Jack, Shattered
@shatteredjack.bsky.social
Hyper-specific Oddball, Mechanistic Killjoy. Stirr-er of Pots and Speaker of Heresies. Ancient and Justified. Allegedly Pedantic.
Cthulu wakes?
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Cthulu wakes?
Happy VLC-mas for all who celebrate
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy VLC-mas for all who celebrate
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ah yes a true holiday classic
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
ah yes a true holiday classic
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It's important to receive new clothes by Christmas Eve in Iceland, or else you might become prey of the Yule Cat, pet of the vile jotun witch Gryla. The Yule Cat devours those who wander at night without these new clothes, though he can be distracted with food. #FairytaleTuesday
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's important to receive new clothes by Christmas Eve in Iceland, or else you might become prey of the Yule Cat, pet of the vile jotun witch Gryla. The Yule Cat devours those who wander at night without these new clothes, though he can be distracted with food. #FairytaleTuesday
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On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
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*pained* A Lord of the Rings cover band called Orcestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
A lord of the rings cover band called Rivendel Amitri
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Here for the pedantry
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here for the pedantry
In the Muppet Christmas Carol, The ghost of Jacob Marley is replaced by Statler and Waldorf. This would imply that they died together, perhaps in a fire, or by direct action.
God Bless us, every one.
God Bless us, every one.
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
In the Muppet Christmas Carol, The ghost of Jacob Marley is replaced by Statler and Waldorf. This would imply that they died together, perhaps in a fire, or by direct action.
God Bless us, every one.
God Bless us, every one.
Working In Dance Mode | Rachel Stephens | Monktoberfest 2025
YouTube video by RedMonk Tech Events
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is amazing.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a...
Also: @poorquentyn.bsky.social
The author (Ethan Warren) recently wrote a book ' The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha'. I think I recall you having PTA opinions.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a...
Also: @poorquentyn.bsky.social
The author (Ethan Warren) recently wrote a book ' The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha'. I think I recall you having PTA opinions.
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is amazing.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a...
Also: @poorquentyn.bsky.social
The author (Ethan Warren) recently wrote a book ' The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha'. I think I recall you having PTA opinions.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a...
Also: @poorquentyn.bsky.social
The author (Ethan Warren) recently wrote a book ' The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha'. I think I recall you having PTA opinions.
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The questioun ys "Are we ther yet?" Thys questioun ys divided ynto three partes...
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The questioun ys "Are we ther yet?" Thys questioun ys divided ynto three partes...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Bluesky has the juice
I'll report on the actual numbers shortly...
Once you realize Tolkien wants every heroic person or place name to be cretic (long-short-long syllable), you start seeing Tolkien names everywhere. Labrador. Pinkypie. Scoobydoo. Macklemore.
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Bluesky has the juice
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"I feel quite guilty every time I hear of someone's having spent valuable time looking up the Necronomicon at public libraries."
—H. P. Lovecraft to James Blish, 3 Jun 1936, ML 376
—H. P. Lovecraft to James Blish, 3 Jun 1936, ML 376
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"I feel quite guilty every time I hear of someone's having spent valuable time looking up the Necronomicon at public libraries."
—H. P. Lovecraft to James Blish, 3 Jun 1936, ML 376
—H. P. Lovecraft to James Blish, 3 Jun 1936, ML 376
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
For the Ned!
CPWDCS CZM Rewind ⏪
Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
@margaret.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
@margaret.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
For the Ned!
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November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Godspeed, legend. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Godspeed, legend. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me