Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

beentsy

@beentsy.bsky.social

1.3K followers 530 following 1.8K posts

I love books, yarn, beasties, movies, and pop culture. Left coast of Canada and so liberal I'm almost a communist, kidding, but definitely a socialist. 🇨🇦🍁🧶🐾

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · Aug 9

Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.

Photo of me. It's winter, I'm wearing a light brown wool coat with a hand-knitted alpaca scarf wrapped around my neck. I have silver hair that is held back with a headband, I am grimacing. There is a pigeon on each of my shoulders and one on my outstretched hand. I tossed them a tiny piece of Tim Horton's muffin, and they mobbed me. There were approximately 40 more pigeons around my feet. I made a mistake.

2 6

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 4h

Yes!

Reposted by beentsy

Clare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social · 4h

These are an absolute must for any crocheted fruit bowl arrangement. Also great on bunting! littleconkers.etsy.com/listing/2168...
#Crochet #CrochetFruit #CrochetedFruit

littleconkers.etsy.com

5 10

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, @unrealfred.bsky.social, I think this is something you would enjoy. 🙂

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 8h

My top suggestions of books to read this World Bread Day...

- The Focaccia in the Rye
- Yeast of Eden
- Flours for Algernon
- The Lion, the Witch and the Warburtons
- Pannetonement
- The Naan in the High Castle
- Leaven Las Vegas
- Pitta Rabbit

1 1 1

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 4h

Have you read any of Tom's work yet? Future you will be so happy you did, he's wonderful! And don't even get me started on how ridiculously talented his family members are too. Amazing.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11h

I've had to rebuild this a bit - & my following - since moving away from Substack & losing a lot of oddly Substack-loyal people, but I relish the challenge as it means I have to work hard & write well. Huge archive of work on there. All of it can be read for £2 a month/£20 a year: www.tom-cox.com

Tom Cox

New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.

www.tom-cox.com

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 8h

Trevor Noah did a bit about folks needing to be flabbergasted, and to flabbergast with others, when they are caught all unawares by something. And they get super upset if you will not flabbergast with them. Super upset. 😂

Reposted by beentsy

Sue 🧶🐈 @brighteyeddyer.bsky.social · 9h

BFF is in the market for a new #BookCoverArtist. He writes #horror, #sci-fi, #fantasy, deep space, #SpaceOpera type stuffs. #IndieArtist He’s on here but only just barely so if you’re interested reply here and I’ll point him to your feed.

1 1

Reposted by beentsy

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

1 84 170

Reposted by beentsy

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

28 72

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 2d

😬😬 That basement scene lives rent free in my head, probably forever.

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 2d

😳😳😳

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Reposted by beentsy

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

1 93 290

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 2d

COVID and flu vaccines acquired. 👍👍💪💪

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine.

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 3d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Reposted by beentsy

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 3d

There are so many amazing stories and poems in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope!

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

11 13

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 3d

Adjacent, Maggie May annoys me far more than it should. 😂

1 1

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 3d

Ancestor or not! This would be a fun book.

beentsy @beentsy.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians! I will be preparing the traditional dish, tacos with refried beans on the side. What can I say, we go old school in our house. 😁🍂🍁🌮

Reposted by beentsy

Angela @angelt.bsky.social · 4d

Just finished reading Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social honestly loved the whole book but the final chapter was so moving and unusual that now I have a song stuck in my head!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox review – a cosy state-of-the-nation yarn

This deeply comforting tale of record collecting, magical creatures and a lovingly knitted cardigan rambles across England

www.theguardian.com

1 3 15

Reposted by beentsy

Steve Burgess @steveburgess53.bsky.social · 4d

This is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada.
Canadians celebrate Christmas in March. Canadian Easter marks the return from a 3-1 deficit in the 1972 Summit Series.

2 5

Reposted by beentsy

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 6d

2 9

Reposted by beentsy

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 6d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...