“I just want to put a metal spoon in a / microwave and watch the possibility of / sustenance.” Read “Brevity is the fuse attached to every breath,” a poem by Bob Hicock from the collection, Breathe.
I don’t know if this will be useful in any way, but Chinua Achebe wrote this and it explained grief to me in a way that helped digest its intrusiveness:
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
London’s Marble Arch, a triad of arches
Apropos of nothing, did you know London’s Marble Arch is not a victory type thing, but actually was designed as the entrance to a renovated Buckingham Palace? The architect was fired after this for being too extravagant and ballooning the renovation cost to an insane amount
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
it’s First Communion Sunday at Mass which means it’s time for my favorite thing in the world: TINY FORMALWEAR
a tweet from this person who goes by @cigarettesummer that i’ve become weirdly obsessed with. it’s a promotional painting of don draper on madison avenue and the post says: “remember who you are white boy”
(derogatory)
My kingdom for a non impotent national queer org
10/10 very contemplative
allergy-inflamed tonsils keeping me home, day 2: missing quaker meeting.
please send paeans about flowers, not-even-remotely-spiritual cold takes on NPR stories, and condescending reminders that war is, in fact, bad.
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds.
And in order to hear the birds,
the warplanes must be silent”
- Marwan Makhoul
This post brought to you by shelving my most recent acquisitions and saying, oh gosh I really wanna read this, over and over and over and over again
Quick if everyone could stop publishing for like six weeks I think I could finally catch up on the last 25 years of literature
Venn Diagram - dumbest times and darkest times overlapping at "you are here"
also finished the Straight Hockey Show (Shoresy) last night and highly recommend. We love a world where native women are in charge and the men are just big dumb loyal puppies.
(400 years ago)
and yet y’all were out here arresting Quakers for preaching…
The problem with animated shows is that sometimes the voice actors aren’t as hot as the purple haired twinks they play.
Pope on plane to Angola: "A certain narrative has taken hold—one that is not entirely accurate-due to the political situation that arose when, on the first day of the trip, the President of the United States made certain statements regarding me.... Much of what has been written since then is nothing more than commentary upon commentary, in an attempt to interpret what was said. An example is the important address delivered at the Prayer Meeting for Peace on April 16. That speech had been prepared two weeks earlier—well before the President commented on me and on the message of peace I am promoting. And yet, it was interpreted as if I were attempting to engage in a renewed debate with the President —something that is not in my interest at all."
huge portions of media think they’re the refs in a Vatican VS White House MMA fight and they’re delusional. this is a one-sided beef where the Pope says something sensible like “war is bad” or “we should not bomb schoolchildren” and all the hit dogs on Capitol Hill and Fox News lose their marbles.
listen times are hard
Was just on my sad little brain walk when some kid in a stroller pointed at me and wailed out “that’s not daddyyyyyy… why isn’t that daddyyyyyy!”
Which honestly is the first time in awhile I’ve *not* been daddy. But at least I can disappoint people with daddy issues at any age.
I mean yes, but it’s very messy. And like, smutty pottery shards are probably involved. Also a lot of wigs.
A cartoon of the Quaker Oats guy sitting at a table in a diner. He holds a menu while a waitress writes his order down on a pad. Quaker Oats guy: I feel like something different today. Do you have any Lutheran oats?
“I know Martin Luther hated Indulgences, so no maple syrup. Am I doing this right?”
don't usually post about my job here, but! check out my new article in This Week in Palestine. thisweekinpalestine.com/a-community-...
mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally
boebert with a clip for the ages i fear
Listen I’ve found dates in church
The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles
the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth
My internet search history when I was 14:
This is embarrassing, but I just started watching the Malcolm in the Middle reboot and Frankie Muniz is HOT.
