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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+++
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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
I did this today by taking a friend to the doctor. Regret to inform that it did seem to improve my mood.
Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I did this today by taking a friend to the doctor. Regret to inform that it did seem to improve my mood.
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As a queer Kentuckian, I am honestly so fucking sick of hearing “fuck the South” from liberals and progressives. It’s a shit take and incredibly essentializing about one of the country’s most diverse and gerrymandered regions. Ppl need to get their hearts right
You seem to think I’m talking about MAGA. I am not. I am talking about the Black and queer and immigrant and Democratic voters who live in the South too. I think it IS sneering condescension to characterize everyone in the South as “Hitlerville” especially in light of Jim Crow
"you don't understand, it has to be okay for people from hitlerville Alabama to try to kill and torture people because it's sneering condescension if you decide you don't like them for it"
Our society would be infinitely better if liberals hated conservatives as much as they hate us.
Our society would be infinitely better if liberals hated conservatives as much as they hate us.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As a queer Kentuckian, I am honestly so fucking sick of hearing “fuck the South” from liberals and progressives. It’s a shit take and incredibly essentializing about one of the country’s most diverse and gerrymandered regions. Ppl need to get their hearts right
It doesn't actually matter whether bring trans is an objectively observable fact, because people should be allowed to control their own bodies -- including via medicine/surgery -- just because they want to.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It doesn't actually matter whether bring trans is an objectively observable fact, because people should be allowed to control their own bodies -- including via medicine/surgery -- just because they want to.
Today in What Is HR?, the fictional employee invented for this presentation has a zodiac sign that contributes to her fictional behavior patterns as an employee.
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Today in What Is HR?, the fictional employee invented for this presentation has a zodiac sign that contributes to her fictional behavior patterns as an employee.
People always think that grammar/spelling mistakes must make me tear my hair out. But, like.... Literally how could I stand teaching English or editing if that kind of thing upset me?
TL:DR it’s funny how when people hear I’m an English professor they immediately think I’m going to judge their spelling
LMAO NO
literally the last thing I care about
Unless you’re being a dumbass in my mentions and I can respond *your to your obnoxious post, then I might
LMAO NO
literally the last thing I care about
Unless you’re being a dumbass in my mentions and I can respond *your to your obnoxious post, then I might
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
People always think that grammar/spelling mistakes must make me tear my hair out. But, like.... Literally how could I stand teaching English or editing if that kind of thing upset me?
In which the New York Times responds to the current crisis on grocery prices and SNAP cuts with a budget-stretching recipe for [checks notes] caviar pie.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In which the New York Times responds to the current crisis on grocery prices and SNAP cuts with a budget-stretching recipe for [checks notes] caviar pie.
Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
Called my senators. Told Gillibrand to get rid of Schumer in favor of someone who is willing to lead. Told Schumer that I'd voted for him lots and am desperately hoping to see him primaried.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Called my senators. Told Gillibrand to get rid of Schumer in favor of someone who is willing to lead. Told Schumer that I'd voted for him lots and am desperately hoping to see him primaried.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Midfloat break, after hanging out with a loon for a while in the marsh.
Greatest city in the world.
Greatest city in the world.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Midfloat break, after hanging out with a loon for a while in the marsh.
Greatest city in the world.
Greatest city in the world.
An army marches on its what now?
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
An army marches on its what now?
Turns out my apartment building's elevators are just about 10'6" at maximum internal length.
This was almost my worst "enh, it should fit" assumption to date. But God is good, all the time.
This was almost my worst "enh, it should fit" assumption to date. But God is good, all the time.
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Turns out my apartment building's elevators are just about 10'6" at maximum internal length.
This was almost my worst "enh, it should fit" assumption to date. But God is good, all the time.
This was almost my worst "enh, it should fit" assumption to date. But God is good, all the time.