I heard the funniest thing at the resort. A man is explaining to his annoyed family why they are leaving so early for the airport. ‘You must anticipate traffic! You must anticipate break down!’ A child of 11 says: “Yeah well I am going to have a breakdown.”

@nccomfort.bsky.social this is not an author photo but it is a nice day at the beach

Bumping for the daytime crowd — help me choose my dustjacket pic! Pls <3 the ones you like. @matthewcobb.bsky.social? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com ? ...???

Nathaniel Comfort@nccomfort.bsky.social · 16h ago

🧵With trepidation, I submit the 5 portraits I've shortlisted as possible author photos for my forthcoming biography of James Watson. These can be cropped, obvs. I'd love for folks to <3 those they <3. Help me decide! Pix follow... 1/6

Would it help if I could reassure you that if I asked probably a few hundred people would show up in my mentions to say I’m not kidding

Linda Tirado@killermartinis.bsky.social · 16h ago

Who needs a call? Someone, of the millions of strangers in the world, needs a friend My dm remains open, and it costs me nothing to answer the phone to you.

My theory: survival stories and true crime are actually photo negatives of each other, because in true crime, someone's dead who should be alive, and in survival, someone's alive who should be dead, and in both cases you're trying to figure out why

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · yesterday

One more thing on What to Carry, What to Burn: Podcasting's devolution into chat /true crime has depressed me as listener & writer. It's labeled--wrongly--as latter, & at first seems to be @blairbraverman.bsky.social "just" talking. But it's so arfully structured! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

I keep beating this drum, but for a reason; most of the information in the world is not on the internet, but most people think it is. We have been told for over two generations that the internet does or will soon hold all human knowledge. This is not only false, it is far from the truth.

was it always misogyny? always has been dot GIF

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

This chapter by Ian Hacking has stood the test of time. Worth revisiting at a time when we doubt the reality of long COVID, fight culture wars over gender identity, and get exercised over the question if neurodivergence is becoming more common.

Someone write this up in an article because, yeah

Meli@mismatched.bsky.social · 3d ago

Okay I am a little in love with “many Doloreses, no president” as an anarchist understanding of how we do need some scaffolding of organizational work but it can be people like me (well. I’m no Dolores, but)

Okay I am a little in love with “many Doloreses, no president” as an anarchist understanding of how we do need some scaffolding of organizational work but it can be people like me (well. I’m no Dolores, but)

Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 3d ago

Thinking of that tweet re:everyone in academia knows a 60yo woman only known by her 1st name, who actually runs the dept/uni. (Which is almost at an anarchist understanding: not "make Dolores president" but "many Doloreses, no president" and "how can you Dolores too") +

Non-writers always want to know how much of ourselves wind up in our characters, and the answer for me ends up being “more than I intend to.” Glanced through Fortune’s Lot for…reasons and the etiquette teacher roasts Cressida like “I see the scarves are still a thing.” I am stuck on scarves.

i wanna know which extremely online lawyer made sure to require the post be pinned. genius.

Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca@susiebeeca.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...

This is a great idea; self-checkout fucking sucks

Miles Grant@milesgrant.bsky.social · 4d ago

Went to highwayside gas station for road trip grab & go dinner with kids & groaned aloud when I realized it was self-checkout - would’ve gone anywhere else Dems everywhere should copy this bill to require a 10% discount for self-checkout

There is an oriole and a woodpecker and four red wing black birds at my feeder while I’m out here. They are very hard to photo but here are my knees.

62k words (when hand written with a fountain pen) turns out to be three leuchtturman 1917 120g A5 notebooks. (Because I typed it up—note that I am not finished. I need more notebooks).

Was at 30K feet cruising altitude when my seatmate asked me, "Have you found Jesus as your personal savior?" Houston to Honolulu is an 8hr+ flight. I glanced @ emergency exit. Turned to her & said, "I'd appreciate it if you kept your religion to yourself." She was aghast and offended. Whatevs

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith. This week, her sermon got her kicked off a flight and clips of her removal racked up millions of views on social media. She called the situation “spiritual warfare.”

Yup sure seems like she's aiming for destroying a human rights charity

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

I remember when Bill Clinton met with the Attorney General for three minutes when Hillary was being investigated for mishandling classified information, and the republicans cried bloody murder. Now, the AG nominee is covering for pedophiles and that seems okay. WHAT THE FUCK?

...I looked around online a little and found a lot of people liking Joan Nathan's recipe at the NYT cooking site (in particular, Deb at Smitten Kitchen thinks well of it, which counts for a lot with me). So that's what I'm using. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7199... (2/3)

My Favorite Challah Recipe • 5★

The word challah originally meant only the small portion of dough that was put in the oven when baking bread as a reminder of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. It has evolved into the twiste...

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I am 62k words into a fantasy novel (that I am writing) and I have to say, the escapism is rather lovely

Make it count and be deliberate dont get in trouble on accident

"We are sorry we said this person was a threat, and we take it back because they threatened us."

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

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oui "Wealthy countries continue to colonize Global Majority states - only now instead of grabbing land, they’re grabbing minerals, labor, and data." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXQ...

AI is the New Colonialism | Karen Hao

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