Tabby
@tightrope-tabby.bsky.social
Recovering snob, snark enthusiast, once and future writer. In my offline life, I run a small farm and listen to multiple audiobooks a week. She/her
Counterpoint: what did Jessica Winter do to deserve this New Yorker headline?
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Counterpoint: what did Jessica Winter do to deserve this New Yorker headline?
Speak for yourself, @newyorker.com! Some of us are getting dragged wide-eyed.
March 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Speak for yourself, @newyorker.com! Some of us are getting dragged wide-eyed.
Sometimes I am running or milling about doing farm chores listening to an audiobook and have to make audible moans that would probably sound inappropriate to any onlooker because the prose/plot/foreshadowing is so good that I experience a little petit mal. Anyway, that’s happening with this one.
March 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Sometimes I am running or milling about doing farm chores listening to an audiobook and have to make audible moans that would probably sound inappropriate to any onlooker because the prose/plot/foreshadowing is so good that I experience a little petit mal. Anyway, that’s happening with this one.
“We aren’t beholden to the makers of the ends of the earth. And while I don’t think the brutality, or even the sorrow, is reparable, it seems the least we can do is to try something else, for example, being beholden to each other.”
February 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“We aren’t beholden to the makers of the ends of the earth. And while I don’t think the brutality, or even the sorrow, is reparable, it seems the least we can do is to try something else, for example, being beholden to each other.”
I started this account with the attitude of “fuck it, if felons can dismantle every little piece of progress we’ve clawed out of this country, I can write poetry and fiction.” Life is short, fascism is marching forward! Today I’m sharing my stupid little poems.
January 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I started this account with the attitude of “fuck it, if felons can dismantle every little piece of progress we’ve clawed out of this country, I can write poetry and fiction.” Life is short, fascism is marching forward! Today I’m sharing my stupid little poems.
Delayed at MIA, stuck on the plane, unsure whether we’ll make a connecting flight home, so I’m taking a moment to share a little more whimsy from Mexico City. It’s been a week and it’s gonna be a year, and I’ll take any whimsy as it comes.
January 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Delayed at MIA, stuck on the plane, unsure whether we’ll make a connecting flight home, so I’m taking a moment to share a little more whimsy from Mexico City. It’s been a week and it’s gonna be a year, and I’ll take any whimsy as it comes.
Indigenous refugee activists in Mexico have been occupying this government building, the National Institute for Indigenous Peoples for four years, demanding housing and the documentation they need to work, gain access to services, and live with dignity.
January 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Indigenous refugee activists in Mexico have been occupying this government building, the National Institute for Indigenous Peoples for four years, demanding housing and the documentation they need to work, gain access to services, and live with dignity.
Spotted in Mexico City. My Spanish is lacking, but I think it translates roughly to something like, “the time that you spend on social media, arguing, demanding(?), and commenting … others spend in their lives, producing, creating, and advancing.”
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Spotted in Mexico City. My Spanish is lacking, but I think it translates roughly to something like, “the time that you spend on social media, arguing, demanding(?), and commenting … others spend in their lives, producing, creating, and advancing.”
RIP my broken brain. 🤯
December 28, 2024 at 9:52 PM
RIP my broken brain. 🤯
Absolutely gutting/devastating/crawl-into-a-ditch humor here
December 21, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Absolutely gutting/devastating/crawl-into-a-ditch humor here
How it started —> how it’s going
December 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
How it started —> how it’s going
Saw the “Spring is Here” in the caption of the 1941 Time Cover and ransacked the internet like a raccoon in a trash bin looking for this connection.
December 12, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Saw the “Spring is Here” in the caption of the 1941 Time Cover and ransacked the internet like a raccoon in a trash bin looking for this connection.
Nothing disconcerting or disjointed about the magazine stand at Target today.
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Nothing disconcerting or disjointed about the magazine stand at Target today.
When you are part way through an audiobook and you have to stop because the prose is just too precise, just too delicious. You either have to commit to the constant pause/constant rewind or face the fact that you must go buy the book immediately.
November 19, 2024 at 1:10 AM
When you are part way through an audiobook and you have to stop because the prose is just too precise, just too delicious. You either have to commit to the constant pause/constant rewind or face the fact that you must go buy the book immediately.