@georginatoland.bsky.social
Third generation cartomancer. Voracious reader of books. Big fan of foreign languages, flow arts, handicrafts, and boardgames. A spicy feral GenXer.
I’m on my second cuppa.
07.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also: tea weather tea weather tea weather ☕️🫖
07.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.
07.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 1617 🔁 530 💬 15 📌 14Culottes! Plaid skirt! 🥰 This is my dream closet right there.
07.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Administration is going down.
07.10.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SEAN DUFFY: Burbank -- zero controllers came to work. I don't support that. They should come to work. They're supposed to come to work. But ...
KILMEADE: They didn't even miss a paycheck yet. So why aren't they coming to work?
🤣😂🤣
07.10.2025 13:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Frank Zappa was right.
youtu.be/fam5wRXcoQE?...
Okay maybe not “spooky” but they are orange & black for #Halloween.
07.10.2025 05:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump sicced the National Guard on LA, ramping up immigrant arrests in a city that’s been targeted by ICE for months.
Here’s how @lataco.bsky.social, a local taco site tracking the raids, became an essential reporting powerhouse to their community.
Listen here: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr
Several of my homemade contact staffs are in the background of the photo.
06.10.2025 23:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The crash:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific...
Most of America’s problems today can be traced back to effing President Reagan. May he rot in hell.
06.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Speaking as a person whose neighborhood experienced a plane crash and knew some of the victims on the ground, you do not want tired people running air traffic control.
Also: If it’s critical work, those workers should be paid. Working without pay is slavery. We fought a whole Civil War over that.
Speaking as a person whose neighborhood experienced a plane crash and knew some of the victims on the ground, you do not want tired people running air traffic control.
Also: If it’s critical work, those workers should be paid. Working without pay is slavery. We fought a whole Civil War over that.
Two paperback books. On the left: “Parlett’s History of Board Games” by David Parlett (2018, Echo Point Books & Media, LLC). On the right: “A History of Card Games” by David Parlett (1991, Oxford University Press). The cover of the board game book is illustrated with the painting “Jeux de dames au café Lamblin au Palais-Royal” by Louis-Léoplold Boilly. The cover of the card games book is illustrated with the painting “The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds” by Georges de La Tour.
Two additions to my boardgame history shelf. “The Oxford History of Board Games” recently (2018) updated and renamed “Parlett’s History of Board Games.” But the real win is this old (1991) and out of print “A History of Card Games” (also by David Parlett). #games #boardgames #books #history
06.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It sounded exactly like this:
youtu.be/C7KBNju2d9w?...
Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025
Judge's house on fire
Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.
www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
Last night I heard an owl! 🦉
youtube.com/shorts/iZk3w...
We bite.
05.10.2025 21:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Icelandic double L, as in “Vahalla” is a unique sound. Takes a bit of practice to get it right.
05.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They are not “ass-guardians.”
youtu.be/EBvjqqDX7-s?...
My best quitting moment was at a Certain State University’s “Employee Relations” Department. I adjusted the screensaver on my desk to alternatively blink “Where is Georgina?” “Where did she go?” 😂🤣😂
05.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They even gave 2 week’s notice. Which is pretty classy. Me, I once gave notice on a Post-It note that I stuck on HR’s door. At another I hurled my copy of the company keys at the chest of a so-called superior. I do not put up with any amount of bullshit at a job.
05.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Four journalists from two Carpenter Media Group newspapers in Alaska resigned in the aftermath of an article being removed from the Homer News website last week following complaints from a state representative.
05.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How democracy really dies.
youtu.be/DfmViBWBXgE?...
Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
Handy shopping list for friends and family just in time for #BannedBooksWeek
02.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 20 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
“Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.” - Little Free Library. Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025.
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.” Banned Books Week is October 5-11, 2025. #books #LFL #censorship #BannedBooksWeek
04.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A copy of Stefan Zweig's novel Amok that survived burning by the Nazis. (Credit: New York Review Books) #nyrb #StefanZweig #books #booksky
04.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
