Susan Blackwell Ramsey

One panelist I heard at AWP said she adjusts her type color to white while writing for the same effect

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

I think the Plane Pooping President isn't something we should let go of to be honest, I think this is something everyone should bring up on a daily basis. Forever.

Congressman's alleged affair with aide before she set herself on fire The Republican allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, multiple sources have told the Daily Mail. She later died after dousing herself with gasoline and setting herself on fire at home.

Texas GOP congressman has a raging affair with a staffer, who is then found burned to death. Authorities in Uvalde, TX, are hiding the evidence, reports the Daily Mail. What the Texas GOP wants to keep out of the press routinely winds up being published in London tabloids. Isn't that strange?

Digitized b&w image of a manuscript page: 18th century copy of Fernández de Oviedo's sketch of a sloth (labeled "periquito ligero"), in Juan Bautista Muñoz's copy of Fernández de Oviedo's _General and Natural History of the Indies_, considered to be a faithful reproduction. In the collection of Real Academia de la Historia, Spain (M-RAH, 9/4786, folio 166 vº). https://www.researchgate.net/figure/18-th-century-drawing-of-a-sloth-perico-ligero-or-periquito-ligero-Juan-Bautista_fig1_306096083 OK, so Oviedo wasn't much of an artist LOL...so yes this sketch looks quite silly...and yet, in spite of the goofy tiny human-like head perched on top of the too-long neck, the rest of the body still manages to look more accurate than that ridiculous first published sloth image by Thevet in 1558: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/strange-nature-first-printed-illustration-sloth-180970944/

Happy #InternationalSlothDay! Fernández de Oviedo was the first European to publish a written description of a sloth, in 1526. There was also an unpublished sketch in his notes. Sadly, the original is now lost…but not before being faithfully copied in an 18th c. manuscript, so we have this:

Because the watch Fox and do not know.

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Chekhov: if there is a gun on the mantlepiece it must go off in the third act.

T. Kingfisher: if there is a gun on the mantlepiece, the mantlepiece is probably going to try to eat you.

Amen.

WILLOW!!!

In a world of Tribbles, be a Fizzgig.

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

Virginia Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals The BBC obtained a copy of Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir ahead of its publication on Tuesday.

Release the EPSTEIN FILES for the sake of the countless victims who are still alive!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Epstein isn't going away.

Just ask Prince Andrew.

Weak , complicit, little Johnson…

Swear in the Congresswoman, take
the vote, release the Epstein files!

How long can this little weasel keep delaying this?

Long since have.

Lieutenant Oates, you take all the time you want.

Cancel my calls, if you need me, I’ll be gibbering in the corner.

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

10/18/25💪No Kings – Kalamazoo, MI🇺🇸

Animals know. Animals ALWAYS know.

FREAKING BOISE

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

People holding protest signs, including one reading "Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! We willna' be fooled again!"

From the last protest

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:

“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

A painting of George Washington with NO KINGS in orange ombré letters, in front of an American flag. Mixed media on posterboard. Can you tell she has an MFA?

My mom’s protest signs, as always, are a helluva thing.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important