Kasey Bailes kaseynbailes - Bluesky Statics

March Book Agenda:

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Richard Ellman's James Joyce

Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning (Massimo Faggioli)

Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical) & graphic novel (Peter Kuper)

I imagine there's gonna be some interesting overlap in all this lol

01.03.2026 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finished Iliad, now on to Odyssey...

28.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by erick douglas Ghost Riders in The Sky - Spiderbait - Animation

They don't let met direct* The Iliad because it would totally look like this, art direction and all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*there are probably MANY reasons no one just hands me a budget beyond this tho 😅
youtube.com/watch?v=2SX6...

22.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am fun at parties 🎉
And I don't just stop there—I can do Isonzo, Spanish Civil, etc too 👌😅💁‍♀️

21.02.2026 03:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What's that jargon people like to drop in these circumstances, "convicted," is it? Well, color me convicted here cuz oof 😅😭😂

21.02.2026 01:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

VERY late to the game but debating becoming a "Tumblr girl" 🤔

20.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Text from Dear Husband just now 💀💀💀

20.02.2026 04:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Robbie Williams #Lent2026 Day 1: in that brief blip of time post cassette and pre vinyl resurgence/resurrection, there were CDs. These were two of my first—maybe that's why I'm messed up 😅😝🤔

20.02.2026 02:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me: "Since I'm 'taking up' Robbie Williams for Lent, can you do a mock up graphic of him basically pasted over an icon or in prayer candle style, iunno, akin to this?" Dear Husband: *returns THAT* 😅😜

Origin story of this image:

18.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For #AshWednesday this year, I'm taking *up* Robbie Williams for Lent 👌
It is only right and just for a millennial...

"Live for liposuction
And detox for your rent
Overdose of Christmas
And give it up for Lent"
#millenium

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YouTube video by The Rainmaker A Trip to St. Gobnait's Holy Well |#WestCork #vwcalifornia #SaintGobnait

Happy Feast of Saint Gobnait 🙏🐝
youtu.be/8tghUgUfaVk?...

11.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NIMBY at its finest 😑

I'd like my "Catholic" friends doing all this AI cartooning to please remember Laudato Si' every once in a damn while.

Please.

10.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Today I had to take my child to a pool party in *checks weather* 12 degrees Fahrenheit.

Send warm and well wishes
- Kasey"

*cue Ken Burns Civil War documentary music*

07.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"No, Alice, we're not watching Full Metal Jacket."
- me to my 8 year old this evening

07.02.2026 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is historically accurate tbf

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YouTube video by The Shows Must Go On! 'Memory' Elaine Paige | Cats The Musical

Me needing attention after all the (even more) social media attention going to rich corrupt a**holes for being the rich corrupt a**holes we already/always knew they were 😭😂🫠
youtu.be/mdBVJbzkoqo?...

06.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0