You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

I hate everything about this AI "writing" thing, but just to pick one top line from this: YOU DON'T WIN AT WRITING YOU DIPSHIT. THAT'S NOT A THING.

Eendennieuws.

Uitstekende onderzoeksjournalistiek van De Correpondent over een zeer geheime, en ondemocratische, geheime dienst in Nederland.

@zuur.com Oh goody, we beginnen aan de journalisten...

Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.

Ok, buying a squirrel cam now

Andrew has really taken one for the team (ie everyone) here. This thread continues long past the point of despair, and is worth every post

Net genoeg sneeuw in Utrecht...

Jeuj!!

Wat een lief project is dit toch: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Trump has lost his mind. His speeches are insane, misspelled ravings about the 2020 election, filled with bad grammar and shotgun caps. If this guy were a mayor in Anytown, USA, he would be told politely but firmly to surrender the gavel and get medical help.

Peepses, even iets gezelligs & opbeurends, naar de creatieve mens toe: lekker freewritend door het leven gaan! ckarchive.com/b/wvu2hghkm7...

@snellarthur.bsky.social I read 'Lute' over the past week on your recommendation. Terrific! Brutal, but terrific. And the war in the background is indeed a little too close for comfort, brrr.

Ja zou het nieuws zich nou eens even een beetje gedeisd willen gaan houden? Ik heb andere dingen te doen.

No need for context, this applies to everything right now

@groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social Partijgenoten! Ik zou heel graag zien dat we per direct & nu echt het twitter-account van de partij verwijderen. Het kán niet meer.

@dansinker.com Book tip for you, Dan! Typography on buildings in LA. desireevanhoek.com/book-talking.... 🤩

Plus een fijne peptalk voor het nieuwe jaar van Ann Leckie.

Ik herlees 'Pattern Recognition', uit 2003, voor de zoveelste keer, en het is zó schattig dat Gibson uitlegt hoe emoticons werken. En dan niet eens de plaatjes, maar die oude, met 8-) enzo. Awww! Ook had ik de eerste jeer dat ik het las geen idee wat Pilates was. Nostalgie.

🤩 Jay is een schatje.

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What’s #Christmas without the stunning Wilton Diptych? A rare surviving set of tempera panel paintings, a portable set made for the private use of Richard II, King of England from 1377 to 1399. The brilliant blue garments of the angels are painted with ultramarine, made from lapis lazuli. 🎄 1/ 📸 me

My husband thinks he hates musicals but he knows every word to Muppet Christmas Carol and sings along happily and was excited to put it on tonight so I think the problem is that he saw the greatest musical of all time and now he thinks all of them should be this good

This is also, truly, the greatest film for teaching people how commodities trading works, and also how speculative financial markets work in general. I regularly reference this one to explain investors and general board room decision-making to early-career folks if they've seen the film.

Virgin of the Dry Tree. Tiny, fascinating devotional work by Petrus Christus, whose day was today.

Persoonlijk vind ik dit echt een heel onhandige tijd om verkouden te worden.

The person was fine, but I cannot help but wonder if that was due to the perceptiveness of the Verger on the issue of ordinary people's responses to being unexpectedly surrounded by a half dozen priests at a time of medical crisis.

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Enjoy the quiet moments of beauty, like these winter bell jellies, this season.❄️🔔🪼 There’s wonder in ocean life, and caring for it helps us all.

Raaaare mensen... (en eng)

Sterk artikel weer van huisarts Michelle van Tongerloo. #leestip Helemaal omdat het aantal dakloze mensen toeneemt. En de Minister van wonen (Mona Keijzer) weigert naar Kamerdebatten over dakloosheid te komen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Ik gaf een nogal deprimerend eindejaarsinterview aan @markla94.bsky.social van het NRC Handelsblad.

Just writing up my to do list today

Weihnachtsoratorium aan in een poging nog even het koppie bij deze laatste klus te houden.

Wat een mooi, rijk en lang leven 😍.

@talkscaredpod.bsky.social What a fascinating listen, your episode with Barbara and Andy Muschietti. The contents, of course, but also the linguistics of the thing... I didn't know anything about them going in, and they were so hard to place. Italian name, but Andy sounds *Spanish*? And Barbara

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

You go to war with the baby snowy plovers you have, not the baby snowy plovers you want. That being said, this is the baby snowy plover i want. 🪶 🐣

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@kjcharleswriter.com I'm reading all of Will Darling for the fifth time, and it's so, so good. All the little details I failed to clock on earlier reads (because I'm in such a rush to find out what happens) are delicious. The last knight of Europe in book 1! Kim's scars in book 1! DS, of course (❤️)

Nu al helemaal klaar met al die tranentrekkende kerstreclames.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

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Hup Caroline de Gruyter! 💪🏻

Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.