Derwen
@derwen.bsky.social
Father and husband and cat person; percussionist, hiker, mycophile and educator.
On the advice of my physician, I post my earworms.
In the Old Country I went by Pezizales Pizzicato
User #1,533,716! WOOO!
On the advice of my physician, I post my earworms.
In the Old Country I went by Pezizales Pizzicato
User #1,533,716! WOOO!
Dear NASA--
Jupiter has too many moons. Please eliminate 10.
PS: I am not a crank.
Jupiter has too many moons. Please eliminate 10.
PS: I am not a crank.
Nice constellation of the almost full moon🌔and Jupiter this evening. Jupiter has 92 moons!! And is the gatekeeper of our solar system, preventing impact from ☄️ comets etc.
February 1, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Dear NASA--
Jupiter has too many moons. Please eliminate 10.
PS: I am not a crank.
Jupiter has too many moons. Please eliminate 10.
PS: I am not a crank.
How about a gorgeous anuran?
February 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
How about a gorgeous anuran?
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Surprise! Next time you see a big group of ducks, watch carefully. Look who I saw among a big crowd of Common Goldeneyes - a Hooded Merganser! She’s not “supposed” to be here this time of year but there she is #birds
February 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Surprise! Next time you see a big group of ducks, watch carefully. Look who I saw among a big crowd of Common Goldeneyes - a Hooded Merganser! She’s not “supposed” to be here this time of year but there she is #birds
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it’s not insomnia, I’m just dedicated to giving a little forehead kiss good morning to every time zone
February 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
it’s not insomnia, I’m just dedicated to giving a little forehead kiss good morning to every time zone
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
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wow seems like colorless green ideas do their dreaming in a lot of pretty sketchy venues
January 31, 2026 at 3:41 PM
wow seems like colorless green ideas do their dreaming in a lot of pretty sketchy venues
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i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents.
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents.
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
—Da-vid, do I have to show you *everything*?
—Can you show me one thing?
—Can you show me one thing?
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 AM
—Da-vid, do I have to show you *everything*?
—Can you show me one thing?
—Can you show me one thing?
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RIP Catherine O'Hara
It took me a while to notice that her role in Beetlejuice was supposed to be funny. As a kid, I thought her performance was just an accurate depiction of how moms behaved.
It took me a while to notice that her role in Beetlejuice was supposed to be funny. As a kid, I thought her performance was just an accurate depiction of how moms behaved.
January 30, 2026 at 8:48 PM
RIP Catherine O'Hara
It took me a while to notice that her role in Beetlejuice was supposed to be funny. As a kid, I thought her performance was just an accurate depiction of how moms behaved.
It took me a while to notice that her role in Beetlejuice was supposed to be funny. As a kid, I thought her performance was just an accurate depiction of how moms behaved.
Same for me. The Pre-teen Telethon was the funniest thing I'd ever seen in my life; I was dying laughing and couldn't even fathom why. In so many ways, Catherine and the rest of the cast shaped how my adult brain works.
For decades, Catherine O'Hara did so many great things but SCTV is my foundation. It is my comedy lodestar. It sent me on my path in life. If you've ever laughed at anything I've ever been a part of, Catherine and her cohorts are in the DNA of that laugh.
January 30, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Same for me. The Pre-teen Telethon was the funniest thing I'd ever seen in my life; I was dying laughing and couldn't even fathom why. In so many ways, Catherine and the rest of the cast shaped how my adult brain works.
Fascinating question! A mound just...somewhere? A snowbank. A mound blocking something else? A berm.
…what do you call this heap of snow?
I surveyed people on Bluesky, and for the most part they didn’t have a specific word for it. But those who did mostly called it one of three things—the same three terms I have used at various times. 2/19
I surveyed people on Bluesky, and for the most part they didn’t have a specific word for it. But those who did mostly called it one of three things—the same three terms I have used at various times. 2/19
January 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Fascinating question! A mound just...somewhere? A snowbank. A mound blocking something else? A berm.
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'Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train.
By U.S. Army, Major Clarence Benjamin, 743rd Tank Battalion. 1945'
vjic.org/vjic2/?page_...
By U.S. Army, Major Clarence Benjamin, 743rd Tank Battalion. 1945'
vjic.org/vjic2/?page_...
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 AM
'Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train.
By U.S. Army, Major Clarence Benjamin, 743rd Tank Battalion. 1945'
vjic.org/vjic2/?page_...
By U.S. Army, Major Clarence Benjamin, 743rd Tank Battalion. 1945'
vjic.org/vjic2/?page_...
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Francesca Woodman
January 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Francesca Woodman
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Pitchers and catchers and spontaneous boners due to photoperiodism in 12 days
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Pitchers and catchers and spontaneous boners due to photoperiodism in 12 days
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little chudlet among the fungus, go little chudlet 💗
January 28, 2026 at 9:45 PM
little chudlet among the fungus, go little chudlet 💗
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I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
January 28, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
Thank goodness it was clearly labeled!
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Thank goodness it was clearly labeled!
As a non-ornithological note, if you've never visited Oswego in the grip of winter you haven't really lived.
Hey you! Yes, you! Do you like Weird Ducks™️ but don’t want to freeze your ass off standing next to a lake in winter? Well now you can bird the Oswego Harbor from the comfort of your living room! How many species can you pick out? #binoblast
January 28, 2026 at 7:12 PM
As a non-ornithological note, if you've never visited Oswego in the grip of winter you haven't really lived.
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Weather so dreich it can stop a dalek.
January 27, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Weather so dreich it can stop a dalek.
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Last night I needed release more than refinement. I was thinking about arriving in Como by train and a friend’s photo from Oregon. This is what resulted.
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Last night I needed release more than refinement. I was thinking about arriving in Como by train and a friend’s photo from Oregon. This is what resulted.
The hiss was now becoming a roar — the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow — but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.
—Conrad Aiken
—Conrad Aiken
January 26, 2026 at 2:32 AM
The hiss was now becoming a roar — the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow — but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.
—Conrad Aiken
—Conrad Aiken
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Samson in the blue glow. wish i would have got him hopping around like a bunny.
January 25, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Samson in the blue glow. wish i would have got him hopping around like a bunny.
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#FungusOnFriday
#FungiFriends
#OysterMushrooms
I photographed them, prior to cooking.
01.20.26
#Food #Foodsky
#Photography
#NatureIsArt
#WestCoastKin
#ArtOfPhotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCForCloseUp
#FungiFriends
#OysterMushrooms
I photographed them, prior to cooking.
01.20.26
#Food #Foodsky
#Photography
#NatureIsArt
#WestCoastKin
#ArtOfPhotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCForCloseUp
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 AM
#FungusOnFriday
#FungiFriends
#OysterMushrooms
I photographed them, prior to cooking.
01.20.26
#Food #Foodsky
#Photography
#NatureIsArt
#WestCoastKin
#ArtOfPhotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCForCloseUp
#FungiFriends
#OysterMushrooms
I photographed them, prior to cooking.
01.20.26
#Food #Foodsky
#Photography
#NatureIsArt
#WestCoastKin
#ArtOfPhotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCForCloseUp