Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 4hI have just learned the word “prestidigitation” and I am beside myself. Are we serious. Have we actually put together a combo of “presto” and “fingers” that sounds like A Serious Word. Get it together, English. 010
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The total incoherence of American retail in September: 051
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Still getting used to having a car with a backup camera. Today in the school parking lot I shifted into reverse and saw a dad kiss his elementary school son on both cheeks and the forehead before giving him a bear hug, away from the gate where the teacher and other kids could see them. 000
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There is a cicada in our basement, pining away at the top of his metaphorical lungs. 120
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026My daughters and their two friends were playing at the park and some old lady came up to them, asked them if they were doing anything important, and when they said no handed them a fledgling pigeon and drove away. 130
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Oh so did they train their product by stealing the work you did without asking permission or compensating you and now they’re gonna try to replace you in the market with that thing they trained by stealing from you? Wow that must really suck. 031
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 08/06/202610yo has decided we need a family party, so she's set out snacks and made a playlist for us to dance to. The playlist: All you Fascists Bound to Lose -Resistance Revival Chorus 22 -Taylor Swift Mother Freedom -Bread Shiny -Moana The Helldivers theme song A Drop of Nelson's Blood -The Longest Johns 000
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Granta, you… you asked CLAUDE if the story was AI generated and then…told us all that you did that? And you have quoted Claude’s “conclusions“ to us directly…as though it has something important to say about this situation? I am being elaborately trolled. There is no other explanation. 060
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Heard the 10yo threaten the 13yo with a lollipop: “this would fit right into your eye hole…” 13yo: “oh my goodness they’re called SOCKETS.” Girl will go down correcting her murderer with her last breath. 151
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 29/04/202613yo, adjusting her crossbody bag on the way out the door to her bff's bday sleepover after saying goodbye forever to the guinea pig that would probably not survive the night: "I can do it with a broken heart." 140
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Sitting next to my husband on the sidelines of our daughter’s soccer game is an experience. “No, keeper, don’t throw to the middle! You want your children to sing the marseillaise?” 111
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026After some deliberation, my husband has decided that the reason the rabbit we just babysat for a week appears to have more personality than our guinea pig is the fact that he has a neck. 030
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 06/04/2026*Toni Morrison enters the chat* the cheap source of oil is white too 120
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 28/03/2026he looks innocent but I’ve already caught him casing the joint. the fence comes up past my elbow and apparently there is still no guarantee it will keep him in. 152
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Have agreed to take Marshmallow, the class rabbit, for spring break. My daughter says they should have named him Houdini instead so this is going to be interesting. 121
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026RIP the murderwave. Planned obsolescence wins this round. 020
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Supposed to be writing but watching a squirrel bury a nut. Is this squirrel dumb or do I not understand how this works? Why are we burying nuts in March? 010
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026The girls are watching some dinosaur documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman that I can hear from the other room. Morgan Freeman: some will rise… 10 y/o, with relish: some will DIE Morgan Freeman: …some will fall 10 y/o: oh. 020
Reposted by Catherine HerveyMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/03/2026"You and everyone you have ever loved being cast into the Cave of Nightmares? It’s hard to hear, but this alone could add as much as $0.25 per gallon."buff.lyWhat the Thousand-Year Blood Reign Means for Gas Prices“Death toll in Middle East surpasses 1,100 as missile strikes continue.” — The Independent Gas prices continue to surge in the US, rising 14 perce... 312941
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I was once on a bus that played the Bryan Adams song "I Do It For You" for eight hours. 231
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Pronouncement today from my 10yo daughter: this is my first whoopee cushion. It won’t be my last. 020
Reposted by Catherine HerveyProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/20261/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵 203115217373
Reposted by Catherine HerveyMartyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026"The challenge for the Auschwitz museum now is finding a way to preserve the human feeling of testimony when the question of how it felt can no longer be answered firsthand." For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an important story from @cfhervey.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/saving-his...thebulwark.comSaving History for the Future at Auschwitz-BirkenauHow the memorial and museum plans to continue its mission of preservation after the last Holocaust survivors pass away. 16310
Reposted by Catherine HerveyJesse Doogan @jadoogan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026This is a really beautiful reflection on the way Auschwitz is preserving small items—toothbrushes, shoes, artworks—in the hopes they can tell stories when the last Holocaust survivors are gone. 073
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026My latest piece, at The Bulwark: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comSaving History for the Future at Auschwitz-BirkenauHow the memorial and museum plans to continue its mission of preservation after the last Holocaust survivors pass away. 24810
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 22/01/2026My daughter has taken to putting inspirational post-its on the bathroom mirror. I get to see this first thing every morning: 120
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 18/01/2026At a coffee shop sitting across from a first date in progress. I can't articulate how I know this but one glance at them and it's abundantly clear. 130
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 25/12/2025When I am sitting in between my parents and my in-laws and watching them have fun I often think I am the luckiest person in the world. 040
Reposted by Catherine HerveyE.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · 23/11/2025it's a long way off but inside it there are quite different things going on: 0102
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025We had out-of-town friends spend the night this weekend and only after they left did I notice my children had left something in the guest room: 161
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 06/10/20259yo, looking at posters at the movie theater: "Why would you kiss a spider woman? You can't trust them. They might just be using you for food." 011
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025The Taylor Swift song Albatross is about River Tam; change my mind 000
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I have a personal theory that men are at their absolute best when they are coaching a sports team of little girls. Just top notch masculinity right there. 030
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 23/04/2025My daughter is using my phone to write a story and when I pulled up my browser it had the google results for "2003 ford escort." Only 12 years old and already googling obscure nonsense for her fiction. *sniff* 020
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 13/04/2025The microwave has started turning on whenever you open it. I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of how it's supposed to work. 12yo calling it "the murderwave" now. 130
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The vibes at this coffee shop are interesting. Croony rat pack tunes and also a giant TV playing an aerial view of Lucerne in winter. 010
Reposted by Catherine HerveyThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/02/2025A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating owls, magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are seen here in photos from recent years.theatlantic.comSuperb Owl Sunday IXA special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating such magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are seen here in photos f... 941564
Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025My work software has introduced an AI assistant that likes to let me know when it’s taken initiative to draft things up for me. Pretty sure I’m supposed to be thrilled but my actual response is more like “Nobody asked you to do that you creepy little hobgoblin” 130
