The first 2 weeks of December are for warming up to the holiday spirit, and the last two weeks are for holiday stress, which is why the very best part of Christmas is the 25 minutes on the morning of December 16th when you can just drink your coffee and look at your tree like “ah this is nice”

“I have too many books”
-judgemental
-boring
-implies impulse-control issues

“The books... they have me.”
- mysterious
- occult
- implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage

#readingcommunity

Great man of history: Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian, Sage of Chelsea, instigated foundation of The London Library, born #OTD 1795.
Portrait of the Carlyles at home in Chelsea painted in 1857 by Robert Scott Tait.
Carlyle’s House Chelsea, National Trust

"There was another life I might have had, but I'm having this one." —Kazuo Ishiguro

Doing my best to turn Bluesky into an echo chamber that only talks about sexy books, bonkers TV shows, hiking, ghosts, and maybe cats.

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.

Every day there's a viral post about the torture of listening to a child/co-worker/date drone on and on about some obscure subject they're obsessed with.

Which is weird because seeing somebody desperately, fiercely sharing what they're passionate about is objectively the coolest fucking thing

@jpbrammer.bsky.social this morning on why he left X is giving me life

open.substack.com/pub/holapapi...

i admit i live in an echo chamber of leftist politics, the only exception being when i hear things said by the president, the next president, the supreme court, members of congress, people on the news, my family, or people i encounter in my daily life.

scoop from my colleagues @benmullin.bsky.social & Jess Testa: Elon Musk tried and failed to buy Substack. There are also more than 30 newsletters in politics and news bringing in at least $1 mln/year www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...