Walked out on: Three Amigos Empire of the Sun Should have walked out on: Fatal Attraction

Remembering, for no reason, the closed caption creator for a Culturally Important Show whose NDA kept her from talking about the series finale even though her family begggggggged her to spill.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

"The mad, once mute, today are heard by everyone; one has found the grid on which to collect their once absurd and indecipherable messages." - Simulacra and Simulation

OH MY GOD EVERYBODY I just learned about reciprocard.com , which lets you enter your public library and find out all the places you can get a card on Libby. I had not known my Minuteman card actually gave me *every network in the state*, including the flawlessly-named CLAMS?!?!

At some point someone told me that “an email inbox is a to-do list that anyone in the world can add items to” and it has stuck with me ever since

NEW MONKEY JUST DROPPED

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I am old enough and have made enough questionable decisions that I WANT my friends to ask questions.

Murder yellow. There's an appetite for it among American women too. It's great to see readers getting books and writers finding audiences. I'm all for novels being survival strategies & necessary distractions. I should be pleased by book sales and borrows, but wow, mixed feelings.

A majorly sci-fi moment, not to mention a first in human history!

Hey, @ellyzoe.bsky.social, thanks! I’m reading The Saint of Bright Doors, and liking it a lot! What assurance, what worldbuilding!

This resonates. There’s not enough narrative positivity to cover for the trauma of knowing that dislocation and what-the-fuck-comes-next are just around the corner. Precarious stability is both an oxymoron and a real and nerve wracking experience.

all right fam it's time for "Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread," in which your favorite internet lesbian breaks down what's new and hot in the world of Schism Watch 2026 please hydrate, stretch, and get a snack, we have a LOT to go over today

Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yes, and sometimes random strangers were happy to help us.

i believe that the the entire "binge watch" model of releasing television series is based on a faulty premise, and that faulty premise has significantly devaluated television as an art form. stick with me on this one...

You may have seen an outbreak of news coverage regarding a multi-state outbreak cyclospora-related illnesses (hundreds of cases, in fact). The stories will tell you that we have no idea of the source. Why not? And what do we know? 1/10 (gift article)

Birria Crunch Bombs? Fairground Fiesta Tacos? THIS is the Greatness of America State Fair, as the MN State Fair announces its new foods!

Aides writing down tips from Paul Tremblay’s “Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep“

I have not forgotten this essay.

@oldenoughtosay.com brings us The Lore of the Binface/Buckethead schism.

The World Cup is truly amazing for people with ADHD. You mean I get to have an immediate hobby that also involves deep research, repeated daily highs, and all-encompassing interest for approximately six weeks then completely forget about it? Sign me the hell up!

P. Lockwood: "Her most secret pleasures were sentences that only half a percent of people on earth would understand, and that no one would be able to decipher at all in ten years." (Howling at these comments bc I am too online.)

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🐾 TIL that a traditional practice upon seeing a lone magpie is to greet it with some variation of “Good morning, Mr Magpie, how’s the wife?” This is believed to ward off bad luck. (Also, that the Counting Crows song is based on a rhyme about magpies!)

Exactly what I tell people. Gets funny looks, but it’s true.

It’s my 39th ancient site from each country in the #WorldCup. It’s SPAIN 🇪🇸 This delightful little fellow dates to the time of the Roman empire. The mosaic was found in Villaquejida and now resides in the archaeological museum in Madrid. Has to be one of my favourite mosaics.

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

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I asked him for water Gave me gasoline

Make a few minutes for this lovely piece.

🐾 Well, well, well. Is WUBC about mysticism? History? Fate? The long reach of the past? Trauma and becoming? Gender and national politics? Yes, and told in a way that reflects the messiness of all of these things unfolding at once. No easy telling; no easy answers; only the imperfection of an…

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

For @hleisthen.bsky.social (didn't want to clog up the feed), a couple of random thoughts on Percival Everett's James and reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I recently sat in on a discussion of James. One of the book club members grew up in Ukraine; she asked, What does J have to do with HF?

if you are tuning into Schism Watch 2026, this is the important part. a bishop's consecration is supposed to begin with an Apostolic Mandate saying "the pope approves of these bishops." since they obviously don't have one, they read this jaw-droppingly audacious fuckery instead. Leo is going to flip

When you are auto-enrolled for excommunication

Listening to Ross Gay had me weeping (in a good way) on my way to work. Gorgeous, human, connecting stuff here for adults who have been through it. Recommended.

Paging @mostlymartha.bsky.social: Would you kindly direct me to a non-breakout-causing sunscreen for my face? (Which belongs to a person who is generally lazy about sunscreen, but recognizes that she's gotta start wearing it. Amazon-available is helpful.)

Interesting story, and good advice for when you really need your face to do you a solid.

Priestdaddy’s child encounters a furiously bobbling pompom and questionable advice from a tradcath abbé.

🐾 For the playlist: "And it's too late, baby, now it's too late Though we really did try to make it Something inside has died And I can't hide and I just can't fake it"

I'm happily enjoying a reread of A WIZARD'S GUIDE TO DEFENSIVE BAKING. Looking for something cheerful and funny that simultaneously puts power in the hands of those who need it? Highly recommend. Especially if you're particularly fond of your sourdough starter. #booksky

🐾: Wikipedia: “Based on its pronunciation, the original meaning of "tōru" is "to pass or pierce through something."” Suggesting that he was always meant to go through it, despite his initial insistence on concrete things. Transformation/becoming a portal was always in the cards for him. 🧵

“Cognitive surrender“ suggests a war on human cognition. That we face planned assault on our ability to think and respond every day, in ways large and small. Flooding the zone with bits is a tactic disguised as an inevitable good.

Not only do I bring my own bags to the grocery store and pack them myself, I have a tactical approach to placing items on the conveyer belt. It involves shape, weight, and packaging integrity, plus chill factor and whether I need to eat that candy immediately.

Flynne Fisher is working, don’t bug her. (This looks like a scene from William Gibson’s The Peripheral.)