It seems my luck is changing

A perfect read for Women's History Month! A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, and our follow-up AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC, examines *how* we talk about women, alive or dead. The construction of narrative. Co-authored w/ Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social, check us out this month & beyond!

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

But have you tried raining on someone else’s parade about it

Me: I love you 🫠 The void: ”left on read”

al dante? perfect!

In that awkward period, between birth and death.

Smile and wave.

fun game to play outside is “Guess Which bird shat that shit”

New picture:

Yes, my coffin is also a bunker why you asking

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This Day in Buster… March 1, 1926 Buster Keaton's “Seven Chances,” with the title "Siete ocasiones,” opens in Spain. #oldhollywood #damfino #busterkeaton #silentfilm

"the shelves were congested ... with anthropology, ancient religions, demonology, modern science, history, psychoanalysis & ethics ... romances and ... Manichaeism ... Byron and Poe; and Les Fleurs du Mal jostled a late treatise on chemistry" CA Smith, The Devotee of Evil #ShortStorySunday #BookSky

“Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!” (“Hamlet” 5.1) #shakespearesunday 🎨 Friedrich Heyser “Ophelia” (1900)

Exfoliating to remain receptive to the horrors

O Melancholy, turn thine eyes away! O Music, Music, breathe despondingly! O Echo, Echo, on some other day, From isles Lethean, sigh to us—O sigh! – John Keats, 'Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil' 1818 #poetry #booksky #romanticism #sighs

Trying again, so my son doesn't think I'm a complete disaster. There aren't enough therapy hours in this or any other timeline to compensate him for having me as a mother.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

Immovable object vs. irresistible force situation but they're both my bullshit.

Spurs play today #COYS

Horrifying if literal: a coat of arms

Rentaghost, series 5, episode 2. A newly finished painting! (Based on a captivating photo posted a couple of months ago by @agnes-guano.bsky.social.)

practicing good portion control by having only one major mental breakdown every day

A Pinch & A Punch for the first day of the month. Rabbits & Hares. White Rabbits. Whatever you say, have a Fabulous day! Welcome to March. Spring is on the way!!

Welcome to the Droghte of Marche, as Chaucer puts it or, in the words of the Gawain-poet, the season of the crabbed Lentoun, þat fraystez flesch wyth the fysche and fode more symple (the harsh Lent, which tests the body with fish and plainer food). The Trés Riches Heures seem to capture the mood!

🎶"Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home. I'm so cold. Let me in-a-your window"🎶

Randomly remembered that back in original #StarTrek, they were thinking up other Vulcan names and genuinely thought Spunk was a possibility. I think there was a much better one. Splink!

Calm down! I meant that you're a cunt in a good way.

The end of the world beckons, and the problem of what to have for tea each day continues: a text from my 83 yr old mum about half an hour ago.

I'm useless at these music month challenges, but I can certainly do day 1: cowbells. Nu Shooz, I can't wait Cowbells mean 2 things: 80s music TV series Heidi, also 80s #IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 youtu.be/CzIq6cEkRSk?...

Art archive, Feb 28. Field of Daisies, repeating textile design.

I kinda wish i understood But only kinda

Happy Birthday to Javier Bardem, 3/1/1969! "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?" "Sir?" "The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss." One bad m'fer in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, with one of cinema's most iconic haircuts. #filmsky 📽

#vss365 Don't worry if you are #timid: it can be a survival strategy. Survival of the fittest means fit for the environment —soft small creatures hiding out in holes survived the events that wiped out those loud armour-plated dinosaurs.

the fuckery is persisting like it's in competition with itself

Lots of councils have cut their funding for homelessness. The situation would be worse if it wasn’t for the good souls that volunteer and donate to help staff deal with an overwhelming workload.

Ghosts of youth. #StreetPhotography

Now that February is out of the room and can't hear me, I'll admit, I quite like her. At least she's not that bitch January. AND she knows when to leave. Sshshh, March is here, quick, hand me those daffodils and act normal.

lava flow, kilauea volcano, nov. 14, 1959

Them mumbling bones.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️ Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

That is between me and my shadow.

A medieval dragon for St. David’s Day - decoration from the 15th century chancel screen at Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire. 📸 My own. #StDavidsDay #CrowlandAbbey

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography

The ‘Pilgrim Hare’ from St. Mary’s Church at Beverley in East Yorkshire. Dating to the mid-14th century, the hare is dressed as a pilgrim, hence the title. It is thought that the carving was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Beverley