I am reminded of one of my high school English seminars (“Autobiographies”) where we were reading Rousseau’s Confessions and the class decided to put him on trial posthumously for being [I] verbose and boring and [II] a terrible person. He was convicted on both counts.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

alright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.

How, back in high school, my pair of black socks with little white mice on them inexplicably became *3* black socks with little white mice on them.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d ago

What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

Broke out the *~Fancy Wok~* tonight to make some hibachi-style fried rice with pork and garlic butter. (This wok was a wedding present and is far too fancy to be part of the Ministry of Silly Woks.)

Fall trip to New Orleans is officially booked! I haven’t been since pre-Katrina. My husband hasn’t been since ever. I’m psychotically excited!

Someday, when I have a garden, the first thing I plant will be radishes. So many radishes.

Scorpio: In the symphony of life, you are playing the kazoo.

On my day off I had a couple of drinks and asked my Alexa: A) how long to quick-pickle shallots B) if it could please stop giving me such gross Uncanny Valley vibes C) if it was familiar with Bluesky

I’m going to start a band called “Prodigious Rizz.”

Happy Barbenheimerversary, everyone!

Forgot to take a picture, but I made a bed of Jamaican curried lentils and potatoes with bell peppers and onions for some pork medallions, plus some pineapple-lime slaw on the side, and it was bomb as hell.

Marriage is shouting “I’m a-peein’!” as you scamper off to the bathroom and he shouts back “EUROPEAN?!?!”

So many "woke" issues are things that a doctrinaire libertarian ought to get right, like open borders, police reform--even abolition--and full bodily autonomy for trans people. Libertarian culture usually obscures all that, but these aren't difficult calls if you believe in self-ownership.

I went to the Moron* Pharmacy again yesterday. The people in front of me were picking up meds for their dog. “I’ll need to see [Name]’s ID.” “[Name] is our dog.” A few minutes later… “And lastly I’ll need ID for [Name]” “…he’s STILL a dog.”

Allez les Bleus!

I’m not a democratic socialist, but I would be honored to be in an anti-fascist coalition of parties with them.

5 years ago on Facebag I posted that I was going to start a band called “Nostalgia Porn” and then @tylerboschert.bsky.social followed up by saying it sounded like a band that’s “hard to remember” and it was 😙🤌

Tomorrow would have been the 15th birthday of our sweet doggie, Gracie, the goodest girl. I thought The Internet should know.

Make a band much worse: Jefferson Segway

PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Make a band much worse: Panic! at the Iroquois Theatre

to be clear, changing the clocks every year is in fact dumb and bad and we should stop doing it, but we should be on permanent standard time, not permanent DST

Watermelon

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What’s the most widely enjoyed food that you can’t stand, not because of allergies or anything but just because you hate it?

The cat is needy. Also, kneady.

Mr scaffolding guy, tear down this name

Time isn’t real.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

BEHOLD!

🐸 Amanda Gilliam Valentic@amandagv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I made a sauce tonight with fresh cherries, garlic, butter, Pinot noir, pomegranate balsamic vinegar, and whole grain mustard. Served with pork loin and it was BITCHIN’!

I made a sauce tonight with fresh cherries, garlic, butter, Pinot noir, pomegranate balsamic vinegar, and whole grain mustard. Served with pork loin and it was BITCHIN’!

Munching avocado toast while browsing Zillow just to pique some opinionated Boomer.

Back in the day I had a whole bit about repeatedly voting for Indiana Jones as a write-in candidate “because he takes a strong stand against Nazis and giant rolling boulders.” Simpler times.

There is only one sure fire way to avoid soggy socks forever and that is flip flops in the rain.