It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Yup. Tis I.

The rumors are true. Stand by for more.

Hemingway couldn’t have written a story this tragic

Stop calling me an amateur. I've been doing this for decades. I'm incompetent.

last year i read a paper where the author claimed that east slavic speakers of English as L2 use perfect tenses too much because English lacks the perfective aspect built into the verb itself. i was in that moment very seen, uncomfortably seen, and i can’t stop noticing that about myself.

bro lowkey your beauty escapes definition. you're legit so enchanting i lack the vocabulary to describe it bro. you bewitch me bro.

so you are telling me that nobody has yet made a compilation of every slur mentioned in glee ??

my teenage daughter (she’s around 6 so that means she’s actually 40 in human years 🫪)

finding breadcrumbs of how things start is really funny to me. ten years ago this year lol

popularization of the term “emotional labor” via therapyspeak in today’s culture has done such great damage. emotional labor is specifically managing one’s emotions to meet job’s requirements. it’s not emotional labor to be human and extend empathy. it’s actually good to partake in community care.

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

one of my favorite phrases of this past year is “did the journal factory explode?”, and i will not let it die

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

Nobody has an inalienable right to own a cat. If someone has cat allergies they can try shots or other Rx interventions for themselves, not support the breeding of disabled animals. The breeding of Sphynxes is so unethical that it's banned in several countries. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Sphynx has lowest life expectancy of domestic cat breeds, research finds

The hairless cats live on average for just 6.8 years, while a Burmese could survive to be 14, according to research

theguardian.com

Crazy Cat Lady Abroad@crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 5d ago

I get hairless cats for people with allergies, but I'm still...let's say not exactly convinced it's a solution which is fair to the cat. So many of the rest of the things we do with breeds are wholly indefensible. And I'm just as happy with rescues as I ever was with purebreds.

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.

this email could have been a love letter

ok. I’ll bite if anyone wanna share their thoughts. substack vs medium? my Substack is exclusively for poetry kinda / more artistic writing. i feel like medium by itself has a more nonfictiony (not that poetry *isn’t* nonfiction but) feel which may be more suited for blogs? since i wanna write more🫪

as someone who was a victim of a property crime last week (!), i am still an abolitionist!! and also against punitive justice!! i’ve been a victim of several crimes including theft, car damage from gun fire, death threats — the police did not prevent those crimes! nor did they solve anything

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

they should invent an ibuprofen that is stronger

Klimt:

my mom sent me these archive photos, and i am very proud to claim that i’ve been uplifting women ever since i was a kid 😜

i think I'm going to start doing what cats do; just casually walk away from anything I'm not interested in.

regardless of how using AI impacted Hank Green’s research, I vividly remember lots of criticism of the SciShow video about HRT: several incorrect claims + they didn’t consult enough trans people, specifically consulted no trans women. all this to say, you must always be skeptical of pop science! :3

adulthood in alaska is no one can stop you from getting ice cream at 9:30 pm

gonna submit to COABE national conference because why not

pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky

this creature lives in my house and greets my guests and becomes a portable heater pad