"It was Sarah Brightman," I exclaimed, and everyone looked at me as if I'd lost my mind.

Unbelievable is correct.

We found the oasis in a desert that day and ignored it at once when it started to play #vss365

October 2nd My thirst was for the 1st But then the 2nd beckoned

This won't take too long to read I know how time is scarce It slipped through my fingers yesterday falling on the linoleum and scattering and I, without my glasses, lost where it went I didn't bother looking I had other things to do like listening to the birds who carelessly sing a lot

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“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

RIP Jane Goodall. For some reason, I just assumed you would live forever, which isn’t untrue.

Pls help us name our new gift shop birding book. The ornithologists are stuck on “Toucan Play This Game” and our publisher's already rejected “Flock You, Seagulls"

Cloudy today I think it's okay to not have the sun Shadows are dumb

Ellsworth Kelly, White Relief over White, 2003 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136954

"I suffered so the folks who come after me should have to too" is a sickness a lot of folks have that i do not understand at all. I want to help the folks coming after me have an easier time than i did coming up

old plumbing the ominous laughter stuck inside #DailyHaikuPrompt (laughter) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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Conundrums are soft drums they drum drum drum drum They inspire brains to fire hear them hum hum hum hum #vss365

"Conundrum. I like how it sounds," Sandra said as she snapped a straight piece onto a row of straight pieces. "Kah.... nunnn.... drummm." Carl sipped his cola and smiled. "It's a puzzle," he said. "Says so on the box." "Puzzle is a nice word," she replied, "but the z's make me sleepy." #vss365

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He uses his inside voice.

Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19734

To be like a god I think it is odd Instead of a deity I'm happily meity

“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.” — Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

📷 Angelique Hagenaar.

Put me in a box carry me for a while and let me go Then after a while I will recreate the space curling myself Into what it was but I can only be a shape for a little while

I refuse to hire anyone who has no ear lobes.

I think coffee is the correct answer to 90% of all questions.

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Blinked On the occasion of the unbalanced being balanced, I was too far along I couldn't see it Someone told me about it how the floor became level how the ball that would roll sat still, it never happens But it happened for a second and I missed it which is normal I am told too often

Maybe I can't tell you how heartless this administration is to immigrants, but I might be able to persuade you to listen to this episode of This American Life. Last week and this week have been tough listens. It's the human cost. Emphasis on human.

it’s difficult to express how dangerous an organization the college board is in the total absence of any kind of social justice mission

Kinda exhausted. Working on being impaired.

I love print media @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social

Your scrutiny ate at my soul I'm shadow of what once was whole My body was broken Was less than a token Now I'm nothing according to poll #vss365

Imposter syndrome. Fucks with my head every day at work.

He breezed through the gallery's opening night exhibits, not giving a second thought to the fine art on the walls. His reserved his scrutiny for the fine menu at the open bar. #vss365

obituary an afterthought

💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition. Today's prompt comes from Hana Widerman, who was longlisted in the 2024 National Poetry Competition. Thank you, Hana!

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there was a reckoning in 1984 and you can dance to it

In midnight a seed will grow the light be damned

Czesław Miłosz

You are allowed to change your mind.

"Be sure to get your complimentary copy of Mein Kampf in the lobby on your way out."

From what I understand, there's no money available for anything that's good but lots of money for everything that's bad. Am I getting that right

The cool thing about late night posting is that your id thinks it's a post all you want and don't give it a second thought buffet.

The free market is a great thing because it's not free to most of us?

Best line all week, listening to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Sagal says: "What are they gonna do? Eliminate our funding?"

Kinda thinking they all should be relieved of their duties, not just this guy.

“My primary addiction in my entire life has been to #television….That’s of far less interest to readers. Than the idea of heroin…” www.honest-broker.com/p/david-fost... #DavidFosterWallace