@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

I love @alexanderchee.bsky.social's Bibliomancy assignment — such a great way to encourage exploration of the library, to help students appreciate the value of curiosity and magic of serendipity. I cld see this being ⭐ for first-year composition classes.

querent.substack.com/p/bibliomanc...

This thread is incredible.

taking a more hardline belief in this with each passing day

I just saw someone holding an open can of Monster Energy Drink at 8:30am, and I feel very strongly that that beverage contains Night Energy. It’s only for mornings if you’ve been up all night and you are still carrying the darkness with you.

Photo from my collection, the back reads “Fuzzy. Isn’t she beautiful? 1942.” 🥹

having an emotional support coke zero

Me (crying): Please...I just need to message my coworkers

Microsoft Teams Developers: No you don't. You want a Bunch of Bullshit that also changes week-to-week for some reason

nathan fielder (narrating): to understand what it’s like to be in a plane crash, i needed to experience one myself. but i would have to defeat the god of death to return to the world of the living. so in a studio warehouse, i recreated the shadow realm of duat and the twelve gates of the underworld,

i would be a great therapist i'd just be telling people "it is what it is" and "you gotta lock in" and "yeah it do be like that" and all my patients would become so normal

when I’m at the Coke freestyle machine that’s the real me

Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

Asked a friend how it's going and they responded "bad but I'm used to it" devastating

Eating a bowl of soup at the club

Being one of the last people to leave dying Twitter while also trying to get used to adopting Bluesky makes me feel like one of those feral children having to adjust to living in human society for the first time

Around 2005 I wrote a small item about Osama bin Laden’s socialite niece and was required to write “Mr. Bin Laden could not be reached for comment.”