To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

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I went to high school in Clermont, and it's always so wild to see Central FL show up in places like this. It's such a strange mix of suburbs, strip malls, and remote farmland, or at least it was in 2002.

(I was also living in Boston when this happened, so I'm learning about this case now.)

I made a papercraft just for this

This is so wonderful, I can't wait for them to meet!

This is so true and important!

If you're in the Boston area, I'll put a bunch of local mutual aid groups below. 🧵:

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

I loved this show! I wish it had a bigger audience at the time, but I think it has kept finding people over the years.

Winter Solstice I don't know when your darkest day was this year. I just hope when you look back you remember the stars. Rachel Beachy

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Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.

It's your birthday, Duane.

BIG Challenges 🐊

Left and right shark What stands out is the goofy happy smile

Part 107 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

Paintings of hammerhead sharks from Japan 1735 CE

I'm feeling the exact opposite that I did a year ago and don't know what to do with this glimmer of hope 🥹

Dear John, I don't know why I have to tell you this today (but I do) — perhaps it's because when I look out into the fog all I can see is the hairs of your adorable chest. I'm terribly in love with you, and have been for such a long time, ever since the first time Frank took me to your apartment. I looked around at your beautiful paintings and suddenly everything I'd ever felt about you turned into a diamond or a rose or something — anyway I went striding up and down while Frank played Poulenc and felt exactly like the Ugly Duckling the day he found he was a swan. Then you came home and I didn't think I could ever look at you or to you again, all I could do was giggle and snort and twitch. But I've looked at you a lot since then, and there isn't anybody else in the world that I want to look at; or want, for that matter. It seems to me that I've been so GOOD that I couldn't hate myself more. I don't see why I couldn't have been born a robber baron type instead of a fool. Now I'm going down and set 57th Street on fire to keep you warm. This is all nonsense. I love being in love with you, it makes even unhappiness seem no bigger than a pin, even at the times when I wish so violently that I could give my heart to science and be rid of it. With all my love, Jimmy

letter from james schuyler (poet) to john button (painter), 1956. this is IT for me. this is love, it's been captured, it's done, we can all pack it up. "and suddenly everything i'd ever felt about you turned into a diamond or a rose or something"

So beautiful💜💜💜

At least we know we're in the right on this and just have to keep doing what we can ✊🏻 I'm working to make my Elementary classes understand it's not as cool or useful as people might say it is, so by the time they get to high school or college they may not be as likely to use it. I can hope at least.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. It's absolutely bonkers how much it has been embraced, especially in Education. I'm the very anti-ai voice in our Library Department and always feel like am outsider for speaking up. Like, what are we even doing here?!

The lesson from New York is we should all have ranked ballots. The people yearn to RANK. We want to RATE and SORT.

I'm currently in Ohio and it's awful. Enjoy the 60s!

> “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
> "So do I," said Gandalf, "this shit fucking sucks.”

Oh Mary is going THROUGH IT.

I haven't watched it yet but it looks fantastic.

Through the end of June they're playing the London cast of Next To Normal which is SO GOOD but really emotionally devastating. Also Yellow Face and Kiss me, Kate. It's always a mix of stuff but definitely worth it!

PBS Performances stream things for free right through their website! It's how I've gotten to see a number of things.

This was so wonderful! I absolutely adore their story and am forever in love with Borrower Stede. Thank you for bringing them into our lives! 💜💜💜

What?! Nooooo 😥😭😭😭

Steeeeede 🥺😥💜

This is absolutely incredible, made all the better by Izzy and Lucius and Pete learning about the existence of Borrowers during this exchange. Picturing this from an outside perspective is sending me 😂

I'm so gone on Borrower Stede! So brave and gallant 🥹💜

I'm absolutely delighted by everything he is doing on this show. The whole cast is so good this season! They all seem to click really well and it's made for some really spectacular episodes.

I haven't even fully met Borrower Stede and I love him 💜💜💜