Susan Pigman 📚
@1susyq.bsky.social
Avid reader, dog walker, and occasional poet. “It is not everyone,” said Elinor, who has your passion for dead leaves.” Jane Austen
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Through every shutdown in history, the government has still provided economic data to the American people.
They aren’t doing it this time because the numbers are fucking terrible.
They aren’t doing it this time because the numbers are fucking terrible.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Through every shutdown in history, the government has still provided economic data to the American people.
They aren’t doing it this time because the numbers are fucking terrible.
They aren’t doing it this time because the numbers are fucking terrible.
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In 2026 I will once again joining forces with Kim at Reading Matters to host 'A Year with Iris Murdoch'
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
Annoucing A Year with Iris Murdoch for 2026!
I’m delighted to once again join forces with Kim from Reading Matters during 2026 for a Year With Iris Murdoch! This will be our fourth year jointly exploring the work of one Irish writer…
746books.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In 2026 I will once again joining forces with Kim at Reading Matters to host 'A Year with Iris Murdoch'
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
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Maybe someone should tell Megyn R. Kelly 15 is not “barely legal”, it’s actually quite illegal?
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Maybe someone should tell Megyn R. Kelly 15 is not “barely legal”, it’s actually quite illegal?
Cordelia:
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cordelia:
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
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This week, @mookse.bsky.social and I joined are by @ds228.bsky.social of @onebrightbook.bsky.social to talk about the difficult, liberating art of culling books. What does it mean to let go of the stories we’ve carried with us? Is it an act of loss, renewal, or self-knowledge?
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This week, @mookse.bsky.social and I joined are by @ds228.bsky.social of @onebrightbook.bsky.social to talk about the difficult, liberating art of culling books. What does it mean to let go of the stories we’ve carried with us? Is it an act of loss, renewal, or self-knowledge?
Lear:
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Lear:
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
Edgar:
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Edgar:
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
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IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
Cordelia:
“Alack, 'tis he! …
Crown'd with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flow'rs,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds...”
#KingLear_2025
Like Ophelia —
“…fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples..”
“Alack, 'tis he! …
Crown'd with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flow'rs,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds...”
#KingLear_2025
Like Ophelia —
“…fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples..”
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Cordelia:
“Alack, 'tis he! …
Crown'd with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flow'rs,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds...”
#KingLear_2025
Like Ophelia —
“…fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples..”
“Alack, 'tis he! …
Crown'd with rank fumitor and furrow-weeds,
With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flow'rs,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds...”
#KingLear_2025
Like Ophelia —
“…fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples..”
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Getting excited for this event on Sunday at Lost City Books. If you’re in or close to DC… www.eventbrite.com/e/the-queen-...
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Getting excited for this event on Sunday at Lost City Books. If you’re in or close to DC… www.eventbrite.com/e/the-queen-...
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The hilarious thing about the reading list that Elon Musk apparently begged to have publicly posted to prove that he's not, pace Joyce Carol Oates, a subliterate buffoon is that it's just as dreadful as you might expect, and I don't believe he's read any of them anyway.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The hilarious thing about the reading list that Elon Musk apparently begged to have publicly posted to prove that he's not, pace Joyce Carol Oates, a subliterate buffoon is that it's just as dreadful as you might expect, and I don't believe he's read any of them anyway.
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CORDELIA
O dear father!
It is thy business that I go about
William Shakespeare
#KingLear_2025
IV,4,23-24
Ellen Terry as Cordelia in 'King Lear'
National Portrait Gallery London
O dear father!
It is thy business that I go about
William Shakespeare
#KingLear_2025
IV,4,23-24
Ellen Terry as Cordelia in 'King Lear'
National Portrait Gallery London
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
CORDELIA
O dear father!
It is thy business that I go about
William Shakespeare
#KingLear_2025
IV,4,23-24
Ellen Terry as Cordelia in 'King Lear'
National Portrait Gallery London
O dear father!
It is thy business that I go about
William Shakespeare
#KingLear_2025
IV,4,23-24
Ellen Terry as Cordelia in 'King Lear'
National Portrait Gallery London
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
“Kent (as Caius):
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“Kent (as Caius):
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
“World, world, O world!
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
King Lear
#ShakespeareSunday
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
King Lear
#ShakespeareSunday
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“World, world, O world!
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
King Lear
#ShakespeareSunday
But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
Life would not yield to age.”
King Lear
#ShakespeareSunday
“To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it—to think intensely and fruitfully-to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation— this is the only thing.”
—Henry James
#SundaySentence
—Henry James
#SundaySentence
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it—to think intensely and fruitfully-to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation— this is the only thing.”
—Henry James
#SundaySentence
—Henry James
#SundaySentence
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“The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.” ~ Mark L. Wolf #SundaySentence
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.” ~ Mark L. Wolf #SundaySentence
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Finish him JCO
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Finish him JCO
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Buried deep inside the new, depressing biography of Robert McNamara I found my #sundaysentence for this week, a quote from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Buried deep inside the new, depressing biography of Robert McNamara I found my #sundaysentence for this week, a quote from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Servant #2
“Let's follow the old Earl, and get the Bedlam
To lead him where he would; his roguish madness
Allows itself to any thing.”
#KingLear_2025
“Boys of Bedlam,” folk song, Steeleye Span
youtu.be/Uz9tggUNlIU?...
“Let's follow the old Earl, and get the Bedlam
To lead him where he would; his roguish madness
Allows itself to any thing.”
#KingLear_2025
“Boys of Bedlam,” folk song, Steeleye Span
youtu.be/Uz9tggUNlIU?...
Boys of Bedlam
YouTube video by Steeleye Span - Topic
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Servant #2
“Let's follow the old Earl, and get the Bedlam
To lead him where he would; his roguish madness
Allows itself to any thing.”
#KingLear_2025
“Boys of Bedlam,” folk song, Steeleye Span
youtu.be/Uz9tggUNlIU?...
“Let's follow the old Earl, and get the Bedlam
To lead him where he would; his roguish madness
Allows itself to any thing.”
#KingLear_2025
“Boys of Bedlam,” folk song, Steeleye Span
youtu.be/Uz9tggUNlIU?...