Gräfin Freudenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️🌈
@grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social
Sh*t's goin' down in Boston, and the Devil deals the cards.
In the pocket of Big Dame.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
In the pocket of Big Dame.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
Pinned
I'm telling myself this is the bit where it looks as if all is lost but the heroes persevere.
Happy Lunar New Year! In the Year of the Horse let's be good NEIGHbors!
February 17, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Happy Lunar New Year! In the Year of the Horse let's be good NEIGHbors!
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Vaccines are genuine bona fide miracles, and destroying a miracle is a grave sin, yet that is what our country is dead set on doing.
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Vaccines are genuine bona fide miracles, and destroying a miracle is a grave sin, yet that is what our country is dead set on doing.
RIP Robert Duvall, when you played Boo Radley you looked a lot like my oldest half-brother did when *he* was a young man.
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
RIP Robert Duvall, when you played Boo Radley you looked a lot like my oldest half-brother did when *he* was a young man.
Well, I mopped the kitchen floor & vacuumed the living room & got my Mom out for a walk & ran the "clean washer" cycle on the, er, washer.
Part of my reluctance to run Car Errands is that the piles of snow have made everyone's driving Worse & it's making me anxious.
Part of my reluctance to run Car Errands is that the piles of snow have made everyone's driving Worse & it's making me anxious.
Saruman vacuums the living room!
The Comte de Rochefort takes his car in for the recommended yearly service!
King Haggard goes through Yelp until he finds a reliable & competent plumber!
The Duc de Richleau drops his donations off at the charity shop!
Mycroft Holmes goes for his mammogram!
The Comte de Rochefort takes his car in for the recommended yearly service!
King Haggard goes through Yelp until he finds a reliable & competent plumber!
The Duc de Richleau drops his donations off at the charity shop!
Mycroft Holmes goes for his mammogram!
February 16, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Well, I mopped the kitchen floor & vacuumed the living room & got my Mom out for a walk & ran the "clean washer" cycle on the, er, washer.
Part of my reluctance to run Car Errands is that the piles of snow have made everyone's driving Worse & it's making me anxious.
Part of my reluctance to run Car Errands is that the piles of snow have made everyone's driving Worse & it's making me anxious.
The birds have come back, which means I need to spray Pine-Sol on the house with my trusty water gun, which means I've been singing "The Woman with the Pine-Sol Gun".
It's a pity I can't jolly myself into doing *more* domestic tasks by pretending to be Sir Christopher Lee.
It's a pity I can't jolly myself into doing *more* domestic tasks by pretending to be Sir Christopher Lee.
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
The birds have come back, which means I need to spray Pine-Sol on the house with my trusty water gun, which means I've been singing "The Woman with the Pine-Sol Gun".
It's a pity I can't jolly myself into doing *more* domestic tasks by pretending to be Sir Christopher Lee.
It's a pity I can't jolly myself into doing *more* domestic tasks by pretending to be Sir Christopher Lee.
This is making me want never to buy anything again.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
This is making me want never to buy anything again.
Offering a public healthcare option would, I suspect, be like re-introducing wolves to Yellowstone in terms of widespread good effects nobody saw coming but right now we have our hands full trying to get the Republican-run government to stop kidnapping & murdering people.
February 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Offering a public healthcare option would, I suspect, be like re-introducing wolves to Yellowstone in terms of widespread good effects nobody saw coming but right now we have our hands full trying to get the Republican-run government to stop kidnapping & murdering people.
Horrifying realization du jour: I've been having all these tender thoughts about the UK because they never did this three-cue bullshit in school & a Briton who has, say, attended university can be reasonably expected to be able to read.
It's not just memories of how green it is.
It's not just memories of how green it is.
February 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Horrifying realization du jour: I've been having all these tender thoughts about the UK because they never did this three-cue bullshit in school & a Briton who has, say, attended university can be reasonably expected to be able to read.
It's not just memories of how green it is.
It's not just memories of how green it is.
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Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
February 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
This winter has been so awful I am already panicking about next Fall when the days start drawing in & I remember how bad this one was & worry the winter of 2026-2027 will be as bad.
If anyone tries to give me chipper one-size-fits-all advice I will block you in such a way as to cause physical pain.
If anyone tries to give me chipper one-size-fits-all advice I will block you in such a way as to cause physical pain.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 AM
This winter has been so awful I am already panicking about next Fall when the days start drawing in & I remember how bad this one was & worry the winter of 2026-2027 will be as bad.
If anyone tries to give me chipper one-size-fits-all advice I will block you in such a way as to cause physical pain.
If anyone tries to give me chipper one-size-fits-all advice I will block you in such a way as to cause physical pain.
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Yo Harvard's being a little shit and trying to axe its Yiddish programme + refusing to bargain in good faith with the union. You can send a letter of support here (maybe edited a bit) saveharvardyiddish.org #yiddish #harvard
Save Yiddish at Harvard!
Please join us in sending letters. Share this campaign as widely as possible!
saveharvardyiddish.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Yo Harvard's being a little shit and trying to axe its Yiddish programme + refusing to bargain in good faith with the union. You can send a letter of support here (maybe edited a bit) saveharvardyiddish.org #yiddish #harvard
I keep thinking of the stories of old Soviet veterans of WWII saying to American visitors decades later, thank you for the gun or the tank, with it I killed many fascists. No men, but many fascists.
February 15, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I keep thinking of the stories of old Soviet veterans of WWII saying to American visitors decades later, thank you for the gun or the tank, with it I killed many fascists. No men, but many fascists.
Me, listening to a Best Of CD: Wow, this is great, there's not a dud on here! shop.louisarmstrongfoundation.org/products/ell...
Ella & Louis For Lovers CD - Louis Armstrong Official Store
"Part of Verve's extensive For Lovers series, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong for Lovers features timeless duets from the '50s including "Nearness of You," "Stars Fell on Alabama," "Moonlight in...
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February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Me, listening to a Best Of CD: Wow, this is great, there's not a dud on here! shop.louisarmstrongfoundation.org/products/ell...
They're all under two feet of snow now, but come to my yard next year & I can hook you up with strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries!
As consumption of strawberries and blueberries has skyrocketed among American families, so too have berry prices. But don't blame the farmers!
New from David Silverberg:
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New from David Silverberg:
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Berry High Prices
As consumption of raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries spikes among American families, so do their prices. But don’t blame the farmers!
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February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
They're all under two feet of snow now, but come to my yard next year & I can hook you up with strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries!
"HMS Pinafore" still slaps at nearly 150 but I'm trying to imagine a modern light popular middlebrow entertainment where the hero kicks off the Act I finale by asking everyone to come watch him shoot himself.
The Victorians were operating on a different level.
The Victorians were operating on a different level.
February 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
"HMS Pinafore" still slaps at nearly 150 but I'm trying to imagine a modern light popular middlebrow entertainment where the hero kicks off the Act I finale by asking everyone to come watch him shoot himself.
The Victorians were operating on a different level.
The Victorians were operating on a different level.
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This is about that Camo Hat Guy article about the Mellon Foundation but it's also about the garden club & the office snacks & the school board: the person paying the piper is calling the tune. If you don't like the tune, you can join the garden club or volunteer to get snacks or run for school board
The real story of the piece is mentioned in the seventh paragraph and then not returned to: one by one, the foundations that used to fund humanities research stopped, leaving just Mellon, which put an ideological rider on their funding in 2020.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This is about that Camo Hat Guy article about the Mellon Foundation but it's also about the garden club & the office snacks & the school board: the person paying the piper is calling the tune. If you don't like the tune, you can join the garden club or volunteer to get snacks or run for school board
Angry about Henry James Sr's awful parenting all over again.
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Angry about Henry James Sr's awful parenting all over again.
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
If fewer people who should not have been put in charge of a dog, let alone a child, are having kids, that is *good*!
These people need to spend the rest of their lives behind bars & a chunk of eternity in flames.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 4:38 AM
These people need to spend the rest of their lives behind bars & a chunk of eternity in flames.
I love the way on TNG if an older woman is sweet & friendly she's probably a hologram or a robot or a delusion.
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I love the way on TNG if an older woman is sweet & friendly she's probably a hologram or a robot or a delusion.
I don't want books by LLMs! I want the books my friends would write if they had the time & freed-up focus!
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't want books by LLMs! I want the books my friends would write if they had the time & freed-up focus!
Ditto a bunch of religions, alas.
Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
I often think the real ideological divide online is not really ideology by whether politics exists as a permission structure for behaviour or not
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Ditto a bunch of religions, alas.
And those Cracked articles about "Five Heroes who were Actually the Villains!" or "Ten 'Utopias' where Life would Actually Suck!"
The worst thing about millennials is how The AV Club and tvtropes convincing a generation of creatives the worst thing you can do with something is play it straight
A lot of media these days has what I call the "dragon problem". It's actually fairly unusual to just see art of a normal dragon, everybody's too convinced that they have to show their take on a dragon that it's much easier to find a dragon somebody was doing a "take" on than just, like, a dragon.
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
And those Cracked articles about "Five Heroes who were Actually the Villains!" or "Ten 'Utopias' where Life would Actually Suck!"
I think it's OK to mention how many of the people who work for & support Trmp resemble Dick Tracy villains, allegorical representations of vice in Goya paintings, & factory seconds from the Evil Stepsister Doll assembly line because they are white supremacists & they're not very supreme, are they?
February 14, 2026 at 10:16 AM
I think it's OK to mention how many of the people who work for & support Trmp resemble Dick Tracy villains, allegorical representations of vice in Goya paintings, & factory seconds from the Evil Stepsister Doll assembly line because they are white supremacists & they're not very supreme, are they?
I love the idea of those wish bracelets where you make a wish as you tie them around your wrist & when the thread breaks you get your wish, but I feel that in order for it to work I'd have to purchase one from a patchouli-smelling young woman with cool tats at a craft fair instead of Online.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I love the idea of those wish bracelets where you make a wish as you tie them around your wrist & when the thread breaks you get your wish, but I feel that in order for it to work I'd have to purchase one from a patchouli-smelling young woman with cool tats at a craft fair instead of Online.