If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1) Diving into a pool after exercise and heat. 2) Black tea as the sun rises. 3) A friend who brings you super cute stickers for no reason. 4) The way the woods sound. 5) Reaching middle age and feeling free to tell someone to F off.

Woke up before 4:30am to try to score radiohead tix, no dice, but now I have so much time for activities before work!!!

Practicing kindness at my little job, and delighting in encouraging my coworkers to find light in shitty situations. I closed my business a year ago after never recovering from the pandemic, lost an incredible amount of money, saw a dream fail after 12 years of toil. But I can still find joy.

Golden delicious, cosmic crisp and honeycrisp on the menu today for this week’s market apples-for-dehydrating haul! #apples #appleseason

The Bowling Green State football lockerroom cat is my favorite 2025 college football season character. Look at this cat

I am a bigly Clueless fan girl, and I gotta say, never noticed that Paul Rudd is wearing a 688 Club T-shirt. He and I were still kids in (different) schools in KS when the club was open, but just look at this list of performers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/688_Club

So in love with this little guy. If you need a book lover gift, or want to start a book club but can’t be bothered with the mechanics, check out Lit Lover Bundles on Etsy or insta! I’ve been reading with the maker for 20+ years and she’s SO good at this. #booksky www.etsy.com/shop/LitLove...

In 1856, a 17-year-old woman from Rhode Island embarked an a unique and brilliant project. She gathered autographed pieces of silk from hundreds of celebrities (including Dickens, Emerson, and Lincoln) and incorporated them into a stunning quilt: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

If I gave an award for best museum mannequins, Cincinnati Art Museum would be the clear winner, I love the attitude of the poses

My parents, at the car, after taking me and my friend to see Pretty Woman in fifth grade without thinking the plot through. “Well that was NOT what we thought it was going to be.” I’d never seen them rendered speechless before, and kudos to them for not yanking us out of the theater mid-movie.

My husband is back in cooking form, after a painful surgery break. (Not pictured: perfectly cooked ribeye, and farm box corn done with the lightest touch of butter and onion). The simple joy of summer produce!

19. KC and ATL are my hometowns. I’ll always adore NYC, Denver and NOLA. Pittsburgh, Oakland and LA surprised me. Hot take: no place should be as uniformly beautiful in weather as San Diego.

pickle chips flavor called jagged little dill

Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

Reaaaaally love this Businessweek story from @viajoshhunt.bsky.social about the world’s largest zipper-maker, YKK, which is totally fascinating in too many ways to enumerate in a post. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Photographing Atlantic Puffins 30 years apart. My first great experience with Puffins was a tour to Machias Seal Island in the mid-90s followed up last month in Iceland. Machias landscape was much rockier than grassy burrows. #birds

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

I hope they enjoyed chilled English pea soup on #nokings day. I have voted for democrats in every single general election besides 2000; if I find you out of touch in my middle age, you must be in big trouble. Just look at how many umbrella holders they have lol. (gift article)

Two of my younger coworkers said their younger siblings use Chat GPT for every single decision, from lunch to what kind of life goals they should have. Another coworker in her 30s has stopped listening to audiobooks or music, now only listens to podcasts about AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

The exquisite Hindsgavl Dagger. A masterpiece of flint knapping from Late Neolithic Denmark, c. 1900-1700 BC. Found in 1876 by a young boy out walking with his mother on the Danish island of Fænø. 📷 National Museum of Denmark. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

KC:

That bird is made up of all the most popular Starter jackets from the 90s.

This thread would be shorter and more to the point if the 3rd way types just said “we’re mostly older white guys and we’d have compromised on civil rights in the 60s too.”

Incredible exhibit Threads of Change at Museum of Design ATL, highlight of the weekend for sure. Scientific data interpreted through fiber arts. If you have the chance to see any work by Sandra Sawatsky, Christine/Margaret Wertheim, Adrian Baker, Nathalie Miebach or Bonnie Peterson, do so!

Have you supported your local degenerates today?

Re-upping: If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. . ... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now. Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.

About 2/3 of the way down this page there's video from a camera strapped to an Andean bear and it's so fucking cool This entire project should be viewed on a large computer screen btw, it is visually stunning

And possibly no idea of what it's like to live in a slightly sane society!

Deep sea mining is a *problem* for the organisms living there, but there are so many problems rn that it sometimes falls off the radar. Wear a shirt! Start a conversation! Design by the ever fantastic @coreydanks.bsky.social Sales fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social squidfacts.bigcartel.com

I've just found a clip of a wild bald eagle being weighed and can't stop laughing XD

How striking were these cabin crew uniforms of the 1970s? They comprise the unmistakable designs of Emilio Pucci with the trademark swirls of colour. Flying with a flourish @sfomuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

i like it when people give me the gift of an unusual tea that's not part of my normal tea drinking routine because it allows me to appreciate it every time i open the tea drawer year after year after year and creates a valuable family heirloom my kids will enjoy long after i'm gone

The beer cheese soup + house made crusty bread at a small restaurant in a KC suburb where I worked as a teenager in the mid 90s. Abigail Rose. Legions of stories, but every time I passed through the kitchen to/from smoke breaks, I would dip a little bread in the vat, and be happy.

Iris time is my favorite time! Herbs are in pots, the dianthus is rocking, tomorrow we’re gonna try rose propagation for the first time. Don’t mind the street detritus, we are heavy into the pollening. #bloomscrolling

With their flat faces and torpedo shaped bodies I'm sometimes surprised at how effortlessly great grey owls can fly. #owls #birds #canada #nature #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #birding #nikon #greatgreyowl #mcoupephotography

I have better lighting, so here are photos of the final cupcakes. I don’t do this professionally or often but for family birthdays I will bring out the decorator tips. It’s a fun art form to play with. These are vanilla cupcakes with raspberry curd filling and buttercream flowers for my sister.

Recently I realized that Smartfood white cheddar popcorn, the snack of snacks, did not taste as good as it used to. Was it me? Please accept my mad investigation into the recipe www.eater.com/24394718/sma...

tomorrow is Béla Bartók's birthday fyi. set aside some time to listen to his string quartets, to really listen. very very worth your time, you will remember the day you put aside your other work to listen to the Bartok quartets.

I am simultaneously bummed, and not bummed, that I will be overseas, and likely asleep and dreaming of txox, during this event. Check this out friends! Sarah is my fave squid follow. (Sarah please do more of these if there's interest!)

"You are an indolent and feckless girl. You are drawing in your exercise book when you ought to be concentrating on your work. Because, child, what are we put into this world for?" And I looked at her and said, "Sometimes, I don't think any of us know." Berta Ruck, Edwardian teenager, my new hero

"The picture on the front makes it look like they have contracted measles. The Junior Mints themselves also look like they’ve contracted measles. By the way, have you seen that measles are back?" I wrote a review of Christmas candy. I'm aware it's March. www.everywhereist.com/2025/03/its-...

Repost with your best apocalypse skill I can sew, and have many needles and lots of thread. My husband and I spent 10 years professionally making alcohol from fruit juice. He knows how to break down whole animals and cure meat.

lil psa for those who use chrome on their computer and have been driven crazy by the constant "sign in with google" prompts that pop up at various sites and didn't realize they could disable them and have been suffering in silence until now like i've been: here's how to get rid of them

In 1967 Japan Air Lines issued a set of leaflets to educate their passengers about all aspects of Japanese life. We have scanned 24 of them presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/j...