Fero has to be the coolest verb I've ever come across 😱🤯💕 m.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRK... #language #writingCommunity

Oh no! They've arrested Khal Drogo!! #booksky #writingCommunity #fantasy #humor

You see how the line (the value of the market) has gone way up but the bars on the bottom have suddenly gone way down? That's bad That's really bad #stock #economy #investing #equities #ai #technology

"Powell hints stocks are overvalued" is the closest a fed chair comes to saying "equities are batshit overvalued" www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/s... #money #economy #finance #investing #stock

That book I was reading about managing ADHD? ...got buried under a pile of other books ...and then shelved away to a random place during a cleaning spree ...underlining the need for me to actually read the book

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood

"Because how we look at the world shapes the world we see, every act of noticing is an act of worlding. The Latin root of notice is to begin knowing" - from Maria Popova's Margenalian If you see through eyes primed for awe & beauty - you will call forth just such a world #writingCommunity #art

What a very cool poem by Yusef Komunyakaa from the 2012 issue of the Paris Review www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6707/... #poetry #art #booksky

"Fish Buttholes May Be The Reason We Now Have Fingers" A headline that is sure to tickle your curiosity www.sciencealert.com/fish-butthol... #science #fish #animal #biology #scifi

Excuse me - my Rapture timed out at 17% How do I hit restart?

"[Isaac] Newton never wrote a memoir, but if he had, he probably would have called it "I Hope I Really Pissed You Off," or maybe, "Don’t Bother Me, You Ass." A man after my own heart #science #booksky #history #writingCommunity nautil.us/the-lonelies...

Today feels like a magical Monday, so go ahead and make a wish! 🪄 #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #sky

Happy 1st day of autumn Better known as the autumn equinox to science & astronomy friends 🧡 (Also, it is apparently "The Feast of Avalon" - which is just such a kickass name)

"Looking at history through any single lens creates distortions because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice" - Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green #health #medicine #history

Look it up "The night of broken glass" was triggered by the assassination of a hateful figure by an angry young man We are doomed to repeat what we don't learn from #history #kristallnacht #hate #politics

Consider Tom Homan's perspective By Ezra Klein

Good night, bsky

Did you know not all mercury compounds have the same impacts on health? Organic compounds generally interact easily with your body and can have lots of impacts Inorganic compounds often pass through with little effect The difference is interesting! #science www.newscientist.com/article/mg21...

"This is my book, mothafucka! They'll walk if I tell them to!" #booksky #writingCommunity #story #fiction #art #comedy youtu.be/I3g6mFI4Fug

"In their life, a factory farm chicken experiences about 700 hours of pain. Considering that chickens raised for meat only live for around 1,100 hours, or 45 days, and sleep for a sizable portion of that, they experience some level of pain for much of their waking life" #food #animal #recipe

It is a joy an privilege to tell someone "I am in your debt" The ties that bind are those that give meaning Owing nothing to anyone is the epitome of loneliness

It is exceedingly easy for 2 straight white men to ask "why don't liberals go into conservative spaces like churches & debate them the way conservatives have done on college campuses" Without stopping to ask if that would even be physically safe for a liberal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

#WriterWednesday tips

What do you want to do today? What do you REALLY want to do?

Facts don’t move people. Safety does. Belonging does. Love does. Sometimes the best thing you can do for the future of humanity is to offer someone a cup of tea.

Duolingo has now added chess to their offerings I see they'll do anything rather than improve their existing language courses and add popular new ones like Farsi

25th U.S. Poet Laureate, first Asian American to hold this honor. A big hell yeah for Arthur Sze today! www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Yesterday I got to go to Filoli for the first time. What a glorious day!🌱🌱🌱

• The smell of new books • The feel of fresh sheets across my body • That first bite of pizza • Light at "golden hour" filtering through the trees as the bells of the local church toll vespers • My dog's deep, slow sighs as he dreams of me sitting next to him

I can tell it's autumn - My craving to make/eat soup is ripening into deep, tender desire

Another fjord view from Arnarfjörður in the Westfjords of #Iceland in Sept 2019.

"to love someone is to choose them again and again day after day, century after century, as they change and morph and fluctuate across the spectrum of being, to continue to see and cherish the kernel of the person beneath the costume of personality" -Maria Popova The Marginalian

"The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life" - Maria Popova, The Marginalian (Image: Arundhati Roy) #story #booksky #writingCommunity #poetry #art

I love absolutely everything about this

Turniphead sleeping.

She shines with her own light! 📷🌱 …

Hey! Look at that! The #writingCommunity on bsky is among the best on this social network! Heck yeah 🎉🎊

A good reminder to oneself: PLAY Adults don't do enough of it Yes - that probably means you, too

Locust borer #photography

Resist the urge to say nothing makes sense anymore - or that nothing matters anymore These are the exact feelings dictators and tyrants want you to espouse Just by refusing to say or believe these things, you deny them power

Shit, as is usual these days, is bananas. So I just want many of you to know how much I respect, adore, or quite simply just plain fucking love you guys. Now more than ever we need each other.

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

"Embracing life is all about choosing your madness rather than having it thrust upon you" - Benjamin McEvoy, Hardcore Literature Book Club #story #book #lite #literature #philosophy #booklit

"Kiss me the way you did in Rome..." - The Thorn Birds #book #story #fiction #booksky

"No man sees himself in a mirror as he really is; nor any woman" - The Thorn Birds By Colleen McCullough #fiction #book #literature

If I could give my younger self one piece of writing advice it would be: Stop overthinking and start writing. Get the damn story down on paper, and you can worry about everything else later.

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