Nope. No, you haven’t.

Not now, Real World, I'm writing.

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2w ago

if you’re getting behind on administrative tasks — car registration, doctor appointments, dental cleanings, passport renewal, organizing the house — I cannot recommend enough ✨writing a novel✨

The Odyssey 🤝 Pride & Prejudice Unwanted suitors in the house

Absolutely. #BookSky

Did you know you have to show a picture ID before you're allowed to read Jane Austen?

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just as true: I can't even get milk out of my own refrigerator without showing picture ID.

Jane Austen (recasting Sir Walter Scott): "I do not write for such dull Elves As have not a great deal of Ingenuity themselves.”

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

The Scariest Things are a cube, an angel statue, and a giant fiery eye. Wait, I'm getting a note. And a many-tentacled creature of ancient dread and blood.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3w ago

Star Trek is often ponderous and ham-fisted with its moralizing but I’ve never found it boring and a lot of that is due to them being able to make a cube into the scariest thing in the universe

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

I was once told by a professor that it took him most of the paper I completely BS'd to realize that "you don't say much, but you say it extremely well." Still got a B+. 😄

Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ.@activateamymode.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

Let's play Spot the Corgi!

Don’t send a man to do a woman’s job

Not now, Space Weather.

Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.

NOAA is predicting space weather that could impact the northern lights.

My upcoming book will not only have a glorious 18th-century-style plethora of em dashes—quite in the style of Miss Austen—but will also have more semicolons than you can shake a stick at.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

Birds eye view of Glastonbury Tor. Photo taken a few days ago using my drone.

Happy 4th of July!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑@50501movement.bsky.social · last mo.

The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com

Here’s to our continuing aspiration of “forming a more perfect union” There’s such a thing as a clear eyed patriot Happy 250th

My corgi, Zooey, had this exact same problem, but then she took some sort of Tick-Be-Gone chewie meds and its swollen body just shriveled up and fell off. Pretty gross, really.

Al Toth@atoth99.bsky.social · last mo.

i took a time traveling victorian era orphan to visit this today and he said we should all be embarrassed by how shabby it is compared to the columbian exposition before kicking me in the shins and running off

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · last mo.

I don't want to exaggerate. There are probably at least 2000 people here all told. There's a couple hundred on or waiting for the Ferris wheel. A few hundred visiting the state booths. And a steady trickle of individuals taking selfies at l'Arc de Grift, where a TV reporter is interviewing people

Mamdani as Mr. Darcy in a wet shirt.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya.bsky.social · last mo.

Loved the New York Post article claiming "it's over" for Mamdani as if there isn't an entire cultural touchstone on powerful or leading men getting wet in their (regency) white shirts when overcome with emotion.

“What dreadful Hot weather we have!—it keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” — Jane Austen, letter to her sister, Cassandra, September 18, 1796.

Not just Watergate historians. Dumbest and worst take on Nixon and Watergate when viewed from historians of past centuries, too.

The Importance Of Being Earnest: Lady at Theatre

Alt: From The Importance Of Being Earnest: woman in a formal dress sitting in a box seat at the theatre looks through opera glasses.

static.klipy.com

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · last mo.

As a Watergate historian, this might be the dumbest and worst take we’ve seen from JD Vance in a long time. And it’s also a complete misunderstanding of Nixon and Watergate.

Are you a 15th century king? Do you want to show that you’re down with this humanism stuff that your scholars keep talking about, but you’re also terrified of your own people & the damn French? Ask your architect if Fancy Renaissance Gate Sandwiched Between Existing Medieval Towers is right for you.

no doubt Sam Alito would stand with those Southern elections officials under Jim Crow who rejected black voter registration applicants because they couldn't say how many jelly beans were in the jar. not "overtly racial," after all. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power Over Immigration

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The article is just mind-bendingly ignorant of history. Nothing is new and Jane Austen saw it all. "But perhaps you will say, these [histories] were all written by men." - Persuasion

Auntie Ketzirah@devotaj.com · last mo.

"A CONSENSUS HAS FORMED, in recent years, that womanhood consists of fending off suitors. " You mean since at least Jane Austen? I mean seriously, how is this a "recent" phenomenon?

Penzeys does indeed have amazing spices AND amazing civic virtues. Regency cooking tip: they carry whole blade mace for your Jane Austen party baking.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last mo.

Penzeys has amazing, high quality spices, and may be the most intensely Trump-hating private company in the USA. Like, they have a whole Republicans Are Immoral page prominently displayed on their website: www.penzeys.com/shop/about-r...

The sudden acquisition of ten thousand pounds was the most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself agreeable. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

Can't beat history.

@sher12.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Who's registered for the Jane Austen Society of North America AGM in Tucson in October? There are still some spots open! See you there! web.cvent.com/event/babe70...

Found my reading list!

Lynne Perednia@perednia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

President Obama chose 300 of his favorite books for the Chicago Public Library branch inside his presidential center. I look forward to his reading list every year. They are reliable choices for refilling anyone's TBR list. theliterarylifestyle.com/obamas-readi...

Who still has their smallpox vaccination scar? 🙋‍♀️ Who has not died of smallpox? 🙋‍♀️ Yay, science!

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a powerful message! My aai (maternal grandma) in India got small pox. My mom had to get the small pox vaccine. She has that same vaccine scar. Their generation saw the havoc. We were spared from that. The public health actions taken by the past generations affect the future of children. 🧪