dining like an apex herbivore #vedge #philly #vegan

having a beer in Philly, waiting for my favorite vegan restaurant to open at 5, and "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is playing on the jukebox, and i have no complaints

i love visiting my parents' cats

seeing Hadestown on Broadway tonight yay; so i'm put in mind of one of my favorite poems, "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes." by Rainer Maria Rilke (posted here in Stephen Mitchell's excellent translation):

hit my target this year w 13 days to spare

a courageous and inspiring thread, which i urge everyone to read even if you don't think you need to. thanks for sharing this, Drew

apropos of absolutely nothing, i was just thinking of this banger

imagine being able to make even just *one* movie as epoch-defining as This Is Spinal Tap . . . or When Harry Met Sally . . . or Stand By Me . . . or The Princess Bride . . . or Misery . . . or A Few Good Men . . .

for @zzyzx.bsky.social and anyone else who may be in Baltimore over the next month, there are some excellent exhibitions rn at the free Walters Art Museum in Mount Vernon, including a whimsical exhibition on cats in medieval illuminated manuscripts and another showing Ancient Egyptian animal mummies

a short memoir of my favorite Phish show i attended, on its 30th anniversary

on the negative side, i got nada in Sphere PTBM alas; on the positive side, however, i saw an excellent production of Much Ado tonight by the student actors in the Shakespeare Theater Company's MFA academy program, with Henry4p1 still on tap for tomorrow

how are you so gosh darn pretty?

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

was just thinking of this masterpiece for the first time in a minute #muppets

“watermelon, or like a panda with a mean face, or like sandals with pressure points drawn on them, or the smell of a blackboard eraser, or a Sunday morning when you wake up and it’s raining -- well, i like him more than hard bread”

"borborygmus"

sleepy girl

there's no song in Phish's catalog that's grown on me more than What's the Use? last night's Beacon Jams performance, w accompaniment from piano and string quartet, is otherworldly gorgeous

grateful to Gaia, our only home, and to the plants that give us life

an adaptation of one of the great SF novels of all time, WAY STATION, by Clifford D. Simak. but i wouldn't give it to Hollywood. i'd give it to one of my favorite anime studios -- Madhouse or Science Saru, since they'd probably do it justice

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

some friends (not food) at the annual Thanksgiving With the Turkeys at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, my favorite vegan event of the year

a random person complemented me on my Homura hoodie, which was nice. just three more months (Madokami willing!) until Walpurgisnacht Rising finally #MadokaMagica

"we can still move thoughtfully in our own lives: swapping lawns for native plants, skipping pesticides, feeding birds, keeping cats indoors, buying less, backing wildlife corridors, supporting dark-sky ordinances during migration, moving to a more plant-based diet."

this is a good article; and "catamount" is a great word

One Team. One Spirit. One more to go 👏

This is what it's all about 👏

WE ARE HEADED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP

Full time, 2-0 Spirit. Possibly their best performance of 2025, absolutely ran the Thorns off the field.

Finals bound. We're unstoppable!!!!!! #WashingtonSpirit

win or lose, it's my final 45 minutes (plus extra time maybe) at Rowdy Audi this season, my first with season tickets. this is the best team and these are the best fans. let's finish the job! #WashingtonSpirit

my daemon and i are super excited to read The Rose Field, but are re-reading the first two books first

Esme Morgan: A Woman of The People

A heck of a scene at Audi Field. Trinity Rodman and Sandy MacIver sprinted straight from the sideline to meet Aubrey Kingsbury in goal. Adrián González stood and hugged Tara McKeown and Gabby Carle. And now, Esme Morgan is waving a flag in the middle of the supporters’ section.

SPIRIT NEVER SAY DIE!!!

ZOHRAN!!!!

Wilfred Owen weeps

not sure whether he's my favorite, but i've got to give a call out to my boy Uexküll from Flip Flappers

i'm too scared by real world events for Scary tonight; and i'm just too damn tired to do Spooky. so i shall be cozying up tonight with Wolf Children: technically a Halloween movie bc it has werewolves waOOoooo #anime

You already know. That's Cantore.

winter squash; summer squash

well, this day just got a lot shittier. rest in power, D'Angelo

This is the lesson of 2025

SOFIA CANTORE BACKHEEL GOAL ‼️

“When you eat a burger, you’re not just eating a cow . . . You’re eating macaws and jaguars and the rest of the cast of Rio. You’re eating the Amazon. You’re eating the earth.”

i love these pictures and the message they convey that Gaia remains resilient, despite all the harm our many failures of stewardship have inflicted (and also, it was an excuse for me to listen to Midnight Oil's "Bushfire" for the first time in a while. what a great damn song!)

Icculus is punishing me for my not believing in his existence #phish

While out bushwalking I spotted several echidnas all within about 1km of track. While not an echidna "train", I suspect one had or was about to occur. I've not seen so many in close proximity before. #wildlife #nature #echidna #monotreme