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i believe the lady at the vintage store who always remembers me and shows me things she thinks i’d like is my friend, much the way you believe the stripper who calls you by name is yours
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
i believe the lady at the vintage store who always remembers me and shows me things she thinks i’d like is my friend, much the way you believe the stripper who calls you by name is yours
do you ever just think about Broadcast News (1987)
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
do you ever just think about Broadcast News (1987)
well you all know what to get me now
There is a new book on Sulpicia, "one of the very few female poets of ancient Rome, to the foreground of public awareness by acknowledging her as the author of part of Corpus Tibullianum 3." NB: women in antiquity did write—and there is more than just Sappho, y'all! academic.oup.com/book/61623?l...
Sulpicia: A Woman’s Voice from Ancient Rome
Abstract. This volume aims to bring the voice of Sulpicia, one of the very few female poets of ancient Rome, to the foreground of public awareness by ackno
academic.oup.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
well you all know what to get me now
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Portrait of Edith Schiele, 1918
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25977
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25977
December 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Portrait of Edith Schiele, 1918
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25977
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25977
this has been my (youngest of many!!) experience both with bipolar and hEDS. everyone has a little bit! I somehow have the most, with both… :)
(The flip side is when you get a diagnosis- EDS in my case- and everyone starts reading about it because they’re curious and half the family goes “ah shit”)
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
this has been my (youngest of many!!) experience both with bipolar and hEDS. everyone has a little bit! I somehow have the most, with both… :)
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Sunday plans:
Ann with Cat, Margaret Clarke, c.1924.
Ann with Cat, Margaret Clarke, c.1924.
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sunday plans:
Ann with Cat, Margaret Clarke, c.1924.
Ann with Cat, Margaret Clarke, c.1924.
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#OnThisDay - 7 December - in 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated at Formia. Cassius Dio (47.8.4) also notes that Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, spat upon Cicero’s decapitated head and stuck her hairpins into his tongue, in vengeance for his speeches against her husband. #AncientHistory 🏺
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated at Formia. Cassius Dio (47.8.4) also notes that Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, spat upon Cicero’s decapitated head and stuck her hairpins into his tongue, in vengeance for his speeches against her husband. #AncientHistory 🏺
I have to go to a party tonight and my heart is in menswear but all of my on-hand tie + button down combinations is appropriate for a chic EVENING in the West Village. All daytime.
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I have to go to a party tonight and my heart is in menswear but all of my on-hand tie + button down combinations is appropriate for a chic EVENING in the West Village. All daytime.
Frank Sinatra is such a fucking coward for cutting the cocaine verse from “I Get A Kick” — but his rendition is dull as dishwater, generally, and misses the point.
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Frank Sinatra is such a fucking coward for cutting the cocaine verse from “I Get A Kick” — but his rendition is dull as dishwater, generally, and misses the point.
Just now, unsought, a memory: I twirled in the school parking lot, six years old. My arms wide, my cheeks split with a smile. I offered my best friend’s mother Shakespeare: “parting is such sweet sorrow!” Now, too, I remember her charmed surprise, some confusion as well. That’s all. The mind!
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Just now, unsought, a memory: I twirled in the school parking lot, six years old. My arms wide, my cheeks split with a smile. I offered my best friend’s mother Shakespeare: “parting is such sweet sorrow!” Now, too, I remember her charmed surprise, some confusion as well. That’s all. The mind!
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Well I can't let Grover down
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Well I can't let Grover down
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how do you communicate to god that you've already been taught humility
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
how do you communicate to god that you've already been taught humility
FUCK THIS. If the officers didn’t do any of the things they are supposed to do to determine whether force was necessary, they cannot be justified in using force! Absent A, no legitimate B. Not sure why the AG can’t figure that out! I feel deeply for the kid’s family. An unending horror.
N.Y.P.D. Officers Won’t Be Charged in Fatal Shooting of Queens Man
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
FUCK THIS. If the officers didn’t do any of the things they are supposed to do to determine whether force was necessary, they cannot be justified in using force! Absent A, no legitimate B. Not sure why the AG can’t figure that out! I feel deeply for the kid’s family. An unending horror.
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
GOD I love being a regular. Just me and the folks at the tea and spice shop, having a jolly BITCH about the TSA for thirty minutes.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
GOD I love being a regular. Just me and the folks at the tea and spice shop, having a jolly BITCH about the TSA for thirty minutes.
How many bubble tea places do the NYU student need, seriously can we not have just one fucking coffee shop that is quiet and inexpensive and not trying to be anything other than what it actually is, where the grown-ups who don’t have access to the massive library a block away can get some work done?
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
How many bubble tea places do the NYU student need, seriously can we not have just one fucking coffee shop that is quiet and inexpensive and not trying to be anything other than what it actually is, where the grown-ups who don’t have access to the massive library a block away can get some work done?
Should I get a medical degree just to stay on top of my various disabilities? Tempting!
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Should I get a medical degree just to stay on top of my various disabilities? Tempting!
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Once again, ILL remains the purest representation of scholarly community. I use it so much I often write little notes back and forth with the librarians when I’ve borrowed a lot from their library. It’s the closest you can get to those old penpal schemes and I love it.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Once again, ILL remains the purest representation of scholarly community. I use it so much I often write little notes back and forth with the librarians when I’ve borrowed a lot from their library. It’s the closest you can get to those old penpal schemes and I love it.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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Self Portrait, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24982
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24982
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Self Portrait, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24982
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24982
we’ve been doing a pirates marathon — has anyone written anything on jack sparrow and odysseus (his boat as pen/ithaca??)
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
we’ve been doing a pirates marathon — has anyone written anything on jack sparrow and odysseus (his boat as pen/ithaca??)
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Children’s books in particular should be weird and challenging and inappropriate. All the best ones are.
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Children’s books in particular should be weird and challenging and inappropriate. All the best ones are.
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Every time I see someone describe ChatGPT as a first-resort search engine it makes me angry all over again at the destruction of Google search. It speaks to the carnage of our digital information infrastructure more so than being a point in favor of the LLM.
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Every time I see someone describe ChatGPT as a first-resort search engine it makes me angry all over again at the destruction of Google search. It speaks to the carnage of our digital information infrastructure more so than being a point in favor of the LLM.
who is coming to naples with me in july 2027 to watch the americas cup !!!!
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
who is coming to naples with me in july 2027 to watch the americas cup !!!!
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat