well today we might be finding out the answer to one of life’s big questions: absent any external impetus, when *will* i get out of a hot tub?

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

Cholula@cholulaconamor.bsky.social · 4w ago

Without the online friends I’ve made over the years, some of whom have become offline friends (even recently!), I would be a much, much lonelier person. Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too.

Henry VIII: "Pope, would please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand. You're not a marriage influencer. How many wives do you have?"

Goldstein (still not a pseudonym)@goldstein.latinsky.app · 3w ago

How many local models do you run?

Butterbutt. An older comic.

ion today* i got congratulated for successfully** spelling my own surname***😂 *this is not the first time this has happened **because i did so using the phonetic alphabet ***pretty sure it’s always men doing the congratulating; chaps, it’s not that hard

absolutely tickled by how many of you associated this with me and yes, of course i’m getting one 😂 (might also get one for many of my kiddo besties 😂)

One Angry Eyebrow…@oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · last mo.

IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

great art articulates eternal truths

back on my first patch ice session since APRIL and i’m working through it but gotta say, i feel stupid doing such basic things on said patch ice 😂

was recently musing on teenage fandom and the guy who watched julie and julia every day for a year 😂 (i watched evita every day for two months when i was 13 and have probably watched it at least annually since, i think i could do this no problem - god knows what the result would be though 😂)

Spectacular Roman octopus mosaic from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

I’m reading Emily Wilson’s “Crossing the wine-dark sea” and seized with a desire to read a direct translation of Homer into modern Greek - I only read retellings/adaptations as a kid

Got seized by the urge to make my DW feel a bit more lived in but am now completely paralyzed by HOW THE FUCK DO ICONS WORK 😂

my british passport just arrived and i’m feeling thrilled but suddenly discombobulated

me when I'm trying to choose a healthy breakfast

Klingons know that transphobes are without honor and will not see Sto’Vo’Kor

Zoe TunnHELL@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WE GOT THERE WE'RE HERE DECADES LATER AND IT IS STILL ONE OF THE MOST LOVELY AND AFFIRMING BITS OF TRANS STORYTELLING IN A GENRE SHOW

today i feel small, tired, overwhelmed and ignorant. also insufficiently motivated to do anything to change the situation.

honestly good for them, i hope this works cuz the AIN thing is just such a stupid, insulting copout

Jackie Wong | Rocker Skating@rockerskating.com · 2mo ago

The Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation wrote to the ISU on 8/28 re: AIN criteria; identified 8 RUS athletes and specified the case against their AIN eligibility (Valieva, Kondratiuk, Semenenko, Fedorov, Ignatova, Dzepka, Boikova/Kozlovskii Full letter: www.ukrfsf.org.ua/wp-content/u...

Ooo, fun! I decided to try and remember all the artists I’ve seen +1 times and I think this is the lot? Introduce yourself with 5 artists you’ve seen at least twice: Dar Williams Grace Petrie Vienna Teng Camille O’Sullivan Taylor Swift Placebo Indigo Girls Thea Gilmore Kate Rusby Dessa Muse

K | chill mermaid autumn@littledust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Introduce yourself with 5 artists you’ve seen at least twice: Tori Amos Dar Williams The Weepies Vienna Teng Carly Rae Jepsen

Third time lucky on priory of the orange tree and I’m having the best time and I just want someone to yell about it with! 😂📚🐉🌳🍊

meanwhile i’m back on my bullshit (aka the ice) for the first time in nearly a *month* and focusing on the modest wins of a) showing up and b) not having lost too much ground time to get back on that horse 😂

having a front row seat to this creative journey is sincerely a constant joy lately🤩🥰😍💞🫶🏼

usuallybats 🦇@usuallyhats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More Shetland fic! This one is smut, which I have never written before. I'm trying to resist the impulse to apologise for it or caveat it, so instead I will just say: here it is archiveofourown.org/works/91573716

hey just making sure everyone knows tom hardy put out a rap album where he does the “"now is the winter of our discontent” monologue from richard III in the bane voice on one of the tracks. okay have a good weekend

man, i'm so happy we get to mourn queer icons who died at 80 and lived long lives being themselves. i'm so grateful for the world they helped create and live and thrive in for as long as they did

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.

She didn’t just read it and say “okay, if that’s what it says that’s what it says, that’s the rule, period.” She thought, “I don’t get that. I’m going to think about it.” That’s the intersection of your religious tradition with your independent soul.

I mean just within this story, you get not only the substance of this observation from her, which is beautiful, but the very fact that when she read scripture, she wanted to truly understand it, to see how it made sense to her and was consistent with what she knew was right and sensible.

Dun Jun@clustertuck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton