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RPG inventory: you have collected ten magical rings! me: great, time to put a ring on every finger and be adorned as fuck RPG inventory: YOU MAY ONLY WEAR TWO RINGS

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Israeli tanks have entered the North of the West Bank for the first time in 20 years.

Imagine how much effort you have to put into looking at the terrible state of the arts in Britain and then deciding that it must be protests and boycotts that are responsible rather than wilful neglect and underfunding.

found a copy of this (long been on my list) in a charity shop the other day and am really enjoying it so far - reading about the last days of the emirate of granada in such immersive detail. i need to finally dig into the ornament of the world after this

our first daffodils have opened

Maybe you should talk to some artists, Lisa? They'll tell you about the impact of government funding. Honestly this government are plumbing new depths. To talk about "virtue signaling" in what's a pathetic attempt to signal you're "anti-woke" or some such nonsense is hypocritical and dense.

Slovenia had a vibrant demoscene with many exciting demoparties and other events. 🎶💻 One of the highlights was 'ABORT,' a series of competitions held in the late '90s at Klub K4✨ See: files.scene.org/search/?q=sl... demozoo.org/graphics/33526/ (Mah-Yen-Kai by Verchy / X-Seed)

published this poem eight years ago now, but still v proud of it strangehorizons.com/poetry/littl...

need to try and sleep. here’s robin blaser (the first poem in the holy forest)

Tyranny is spreading its long shadow, again, over Kashmir. Interesting how the West does not make a sound of disapproval - yet another case of turning a blind eye on repression when practised by its allies www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025...

published this poem eight years ago now, but still v proud of it strangehorizons.com/poetry/littl...

IF U SEE THIS, PLEASE REPOST! Hate to ask again, but I really need y’all rn. Donations been so slow :( We’re so close—just £100 away from hitting £300! Literally 4 ppl dropping £25 each! Pls don’t forget, this link is my last shot at staying in dental school in Gaza 💔🙏 chuffed.org/project/layl...

do the people who refused to support ukraine because they thought nato were provoking russia now think that the US is some great anti-colonial giant for trying to hold a country under siege/occupation to ransom for its natural resources

I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors

Realmonte Salt Mine - Sicily, Italy www.hitsicily.com/en/newsroom/...

i’m in here, u should buy it ✨

If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are. In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.

Benton Murdoch Spruance (American, 1904-1967), Philadelphia Orchestra (Study for a Mural), 1941. Watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board.

it’s very cursed that the angela carter audiobooks are all audible exclusive

Israeli forces attacked three different unrwa schools today around Jerusalem, and a training center in qalandiya.

Toblerphone. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

whisper it: there might be a new max yeh novel coming this summer

No game dev updates today, just a quick sketch inspired by my love of Kentucky Route Zero. #gamedev #pixelart #art #indie #krz

rewatched zeman’s A JESTER’S TALE and had a great time. question: what examples are there on film of history from below?

rewatched zeman’s A JESTER’S TALE and had a great time. question: what examples are there on film of history from below?

look what i got today cc @jrcarpenter.bsky.social

family have been keeping me updated with many excellent poppy in a box photos

family have been keeping me updated with many excellent poppy in a box photos

The fetishization of literature as an empathy-generation process both overvalues empathy as a mode of understanding and undervalues literature, which rather than just creating empathy is the art form of interiority. You can gain more than empathy from direct contact with the interiority of another

NO OTHER LAND is coming to Channel 4 variety.com/2025/film/gl...

first of two los campesinos! gigs in a row tonight!!! happy Valentine’s Day!!!!! who’s going!!!

The way this just explodes with life - one can almost smell the carnations