I was already well into my sixties when it occurred to me that the film *Casablanca* had been made before the war ended, at a time when no one knew how things would turn out. So, when that woman started singing *La Marseillaise* and all those real refugees were moved to tears... Good Bastille Day.🇫🇷🎉

I'm sorry. Lindsey Graham's *sister* ??

In the unlikely event that any elected officials are reading my bluseky and looking for obituary tips for dead Graham, dead McConnell, and (may all the deities allow) dead Trump, here y'go. This is how to do it. I've had it bookmarked since Dead Kirk Day. 1/2 nwhyte.livejournal.com/299685.html

Steinbeck, East of Eden

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

One year I sculpted & painted with food coloring a marzipan chess set to top a cake for the (fancy) Playford ball, and overheard someone saying they thought I had bought it - as if?! My biggest regret was that I didn't turn around and ask whether I should take commissions, and for how much. I mean.

My lovely friends, I have decided to be brave and commit to doing this, but I need your help! The Wayzgoose will be an opportunity to learn more about print and print history, meet other printers and book craft folk and develop some new skills & ideas. Rewards for £10+, £50+ and £100+ in next post!

Struggling with a summer cold; pls send good cheer

This is so offensive. Not only has Ball cheapened their pectin product & added sugar to it, making it half as effective, in doing so they have blithely obsoleted their own Ball Canning Book that has been around for HOW LONG?! #HomeCanning #Gardeners #Gardening

listen up we are within spitting distance of $20k so here’s the deal if we hit $25k I will - per a DIABOLICAL suggestion from @nome.bsky.social - listen to this via the audiobook read by Vance (which is SO MUCH WORSE as a punishment because I’m a very fast reader but the audiobook is EIGHT HOURS)

Genuine kudos to these incredible, hardworking and brilliant people AND this is inspiring in the same way that the "kid runs a lemonade stand to raise funds for his best friend's cancer treatment" is inspiring.

Hello, I am trying to fill one art nouveau slot (starting from 230€) for July. You can email [email protected] to grab it, or fill my form! form: forms.gle/U4aGYaNw2gCH... TOS and gallery: lyannacomm.carrd.co Sharing is appreciated 🩷

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

Thing we want so much to be True that we work for it: a capybara on a gentle sandy beach, with the words "if you are seeing this the curse is lifted, have a good day"

Monet and Venice exhibit at the de Young in SF yesterday was most excellent, and in great company. 🥰 There was an early work of his of tide out & in near Dieppe where Lise pointed & said, is that kelp in the water? and so it looks to be. Had me looking at his water with all new eyes from Venice 1/2

These books are so very good! (Im)patiently waiting on a next in series...

I gotchu 🫡

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Exquisite story! Also, clever bots, to work so well within constraints...

Pride is in full bloom.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture

Cecilia Vega, the first 60 Minutes Latina correspondent, was fired today, along with some of her colleagues, as Bari Weiss overhauls the news magazine. She has released this statement:

TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN. Maybe add a dog and a book. But mainly this.

Fanny & Alexander & Grogu

Oh, @marthawells.com - the latest in the Murderbot Diaries series, Platform Decay, is so good. So damn good. Thank you.

As always, Bujold's works are a treat to any reader or (retired) editor's perusal, from new and long-familiar characters, to the joy of finding out what wrinkles in the ongoing unveiling and evolution of this, Penric's and demon Desdemona's world might be opening up. #Fantasy #Bujold #Penric

These are delightful!

Rawr! To make, soon. Soooon!

Fukken' A, this is fine:

Women's Rugby as a growing sport deserves better on the collegiate level than to be tanked on a whim, disrupting athletic scholarships, and the lives if those who have traveled to study & grow together. Do better, Quinnipiac. Glaring at you from California. Do. Better. c.org/QrcBCyn24Y

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Eleventh Annual Bay Area Printers' Fair & Wayzgoose, April 25, 2026, History Park, 635 Phelan Ave, San José, 10 am - 3 pm. Free Admission San Jose Printers' Guild SJprintersguild.com Live demos, type, cards, ink, book arts, posters, printmaking, presses #Letterpress #printmaking #BookArts

ProPublica has marketed themselves as the good guys doing trustworthy news. I even gave them the money I used to give WaPo before they flipped the breakers on democracy. Make their actions align with their words. don't cross the picket line and demand they deliver what their advertising promises.

first time really tuning into a war? welcome. Let’s go over some rules of how to behave. These are going to be especially important if it’s a war you oppose. 1. You are allowed an opinion. This is America. Whether you served or not. It’s done in your name so might as well speak up. 🧵

Best in Show (in honor of the Day):

Paging @weaverlaura.bsky.social especially for the comments, in delighted memory of your brother:

By the mid-90s, fallout from Prop 13 in CA had killed the school field trip; an interested science teacher arranged a docent-led tour of Elkhorn Slough for any kids/parents who wanted to go, so Kiddo & 2 buddies bundled into our car and off we went to see the local flora & fauna. Loved it!

Hello, I'm a woodcarver, and this what I do ✌️ You can help me a lot by sharing my work, so people can buy or commission me sculptures. Praying for octopus blessings on your life 🐙🙏

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This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. A really good homemade chicken-cashew-curry salad with a bit of our blood oranges in the sauce, even better as lunch this second day. 2. Kitties (an ongoing goodness). 3. Spring freesias blooming.

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Event season is here. Test the con crud, find out what you have, don't nyquil&pray potentially serious illness. Here is 4-in-1 COVID + FLU A/B + RSV home tests for $15. This is the exact combo that costs you $400-500 at urgent care. Covid-only tests as cheap as $4. Not affiliated. Repost please!

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

The DNC should release this as an ad immediately

Yesterday I gave a guest lecture in a colleague's class. They had just wrapped up the ODYSSEY and had discussed other epics like the RAMAYANA before reading an excerpt from my FEATHERED SERPENT, DARK HEART OF SKY: MYTHS OF MEXICO. I discussed an "Aztec" equivalent to "arete" and "dharma." 1/

you can just put records on and sit in front of a heat source and read until you fall asleep; no one tells you this