THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:
*quietly shelves the manuscript of Tinker Tailor Killer Clown*
How does it feel to be an Iranian right now? 🧵
interesting recession indicator I just spotted: the year is 2026, and the recession began in 2007 and at no point did it meaningfully abate for the vast, vast majority of people
“Hello Daphne”
CHARLIE BROWN: Yes mistress, you're right, mistress, I'm a blockhead! a hopeless blockhead!
DOMINATRIX: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
The Curse of the Cursed Curse
Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant
I’ll get my mom one asap
do they make them in the queen’s likeness
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
okay a while ago when I expressed a wish for a QE2 jack in the box someone said it wouldn’t be made because it was disrespectful
having done a deep dive on tourist schlock shops in London, there is nothing these people won’t sell, so…
where’s my Queen Elizabeth II jack in the box
I'm going to run for president in 2028 and one of my Day 1 promises is I'm going to hire a couple big bald guys whose only job is to hurl corrupt pols out of public buildings like bouncers ejecting surly drunks, and then yell "and STAY out" at them as they tumble down the steps.
god lost the earth's login credentials after being catfished by tocharian scammers ca. 730 CE. these "South Qunduz Mischief Boys" spent years using them for infantile pranks like adding water to earth's mantle or resurrecting the extinct coelocanth. the last of them passed away no later than 800 CE
We’re so close to 70% funded! Many thanks to everyone for supporting this anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
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Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.
Call your reps NOW.
I cannot even begin to tell you.
How fast you will move to the top of my ballot.
If you publicly antagonize AI.
Tiffany Lamp inspired outfits with my eternal muse,Rose !! ✨
I didn’t want to be this guy but I ended up being this guy
Photo of a restroom sign in Heathrow Airport where the man looks like a box with legs and the woman looks like a handbell with legs
the two genders, box and handbell
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Stop Being Embarrassing Challenge
breaking: a part of the ecosystem is being a part of the ecosystem
it’s really sad and confusing to watch the fandom attempt to make The Pitt into something more complicated than what it is and what it, in fact, needs to be: a simple way for Noah Wyle to deliver to me secret messages containing the instructions for my missions
Photo of me on the underground, mostly hidden by luggage
London, day 7
Happy April Fool’s Day (Orthodox)
Photo of a full English breakfast
Photo of The Ugly Duchess by Quinten Matsys, also known as A Grotesque Old Woman: a painting of a grotesque old woman in medieval garb
Photo of baboon sculptures atop a wall at the Tower of London
Photo of signage in the Tower of London reading “in case of attack, assemble on wooden fighting platform”
London day 6
I want to visit Durham! I’ve barely been anywhere in the north and that’s on my list for sure
It must be so hard! but they persist
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.