This is an especially lovely Vionnet gown, ethereally floaty, of pale pink asymmetry. It dates to the late #1920s, on the cusp of change but still recognisably of its era @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I let the kittens out of the Zone of Acclimatization (spare bedroom) and there are currently more diplomatic negotiations going on in my house than in the Middle East.

Me: So I think I want this hairstyle. (shows hairstylist some stills of Gemma Jones from The Devils) Hairstylist: Oh, yeah, that is a great cut! What's that from? Me: This weird '70s movie called The Devils. Hairstylist: Huh. Never heard of it. What's it about? Me: Um.

When your clear, well-thought-out plan (sucker the obvious cat ladies into adopting you and your brother) has come to fruition:

Having lived through the whole Saving Private Jessica hoopty-hoo, it is very odd to me that I don't currently know everything about the US pilot currently (?) in Iran, down to his shoe size. We're in a very different PR environment these days.

The exact moment.

About a month ago, after extensive negotiations and discussions between me and my kid, we went to the local cat cafe with a clear, well-thought-out plan. We were going to find a young male orange cat, about a year old, who was good with kids and other cats (we already have two). It was a solid plan.

In a rare move, Bruce Springsteen authorized the ACLU to use the iconic anthem ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ in support of our Supreme Court case challenging President Trump’s attempts to end birthright citizenship.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

But please, tell me more about how you're pro-life. www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

Alternate version of Bladerunner where the replicants are very obviously robots and very shit at their jobs and at pretending to be human but there is still a bladerunner division financed by Tyrell corporation because they insist they are completely indistinguishable from real humans.

The transition from "OMIGOD THE HUMAN IS GOING TO EAT ME" to "I LOVE YOU AND WANT TO BE PERMANENTLY ATTACHED TO YOU" for kittens is wild.

The problem that every attempt at athletic sex testing runs into is that it's trying to force a strict binary onto something that is inherently a multidimensional continuum with overlapping distributions. www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Well done. #NoKings

I'm merely one grump but I really hate the chant "This is what democracy looks like" because I've been hearing it at the 25+ years of protests I've gone to and I just think that democracy *doesn't* look like having to march about the same shit your whole life and things only getting worse.

Upside: have two new adorable 5-month-old kittens. Downside: also have two older cats (7 and 5 years, respectively) who don't even like each other and are now convinced that I don't love them and the only solution is to Velcro themselves to me (independently) at any opportunity.

Stewardess: is there a doctor on the plane?? Me: I’m a doctor of literature! Stewardess: Me: this situation is reminiscent of an online joke format from the late 2010s, but the “doctor on a plane” joke extends back significantly further to anxieties around air travel and the meaning of a titular-

I have never in my life been so grateful for a big-ass ABQ windstorm.

New today: @reveleth.com has spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t. www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

This is a really lovely interview about all kinds of interesting things.

1— Welcome to #ThreadTalk! Today is William Morris’s birthday (1834-1896) & if you know anything about him you know he was committed to the *aesthetic* in every form. He’s often cited as the godfather of the aesthetic fashion movement... but it's more complicated than that.

nymph with a green knife

10 minutes on bsky was having me think everything's really going to shit, so this poem was really reassuring. www.tumblr.com/the-domestic...

Gooseworx: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the amazing digital circus King: oh that doesn't sound scary at all! King: it sounds kinda fun and whimsical, in fact Gooseworx: it is very fun and whimsical Gooseworx: SO very fun and whimsical

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

It has begun. #TheSheddening

Did I make a whale fall coffee cake for my Oceanography final? Yes, yes I did. The taffy bones did start melting, need a better material next time.

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

Chuck Norris actually died when Bruce Lee killed him on the Way of the Dragon set, he just didn't figure it out till now

Most of the time, evaporative coolers are great: way cheaper than refrigerated air; provide welcome interior humidity when it's 15% outside; soothing white noise. Except for right now, when I have to decide if it worth risking a hard freeze and burst lines in two weeks. It's MARCH.

Cat review: totally hilarious 😹😹😹

I grew up near Cesar Chavez' home in Keene, CA; I went to kindergarten with his niece; I saw him around town frequently; I drive to work every day on Avenida Cesar Chavez in ABQ; I am not okay today.

My retainer and I are very pleased! #MichaelBJordan

Apparently my default stress response to international crises is to go to Costco and stock the fuck up.

New nonfiction out now in Strange Pilgrims: I read 900 years of werewolf stories and reported back. What were medieval werewolves like? Victorian werewolves? Weird fiction werewolves? Read and find out! www.strangepilgrims.com/p/a-brief-hi...

Is there anything better in this world than a lap full of snoozy purring kittens?

It is so nice to have a black cat again on Friday the 13th.

I mean, I would like it to be true.

Am being purred at rapturously.

Oh, this is lovely.

Uh oh.

Jane Eyre has a first-person narrator and contains maybe the biggest secret in all of 19th-century literature.

I think the most difficult question I've ever had to answer from my kid while watching a Pixar movie was "what is he saying?" re: the Aberdonian dialogue, followed up by "why does he sound like that?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHuq...

I won’t be satisfied until a Tom Holland challenges Timothée Chamalet to a dance off and ballets him into the Shadow Realm.

A little over 60 years ago, the UK's parliament was debating the then Sexual Offences Bill, which was to decriminalise male homosexuality. This, from David Kerr MP (Labour), who was a doctor, could be used today against way too many people yapping about LGBTQIA people, especially trans people:

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

If you are looking for a distraction from *waves arms*, Pillion is a really good option.