Reposted by Alyssa BarringerADHD Creature @adhd-preacher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The children yearn for the mimes 47313
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerDan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This person’s in for a surprise when they read the Aeneid 193
Reposted by Alyssa Barringersmols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026i do think his intentions for Susan in that book were very poorly executed, but i'm so tired of seeing adults say "C.S. LEWIS SENT SUSAN TO HELL!!1!" 1) no he didn't; she didn't die yet in-universe 2) Lewis' theology of hell is far far different than evangelical protestant theologies of hell 1161
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026On the one hand, The Silver Chair smacks of gender in a way even my 6 year old-at-the-time clocked when we read it aloud. On the other hand, PUDDLEGLUM 130
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerMartyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Read @philipchristman.bsky.social's beautiful sendoff to the truly great Annie Dillard, "a Transcendentalist to whom the 20th century had happened." sojo.net/articles/opi...sojo.netThe Pilgrimage of Annie DillardThe celebrated author, who passed away this week, had two great themes: seeing and suffering. 0147
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I imprinted on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when I was 16. I still think it’s marvelous. I’m also quite attached to For the Time Being, as well as a weird little book of found poems called Mornings Like This. Annie Dillard was the best. 140
Reposted by Alyssa Barringerthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134291139
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yesterday Pharmacist administering vaccine: some people are a little tired the next day, so take it easy Today Me: <wakes from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed in my bed into a giant insect> 061
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I had zero trouble getting a COVID booster from Costco in Bloomingdale, IL today, if you’re local and looking to get this done. Mine was Pfizer. Also, I think it hurt less than previous boosters? I don’t know why this would be. 031
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend 241895601
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 07/09/2026therapy will not fix you. self-medication will not fix you. working out, eating healthy and finding good hobbies will not fix you. the only thing that will fix you (a single man in possession of a good fortune) is a wife. 091
Reposted by Alyssa Barringerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I just. Like. On the one hand. Building on extant stories is a grand tradition. The entirety of Greek tragedy, let's tell old stories in new ways. Best plays ever written. The problem is not retelling old stories. It's lacking the imagination to find old stories with more meat on the bone. 1/3 114411
Reposted by Alyssa Barringer(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"maybe Scrooge was right" Scrooge wasn't real! He was invented specifically for the purpose of being wrong! 344489881
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerPhil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly was like the one person who makes me question my “wealth inevitably corrupts character” beliefs. I mean, mostly, but she really puts the question mark in “inevitably” 2267
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19/08/2026If ICE treating your wife this way is an outrage today, then ICE treating somebody else's loved one this way was an outrage yesterday, is an outrage today, and will be an outrage tomorrow. Simple lesson. The question is whether Trump voters burned by the system will actually learn it.👇 04513
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I could swap for fluorescent rage (cover a broad range at once, be harsh, make constant annoying sounds in the background) or splurge for LED (more focused and sustainable, but higher up front investment) 291
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Considering switching out my incandescent rage for the sake of energy efficiency and to avoid burning out too frequently. 180
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I will rise* to this occasion *slowly, though, because of dysautonomia 040
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026There are a limited number of people to whom I can say “I got treated in that meeting like Charlie Sheen reaching out to the feds” and be intelligible 030
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerSarah 💫 @harrietvane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Babe? You okay? You haven’t even put on your The Body Keeps The Score press on nails. 2263
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Occidens is a decent case for nominative determinism 030
Reposted by Alyssa Barringersmols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026it's both gratifying & annoying when I feel better the day after skipping activities in order to Strictly Rest. On the one hand: resting works, I was right to rest! on the other: the thing I was going to participate is now over, & who knows how I'll feel in a few days when it's time for another. 182
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I was charged with making my kid’s 11th birthday cake shaped like a threatening bok choy. 080
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerMarissa Franks Burt @mburtwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Let’s be done normalizing scrupulosity & its distorted theology. Tozer was an absent father of 7 who spent hours in private devos. He donated his salary sporadically & irresponsibly & refused to buy “materialistic” things like…a car, leaving his wife & kids to deal w/fallout.🧵 3144
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The local immediate care is basically my Cheers. I walk in and the staff already know me and say “ALYSSA you must have missed us in the three days since you were last here!” This is very kind, but I would prefer a Third Space that isn’t a medical waiting room. 090
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I will admit that my first thought when I got an ear infection yesterday was “… but … but tomorrow is new @themountaingoats.bsky.social day, I can’t not hear on this of all days” 180
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I do not understand why Rockapella was not commissioned to write every kid show theme song from 1993 to the present day. 020
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My kids have lately enjoyed the Netflix update of Carmen Sandiego. My main criticism is that they should have made use of the 90’s PBS show theme song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqf...youtube.comRockapella: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" (1993) - RARE!YouTube video by Nostalmania 351
Reposted by Alyssa Barringerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026do not hire the mountain goats guy to lead your guided meditation unless you have very particular and frankly weird meditative goals 1443125
Reposted by Alyssa Barringerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026there’s, like, a lot of yall who think I’m talking about one specific guy here and it’s like no. this is a general problem. the guy you’re thinking of, that is just one guy among many guys 251384197
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Producers take notice, the public* is clamoring for excellent pro shots of more Broadway plays. I want Great Comet, personally. *me 010
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Nevermind, what I actually want is to see the Hadestown pro shot again. 021
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I suspect what I actually want is a robust adaptation of Claire North’s Songs of Penelope trilogy. 000
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If I get bored during battle scenes, am averse to gore, and hate very loud sounds, but I do enjoy (some) Odyssey interpretations and appreciate practical effects, is it worth it to make a plan to see this in theaters? 1000
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerA Self-Respecting Fish @fishhat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Now I really want to see A Muppets Odyssey. Follows Kermysseus for 20 years, past the one-eyed, big-nosed Polygonzmus, the heckling twin terrors of Statlercylla and Charybdorf, the siren call of Electic Mayhem and more as he heads home to Pignelope. 1142076
Reposted by Alyssa Barringersmols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026sanding down my younger siblings' childhood, smh! 162
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Filling out intake forms for a new-to-me doctor and am impressed with the breadth of preferred language options. I look forward to time travel opportunities at this check up. 041
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Why are food videos questions and conditions now? “Did you know that if you just [follow this recipe] then you get [dish]?” Yes, that’s … that’s just cooking. That’s what cooking is. 030
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerThraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A weird worldbuilding quirk is that if you make up a thing and give it a name that just describes it in Latin, it sounds sci-fi, but if you give it a name that just describes it in Anglo-Saxon, it sounds fantasy. 171
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerAustin Gilkeson @osutein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Glad The Toast is back up, but also it’s depressing how many websites just vanish forever, taking all the wonderful writing and other art with them into the ether. 3152
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerAnise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Well, I suppose this is a form of classical reception. @antiquitymedia.bsky.social 1204
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerMarissa Franks Burt @mburtwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Doug Wilson was interviewed by NPR this week about his goals for a theocracy. Visit my Substack to find embedded videos & links to Doug’s teaching, the theology that undergirds it, & the impact it has. Please share widely. Together, we can keep exposing Wilson & free people up. #dougwilson #christ 023
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerKurchak: The Night Stalker @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 06/07/2026My undiagnosed childhood in the 80s and 90s was hard. But if I look at the alternatives and I look at my own history, I know that I wasn't missing out on anything that would have helped me. In fact, I think it would have broken me completely. 1332
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerKurchak: The Night Stalker @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I think late diagnosed autistic people who genuinely believe that early diagnosis is a privilege should do the math, look up what the treatments and attitudes toward autism were like in their youth, and explain exactly what they believe they missed out on and what their outcome would have been. 97415
Reposted by Alyssa Barringerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/07/2026marked safe from having any idea of what people are talking about 181416182
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Our coffee table was made from a Liberty ship. It carried Allied tanks across the ocean in WWII, and now it’s usually covered in library books. 050
Reposted by Alyssa BarringerKara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 27/06/2026'Behold I have created the Panopticon, as described in the book “The Panopticon is Bad" by Michel Foucault' 2307
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I ended up wearing a podcast shirt instead. And came home with an additional shirt my 8 year old manifested for me when she said today that it would be better if I had a shirt with a possum on it. 171
Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Me: hmm what shirt should I wear to the Mountain Goats show @bladebarringer.com: a normal thing to wear to a concert is a shirt from another band Me: what other band, I only listen to @themountaingoats.bsky.social 090
