Derwen
@derwen.bsky.social
Father and husband and cat person; percussionist, hiker, mycophile and educator.
In the Old Country I went by Pezizales Pizzicato
User #1,533,716! WOOO!
In the Old Country I went by Pezizales Pizzicato
User #1,533,716! WOOO!
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The empty dining room in my hotel. I think I’m in THE SHINING.
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The empty dining room in my hotel. I think I’m in THE SHINING.
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Hoagy Carmichael, born on November 22, 1899 in Bloomington, Indiana.
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Hoagy Carmichael, born on November 22, 1899 in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Tina Weymouth — Rob Verhorst, 1980
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Tina Weymouth — Rob Verhorst, 1980
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Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker.
The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”
The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker.
The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”
The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”
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Listen, I don’t know anything about the cartoon that I’m about to pitch except that it’s set in Brooklyn in 1974 & at one point an animated celery stalk says, “Yo! Zucchini! Glad to see you back in the neighborhood,” & Zucchini replies, in a sultry voice, “I go by Courgette now.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Listen, I don’t know anything about the cartoon that I’m about to pitch except that it’s set in Brooklyn in 1974 & at one point an animated celery stalk says, “Yo! Zucchini! Glad to see you back in the neighborhood,” & Zucchini replies, in a sultry voice, “I go by Courgette now.”
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
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looooool
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
looooool
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A dog ran into the yard! Charlie and the dog played and ran around for a while! The dog ran away! It started to rain! Charlie and I went inside! A busy day! Naps for everyone!
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A dog ran into the yard! Charlie and the dog played and ran around for a while! The dog ran away! It started to rain! Charlie and I went inside! A busy day! Naps for everyone!
One of the first things I discovered about the world was that I seemed shut out of the best part of it.
——Gerald Murnane
——Gerald Murnane
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
One of the first things I discovered about the world was that I seemed shut out of the best part of it.
——Gerald Murnane
——Gerald Murnane
Cue the Mission: Impossible theme.
Adding this to 2025 Lessons Learned: groundhogs can climb chain link fences. My wife calls them “land otters”. 🌿
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Cue the Mission: Impossible theme.
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There are two wolves inside you
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There are two wolves inside you
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up there with the best album opener / best opening lyrics of all time.
this is such a winter album for me. perfection.
this is such a winter album for me. perfection.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
up there with the best album opener / best opening lyrics of all time.
this is such a winter album for me. perfection.
this is such a winter album for me. perfection.
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Ah, cool it with the U-word. You might scare off the Labour party leadership.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Ah, cool it with the U-word. You might scare off the Labour party leadership.
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
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If I botched the “one small step for a man” line like Neil armstrong I wouldve stayed up there
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If I botched the “one small step for a man” line like Neil armstrong I wouldve stayed up there
"Treatment".
Massachusetts's state legislature is considering a bill to ban shock therapy treatment for autistic students at the Judge Rotenberg Center, a residential school in Canton.
www.wcvb.com/article/mass...
www.wcvb.com/article/mass...
Mass. Legislature considers bill to ban painful shocks as treatment
Speaker after speaker opposed the use of painful electric shocks on people when testifying Tuesday before the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabil...
www.wcvb.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Treatment".
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
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You mean coitus?
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
You mean coitus?
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Wow a podcast just about shittalking the books i hate? Perfect
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Wow a podcast just about shittalking the books i hate? Perfect
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type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
You ever have a shitty hardcover book you hollow out to make an improvised hiding place? If not, and you'd like to try, I recommend Sapiens. No thief will ever pick it up.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
You ever have a shitty hardcover book you hollow out to make an improvised hiding place? If not, and you'd like to try, I recommend Sapiens. No thief will ever pick it up.
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Whimsy mothefujker?! DO YOU SPEAK IT?
#WhismyWednesday
#WhismyWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Whimsy mothefujker?! DO YOU SPEAK IT?
#WhismyWednesday
#WhismyWednesday
Note to Harvard students: if the new instructor gives you a new syllabus, RAISE HELL.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Note to Harvard students: if the new instructor gives you a new syllabus, RAISE HELL.
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No, *I* have the cutest cat.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
No, *I* have the cutest cat.
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I recently saw this amazing ichneumon wasp - she is a parasitoid, so the long ovipositor allows her to reach insects hiding deep in the wood
Even cooler, their ovipositors are apparently reinforced with metals!
📍 Oxford, UK
Even cooler, their ovipositors are apparently reinforced with metals!
📍 Oxford, UK
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I recently saw this amazing ichneumon wasp - she is a parasitoid, so the long ovipositor allows her to reach insects hiding deep in the wood
Even cooler, their ovipositors are apparently reinforced with metals!
📍 Oxford, UK
Even cooler, their ovipositors are apparently reinforced with metals!
📍 Oxford, UK