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A kindle sale!! Get it now! It’s ebook is annoyingly expensive so this is great!!!
A little bird's tipped me off:
Ada Palmer's fantastic book INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE is on sale for $3.99 in its Kindle incarnation.
I already have a hardback, thanks, but e-book lovers on tight budgets, curious about the Big R, may wish to acquire @adapalmer.bsky.social's much-talked-about tome.
Ada Palmer's fantastic book INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE is on sale for $3.99 in its Kindle incarnation.
I already have a hardback, thanks, but e-book lovers on tight budgets, curious about the Big R, may wish to acquire @adapalmer.bsky.social's much-talked-about tome.
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age - Kindle edition by Palmer, Ada. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age.
www.amazon.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A kindle sale!! Get it now! It’s ebook is annoyingly expensive so this is great!!!
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he is: a problem
January 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM
he is: a problem
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AVENGERS ACADEMY is up for a GLAAD!
im curious - what were your favourite queer moments in the series???
im curious - what were your favourite queer moments in the series???
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
AVENGERS ACADEMY is up for a GLAAD!
im curious - what were your favourite queer moments in the series???
im curious - what were your favourite queer moments in the series???
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Well, obviously this should be revisited for the 79th anniversary of David Bowie’s birth
“David, who shall we invite to the wedding?”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
January 8, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Well, obviously this should be revisited for the 79th anniversary of David Bowie’s birth
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The Banh Mi really is an S tier sandwich that is versatile and adaptable to meat eaters and vegetarians and I would encourage anyone who lives/works near one to support their local Vietnamese sandwich shop/restaurant.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The Banh Mi really is an S tier sandwich that is versatile and adaptable to meat eaters and vegetarians and I would encourage anyone who lives/works near one to support their local Vietnamese sandwich shop/restaurant.
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The UK is king of the ready-made sandwich, which sounds like a dig except it's very much not
January 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The UK is king of the ready-made sandwich, which sounds like a dig except it's very much not
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My brother was a chef at a London hotel kitchen and tried to convince me “traditional“ English food is under appreciated by taking me to a place that serves Elizabethan dishes like lamprey pie and kidney tartare, and I must say his gambit did not work
January 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
My brother was a chef at a London hotel kitchen and tried to convince me “traditional“ English food is under appreciated by taking me to a place that serves Elizabethan dishes like lamprey pie and kidney tartare, and I must say his gambit did not work
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my main problem with the "british food is bad" jokes are that it's old and really dated material. it's not really true, but more importantly, it's hack
'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!
January 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
my main problem with the "british food is bad" jokes are that it's old and really dated material. it's not really true, but more importantly, it's hack
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back in the day we just called them records or lps/eps/45s
never vinyl
never vinyl
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 8:16 AM
back in the day we just called them records or lps/eps/45s
never vinyl
never vinyl
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Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
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There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨
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I can now enjoy a Mediterranean diet while I watch those wall-to-wall gambling adverts.
January 5, 2026 at 8:54 AM
I can now enjoy a Mediterranean diet while I watch those wall-to-wall gambling adverts.
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Happy 33rd birthday to the best Trek series ever. Feels like it'd be almost rude not to link to my essays on the show's first season, right?
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Happy 33rd birthday to the best Trek series ever. Feels like it'd be almost rude not to link to my essays on the show's first season, right?
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Emergency kitten- Retro Jimmie
January 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Emergency kitten- Retro Jimmie
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So Hitler's position in 1940/1941 is not a good position ruined by foolish decisions, but in fact a deceptively weak position that is almost certainly doomed, leading to insane gambles that only make it worse.
The catastrophic mistake was having a war, a result of the worse mistake of being a Nazi.
The catastrophic mistake was having a war, a result of the worse mistake of being a Nazi.
January 2, 2026 at 6:14 AM
So Hitler's position in 1940/1941 is not a good position ruined by foolish decisions, but in fact a deceptively weak position that is almost certainly doomed, leading to insane gambles that only make it worse.
The catastrophic mistake was having a war, a result of the worse mistake of being a Nazi.
The catastrophic mistake was having a war, a result of the worse mistake of being a Nazi.
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The Evil Overlord List is an amusing enough read, but I also feel like the kind of person who would become an Evil Overlord would definitely do a bunch of the stuff the list says not to do because that's not the kind of person whose decisions are primarily informed by Pragmatism.
January 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The Evil Overlord List is an amusing enough read, but I also feel like the kind of person who would become an Evil Overlord would definitely do a bunch of the stuff the list says not to do because that's not the kind of person whose decisions are primarily informed by Pragmatism.
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I like to call this the "Goons are real" problem: Some stuff seems unrealistic or like a tired trope to us because we've become unaccustomed to the thing that trope was based on - just like it used to be perfectly normal for powerful men in a community to have (sometimes literal) retainers!
January 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I like to call this the "Goons are real" problem: Some stuff seems unrealistic or like a tired trope to us because we've become unaccustomed to the thing that trope was based on - just like it used to be perfectly normal for powerful men in a community to have (sometimes literal) retainers!
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people in stories don't actually choose the most logical or sensemaking things! it's like the Evil Overlords List, we're seeing in real life that real evil overlords do not subvert tropes like "never explain your evil plan" or "make sure your goons have uniforms it's hard to imitate"
January 2, 2026 at 6:21 PM
people in stories don't actually choose the most logical or sensemaking things! it's like the Evil Overlords List, we're seeing in real life that real evil overlords do not subvert tropes like "never explain your evil plan" or "make sure your goons have uniforms it's hard to imitate"
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I choose to take this as a positive omen.
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I choose to take this as a positive omen.
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
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I mean it's only right. We can't start without Jarnathan.
December 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I mean it's only right. We can't start without Jarnathan.
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Actually, if you start it at 11:51pm Jarnathan will make his entrance at 12.
a poster for dungeons and dragons honor the thieves
Alt: a poster for dungeons and dragons honor the thieves with a big bird person wearing a red robe
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Actually, if you start it at 11:51pm Jarnathan will make his entrance at 12.
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If you start the Dungeons and Dragons movie at 11:56pm tonight, you will begin the new year watching a really great movie.
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you start the Dungeons and Dragons movie at 11:56pm tonight, you will begin the new year watching a really great movie.
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