Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙

Only a concentration camp if it’s German or Spanish; it’s just a sparkling temporary confinement facility otherwise.

early 90s: Drakkar Noir and clove cigarettes
late 90s: CK One and clove cigarettes

✏️ A handwritten Arabic translation of Hammer’s “Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained with an Account of Egyptian Priests”, prepared in Istanbul, Late 19th Century #oldbooks

A small fluffy black chick stalks across mud surrounded by dried grasses.

#FallBack to August 20 when there were baby Clapper Rails at my favorite marsh!!

#birds 🌿

Whoa

I become more and more convinced that the AI is just right wing class war and the lack of white collar worker organisation due having been flattered for years as geniuses and fed like farm geese has just led to a colossal lack of awareness of the class interests going on.

As you get older, cheese becomes your enemy. I thought I had made peace with this fact, but today a new outrage: in addition to being indigestable, it can trigger rosacea flares

Bastard

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

Well. I have completed all my doctor appointments, all good news, no further surgeries or treatments required, which means I can now start putting firm dates on our trips to Chicago (soonish) and Iceland/Scotland (in the fall) about which I am very excited 😊

It would be so cool and sexy to go into a bookstore and discover a spinning rack of novellas. All sorts of Neon Hemlock and Psychopomp and TorDotCom pleasures and more on a rack that goes whizz whizz whizz

Gentle reminder that Baker Creek has unapologetically hosted extremist speakers and, pretty as their catalog is, my seed buying money goes elsewhere 🌱

Enjoying my second rosacea flare up of the day, dreading my 8 am doctor appointment tomorrow

Illustration of various egyptian gods but tiny. Featured are Anubis, Bastet Sekmet, Set, Hathor, Ra, Medjed, Sobek, and Heket

little egyptians 𓃠𓅃𓅓𓁢
#art

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Magatama and Abstract Pattern Silk Kimono This striking silk kimono from the late Edo period (1800-1868) is a masterful example of the yuzen painting technique, used here to create a sophisticated and spiritually symbolic composition. The garment is divided into bold geometric sections: the sleeves and lower body feature a dark, intricately patterned ground of repeating circular motifs, while the central back panel is composed of a contrasting grey fabric with fine vertical stripes. Scattered across the shoulders and the lower hem are delicate magatama—ancient, comma-shaped jewels—rendered in soft white and pale blue. These stylized curved forms appear to float over the darker fabric, creating a rhythmic visual flow that bridges the gap between traditional talismanic symbols and the refined, minimalist aesthetic popular among the urban elite of the late Edo era.

The garment features scattered magatama motifs rendered in the yuzen painting technique. The magatama, those distinctive comma-shaped jewels that appear as stylized curved forms in white and pale blue, carry profound spiritual significance in Japanese culture. Late Edo period (1800-1868), Japan

a black and white drawing of a small paper boat sailing past a huge iceberg

Peter Van den Ende was a nature guide in the Cayman Islands, where he found inspiration for a very special story in imaginative black-and-white drawings. A book without words, “Zwerveling” or “The Wanderer" in English was selected one of the 25 best children's books worldwide by The New York Times.

I don't remember if they had hyperplasia last time or if they were even tested for that. As of now it looks like my course going forward is to hope that any iffy polyps I grow in the future will have the courtesy to notify me of their presence by causing random bleeding again, which... seems subpar

So. I have confirmed that as in my breast tissue, hyperplasia in uterine/endometrium tissue can be a cancer risk; in this case though the hyperplasia was in the polyp and explicitly *not* anywhere else. However, I keep fucking growing polyps. Second time in three years I've had them removed.

What the hell is a sheshed and do I want to know

How about we go after the rich, just fucking because

Fuck those guys, they didn't earn shit, take their money

This reminds me strongly of my theater school circa 1993, only much nicer material

Happy Arrest of the Andrew formerly known as Prince Randy to all who celebrate. And as always, thank you feminism.

I would have hoped by now that some dude would have written an op Ed about how straight women’s reaction to Bad Bunny - a man at peace with himself, emoting publicly + queer culture - underscores that the Manosphere bros are performing heterosexuality for other men and have no idea what women like.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

A bed with four books on it: I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by Fergus Craig; Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis; Grim Night Tales by Yamayu and Kensei Hokamoto; and Hinatsugimura by Aki Shimizu

I love coming home from the bookstore and wanting to read every book I got right this minute

I was reading about an archeologist who died from an infected mosquito bite back in the day. Blood poisoning. One day itchy mosquito bite, next day corpse.

One day Elmo is really gonna crash out on someone in one of these interviews, and it will be warranted 😂

One thing I don't like is that this is the second time an (or in the previous case, multiple) ultrasound missed a polyp. I've now had two masses in there that the screening didn't find.

I'll be interested to hear what my doctor thinks about all this based on my history, and what she thinks my 8-day "period" might actually have been caused by. I love good news though 😊