Books Upstairs is a fine store with a particularly excellent poetry section. Why not support them by ordering your books online instead: booksupstairs.ie

Wild mood swings

Turns out forgetting to eat and drinking coffee non-stop through hours of meetings is a terrible idea.

I need the backstory for why the set of stickers from IKEA for sorting trash is named "HUSBONDE"

Tapping the sign.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio #Archaeology

Something lovely for the weekend! Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

The cost for one person to flee Gaza is $15,000. If they're able to find anyone to facilitate. Like many of the displaced civilians, my dear friend Tasneem relies on direct donations so she can feed her children and raise funds to escape. Please give to her and others. 🙏💕 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Got told I’m losing my accent. To which I responded “what accent?” while looking up flights back to the UK.

Louder for those in the back…

I guess when it rains I return to BritPop

Black women Only daughters Oldest daughters Remember that you’re only one person. You can’t do it all. You’re not failing because you didn’t get it all done. Survival is not the bar. Living is. Love y’all.

October Pigeon showers

Rise and shine, let's Thursday scream!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

Reveling in the fact that we can post our own gifs on Bsky now. My gift to you, @fim.bsky.social at the cheesiest tiki bar in Hawaii that we could find.

Dealing with everything in the only way I know how… buying plants and cheese.

Whoa, Mabuhay Gardens, the Filipino restaurant/nightclub turned legendary punk venue in North Beach is re-opening! (As a music venue, not a Filipino restaurant.) www.kqed.org/news/1205811...

Chewy you clearly have not met my cats….

The Evening’s vibe:

This morning’s brain music:

NYT: 'Leading Medical Charity Closes in Gaza City as Israeli Offensive Intensifies. Doctors Without Borders pulled its staff as the medical system buckled.' The civilians rely on our donations to survive and escape. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem and to others. ❤️🙏 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Thank the Gods for music.

Today is Jim Henson’s birthday. As a kid, I didn’t really speak English until after I started school. It was hard for me to connect with the other kids. The English I learned was thanks to Sesame Street. That show epitomized empathy, understanding, curiosity and kindness. Thank you, Jim.

Multiple earthquakes, now the power is out. Guess its good I like to hoard candles.

—On a beautiful song— 🎶 A song more delicious than an eye beginning to sleep — sweeter and lovelier than a soul's wishes and its attainment of its dreams. — Abū ʿUthmān al-Nājim (Iraq, d. 926)

San Francisco, get thee to the de Young to see Rose B. Simpson’s Tewa-style lowriders.

Carpet with Hexagonal Compartments https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/33000/

This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪

32 years ago today, Counting Crows gifted us a masterpiece. I am not worried, I am not overly concerned. I am, however, old.

I’m drunk! AMA?!

Its racist to sell “bread, evoo and zaatar” to an Arab and then the zaatar is like two flakes of herb and sesame.

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Kunié Sugiura member hours at SF MoMA. Inspirational. This is the last weekend to view.

The wind is low the birds will sing

Just me here silently sobbing on BART reading this.

This story has me losing it tbh www.latimes.com/california/s...

I couldn’t image life without my little chonkus house panther - go get your own!

Listening to some Fado on a friday evening..

One way to irritate me to no end is to file a single document in a folder. WHY. THERE'S NO GROUP. WHY.

This song feels like a secret I shouldn't share... but it won't leave my thoughts.

Optical illusion or what

I think a lot about Matt Furie, the artist who drew a silly frog character with no malice in his heart. I know there's a documentary, but I hope there's also scholarly work digging into how something like that gets picked up and repurposed as a hate symbol. Is gamer sociology a course anywhere?

Posters printed (5x), talks made (2x), symposia chairing ironed out (2x), preprint posted (1x), whole lab on board (7x): 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐨, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞! #ECRO2025 🇪🇸🧠👃 ecro2025.com @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social @harinw.bsky.social @connordoyle.bsky.social @ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social @neurosana.bsky.social

We give the wrong (bad people) people all the attention. Time to cut off their air supply and ignore them. I want to see all the good in your life, so that people can have something to aspire to. I want to see things that make you happy. I want to see you celebrate good people.

Lot of dudes still exclusively publishing with other dudes in my former academic field. Do better.

#WestBank: Palestinians are facing forced mass displacement by Israeli forces and settlers, raising fears of ethnic cleansing. MSF urges states with close ties to Israel to apply pressure to halt the forced displacement. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ri...

Ah… insomnia

فيعونك سهرت لياليا

There’s a lot of discussion about the Foundation TV adaptation but I will always say yes to seeing Lee Pace.