One of my favorites

Just casually wandering around in outfits that would have caused a traffic jam in the 40’s

"Groan or nod" Two possible physical reactions to this post... ...or an anagram for Organ Donor?

Bringing this back for myself, because it's an act of vulnerability, every time we post photos of ourselves. At least click Like, and say something nice, if you can

Who up pieing their apples?

pole-dancing raptors 🦖

Morning walk

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement Friday morning, according to a district email. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

Weekly gratitude practice. What's everyone grateful for? Following a week of medical disinformation and certain parties mischaracterizing autism as a disease, I am grateful for the diversity of neurotypes in our species. So many different ways of thinking and dreaming and perceiving.

Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.

Is it October yet

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

one of my coworkers confessed to using ChatGPT to help her when she was down & I took her by the shoulders & said "GIRL YOU LITERALLY COULD HAVE TEXTED ~ME~" and her eyes grew wide & she started crying I'm literally real & I'll help you make the WORST decisions while telling you you're beautiful

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

The male loneliness epidemic is part of the larger loneliness epidemic. We all want to belong. We want to know and be known, to love and be loved. Modern life makes connection hard. Capitalism wants us miserable so we'll spend money to fill the void when we're not laboring. 1/2

Big day for me. A box I've been saving for over 3 years was just perfect for something

Friendly reminder that if you need help getting your academic book manuscript ready to submit but a full edit doesn't fit your timeline, budget, or interest, I have a service for that!

He was asking for it

Look what we have here then.

Both stylish and functional.

Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan

Loneliness is an epidemic. We feel like it is a personal failing when we feel lonely. Sometimes it is. But many times it is because capitalism and modernity work to keep us isolated.

you would think numbers would be an easy part of copyediting. you would think.

fuckin numbers man

Lentil soup with onion, garlic, carrot, celery, zucchini, tomatoes, and basmati rice cooked in homemade vegetable broth. For spices, I ground chili peppers, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, cumin, and coriander, and after the soup was done, I squeezed in the juice of four lemons.

Dreamed I had a boyfriend. We took a selfie together and prepared to go out to dinner. He enjoyed my company and I enjoyed his. This is the aching that has gnawed at me over the years, this absence. It is such a simple, common, ordinary thing.

Reminiscing about a perfect meal ❤️

A customer just came into the shop and bought 12 books for her friend’s birthday. She’s going to wrap them individually and write a different month of the year on each one, so her friend has a new book to read every month until her next birthday. And I think that’s just the most thoughtful gift.

Happy bisexual visibility day. I’m reluctant to identify as bisexual. It’s accurate but misleading. I am bisexual but heteroromantic—and also demisexual, meaning I don’t enjoy sex unless I have romantic attraction. So my bisexuality is a curious but irrelevant artifact, like nipples on men.

Need everyone to know I just flossed, virtuously, and now I'm going to do some healthy yoga right before bed, also virtuously

I’m gonna start a cooking show where I make recipes I’ve never tried. I’m gonna call it 30 Minutes My Ass.

Cozy Humpty is best Humpty. I’m sorry I don’t know the artist.

Back in the 1900s, we couldn't just look up song lyrics. We had to hit record on the tape player as soon as the song came on and then try to decipher them. Which makes wonder, 33 years after its release, if I should look up the lyrics to Snow's "Informer." Some things are meant to be mysteries.

Recently, I haven’t posted many Lyra videos. That’s because I’ve been spending all my Lyra time working toward a performance next month. Here’s my progress so far.

Sixteen years later, still the funniest piece of writing on the internet. I revisit it every year the way some people rewatch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or reread A Christmas Carol. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

I need an anvil to fall from the sky upon that man's head, Looney Tunes style.

When I am destitute because I no longer get editing jobs because people think AI is good enough, please burn the world to ashes in my honor. Thank you.

Book talk for September 22, the first day of Decorative Gourd season. What’s everyone reading? Though The Gospel of Loki is only my second time reading @joannechocolat.bsky.social, I feel comfortable extrapolating: She never disappoints.

Eggsy and Jimmi were both just excited to see the neighbor’s cat (who came by for treats) but for some reason the pic ended up looking like a scene in an 80s movie where the nerd shows up with flowers and the girl he loves is already on a date with someone else

Doing my part 🎃

Sixteen years later, still the funniest piece of writing on the internet. I revisit it every year the way some people rewatch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or reread A Christmas Carol. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.

Five years ago, I interviewed for a library job in Colorado. I had already decided I didn’t want it when they foolishly declined to offer me the position. When I explain that people have only recently started to find me pretty, because I grew out my hair, this is what I mean.

Can’t blame him for planning ahead

No dates, no prospects, and I think it would be neat if that changed one of these years, but the fashion must go on. Pictured here in my house dress. Which is misleading. In summer in the house, I’m strictly bra and underwear. But I put this on to walk Revvie.

Same ingredients as last week, but double the goat cheese

Lovely walk this morning. The leaves are almost ready to change.

No dates, no prospects, and I think it would be neat if that changed one of these years, but the fashion must go on. Pictured here in my house dress. Which is misleading. In summer in the house, I’m strictly bra and underwear. But I put this on to walk Revvie.

Do YOU remember “the 21st night of September?” Earth Wind & Fire’s co-writer Allee Willis said she told the band: “We can’t leave ‘baa-dee-ya’ in the chorus. That has to mean something.’” Maurice White replied: “No, that feels great. That’s what people are going to remember. We’re leaving it.”

Another scene from Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)