I talk about this at work all the time, but do I take my own advice? Absolutely not. And I definitely should.

Gentle reminder for everyone (but especially neurodivergent folks, myself included): just because something is interesting and meaningful and makes you happy doesn't mean that it can't also be extremely taxing, stressful and exhausting at the same time. These things are not mutually exclusive.

Every time we have this conversation, there's two conclusions: 1) everyone fucking hates daylight savings 2) no one can agree what direction we should go in to end it though

Anyway, buy my book I guess

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day to all my fellow gender rule breakers. Have an ibuprofen.

Green - Wales natürlich #ArtRepostJuly #kleinekunstklasse

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

Even better! They were the former-SSPX-affiliated groups who disavowed Lefebvre after the original Econe consecrations, so they schismed from the schismatics to go back to the Catholic Church. JPII treated them very gently: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifi...

Another great tribute from @mak0rz.bsky.social, who has worked as an ecologist and and in a biology lab:

i’m gonna be so real with you i will believe “satellite capable of illuminating thirty squicks of land by reflection” when i (literally) see it and not a minute sooner, for one very simple reason: you can’t start a fire by moonlight

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

oh my god okay this is even funnier, so the Ecclesia Dei groups they were mad about before are former SSPX members who didn't want to be schismatics after the first batch of SSPX bishops were excommunicated in 1988. they must feel sooooo betrayed by these guys. this explains how salty they sound!!

*Billy Joel piano riff* 🎶"the gays, Jews and divorced people are much more fun"🎶

and it's always about permission to keep hating the people they used to get to hate with impunity "we are the preservers of cultural purity, you are the filthy heretical schismatics, tainted by association with gays and Jews and divorced people. we don't want your Vatican II cooties on our Mass"

they hide behind a lot of "we just want to preserve the historical accuracy of this one liturgical translation from 1437 or whatever, HOW IS THAT A SIN" in exactly the same way as Confederacy enthusiasts earnestly trying to convince you those statues are about "heritage"

now we've been talking about this fringe cult of scary right-wing assholes for weeks, and I know you've been thinking to yourself, "but Claire, when do we get to the part where they blame this on homosexuals?" come on, bestie! would I let you down like that?? of COURSE they blame it on homosexuals!

I do rather feel that they are attempting to set themselves up as sovereign citizens of Catholicism which, like, we already have they're called Protestants you can break away from the Catholic Church and do whatever you want, buddy. be the Henry VIII you wish to see in the world

I do think it's very, very funny when they try this from the angle of "look I KNOW it's NORMALLY against the law but this was an EMERGENCY" just very hard to get me on board with your frenzied sense of urgency when you're protesting something that happened when Lyndon B. Johnson was President

even like the most closely-aligned other right-wing trad Latin Mass Christofascist asshole demon clubs are like "just want to make sure everyone knows we are NOT with THOSE guys" lmaooooooooooo your schism is such a flop I'm screaming

SSPX apparently focused their entire June newsletter on bitching about a new book FSSP published on the eve of SSPX's big illegal bishops Mass its title basically translates to "Can You Make Bishops Without the Pope's Approval?" and the book's central thesis seems to be "well obviously no"

and APPARENTLY they do NOT support the new fraudulent SSPX bishops and they had SHIT TO SAY about the Mass on July 1, and SSPX is feeling so stabbed in the back that there were three deranged blog posts in a row about it yesterday L - and I cannot stress this enough - OL

so I am not an FSSP (Fraternal Society of St. Peter) expert, but my understanding is that they align with SSPX in the rejection of Vatican II's reforms of the LITURGY (i.e. they are also Latin Mass truthers) but do NOT align in the general area of "fuck the Pope, we gotta do our own thing"

even better than SSPX sending the Vatican a memo that's like "um ACTUALLY according to clause 14b, subsection 36 from the Council of Trent, we are not owned," there appears to be an incredible "the girls are fighting" scenario brewing between SSPX and an extremely similar org called FSSP

I went to the Vatican news site to see if they responded, but it seems they could not give less of a fuck. the feed is all Pakistan, Ukraine, Iran, Liberia, Venezuela, Gaza, Afghanistan, and the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War Pope Leo is currently hosting

if I am reading this correctly, their claim is that they are not technically excommunicated because they filed an appeal to try and get un-excommunicated and the punishment doesn't count while the appeal is pending Schrödinger's Schism, if you will I do not know nearly enough to say if that's true

*clears throat* *taps mic* welcome to Schism Watch 2026 I am here to report a new crashout

Spruce tip syrup in a gimlet with lime and Amalga Rhubarb gin is *chef’s kiss* yummy, and then I had a glass of red currant mead from Alaskan Brewing Co and three fish tacos was not enough food before this and I am tiiipppppsssssyyyyy and I have had to fix so many typos in this post

So, THE DUNGEON BOOK (out August 11th) has chapter art by @edelrh7.bsky.social, and we’ve put it on cards. If you’ve preordered the book, reply to this thread with proof (or a blood oath to that effect); I’ll randomly pick a reply or two and send out a set of cards…

UPDATE Here's what actually happened. 📅 26.07.17 1PM KST @ Spotify 📅 26.07.19 1PM KST @ HYBE LABELS

I appreciated this Wired review of this chair that I will almost certainly be buying and also I love that whoever created this graphic knows exactly who this chair is for www.wired.com/review/amsea...

I picked up these two rocks today while snorkeling in Ketchikan, Alaska. The white one is probably quartz, I don’t know what the other one is (slate? Schist? I dunno.)

actually, to anyone bringing a film camera to a BTS concert: you want 800 speed 35mm film. I know what the internet says and I want you to know that a concert IS a challenging, occasionally low-light shoot and only 800 speed can get you crisp quality w/o horrendous motion blur.

One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️

Adding to the weird-ass things that being BTS ARMY has had me do: driving to a grocery store on a random Monday night to buy the last copy of a physical newspaper for a city that I do not live in 🫠 so, yes it's real. no, I don't know what goes on either. we call this shit normal

OMG there are so many bears on #bearcam rn explore.org/livecams/bro...

It’s Rock Day: Rock Check! Do you have your rock? Do you need a rock? Can you find a rock? I found this lovely porphyritic basalt in my washing machine. I love how the different crystal sizes tell a story of an eruption rudely interrupting cozy subterranean cooling. Photos & stories welcome.

A couple new wee birds underglazed today — a couple of American Woodcocks & some Trumpeter Swans — plus I finished off the big flock of assorted warblers!!

As one of the first 'big' celebrities to receive this life-changing therapy, he spent a lot of time giving interviews & building support for it so that others can benefit. I wish we could have had another 10 years (at least) of his advocacy.

At the time of his death from an unrelated illness, Sam Neill was cancer-free thanks in large part to CAR T cell therapy which was used successfully to treat his rare form of T-cell lymphoma. The first CAR-T therapy to be FDA approved in the US was tisagenlecleucel/Kymriah, in 2017.

Sharing from IG 💜 BTS ad in SF Chronicle

wait yes this is perfectly expressed

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Vale Sam Neill 🥹 An actor that used his platform to raise awareness of environmental issues, including single use plastics and climate change. He spent this year fighting a mining project in Otago, NZ. A true role model. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

I think my favorite Sam Neill fact was that he had goats named after all his favorite costars

I was literally just last week talking to a friend who is miserable at his current job, was offered a great new one, and genuinely did not know if he was going to be able to take it because they use United Healthcare and none of his shit would be covered. thank god his wife's plan can cover him

graphic design is my passion

besties the form closes in 24 hours, BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

I didn't _quite_ paint every individual hair/scale on the wings, but I as good as did. 😮‍💨

Still a considerable way to go on this, but the exceedingly clever @mathbug.bsky.social, @tonionio.bsky.social, and @eggtist.bsky.social all correctly identified our friend as a Green Hairstreak. Not remotely misdirected by the red (or indeed yellow) herring of the underpainting. 😁