Non, rien de rien Non, je ne regrette rien.

Abandoning an animal should be a second degree felony. Abusing one, first degree.

"We killed all the good doctors. We only have bad doctors" -- Death of Stalin

Again, the use of "grandpa" as a slur or term of dismissal is 1) ageist, 2) cliché, and 3) lazy.

Took a ramble to the Three Farthing Stone. So nice to see the Mallorns in bloom. The athelas should be coming in soon

Ajourd'hui, j'ai allé à le tabac et à la boucherie. J'ai sorti la poubelles. J'ai lu trois chapitres. J'ecoutais le podcast "Tintin en Tibet" pendant faire mes corvées. J'ai finis notre impôts français.

The Dove Oil and acrylic on canvas (2026)

Draw me like your French cats

In thinking about a conflict with a friend: They'll have to come around on it on their own. If I press them, they'll just dig in deeper. That's how people are.

This image is a painting by artist Linda G. Fisher, known for its contemplative and folk-style depiction of a woman with a bird.

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick. — Anonymous (sometimes attributed to Hippocrites)

A reminiscence: 45 years ago I was having lunch in a nearly deserted restaurant in St. David's, Wales. All at once the place was choke full of little old ladies chattering away merrily in Welsh. After a time, one of them turned to me and said, "This must be terribly dull for you." 1/2

It is probably time to revisit Marbury v Madison. Not the principle, which is sound, but the scope of its application, which is over-broad. Of course that requires a Congress that is willing to act protect its own interests.

Aujourd'hui, I'll faisait beau. Je n'ai rien fait d'autre que lire.

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

This is good. Really good. Better and more sweeping than the analyses coming from the established pundits. And with very little change could apply to the Democrats in the US as well.

Remember: Sometimes stop to eat the roses -- Tara T. Cat

Aujourd'hui, je suis allé à la boucherie, la boulangerie, le supermarché (deux fois). J'ais lu trois chapitre de "Vingt mille lieues sous la mer," et fini "Oathbreakers." Je suis crevée.

"Empires are built on lies, and lies eventually begin to crumble." Oath Breakers, pg 246

A good article on blue collar manual workers and Neurodiversity @drrobertchapman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

It's a funny thing. I grew up amidst the excitement of Apollo. I even began a career in planetary science. And yet I am profoundly bored by and skeptical of Artemis.

Language teachers say there are four aspects to master: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They are ⅘ correct. Every language has a style, a spirit, a soul, if you will. A way of encountering one another. A way of being in the world. And, arguably, this spirit is the most important thing.

In Chinese gardens, ponds are muddy. Fish are invisible until, for a moment, they appear near the surface. Then, just as suddenly, they disappear again. It's an allegory of thought and understanding.

📚💬 #bookskychat In Richard Garfinkle's "All of an Instant," there is a character, Kookatchi, I strongly relate to. His memory is less than a minute. He sees and forgets, sees and forgets, sees and forgets. And then with no more effort, he has always known it. 1/2

Insightful 🧵

"A gentleman is not a vessel" -- Confucius, Analects 2.12

New pinned post

No alt? No read.

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). The Beach at Sainte-Adresse (1867, Oil on canvas).

Some more tiles I drew during my strange mood last week.

The Church I Grew Up In: A Parable I learned its ways, its history, its traditions. It wasn't always great, but it was ours, and a core value was to learn to do better. But one, two, three waves of in-comers. Endless waves of in-comers. We were taught to welcome them. 1/5

May have seen a Red-Legged Partridge. Not sure but it did look an awful lot like this Merlin photo. merlinbirds.org/species/relp... Said to be uncommon.

Cinquo de Mayo There's a lot more to Mexican cuisine than tacos.

Been on a bit of a Miyasaki binge. He's pretty uneven, to be honest. "The Boy and the Heron," "Spirited Away," and, of course, "My Neighbor Totoro" are amazing. "The Cat Returns," and "Ponyo" not so much.

#dyslexia #autism #ADHD

Been thinking about lot about Versailles last couple of days

"the disappointed 60 year olds that seem to form the core of the reactionary vote these days..." is an unsubstantiated opinion, a mere prejudice unconfirmed by any real data.

The Mother of Rock, The Mother of Water, The Mother of Fire Abide

Slightly diminish a Book «Le Petit Vicomte»

Neurodivergence as a Class Issue open.substack.com/pub/pabloist...

That and evangelical Fundamentalism as we have it is hardly traditional. It is a 20th century reaction to modernity, progressivism and the Social Gospel.

That other people are people, that they have hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, that they are the central character in their own lives, this theory of mind As a (likely) #autistic person, I'm supposedly lacking in it But then I read the news or scroll social media SMH

📚💬#bookskychat Finished NeuroTribes. It left me sad and angry. Grieving opportunities missed and unseen.

A deer just leaped across my garden. I wish it well and thank it for a moment of joy.

Why do you do the things you do? Why do you do these things? Why do tilt at the world all alone, Fighting mad battles that aren't you own? Where do you see all the good that you see? And what do you want of me? What do you want of me? -- Aldonza, "Man of La Mancha"

Forty years ago it was GenX blaming Boomers. But generational politics is a smokescreen to hide the real problem: the oligarchs.

📚💬 #bookskychat "Neurotribes" Steve Silberman I'm not nearly done, but I will say this, he can tell a tale (though like Robert Caro he sometimes nearly buries it in detail) And what a complicated tale it is • The discovery of autism • fights about its definition • fights about how to respond 1/3

For those who wonder why retailers discourage employees from confronting shoplifters, this is why.

I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. 1/5