Dirck de Lint

@dirck.bsky.social

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Intermittently clever writer of horror and SF, he/him (won't get salty about they/them). Find me hither and yon at https://linktr.ee/dirckdelint

Terry Jones in a Monty Python sketch, playing a man named Arthur Ewing. He is announcing his intention to play "The Bells of Saint Mary" on his invention, the mouse organ. He has not yet picked up the pair of wooden mallets he will use as strikers. Note: no mice were harmed, or even present, during the filming of the sketch
A box of Jello Chocolate Pudding mix, which to people raised outside North America would (I'm pretty sure) be seen as a custard.
Icon from the Plex app, offering the poster for Barrymore's DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920) as the thing to click on and play the film.
Vincent Price gazes at the camera, standing behind a profoundly cobwebbed lamp in what Roger Corman's set decorators no doubt thought was the taste of the mid-1800s.
A poster for Space:1999 composed of an Independent Television Corporation logo above the show's title image. Beneath are head shots of Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Barry Morse, the three first-season leads, in costume.
1947 ad for Parker Pens then-new Parker 51 Demi, showing the pen held in a non-writing manner by a hand which is not particularly feminine in its dimensions (although the painted nails are slightly long and the chunky gold chain bracelet is not a masculine fashion of the time).
Top text: Not scared by feathery dinosaurs? Photo: A wildlife photographer reels off-balance, his expensive camera lying at his feet, as an eagle clutching his back and shoulders belabors his with its enormous wings. Bottom Text: Not paying attention to the bits that aren't feathers.
Cartoon character Jerom, from Willy Vandersteen's SUSKE EN WISKE. Canonically a caveman (and so possibly Homo neanderthal rather than H. sapiens), he is roughly as broad across the shoulders as he is tall, with extremely thick arms. His hips and legs are more human standard, the legs possibly shorter than average relative to his height, giving him a profoundly top-heavy appearance.
A publicity shot of Rondo Hatton (1894-1946) an actor with credits mainly from Universal Studios. His career was the result of acromegaly rendering his features unconventional.
The same ducks as in the previous post’s picture, hardly moved from previous, now joined by a pair of quite round partridges who are scratching in the snow on the opposite side of the tree from the ducks.
In the litter of seed fallen from a bird feeder, a pair of mallards crouch in the snow at the base of a pine tree. The picture is taken from a distance of about four meters, through the picture window of my house.
An authentically enormous brown tabby sleeps on his side, limbs toward the camera, draped across a slightly less-large tuxedo cat. Of the latter, one can see the back half easily. Of his front, only a single ear and a foot can be seen, very similar to a drowning man reaching desperately from the engulfing waves.
Matt Groenings's LIFE IN HELL cartoon, title "Bongo's Dream House". The eponymous house includes a helipad on the roof, a pool with pet duck and dolphin, a robot chef in the kitchen, a "cool car", a shark-filled moat, and in the lowest level a secret submarine pen and a mini-golf course.
The lark which is called a robin in North America, standing on some grass which has only just started going green. It is in the middle of a threat assessment calculation. pondering if that big ape with the phone isn't just a bit too close...
Photo taken on 8 April 2026, showing a mature suburban neighbourhood in the Canadian Prairies enjoying a delightful spring snowfall. The sense that the snow is moving very sideways thanks to strong winds is lost in the image.
A home-made book press-- a large vise thread runs through a cross-beam made of a salvaged oak door jamb to move the upper of two laminated plywood sheets, each about 5cm thick. The size of the bed is about 40cm by 20cm.
Poster for the 1991 film The Rocketeer: in a slightly Art-Deco stylization, a man in a red plaston jacket wearing a bronze helmet with a pterodactyl-style fin flies up from the lower left corner of the sheet by means of a really cool jet-pack.
Your DELTA E OK Just Noticeable Difference is 0.0020. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02.
"Your DELTA E OK Just Noticeable Difference is 0.0047. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02"
Siegfried wades into battle with the terrifying dragon in Siegfried (1924), the first of Fritz Lang's Nibelungen films.
A drawing of the therapsid Moschops, which really does look like the sort to catcall a passing woman and then wonder why she didn't give him her phone number.
Replicant Roy Batty is so very happy to meet J F Sebastian
A screen shot from Night of the Living Dead (1990) showing roughly six zombies lurching through the long grass of a rural American house's yard. It's a very good remake of the original and it you liked the first but haven't seen this one, I recommend it highly.
Below an article in with the headline "FDA chief Marty Markary says 'everything should be over the counter' unless drug is unsafe or addictive" is a post by @tomtomorrow.bsky.social reading I am so tired of (gesture vaguely)
John Barrymore looking absolutely not at all dreamy in his Hyde get-up. Stringy hair trailing down from a pinhead, framing mad little eyes.
A Sheaffer Valiant TD, capped, atop a note it just corrected to indicate the right date in the dizzy reaches of the 21st century.
A Sheaffer Valiant TD, a very swoopy, jet-age style of pen, perched atop a note it just wrote indicating that it still functions in a year almost unimaginable to the people who made it.
A bright sword rises above the horizon-- a searing parhelion announcing to the city below "It's very gods-damned cold out!"
A residential low-rise, backlit by a band of celadon pre-dawn, but more so by the high cloud ceiling whose lower element catch the bright salmon sunlight which streams from beneath the horizon.
Cartoonish image of a Dutch farmer gleefully putting the toe of his wooden shoe up the ass of a big pink pig wearing an Nazi armband as a tube top.
A brief clip from REPTILICUS (1961), in which the titular monster (a puppet with a foundation of several balls on a string) wabbles ashore to spit green acidic slime onto stock footage of bathers.
A residential low-rise, rendered hazy by the distance of less than a full city block as the blizzard begins. In the foreground, the back end of a Ford pickup on the upper deck of a car carrier awaits the changing of a traffic light which lies outside the frame.
A modern thermostat, calibrated for some reason in Fahrenheit, showing a set temperature of 72 and a current temperature of 59
A sky so grey it would make a battleship look cheerful hangs above an even darker low-rise residential building. In the foreground, a restaurant somewhere between slate and black ruins the effect with its bright yellow awnings.
A lowball glass, perhaps five-sixths empty. The act of drinking has left a thick opaque slope of eggnog up one side. Also, someone dribbled on the counter. Better get cleaning!
A forest of repurposed bottles and cream cartons, ready for the refrigerator.
A cognac bottle stands with a funnel stuck in its yap. Not so snooty now, as it takes on a load of commoner’s festive beverage!
A ladle moves nog from mixing bowl to another steel bowl. Both are what a sensible person would call full.
There is very little freeboard in the mixing bowl. Insufficient to need.
Pouring in one-third of the dairy budget, a litre of whipping cream.
The limbs of the whisk pierce the thick froth of cream on the rested nog.
The mixer’s whisk spins as rum gargles into the bowl.
Well-mixed sugar and eggs, the bowl beneath cling-wrap.
The bowl of yolks is clamped into the mixer, the whisk attachment is just starting to whirl, and a big pink thumb is advancing the mixer’s power lever.
Close-up of the side of a stand mixer indicating 575 Max Watts, which is enough to knead two loaves of bread at once.
A large steel bowl containing 18 egg yolks, a cereal bowl full of whites (which aren’t white pre-cooking but a transparent yellow) and a tall tumbler also quite full of whites.
18 eggs, a bowl brimming with sugar, three litres of heavy cream, and a 750ml bottle each of dark rum, the cheapest cognac I could find, and a similarly cheap bottle of crème de cacao.
The original post in this thread, with the LIKES counter showing 666, which is amusing.
Figure of the Altairan Id Monster from FORBIDDEN PLANET.
A light brown over dark brown 1979 VW van, a rectangular prism of automotive material. This isn't MY van, just a picture lifted from the interweebs.
The view out my picture window at 13:56 on 12 October 2025: pine boughs drooping under the weight of wet snow. In the background, snow obscures the view of a neighbour’s house as it drops at roughly a 45-degree angle.
An article about some purported improvements to the Washington Post's editorial environment, with a picture of Bezos superimposed over the entryway to the newspaper's building.
A picture showing Stephen Miller in the White House press room, the light shining on the vast dome of his greenish forehead, making the reichsadler there gleam. He smiles to show his long fangs.
Trending Topics in the Bluesky sidebar, including something which just says USMNT.
Screen shot from a tablet, the wallpaper of which is the standby image from Moonbase Alpha's Command Center communication screens (in the inferior (my own opinion) second season).
A horrible picture of Stephen Miller in the White House press room, whose innate horrible-ness is enhanced by inflating his already-domed head, installing fangs, tinting his skin green, and stenciling a Reichsadler onto his vast forehead.
A still from THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, in which Gwynplaine reacts with horrified glee as Dea embraces him.
A map of the current borders in the area of the town of Baarle-Nassau, which has several chunks of Belgium enclosed entirely in the Netherlands but also enclosing even smaller sub-parcels of Netherlands. There is a very nice pannenkoeken restaurant across the street from the Baarle-Nassau town hall. Well worth a visit.
Screenshot showing two adjacent entries on my Bluesky feed: - Top, a set of anxious and angry responses to the Smithsonian removing Trump material from an exhibit about presidential impeachments; - Bottom, the Endless Screaming account says AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
A woman on a stage, arms outspread in an attitude of general ecstasy. She is wearing a dark full length skit, a teal top, and a broad-sleeved orange shawl decorated along its lower edge with purple flowers. Her head is covered in flowers and her face made up in orange and pale green in a manner mildly reminiscent of kabuki. The background is a white screen above a deep red drapery. Jack Cardiff is well known for his mastery of Technicolor in the 1940s.