i think you gotta spend at least a good chunk of time writing stuff that makes you think simultaneously "i'm the beautiful genius of the universe which feeds its wisdom unto me entire" && "i'm the baby clown laughing stock of the cosmic playground; the moon of my jester hat rotates eternal about me"
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A man and a little girl run down a hill, looking back over their shoulders in terror. The little girl holds a large blue egg under her arm. Behind them, an extremely large, menacing rabbit comes slowly over the hill towards them, with an empty basket on its back.
Happy Easter to those celebrating! Here is my very favorite Easter painting: “Happy Easter” by Michel Sowa.
doing a “husband’s run” (early morning grocery run for a missing breakfast item, because i get to wander the store and get whatever else i want) but committing the “husband’s folly” (forgetting the one item i was asked to get, eggs)
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only:
I'm alternating vol. 2 of THE STORY OF THE STONE by Cao Xueqin, translated by David Hawkes; and the BLADES IN THE DARK rulebook by @johnharper.bsky.social. (And my own WIP, for edits.)
INIO ASANO'S CEREBUS
If you've never checked out Kaleidotrope's starter packs of the fantastic authors and artists who've appeared in the zine over the years, now would be a good time to do so, since they've just been updated—and not just so I can finally pin a new post to my profile that doesn't have a typo in it! 😜
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more, and that’s why webuyuglyhouses.com will buy it from you TODAY for cash on the barrelhead!
[U is 14.]
U: benvolio?
U: is he the guy who pulls his shirt over his head?
ME: what
ME: … oh
ME: jesus
IN WHICH we contemplate the procedural generation of knightly adventure.
www.cobblerandbard.com/gillen-rossi...
Ify, Katie, and Brennan, inadvertently re-enacting the Virtuous Economic Cycle on Game Changer.
(This is in no way a knock on the OP, just the usual complaint about how Goodhart’s law has broken the world.)
POSTER: psa guys, when you say “ok google fix my slides” it spawns a torment nexus in the bathroom
INTERNET, ONE MILLION TIMES: dadgum if it doesn’t do just that, i just shat five paring knives and a potato peeler
GOOGLE EARNINGS CALL: engagement with our “fix my slides” button is through the roof
Paging Dr. @joannarifkin.bsky.social
Twin Peaks opening with text reading Kaleidotrope
Damn fine cup of coffee!
My only thoughts and solidarity are for the 90 million Iranians, who I have more common cause with than I could ever have with either one of the regimes that oppress us all
Cal Newport name-checking @dropout.tv was not on my bingo card for today. calnewport.com/what-i-learn...
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
And see also bsky.app/profile/sara...
We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.
In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.
post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
![The first paragraph of an article by Peter Chen of New Jersey Policy Perspective:
“New Jersey has cut its state workforce by more than 25 percent since 2006, eliminating nearly 20,000 positions even as the state’s population has grown.[1] This can have concrete consequences for New Jersey residents, including longer wait times at government offices, delayed benefits, fewer inspectors for nursing homes and polluting factories, and less oversight of how schools and local governments spend public dollars.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mjql5ctvcuqrf7ca5pnmbjl3/bafkreicov3bokvdrueoya4ot5rnig4ypbwruhwab7nzkkxi7dfmebpmjdy)
The first paragraph of an article by Peter Chen of New Jersey Policy Perspective: “New Jersey has cut its state workforce by more than 25 percent since 2006, eliminating nearly 20,000 positions even as the state’s population has grown.[1] This can have concrete consequences for New Jersey residents, including longer wait times at government offices, delayed benefits, fewer inspectors for nursing homes and polluting factories, and less oversight of how schools and local governments spend public dollars.”
Mostly for my own notes, here’s Peter Chen of New Jersey Policy Perspective: www.njpp.org/publications...
A screenshot from Cory Doctorow’s blog, PLURALISTIC, published on February 24, 2026: Turning governments into businesses has been an unmitigated failure. After decades of outsourcing, the government hasn't managed to shrink its payroll, but government workers are today primarily employed in wheedling private contractors to fulfill their promises, even as public spending has quintupled: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-reflections-on-the-size-and-composition-of-todays-federal-government/ Instead of having a government employee do a government job, that govvie oversees a private contractor who costs twice as much…and sucks at their job: https://www.pogo.org/reports/bad-business-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-wasted-on-hiring-contractors
Cory Doctorow’s most recent post on PLURALISTIC has a lot to say about Zohran and sewer socialism, but I’m here for the bits on government outsourcing: pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/m...
BROKE: cottagecore
WOKE: mildin’ out
