thrym.bsky.social
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And I get it, times are tough and books can be expensive. But so is every form of recreation today. Live and read within your budget. Use the library (ebooks too). Oh no, there's a wait on a popular book. Tough shit. Don't steal it or pirate it. Wait. Read something else. You'll be fine.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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This. Also, it sucks that we live in a world where someone must make a positive argument in favor of buying books. Someone had to write that book and convince someone with deep pockets to publish and distribute it. If you are interested in a book, just buy it (and read it).
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Y’all wanna hear a wild story? Charlie is right — this medley Prince made 30 years ago, blending many of his greatest hits & fan favorites into an extended mashup, is one of the most fun “only Prince could do this” things he made in the 90s. BUT: he told us he was gonna do it. In an AOL chat room…
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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🎃 happy spooky time 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I fucking knew it.
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Happy book birthday to A Mouthful of Dust, standalone novella in the Singing Hlls Cycle, out today!

This time, Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant the hoopoe memory spirit are investigating the town of Baolin, famous for its pork recipe and its famine.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
A Mouthful of Dust
Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...
us.macmillan.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.
September 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 10:30 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
July 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Soon, Chris Ware USPS stamps.
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I launched columboxd.com, a site to track and review episodes of Columbo!
Columboxd: Track Your Columbo Episodes
One more thing…
columboxd.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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This is one of those days that people need to be extra vigilant and mindful of what information they share about breaking news and events, ESPECIALLY if it confirms your biases and preferred narratives.
June 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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…I wonder how much of the Super Bowl Shuffle the Pope can recite from memory
Chicago has probably about 20 years to revel in having the first pope from the US.
And with the way we continue to celebrate the 1986 Bears, we're never going to let the world know a moment's peace (be with you).
May 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
May 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...
Robert Prevost - Google+
A Google+ profile for Robert Prevost
web.archive.org
May 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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It feels subversive and wonderfully stupid that at a conference filled with expensive tech and AI blockchain crap, we are showing off the 30-year-old California Raisins video game
March 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#Doves with jobs: Home builder
March 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I cannot think of a better setup than that to dig into my Twitter backup and (re)post your and Scott's delightful X-Men primer from RBCC #152 in 1979.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Btw; just to break toxic fanboys brains: here is Gene Roddenberry literally saying he wished he had gay sex and wishing that he was nonbinary.
February 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Tongue twister: A very large and poorly-organized percussion manual is a

jumbled jumbo drum book.
January 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Bring back software that makes me feel like any of the people in this photo
January 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 27, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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A Brief History of the War on Christmas

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November 24, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Loved seeing Krypto. Lucky for superman he isnt a cat..
December 20, 2024 at 10:56 PM