“Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.” Pierce Brown, ‘Morning Star’ When you’re lost in a great novel & a single sentence leaps out & grabs your soul. #RedRising #BookSky 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Brutal.

Same, corgi, same. ( @oldenoughtosay.com has probs been tagged on this 627 times already but just in case…)

Oh nbd, just sitting here in tears watching the live feed from #Integrity as the #Artemis astronauts ask to name a bright spot on the moon #Carroll in honor of Reid’s spouse and they all tear up and group hug and 🥹🥹🥹 Humanity at its best.

The Overton window is accelerating past the horizon so damn fast that you need a telescope to see it.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Me, finally up at noon (it was a long day): what’ll we do for, er, brunch? Him: Seder leftovers Me: OMG yes! Aunt Na’s gluten-free chocolate covered matzah!! Him: er… Me: I’m a grownup. Chocolate. Covered. GF Matzah. I mean, she baked it separate and labeled the bag it’d be rude not to.😋

Him: what’s this in Elijah’s cup? Me: rest of the Concord grape juice I used for the alcohol-free charoses. Him:… Me: like Elijah needs more wine? Him:… Me: and who else would drink that juice? Him: point. Sorry, Elijah.

Found a lil pop-up protest in the Philly burbs. Not on the #NoKings site but easily 200+ lining the street. Music, water, chairs - and a dude in an inflatable purple dinosaur! “Wow! We scored an inflatable! We’re rockin now!”

Who counts. Who gets to call herself a woman. If a DNA test says something they don't like, you're out. Born female, raised female, lived your whole life as a woman. Doesn't matter. You're out.

But now it's crept into "any woman who fails a DNA test is actually a man." They're not protecting women's sports. They're policing womanhood itself.

There is no separating the art from the artist when the artist is still alive and is actively hurting people.

#HailMary is a brilliant movie that shouldn’t work but absolutely does - 2.5 hours flew by. Role absolutely made for Ryan Gosling. Stunning cinematography - go see it and on the biggest screen possible.

This whole 🧵 Did my BA in philosophy train me for a particular job? Pft, no. Did potential employers think it was worth more $$? lol. Did it teach me to think, to expand my horizons, to get a nugget of insight into the depths of human experience? Yes, yes, a thousand priceless times, yes.

Struggling to write a sad & pivotal scene … I can’t do this😨 … maybe if I try… *cut a sentence, change a few words, and oh! Gut punch! Suddenly I’m crying! Yup, there it is. Maybe I ~can~ do this 😉 #AmWriting #WriterLife

@aptshadow.bsky.social is a gods-damn genius poet of a writer. Children of Time = I’m rooting for spiders; Children of Ruin = how an octopus might think/be; and Children of Memory just wrecked me with questions about sentience & memory and what it means to “live.” Sci-fi at its best. #booksky 💙📚🪐

I once thought the Great Divide was a place that parted rivers east to west to opposite oceans But now I know it’s a fascist ploy, the oldest known to man “Fear the other, your enemy!” they say and many listen But the thing about the Great Divide is it only works if we let it. #vss365

Started watching Terminator just cos. Reese just told Sarah the terminator is from “about 40 years in the future.” Film was made in… oh. 1984. Damn.

Me (to the USian spouse): while you’re out can you pick me up some chips (crisps) Him: what kind? Me: just salted Him: ridged? Kettle cooked? Baked? Lo-fat? Sea salt? Me: FFS enough with the manic choices I ~just~ want a bag of walkers ready salted Him: oh we don’t have that here 😡

Meatloaf. “Paradise by the dashboard lights.” On loop in the supermarket I worked, summer 1979. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard 😬

A delicious and deviously fun slow-build thriller with a hell of an ending. Writer “borrows” a plot from his now-dead student; book becomes a best seller; then the anonymous emails start. (Also a painfully insightful portrayal of what it’s like to write!) #booksky 💙📚

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Some days the UK-US contrasts are just so stark. 30 years ago today, a gunman killed 16 children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. In response, the U.K. government banned the private ownership of almost all handguns. It can be done. #itstheguns

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

And it's not a good one. It's a Steven Seagal straight-to-video flick. The kinds where you can visibly see on first viewing that nobody is actually getting kicked in the head.

Starting to think no one should run for the Senate unless they/their sibling/their kid is or was active military because this cavalier “send in the troops” bs is just f’ing disgusting.

Him: are savory foods just cheese delivery systems for you? Me: yes. Point? (There’s some rice and Amy’s brand black bean chili under there.)

10:00am phone call from firstborn: Mom! It’s an emergency! Me: oh god… 1st born: bunny’s arm came off! Me: wha…??? 1st born: can you sew it back on? Me:… 1st born: … Me: of course. Bring him over.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

At the 9-yo g’daughter’s lazer tag party and these girls are *strategizing*. Creating a base, taking it in turns to dart out & zap the bigger kids. “Yeah it’s great if you’re little cos they don’t see you & you don’t get hit.” I want 9yo girls on my zombie apocalypse survival team.

Working thru an AARP-recommended safe-driving-for-the-olds online course; it just said “maintain 4 seconds stopping distance from vehicle in front” and… excuse me? Have you ever driven in Philly? Four seconds gap = 2 other cars have already pulled in front.

Decided on a whim to watch the OG Jurassic Park and you know what? For a 30+ yo movie it holds up! Plus young Jeff Goldblum 😮‍💨

“Trump…is more likely to end up having to deal with regional chaos or a new hardliner. Surrounded by sycophantic courtiers, Trump has become rash… His opportunistic grabs for power whenever he sees weakness are dangerous. America needs a strategy in Iran, just as it needs one in the world.”

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.

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As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

👇🏻 So what I’m hearing is former ace humans who now exist beyond the bounds of linear time and step thru stone to protect the weave of life isn’t ~that~ weird, right?! #writing #writerlife

Omg the American spouse laughs at me when I call French Toast “eggy bread” and now I can say look! Look!! Nigella calls that too, it’s not just me!!

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

It's always the ones you most suspect.

Beautiful. Absolutely watch this, so so good. You can’t help grinning in delight to see her just gleefully dancing over the ice.

As someone who’s been called a Luddite for expressing strong opposition to generative (so-called) AI - yes! This! 👇🏻

Entry eleventy billion in the “why the hell would you pick this up let alone plan to keep it“ list. (Tagging @swilua.bsky.social on this one cos I bet she has…thoughts…)

I do think it’s funny that the USA broke from England to get rid of the monarchy so that no one would be above the law and yet only one of these countries has arrested a senior political figure in relation to Epstein and it wasn’t the USA

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!