Today is my bf's first free day after 2 years on house arrest. His thoughts: "It's so weird walking around with two laced up boots. I've never had so much ankle support. I might take up ballet."

From the Far Side collection

Still on Ssn 1 of Martha Stewart Living and she and I have had our first big disagreement. She made a whole sideboard of sugared fruit using some foraged crabapples and berries but mostly whole fresh fruit like pears and apples. These sugared fruits aren't gonna be eaten!! Absolutely not 💰 Martha💰

why is Yoda calling me into an HR meeting

I read the 70s Sci-Fi Art book very slowly so I could really look at every illustration. 5/5 star book. Great Xmas gift. bookshop.org/a/103549/978...

Cannot believe we've had ten years of Final Pam! mcelroymerch.com/products/mon...

Have done my annual final round vote on Goodreads Choice Awards. I've read zero of the books. I choose based on my own rules. It's the silliest marketing vote of all time and stores should not be allowed to put Goodreads Choice stickers on book covers.

Captions should be available on everything, but I wish I could also turn them off on everything.

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

It's all one ephemeral vernal pool in my head

Cowboy Carter is a Thanksgiving album

My aunt lived in Manhattan in the 80s, working a lot of high end retail. When she told me about the guard dogs at Macy's, I felt that was so authoritarian and fearful that it put me off any good feeling I ever had about the Thanksgiving Parade. No thank you Macy's.

The phrase "hit recording artist" is never bandied about with more frivolity than at the Macy's Parade

My cousins left to hunt and had two deer a half hour later and when the household was notified there were gasps and sighs of oh lord and oh no. There's no more freezer space. My aunt is gonna have a time of it.

Forget a white garden i want a cotton candy garden

A 22yo i know strongly objected aesthetically to lotus pods in a Christmas arrangement at a store. I thought that was so funny. I cant imagine 90s decor without lotus pods, they're passe to me, but this kid was appalled.

Woke up at 5am and read this article about weird mass graves at the end of LBK culture, gotta start a day mindfully relating to fellow culture collapse era humans from 5000 bce Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Scottish stars Ewan McGregor and David Tennant attend the BAFTA Scotland awards in Glasgow on Sunday night 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 McGregor received an outstanding achievement award 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

Gray (?) Dogwood grove 😍

This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English? OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!

If you don’t define how a leader is selected, constrained, replaced, or held to account, you’re not designing a system, you’re offering a narrative container that people can fill with whatever authority figure they already want. That's the hollowness at the heart of his entire intellectual project.

bf is skimming thru music videos and we just caught this in that Rage Against the Machine video 😂😭 ok Michael Moore

I've seen a couple deer hunt pics from my cousins this week but I just saw the cutest one with my young adult cousins laughing on a 4 wheeler with their deer. Deer hunt pics don't have to be disembodied trophy shots, they can be about life, food, and family too.

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Found 8 oak seedlings I planted in the woods 3 years ago. Not much growth on most but one is around 3 feet tall 😭 im so proud of it. Need to protect it with a dead hedge.

Opening day of rifle season yesterday and coworkers came in spooked cause they kept thinkin trucks parked along the highway were cops 😂

Im worn out and we're gonna listen to some "classic 2000s rock" as the kids here call it and when one of my 20 something employees tries me for a nickelback song im going to wearily say "you werent there" www.instagram.com/reel/DMJT-8d...

I think its just these guys are a lot fancier and better looking when reading in public. Look at these crossed legs, lil cups, & gym physiques on a boat, in an airport, at an al fresco cafe. Im covered in mud with ratty hair in a rusty truck waiting on my bf's baby mama when im reading in public.

sorry

Takes your breath away to watch someone be so graceful. youtu.be/cG9Z_5FzMCo?...

So far, watchable. Bringing in the Robin Hood elements that are relevant (and they are very, very relevant). Plant life is obviously in Europe so Im not totally thrown out of story. I love Robin Hood stories.

Grateful to the Native American posters on twitter who very early in the "homesteading" craze mentioned how awful it is to use the term homesteading and say stuff like "i wanna be a homesteader." I probably, sadly, would not have put 2 and 2 together on that negative connotation on my own.

I cannot believe Amazon is putting out commercials telling ppl to keep lights on for deliveries. Fuck way the fuck off with all that.

Everything that we perceive ourselves and the world to be has dependently arisen and is necessarily partial (we cannot perceive infra-red for example). Reality is much wilder and much more interesting.

Still on 1993 Season 1 Martha Stewart Living and she has taken off a jacket or coat and literally crumpled and stuffed it on a surface somewhere at least TWICE. Sometimes there's even a chairback available.

This is the kind of rigorous inquiry the modern scientific community could learn from

Cats are not mentioned in the Bible because they wrote it.

New podcast. I chat with a paleobotanist about the evolution of plants and how they shaped life on earth. open.spotify.com/episode/4BCU...

The memoir’s essays unfold like episodes in a vast anthology revealing the love and conflict that shaped his criticism. baltimorebeat.com/lawrence-bur...

Me with my bf almost everyday, good to know this too is socialism

Nice. Good job jury.

Looks like Jake Johnson found it phys.org/news/2025-11...

AND I've always respected her seriousness about Hallowe'en. She genuinely loves it and not in a cutesy way.

The way Martha Stewart talks should be studied. There are some Mid-Atlantic pronunciations in like, a broken down lockjaw, spoken by someone who studied French in college. Bizarre and mezmerizing.

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980

A medieval knot herb garden but the knot design is this

So sick but bingeing Martha Stewart Living. She roasted asparagus at 500°F. I didnt even know the oven went that high.