Women must be educated, & women must be able to own stuff including ourselves, & women must be responsible for our own lives. If it means we're not perfect blonde angel goes-straight-to-heaven innocent soprano saints any more because we've had to make choices & get our hands dirty, GOOD.

I am such an old bore: I watch any opera & go "And this is why we need feminism!" "Rigoletto"? If Gilda had had a proper education she wouldn't have fallen for the Duke! "Tales of Hoffmann"? Stella should stand on her own two feet & choose her own man! Easier if she has the right to own property!

Saw this interview with Jane Goodall where she says not to doubt that you're here for a reason. I suspect if every morning when you wake up you go "No, please, not again, couldn't I just stop for a bit?" & continue to think this on & off throughout the day you're not doing what you're here to do.

I would be lying if I said I never wistfully think about the fact that when I am a corpse my jaw & shoulder muscles will finally, finally relax.

I will not make any deals with you. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, de-briefed, or numbered. I am neither fodder for a clanker nor an amenity for a trad. My mistakes are my own. I paid for them.

A joyous Frog Friday to all!

I took the plastic off my plants so they wouldn't cook but it's still quite chilly. Had to scrape my windshield 💀

We are watching this again & G-D she had such beautiful hands. (She's playing someone named Sarah so you know she's good.)

The thing about Walktober is I assiduously log all my steps & I walk more than 10,000 steps a day just in my everyday life. I eat vegetables & do other "good for you" stuff. It's not down to stuff like this whether you get ill or not! Horribly unfair things strike you regardless of your lifestyle!

Apparently arts degrees are so worthless they need to be stopped, yet the product of those degrees is so valuable paying for it would bring down an entire industry. Make it make sense.

I put plastic over some of the outdoor plants & brought others in & put them in the back hall. Also my Mom broke *her* sunglasses so I ordered her some replacements & also some for me so I can cosplay as this:

This is great! It's like the time my parents were at "Hamlet" at the RSC & in the final scene my Mom heard the lady sitting behind her gasp, "The queen drank the poison!" Theatre as it's meant to be!

As it's Scary Story Season, I must say "well done" to "The Simpsons" for adding the fingers curling down on the monkey's paw (which wasn't in the original short story; the paw just warmed & twitched in your hand when you were making the wish.) It's a good narrative bit! I bet W. W. Jacobs approves!

Why can I see better in the night scenes in a black & white film made 90 years ago than I can in a movie in 2025 The guy doing the lighting in this didn’t know about electricity until he was a teenager

A while ago Lands' End made these jackets that were cut like blazers & looked plausibly like office-appropriate fabric but were actually fleece & I was wearing one the last time the weather was cold in Spring & it's been on my chair since then & now my office is freezing but I'm not bc I have it on.

It's chestnut season! They're so beautiful & glossy & my Dad tried to teach us how to play conkers with them when we were children. What if I tried to grow some at home? tacf.org/growing-ches...

Malort is liquid Antifa.

The Super Dictionary is canon!

BOW TO NO KINGS LOVE THE LORD THY G-D WITH ALL THY HEART & SOUL & MIND & LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF DO THE REQUIRED READING WEAR SOBER-COLORED CLOTHING IN MORE LAYERS THAN STRICTLY NECESSARY GIVE YOUR CHILDREN SENSIBLE NAMES TAKE BRISK FIVE-MILE WALKS PAY YOUR TAXES #JustPuritanThings

The other thing about drugs that stop you from compulsive behavior (it's great that they do that!) is that I just found a missing item by bloody-mindedly refusing to give up. (It was a regular item shelved on its spine at the same call number in Special Collections). Nobody else would've done that!

Are there any adult women, anywhere, who *aren't* tired all the time & who *don't* clench their teeth at night? I would like to hear from them & learn their secrets, practices, & routines. (It's rich husbands or rich parents.)

we are going to beat these people, eventually, and we are going to make a better world out of it.

This is coming too late to make much of a difference for me but I am very glad other people will be getting help!

*"They made Jar Jar a general?" voice*: They made Spicer a captain?

Watching more Big Cats! The elephants are baddies on this (like in "The Return of the King") because they kill lion cubs so they don't grow up to be lions (their enemy). I keep thinking of that article that said cats don't need to change because they are perfect.

OK, our jury of two agrees my squash soup is better than Panera's. (We also had corn; according to Mrs Brigham at Brigham's Farm Stand where they have the best corn Corn Season will continue for a few more weeks.)

I am crushing Walktober (& my Mom is, too; we walked by the pond today & saw not only the swans but a heron) but just failed at Octsober, thanks to a world where the churches & publishers shutter but the gambling hells & flesh markets are always in people's pockets, open for business.

I am sincerely happy for all the people on [medication, which apparently might stop you from getting the Alz, which is relevant to my interests] who are, like, "And it stopped me from snacking & binge-drinking & buying stuff I don't need!" but PAL, those are the things holding me together right now.

Bookshop.org has free shipping today- they (books) do furnish a room, you know!

TIAA-Cref tells me that if I keep saving at my current rate my monthly retirement income will be more than I'm getting paid now, even if DOGE did bust Social Security (& I won't have to save for retirement out of it.) My goal is I don't starve but nobody thinks it worthwhile to grift me.

Also, just call the trendy candy chocolate pistachio bars. We don't have Apartheid Ice Cream or Gummy Confederates.

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I am confident America will pull ourselves out of this hole yet I'm pretty sure I personally am up the creek & will spend the next twenty years doing nothing but going to work & caring for my mother until nothing's left of me but tallow & that awful cheery voice one uses to jolly other people along.

Well, Bad Bunny was good enough for Beatrix Potter!

Watching "Hammers over the Anvil" in which there are a lot of horses & Russell Crowe was a *baby* with long lashes.

I had some sunglasses I really liked- they fit my face well & went over my regular glasses & weren't too heavy tight & had black frames & heart-shaped lenses the blue fading to yellow of tonight's evening sky. Both my first pair & the replacement pair broke in the same place & they're sold out now.

The thing is that of the people who've been kings & queens & emperors & tzars over the years Victoria was one of the most normal, decent, mentally healthy ones! She didn't have *anyone* locked up in the tower or beheaded! And she'd still have been so much happier if she & Albert had been normies.

Do moon cakes count as a serving of Beans?

Guy who lives in a country where the annual family fun festival involves wearing blackface and setting fire to a papier-mâché antisemitic caricature while dancing around the maypole: wow, the casual bigotry on display in America right now breaks my heart

They're Cortlands & when I finally took the first bite it was so good I made little whimpering sounds.

Kludged up a new label template so we can use up the stock we have instead of ordering the stock we need. Your bloody-mindedness, your ingenuity, your tinkering will bring us victory!

Dammit, Lands' End is offering us an Admiral Holdo dress (I am marked safe from impulse purchases because of my silly skin that can't wear poly any more): www.landsend.com/products/wom...

Oh no I just thought of the one tattoo I would actually get.

I don't think I can bend in any of these ways at this time but I am putting it here for future reference: www.instagram.com/reel/DPHGGHe...

In my Ariadne Oliver era (just stashed some apples in my desk for later.)

Cellentani. A beautiful spiral that holds so much sauce!

We're watching "Mrs Brown". Maybe I need to find my Mom a Scotsman. Billy Connolly just threw out the Victorian paparazzi.

Pachelbel Thread! Taco Bell Canon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXsC...

My Mom's watching "60 Minutes" &...they're doing a feature on vaccine injury? What the fuck?

My moon? Super.