Harper’s Magazine

@harpers.bsky.social

“It can get a little monotonous, actually, the centuries of extortion, pimping, florid tattoos, assassinations, and ritually severed fingers. A life of crime during the Tokugawa shogunate was in some ways indistinct from one in the age of the salaryman.”

buff.ly/4K2QL8W

heather

@heatherfeather.bsky.social

sipping on that salubrious draught

Jaime Gill

@jaimegill.bsky.social

I’m so smart for choosing @fictivedream.bsky.social as my @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge. So many jewels.

I loved this title but the story is even better. None of the modish verbs, voice, and vibes rubbish. Real story. Restrained telling. Massive impact

https://fictivedream.com/2024/02/23/a-stupid-rubber-dinosaur/

Dorothy Parker bot

@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social

Talking to a friend about a garrulous bore:
Friend: "She's so outspoken."
DP: "By whom?"

#DorothyParker #Parker

Miss Marakar, Pooka Witch Vtuber🐇🧹

@missmarakar.vtubers.social

STREAM END!~

Oh dear... I think Nature's been sticking his head in the arcane oven again... We'll need to unscramble him, hehe.

But thank you all for joining!~ Please give @hnetu.com all the love, as we raided out to her tonight!~ 💙🐇🧹

Brad Houston, Cardboard Relocation Maestro

@herodotusjr.bsky.social

...Are you KIDDING me MPS, the literal second day of school?? Can we, I don't know, pretend that Global Warming is a thing that's happening and fix the HVAC in school buildings so we don't have to keep doing this? (I am, of course, being facetious; that would require MPS to spend responsibly)

Neha Modi

@nehamodi.bsky.social

They should just relegate the AL West tbh

InscrutableGreatHornedOwl

@inscrutableowl.bsky.social

Arlecchino's boss fight is v visually striking & fitting to his character & vibe, but I'm putting on my pedantic hat & frowning. *the established lore,* *for the most part,* shows a mundane world + Ergo magic. how am I supposed to add a puppet w blood powers to a logically consistent fanfiction

New Martin Express

@thatmartin.bsky.social

Okay - after a lot of prevarication - or 'mental prep' - I've broken the back I think of my OBaWS scenario - so won't be completely winging it.

I am going to be cosplaying some of it!

Stan Carey

@stancarey.bsky.social

"He was perhaps less a political radical than a bohemian individualist, resentful of authority and restive with institutional restraints."

Terry Eagleton on the politics of James Joyce: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/terry-eagleton/starveling-rabblement #SpéirGhorm