I'm going to read books faster than I can buy them this year. Which is usually not my normal imbalance. I really like bookstores.

a good explainer, posted by @laurarbnsn.bsky.social on the other platform

Feel free to add yours but I loved Some People Need Killing and Fear is Just a Word

You guys have to read the book Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson

To me this seems fairly obvious. Backlash is already an issue, it’ll get worse.

What did the non profit do?…

If you haven't read a Mariana Enriquez short story collection you are seriously missing out.

WOLF HALL: THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT PREMIERS TONIGHT ARE WE EXCITED GET YOUR ALE

Why did someone just have a sponge at Jesus's crucifixion? The sponge dipped in wine is in all four Gospels. Who just carries around a sponge?

Every third Nextdoor Post is either "was that a gunshot?" or "I have to rehome five large untrained German shepherds by noon or I'm going to have to shoot them in the head."

I still think the simplest explanation is that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK.

Got my Concerta after three weeks off and I feel like I'm in a Broadway musical number

My cat kneading on me is not good for my self esteem.

Wolf Hall is amazing television and I’m really excited when I can get others to watch it

No, JD. My 91 year old grandfather doesn't have a job. He worked for 65 years and now he can't drive.

Poisonwood Bible is a really good book and I don't know why it doesn't have more showing in theological literature spaces/divinity schools the way something like Silence does. Is it because it's got the crust of Mom Books from Oprah on it?

I am never going to forget the day I was in my 30s visiting my mom two years deep into seeing a psychiatrist for ADHD, and my mom, who carried and nursed me and had an MD, sat across me seriously and asked me from the depths of her soul, "Do you think you might have ADHD?"

This man is utterly useless

Are My Friends Too Busy to Read my Writing? Or Do They Hate it and Don't Know How To Say So? The Laura Robinson Story

My boss told me today I’d lost weight and it honestly fried my brain. “We can just… say that?” She was being nice but I literally had a 404 moment.

When trans people change their names, are they more likely to pick names that are more common in the current baby naming generation, or the one in which they were born? I've seen a mix of both and now I'm curious if anyone's studied this.

I want everyone to be able to share in the joy of the fact that at any moment I can look up and see a 21 pound cat lying on his back looking stupid

Two problems: 1) A tremendous amount of right wing media for men hits a tone of emotional abuse, mocking them for being losers and idiots and then promising them a way out. 2) What is the scolding happening? I think it's more than reasonable to say that economic populism is as good for men as

I actually canceled a haircut a few years ago when my short haired friend had this happen to her. I have a deep voice and favor jeans and a sweatshirt when I'm out and about.

I think the writing here has been on the wall for awhile. It's not a bad six book series with 2 very good boarding-school-mystery entries (3 and 6). 7 is a mess, but the universe starts to get messy and rules come and go (it's fine to have time travel that exists to help little girls do all their

Prayer of Saint Ephrem the Syrian: O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust for power, and idol talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to your servant. Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother.

My sister listened to exactly one podcast on the rosary, now has one, and is praying every day to consecrate Russia in line with the visions of the Lady of Fatima. Get in, losers. We're consecrating Russia.

Idk who here gets into literary horror but there is a short story in Mariana Enriquez's collection The Dangers of Smoking in Bed called Kids Who Came Back and it is scary as hell. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

The lady always protests too much

Can you even believe how cute these little bastards are

Bringing chopsticks to a gun fight

I hate these people

I don't really know what the point of saying things like this is. "Well, we're a dictatorship now, huh" is how you become Russia. Usually I see this language in conversation with "and that's why we need protests," but this is here attached to "we can't protest, that's what he wants." So...

This is the second year in a row a really good performance won at the Oscars for Best Actress that wasn't the best. Emma Stone was great, but Lily Gladstone should have won. Mikey Madison was terrific, but Demi Moore was better.

The thing people have to remember with vouchers is that often private schools are private precisely because they don't want to teach public school students. They're not obligated to provide the same array of services a public school is.

I have a beloved cousin Sara who asks me all her religion questions and she had so many questions about Conclave that I am really not an expert in.

Good! Horror is critically underrated in tech categories.

Has anyone rewatched Pan's Labyrinth lately? I did last night and I was completely blown away. Great movie.

Show idea: Bring back Magic School Bus but it turns out Miss Frizzle is part of a coven of immortal witches who are all named V Frizzle and have familiar lizard spirits and they all drive different busses related to different subjects and they all teach elementary school.

We need to make some critical distinctions between kinds of inclusion. If you have friends and associates who are cooling on MAGA, no one is saying you need to let them babysit your kids, lend them money, or introduce them to your trans friends. But what you SHOULD do is be empathetic to what

Hi Nick! That's not true! Power of the purse belongs with Congress! You can do something about this if you and other reps... you know, do your job!

Kash Patel has the craziest damn eyes in the world, right?

If you are in Indiana, call your state senator to oppose SB 518. OPPOSE property tax sharing with independent charter schools because 1) it’s taxation without representation (charter boards aren’t elected), 2) will drive up property taxes in Indiana without increasing accountability for their use,

One thing I'd also say here is that people in certain fields should be allowed to review the way they use language without people necessarily getting bent out of shape. Trying to control for a sensitive public is honestly silly. I was in the South for the first time when I heard the term "enslaved

One thing I think is worth noting is the vanishingly small number of people who engaged in this discourse and mostly online. I was a PhD student in liberal arts in 2020 and the first time I heard the word "Latinx" was in the context of "Don't say Latinx."

My sister said of something I'm writing "I can't tell if this is nonsense or if it's going to get a Pulitzer" and that kind of ricocheting between self-hatred and insane hubris is actually kinda motivating.

Emilia Perez is actually bad.

Here's the thing. If this is you, call everyone you can. Tell every elected representative you can get your hands on. Tell your friends to do the same. And above all, accept this is who Trump actually is. I'm real sick of seeing these polls where people say they hate everything that is happening but

Did you guys know that Kendrick is the first Pulitzer winner to perform at a Superbowl halftime show? Next year book Barbara Kingsolver, you cowards.