A Rather Expensive Course of Trial and Error Part 3 of 3

Third and final part in the trilogy! thoughtworms.substack.com/p/a-rather-e...

ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered

On this Victory in Europe Day, the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, an important reminder that the Nazis are losers. Awful, terrible losers. #veday #80yearsover #wwii

A Rather Expensive Course of Trial and Error Or, it's what you don't know, Part 2 of 3

Second post in this series is up! College can be fun times but it’s one of those things where you don’t see all the possibilities in the moment, sadly — only after

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I don’t know why anyone would set a story in the late 2000s and yet avoid even the slightest mention of the Great Recession - I mean, jeez, you’ve got so many opportunities for tension RIGHT THERE! But somehow no one has money problems or loses their jobs? #rant #booksky

I’m reading her debut, Cleopatra and Frankenstein. I’m enjoying the blend of humor and darkness so far. Does Blue Sisters have a similar tone?

Ah, the clarity hindsight brings — to know not only what you should have done but also understand why you made the choices you did. A valuable lesson in any era

A Rather Expensive Course of Trial and Error Or, it's what you don't know, Part 1 of 3

I have some, rather personal, thoughts to share this college admission season. open.substack.com/pub/thoughtw...

Somebody has got to get everyone together and say, “You know what guys? Let’s just default to Standard Time and leave it at that. No complaints” and put a stop to this time-changing nonsense. #standardtimeonly #timechange #daylightsavings #summertime

One answer seems to be: protests for Palestine 🇵🇸

In London. Where do all the punks hang out?

The Creative Life as Spiritual Practice How to Live a Meaningful Life in a Secular World

Starting up my Substack again for 2025 — subscribe if you want brief musings on ideas, books, and life 💡 📚 🪴

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Cover of the original English translation of Sailor Moon Volume 1, with a closeup of Sailor Moon winking

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11/20

(the whole manga series is 🔥)
💙📚

#booksky
#books

Picture of a painting showing a witch in beautiful clothes, black haired wearing a red hair covering and jewels

The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025

Please share :)

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#quotes

Looks great! ✨

I will never understand people who spread hate… like, there’s enough pain and suffering in the world without y’all having to add to it

Definitely the trip reports! Always fascinating to read about others’ experiences

How to Change Your Mind by @michaelpollan.bsky.social - a perfect primer on the history of psychedelics for beginners and for those who are curious but also skeptical of psychedelic evangelists

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - amazing so far! #BookSky

Definitely some Radiohead songs — the way they play with distortion and sound really evokes the aural effects

Cover of the book Mister God This is Anna by Fynn, a bright yellow with a drawing of a girl with her hair falling in front of her face

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10/20
💙📚

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge

Really crawling into 2025… Like maybe it won’t notice me if I’m slow enough 👀

Good luck!

the reason an MFA doesnt improve your writing is because it cant instill in you the single most important quality for a good writer to have: being an absolute weirdo who really wants to make people understand the perverse undulations of their gremlin brain

Walking through the freezing dark, with frost-crusted trees and streetlights aglow in the mist, I see what the Victorians were on about with Christmas ghost stories. There is a spooky mysterious magic to the winter season

You all think you’ve won now but just wait until it’s time for Feats of Strength!

Mr Costanza of Seinfeld pointing his finger with text that reads “Happy festivus! I’ve got a lot of problems with you people and now you’re gonna hear about it!”

Today is once again #festivus so it’s time for the annual airing of grievances. This year I’ve had a real problem with fearmongers demonizing entire groups of people for purely arbitrary characteristics. SHAME!

Cover of the book Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, a receipt on a bright red cover

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9/20
💙📚

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge

A.I. and corporate lingo are trapping language yn the drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language sholde have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave honest dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them.