cephalopod strategies

do I know any folks with a focus on nyc slang & speech patterns c1918, especially of teenagers? trying to help out a canadian academic who's in need of second pass on a chapter of their novel, set in this era, lmk if this is you, thanks!

now I have "add it up, add it up" running through my head, love it

oh wait it's my pal beth that runs that thrift store for the rock kicking guy I think, you would love her, I've honestly thought about how much y'all would hit it off!

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

we're going to need a very large paper cutter, and several short poems, I'm thinking

fill a small alley, like that installation with the chairs?

it's so ominous how they've spread to the exterior walls of the building....

The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!

#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

greatest thread I’ve ever seen

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

I love the toad in the little blue truck books, he has such an excellent vibe, what a mensch.

the 5 yr old saw half of one ds9 episode and now calls it "mommy's explosion show", he likes to pretend he's garak and say "I'm just a simple tailor"

Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable"

Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"

no schools, no trees, no decent restaurants...definitely better to stay away.

it's so lovely!

a) this poem is a banger b) it expresses the exact frustration that grips me every time someone ""feministly"" explains that military history is Boy Stuff

l'shana tova!

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

just checked mr pinkwater's account and yeah, looks like it's happening! he did also hint at one of his books maybe actually being made into a film like a month ago

wait WHAT? wtf wtf

in my neighborhood in queens we have korean-style chinese restaurants

Circa Rad /// XRAY.fm Rad music (or close enough). Join the hunt for lost gems and new treasures every Wednesday at 7pm. We serve indie rock, global psychedelica, lo-fi, art punk, a particular sort of americana, Portland-...

hey y'all, I'll be hosting(with my dear friend tex) my old radio show circa rad, tonight from 7-8p pst! listen in pdx on 91.1 & 107.1, or from anywhere via the internet!
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have you read her autobiography? I loved it

literally me going "the mando solos, so sick bro!"
lmao

he is rad, I once yammered at him about my love of mandolin in indie rock etc backstage in the weird bowels of the schnitz(monsters of folk era?) and he was very nice about it, he deserves a tshirt

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!

You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

screenshot of a social media post where a user named anonymous asks "arent u white" and a user named mechsuit answers "I'm turkish so i can't answer this without at least 3 historians and an anthropologist present"

I was so delighted to see (and buy) these at the drugstore!

A photograph of the Cave of Hands

Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall

Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul