and then I tried to show the younger kid my new tool for making victory rolls with my hair and she was unimpressed, which, fair

my teen just came and hung out and we talked about friends and managing emotional states and why people are the way they are and turns out if you talk to kids like they're people, starting from when they're small, they turn out like pretty cool people to talk to

one of the best things about being a human is seeing a thought another human brain had, thinking, "oh, yeah, that makes sense," and then realizing that another brain has created a fully-formed alternate history that is entirely intelligible to you at a glance, but also documented in a thread

That was also the year I got excluded from the reading challenge where you got a prize for every, like, 5 books read

I remember Mr Jansen very clearly, since I got sent to his class when I was in 3rd for reading, and he haaaaaated that

Mr Jansen has been on My List for a long, long time. He may still be on my mom’s List.

I'm delighted by your pose, as I've being doing Posing As The Art in museums for a while and it's the most fun.

That's the best part of the story! So much got changed, and for the better, and I'm so much more encouraged by the generations that followed us. Raising both a boykid and a girlkid made me confront a lot of stuff I'd unthinkingly carried along.

Which I mention to illustrate that this wasn't something one dealt with for a while while they were pretty and 20something. It was a cultural norm and we were all indoctrinated into it from birth.

In 4th grade, so about 1983ish, my male teacher proudly displayed Male Chauvinist Pig decorations, which were a normal thing one could buy at the time and declare about oneself. He did not believe that a girl could earn a better grade than a boy.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

We need to invent a third weekend day wedged in between Sat and Sun. Sat to sit quietly and recover; Samday to get shit done; Sunday to prepare for more. And no news gets made on Samday.

I wish men who decided to end their own lives would stop murdering the women and children in their lives first.

comic panel of a man thinking if we all spit together we can drown the bastards

#goals

I legit think some of the belief and experience that the economy sucks is also sheer exhaustion from shit like this and notification fatigue and every single shitty tech-mediated interaction of which there are hundreds a day

When I declared brain bankruptcy at the beginning of the academic year, I started My Book, where all information goes, in my handwriting, to see if that'll make it stick. It's working, slowly, as I remember how to remember.

to the bog!

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

Jose Guadalupe Posada

“Calavera Oaxaqueña” (ca. 1910) by José Guadalupe Posada.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

pdimagearchive.org/images/6da09ad4-4688-436...

#calaveras #cartoons #sombreros #mexico #dancing #skeletons #skulls #art #publicdomain

a fun thing to do when you seen An Art is click through to see all the other things the artist has made.

this is my best friend

Please enjoy An Art Break

Art please! 🤖

5) I'm 87% sold on a reading where there is no creature and Victor has maybe done a couple very tiiiiny bad things, maybe

4) I'm still so delighted by the nested narrative and how absolutely bonkers it is

3) I'm delighted that a classic of English fiction, the invention of the horror novel, is mostly just Mary making fun of the sad, sad boys around her

I have slept on my Frankenstein thoughts and now present my findings:
1) Victor is the saddest boy who ever lived and how can a boy be so sad and live???
2) Dying while recounting all the ways in which he's never done a single thing wrong is excellent work, never change

I finished my Frankenstein read-along with my teen and am now in the market for good critical reads of Mary’s story, if you have them

Future Ian will appreciate this

I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"