Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Tim L

@apollo18.bsky.social

240 followers 270 following 440 posts

I help take people to space and sometimes do things with swords.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · Nov 13

you: please act normal you need these people to like you

me: ok!

people: hi

me: Space toilets are incredibly complex, break often, and require training to use and maintain - the ISS toilet trainer has a camera in the bowl so astronauts can practice “docking”! Apollo astronauts pooped in bags!

Emily Lakdawalla, Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · Nov 13

you: please act normal you need these people to like you

me: ok!

people: hi

me: Im quite serious when I say that I want to orbit and probe Uranus! It’s a type of planet we’ve never properly explored before, yet it’s the commonest type of planet in exoplanetary systems. And it has 5 round moons

Literally a necromantic golem how could I be spookier? @penancearkana.bsky.social · Nov 13

you: please act normal you need these people to like you

me: ok!

people: hi

me: Scott Cunningham likely invented the concept of coded substitutions in spellcraft formulae and even if he was aware of the Greek Magical Papyri they are syncretic and not to be taken as accurate on Egyptian spellwork.

1 6

Reposted by Tim L

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 6h

I have been waiting 15 years for a "quiet little masterpiece" from Paul Constant. THE STONESHORE REGISTER is out now from @karenpberger.bsky.social's Berger Books, with art by brother from another mother MK Perker.

Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 7h

One of my favorite things about writing a newsletter is that it's also my reading journal. For instance, last month I was happily surprised by @gwillow.me and MK Perker's graphic novel The Stoneshore Register. You'll get similar brief thoughts on my reading life in every issue.

Seattle author G. Willow Wilson's latest comic with artist M.K. Perker, The Stoneshore Register, is a quiet little masterpiece. It's about a young journalist who gets a job writing at a tiny newspaper in a coastal Washington state town where weird things happen. It's a perfect mix of Our Town and Twin Peaks, and a hopeful refugee narrative. It's right up there with my favorites of
Wilson's work.

4 4 33

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 1d

TMBG also does some killer covers (especially live), especially Why Does The Sun Shine?… but also this youtu.be/cmfTTbANBGU?...

1 1 5

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 1d

GWAR has some amazing covers but this one stands out youtu.be/HJzecKumufM?...

3 5 10

Reposted by Tim L

Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 1d

sorry to be a basic millennial but cmon

5 7 52

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/8eptioPpo4w?...

2 1 4

Reposted by Tim L

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 1d

i would pay good money for the menswear guy to do a breakdown of how he knows Garak isn't a real tailor based on his fits

Elim Garak wears a red and bronze number with a sort of mishmash of stripes on it

Elim Garak wears a blue and turquoise top with horizontal stripes and also a sort of vest that only covers his shoulders

Garak wearing a leopard print starfleet uniform. Where did he find it?

Garak, looking frustrated, wears a fetching turtleneck with animal print sleeves

3 7 51

Reposted by Tim L

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 14d

once again sharing my list of favorite horror movies in case anyone's looking for good shit to watch this October

favorite horror

A list of 137 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Innocents (1961), The Exorcist (1973), Alien (1979), 28 Years Later (2025) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

letterboxd.com

17 51 280

Reposted by Tim L

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html

Dr. Demento - Streaming

drdemento.com

10 66 460

Reposted by Tim L

They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 3d

6 38 220

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 3d

Me: *puts on my new 25th-anniversary vinyl of Fevers and Mirrors*
My 6-year-old: “what the fuck are you listening to?”
(It’s ok, she likes it)

Reposted by Tim L

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 4d

Hooray! We are past 50% in our campaign. Thank you, everyone!

Today Cheryl is off to Aberystwyth for the October Queer Lit Quarterly meeting. In honour of that, today's update tells the very queer story of our cover. (Content warning for sexual assault.)
www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

11 17

Reposted by Tim L

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5d

SPD put out this blog post about a recent success on "organized retail theft."

The TL;DR: Police arrested five people at a mall for stealing a total of $460 in merchandise. Combined.

spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/10/09/o...

Organized Retail Theft Operation in Westwood Village Nets Five Arrests - SPD Blotter

Seattle police officers arrested five suspects, ages 38-65, during an Organized Retail Theft operation in Westwood Village Wednesday. On the afternoon of Oct. 8, patrol officers and detectives in the ...

spdblotter.seattle.gov

3 5 54

Reposted by Tim L

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5d

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

94 230 2.5K

Reposted by Tim L

Lisa Laman @lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social · 8d

Just like the U.S. government can create concentration camps or bombs quickly but not safe housing for the unhoused or access to education, we have infinite money for AI slop that divides and dumbs down the population but not for creating wonderful communal art spaces. Funny how that works.

2 4

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 9d

*Dire Straits intensifies*

Box of Annie’s Organic Shells & White Cheddar

Reposted by Tim L

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10d

We all have our crosses to bear.

"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

17 57

Reposted by Tim L

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes you turn on your car radio and a song is playing and you know right away it’s the EXACT right one you want to hear, like this one that played for me just now youtu.be/EzRRQxcVXlc

Sinéad O'Connor - I Am Stretched on Your Grave (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Chrysalis Records

youtu.be

4 20 240

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 11d

The struggle is real! Our Töl Child has been planning to build a Hitcher costume from The Mighty Boosh, so the Smöl Child has been waffling between her original plan to be a unicorn and a new plan to be an eel to go with the Hitcher

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 11d

I watched this for the first time based on Priscilla’s essay and damn if it isn’t my kind of beautiful nihilistic film

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · May 5

I wrote about Night Moves

Night Moves | Priscilla Page

Get more from Priscilla Page on Patreon

www.patreon.com

1 1 20

Tim L @apollo18.bsky.social · 11d

The Commander Thinks Aloud by The Long Winters

youtu.be/eTt_By7RAOo?...

1 1 2

Reposted by Tim L

Your Least Favorite Ghoul 👻 @leastfavoriteson.bsky.social · 12d

11 410 1.3K

Reposted by Tim L

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 13d

I keep thinking about those books and @older.bsky.social’s Infomocracy as different models of the kind of thing Schlick was pointing to it seems. Both great in part because they focus on the problems and breakdowns but also still put into relief how shit our current nation states are.

1 2 7

Reposted by Tim L

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 13d

Wait, Schlick’s Utopia is the world of @adapalmer.bsky.social’s Terra Ignota!?

“In such a case there would be no countries in the usual case, but political organisations, the members of which would live scattered over all continents. Each of these invisible communities could have its own laws…”

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14d

Before he was murdered by a fascist Schlick was working on a far ranging version of this idea (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2016/12/schl...). I also agree, fwiw. I see little hope of persuading people of this!

1 2 11

Reposted by Tim L

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

20 520 1.2K

Reposted by Tim L

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 15d

Just want to emphasize how astonishing and unprecedented this is: The sitting Seattle Police Chief refused to answer a factual question about a budget line item (the removal of the city's contract with SCORE Jail) because the City Council President learned about it from my website.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 15d

"I'll be clear, I do not read PubliCola, so I will not respond to that," Shon Barnes, the Police Chief of Seattle, who definitely does not read PubliCola and is not mad at all about our reporting

1 45 220