#KarenArmstrong #AShortHistoryofMyth A myth does not impart factual information, but is primarily a guide to behaviour. Its truth will only be revealed if it is put into practice - ritually or ethically.

#KarenArmstrong #AShortHistoryofMyth Unless it is encountered as part of a process of regeneration, of death and rebirth, mythology makes no sense.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

The Penguin Drop Caps series, my personal reading challenge for 2025, is now complete. #BookSky

#ShowerThoughts AU where Taylor Swift uses her billions to buy controlling interests in all of the health insurance companies, then demands socialized medicine. Single-payer health care, but she is the payer. US National Health is marketed like a private company and sold to the public as SwiftMed.

#WBYeats #CelticTwilight #BookSky the memories of one's childhood are brittle things to lean upon.

Him: Turd! Me: Yeah, sometimes I am. Him: But you're my turd. Me: Like a little floater you can't get rid of. #gaylove

#WaltWhitman #Booksky I hear and behold God in every object, [...] Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;

@tkingfisher.com #Thornhedge #BookSky The greenteeth had never told her that she was human, but [...] They had not cared. It was of no more import than Fadeweed's paleness or Reedbones's speed. She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated.

#Voltaire #BookSky For after all, what is at issue? Being happy. What matters being witty or stupid? What is more, those who are content with their being are quite sure of being content; those who reason are not sure of reasoning well. [...] (1/2)

#BookSky #Voltaire #Zadig [...] self-love is a balloon inflated with wind, whence tempests emerge when it has been pricked.

“The change follows years of quiet tension over the obligations of judges in a state where local officials and clerks have occasionally resisted same-sex marriage rulings.” A saddening development. #Texas #LoveIsLove www.advocate.com/news/texas-j...

#AgathaChristie #PassengertoFrankfurt #BookSky The natural idealism of youth is fed more and more by a desire to destroy those two phases of modern life, injustice and crass materialism. That desire to destroy what is evil sometimes leads to a love of destruction for its own sake. 1/2

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

The more I process my time with the exes, the more I am grateful for the man I'm with now. He's not a perfect human, but he's the perfect human for me. #gaylove

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future

A really fun fact. If you go to the cartoonmuseum.org in Central London to see incredible collections & shows of the best cartoon artwork & you pay for admission once, that ticket acts as an annual membership so you can go back as many times as you like in 1 year. @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it. I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work. Our liberation is bound together. Are you coming along?

#BookSky #SigridUndset #KristinLavransdatter You and I, Ragnfrid, we have observed all the fast days and have tried to live by God's commandments in all things. And now it almost seems to me . . . that we might have been happier if we had had more to regret.

Maga is damaging America’s reputation trib.al/kZ8cVht

#BookSky #AgathaChristie #HalloweenParty I know there's a proverb which says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

To err is human; to correct gently is humane. #IsaacAsimov

Share a cartoon you will always love

The thing that we need in the world today is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and to be opposed to wrong, wherever it is.” - MLk Jr. #RadioFreeAmerica

Seen a few mourn about Patricia’s Routledges passing, just seen this on our forums RIP in 25 thread. It’s brilliant @googlyeyecat.bsky.social @stabiloffc.bsky.social

If you’re talking about, much less promoting, books by Mormon authors like Stephenie Meyer and Brandon Sanderson to please acknowledge that these authors are contributing financially to a church spearheading an attacks on trans people. #Romancelandia #Booksky

#raymondchandler #playback #BookSky What strange deity made such a complicated world when presumably he could have made a simple one? Is he omnipotent? How could he be? There's so much suffering and almost always by the innocent.

@amytan.bsky.social #thejoyluckclub #booksky She cried, "No choice! No choice!" She doesn't know. If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. [This quote can reflect the relationship between the United States government and its citizens.]

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

Last night I dreamed that I was trying to clean up some poop on the floor but these people kept trying to help by standing in it and smearing it around. After I woke up, I thought, were those really humans or were they cats? Yeah, those were cats. In dreams I get people's species confused.

When we run low on coins at work, I go through my change at home and cash in my coins for dollar bills. Over the last few months, I've traded in three dollars of pennies. For some of my ancestors, this would have represented extreme wealth. #feelinggrateful #abundancegrows

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

Recommended. Murder mystery in a time loop, a Japanese novel before cell phones published in English only recently. I enjoyed it thoroughly. #BookSky

#steinbeck #canneryrow It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget" - and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

Completed 2/3 of the books in my Penguin Drop Caps challenge for 2025. Now I have eight more books to read by the end of the year. #BookSky

My anxiety has been really active lately, so I've been cutting back on caffeine to see if that's the problem. Now I have anxiety and a headache.

Bringing this 4-year-old article over to the skyline because it's an evergreen lesson on DARVO metro.co.uk/2020/06/13/g...

Happy #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! As a national NVRD partner, ALA is extremely proud to celebrate the work being done across the country to get communities #ReaderVoterReady. Is your library celebrating today? Be sure to share on social & tag ALA! More: ala.org/readervoterready #ReaderVoterReady

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. #haroundandtheseaofstories #salmanrushdie #booksky

I don't live there any more, but still very proud of the work being done in Sylva to promote LGBTQ+ visibility. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

Billie Piper and Catherine Zeta-Jones singing Bad Moon Rising on the soundtrack of Wednesday Season 2 feeds my soul.

#marcelproust #swannsway For a man cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to obey the dictates of the self which he has ceased to be. #BookSky

Yup. Hillary showed us that "I'm not Trump" is not enough to win an election, but Dems still struggle for what else to say. People need to say what they are, not only what they are not. therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-democrat...

If you don't see how this is fundamentally related to trickle-down economics I don't know if I can help you.

1. History is not a science, it's poems about ghosts.

#marcelproust #swannsway #insearchoflosttime #booksky The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them; 1/

Ten female writers by whom I've read more than five books: Diana Wynne Jones Jeanette Winterson AS Byatt Patricia A McKillip Ursula K Le Guin Jane Austen Agatha Christie Daphne Du Maurier George Eliot Charlaine Harris

#edithnesbit #theenchantedcastle #booksky Reality is sometimes quite different from dreams, and not half so nice.

#edithnesbit #theenchantedcastle #booksky "You see, if you want grown-ups to be nice to you the least you can do is to be nice to them and think of little things to please them. I never think of any myself. Jerry does; it's why all the old ladies like him."