PeggyDavisLA
@peggydavisla.bsky.social
Fascists suck. AI sucks. All about books, teaching, friends, baseball (Guardians; Dodgers), cats, and all things potato. She/hers
Saw Hamnet and cried so much my glasses fogged up. This is not a complaint.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Saw Hamnet and cried so much my glasses fogged up. This is not a complaint.
Cool. Coolcoolcoolcool. 😐
December 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cool. Coolcoolcoolcool. 😐
Grades submitted! Might be time to slay demons and dragons and all things evil.
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Grades submitted! Might be time to slay demons and dragons and all things evil.
I have been grading papers all day. Is it time to reward myself with hot hockey players looking longingly at each other (among other things)? Yes. Yes it is.
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I have been grading papers all day. Is it time to reward myself with hot hockey players looking longingly at each other (among other things)? Yes. Yes it is.
I will not, in fact, be "saving the date."
December 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I will not, in fact, be "saving the date."
www.midnightmission.org/toy-drive/
If you're looking for a way to give back, consider the Midnight Mission's toy drive. I picked an art kit, a gigantic stuffed unicorn, and sports gear. 🌲🎁
If you're looking for a way to give back, consider the Midnight Mission's toy drive. I picked an art kit, a gigantic stuffed unicorn, and sports gear. 🌲🎁
Toy Drive: Spread Joy This Holiday Season | Midnight Mission
Help brighten a child’s holiday by donating to the Midnight Mission Toy Drive. Your generosity makes a difference! Make an impact in your community.
www.midnightmission.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
www.midnightmission.org/toy-drive/
If you're looking for a way to give back, consider the Midnight Mission's toy drive. I picked an art kit, a gigantic stuffed unicorn, and sports gear. 🌲🎁
If you're looking for a way to give back, consider the Midnight Mission's toy drive. I picked an art kit, a gigantic stuffed unicorn, and sports gear. 🌲🎁
Oh fun! This entire bus smells of urine. 😐
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Oh fun! This entire bus smells of urine. 😐
Led Zeppelin my most listened to artist this year and I'm very good with that. 🎸🤘🏻
December 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Led Zeppelin my most listened to artist this year and I'm very good with that. 🎸🤘🏻
Tomorrow is my last day of teaching this quarter, and even though I have enjoyed my students quite a bit--they are a seriously good bunch--I just need the quarter to be over. Please.
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Tomorrow is my last day of teaching this quarter, and even though I have enjoyed my students quite a bit--they are a seriously good bunch--I just need the quarter to be over. Please.
Update: the quirkiest, most enjoyable quiz I've taken in forever.
🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Update: the quirkiest, most enjoyable quiz I've taken in forever.
You had me at Bookmatch quiz!
🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You had me at Bookmatch quiz!
Update: I'm a Josh O'Connor fan for life.
Alright new Knives Out movie, you better make me laugh.
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Update: I'm a Josh O'Connor fan for life.
There is a grade-A mean girl on Survivor and I loathe her. Not in a love to hate way, just hate. She's the worst high school mean girl you ever knew and I may have to quit this show.
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There is a grade-A mean girl on Survivor and I loathe her. Not in a love to hate way, just hate. She's the worst high school mean girl you ever knew and I may have to quit this show.
Alright new Knives Out movie, you better make me laugh.
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Alright new Knives Out movie, you better make me laugh.
I hate that guy.
(Pick a guy, almost any guy.)
(Pick a guy, almost any guy.)
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I hate that guy.
(Pick a guy, almost any guy.)
(Pick a guy, almost any guy.)
I saw it in the theater and it was brilliant. Beautiful, heartbreaking, clear-eyed.
The very lovely TRAIN DREAMS, starring the very lovely Joel Edgerton and based on Denis Johnson's acclaimed novella, premieres on Netflix tomorrow after its brief theatrical run (if you can catch it in a theater, do):
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m...
‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I saw it in the theater and it was brilliant. Beautiful, heartbreaking, clear-eyed.
Sometimes when you get labeled a mean girl it's because you are one. (This is a Survivor post.)
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Sometimes when you get labeled a mean girl it's because you are one. (This is a Survivor post.)
Happy Long List day to all who celebrate!
cc: @tournamentofbooks.com
cc: @tournamentofbooks.com
www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-year-in-...
Alert! Alert! The ToB long list just came out and there's the rest of my reading year sorted. Join us! In March 2026, it will be the funnest place on the interwebs
Alert! Alert! The ToB long list just came out and there's the rest of my reading year sorted. Join us! In March 2026, it will be the funnest place on the interwebs
The 2026 Long List — The Tournament of Books
Literary bloodsport approaches! As we narrow down our shortlist of Tournament competitors, here are the 70 works of fiction in consideration from this year.
www.tournamentofbooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Happy Long List day to all who celebrate!
cc: @tournamentofbooks.com
cc: @tournamentofbooks.com
www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-year-in-...
Alert! Alert! The ToB long list just came out and there's the rest of my reading year sorted. Join us! In March 2026, it will be the funnest place on the interwebs
Alert! Alert! The ToB long list just came out and there's the rest of my reading year sorted. Join us! In March 2026, it will be the funnest place on the interwebs
The 2026 Long List — The Tournament of Books
Literary bloodsport approaches! As we narrow down our shortlist of Tournament competitors, here are the 70 works of fiction in consideration from this year.
www.tournamentofbooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-year-in-...
Alert! Alert! The ToB long list just came out and there's the rest of my reading year sorted. Join us! In March 2026, it will be the funnest place on the interwebs
Alert! Alert! The ToB long list just came out and there's the rest of my reading year sorted. Join us! In March 2026, it will be the funnest place on the interwebs
It's wild* that a sitting president telling a reporter "quiet piggy" is not a national scandal.
*completely normal in our current times
*completely normal in our current times
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's wild* that a sitting president telling a reporter "quiet piggy" is not a national scandal.
*completely normal in our current times
*completely normal in our current times
Commenting on papers and a student used the phrase "the late 1900s," and while he's not wrong, it still gutted me.
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Commenting on papers and a student used the phrase "the late 1900s," and while he's not wrong, it still gutted me.
This is repugnant. She should be publicly shamed for the rest of her miserable days.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is repugnant. She should be publicly shamed for the rest of her miserable days.
Reposted by PeggyDavisLA
All the horrible men are horrible, it turns out.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
All the horrible men are horrible, it turns out.
P R E A C H
This should be the lead story of every news outlet. It's all about the grift.
This should be the lead story of every news outlet. It's all about the grift.
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
P R E A C H
This should be the lead story of every news outlet. It's all about the grift.
This should be the lead story of every news outlet. It's all about the grift.