After two weeks, we finally have hot water again! Huzzah!

Tara Wine-Queen Writes@tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two nights ago, where I live and my home experienced catastrophic flooding and and we had to evacuate. We are thankfully all safe and back home but we are now in the long and devastating process of cleaning up and throwing away so much of our lives.

Two nights ago, where I live and my home experienced catastrophic flooding and and we had to evacuate. We are thankfully all safe and back home but we are now in the long and devastating process of cleaning up and throwing away so much of our lives.

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

Somewhere in the afterlife, Upton Sinclair is radiating unprecedented levels of disappointment and contempt

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 3w ago

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

I started writing a joke about a cyclops, but I knew nobody would like it.

Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 3w ago

I started writing a joke about Charybdis and Scylla but I didn't know which way to turn.

Guys you’re not going to believe this but I think those beautiful crooning creatures were just telling me what I wanted to hear :(

Tara Wine-Queen Writes@tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Sirens said it was cool if I wanted to come over and listen to their beautiful songs and they won’t even crash my ship against the rocks because they can sense I am pure of heart

The Sirens said it was cool if I wanted to come over and listen to their beautiful songs and they won’t even crash my ship against the rocks because they can sense I am pure of heart

Tomorrow I will be locked in but today I was unprecedented levels of locked out

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. - John Steinbeck, East of Eden

(lazily pulling the lowest hanging fruit off the pun tree): Nobody is going to like the new Odyssey film, you know

Maybe it’s just me but I think if Mitch McConnell’s head is filled with inactive tissue and his body is being kept artificially alive by machines, we should have a mechanism that makes him also not a sitting US senator anymore.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, unable to get considered for a position they were overqualified for because a mediocre man was also interested in it

Easy to see how the sun melted poor Icarus’s wings on days like today, Helios and that golden chariot of his are NOT playing 🥵

Easiest way to detect a vampire

Granite Man@granitedhuine.bsky.social · last mo.

I can never trust someone who doesn't like garlic bread.

“I just like people to be bestowed with my knowledge” - my youngest son explaining why he feels compelled to teach people everything he knows about Pokémon whether they will it or not Yeah, baby, I know all about infodumping. There isn’t a neurotypical brain cell in this entire family

Dumpster behind the White House filled with checks and balances

One minor inconvenience away from just letting him pull the green ribbon off my neck at this point

I fear receiving news via video content optimized for social media sharing is doing to our brains what we watched Fox News do to our parents’

"I asked ChatGPT" Oh, really? By chance, have you ever tried Amontillado? I've got a fine vintage stored away if you'd like to come home with me and sample some. Just ignore any chains you see, they're for later *wink*

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

COVID Vaccine Linked to New Side Effect, Especially in Older Adults

The COVID vaccine was linked to a new side effect for older adults.

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I fear instead of having somewhat entertaining mid-life crises when they hit a certain age, women just get diagnosed with immune disorders

If I were an eccentric rich person I would turn all my writer friends’ books into movies and pay to make them however they wanted, under the very serious condition that I got to choose all the music for the soundtracks, every single song and when they played, no questions asked

Writing on a tight deadline is stressful but at least the financial return is really bad.

Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social

microdosing the fires of Mordor by stepping outside in summertime

so much depends upon not picking poets with no sense of self- control as your roommates

Tara Wine-Queen Writes@tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This heat is getting unbearable. Thank goodness I put those plums in the icebox earlier to chill! They’re really going to hit the spot, so sweet and so cold

This heat is getting unbearable. Thank goodness I put those plums in the icebox earlier to chill! They’re really going to hit the spot, so sweet and so cold

Have you ever even THANKED the bell for tolling? That’s what I thought. You probably don't even realize it's been doing all this FOR YOU the whole time

Microdosing bliss by allowing myself (1) ignorance