Susan Blackwell Ramsey

Oh, thank you so MUCH! That’s always been the biggest “Wait, say what?”

Wait, what??? Oh, this has haunted me for years — what in the world was his story!?!

Trump take sons

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This By Omar El Akkad

I’ve been haunted by many turns of phrase from this outstanding book, but one that stood out to me and echoed in my head at least every week of 2026 is:

“Not a single unexpected thing happened.”

SO MUCH THIS

TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 1d • Joined May '23 Birth of a Nation is a misunderstood film, IMO, depiction is not endorsement, and DW Griffith's contributions to cinematography shouldn't be overshadowed by the fact that some people decided to interpret his film as supporting controversial political agendas. O1 cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.c... • 1d • Joined Jul '23 @ Bard @2 Cleric have you seen it? 0312 17 •~... TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Wait, I just found some clips online. That's... look, I'll take Griffith at his word that he wasn't trying to seem borderline-fanatically bigoted, but really man; this could have used a second draft. 03

■ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Oh, fuck. 0 4 91104日日. TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Yes, I can see why people thought he was promoting intolerance here. • 1 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Was it just impossible to find mixed-race extras back then? All of these half-breed northern soldiers are played by white actors in makeup!

目 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 2h • Joined May '23 Huh. The film's treatment of Lincoln is surprisingly sympathetic. I think I can see what Griffith was going for, but some of the choices he made really detract from the more nuanced ideas he wanted to put across (why do the black characters speak like that?) 031 04 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social • Joined May '23 THAT'S NOT A TRIAL! THAT@S JUST MURDER WITH EXTRA STEPS! 3:07 PM • Mar 8, 2026

friends, I have brought you a gift

A friend did her dissertation on differential teen death rates from tb 19th cent
Tb responds to care and nutrition
In the northeast, where girls could get factory job, death rate roughly equal
In the midwest, girls survival was lower
They weren't being cosseted because their labor was less valuable

Mistyping? I admire and am interested, but I didn’t write it and I doubt a coincidence

Barbara Kingsolver talks about her moment of awakening to the realities of a four day blizzard in a house with only chamber pots.

Yep, absolutely — clobbered Beth in Little Women’s autoimmune system, too. I was thinking about the fever and ague, sorry. Then there’s whatever did in the baby brother … I enjoyed the Little House books (eschewed the TV) but I don’t see how anyone could get the joys of self-sufficiency out of them

Well, I think that one malaria, but what haunts me id the black doctor with quinine who treated them and disappeared. Say what?

When I was in college I learned to look at the truck.

If it’s dirty and dinged all to hell, he’ll probably show ip for his friends to help move.

If it’s shiny and untouched? He’ll show up to help eat the pizza after.

If the cover for the electric outlet by the license plate is still intact, they didn't need a fucking truck and it's a pavement princess.

If the truck is not covered in scratches and mud and does not have some questionable detritus in the bed, the other trucks make fun of it in the parking lot.

And thanks, I keep forgetting the glory that is kayfabe.

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

And also,

That ship did get unstuck.

Photo of a Townsend's Solitaire perched at the top of a juniper by Charles Gates. Text on the photo says "Unsolicited Bird Fact: If Townsend's Solitaires drank cocktails, their drink of choice would probably be a gin and tonic. During the winter they eat almost exclusively juniper berries. During the breeding season, solitaires move into higher elevation (or latitude) coniferous forests where they feed primarily on insects. If we knew anything we'd make a gin and name it after these elegant birds.

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

sometimes you have to stop talking and look at the good in life and let your heart be open and fall in love with the world again, and it's not easy but you have to do it or you'll go insane. that's the Cait method

I've got a feeling that the angels actively bid for those assignments...

The Incredible Hulk, wearing glasses, with a serious expression, on a darker green background. Caption: “The Credible Hulk always cites his sources.”

A thing that’s shocking me about the lack of coverage is air safety info. Hi, Glasgow folk, from a Southern Californian transplant: ash from old buildings is super gnarly. Please wear a respirator if you need to be near the scene.

Queen Street is still available, but it goes different places!

Turns out Dana Terrance was being NICE in regards to Knights of Guinevere's subtext...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Not all the angelic powers are in Heaven, y'know? There are days when God says ro one or another of them, "Hey, it's *your* day to walk with the one who flies the Bat."

Resist the urge to tidy up your yard as soon as the first warm weather comes! Little critters that over- wintered in the leaf litter need time to wake up and start their lives again.

Hey, if I learned one thing from those books it was if all is going well you’re gonna get either crows or locusts.

Which is, of course, why we love you.

Today, I have chosen sloth.