one island after another
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🏳️🌈 He/they. Enby. Deceptively weighty. Music and art and other stuff. https://linktr.ee/cubaRhodes
This month's volume of Cerebus (I'm almost done) ends with Sim's notes on the research he did in crafting his F. Scott Fitzgerald character Normally I love an appendix but today I'm extremely I ain't reading all that I'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened
theres a bobs burgers where tina is learning to drive in a nearly empty parking lot and she's driving very slowly toward a parked car with plenty of time to brake or turn the wheel and just not doing it and bob says oh my god tina do something but tina only makes uhh tina noises and they hit the car
This is the oldest* surviving Snakes & Ladders board in the world. Specifically, it's Gyan Chaupar, the Game of Knowledge. It's from the late 18th Century, but the game is much older - paper & cloth are not resilient media. The ladders represent virtue, the snakes vice. The scorpions are decorative.
Rereading Heart of Darkness for a book club
Maybe my favorite moment in The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · yesterdayAnd day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
Normally I'm like omg just trust your reader! but now I'm reading George Steiner essays/criticism and he elects to not translate any non English writing he quotes and that's slightly more trust than I merit
"they blocked me and i never even said anything to them" buddy i have some bad news about how many people can perceive your behavior in a public setting
Rip Wendell Berry. Thanks for helping me want to be in it "[...] It would be there. With a flick/ of a switch, there it would be. But he/ would not be in it. He would never be in it." www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56192/...
The Vacation
He went flying down the river in his boat with his video camera to his eye, making a moving picture of the moving river upon which his sleek boat moved…
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September is Black Reading Month. Started in Detroit and now in its 46th year, it encourages people to put down their devices and pick up a book. Committing to reading at least one book by a Black author, buying from Black bookstores, and getting children engaged with reading
this is just their proportional representation in my 'writing' playlist basically
It's too late It's too late It's too late It's too late It's too late It's too late youtu.be/XJPk7G7aXTc?...
Letter To Bowie Knife
YouTube video by Calexico - Topic
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Listen I hate Christmas as much as anyone but fuck that
Really working hard on a murdochian "let me look again" outlook but man this shit is hard
White supremacy is a belief system, an ideology, a culture, a norm. It is not a medical pathology of an individual.
Sorry to be A Geography Bitch about this but want to remind people that Google Maps has been doing dodgy shit labeling politically sensitive places differently depending on location for a long time, this is just the first time it's happening to a place related to the USA
When this doesn't work it will be because society has feminized expectations of what men should be like and women have colluded with betas to drive these unrealistic standards for how men smell obviously
Ela Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual)@ela-bambust.bsky.social · 6d agomen have figured out a new dating technique and it's "less personal grooming" it's a bold strategy cotton let's see if it works out for them
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing Republicans that liberals love Bill Maher.
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: There's a problem with the paperwork
Dan Hon@danhon.com · last wk.Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.
“I started playing in the kitchen with knives today.” — President Donald Trump
Trump Posts Disturbing Video Of Himself Twirling With Knives
WASHINGTON—Prompting widespread concern among fans and followers, President Donald Trump uploaded a disturbing video of himself Friday rapidly twirling while holding knives. According to sources, the ...
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Zoomers would rather accept a YouTube sponsorship from BetterHelp than go to therapy
Let's go to Barcelona We will be noted for our absence youtu.be/PFJx5QYT85M?...
This Old Heartache
YouTube video by Frank Black & the Catholics - Topic
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