Bevan Thomas
@bevanthomas.bsky.social
Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
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Baby Hippo Bliss Break!
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We think he likes scratches 🦛 #mars #babyhippo #pygmyhippo #kansas #animalencounters
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November 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Baby Hippo Bliss Break!
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On the one hand, “everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it” is a maxim for a reason. But on the other hand, never have I seen numbers that seem less in touch with consensus reality.
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The mind-boggling valuations of AI companies
You try wrapping your head around a string of deals worth nearly $600bn
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
On the one hand, “everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it” is a maxim for a reason. But on the other hand, never have I seen numbers that seem less in touch with consensus reality.
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
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Yeah, we did. We ruined it for misogynists and sexual predators and office lotharios and drunks and lazy loafers who had their secretaries and assistants do their actual work.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Yeah, we did. We ruined it for misogynists and sexual predators and office lotharios and drunks and lazy loafers who had their secretaries and assistants do their actual work.
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Nymphs and fauns, #FolkyFriday will be back this week with a brand new theme! 🖤
On November 7th we're going to be celebrating "Blood Month and Folkloric Sacrifices!"
From Iphigenia to Odin, the Hitobashira to Miao Shan and beyond, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then!
On November 7th we're going to be celebrating "Blood Month and Folkloric Sacrifices!"
From Iphigenia to Odin, the Hitobashira to Miao Shan and beyond, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then!
a white goat with horns is standing in a fenced in area eating grass .
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November 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Nymphs and fauns, #FolkyFriday will be back this week with a brand new theme! 🖤
On November 7th we're going to be celebrating "Blood Month and Folkloric Sacrifices!"
From Iphigenia to Odin, the Hitobashira to Miao Shan and beyond, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then!
On November 7th we're going to be celebrating "Blood Month and Folkloric Sacrifices!"
From Iphigenia to Odin, the Hitobashira to Miao Shan and beyond, tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for shares then!
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In the second attempt at Creation, Izanami succeeded in her mission by having ten thousand children, who are the land and kami that inhabits Japan. One of the last born was Kagutsuchi, the god of fire: he destroyed his mother, and created death. #WyrdWednesday
🖼: H. Mansouri
🖼: H. Mansouri
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In the second attempt at Creation, Izanami succeeded in her mission by having ten thousand children, who are the land and kami that inhabits Japan. One of the last born was Kagutsuchi, the god of fire: he destroyed his mother, and created death. #WyrdWednesday
🖼: H. Mansouri
🖼: H. Mansouri
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💫This week's theme is grief! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your mourning legends, your lamentation traditions, bereavement rituals, tales of sorrowful woe, & deities of misery. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
💫This week's theme is grief! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your mourning legends, your lamentation traditions, bereavement rituals, tales of sorrowful woe, & deities of misery. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫
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Penny for the guy, you Wydlings?
With Bonfire Night falling on #WyrdWednesday, we go one better and give you:
“Burn, Baby, Burn!”
As this week’s topic.
Let’s hear some fiery stories from lore, myth, lit and history!
With Bonfire Night falling on #WyrdWednesday, we go one better and give you:
“Burn, Baby, Burn!”
As this week’s topic.
Let’s hear some fiery stories from lore, myth, lit and history!
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Penny for the guy, you Wydlings?
With Bonfire Night falling on #WyrdWednesday, we go one better and give you:
“Burn, Baby, Burn!”
As this week’s topic.
Let’s hear some fiery stories from lore, myth, lit and history!
With Bonfire Night falling on #WyrdWednesday, we go one better and give you:
“Burn, Baby, Burn!”
As this week’s topic.
Let’s hear some fiery stories from lore, myth, lit and history!
In Welsh myths, the land of Dyfed suffered supernatural disasters, including a mist that kidnapped Dyfed's citizens. The culprit was the fairy Llwyd. He sought to punish Rhiannon (Dyfed's fairy queen) for marrying a human rather than Llwyd's best friend Gwawl (her former fiancée).
#MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In Welsh myths, the land of Dyfed suffered supernatural disasters, including a mist that kidnapped Dyfed's citizens. The culprit was the fairy Llwyd. He sought to punish Rhiannon (Dyfed's fairy queen) for marrying a human rather than Llwyd's best friend Gwawl (her former fiancée).
#MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday
In the Brothers Grimm version of "Snow White," the Evil Queen tries to kill Snow White again at the girl's wedding. So the dwarfs make red-hot iron slippers, the prince forces the Queen to wear them, and she is made to dance until the shoes burn her to death.
#FolkloreSunday
#FolkloreSunday
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In the Brothers Grimm version of "Snow White," the Evil Queen tries to kill Snow White again at the girl's wedding. So the dwarfs make red-hot iron slippers, the prince forces the Queen to wear them, and she is made to dance until the shoes burn her to death.
#FolkloreSunday
#FolkloreSunday
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Gawain answered the Green Knight's challenge. He would not run when the quest meant certain death. He did not speak up when his host's wife approached him. When he returned to Camelot with a green scarf it became fashionable: a reminder that honesty is key. #FolkloreSunday
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Gawain answered the Green Knight's challenge. He would not run when the quest meant certain death. He did not speak up when his host's wife approached him. When he returned to Camelot with a green scarf it became fashionable: a reminder that honesty is key. #FolkloreSunday
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Happy All Souls’ Day!✨
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Happy All Souls’ Day!✨
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
Welsh folklore tells us to give our eyes a blessing today:
“In almost every parish there was a holy well, and on All Souls’ Day old women generally washed their eyes in the waters so that their eyesight might retain its strength”
📸 St Non's Well
#folkloresunday
Surprisingly, it wasn't King Arthur's sword that was one of the 13 Treasures of Britain in Welsh legend, but instead his cloak Gwenn. This silk cloak was white as snow and had a reddish-gold apple sewn at each of its corners. It could turn King Arthur invisible.
🎨Rubin Eynon
#FolkloreSunday
🎨Rubin Eynon
#FolkloreSunday
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Surprisingly, it wasn't King Arthur's sword that was one of the 13 Treasures of Britain in Welsh legend, but instead his cloak Gwenn. This silk cloak was white as snow and had a reddish-gold apple sewn at each of its corners. It could turn King Arthur invisible.
🎨Rubin Eynon
#FolkloreSunday
🎨Rubin Eynon
#FolkloreSunday
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: TRUTH & LIES
a truth and lie gauge with a green and red circle
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October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: TRUTH & LIES
DESCRIBE, USING DIAGRAMS WHERE APPROPRIATE, THE EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO YOUR DEATH.
Saunders had been dead for almost two weeks now and, so far, he hadn't enjoyed a minute of it.
- Grant Naylor, "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
Saunders had been dead for almost two weeks now and, so far, he hadn't enjoyed a minute of it.
- Grant Naylor, "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
DESCRIBE, USING DIAGRAMS WHERE APPROPRIATE, THE EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO YOUR DEATH.
Saunders had been dead for almost two weeks now and, so far, he hadn't enjoyed a minute of it.
- Grant Naylor, "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
Saunders had been dead for almost two weeks now and, so far, he hadn't enjoyed a minute of it.
- Grant Naylor, "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
"[The revelers] died each in the despairing posture of his fall. The life of the ebony clock went out.... The flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"
🎨Harry Clarke
#BookWormSat
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"
🎨Harry Clarke
#BookWormSat
November 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"[The revelers] died each in the despairing posture of his fall. The life of the ebony clock went out.... The flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"
🎨Harry Clarke
#BookWormSat
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"
🎨Harry Clarke
#BookWormSat
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'When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange boughs'
-Christina Rossetti
Tomorrow #BookWormSat will explore death and the dead in literature. Do join us! 🖤 Reposts will be slower than usual.
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange boughs'
-Christina Rossetti
Tomorrow #BookWormSat will explore death and the dead in literature. Do join us! 🖤 Reposts will be slower than usual.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
'When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange boughs'
-Christina Rossetti
Tomorrow #BookWormSat will explore death and the dead in literature. Do join us! 🖤 Reposts will be slower than usual.
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange boughs'
-Christina Rossetti
Tomorrow #BookWormSat will explore death and the dead in literature. Do join us! 🖤 Reposts will be slower than usual.
Mae West in publicity photos from the 1934 film “Belle of the Nineties,” with costumes designed by Travis Banton.
#Fashion #FashionSky #Costume #CostumeSky #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting #Cinema #Movie #MaeWest
#Fashion #FashionSky #Costume #CostumeSky #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting #Cinema #Movie #MaeWest
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Mae West in publicity photos from the 1934 film “Belle of the Nineties,” with costumes designed by Travis Banton.
#Fashion #FashionSky #Costume #CostumeSky #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting #Cinema #Movie #MaeWest
#Fashion #FashionSky #Costume #CostumeSky #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting #Cinema #Movie #MaeWest
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Halloween Queen Moo Deng attempting to eat a small jack-o-lantern
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Halloween Queen Moo Deng attempting to eat a small jack-o-lantern
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💫Join us #Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday! As the veil thins the theme is #Halloween! Give us your Hallows' Eve legends, Samhain traditions, Day of the Dead festivals, #halloweenart, & All Saints' deities. Give us your #Legend #quote #folklore #fairytale #mythology & #art💫
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
💫Join us #Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday! As the veil thins the theme is #Halloween! Give us your Hallows' Eve legends, Samhain traditions, Day of the Dead festivals, #halloweenart, & All Saints' deities. Give us your #Legend #quote #folklore #fairytale #mythology & #art💫
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Wyrdlings! With Halloween looming large over us this week, it's time for our annual #WyrdWednesday Spooky Spectacular!
Bring us ghosts, goblins, and ghouls; witches, werewolves, and will-o'-the-wisps!👻🧙♀️🧟♂️👿
Bring us ghosts, goblins, and ghouls; witches, werewolves, and will-o'-the-wisps!👻🧙♀️🧟♂️👿
October 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wyrdlings! With Halloween looming large over us this week, it's time for our annual #WyrdWednesday Spooky Spectacular!
Bring us ghosts, goblins, and ghouls; witches, werewolves, and will-o'-the-wisps!👻🧙♀️🧟♂️👿
Bring us ghosts, goblins, and ghouls; witches, werewolves, and will-o'-the-wisps!👻🧙♀️🧟♂️👿
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme will be two plays, chosen for their supernatural elements: HAMLET 💀 & MACBETH 🗡
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme will be two plays, chosen for their supernatural elements: HAMLET 💀 & MACBETH 🗡
"I was conscious of... an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked.... The thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
#BookWormSat
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
#BookWormSat
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"I was conscious of... an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked.... The thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
#BookWormSat
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
#BookWormSat