Obsessed with this queen taking out an ad for a pay pig in the local paper. I want nothing but good things for her.

Really loving the Moby Dick read along because I reread it a few months ago, so I can participate in the fun discussion without actually having to do any of the work 🐋

One of my favorite bits in Moby Dick is how Ishmael keeps seeing omen after omen prior to boarding the Pequod and is just like, “hm. Another gallows. Which could mean nothing.” 🐋

Wait everyone look at these too

Since everyone is reading Moby Dick right now, I want to draw your attention to this incredible interpretation of the Spouter’s Inn painting that I came across on reddit and am obsessed with 🐋

I just feel like we as a society don’t talk enough about Dick Tremayne

King of the Hill is an inherently conservative show with an undeniably right-wing worldview and it is the only time conservatives have ever been funny

they say the best revenge is to live a long and happy life. and as a non-vengeful guy, i'm going to kill myself

Can I just say that it’s time for Bluesky to let us have private accounts

fascinated by Intel, in 1994, commissioning a Navajo / Diné weaver to make a rug using traditional techniques replicating the Pentium die

A lot of people being angry about Trump making the White House look ugly which is wild to me because I can’t imagine caring about or respecting the White House enough to give a shit about its aesthetics. We’re a bad country and we deserve to have an ugly, tacky building represent us. It’s funny!

Just realized Melville was 31 when he wrote the greatest novel in the English language 🙃

Numerical mnemonics from English polymath and birthday boy Robert Fludd, who was born on this day in 1574. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/robert-fludds-memory-tricks-1617/

I was in this (incredible) class and I’m here to warn you that if you take a class with @adapalmer.bsky.social you WILL leave obsessed with Diderot

Reading Moby Dick is like a 4D experience because, just like Ishmael, I now can’t shut the fuck up about whales and whaling

Thinking about how Herman Melville didn’t know about whale songs and I’m so upset about this that I need to dig him up and make him write a new chapter

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I regret to inform you all that I’m rereading moby dick and it continues to be maybe the best book to ever come out of America? In any case a truly life-altering book and I’m incapable of being normal about how good it is

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

Havin’ fun with some typography today. Maybe I’ll get better as I make more fun word art! /s

Where’s that post that’s like “saying ‘I love to sleep’ is a great euphemism for ‘I hate being alive.’” Unrelatedly, I LOVE TO SLEEP

Ugh do I need to rejoin DSA

An important piece of my lore: when I was 14 my friends and I stole George W Bush lawn signs from people’s yards and burned them, which I was embarrassed by when I got a little older but now that I’m even older still I realize we were right actually lol

Obsessed with this panel and need it as a poster

Just reminding myself that I need to stay alive to see the Shin Godzilla theatrical rerelease in 4k

Me after helping a patron describe a 19th c book (including collation!), a thing I have not done since 2019

I would never ask an ai if it wanted a copy of Slingblade on VHS that I found at a thrift store but I will always ask a rare books librarian this @blearyeyedduty.bsky.social

You’re at a protest and saw someone do something that you don’t approve of, that might get them in trouble with the cops? No you didn’t. Mind your business.

Got asked at work if I’ve ever read any Kafka, a question for which I was born ready

The Rehearsal finale is so good im like wailing and gnashing my teeth

For our wedding anniversary my husband had one of my favorite musicians cover our first dance song so basically never settle for less

They should let me go to Cannes

It’s so cool that JG Ballard and David Cronenberg are both geniuses and they combined their brains to give us Crash (1996), a perfect film which is 40% explicit sex scenes, 40% explicit car crashes, and 20% lingering shots of highways.

The Rehearsal is honestly one of the most genius pieces of television I’ve ever seen and I especially love how it makes my husband so uncomfortable that he just paces around the room for the entirety of each episode

Guess who got tickets to a sad Czech opera described as “grim unsentimental realism” 👍🏽

Finally actually listened to Switched-On Bach and am more sure than ever that Wendy Carlos is a genius

Hated the AI in The Shrouds and honestly kind of hated Cassel but I am still thinking about the movie hours later so I’ll call it another cronenberg W

Logan got me sick so to punish him I’m going to make him watch Happiness (1998)

My local theater is playing Dancer in the Dark tonight and I’m listening to the soundtrack and getting hype to see the world’s saddest movie on the big screen

I love sleeping 🙂

I’m going to cancel Chappell Roan unless she and her girl band cover at least one song from Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Which of you fools wants to listen to me talk about battlestar

Honestly might be my favorite single frame in the Simpsons