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Along these lines: saw my first horned lark today. In the snow, in the mountains of Vermont.
January 20, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Along these lines: saw my first horned lark today. In the snow, in the mountains of Vermont.
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Most of the Black people in the US still live in the south. Of the counties in the US with majority Black populations, the majority are in the south. When you hear someone talking like this, they are being racist as fuck and telling you to write off Black southerners.
There is no secret vanguard of the revolution awaiting to be activated by the perfect maoist leader, the south is held back by it’s own bigotry and it’ll kill itself to stay that way
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Most of the Black people in the US still live in the south. Of the counties in the US with majority Black populations, the majority are in the south. When you hear someone talking like this, they are being racist as fuck and telling you to write off Black southerners.
WaPo with the hot takes.
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
WaPo with the hot takes.
My 14yo, unprovoked:
All my waiters become my haters when I don't tip them well.
All my waiters become my haters when I don't tip them well.
January 3, 2026 at 11:01 PM
My 14yo, unprovoked:
All my waiters become my haters when I don't tip them well.
All my waiters become my haters when I don't tip them well.
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this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
![How would you describe Mamdani's politics?
He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism.
What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor!
I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left.
There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssxnmhdtz6le6nxu7jfhglz6/bafkreic7pxra6vmrjmqo4jmw4vdagiluj6xtkovqb3f4ex7fc55m7pzaxu@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
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If Eric Adams doesn't leave in a hot air balloon what the hell is the point
January 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
If Eric Adams doesn't leave in a hot air balloon what the hell is the point
😍😍😍
They've started replacing the "welcome to the borough" signs so they say Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani instead of Mayor Adams.
January 1, 2026 at 2:31 AM
😍😍😍
Shortly after midnight, about an hour before all the stockings fell down on the dog..
December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Shortly after midnight, about an hour before all the stockings fell down on the dog..
Oh, now that I need its help, AI is too pure.
SINCE WHEN.
SINCE WHEN.
December 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Oh, now that I need its help, AI is too pure.
SINCE WHEN.
SINCE WHEN.
I asked my 14yo to make an ornament for our tree and now I have this.
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I asked my 14yo to make an ornament for our tree and now I have this.
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
On this day in 1941, my grandmother decided there would be plenty of time on Sunday to study for her final exams. Sunday, December 7th. Her whole family and all their friends were in the Navy.
Decades later, when I had my first exams, she warned me not to leave it to the last day.
Decades later, when I had my first exams, she warned me not to leave it to the last day.
On this day in 1941 my great uncle hurt his knee quite badly while playing softball, an injury only notable because he was in the Navy and stationed in Pearl Harbor, HI. Months later he was startled to be awarded a purple heart for his injury received on December 7th.
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
On this day in 1941, my grandmother decided there would be plenty of time on Sunday to study for her final exams. Sunday, December 7th. Her whole family and all their friends were in the Navy.
Decades later, when I had my first exams, she warned me not to leave it to the last day.
Decades later, when I had my first exams, she warned me not to leave it to the last day.
Today in my travels, I encountered the Pantone announcement in the flesh and in the wild. When I walked by later, it was revealed that this location with be an opportunity to *buy the smell off white.*
I, a WASP, do not need to purchase the smell of white, actually.
I, a WASP, do not need to purchase the smell of white, actually.
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Today in my travels, I encountered the Pantone announcement in the flesh and in the wild. When I walked by later, it was revealed that this location with be an opportunity to *buy the smell off white.*
I, a WASP, do not need to purchase the smell of white, actually.
I, a WASP, do not need to purchase the smell of white, actually.
My plans for company during the day on my birthday have fallen through, which would usually really bum me out. But last night I impulse-bought The Grimoire Gramnar School Parent and I am so absorbed that I don't even care. A+++
Hey US folks - want a deal on Kindle editions of my books? Both Dreadful and The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association will be on sale for $4.99 on Amazon US from Dec 1-31. 💙📚
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
My plans for company during the day on my birthday have fallen through, which would usually really bum me out. But last night I impulse-bought The Grimoire Gramnar School Parent and I am so absorbed that I don't even care. A+++
I named my fists War and Peace because no one gets through them.
I named my fists Hercule and Poirot because they’re about to be covered in someone’s little grey cells.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I named my fists War and Peace because no one gets through them.
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"if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course" is a fuckin all-timer.
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course" is a fuckin all-timer.
"There's no need to use language, that's what I always say."
I still think this — from After Magritte — is the best Stoppard line. (Arcadia is my pick for the best play.)
I still think this — from After Magritte — is the best Stoppard line. (Arcadia is my pick for the best play.)
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
"There's no need to use language, that's what I always say."
I still think this — from After Magritte — is the best Stoppard line. (Arcadia is my pick for the best play.)
I still think this — from After Magritte — is the best Stoppard line. (Arcadia is my pick for the best play.)
The fun thing about being raised by doctors who invite all the residents, is that this conversation all takes place in Gross Anatomy terms. They fight over who gets to do it and they are proud as peacocks about the whole endeavor.
Me: Okay it's done! Did I cut the breast right?
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social: ...
Me: 🥰🥰🥰
Him: ... Okay so normally you cut along the keel--
Me: that's not a real thing. Is that a real thing? A thing a bird has?
Him: ...You cut it like a ham.
Me: I've actually never cooked a ham.
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social: ...
Me: 🥰🥰🥰
Him: ... Okay so normally you cut along the keel--
Me: that's not a real thing. Is that a real thing? A thing a bird has?
Him: ...You cut it like a ham.
Me: I've actually never cooked a ham.
While we're here does anyone actually know how to carve a turkey or are we just yoloing that shit into production
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The fun thing about being raised by doctors who invite all the residents, is that this conversation all takes place in Gross Anatomy terms. They fight over who gets to do it and they are proud as peacocks about the whole endeavor.
Well. We decided to skip the typical festivities in favor of a meal out with friends followed by a movie. But the teenager is being a teenager about it all, so I guess he's bringing the traditional Thanksgiving family tension to the day after all!
Sigh.
Sigh.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Well. We decided to skip the typical festivities in favor of a meal out with friends followed by a movie. But the teenager is being a teenager about it all, so I guess he's bringing the traditional Thanksgiving family tension to the day after all!
Sigh.
Sigh.
Time for my annual realization and bafflement that "quality street" is apparently not slang for heroin.
Hello Bluepals, like the tub of Quality Street we bought at the weekend that was supposed to be saved until December 23rd, we are open.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Time for my annual realization and bafflement that "quality street" is apparently not slang for heroin.
Last egret.
When I came to this creek in South Brooklyn in September, the great and snowy egret, the great blue and night herons were almost innumerable. The last two trips, I've seen only this one.
When I came to this creek in South Brooklyn in September, the great and snowy egret, the great blue and night herons were almost innumerable. The last two trips, I've seen only this one.
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Last egret.
When I came to this creek in South Brooklyn in September, the great and snowy egret, the great blue and night herons were almost innumerable. The last two trips, I've seen only this one.
When I came to this creek in South Brooklyn in September, the great and snowy egret, the great blue and night herons were almost innumerable. The last two trips, I've seen only this one.
Well. I live in an old hospital. So. Yes.
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Well. I live in an old hospital. So. Yes.
You are yelling "I SAID THIS ABOUT LARRY SUMMERS 20 YEARS AGO! GUYS WHO SAY SHIT LIKE THAT ALWAYS DO SHIT LIKE THIS!" and your partner replies, "Who's Larry Summers?"
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
Somebody's taken out an entire chapter of your book?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
You are yelling "I SAID THIS ABOUT LARRY SUMMERS 20 YEARS AGO! GUYS WHO SAY SHIT LIKE THAT ALWAYS DO SHIT LIKE THIS!" and your partner replies, "Who's Larry Summers?"
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
YEP.
I am yelling at the world about Larry Summers because my dad is no longer around for me to yell I TOLD YOU SO at.
So anyway, my therapist is super up on the whole history.
I am yelling at the world about Larry Summers because my dad is no longer around for me to yell I TOLD YOU SO at.
So anyway, my therapist is super up on the whole history.
It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
YEP.
I am yelling at the world about Larry Summers because my dad is no longer around for me to yell I TOLD YOU SO at.
So anyway, my therapist is super up on the whole history.
I am yelling at the world about Larry Summers because my dad is no longer around for me to yell I TOLD YOU SO at.
So anyway, my therapist is super up on the whole history.
I ordered a guitar hook last night, for the purposes of hanging up my fancy new canoe paddle.
Today they called me to thank me for my ($16!) order and ask if I needed help with anything else.
Small businesses. I tell you what.
www.sweetwater.com
Today they called me to thank me for my ($16!) order and ask if I needed help with anything else.
Small businesses. I tell you what.
www.sweetwater.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I ordered a guitar hook last night, for the purposes of hanging up my fancy new canoe paddle.
Today they called me to thank me for my ($16!) order and ask if I needed help with anything else.
Small businesses. I tell you what.
www.sweetwater.com
Today they called me to thank me for my ($16!) order and ask if I needed help with anything else.
Small businesses. I tell you what.
www.sweetwater.com