Doug Merrill 🌻
@bagatsen.bsky.social
Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Now Berlin previously Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, DC, Warsaw, Budapest. Hoya Saxa! YSR! (he/him) Book reviews and oddments at https://thefrumiousconsortium.net
This is a lovely thread for your #Caturday eve.
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is a lovely thread for your #Caturday eve.
Reposted by Doug Merrill 🌻
She looked at me
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
She looked at me
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
Today I finished reading The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith.
Before that —
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social
A Mountain to the North ... by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Before that —
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social
A Mountain to the North ... by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Today I finished reading The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith.
Before that —
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social
A Mountain to the North ... by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Before that —
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social
A Mountain to the North ... by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Happy World Linguistics Day from Berlin, Germany!
Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day from Berlin, Germany!
"TikTok is less a social media engine than it is Adobe Premiere repackaged as a video editing app that an 8 year old can understand."
This was super interesting!
toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...
This was super interesting!
toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...
Tone Glow 200: Negativland
An interview with plunderphonic legends Negativland about copyright, fair use, the rise of AI, and yes, that thing with U2
toneglow.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"TikTok is less a social media engine than it is Adobe Premiere repackaged as a video editing app that an 8 year old can understand."
This was super interesting!
toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...
This was super interesting!
toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...
BLAM!
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
BLAM!
Oh, your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope
But the whole damn nation got the same
Honey only flock to the bee that's the Pope
Not the President with government lame ...
So you can be the President
I'd rather be the Pope
But the whole damn nation got the same
Honey only flock to the bee that's the Pope
Not the President with government lame ...
So you can be the President
I'd rather be the Pope
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Oh, your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope
But the whole damn nation got the same
Honey only flock to the bee that's the Pope
Not the President with government lame ...
So you can be the President
I'd rather be the Pope
But the whole damn nation got the same
Honey only flock to the bee that's the Pope
Not the President with government lame ...
So you can be the President
I'd rather be the Pope
Say the word and you'll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Say the word and you'll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
My sweetheart and my parents
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round ...
My sweetheart and my parents
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round ...
My sweetheart and my parents
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
My sweetheart and my parents
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round ...
My sweetheart and my parents
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round ...
My sweetheart and my parents
I left in my old hometown
I'm out to do the best I can
As I go ramblin' round
"Vote early, vote Aftyn" — I like it!
VOTE EARLY, VOTE AFTYN
Today is the last Saturday to vote early in the TN-7 special congressional race in Tennessee. Not sure where or when to vote? Not in the district, but want to canvass to get out the vote? Check out the links in our BIO!
Today is the last Saturday to vote early in the TN-7 special congressional race in Tennessee. Not sure where or when to vote? Not in the district, but want to canvass to get out the vote? Check out the links in our BIO!
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Vote early, vote Aftyn" — I like it!
Neat!
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Neat!
BOOM
(there it is)
(there it is)
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
BOOM
(there it is)
(there it is)
Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.
zomg
#Galaxy cluster Abell 2813 with #JWST NIRCam (filters: F277W, F356W, F444W) with lots of bright gravitational lenses. 🔭
program: VENUS www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
program: VENUS www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
zomg
"Thunder they heard, and lightning, they said, smote upon Celebdil, and leaped back broken into tongues of fire. ... A great smoke rose about us, vapour and steam. Ice fell like rain. I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin."
Is that a fire-breathing #dragon in the sky? Margaret Longstreth in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, saw this stunning #aurora on Tuesday and said: "Fire-breathing dragon right overhead." Thank you, Margaret! 🐉🌌📸🔭
buff.ly/jUvM7bv
Go to EarthSky Community Photos to see more great images:
buff.ly/RyXeYSP
buff.ly/jUvM7bv
Go to EarthSky Community Photos to see more great images:
buff.ly/RyXeYSP
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Thunder they heard, and lightning, they said, smote upon Celebdil, and leaped back broken into tongues of fire. ... A great smoke rose about us, vapour and steam. Ice fell like rain. I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin."
Goon a movie
The Rocky Horror Goon Show
The Goon Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes a Goon
The Rocky Horror Goon Show
The Goon Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes a Goon
Goon a movie
Goonstruck
Goonstruck
Goon a movie
Little Miss Goonshine
Little Miss Goonshine
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Goon a movie
The Rocky Horror Goon Show
The Goon Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes a Goon
The Rocky Horror Goon Show
The Goon Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes a Goon
Goon a movie
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Goon
Prospero's Goons
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Goon
Prospero's Goons
Goon a movie
Goonstruck
Goonstruck
Goon a movie
Little Miss Goonshine
Little Miss Goonshine
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Goon a movie
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Goon
Prospero's Goons
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Goon
Prospero's Goons
Goon a movie
The Fellowship of the Goon
The Goon Towers
The Goon of the King
The Fellowship of the Goon
The Goon Towers
The Goon of the King
Goon a movie
Goonstruck
Goonstruck
Goon a movie
Little Miss Goonshine
Little Miss Goonshine
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Goon a movie
The Fellowship of the Goon
The Goon Towers
The Goon of the King
The Fellowship of the Goon
The Goon Towers
The Goon of the King
Goon a Movie
The Wrath of Goon
The Search for Goon
The Voyage Goon
The Wrath of Goon
The Search for Goon
The Voyage Goon
Goon a movie
Goonstruck
Goonstruck
Goon a movie
Little Miss Goonshine
Little Miss Goonshine
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Goon a Movie
The Wrath of Goon
The Search for Goon
The Voyage Goon
The Wrath of Goon
The Search for Goon
The Voyage Goon
Goon a movie
The Muppets Take Goonhattan
Watership Goon
The Nervergooning Story
The Muppets Take Goonhattan
Watership Goon
The Nervergooning Story
Goon a movie
Goonstruck
Goonstruck
Goon a movie
Little Miss Goonshine
Little Miss Goonshine
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Goon a movie
The Muppets Take Goonhattan
Watership Goon
The Nervergooning Story
The Muppets Take Goonhattan
Watership Goon
The Nervergooning Story
Reposted by Doug Merrill 🌻
obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
October 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
Being on edge is seldom this beautiful.
An edge-on disk galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.
It is at redshift 0.008 (lookback time 114.4 million years) with coordinates (141.30861, 17.59905).
54 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
It is at redshift 0.008 (lookback time 114.4 million years) with coordinates (141.30861, 17.59905).
54 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Being on edge is seldom this beautiful.
The reply given in Arkell v Pressdram is ever so much more succinct.
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The reply given in Arkell v Pressdram is ever so much more succinct.
Gorgeous galaxy!
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.
It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (138.38074, 28.95175).
44 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (138.38074, 28.95175).
44 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Gorgeous galaxy!
Well played, sir!
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Well played, sir!