Jane H
@auntdahlia.bsky.social
ex-tchr of PoliSci & pre-k. Francophile, dog lover, beach lover. 54 years after leaving Philadelphia, I'm back in its Bucks County suburbs. Reader of mysteries, Wodehouse, & many other things. Known in the other place as Wodehouse231
After 5 yrs of lockdown, depression, and arthritis, and thanks to new home and new hips, I've been taking baby steps out into the world -- exploring my new surroundings and meeting new people
At this time of “LOOK WHAT I DID LAST YEAR,” let’s do something different.
Not: I WROTE A BOOK; I BOUGHT A HOUSE; I WON AN AWARD
Rather: something small you’re proud of.
I’ll start
I’m better at having “no f*cks left to give”
I stopped owning other people’s judgements of me
Most of the time
You?
Not: I WROTE A BOOK; I BOUGHT A HOUSE; I WON AN AWARD
Rather: something small you’re proud of.
I’ll start
I’m better at having “no f*cks left to give”
I stopped owning other people’s judgements of me
Most of the time
You?
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
After 5 yrs of lockdown, depression, and arthritis, and thanks to new home and new hips, I've been taking baby steps out into the world -- exploring my new surroundings and meeting new people
Reading the posts here about the combined love and labor going into our celebrations
In my case, remembering the struggling immigrant grandmoms somehow managing to feed kids & g'kids for both Christmas Eve & Day meals, each completely different, one fasting, one a big bird blow-out
In my case, remembering the struggling immigrant grandmoms somehow managing to feed kids & g'kids for both Christmas Eve & Day meals, each completely different, one fasting, one a big bird blow-out
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reading the posts here about the combined love and labor going into our celebrations
In my case, remembering the struggling immigrant grandmoms somehow managing to feed kids & g'kids for both Christmas Eve & Day meals, each completely different, one fasting, one a big bird blow-out
In my case, remembering the struggling immigrant grandmoms somehow managing to feed kids & g'kids for both Christmas Eve & Day meals, each completely different, one fasting, one a big bird blow-out
Of course it is! Welcome to weird wonderful Philadelphia!
I moved to the Philly area from a small Midwestern city and I gotta say, back there I never experienced a warehouse store full of strangers spontaneously breaking into a Christmas carol.
... the Eagles fight song is a Christmas carol, right?
... the Eagles fight song is a Christmas carol, right?
December 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Of course it is! Welcome to weird wonderful Philadelphia!
Christmas movie rec #2 of '25. The Snow Sister. well, maybe not so much Christmas-themed as Christmas as setting for dealing w/grief and love. Main character is a pre-teen boy whose sister died 6 months previously; he meets a girl who helps him recover while facing her own problems
UK rating PG
UK rating PG
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Christmas movie rec #2 of '25. The Snow Sister. well, maybe not so much Christmas-themed as Christmas as setting for dealing w/grief and love. Main character is a pre-teen boy whose sister died 6 months previously; he meets a girl who helps him recover while facing her own problems
UK rating PG
UK rating PG
Christmas movie rec #1 for '25: Santa & Cie/Christmas & Co. French fantasy of Santa dealing w/realities of human life when he has to find 92,000 doses of vitamin C for the elves. Well cast (even the kids are bearable), great effects, beautifully imagined Santa's world. & Audrey Tatou as Mrs C.
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Christmas movie rec #1 for '25: Santa & Cie/Christmas & Co. French fantasy of Santa dealing w/realities of human life when he has to find 92,000 doses of vitamin C for the elves. Well cast (even the kids are bearable), great effects, beautifully imagined Santa's world. & Audrey Tatou as Mrs C.
Reposted by Jane H
"Hush, Horatio. Did you not hear the Dark Lord's call? Go now and summon the others, for it is the time of The Reaping. Soon we shall be bathing in the blood of our enemies."
"I don't know, Max. I'm pretty sure that was just a can opener."
"I don't know, Max. I'm pretty sure that was just a can opener."
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Hush, Horatio. Did you not hear the Dark Lord's call? Go now and summon the others, for it is the time of The Reaping. Soon we shall be bathing in the blood of our enemies."
"I don't know, Max. I'm pretty sure that was just a can opener."
"I don't know, Max. I'm pretty sure that was just a can opener."
Reposted by Jane H
Sadly there is no tub in this house.
Therefore I'm going down the . . . forgive the pun . . . rabbit hole to find a way to recreate this here at home
Therefore I'm going down the . . . forgive the pun . . . rabbit hole to find a way to recreate this here at home
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Sadly there is no tub in this house.
Therefore I'm going down the . . . forgive the pun . . . rabbit hole to find a way to recreate this here at home
Therefore I'm going down the . . . forgive the pun . . . rabbit hole to find a way to recreate this here at home
Dear @padems.org : candidate info (or at least a reasonable amount) is fine.
But the recent, gray-scale, large print "Who you vote for is private, but whether you vote IS PUBLIC RECORD" -- calling it a voter report card, felt kind of threatening.
expected that kind of thing from the GOP
But the recent, gray-scale, large print "Who you vote for is private, but whether you vote IS PUBLIC RECORD" -- calling it a voter report card, felt kind of threatening.
expected that kind of thing from the GOP
October 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Dear @padems.org : candidate info (or at least a reasonable amount) is fine.
But the recent, gray-scale, large print "Who you vote for is private, but whether you vote IS PUBLIC RECORD" -- calling it a voter report card, felt kind of threatening.
expected that kind of thing from the GOP
But the recent, gray-scale, large print "Who you vote for is private, but whether you vote IS PUBLIC RECORD" -- calling it a voter report card, felt kind of threatening.
expected that kind of thing from the GOP
Reposted by Jane H
Share your favorite black and white movie
September 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Share your favorite black and white movie
@anitaanand.bsky.social , in an episode of 'Empire' podcast, talking about the year when both the Middle East (Suez) and Eastern Europe (Hungarian uprising) blew up, and, I think, relevant now: "I never thought I'd need to know the plural of apocalypse."
September 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
@anitaanand.bsky.social , in an episode of 'Empire' podcast, talking about the year when both the Middle East (Suez) and Eastern Europe (Hungarian uprising) blew up, and, I think, relevant now: "I never thought I'd need to know the plural of apocalypse."
Hey @ghweldon.bsky.social , @lindaholmes.bsky.social , my nomination for silly movie plot is Truly Madly Deeply. Alan Rickman returns from the dead to convince his lover (Juliet Stevenson) to get over him, by resetting the thermostat and bringing home some other dead friends
September 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hey @ghweldon.bsky.social , @lindaholmes.bsky.social , my nomination for silly movie plot is Truly Madly Deeply. Alan Rickman returns from the dead to convince his lover (Juliet Stevenson) to get over him, by resetting the thermostat and bringing home some other dead friends
Persistence -- or lack of imagination, or stubbornness -- pays off. Attempt #782 using the same start word.
Wordle 1,535 1/6
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September 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Persistence -- or lack of imagination, or stubbornness -- pays off. Attempt #782 using the same start word.
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One of the best things to watch when "real world" gets too dismaying
I always assumed that all the sounds it made were just a rip-off of the Clangers.
August 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
One of the best things to watch when "real world" gets too dismaying
Sharing this because I've tried it 5 or 6 times, solved it only once before this time, and that was a last ditch 6th try
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August 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Sharing this because I've tried it 5 or 6 times, solved it only once before this time, and that was a last ditch 6th try
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Couldn't sleep, disturbing/depressing dream when I did, transportation problems in the morning, unexpected cost for long-ignored replacement.
solution? 2 episodes of the clangers.
now if only there were some chocolate in the house . . .
solution? 2 episodes of the clangers.
now if only there were some chocolate in the house . . .
July 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Couldn't sleep, disturbing/depressing dream when I did, transportation problems in the morning, unexpected cost for long-ignored replacement.
solution? 2 episodes of the clangers.
now if only there were some chocolate in the house . . .
solution? 2 episodes of the clangers.
now if only there were some chocolate in the house . . .
What has made me happy today? The handmade sign in the Scottish Trump protest crowd that reminded us of one of the most direct Trump critics: "Janey Godley was right"
July 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What has made me happy today? The handmade sign in the Scottish Trump protest crowd that reminded us of one of the most direct Trump critics: "Janey Godley was right"
need to save this to share w/non-online chemist friend!
Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent
July 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
need to save this to share w/non-online chemist friend!
Shout-out to my rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) -- a no vote on the big horrible bill!
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Shout-out to my rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) -- a no vote on the big horrible bill!
" . . .a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated"
Also, in case you were wondering, the sky IS blue and water IS wet
Also, in case you were wondering, the sky IS blue and water IS wet
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
www.npr.org
May 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
" . . .a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated"
Also, in case you were wondering, the sky IS blue and water IS wet
Also, in case you were wondering, the sky IS blue and water IS wet
Reposted by Jane H
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
www.npr.org
May 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
Read the piece AND watch at least part of the contest. It's a little bit of unhinged joy in the midst of . . . all this.
And as for me, I'm rooting for plucky San Marino.
And as for me, I'm rooting for plucky San Marino.
Please share this piece of writing that my editor and I work hard on every year because its window of relevancy/usefulness is vanishingly small. Just 45 hours or so.
May 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Read the piece AND watch at least part of the contest. It's a little bit of unhinged joy in the midst of . . . all this.
And as for me, I'm rooting for plucky San Marino.
And as for me, I'm rooting for plucky San Marino.
I've been numbing my brain w/CBS SWAT and Equalizer. Best example yet of absolutely unbelievable ridiculous impossibilities: a CIA rescue team, breaching an NYC warehouse, wearing windbreakers w/"CIA" on the outside.
That makes me so happy
That makes me so happy
March 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I've been numbing my brain w/CBS SWAT and Equalizer. Best example yet of absolutely unbelievable ridiculous impossibilities: a CIA rescue team, breaching an NYC warehouse, wearing windbreakers w/"CIA" on the outside.
That makes me so happy
That makes me so happy
@lindaholmes.bsky.social re:today's PCHH Oscar recap: my problem w/the Sandler sketch -- bullying over 'lack of respect' shown by not dressing up for the event -- came way too close to the Trump/Vance bullying of Zelenskyy over his clothes.
I know it wasn't meant (I hope!) but for me hit too close
I know it wasn't meant (I hope!) but for me hit too close
March 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
@lindaholmes.bsky.social re:today's PCHH Oscar recap: my problem w/the Sandler sketch -- bullying over 'lack of respect' shown by not dressing up for the event -- came way too close to the Trump/Vance bullying of Zelenskyy over his clothes.
I know it wasn't meant (I hope!) but for me hit too close
I know it wasn't meant (I hope!) but for me hit too close