“You can’t fix it. You can’t make it go away. I don’t know what you’re going to do about it, but I know what I’m going to do about it. I’m just going to walk away from it. Maybe a small part of it will die if I’m not around feeding it anymore.” – Lew Welch

This is so anathema to my own way of existing in the world that I’m wondering if “ornamental hermit” is still a valid career.

if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

just learned about the tiktok evangelicals who think the rapture is happening on Tuesday, in part because of people "standing on hilltops blowing horns in Israel." you mean the SHOFAR???? since it is the month of Elul and Rosh Hashanah is right around the corner??? girl...

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

wishing you a merry equinox. align, flow, & trust the cyclical.

You want to improve quality of life for autistic people? Let me buy kink gear with my HSA

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

offering my wife a tylenol and reminding her to take her autism

Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

Dudes rock

they found out where autism comes from

I will say this for having two different religious studies degrees: I’m rarely bored.

happy first day of fall, crush some foliage and snort it, grab every pumpkin flavored item you see, roll around in the dressing room of a Spirit Halloween, yell at the sun, scare someone

I cannot stress enough that globally and historically, belief in the Rapture is super niche freaky cult behavior that the vast majority of Christians wouldn't even recognize.

Today in surreality, I paid my anesthesia bill and got a popup "rate this on a 0-10 scale" but the actual question was: "Given your billing experience, how likely are you to recommend Anesthesia to a friend or colleague?" I am five layers deep in arguing with this question and also dying laughing.

happy autumnal equinox, beloveds!! 🍁 it's our favorite time when things begin to die away and the deadlands fill and fill 💀 🖤 oh, and there's decorative gourds 🎃

DECORATIVE GOURD SZN

It's officially Autumn, or as it's known in this house:

This was fantastic. We say “touch grass” like a curse on someone, when really the digital realm has become a place to separate us from the sensual (and I’d argue the emotional) connection we have with the world around us and those closest to us

Good morning I don't know why, but I love pylons. I found these in the East Bay somewhere in Northern California. I call the shot The Hum, which is as term you'll know if you follow @hookland.bsky.social 's account (which you absolutely should).

That earthquake was centered at UC Berkeley, so it’s time to see if Middlegame is real and the timeline has reset in any notable ways.

guanyin, immediately after getting to china and figuring out she's a girl:

Earthquake (holy shit, that was a sharp one)

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

I met the Buddha on the road and he told me to like and subscribe

Speaking of cats the vet today was telling me when she was a young person she had the world’s meanest cat, the cat was so mean when they took her to the vet they had to wrap the carrier in a bag and pipe gas in to sedate her to keep her from killing everyone. Truly the best cat, iconic rage kitty.

Phoebe has the reverse issue where >1 vet has described her as “worryingly submissive.” One time she needed an IV & came back to me soaking wet. I was like “what happened?” and the vet was like “one of our students accidentally dumped a whole bag of saline on her and she just looked disappointed.”

I saw somebody perform an acoustic "highway to hell" with all the exact same lyrics except he changed hell to heaven, and then at the end of the song yelled "down with Satan!" and the crowd lost their fucking minds

I have a scar on my upper thigh from one of Snow White’s descendants! Polydactyl murder mittens permit 120-150% more murder!

I love to stand in the shower with my hands against the wall and my head bowed, water running down the elaborate back tattoo that hints at the torment within

I did CPE with a lady who was a liturgical mime & was purportedly trained by Marcel Marceau. It was a 50/50 shot on whether she’d be wandering the trauma center in a beret & greasepaint on any given day and I once sat through a half-hour one-woman silent production of The Passion of the Christ.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Trans people are people. Trans rights are human rights.

I’m built like this if u even care

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

About once a month I think about the girl from Bible Camp who, when we were 14 and forced to make name tag necklaces on the first day, made one that said “I 💚 YAOI” and managed to wear it the entire week after convincing the counselors she’d misspelled Yahweh.*

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

developing self-confidence later in life is such a trip because now I'm like, "I know who I am, I know what I can do, and if anyone has negative or contrary ideas about either, I have enough of a mental foundation to care so much less than when I was younger"

Agatha Christie's

Inspired by this post: What's a cyberpunk story that most people don't think of as cyberpunk because of the aesthetics?

Some ~personal news:~ My first chapbook with Pastitch Press is coming in November! “Coal of Fire” includes translations from the Hebrew Bible, as well as poems and two essays exploring translation, identity, and the sacred. I’m so excited and proud of this little book.

Hey man, you alright? Lately you’ve been dressing like a magician that performs within 10 feet of a buffet

Ok, so: I was raised in Boston and my first beat was in Rhode Island so I KNEW: the rule you learned growing up as a kid, and then as a reporter, was this: NEVER FUCK A KENNEDY. NEVER GET INTO A MOVING CONVEYANCE WITH A KENNEDY. NOT A BOAT. NOT A PLANE. NOT A CAR.

Hey folks, I didn’t know Todd and I don’t know his queer Pagan community, but they’re working to raise legal fees to prevent his ashes from being put in a potter’s field due to Some Fuckery by estranged family members. Help honor the beloved dead:

Apropos of nothing: Go file an advance directive. It'll save your loved ones at least a little pain later. If you're in California, you can do with with a printer, two friends, and 15 minutes: oag.ca.gov/system/files...

Kat (@flannel.live) and I have been married for 4 years now, and our lives fit together easily into the beautiful, loving life we've built together. When I proposed to her, more than five years ago, I handed her this commission of us, in a frame