Amanda
@tacittaciturn.bsky.social
nobody in particular | EC, WI
Husband and I are talking about what movie to watch (at home) as a family tonight.
My eyes went to a stack of DVDs in the living room and stopped first on Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, then on Happy Together.
So, yeah: still taking suggestions.
My eyes went to a stack of DVDs in the living room and stopped first on Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, then on Happy Together.
So, yeah: still taking suggestions.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Husband and I are talking about what movie to watch (at home) as a family tonight.
My eyes went to a stack of DVDs in the living room and stopped first on Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, then on Happy Together.
So, yeah: still taking suggestions.
My eyes went to a stack of DVDs in the living room and stopped first on Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, then on Happy Together.
So, yeah: still taking suggestions.
Peeling and cleaning potatoes and gouging out the bad spots like I’m in a hoof trimming video
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Peeling and cleaning potatoes and gouging out the bad spots like I’m in a hoof trimming video
A bit horrified by the Dunkin Munchkins all excited about getting eaten😨
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A bit horrified by the Dunkin Munchkins all excited about getting eaten😨
My daughter (17) keeps sending me TikToks of desserts she wants me to make and, you know? It’s hard to protest any of this.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My daughter (17) keeps sending me TikToks of desserts she wants me to make and, you know? It’s hard to protest any of this.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
"Groups restricting books ... take for granted that Lo writes novels to teach young readers lessons. And while it’s certainly possible to analyze her books and teach them in a classroom setting, Lo never sets out to make them didactic. 'That’s not the point of writing for me,' she said."
More than 1,800 banned titles in the 2023–2024 school year contained sex-related content. In a new interview, bestselling YA author @malindalo.bsky.social explains the necessity of reading those works in full before considering pulling them from shelves: pen.org/malinda-lo-i...
Uneasy About Sexual Content in a YA Novel? ‘Read the Whole Book,’ Urges Author Malinda Lo
“That’s why there is sexuality in my books: because it is part of life. There’s no nefarious purpose,” says author Malinda Lo.
pen.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"Groups restricting books ... take for granted that Lo writes novels to teach young readers lessons. And while it’s certainly possible to analyze her books and teach them in a classroom setting, Lo never sets out to make them didactic. 'That’s not the point of writing for me,' she said."
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between "study on honesty appears to have used fabricated data," "study on cognitive dissonance after thwarted expectations may not show what it was believed to" and possibly "data for study on use of AI generated by LLM" we're pretty close to either a Dramatic Irony bracket or a trend piece
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
between "study on honesty appears to have used fabricated data," "study on cognitive dissonance after thwarted expectations may not show what it was believed to" and possibly "data for study on use of AI generated by LLM" we're pretty close to either a Dramatic Irony bracket or a trend piece
Stories about aggro turkeys are also exempt.
"The winter’s chill is upon us.
"'I was on a run down Old Wells here and I saw a couple turkeys off in the distance,' Adam Urberg, who faced multiple turkeys in Eau Claire, said.
"But a colder presence continues to linger in the city."
"The winter’s chill is upon us.
"'I was on a run down Old Wells here and I saw a couple turkeys off in the distance,' Adam Urberg, who faced multiple turkeys in Eau Claire, said.
"But a colder presence continues to linger in the city."
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Stories about aggro turkeys are also exempt.
"The winter’s chill is upon us.
"'I was on a run down Old Wells here and I saw a couple turkeys off in the distance,' Adam Urberg, who faced multiple turkeys in Eau Claire, said.
"But a colder presence continues to linger in the city."
"The winter’s chill is upon us.
"'I was on a run down Old Wells here and I saw a couple turkeys off in the distance,' Adam Urberg, who faced multiple turkeys in Eau Claire, said.
"But a colder presence continues to linger in the city."
The song “Green Tambourine” is so vicariously embarrassing, and the band being called The Lemon Pipers pretty much seals the deal.
“Now listen while I play(-ay-ay)/… my green tambourine”?
No. Stop.
“Now listen while I play(-ay-ay)/… my green tambourine”?
No. Stop.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The song “Green Tambourine” is so vicariously embarrassing, and the band being called The Lemon Pipers pretty much seals the deal.
“Now listen while I play(-ay-ay)/… my green tambourine”?
No. Stop.
“Now listen while I play(-ay-ay)/… my green tambourine”?
No. Stop.
My husband is in a drag fundraiser for the local LGBTQ community center and The Trevor Project, and I’m biting my tongue while watching him try to shave his arms. Resisting offering intervention may be what ends me.
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My husband is in a drag fundraiser for the local LGBTQ community center and The Trevor Project, and I’m biting my tongue while watching him try to shave his arms. Resisting offering intervention may be what ends me.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
I am on a meeting that I’m clearly too stupid to participate in. But, luckily, I’m force-muted and everyone’s cameras are off so 🤷🏻
Precious hours of my life, slipping away.
Precious hours of my life, slipping away.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I am on a meeting that I’m clearly too stupid to participate in. But, luckily, I’m force-muted and everyone’s cameras are off so 🤷🏻
Precious hours of my life, slipping away.
Precious hours of my life, slipping away.
This is probably an inconsequential and very niche type of rage bait, but I overheard my husband watching a TikTok claiming “Peter Greenaway was Wes Anderson before Wes Anderson.”
[*inchoate sputtering*]
[*inchoate sputtering*]
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is probably an inconsequential and very niche type of rage bait, but I overheard my husband watching a TikTok claiming “Peter Greenaway was Wes Anderson before Wes Anderson.”
[*inchoate sputtering*]
[*inchoate sputtering*]
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Lynne Ramsay did the impossible, she made me want to spend less time with a dog.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Lynne Ramsay did the impossible, she made me want to spend less time with a dog.
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A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football
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happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day
“Dog on Wheels”
is playing
in the grocery store
🤯
is playing
in the grocery store
🤯
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“Dog on Wheels”
is playing
in the grocery store
🤯
is playing
in the grocery store
🤯
Watching this and am sorry to report (spoiler?) Josh O’Connor sort of spouts a fountain of drinking water into Paul Mescal’s mouth. So it’s not entirely false advertising. But.
Me, to my husband: “I read this article the other day. Well, maybe ‘article’ is straining credulity…”
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Watching this and am sorry to report (spoiler?) Josh O’Connor sort of spouts a fountain of drinking water into Paul Mescal’s mouth. So it’s not entirely false advertising. But.
My daughter and I are watching Paddington 2 (an all-time cutest movie). It’s so enchanting that one forgets Paddington isn’t “real”. And I feared I’d shattered the illusion for her when I pointed out he was played by Ben Whishaw.
But then:“You mean he’s in the suit?”
Utterly guileless sometimes 🥹
But then:“You mean he’s in the suit?”
Utterly guileless sometimes 🥹
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My daughter and I are watching Paddington 2 (an all-time cutest movie). It’s so enchanting that one forgets Paddington isn’t “real”. And I feared I’d shattered the illusion for her when I pointed out he was played by Ben Whishaw.
But then:“You mean he’s in the suit?”
Utterly guileless sometimes 🥹
But then:“You mean he’s in the suit?”
Utterly guileless sometimes 🥹
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I just got back from a walk. While I was walking through the park, a little white boy and his father flagged me down from the very other end of the park. Now to be fair, I have on my hat on, so I’m easy to spot lol. The little boy drew me this. A month ago. He has been waiting to see me again.
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I just got back from a walk. While I was walking through the park, a little white boy and his father flagged me down from the very other end of the park. Now to be fair, I have on my hat on, so I’m easy to spot lol. The little boy drew me this. A month ago. He has been waiting to see me again.