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Bonus points if the image bites when I reach into my wallet. Maybe that will keep me from spending foolishly...

Yes. Your reward is lots and lots of caffeine. All of it. In all forms.

Yeah, and it sucks. The brutal return policies are playing a role too. It makes my nerd heart sad.
Don't get me started on the cost of renting space. Those fuckers are making it near impossible to run a business, and staff often end up being screwed in the process.

Was my first too. Hmm, I haven't read him in a while. Shit, I wonder if I still have my copy somewhere. Probably...

Ooh! I haven't read a David Mitchell in a while.

Breakable Things

2/2 And if you like short stories, check out their superb Bram Stoker Award winning collection, Breakable Things.

The Salt Grows Heavy

The Library at Hellebore

Nothing But Blackened Teeth

1/2 Day two of Women in Horror month. You need to know Cassandra Khaw's work. Their novellas Nothing But Blackened Teeth and The Salt Grows Heavy are instant horror classics. In 2025 they released the chilling dark academia novel, The Library at Hellebore.

Sagittarius: You will take the fashion world by storm with your new line of women's clothing which marries conventional everyday wear with the addition of electrified knives sticking out like porcupine quills. But what really sells it is that it has pockets.

"This may be the year when we finally come face-to-face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it –that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesman with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." —Hunter S. Thompson

Good morning

I have just spent the evening calculating how many defleshed human skulls it would take to collapse inside their own Schwartzschild Radius and create a black hole (roughly 16.5 solar masses, or 2 x 10^31 skulls, if my maths is right). Because space opera, right? Can't think too small!

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Handsome Squidward

It is my understanding that this is the final boss of looksmaxxing

Sophia
Rose
Blanche
Dorothy

I love Spirited Away, so when I saw this I had no choice.

If you're a fan of ebooks, KING BULLET, is on sale for $1.99 in all formats. If you like audiobooks, the first four Sandman Slim novels are on sale for less than $5 each.

I did start checking Mewgenics as well. A roguelike. Very addictive. Pretty messed up 🤣

I'm just a sad Satisfactory player. Alien planet, sarcastic AI task master, build factory. Keep building. Build some more. Get ambitious, and start building buildings to house the factory, build more factories.
I like it 🤷

Photo of a vintage science fiction book. The illustrated cover depicts a rocket taking off next to a man standing with his arms folded on top of a collage of images including a nude woman with her eyes closed and the head of an old man who appears sorrowful. Text and title read: SO I HAD MY PENIS Surgically Removed and Launched into Space Everyone is really disappointed BY SIMON HASNO

A rewarding thread

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

A MADHOUSE page drawn by Frank Thorne, featuring a Sherlock Holmes-like character

A COUGAR cover drawn by Frank Thorne, featuring an acrobatic hero and a chalk-faced villain

A THRILLING ADVENTURE STORIES page by Thorne, featuring Lawrence of Arabia.

A SON OF DRACULA page by Thorne. Cities, bats, chalk-faced madmen

...remainder of his career.

But suppose, when Bob Brown, Irv Novick and Neal Adams stopped drawing Batman around 1975, instead of going to Ernie Chan and John Calnan, Julie Schwartz had hired Thorne?

Ophthalmologist signs in Taiwan, 1962, by Wang Shuangquan

Good morning

Christopher Nolan should have cast Helen of Troy the way the Greeks would have: by casting the most attractive young man in the company and giving him a really fuckable porcelain mask.

Having a WOMAN play Helen of Troy??? Talk about inaccurate. The Greeks would fucking riot.

a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose"

a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

a piñata telling a dominatrix with a paddle, "Don't hold back."

Good morning

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

This is the piece to send people to get them off the fence about this, I've bookmarked it in a new folder I've called 'weaponry' lol

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though