susannah appelbaum

Author, young adult fantasy. Expert, poisons and antidotes. Publisher @CodhillPress. knopf/folio lit

[cate @seaofbelIs]

but he got bit by an animal and became that animal

[にゃんたまチャンネル@猫と遊べる温泉旅館 @nyantamach222]

ロミオとジュリエットと猫の別角度の動画ありましたのでリポスト

やっぱり観客爆笑してました🤣

最後は猫も紹介してもらってた

[Zephyr Teachout 🇺🇸 @ZephyrTeachout]

New York City Schools should not be kid-washing, school-washing, Mamdani-washing, whatever you want to call it, lawbreaker Google.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

normalize putting summaries on the back of books again instead of reviews. i genuinely just want to know what the book is about before picking it up

[Olena Tregub @OTregub]

Apocalyptic bird nest.

A Russian glide bomb knocks down a tree in Donbas. From the shattered branches rolls out a tiny bird’s nest.

Made of drone fiber-optic cable.

Source: Oleg Malchenko

[NIK HUNO 🦉 @NikHuno]

Joseph Campbell spent five years in a rented shack with no job, reading nine hours a day. no income, no plan, no publication deal. his sister brought him groceries. he later called it "the most fertile period of my life." the hero's journey was written by a man who spent five years doing nothing the world would call productive. I find this fact more useful than most business books combined.

[evgrieve @evgrieve]

As of yesterday, the NE corner of Broadway & 12th Street is also known as Fred Bass Way. Bass (1928-2018) took over the family business in 1956 and, the following year, moved the Strand Bookstore from 4th Ave to its current location.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Sav Shawz @shawzsav]

Hot take but listening to an audiobook is not reading and it’s actually insane to think otherwise

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

In 1541, John Calvin, a Swiss Protestant Reformer banned all jewelry as frivolous & sinful displays of vanity. This left Swiss jewelers, goldsmith’s & craftsmen jobless, so they all shifted their skills to making watches, which were exempted from the ban because they were considered time-keeping devices , & not jewelry. And that is how the Swiss became the best watchmakers in the world

[susannah appelbaum @s_appelbaum]

@horrorsthetics It is now a pizza place :(

[David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 @eggsbened]

There are days when I miss being an editor and I particularly loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

The first known aerial photo of New York — taken by James A. Hart (from a hot air balloon) in 1906.

[Anna Krivolapova @AnaKrivolapova]

Reminds me of this short story title I borrowed from a letter Jefferson wrote to a doctor at the Lexington drug farm in 1813:

[blue @bluewmist]

One of my favourite things I've ever read is about a woman who said that whenever she had a negative thought about herself, she would shout "GUARDS!" and imagine old knights entering and carrying the thought away.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

10% of AMC movie showings sell no tickets at all. I made a site that finds them. Go enjoy your private theater

[ཐི𖥔ཋྀ @GenyaTheHag]

joan of arc’s signature taken from her letters

[WIRED @WIRED]

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. https://t.co/P4kYOvqNNd