“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “An apology for idlers” (1877) www.wired.com/beyond-the-b...

Fight For A Union@fightforaunion.bsky.social · yesterday

Not a single damn person feels this way, Sam. Spend a day on a short order cook line. Try a 14 hour nursing night shift. Spend a summer in a plant or warehouse without A/C. We’re tired man, all we do is work.

I thought I was sad earlier today but it turned out I just needed a cheeseburger

I googled my symptoms and it turns out I need a cottage on a quiet lake, a stack of books and a case of wine.

My freezer is a cemetery for overripe bananas who still believe they’ll fulfill their banana bread destiny one day.

You should get paid OT every time you have nightmares about work.

I'm sorry but "A reviewer has said this is a problem in your book explain your choices to me though I have not read it" is the sort of demand that should have you frogmarched from an actual irl event, let alone making the demand online

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Just saw #HarrietCraig last night. #JoanCrawford is amazing, as is the supporting cast forced to endure Harriet’s lies and management. But while I was watching I just kept thinking over and over again about how the divine #CarrieCoon’s Bertha in #TheGildedAge echoes this performance. #TCMParty

Thought occurs that maybe insurance companies really could help me save hundreds on insurance if they didn't pay out so darned much in advertising.

I just found a great website to get sausage online! I'll send you a link.

"Did I get one coat of paint? Maybe a wood stain? No. Everyone wants to keep me distressed. You love my distress. You put my distress all over your Pinterest boards. You would snort my distress if you could. Bottle it, sell that shit on Etsy."

I’m a Barn, and I Don’t Want to Host Your Wedding

“Let me just come right out and say it: Please don’t get married in me. I’m not an event space. I’m not shabby chic. I’m not wabi sabi. I’m not rustic glam.”...

buff.ly

The Amateur Emigrant and its sequels are funny, wry, witty, and a beautiful tribute to hope, America, dreaming, and adjusting expectations.

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 2w ago

#OTD, 7 Aug, 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson set sail in the SS 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 from Greenock to New York in pursuit of love. In THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT he gives a vivid, sharp, & engaging account of his (impoverished) travels to & in America – read the first 5 chapters free 👇 1/3 #C19 asls.org.uk/publications...

I have known my dog for almost three years and this is the first day she’s ever slouched on the couch and let it hold her up. Amazing!

put the coffee in my face

I can’t believe it. All my childhood punishments have become my adult goals. • Eating vegetables • Staying home • Having a nap • Going to bed early

Bring back the intermission for any movie 2.5 hours or longer! I want cards, an intermission orchestral piece, and for it to be long enough I can pee and get a drink or a smoke if I need to. If DeMille could do it, why can’t we? #classicfilm #TCMParty

Xiao 🦋 ANYC L-02@velinxi.bsky.social · 3w ago

My complaint about The Odyssey (2026) is that all 3 hour films should legally be required to include a pee break intermission

Women really just aren’t angry enough. We played by the rules then once we get good at the game, they change the rules & turn all of our previous assets into liabilities. The goal posts are constantly being moved. The game is rigged against us by the bros that be. I’m tired of playing their game.

It’s been a long time since I laughed out loud reading a poem. But this one did the trick!

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 3w ago

M’ n’m ’z ’zym’ndias, kng’v kngz! —Edwin Morgan, “The Mummy” from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 Edwin Morgan’s “The Mummy” marked the arrival of Rameses II at Orly airport in 1976. I don’t know if this was his passport though #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

Poor bastard’s starving

Folks complaining the actors in The Odyssey don't look Ancient Greek are oddly nostalgic for the era when John Wayne was apparently the most qualified Mongolian on Earth.

I said what I said, but I never thought it’d need saying to somebody who works for Science 👇

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.

I think we’ve made enough lemonade. Can life now please quit it with the lemons.

My first search engine.

One of my favorite things about reading is its ability to transport me far beyond my immediate surroundings. It introduces me to new information, concepts, and kinds of people. Be it a novel, non fiction, short stories, articles, etc.

Good morning! ☀️ I am currently watching my dogs sleep, and I'm jealous. No emails. No meetings. No existential dread. Absolute confidence that breakfast will appear, someone will take them for a walk, and a nap is an appropriate follow-up to their first nap. Wishing you a day like theirs.

The last time men forced women back into the kitchen we put shrimp in jello. We’ll do it again!