Caryn Gootkin
caryng.bsky.social
Caryn Gootkin
@caryng.bsky.social
SA-based book lover, justice seeker, puzzle doer
I’d you’re in Cape Town, book tickets for Faustus in Africa. It’s exceptional. Brilliant. A rare treat.
March 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that.

The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.

What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.
February 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Started Squid Games 2. Not sure I can go through with it. The gratuitous violence…
January 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Mud is his solution. Ok then
Taylor Swift donates $10 million to help with the wildfires while the guy worth $416 Billion donates some crappy, unwarranted advice??

The #GOPBillionaireBoysClub really sucks.
January 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s over 30deg but she still wants to sleep on my pillow. She’s lucky she’s so cute!
December 26, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Seems people don’t understand what Person of the Year means. It’s not a value judgement, it means the person most in the news. Which he could easily have been. Maybe it’s time they clarify?
December 16, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Just completed this magnificent (ie hellishly difficult) puzzle. Can’t imagine getting dressed like this every day. Grateful for 2024 - and also that I’m not a royal.
December 15, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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the vase is sick of your bullshit
December 14, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Anti-vaxx disinfo is awful, but I think it’s also important to emphasize: Autistics are not boogiemen! Our existence isn’t a tragedy! This moral panic about an “epidemic” is undoing years of advocacy work to destigmatize & educate about autism. #Autistic
December 8, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Looking for podcast recommendations for general interest easy to listen to podcasts. Please 🙏🏼
December 4, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Disappointed to discover there are creeps on here that slide into your DMs when you follow them. Just like that other place.
November 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Dear new followers and followees, esp the male ones. Let’s just follow each other in public without sliding creepily into each other’s DMs, ok?
November 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM
I'm so over receiving emails to confirm I've unsubscribed from the mailing list I have just unsubscribed from because I didn't want to get any more emails from them. FFS
November 22, 2024 at 7:24 AM
I really loved this book, Peter. Thank you for writing it.
Allow me to present for your reading pleasure, my new book, ‘Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars.’ Let me know what you make of it…
November 21, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Who else was putting off watering their garden and is now overjoyed that Mother Nature took care of it??
November 20, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Cape Town
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening (if you are one of my dogs)
November 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Seriously relieved to be South African right now. Yes, We’ve got huge issues, but our constitution is solid and we are not ruled by an unpredictable right wing autocrat with a penchant for self-tan. Really feel for those in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
November 20, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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All of this.
November 19, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Wow
I read in The Times that X/Twitter is shedding users at a rate of 14% a month — on account of too many trolls, I assume. Meanwhile BlueSky, the Times says, has been growing by 1 million a day.
November 19, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I didn’t realise stubbing your toe was still a thing until the pain hit. Then the blood. Have no clue what happened. But eish!
November 18, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Meet Snoopy, who thinks she’s human so gets to sleep on the pillow.
November 16, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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I feel like we made it to the Underground Railroad 😩
November 14, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Todays Wordle is NASTY (not literally)
November 14, 2024 at 11:40 AM