No. The most tech-savvy parents are the type to have absolutely no 'smart' tech in their home, no wearables, and a baseball bat next to the printer in case it gets uppity.
I got nothing.
Mary Holzman-Tweed
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(she/her) The taller half. Artist, volunteer, urban creature.
No. The most tech-savvy parents are the type to have absolutely no 'smart' tech in their home, no wearables, and a baseball bat next to the printer in case it gets uppity.
I got nothing.
Yesterday was emotionally and physically exhausting, but in the best of ways. Thanks to my darling friend Miriam I had 2 tickets 2 a tour of the textile conservation lab at St. John the Divine, & invited a friend from a local drawing group. Wound up with a blister on the bottom of my foot walking to
🟨 “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Narrator: Leanna Renee Hieber Host: Kat Day Audio Producer: Chelsea Davis C/W: Emotional abuse/control, medical gaslighting
PseudoPod 1044: The Yellow Wall Paper
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of…
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Get this into my *veins*!!!!!!!
PAGE PROOF TIME FOR RAVENFIELD HALL! Check out the gorgeous fonts! I'm in love. Interior designer Julie Robine is THE BEST! Cover reveal Sept. 9th! Artist Elizabeth Wakou is SUBLIME! Pre-orders = survival! Thanks SO much, can't wait for you to meet these Gothic darlings: tinyurl.com/rhhachette
New Yorkers! Best Boba shop with seating in easy range of Penn Station? Your Astoria girl needs some recs.
HAPPY ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT EFFECTIVE DAY FOR ALL WHO CELEBRATE!!!!!
I'm Pennsylvania Mennonite/Amish on my mother's side (her mother's birth certificate is in PA Dutch/German). Lancaster County being a measles hotspot is going network into a national spread thanks to Amish Country tourism. Likely those that attracts aren't well vaxxed, too.
Buddhism teaches us to work with suffering. But let’s be clear: Buddhism does not teach us to normalize suffering.
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r
hey chat, I made a thing for you💖
I think I think i might have a bodyguard
Redwall Ghosts I Have Been (wee bb goth!) Little Women Tailchaser's Song
Name your fav book or book series from childhood.
JESUS CHRIST WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE'S A TINY SHINY BIRD IN PANTALOONS
I just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers.
“If our quest for personal flourishing in this world, through the study and practice of Buddhism, doesn’t lead us to question the structures that give rise to hunger, inequality, prejudice, and injustice, then our Buddhism exists in a rarefied atmosphere
Whilst summer burns the fields, I sit in dark, neglected churches with ghost congregations who await twilight's feral evensong. My soul may not be at peace, but it is at beauty. – #DAKilroy, 1982
In Honor of International Cat Day, I give you Turkey… #Caturday
My story of monstrous transformation "When I First Heard Calypso" is out now in Apex Magazine Issue 154 – Apex Book Company share.google/rdqtj88H5AoU... @apexmag.bsky.social #Caribbean #folklore #horror
Apex Magazine Issue 154
EDITORIAL"Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Cervidae, New and Sharp" by Anj Baker"When I Heard Calypso" by Rob Cameron"Dispatch From My Ex-Girlfriend's Lower Intestine" by A.M. ...
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The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER
The grave of William and Evelyn de Morgan in the great Victorian Brookwood Cemetery near Woking #memorialmonday #monumentmonday
Just read this over vacation - a *really* good time, with beautifully drawn out tension, gorgeous settings, a deeply relatable heroine, and gave me anxiety about farmer's markets!
Two words for you: $2 SALE. Three more words: COTTAGECORE GIRL HANNIBAL. Please grab a copy, give one as a gift, help spread the word. And Guillotine is still on sale, too! DOUBLE THE DELILAH FOR $4.
Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
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27 years. The silence is key, actually. We do our work in private, not allowing the public square to opine on our labor, but invite them to enjoy the fruit of it. (also, couples therapy is great! highly recommend!)
😂😂😂 What are your questions?
Kelmscott Church a church I had glanced at previously but never ventured in. This church for those who dont know, is the resting place of THE William Morris (finally found his grave) but my next post will show interesting wall paintings
the only people who could ever earnestly support means testing are people who've never had to be means tested before. it is a humiliating, dehumanizing bureaucratic hostage negotiation with a system whose primary purpose is to *not* provide financial support as often as humanly possible
The Seattle City Council just voted 6-3 to approve Joy Hollingsworth's amendment to delay universal school lunches for kids, replacing them with vouchers for qualifying low-income parents to buy groceries over school breaks and weekends. Eddie Lin, Alexis Mercedes Rinck, and Rob Saka voted no.