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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Cover of L&NER’s Wandering On The Continent booklet, 1937

two hikers on a grassy gnoll, they are looking at a schloss and Max Schrecks house on a distant mountain.

WANDERING ON THE CONTINENT WITH THE AID OF YOUTH HOSTELS
1937
No 37
VIA HARWICH, GRIMSBY OR HULL

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Pantogram’s miniature binary typewriter
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tiny typewriter with two keys 0 and 1 the paper in it is covered with 0's and 1's

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Staircase in the Grands Magasins Dufayel department store, Paris, 19th century

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Henry Bedford Lemere’s photograph of the Manor House at Bidborough, Kent, 1865

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photo of an old house, brick, wood, wattle and daub

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Goldborough Studio @goldboroughstudio.bsky.social · 4h

Laputa...
#sketch

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 9h

Art by • Droned Artworks

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Lili Chin she/her @lilichin.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck ICE. Today I read that they "wrongly" raided someone's house and shot their dog.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Nathan Long @nathanrlong.bsky.social · 9h

From tonight's walk. Sunset and the San Gabriels. And Lili.

A gold and pink sunset soaring over silhouetted suburban homes.

The San Gabriel Mountains, red in the sunset, rising over the SGV, with palm trees and houses in the foreground, with Lili, her back to us, looking out over it all in a yellow dress.

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Yuming Li @yumingart.bsky.social · 11h

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Nathan Long @nathanrlong.bsky.social · 12h

I blurbed this! It was good!

candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 14h

Preorders are up now for @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social's BlankAnon! (Link is to Amazon, but it's available on all the usual suspects.) www.amazon.com/BlankAnon-Fi...

Scarlet book cover with a white pentagon surrounded by question marks, and the silhouette of a trenchcoat-wearing man in the center. Title: BlankAnon, author Justin Robinson. Text to the side: It was a simple job: invent a conspiracy. I made up QAnon and broke the world. Nobody from my old life is still speaking to me except for the ones who have nothing left to lose. I've got an alcoholic professional killer in recovery, a witch who wants me dead, and a doomsday cultist I can't trust. We have to execute a heist that just might save the world or at least settle my conscience. And that's if my own spirit guide doesn't eat me first. It's not just another day at the office. It's the last one.

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The Man Who Would Be Damn Hell Ass Pumpkin King @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social · 13h

You know you want to read this

candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 14h

Preorders are up now for @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social's BlankAnon! (Link is to Amazon, but it's available on all the usual suspects.) www.amazon.com/BlankAnon-Fi...

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 16h

❤️❤️❤️

a black and white photo of a woman in a monster costume with a surprised look on her face .

Alt: a black and white photo of a woman in a monster costume with a surprised look on her face .

media.tenor.com

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DSA-LA @dsa.la · 19h

In September alone, at least 246 individuals were kidnapped on the streets in Southern California. The working class of LA is under attack, and your help is needed! Join the DSA-LA Home Depot Patrol Corps to learn how you can defend your neighborhood. No experience needed. Sign up at dsa.la/patrol

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nathan Long @nathanrlong.bsky.social · 1d

They say write what you know, which is why all my main characters are idiots.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Just to be clear:

Trans people are the working class. Black people are the working class. Immigrants are the working class. Pregnant people are the working class. Brown people are the working class. Asian people are the working class. Disabled people are the working class.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over this

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · Jun 23

"Sometimes there came a sensation as if a hand was drawn softly along my cheek and neck. Sometimes it was as if warm lips kissed me, and longer and longer and more lovingly as they reached my throat, but there the caress fixed itself"

cropped image of an illustration of the vampire Carmilla caressing Laura's neck while she sleeps.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

[Not mine] This jack-o-lantern wins for the year. #AlienEarth

A jack-o-lantern with a white pumpkin in the eye socket like the eye creature from Alien: Earth.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 2d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 1d

brambles

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · Jan 15

Art by • Riccardo Federici

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Mauricio Figuls @mofiguls.bsky.social · 1d

The neighbor seems to be trying to claim part of Beth’s garden.
Also seemed inordinately interested in my post physical therapy balcony breakfast.
Good that they really aren’t good at targeted flying.

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