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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · May 25

Tekla Aleksieva, cover art for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1988

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 8h

Jacques Demy made me cry again

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EXEGESIS FREAK @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 9h

People keep asking me if vampires can drink the blood of Christ: it depends if the priest was Catholic or Protestant. If that wine is transubstantiated, it kills the vampire. Protestant? Vampire gets drunk.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 10h

paramount theater, oakland, california, 1978

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 12h

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 18h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · Oct 30

Be careful! During Halloween, the veil between our world and the great beyond is at its thinnest. You will never be in more danger of becoming an actual slutty nurse

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · Nov 30

Wassily Kandinsky

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · Nov 14

Louis Wain

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 15h

Possibly the least serious form of disco and I respect that

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 15h

Italo disco what are you doing what is going on

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 18h

Gotta make a global disco playlist

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 18h

Filipino disco is pretty neat

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 18h

Now reading City of Night by John Rechy

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 19h

All I want to do is make and look at beautiful things but capitalism says noooooo. Ugliness and suffering instead!

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 19h

art from original Radio Times magazine listing, 1978, artist unknown

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 19h

A pre-Columbian mask made from a seashell, 3rd century B.C.—2nd century A.D., Tumaco culture

🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 20h

I love yall but Im tired of reading about "embodiment"

🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 20h

Need more leftist Jewish books that aren't written by renewal Jews

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 20h

Anita Steckel, My Town, c.1969-74, from the series 'Giant Women on New York'

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21h

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.