He’s pleased to meet you and would you give him belly rubs? In these existential times my wife and I are forever grateful for this goofy dude.

I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.

adobe deleted their post so this one's for posterity

Stephen Fry Reads Nick Cave’s Stirring Letter About ChatGPT and Human Creativity: “We Are Fighting for the Very Soul of the World”

Common Side Effects is so good.

I wrote this and I endorse this

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social Music For Free People Of The Universe STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875)

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

Your moment of calm today, here in Portland...

Pallando and Alatar (Blue Wizards) 🧙‍♂️

I wrote up a post about how to get a super-simple personal website going. Didn't include a full cost breakdown, but a year paid hosting at neocities.org or bearblog.dev is just $60. A custom domain name could be as cheap as $10/year from dynadot.com. gregpak.com/how-and-why-...

This is his pardon, purchas’d by such sin For which the pardoner himself is in.

How Doctor Who First Started as a Family Educational TV Program (1963)

Has there ever been an antithesis of the sitcom? Like, same format, but situation tragedy, with associated antithesis to the laugh track, which would be, what? Crying, moans, wails from the studio audience? Not epic tragedy, just everyday normal stuff. The wife’s been binging That ‘70s Show.

How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America On January 20, it's nice to have a good American to focus on.

David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials

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Glanced at a bottle of clover honey and immediately realized something I’d never seen before: The letters rearranged in CLOVER spell VELCRO. Huh. The more you know.

Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner in an Experimental Film Featuring the Art of Gustave Doré www.openculture.com/2024/09/orso...