From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

congrats to all the liberals calling the attacks on trans people in the U.S. "tragic but inconsequential since there aren't all that many of them" for finally finding out what they'd have done in 1930s germany

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.

There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Take back your attention.

IDK who needs to hear this, but you're allowed to like one part of a band's discography and not the other. You don't have to know the whole history of a band to be a fan. You can just simply LIKE the music. You don't need to know names of every album or song or band member. You can just LIKE music.

There is one OBGYN in my district of 33k people. In contrast, there are a half dozen veterinarians.

damn life was so much simpler when I knew everything

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

My new least favorite word in posts about games that I’m reading on reddit is “under-hated”, as in, that game is not hated enough. Insane worthless conversation to be adding to.

Every year Thanksgiving devolves into a huge argument between the family members that think Tom Bombadil is a superfluous tangent and those shouting he’s essential LOTR worldbuilding

It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.

Even after all these years, nothing makes me feel happy and peaceful like playing Pokemon. Every so often I need to re-learn that it's necessary to make time to play for fun! These happy moments make getting through the hard stuff worth it.

Just so we’re clear -
Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.

Welcome to Blue Sky.