For those without, might I recommend: fiction in book form

OTOH he’s right that we could replace the lower income tax brackets with a tax that has no deadweight loss and come out way ahead

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

no you gotta understand, I *run* Teeth.

I’m sorry I only accept Taylor Lorenz-initiated discourses if she’s posting them on here. we must to stop relying on imported discourses from hostile foreign powers like X Dot Com to fuel our posting wars, as a matter of Bluesky national security and poster sovereignty

*sliding the slider left and right on the character builder* sand cat... fennec fox... sand cat... fennec fox... sand cat... fennec fox

Imagine being stressed out about life and the state of the world and then you walk outside to clear your head and see this

God, Elementary is so much better than Sherlock.

shot an air show on film last weekend and developed the negatives in instant coffee at home definitely jumping in the deep end here 😬 #filmphotography ilford hp5+ 400 ISO

Teeny tiny towel STAT! This Northern Yellow Warbler is fresh from bathing and ready to dry off in the sun #birds

I actually found this very liberating

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 138: Great Horned Owl #photoaday #Birds #photography #nature

I wonder if that had anything to do with the botnet that liked one of my posts a hundred times in two minutes using both new and compromised accounts

*starting to read a new book* I’d like to see esoteric Christianity wriggle its way into THIS science fiction novel! …ah, well, nevertheless,

The random packet of seeds I spread two years ago continues to rock 🌱

groundcel gardeners SEETHING (i keep my peppers in nice movable pots)

I don’t really care about the personal convictions of a man in a… button-up bomber jacket and a zipper shirt? What?

Of course social media being what it is, solutions are not allowed to be uncontroversial. We have to find a way to be angry about this, and will import screenshots from X if necessary, to model a supposedly prevalent pov that requires angry correction.

Phalaropes in a pond near Bittern Lake, Alberta yesterday. (May 16, 2026). The most I have seen on at one time. #birds #nature

The two types of anime fan are “As a rightist, I adore Gayqueer McTransmarx, a character I believe embodies conservative values,“ and “As a leftist, I’m a big fan of Hitlerhito Tokyonazi’s ’Manchuria Deserved It’ franchise.”

you're laughing. two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert and you're laughing.

let’s see how sparse things get

It should be illegal to post quiz results without a link to the quiz

Good morning! 🪶

No dissent

Gottem

MODS

look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

Story lengths, ranked 1. Novella 2. Trilogy 3. Novel 4. Short story 5. Novelette 6. Flash fiction

isn’t this every generation

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

oh no

realistic worldbuilding means most of the flags should look like wet dogshit

*click* Next page *click* Next page *click* Next page *click* Next page

as a royalist i urge all labour members to support the only pro-king-in-yellow candidate for leadership

How have the Japanese not discovered al pastor yet they’d love it

Two skeptical software developers at a rationalist tech co-op try to optimize their love life using A/B tests, decision matrices, and Bayesian priors, only to discover that the heart doesn't follow a pull request. Acceptance Criteria. In theaters this summer.

found a new NOAA gallery that has terrible metadata but also this guy

the “for you” feed

Seeing a lot of people on the other site talk about moving over here today. Just wanted to let newcomers know that the discover feed should be avoided (it's just slop) and to pin this user-made feed to get a twitter-like algorithmic timeline

I would simply dream of everything on heaven and earth in my philosophy, but maybe I’m built different

it looks so happy

This enormous crow frightened us

what did she mean by this

Look at this fine gentleman

Eating at the finest restaurant in Tokyo