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If I’m only allowed to smile one time per day, I would gladly spend it on the Bojangles cashier that uses baby or love when she tells me to have a good day

Two Writers Craft Their Own Love Story After a trip to promote her best seller “Mostly Dead Things,” Kristen Arnett detoured to meet Kayla Upadhyaya in person for the first time.

This is so wonderful @kristenarnett.bsky.social @kaylakumari.bsky.social

Study Urges People to Think Twice Before Going on a Diet The work underscores how toxic yo-yo dieting can be and how difficult it can be for people to break the cycle.

In today's not surprising but still needs to be said news: weight cycling is bad for you. Mentally. Physically.

This means that dieting, losing weight and gaining it again (which WILL happen to the vast majority) is not a good idea. 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2024/01/thin...

Thanks @shiplives.bsky.social!

I had to confirm Rainbow Connection was released in 1979, why would you purposefully exclude one of the greatest works of all time???

AND WE HAVE A WINNER DETAIL WITH BOTH THE PROTAGONIST AND HER FRIEND HAVING BOB HAIRCUTS AND KOHL EYELINER!! Got it down to 1918-1930s London!! Assuming the 25 year olds are not historical reenactors wearing makeup trends from 30 years ago!

The mention of electricity lets me know we’re working in the 20th century but so far the vagaries include:
-women are expected to go back to the kitchen now war is over
-a brother died in Europe
-mother came to England on a ship from America

Audiobooks are fantastic until you miss the time leap and all you know settingwise is that it is in London and after The War. Which war? Good luck sleuthing that one out dear reader!

If I were to briefly define egg cinema, I would say: a film that is aware of the prison that is the gendered human body but unsure of what to do about that prison. For instance, Greta Gerwig's Barbie definitely fits the first half of that equation, but it's also a film that tries to propose a way out of the thicket. Therefore, it's not egg cinema. For a film to be egg cinema, it must capture the experience of being an egg, of feeling a little bit at a loss to explain why everything feels off somehow.

A couple weeks ago, I jokingly said Poor Things was "egg cinema." Then I started to wonder what I meant by that. When I rewatched Being John Malkovich, I knew I had been put on this Earth to do one thing: define the term "egg cinema."

So I did! With lots of examples!

episodes.ghost.io/egg-cinema/

Went to look for a vet tech at the animal ER and 2 women in the lobby were absolutely baked to their eyeballs and back. Honestly debated standing in there and taking a long breath to see if whatever was coming off of their clothing could help with the anxiety

Guys, I starting to think commodifying every single aspect of existence into for profit ventures might have some downsides.

I found out that my parents are the type of people that scrub the oven racks in the bathtub of their airbnb after using them, and I’m wondering if I need to get a paternity test

Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble | Rebecca Solnit The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

“The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%. (But) the 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis.” Rebecca Solnit

Garbage angel reporting for duty

Things I just told my cat, in all sincerity: "I'm always happy to listen to your concerns, but sometimes it's difficult to discern the exact nature of your complaint."

photo of a cat tree tilting at a 45 degree angle labeled 'the collapsing American empire' with a black cat nonchalantely lying on the upmost pillar labeled 'me'

It's my birthday! Share my art around as a lil treat? ❤️🍰

I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine. The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts everything grows smaller and harder from from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture. Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won't write about poetry alongside the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to unreasonable suffering. No more g

Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”

I’m glad that the only family habit that has surprised me and my friends lately is ending a call with “Night Night”

It is not
within your power
to end suffering
the world is large
and filled with horrors
while you are small
and filled with doubts
it is not
within your power
to end suffering
and yet it is
within your power
to cause less suffering
so please
at least try to do that.

This week has truly felt like sludging through concrete, where every decision was the Wrong Decision™️ and my body is prisoner to ghouls I cannot name

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Calling all bookworms! Our literacy partner, Better World Books, is having a 12-hour sale with 40% off used books TODAY (Nov 1)! Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to stock up on great reads while supporting a noble cause. Shop now at www.betterworldbooks.com

hello fellow gays, we're looking for suggestions for recent-ish or upcoming LGBTQ+ books (fiction or nonfiction, adult or young adult) for our queer book club! let me know what you'd like to read with a bunch of queer babes

My coworkers that are turning into friends told me to dress up as a vampire to binge watch Interview with a Vampire and I was so delighted to find everyone committed 1000%

A line chart showing the primary way people organize their physical books, by the number of books they own. As the number of books owned rises, the share who don't organize their books falls and the share who sort by subject rises. Almost no one sorts by color.

This is a fun one. I asked 29,000 Americans how they primarily organize their books.

- 29% don't organize their books
- 22% sort by genre
- 19% alphabetize
- 3% sort by color

But it turns out this depends HEAVILY on how many books you own. My story: today.yougov.com/society/arti...

I keep thinking weird word shortenings in Australian lesbian romance books are just an author quirk until I hear “brekky” with every additional book and I marvel at how I manage to speak the same language

Sometimes I think I’m butch because of the way that most definitions are interdependence focused with positive masculinity, but then I also experience an hour of bliss spackling holes in an apartment so who needs gender theory?

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Woman the hunter. Love this piece from @sciam.bsky.social showing the idea of 'man the hunter' and woman the passive gatherer doesn't make sense, physiologically, anthropologically, or archaeologically.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

October Birders' Night - East Cascades Audubon Society Join us for a Birders' Night presentation from Rebecca Heisman for amazing facts about bird migration—the long distances that birds travel and the ways that they navigate.

I'm giving a virtual book talk for the East Cascades Audubon Society tonight at 7pm Pacific! It's free and open to the public, so if you want to learn about the surprisingly entertaining history of bird migration research, here's your chance. 🧪🪶 www.ecaudubon.org/event/octobe...

It seems grotesque that people are expected to continuously ignore various genocides for 9 to 5s that barely allows most people to scrape by

The Invisible Made Visible: a visualization & writing workshop with Lia Pas Part of CHASE Medical Humanities Network

A reminder about my #SciArt webinar next week! 🐡🩺🧪 #DisabledInSTEM

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-invisi...