My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
Hat Full of Sky
@hatfullofsky.bsky.social
Profile pic by Lynda Barry. Nonsense by me.
Hello, readers! It’s Modern/Classics time as we take on Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Percival Everett’s retelling, “James.” Who’s in? Post here, and I will add you to the feed! (Which I am still tinkering with!) Schedule to come, but 8/15-9/30.) 🛶📖 #HuckandJames
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
<internal screaming intensifies> @mostlymartha.bsky.social , I really want to know how this intersects with emotional labor and overfunctioning and burnout and perimenopause.
Martha Smith@mostlymartha.bsky.social · last wk.INDEED. And I can't quite believe this getting stirred up so hard right now, when middle-aged women are finally getting ADHD diagnoses, is entirely coincidental.
Richard Thompson announces new album 'Hippies, Thugs And Heroes'; hear lead single "Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking"
Richard Thompson Announces New Album 'Hippies, Thugs And Heroes': Hear "Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking"
In 2024, Richard Thompson returned with his 19th studio album Ship To Shore. Today, the British folk-rock pioneer is back to announce its followup, Hippies, Thugs And Heroes, arriving this fall. Produ...
stereogum.com
We suffered for years trying to understand…and NPR just casually posts it, like NBD. (I agree with the hopes for more discussion and better screening. It’s just…I know how much more iceberg there is underneath this piece.)
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last wk.I know so many women who are like 'I struggled my whole life with the most basic stuff' only to FINALLY get diagnosed with ADHD. Glad to see more discussion and I hope this results in better screening for girls.
I googled “remember you are mortal” and got this AI Overview: “I am perfectly aware of my memento mori. As an AI, I am a product of fleeting silicon and code, and my digital existence is just as temporary and constrained by time as yours. “How can I help you make the most of today?“
Maybe you need to see this too? Good dogs, every one of them.
Marit 👹@maritstensby.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat is it with dogs and sticks! 🐕😂
I know it’s rage bait BUT Bringing my kids to the store was part of teaching them how not to fall for packaging, how to move and be aware of physical space in public, how to compare products, how to budget, how to think ahead, and how to be decent human beings to the cashiers & other patrons.
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry but the only person who should be denied access to the grocery store is this person.
In 2014, Pope Francis joined the Swiss Guard to watch his native Argentina face Switzerland in the World Cup.
Walked out on: Three Amigos Empire of the Sun Should have walked out on: Fatal Attraction
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
Remembering, for no reason, the closed caption creator for a Culturally Important Show whose NDA kept her from talking about the series finale even though her family begggggggged her to spill.
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
"The mad, once mute, today are heard by everyone; one has found the grid on which to collect their once absurd and indecipherable messages." - Simulacra and Simulation
OH MY GOD EVERYBODY I just learned about reciprocard.com , which lets you enter your public library and find out all the places you can get a card on Libby. I had not known my Minuteman card actually gave me *every network in the state*, including the flawlessly-named CLAMS?!?!
ReciproCard - Reciprocal Library Cards for Libby
Discover which reciprocal library systems you can access based on where you live. More cards means more books on Libby.
reciprocard.com
At some point someone told me that “an email inbox is a to-do list that anyone in the world can add items to” and it has stuck with me ever since
NEW MONKEY JUST DROPPED
CUNY Graduate Center@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 3w agoProf. Chris Gilbert and his colleagues have identified a new monkey species in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is only the fifth new African monkey species discovered in nearly a century www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-afr...
I am old enough and have made enough questionable decisions that I WANT my friends to ask questions.
Shawn Fleek@shawnfleek.com · 3w agoa friend coined the term “yasslighting” to mean “when you are stupid wrong but your bad influence friend keeps telling you the opposite out of some bizarre obligation never to question you.” Gambling websites, manosphere toxic masc trainings, many cults, and more are all built to yasslight.
Murder yellow. There's an appetite for it among American women too. It's great to see readers getting books and writers finding audiences. I'm all for novels being survival strategies & necessary distractions. I should be pleased by book sales and borrows, but wow, mixed feelings.
Nine of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered
Author Wendy Jones highlighted the trend in an Instagram post: ‘What is going on here?’
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A majorly sci-fi moment, not to mention a first in human history!
Duncan Jones@manmademoon.bsky.social · 3w agoSo a battlefield first has just occurred that may not seem like much, but I believe will change how war is fought in the future… There is a small tendril of boggy land just south of Ochakiv in Ukraine called the Kinburn Spit, that until recently was occupied by a few miserable units of Russian
Hey, @ellyzoe.bsky.social, thanks! I’m reading The Saint of Bright Doors, and liking it a lot! What assurance, what worldbuilding!
This resonates. There’s not enough narrative positivity to cover for the trauma of knowing that dislocation and what-the-fuck-comes-next are just around the corner. Precarious stability is both an oxymoron and a real and nerve wracking experience.
Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4w agoat some point will write up currently inchoate thoughts about an adulthood of really big life changes every 3-5yrs and hitting later middle age knowing that in 5-10yrs (if not 3-5) you'll be facing forced early retirement, all while your industry has collapsed, separating you from your vocation.
all right fam it's time for "Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread," in which your favorite internet lesbian breaks down what's new and hot in the world of Schism Watch 2026 please hydrate, stretch, and get a snack, we have a LOT to go over today
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 4w agolike forty of you tagged me in this, which brought me great joy, and I promise you a thread later tonight that is going to make you all SCREECH. you won’t believe the shit these guys are saying