Elena Existing
@elenaexisting.bsky.social
Gen X spinster aunt. Idaho to Louisville. Corporate drone from 8-5; devastatingly quiet from 5-8. Learning Mandarin. Going for a hike.
Let's take better care of each other, okay?
Let's take better care of each other, okay?
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Time for Sappho!
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Time for Sappho!
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It's unfair to have Sunday evening anxiety on Saturday just because I need to write a PPT tomorrow and yet...
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It's unfair to have Sunday evening anxiety on Saturday just because I need to write a PPT tomorrow and yet...
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Things to do this weekend besides shopping:
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Things to do this weekend besides shopping:
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it
This is why you should always post about books you like (or wrote! or published!) on Bluesky. I'd say that a solid half of the books I buy now are based on seeing someone post something here.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is why you should always post about books you like (or wrote! or published!) on Bluesky. I'd say that a solid half of the books I buy now are based on seeing someone post something here.
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The Monkey King, a rebellious 16th-century Chinese superhero, is finally breaking into the U.S. through Netflix films, blockbuster video games, and a sold-out San Francisco Opera production. n.pr/4rov9hl
A 400-year-old kung fu-fighting monkey is finally having his American moment
The Monkey King, a rebellious 16th-century Chinese superhero, is finally breaking into the U.S. through Netflix films, blockbuster video games, and a sold-out San Francisco Opera production.
n.pr
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Monkey King, a rebellious 16th-century Chinese superhero, is finally breaking into the U.S. through Netflix films, blockbuster video games, and a sold-out San Francisco Opera production. n.pr/4rov9hl
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Eternal Silence in the snow, this morning at Graceland Cemetery
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Eternal Silence in the snow, this morning at Graceland Cemetery
I have unburdened my sock drawer from a tyranny of neglected ankle socks.
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I have unburdened my sock drawer from a tyranny of neglected ankle socks.
I have accomplished one of my Thanksgiving vacation goals: rescuing MY bed from the basement and attic and getting it back into my bedroom and reassembled.
(There's been a guest bed in my room since September when my parents came to visit. That bed is now in the basement and attic.)
(There's been a guest bed in my room since September when my parents came to visit. That bed is now in the basement and attic.)
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I have accomplished one of my Thanksgiving vacation goals: rescuing MY bed from the basement and attic and getting it back into my bedroom and reassembled.
(There's been a guest bed in my room since September when my parents came to visit. That bed is now in the basement and attic.)
(There's been a guest bed in my room since September when my parents came to visit. That bed is now in the basement and attic.)
I spent twenty minutes of my Friday comparing Adam Driver to a guy I saw in the Louvre. Aren't vacation days grand?
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I spent twenty minutes of my Friday comparing Adam Driver to a guy I saw in the Louvre. Aren't vacation days grand?
The Wedding Banquet (1993) might be the first gay movie I ever saw (at college in Michigan in the late 1990s). Two men in love kissing on screen was a revelation.
Favorite movie of the week and one of my favorites this year:
Northern Skies Over Empty Space. 🐂🌵
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Favorite movie of the week and one of my favorites this year:
Northern Skies Over Empty Space. 🐂🌵
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Wedding Banquet (1993) might be the first gay movie I ever saw (at college in Michigan in the late 1990s). Two men in love kissing on screen was a revelation.
Favorite movie of the week and one of my favorites this year:
Northern Skies Over Empty Space. 🐂🌵
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Favorite movie of the week and one of my favorites this year:
Northern Skies Over Empty Space. 🐂🌵
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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They should invent a type of brown sugar that you don't need to chisel.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
They should invent a type of brown sugar that you don't need to chisel.
Since I woke up at 5am on Thanksgiving morning and have had nothing to do today other than whatever I want, I've had a couple of ideas:
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Since I woke up at 5am on Thanksgiving morning and have had nothing to do today other than whatever I want, I've had a couple of ideas:
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
Cooking one Thanksgiving dish per meal for a four-day weekend might be the way to go or at least I've decided that cooking scalloped potatoes for breakfast at 7am is perfectly acceptable.
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Cooking one Thanksgiving dish per meal for a four-day weekend might be the way to go or at least I've decided that cooking scalloped potatoes for breakfast at 7am is perfectly acceptable.
Hi brain, I don't need to be awake at 5am on Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Hi brain, I don't need to be awake at 5am on Thanksgiving.
Kicked off Thanksgiving vacation watching some, erm, clearly classic holiday movies with a friend. A great way to start the long weekend!
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Kicked off Thanksgiving vacation watching some, erm, clearly classic holiday movies with a friend. A great way to start the long weekend!
47⁰ at 6:30am. The warmest it will be for the next ten days is right now.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
47⁰ at 6:30am. The warmest it will be for the next ten days is right now.
The neighbor who was hammering at 10pm on a weekend is hammering again at 10pm on a Tuesday. Except maybe it’s chopping? Hard to say.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The neighbor who was hammering at 10pm on a weekend is hammering again at 10pm on a Tuesday. Except maybe it’s chopping? Hard to say.
Guatemalan grocery store restaurant for the win!
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Guatemalan grocery store restaurant for the win!
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
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These federal changes have completely upended groups who work to house the homeless in Louisville and throughout Kentucky, as @byrobertor.lpm.org covered yesterday:
Federal funding shift threatens to increase homelessness in Kentucky
President Donald Trump's administration is capping funding for long-term housing programs, a move that worries homeless service providers.
www.lpm.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
These federal changes have completely upended groups who work to house the homeless in Louisville and throughout Kentucky, as @byrobertor.lpm.org covered yesterday:
Today has an awfully Friday feeling for a Tuesday.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today has an awfully Friday feeling for a Tuesday.
This pleases me:
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This pleases me:
Morning was the right decision except for the rain and now me wandering around the house looking in cupboards and random places for the bottle of milk I bought that I didn't actually buy.
Should I go brave Thanksgiving-week Kroger at 6pm today or 7am tomorrow?
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Morning was the right decision except for the rain and now me wandering around the house looking in cupboards and random places for the bottle of milk I bought that I didn't actually buy.
Paint me like one of your French girls.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Paint me like one of your French girls.