dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 7hwhy is robert eggers adapting romeo and juliet instead of, like, cymbeline 130
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 41164381773
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 10hAn (inter)nationally important archive and library being moved to an industrial estate in Bonnyrigg so the existing site in central Edinburgh can be turned over to student housing is so very on trend. 82817
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Spending all my time at work doing menial tasks for people who consider such work beneath them and who refuse to learn how to use a comouter effectively. I have two Master's degrees. Why am I here 000
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology 8766196
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 01/02/2026The psycho pedophile regime who kidnaps and kills us is polling unfavorably 102570441
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When I reported a bulk import problem to our database support they told me I was doing it wrong but didn't explain how, & sent an hour long training that does not cover this module. We are paying like $30k/yr for this & my coworkers say we couldn't possibly migrate bc last migration took 4 yrs (??) 020
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026The before and after it's even more haunting. 3428291603
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's going to be yet more construction on one of the bridges I take to and from work and I can't do this anymore, man 011
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social 121366526
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074622433
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚horse chestnut @natehousley.com · 29/09/2026Did we ever get updates on the diarrhea lettuce 2111
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have not read The Massachusetts Discourse article but some of this feels like a psyop. Like surely some of these are bad actors because this behavior is straight out of the CIA sabotage field manual right 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a real "bitch better have my money" battle with the state of Rhode Island over my tax return. I also need to ask my former landlord's son, who has never passed up an opportunity to insult me, if I can get any of my security deposit back. I hate this! 030
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...meta.wikimedia.orgEvent:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki 44638
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I need to show this to my lovely undergrad intern, who last week asked around if we used the ampersand & was worried about it falling out of use 030
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've had my cat Ellie (Ælfwynn) since she was under two and we have a very quiet time at home but man if something rustles unexpectedly she acts like a gun went off 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In my office we have all printed out our initials from this to hang above our desks 020
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is so embarrassing but I think I need to literally retrain my hand to write for long periods. My wrists have been bad from all the moving this summer and I'm unused to sitting down to write paragraphs rather than quick notes. This reminds me of when I got tendinitis in college from *typing* 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My UK library/archives people: what companies are your usual suppliers? Over here I mostly order from Gaylord, University Products, and Hollinger Metal Edge, but I have no idea ow international any of them are 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You know what, I have time today. I would like to have seen Penny Dreadful despite its wack ass ending; Archer is a hilarious masterclass of pacing & narrative rhythm; True Detective Night Country is my favorite season by far. They were never going to recognize The Hour but I loved it so much. 210
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just finished Hild by Nicola Griffith and it is so gorgeous but takes a hard left 4/5 of the way in that has me staring at the ceiling like D: 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Woke up and thought the power had gone out bevause I couldn't hear my air filter nut then realized I had rolled onto my good ear lol 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In this book I'm reading, one of the main characters has a coworker called Bastard John. He is a dolphin 220
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Have suddenly been asked to identify a photographic print and I thought I knew this shit better than I do. A bunch of things are apparently misidentified as albumen prints in the database but they are either silver collodion or platinum prints. They look like the latter but might be too big? 010
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 25/09/2026Landscape in Stormy Weather, 1885 #realism #vincentvangogh 0246
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I take it the NYT wasn't including international shows, because surely something like Gomorrah and at least one anime masterpiece should have been involved 110
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026happy bare minimum Friday to all who celebrate 337665
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121635151
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fellow autistic ppl in burnout: how do you get any writing done 000
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Boston spends 6.4 times more on policing than on libraries That probably explains why BPL is facing a pretty big (under)staffing crisis and may have to close some branches Is this really what we want? 📚 --- Graphic via @librariesftp.bsky.social www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots 213072
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 17885386
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don't understand what anti-trans campaigners think the motivation would be to "trans everybody's kids" like they accuse left/liberal politicians of supposedly wanting to do. Like even in the most cartoonish, mustache-twisting world, what purpose would that serve 140
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am just out here using Google Translate and basic understanding of grammar to write stilted emails in French to perform tasks that are absolutely not my job. What a weird time. I wonder which one of my ancestors decided not to teach their kids French because this is a pain in the ass. 020
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My org is trying to get us to vote on "core values" and they are all fairly buzzwordy things that nevertheless should be part of any organization so it's weird to choose. I therefore will not be doing it 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Years and years ago I had a little story idea about playing with high seas piracy intersecting with book piracy, and good news for everyone: China Miéville did it in The Scar 010
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Got an absolutely diabolical CAPTCHA yesterday. My brain automatically tried to make categories by color. You know what, maybe I can't prove I'm not a robot at this point 010
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit 3460351477
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Now that I commute two hours every day I really need to lock in with audiobooks. I started China Miéville's The Scar because I can always be weirder (this is a threat) 😎 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I will repost pretty much any use of "Prisencolinensinainciusol" 000
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A couple of doctors ago (they keep leaving the state) I tried talking about how I couldn't seem to lose weight even on a pretty-close-to-vegan diet, and dr told me to eat more protein. So I started eating eggs and dairy again. It did nothing lol. F this, I'm going veganish again. 130
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I was trying to watch Alien with my cat but she keeps getting distracted and leaving 030
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026📣 New! While AI boosters are selling their vision of PA as an “AI factory,” our research shows that local communities are drawing very different lessons from their state’s industrial past, and have their own visions for its future. 1/5 datasociety.net/research-lib... 11611
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Honestly kind of rude that the nor'easter will not impact the expectation for me to drive to work but will prevent me from running errands all weekend 010
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026vote for me and my platform of chilly rainy days being only for cozy reading and napping 445579
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚particle dogs @particledogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026An energy weapon (work computer) is beaming harmful rays (emails) at me 2639167
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m glad she stayed on X because if she was mostly Bluesky it’d be like having an apex predator in a rural village. She’s got all she can eat over there and the victims deserve it. 17929130
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm sure someone else has made this point already but I'm thinking about how it will take a second Reconstruction (but larger by magnitudes) to rebuild what we have lost and also build what we were already lacking 050
dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚 @likeapen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Apparently when they heard the news about hackers getting FBI data my mom turned to my dad and said, "I bet all those people who were involved in bestiality are shaking in their boots" 010
Reposted by dread & circuses ♥️🖤🤍💚Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched. 872688839
