...when the forks trailed almond bitterness against her mouth, she knew. Burial is a form of forgiveness; grasping at what has passed is a form of poison. She took her lost treasures and planted them back into the dirt.
When the garden earth began to give back what was lost—exactly as it had been—it seemed a kind of miracle. The silver and the jewels. The mementos and their associations. But when the earring worn afresh spread ivy-like rash down the side of Sandra’s neck...
Mother used to say burial was a form of forgiveness. Take something precious, something once cherished. Give it to the soil to do its work, without rancor. Forgive it, and yourself, the loss. Let the beloved go to be made anew in the long forge of nature. Walk free without it.
kaiju (but make it haiku)
the moth i become
grows tangential to your flame
my wings blot the sun
Share a gif from a Western you love...
God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth
Looking forward to Hegseth completing his arc wherein, following a miraculous near death experience, he realizes his life of violence is antithetical to the will of a moral universe and so he gives away all his money and walks the Earth seeking divine interjection. You know, like Caine in Kung Fu.
guys, this is how you lose the time war
I agree that people shouldn't be negatively polarized into treating the Catholic Church as a net good in the world but if you're pretending it's not funny that the pope saying "bombing schools is bad" made our government invent Anglicanism from first principles, you're just a buzzkill
Hello, Hailstorm, my old friend.
@katiecampbell.bsky.social of @kuow.org just posted this terrific short interview with @stephengrahamjones.com on The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and on how horror helps us stay alive. Very thoughtful questions from Katie! I learn something new with every SGJ interview.
www.kuow.org/stories/step...
lol wut
2026 Tea Advent Calendar preorders are open, and this year we're bringing you a pure/single origin option!
www.fridaytea.com/products/tea...
Yes, please.
Tired: Beaming to a Waffle House
Wired: Time traveling to a 1970s David Bowie concert
Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
the lake
was once New Amsterdam.
Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.
NEW: Oregon has 15 DA elections this year.
Each and every one drew just one candidate.
So I had to write about what’s going on with these uncontested elections — here, and elsewhere. boltsmag.org/oregon-uncon...
what I like about the Muppet Vampire Patriarch is that it correctly demonstrates that, if you could just look at it from the outside, patriarchy, despite being horrifying, is also quite silly.
To the person who put Sister Wendy's complete playlist up on YouTube--know that you are my hero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBul...
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
They work to destroy all that is good and decent: arts; sciences; cultural and natural heritage; shared and universal values including honesty, mercy, and trust — the greatest evil my nation has seen since the end of chattel slavery; one of the greatest that anyone has seen in human history.
The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.
"If you want to do something useful, stop witch-hunting indie creators and start protesting data centers."
Omg preach, girl. This gotcha shit is just absolutely exhausting. Like, how many times are we going to reinvent the purity test wheel ffs
New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!
Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.
we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote
Christina Koch right now:
"At one point towards the end of images of my time in window three, I had an overwhelming sense of being moved by looking at the Moon, it lasted just a second or two, and I couldn't even make it happen again. But, something just drew me in suddenly to the lunar landscape
