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
I’d you’re in Cape Town, book tickets for Faustus in Africa. It’s exceptional. Brilliant. A rare treat.
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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.
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
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.
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.
Started Squid Games 2. Not sure I can go through with it. The gratuitous violence…
January 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Started Squid Games 2. Not sure I can go through with it. The gratuitous violence…
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.
The #GOPBillionaireBoysClub really sucks.
January 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Mud is his solution. Ok then
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
It’s over 30deg but she still wants to sleep on my pillow. She’s lucky she’s so cute!
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
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?
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
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.
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the vase is sick of your bullshit
December 14, 2024 at 6:31 PM
the vase is sick of your bullshit
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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
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
Looking for podcast recommendations for general interest easy to listen to podcasts. Please 🙏🏼
December 4, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Looking for podcast recommendations for general interest easy to listen to podcasts. Please 🙏🏼
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
Disappointed to discover there are creeps on here that slide into your DMs when you follow them. Just like that other place.
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
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?
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'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
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
I really loved this book, Peter. Thank you for writing it.
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
Who else was putting off watering their garden and is now overjoyed that Mother Nature took care of it??
Cape Town
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening (if you are one of my dogs)
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening (if you are one of my dogs)
November 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Cape Town
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening (if you are one of my dogs)
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening (if you are one of my dogs)
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
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.
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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
Wow
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
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!
Meet Snoopy, who thinks she’s human so gets to sleep on the pillow.
November 16, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Meet Snoopy, who thinks she’s human so gets to sleep on the pillow.
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I feel like we made it to the Underground Railroad 😩
November 14, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I feel like we made it to the Underground Railroad 😩
Todays Wordle is NASTY (not literally)
November 14, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Todays Wordle is NASTY (not literally)