Sophia
@sophiaelson.bsky.social
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Nerve pain is psychedelic in the worst way. The way flexing your right foot can cause an electric jolt in your left thigh. I'm trying to be curious about it and pretend I enjoy the discoveries.
December 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Nerve pain is psychedelic in the worst way. The way flexing your right foot can cause an electric jolt in your left thigh. I'm trying to be curious about it and pretend I enjoy the discoveries.
I successfully ate ravioli today. 💪
Hear me out, motivational merch for oral surgery patients and their families with the slogan "You Can Chew It!"
Hear me out, motivational merch for oral surgery patients and their families with the slogan "You Can Chew It!"
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I successfully ate ravioli today. 💪
Hear me out, motivational merch for oral surgery patients and their families with the slogan "You Can Chew It!"
Hear me out, motivational merch for oral surgery patients and their families with the slogan "You Can Chew It!"
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On Board an S-Class Submarine. Up the Conning Tower (1944) by Stephen Bone
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
On Board an S-Class Submarine. Up the Conning Tower (1944) by Stephen Bone
Been thinking a lot about slowness and ambiguity as rebellion. Quote is fire.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Been thinking a lot about slowness and ambiguity as rebellion. Quote is fire.
Keep spazzing which to put on: Anna von Hausswolff, Rosalía, or Juana Molina. Ridic musical bounty these past two weeks have delivered.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Keep spazzing which to put on: Anna von Hausswolff, Rosalía, or Juana Molina. Ridic musical bounty these past two weeks have delivered.
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Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed
A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.
Due to the light they're hard to photograph.
Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶
A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.
Due to the light they're hard to photograph.
Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed
A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.
Due to the light they're hard to photograph.
Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶
A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.
Due to the light they're hard to photograph.
Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶
TIL "Baba O'Riley" was partly named after the composer Terry Riley, which super makes sense (the intro sounds like his work).
youtu.be/hy3W-3HPMWg?...
youtu.be/hy3W-3HPMWg?...
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air - Full CD (HQ)
YouTube video by kademan13
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August 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
TIL "Baba O'Riley" was partly named after the composer Terry Riley, which super makes sense (the intro sounds like his work).
youtu.be/hy3W-3HPMWg?...
youtu.be/hy3W-3HPMWg?...
An axolotl eating tater-tots, drawn for a friend who seemed like she needed it.
#artsky #art #drawing #coloredpencil #gouache #watercolor #axolotl #weirdart
#artsky #art #drawing #coloredpencil #gouache #watercolor #axolotl #weirdart
August 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
An axolotl eating tater-tots, drawn for a friend who seemed like she needed it.
#artsky #art #drawing #coloredpencil #gouache #watercolor #axolotl #weirdart
#artsky #art #drawing #coloredpencil #gouache #watercolor #axolotl #weirdart
Painting over a mediocre candies-and-pastries still life from college. Just intuitive doodling. It's a lot of fun.
#intuitivepainting #artsky #oilpainting
#intuitivepainting #artsky #oilpainting
July 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Painting over a mediocre candies-and-pastries still life from college. Just intuitive doodling. It's a lot of fun.
#intuitivepainting #artsky #oilpainting
#intuitivepainting #artsky #oilpainting
Sometimes, ads are insane enough that I actually really like them.
July 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Sometimes, ads are insane enough that I actually really like them.
Learning more about Hitler's life pre-power, and dude was pathetic, whiny, and lazy. The idea he was an ubermensch and my grandmother who graduated medical school and swam across alpine lakes was of an inferior race, I dunno man
July 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Learning more about Hitler's life pre-power, and dude was pathetic, whiny, and lazy. The idea he was an ubermensch and my grandmother who graduated medical school and swam across alpine lakes was of an inferior race, I dunno man
Kathy Sledge doing a surprise performance at SF Pride Roller Disco melted my heart into a puddle; I love SF and I love Sister Sledge and I love the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and I love LGBTQ community and I even love awkwardly hobbling around a rink while getting sunburned. 🙏❤️
June 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Kathy Sledge doing a surprise performance at SF Pride Roller Disco melted my heart into a puddle; I love SF and I love Sister Sledge and I love the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and I love LGBTQ community and I even love awkwardly hobbling around a rink while getting sunburned. 🙏❤️
❤️❤️❤️
June 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My dad introduced me to, like, Wild Strawberries, Paris Texas, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Twin Peaks, Kurt Vonnegut, The Third Man, Chinatown, ... so picking a "best" is hard.
Okay you guys, what’s the best book, movie, or TV show your dad introduced you to
June 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My dad introduced me to, like, Wild Strawberries, Paris Texas, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Twin Peaks, Kurt Vonnegut, The Third Man, Chinatown, ... so picking a "best" is hard.
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May I recommend not listening to Who Knows Where the Time Goes while watching your old cat fast asleep, looking uncannily kittenish, unless you’re wilfully seeking a confrontation with the almost unbearable joy & sorrow of loving all mortal beings
June 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
May I recommend not listening to Who Knows Where the Time Goes while watching your old cat fast asleep, looking uncannily kittenish, unless you’re wilfully seeking a confrontation with the almost unbearable joy & sorrow of loving all mortal beings
I resist the urge to reskeet every outrageous article, but man... I really do not like the Trump administration! It needs OUT.
May 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I resist the urge to reskeet every outrageous article, but man... I really do not like the Trump administration! It needs OUT.
Star Wars is smarter than Star Trek. (Watching "Andor" and "Strange New Worlds" simultaneously.)
May 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Star Wars is smarter than Star Trek. (Watching "Andor" and "Strange New Worlds" simultaneously.)
- At the checkout counter, people sometimes partake in a ritual of handing the cashier money that the cashier hands right back. (Didn't understand change.)
- Bright moving lights in the sky at night are usually rocketships.
- Bright moving lights in the sky at night are usually rocketships.
“Bizarre things you firmly believed when a kid” is one of my favorite genres and I firmly believe we all have excellent examples if we can remember them
May 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
- At the checkout counter, people sometimes partake in a ritual of handing the cashier money that the cashier hands right back. (Didn't understand change.)
- Bright moving lights in the sky at night are usually rocketships.
- Bright moving lights in the sky at night are usually rocketships.
Exquisite corpse!
Head: me
Torso: Gene Zielnicki
Legs: Keith Joe Dick
Feet: Lyubov Vasilyeva
See more 👉 linktr.ee/exquisitecor...
#exquisitecorpus #exquisitecorpses #exquisitecorpse #surrealart #surrealism #cadaverexquisito #cadavreexquis #monsterdrawing #coloredpencil
Head: me
Torso: Gene Zielnicki
Legs: Keith Joe Dick
Feet: Lyubov Vasilyeva
See more 👉 linktr.ee/exquisitecor...
#exquisitecorpus #exquisitecorpses #exquisitecorpse #surrealart #surrealism #cadaverexquisito #cadavreexquis #monsterdrawing #coloredpencil
April 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Exquisite corpse!
Head: me
Torso: Gene Zielnicki
Legs: Keith Joe Dick
Feet: Lyubov Vasilyeva
See more 👉 linktr.ee/exquisitecor...
#exquisitecorpus #exquisitecorpses #exquisitecorpse #surrealart #surrealism #cadaverexquisito #cadavreexquis #monsterdrawing #coloredpencil
Head: me
Torso: Gene Zielnicki
Legs: Keith Joe Dick
Feet: Lyubov Vasilyeva
See more 👉 linktr.ee/exquisitecor...
#exquisitecorpus #exquisitecorpses #exquisitecorpse #surrealart #surrealism #cadaverexquisito #cadavreexquis #monsterdrawing #coloredpencil
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On the one hand, this feels like too little, too late, yet it also seems to be a sign that the tide is genuinely turning in the institutional American Jewish world: www.jta.org/2025/04/02/u...
Hillel CEO says he shares 'concerns' over campus deportations, calls for due process - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Adam Lehman worried that Trump's campus crackdown could unfairly affect Jewish students and fuel antisemitism.
www.jta.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
On the one hand, this feels like too little, too late, yet it also seems to be a sign that the tide is genuinely turning in the institutional American Jewish world: www.jta.org/2025/04/02/u...
It's cute to like Democrats when you're young and idealistic, but eventually you mature and realize your stock portfolio needs the steady hand of a coldly rational Republican administration.
April 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's cute to like Democrats when you're young and idealistic, but eventually you mature and realize your stock portfolio needs the steady hand of a coldly rational Republican administration.
Overheard in the bathroom:
- What's that?
- Those are tampons. They're for periods.
- Do you have periods mommy?
- Yeah.
- How long?
- Since I was 12 -- or maybe 11.
- Oh no, oh no, oh no, 11 is very long!
- What's that?
- Those are tampons. They're for periods.
- Do you have periods mommy?
- Yeah.
- How long?
- Since I was 12 -- or maybe 11.
- Oh no, oh no, oh no, 11 is very long!
April 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Overheard in the bathroom:
- What's that?
- Those are tampons. They're for periods.
- Do you have periods mommy?
- Yeah.
- How long?
- Since I was 12 -- or maybe 11.
- Oh no, oh no, oh no, 11 is very long!
- What's that?
- Those are tampons. They're for periods.
- Do you have periods mommy?
- Yeah.
- How long?
- Since I was 12 -- or maybe 11.
- Oh no, oh no, oh no, 11 is very long!
No room for nihilism. Better to be deluded and doing shit than lulled into inaction.
We have changed the trajectory of future warming over the course of my lifetime. The worst-case climate scenarios are no longer likely. That’s not due to modeling uncertainty; it’s because of activism. No one gets to erase that just because they find a perverse comfort in the certainty of defeat.
March 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
No room for nihilism. Better to be deluded and doing shit than lulled into inaction.
When you catch yourself absent-mindedly humming "Sex & Candy" in the office and a coworker looks at you askance
March 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
When you catch yourself absent-mindedly humming "Sex & Candy" in the office and a coworker looks at you askance