Currently setting up our new exhibition on #Swift and #GulliversTravels to mark 300 years since its publication. We're particularly happy with this staging of A Modest Proposal (1729), for which thanks to Joan Moynihan.
We could also lasso birds with spidersilk, like how we evacuated our strategic giant peach reserves back in the day.
Dolly Parton holds two children's books, "The Little Engine That Could" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," against a blue and orange background. The text above reads "READ," and below, "Dolly Parton.
Calling all Dolly fans. The #DollyParton READ poster will no longer be available after April 16 when licensing ends. Get yours before it disappears.
https://alastore.ala.org/content/dolly-parton-poster
Gorgeous. It’s like a bookplate from a Folio Society edition of a 1970s SF novel…
Book is “The Conversions” by Harry Matthews
Text from the book, the will of a character obligating those who attend the will reading to eat pancakes based on the music chosen for the funeral.
Today’s old book dive didn’t give me life goals…but it did give me a death goal: obligatory pancakes at my funeral.
Episode 43 of the Kilauea eruption is a BEAST. They just zoomed out and uhhh this may be on its way to setting a record for tallest lava fountains. What on Earth. 😍🌋
Cam 2 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
And the fantastic Defense Grid 2 returns 10 years after launch with a new expansion!
store.steampowered.com/app/1080920/...
YouTube keeps driving me toward watching TimeTeam episodes, but I guess it's better that than right-wing agitprop.
Screenshot of a Threads post by nabeeshasajid explaining how Net 60 payments are essentially the freelancer financing the company for 2 months before getting paid.
"Net 60 is financing." [/writing with fire meme]
I've done work-for-hire countless times, so I know how it happens, but it's still wild to look in a book from a couple decades ago and realize that the publisher gave no indication who actually wrote or illustrated any of the work inside the covers, not even in the fine print.
An absolutely gorgeous and cozy-looking room.
Cheese goes in my crisper drawer. I'm not going to forget about that.
Wisconsin friends! If I still lived where you do, this is where I'd be headed!
LLMs are SO VERBOSE and anyone who’s done narrative design for even one game knows that players hate listening and hate reading even more.
One of the oldest tricks in the book is to make them walk to a place just so you have time to give them vital info.
A drawing in black ballpoint pen on white paper, oriented vertically, of Snoqualmie Falls in Washington state. White water pours from the top of the frame in cascading sheets, and seems to curl and swirl as it falls toward the river below. Image is rendered entirely using freehand vertical lines and subtle gradients.
Art #1170 "Snoqualmie Falls"
Little #ballpointpen drawing I made last year of #snoqualmiefalls in #washingtonstate.
#drawing #pendrawing #waterfall #traditionalart #noai
Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg
Who would have guessed that Steve Martin was writing political prophecy in the ‘70s?
It's a small but significant pleasure to give a particular cat somewhere they are particularly satisfied to sleep.
I prefer A. The round tiles feel more like data points, while the curves feel like data being forced into the format.
If Adobe really wanted my money, they’d sell products with half as many features that were twice as easy to use.
Matt produces and sells amazing books, and now’s the time to check them out.
There’s truth in tales of how broken the world is and how people are pulled into their traumas…but it’s okay to look for hope and escapism in your stories and games, too. Use it to light your inner spark and hold that up against the darkness.
Yikes. What's the source of that?
If I just work hard enough today, someday I will have ten years to read uninterrupted.
Talking to my insurance agent, and it turns out he plays D&D. But he still wasn’t willing to write up a policy for my 8th-level rogue.
My kid does as well, and has stolen it for her own.
When it comes to word master-y
Paul Tobin has conquered these three:
Horror, romance,
and given the chance,
Limericks that end up dirty. Poop.
So good.
