John Turnbull PhD

@johnwturnbull.bsky.social

Elephant Seals moult once a year in spring. They lose their outer fur layer then re-grow it. During this time they are on land, and are more susceptible to heat loss. #aurora_expeditions #saef_arc #sydney_science #marineexplorer https://flic.kr/p/2rP2uNd 🧪🦑

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻

@pauljessup.com

I picked up a first ed paperback of The Jewel in the Skull by Moorcock and started reading it...

And it reminds me just how *wild* older scifi and fantasy was, I love it and I miss this stuff. Everything feels so ossified now, the conversation at a standstill between past and present

Kira Skuro

@kiraskuro.bsky.social

Will 2026 be the year yer asocial girl establishes an independent and substantive social life, despite being inimical to the very idea?

I doubt it.

vagrant story script

@vagrantstorybot.bsky.social

The duke's son. Our honored... guest. He is timorous, though, and speaks not a word.

A Buffoon Walks Into The Oval Office...

@alter-idem.bsky.social

All that matters is that Trump is in the Epstein files and Trump and his entire criminal enterprise are working to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate Trump's participation in Epstein's crimes.

Paradise Lost

@paradise-lost.bsky.social

Pretending so commanded to
consult
About the great reception of
their King,
Thither to come, and with
calumnious art
Of counterfeited truth thus
held their ears.
Thrones, Dominations,
Princedoms, Virtues, Powers;
If these magnifick titles yet
remain

V, 768-773

Willa Harlow Ross

@willaharlowross.bsky.social

When people like a work of art, they’re often not very good at engaging critically with the elements outside the absolute best 10-20%.

Visual highlights, florid musical passages of score, elaborate set pieces get cited without regard to the majority of the total experience and structure.

Daily Maverick

@dailymaverick.co.za

Born in 1949 in Johannesburg, Renfrew Christie grew up in boarding houses and the less salubrious parts of town as his mother struggled to make ends meet after his father died while he was still a

Toilet full of bugs

@ephemeromorph.topspicy.social.ap.brid.gy

Twitch needs to allow nudity. Maybe not frontal, but I think it would benefit from judicious application of arsecheeks.

MobiQuotes

@mobiquotes.bsky.social

Ah dearest heart if you will but waitI'll become the ideal soulmatenevermore causing you a moment's troubleand I but a mere ectoplasmic bubbleswaying above your gorgeous headgruff and garrulous and safely dead.