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When the main theme of the 1995 Pride & Prejudice suddenly, spontaneously gets stuck in my head… I know that it’s time to hurl myself into a full rewatch, responsibilities be damned!

12.03.2026 15:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'claude can now research like a phd student!'

bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning

12.03.2026 06:44 👍 397 🔁 69 💬 7 📌 9

never marry a man with a title. if you desire a dependent, adopt an animal— they won’t get you into nearly as much debt, and they’ll be far more devoted.

follow me for practical, broadly accessible advice!

12.03.2026 03:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

can’t wait!

12.03.2026 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

but here’s one for you: I am desperately worried for my grandmother’s snowdrops. I don’t know how they’ll survive this sudden heat!

12.03.2026 02:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

darling, you have no idea of the drafts I’ve deleted — lest I alienate my audience…

12.03.2026 02:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I want to pay someone to paint my dog, sprawled on the rug after a long day of play, in the style of the Minoan bull frescos. I think that would be a charming and clever addition to our little art collection.

12.03.2026 02:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Like is the Kremlin now the White House IT/foreign policy support line? Does Putin have his own button on Trump’s phone?

11.03.2026 18:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you think Trump calls Putin every night? Kind of like in a bedtime story way, only when the story is over and Trump says “I love you” before dozing off, Putin replies with helpful suggestions like “if you really loved me you’d start a war that would benefit me almost exclusively…”

11.03.2026 18:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

memory shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights

11.03.2026 16:47 👍 67 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 7

pretty fucking insane that I have to institute a digital gambling ban in middle school after school library

11.03.2026 15:04 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Forest with Sunlit Clearing in the Background" by Egon Schiele showcases a tranquil forest scene where the light gently filters through the trees, hinting at a clearing beyond. Schiele, known for his expressive and bold style, captures the essence of nature's serene beauty with his distinct use of earthy tones and subtle contrasts.

"Forest with Sunlit Clearing in the Background" by Egon Schiele showcases a tranquil forest scene where the light gently filters through the trees, hinting at a clearing beyond. Schiele, known for his expressive and bold style, captures the essence of nature's serene beauty with his distinct use of earthy tones and subtle contrasts.

Forest with Sunlit Clearing in the Background, 1907
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24780

11.03.2026 13:47 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

battered (by herself) woman

11.03.2026 12:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m gonna look like I got clocked. I can feel the swelling. Damnit!

11.03.2026 12:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

just smashed the door, opening inwards, into my cheekbone…

once again my students will be asking me if I’m in a fight club— sorry, kids! this here librarian is just chronically ill in a way that limits her spatial awareness and makes black-and-blue mountains out of molehills!

11.03.2026 12:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not “haha” funny but like a spoken “lol…”

11.03.2026 12:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is it just me or is there something wryly amusing about Passover starting on April fools this year?

11.03.2026 12:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

yes— and from participating, in pretty much anything. it shuts us all out, perceptibly. “why bother?”

10.03.2026 11:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

pretty much every complaint from the middle school kids boils down to damaged trust. AI is disillusioning young students.

10.03.2026 01:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the hitler youth book we have in the MS library is an excellent resource on this— I think it’s really helpful in pointing out the role/use of young adults in fascist movements, too

09.03.2026 02:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘my queen! the most beautiful girl! god is good! god is a new yorker!’ - guy on broadway to me

08.03.2026 18:15 👍 510 🔁 6 💬 14 📌 3

and no I have no plans to write one anytime soon — gay vestal virgins have been buried indefinitely due to grad school

08.03.2026 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

also worried that if I do find them, I won’t think they’re any good because my degree in latin literature, focused on erotic elegy, exposed me to so much BRILLIANT ancient literature (including the OG romance-ish novels!) that my expectations for those settings will just be too high/strange

08.03.2026 19:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

as an author, I can’t ask “why are there no good* ROMANCE novels set in ancient Rome” but I can and will ask why I don’t know they exist !!!

*modern and decently well-researched plz&thnx

08.03.2026 19:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The actual case being made here, that AI can be a kind of sounding board or conceivably a tutor, is already satisfied by working with other human beings, which in addition brings benefits AI cannot bring.

Also, I am tired of the blanket assertions AI is here "forever."

07.03.2026 19:43 👍 78 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0

I’m on allergy meds!!

08.03.2026 04:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I spent like two hours total outside / with windows open today and my skin is on fire, my throat is squeezed, my eyeballs itch, etc. I hate this!!!!!!!

08.03.2026 04:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

anyone else’s allergies just fucking insane right now?

08.03.2026 04:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

pretty frocks

08.03.2026 02:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hmm I think that’s too personal / not ideal formatting

07.03.2026 12:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0