Helen Sonner

The best synopsis of the psychology (pathology?) of writing: "Growsing is hopeless. I shall go on, collect my guts, face fifty thousand words of forced and accumulated time. One can't tell whether there won't be a tide to catch, some beautiful morning." TH White

@drynwetice @synekura_audio The best use of AI to date

Vladimir Nabokov's opinions on various writers, culled from 'Strong Opinions'

@_XDogs Bless you.

"So I’m driving down the road this morning and the cars in front of me are driving over a black thing in the road. It’s going between their tires so I’m guessing it’s a box. It’s a kitten just sitting upright shaking like a leaf. And some asshole had spread glue on its paws and stuck it to the road. I thought maybe it walked through glue somewhere but after looking at it, that was totally spread into her paws. She was wet and freezing and literally glued to the road. And NO ONE STOPPED. 😳 What the f$&k people??? I slammed on my brakes and stopped all the traffic and put my hazards on and got out and pealed her off the road. People were honking and all pissy....really??? It’s a kitten glued to the road!! So after a goo gone bath and some food and cream we have a new kitten. Luckiest kitten in the world!"

One of them garden birds nobody really takes many photos of including me, so give me a retweet if you like the European Blackbird.

Terry Eagleton, The return of America's Puritans unherd.com/2024/11/the-re… I was of course ready to pounce because so many people completely distort the nature of Puritanism, but Terry acknowledges its radical propensities & ties them in interesting ways to the US/Europe contrast

Worth reposting

@weskrantz I know that look!

I’m bribing her into her new window seat by spraying it with catnip

@DAMendelsohnNYC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

@DAMendelsohnNYC Intentional this time, even though, for all intensive purposes, I try hard usually to be sure my own writing is not rife with usage errors.

Love this!

@JohnBrownlow All best.

I had a neighbor who never replied the same way to "Hello, Mr B. How're you today?" My favorite: "Kicking, but not high."

Congratulations @dramdarcy. I am in awe of your strength, perseverance, and commitment to justice. So happy you prevailed.