it's dr* moose, actually

*pending minor corrections

Digital illustration of Saruman inside his tower, wearing a rainbow glitter bucket hat, backpack and robe. He is holding up an exercise book containing rainbow stickers, drawings of rings and scribbles of his name with a magic S. A speech bubble reads, “The white page may be overwritten!”

listen to Shelved By Genre and you too can be consumed with thoughts of Lisa Frank Saruman @rangedtouch.bsky.social

aaaaaaaaa my viva is on monday aaaaaaaaaaaaa

It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

every queer friend group has at least one of each

it's ravel's "boléro", which is an...interesting? choice

Replace Churchill on the £5 note with a locust. They both cause famines so it’ll an easier transition for them

ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

ATOS has found Ayatollah Khamenei fit for work

uncle nicky sleeps in a hammock with the fleg-bot tucked under his arm. the vague silhouettes of jonathan and his sister block the firelight in the background

nap time with uncle nicky……….

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

pokemon fanart. New starters Browt, Pombon and Gecqua

New babies.. #pokemon

tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020 "Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."

RIP to a real one

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

one of the lesser known consequences of adhd is that it makes you absolutely terrible at remembering to take your meds, which is why i'm about to have a scan to make sure i haven't turned my bones to honeycomb through a decade of forgetting to take my hormones regularly

So much anti-trans discourse is nothing but “What about (made-up bullshit about trans people?)”and you do not have to indulge this or treat it like a legitimate argument.

Hello fans of nonograms/picross games!! Introducing my latest game, Walfie's Nonograms, a free Game Boy Color game featuring 150 puzzles!

Play in browser, in a Game Boy emulator, or on a real Game Boy (via flash cart)!

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life

let’s be primitive horses with mama

COW TOOLS

i just reflexively yelled NO out loud

i really needed Yee today ngl

A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard

important idea developed by me and a v correct friend: benjamin britten biopic, starring james mcavoy as britten and jamie parker as pears. hollywood my inbox is open.

if no-one got me i know zotero's "change to title case" function got me