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I want the United States government to ensure that every American has food to eat, a place to live, a safe neighborhood, transportation to move around & work, clean water to drink, free health care & free education.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I want the United States government to ensure that every American has food to eat, a place to live, a safe neighborhood, transportation to move around & work, clean water to drink, free health care & free education.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
Life goals
Excellent. In the parents’ spare room tonight, and just discovered both bedside tables are stuffed with copies of every memorial service/funeral they have ever been to.
They’re in their mid-eighties.
Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.
They’re in their mid-eighties.
Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.
October 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Life goals
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He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”.
-Umberto Eco
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#books
-Umberto Eco
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#books
September 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”.
-Umberto Eco
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#books
-Umberto Eco
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#books
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"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
September 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“He wants to say, I have figured it all out…We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.”
- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin
- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin
September 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
“He wants to say, I have figured it all out…We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.”
- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin
- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin
“You know that dream? The one with a door, where there’s never been a door before?
I had that dream again last night.”
heathercapelli.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/f...
I had that dream again last night.”
heathercapelli.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/f...
Familiar spaces
You know that dream? The one with a door, where there’s never been a door before? I had that dream again last night. A second door where normally there’s an old curio cabinet filled with my skull c…
heathercapelli.wordpress.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“You know that dream? The one with a door, where there’s never been a door before?
I had that dream again last night.”
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I had that dream again last night.”
heathercapelli.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/f...
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nothing humbles you quite like a figure drawing session
June 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
nothing humbles you quite like a figure drawing session
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Zabernism [ZAB-ur-niz-im]
(n.)
- Unjustified or unwarranted use of military authority; military jackbootery; abusive bullying.
Used in a sentence:
“The fascist leader’s deployment of soldiers against the very citizens it was meant to protect will always be remembered as vainglorious zabernism.”
(n.)
- Unjustified or unwarranted use of military authority; military jackbootery; abusive bullying.
Used in a sentence:
“The fascist leader’s deployment of soldiers against the very citizens it was meant to protect will always be remembered as vainglorious zabernism.”
June 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Zabernism [ZAB-ur-niz-im]
(n.)
- Unjustified or unwarranted use of military authority; military jackbootery; abusive bullying.
Used in a sentence:
“The fascist leader’s deployment of soldiers against the very citizens it was meant to protect will always be remembered as vainglorious zabernism.”
(n.)
- Unjustified or unwarranted use of military authority; military jackbootery; abusive bullying.
Used in a sentence:
“The fascist leader’s deployment of soldiers against the very citizens it was meant to protect will always be remembered as vainglorious zabernism.”
This is exactly the kind of grandmother I aspire to be
May 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is exactly the kind of grandmother I aspire to be
“There is a moment childhood ends, she thought, looking down at her son. She wanted his moment to be a long time from now.
She wanted her son to be smart enough to get his out of this nightmare but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one”
-Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chebosky
She wanted her son to be smart enough to get his out of this nightmare but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one”
-Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chebosky
May 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“There is a moment childhood ends, she thought, looking down at her son. She wanted his moment to be a long time from now.
She wanted her son to be smart enough to get his out of this nightmare but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one”
-Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chebosky
She wanted her son to be smart enough to get his out of this nightmare but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one”
-Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chebosky
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Tetris taught me that trying to fit in will make you disappear.
April 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Tetris taught me that trying to fit in will make you disappear.
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I wish the was a librarian batsignal.
April 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I wish the was a librarian batsignal.
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It is BOTH
Local Yarn Store Day
and
Independent Bookstore Day
...
And yesterday was payday...
Local Yarn Store Day
and
Independent Bookstore Day
...
And yesterday was payday...
April 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It is BOTH
Local Yarn Store Day
and
Independent Bookstore Day
...
And yesterday was payday...
Local Yarn Store Day
and
Independent Bookstore Day
...
And yesterday was payday...
My local cafe is playing a version of Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer, that sounds like it’s being performed by a high school marching band. Also, I swear, there’s… a kazoo in the mix?
It feels like a portent for how the rest of this week is going to go
It feels like a portent for how the rest of this week is going to go
April 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My local cafe is playing a version of Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer, that sounds like it’s being performed by a high school marching band. Also, I swear, there’s… a kazoo in the mix?
It feels like a portent for how the rest of this week is going to go
It feels like a portent for how the rest of this week is going to go
I mean, not wrong
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.
April 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I mean, not wrong
This morning’s random doodle… still figuring out shapes. At this (very slow) rate, I’m going to have a hundred very bad doodles of Bob Dylan
April 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This morning’s random doodle… still figuring out shapes. At this (very slow) rate, I’m going to have a hundred very bad doodles of Bob Dylan
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much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it
April 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it
We watched a series of bio pics and documentaries on Bob Dylan recently and now the angles of his face, and the lines of his poetry, are rambling around in my head. Still do t have a solid fix on either
April 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We watched a series of bio pics and documentaries on Bob Dylan recently and now the angles of his face, and the lines of his poetry, are rambling around in my head. Still do t have a solid fix on either
I taught myself how to knit during the pandemic. It soothes me when I’m feeling stressed or anxious…
I’m on my fourth sweater so far this year.
I’m on my fourth sweater so far this year.
April 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I taught myself how to knit during the pandemic. It soothes me when I’m feeling stressed or anxious…
I’m on my fourth sweater so far this year.
I’m on my fourth sweater so far this year.
“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'”
-#BobDylan
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'”
-#BobDylan
April 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'”
-#BobDylan
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'”
-#BobDylan
Random doodle of Bob Dylan
April 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Random doodle of Bob Dylan
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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you know what a country *could* do in the face of this absolutely farcical shift in global economy? invest heavily in research and infrastructure. imagine leveling-up that was actually about boosting industries and universities around the whole country. a positive vision.
April 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
you know what a country *could* do in the face of this absolutely farcical shift in global economy? invest heavily in research and infrastructure. imagine leveling-up that was actually about boosting industries and universities around the whole country. a positive vision.
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Libraries are essential for many communities. But funding for them is constantly being reduced, and we are losing these places of knowledge.
Our libraries are under threat
Libraries are essential for many communities. But funding for them is constantly being reduced, and we are losing these places of knowledge
northwestbylines.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Libraries are essential for many communities. But funding for them is constantly being reduced, and we are losing these places of knowledge.
I love Boaty McBoatyface
I also long for a world where this is the top story in my newsfeed
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I also long for a world where this is the top story in my newsfeed
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed
No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.
www.bbc.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I love Boaty McBoatyface
I also long for a world where this is the top story in my newsfeed
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I also long for a world where this is the top story in my newsfeed
www.bbc.com/news/article...