@ianthegreen.bsky.social‘s books are filled with immense settings which are characters in their own right. Worth the price of admission👇

Aye you’re probably right!

My god.

Subscribed!

Fascinating, as always.

“Something without a brain scrabbled around and found stuff that looks like content but isn’t, because it wasn’t chosen, analyzed, and written by a person. Frankenstein’s monster copy-paste jobs from a bunch of different places? That’s not a summary. That’s word salad” — @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

I still haven’t watched it when it was spoiled for me at the time by an old flatmate who literally told me the ending to annoy me. I was very upset.

I actually really enjoyed the 2022 remake with Jamie Clayton. I must watch it again.

No more monthly updates, no selfies, no reels or videos promoting myself.

Now I’m working diligently in the background and I’m getting the important work done.

I now resist this. No monthly newsletter. No selfies, nothing. It’s hugely liberating because now I get to focus on the stuff that matters.

Sorry mate.

As usual, money can’t buy taste.

Cream-colored garment with embroidered black and blue stylized flying bats arranged in right-left symmetry from the base of the collar to the hem. Mounted on display at museum exhibit. Photographed in 2019 at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhibition at the National Gallery of Art DC. “In the West, bats - nocturnal in habit and denizens of dark places tend to be viewed as unlucky, but in China they have long been considered an auspicious motif (one of the characters used to write the word "bat" is a homonym for good fortune). The Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjüro VII (1791-1859) used bat motifs in his costumes, and the perception of these animals as a chic design element spread rapidly throughout Japan in the nineteenth century. Here a great number of them are arranged in right-left symmetry from the base of the collar to the hem.” The above info is from the official exhibition catalog - the bat kosode is on p.124!

closeup of the bats on collar

closeup of the bats on hem

It’s #BatAppreciationDay 🦇 on a #FabricFriday so please appreciate this awesome 19th c. Japanese kosode decorated with embroidered lucky #bats:
KOSODE WITH BATS
Edo - Meiji, 19th century
silk twill, paste-resist dyed, embroidery; 67⅜ × 48⅞ in
National Museum of Japanese History / NGA DC
#JapaneseArt

May the rest of these awful plagiarising corporations follow.

Kat I am 💯 listening to your @narrative damagerpg.bsky.social epsiode right now!

See if you can still get those fifteen hours of free AOL access.

Hi Mark, can I enquire about rates via email? Many thanks -J

October 1989: Proclamation of the Republic of Hungary This photograph, taken on 23 October 1989, shows the US ambassador as the Republic of Hungary was proclaimed by Matyas Szuros in Budapest.

🇭🇺 This photograph was taken on 23 October 1989 in Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest. It shows the US Ambassador to Hungary, Mark Palmer, in a red bow tie, among the crowds as the acting head of state, Mátyás Szűrös, solemnly proclaimed the birth of a new republic👇

Cried all the water out my body.

I totally missed this, huge congratulations mate; I can’t wait to (re)read this!

The cover of Ian Watson’s Space Marine, featuring a group of futuristic soldiers fighting

Sad to hear about the passing of Ian Watson, whose Warhammer 40,000 books were seminal into getting me into reading science fiction back in the 90s.

Going to have to re read these ones again.

Ah I’m gutted to hear this. His Space Marine and Inquisitor Warhammer 40,000 books were seminal in getting me to read SF during the 90s.

The Emperor Protects.

@meghan0n.bsky.social is *a* writer. Go and follow her👇

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Still one of the all time greats. The last half hour was absolutely terrifying.

Mark ‘Author’ Latham.

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t

We absolutely do not have to accept artificial intelligence, Stephen.

Neil will I mange to get a signed copy of your new novel?

An incredible piece by Kieran Morris for @theguardian.com about the sushi chef Endo Kazutoshi — it’s a *long* read but worth your time: where food, life and relationships intersect👇

Fair warning: stuff is super duper expensive if you’re eating and drinking out. Their supermarkets are great though!