Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000...🎬

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.

What’s your sign?

Why do little tiny shreds of potatoes take so long to cook?

Fun was had.

Tomorrow is Hobbit Day. So eat something that would make Bilbo and the Shire proud, even if it's just* potatoes.

I searched "halloween" on a local grocery website and the "you may also like..." suggestions were: a 5# bag of potatoes dry skin lotion & Corelle dinner plates in white. (WHAT THE WHAT?!) 👀

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.

Finally, some good news today.

Despair is a commodity for which we have no use for in this moment

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Evergreen sentiment: Fuck the fucking fuckers.

hey, new LibGuide up @sowellcollection.bsky.social for my stuff there:

Nobody deserves to be shot by a sniper, no matter how abhorrent their personal beliefs. This post is about Palestine. 🇵🇸

Send Kay the names of your queer role models to be included in a sculpture! #ArtSky #QueerSky

all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

No, Adobe Acrobat, I don't want to create an AI-created summary of the 510-page proof of our forthcoming book. I want to read the whole book. And all the contributions by all 35 contributors. Because reading is what a book is for. FFS.

Happy Planet of the Vampires 60th Anniversary to all who celebrate! Mario Bava's sci-fi horror film was released in Italy on September 15, 1965, as Terrore Nello Spazio (Terror in Space) and released in the USA in October 1965 as Planet of the Vampires.

Quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Age verification: I understand and engage in the proper use of prepositions.

Dear online retailers, Printing a shipping label is not the same thing as shipping a package. Thanks.

I don’t care about the new iPhone

I bought myself stuff to make some folded star potholders. I'm really hoping that I'll enjoy the process. I think they look cool!

Hey #Quiltsky why is my top thread breaking while I'm free motion quilting on my domestic sewing machine? (needle too small, tension (what though?) ??

As I Lay Feeling Not Entirely Well, by Wm Faulkner

Slightly diminish a book White Windbreaker

Happy Birthday @duckinggreyduck.bsky.social !

vegan bacon (mushrooms!) and potato salad?! YES!

One hour 45 minutes to go! #TheLastDriveIn

You can pre-order my October book, Cancer Eats the Heart (out from Underland) now! The chronically ill and disabled to turn vampirism as a cure. Much horror follows pauljessup.com/books/cancer-eats-the-heart

@justbren.bsky.social !

@justbren.bsky.social I have to share this glorious Canadian story with you: "vicious compliance" with a government book ban order... you'll love this!

Just messaged a colleague: "I just want to sit here and edit because words are manageable; people are a relentless shit show." I am not wrong.

Why is humanity a word but we don't have the corresponding word for other species: caninity, avianity, felinity, icthanity...?

good gods; how does anyone choose a new mattress?! ~total overwhelm~

‼️ @squishythings.com ‼️ Look at this gorgeous ink... www.esterbrookpens.com/products/est... 😍

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

‼️ @squishythings.com I found cows on sale! Can I send them to you for the UFO?

FYI you don’t actually have to make good decisions in life. Some of them should be for narrative value in the movie adaptation

Detective Mittens is on the case.

What if there were gobs of really great Halloween themed quilting fabrics instead of 🥱?

Why didn't any of you tell me the Welsh term for microwave is "popty ping"???

In response to a team email today, I got to hit reply all and respond: I am going to be Bartleby; I'd prefer not to. And I feel like I should log off on that high note. The day simply cannot improve from here, so I may as well call it!

Happy Taco Tuesday Birthday @primordial.bsky.social !

Make a band a food: Huey Lewis and The Stews

I have updated @kwiaht.org's Food Security recipes page to include the fresh (raw) salal jam and salal pickled onions. www.kwiaht.org/Recipes.htm

Related: does anyone in the twin cities have a good local source for honey by the gallon?