Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 15hyou learn a lot when you have a conversation with anyone about how they really feel about student loans, who deserves them (quote, unquote), who 'doesn't'. I was keenly interested to hear about who doesn't, since - apparently, that's me, the "undeserving"👋 110
Reposted by TwigsMarshall M.Div @marshman503.bsky.social · 17hJust cutting student loans for degrees you don’t like is wild behavior. Not to mention social work being one of those degrees?! And religious studies?? Idk man this feels really bad. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...newsweek.comTrump Administration Addresses Plan To Cut Student Loans For Some Degrees 051
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the cruelty of time is the passengers it kicks off the train while you were still conversant with them. you don't get to tell them how the rest of the journey progressed. you have to keep it to yourself and carry the balance, just in case. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I woke up after my post-work nap with the startling thought that my grandmother died forty-four years ago. forty-four years. 110
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026apropos of nothing was thinking about when i was an office aide in grade school and had to distribute absence lists to teachers every morning so one day I wore Super Sunnies when I made the rounds just for funsies 110
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026there is a pool of calm. you are immersed within it. the water is the perfect temperature. you are buoyant, filled with good feeling. there is nothing, no one worth getting out of the pool for. just float placidly in this sense of equilibrium. stay there as long as you need 110
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I stopped running away from the classroom in the fifth grade. I think about that sometimes when I look at these walls. the panic I used to feel in a classroom. these places are both near and far. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wouldn't go back to childhood me for anything. childhood was a joyless time and place. the only reason I do what I do now is to work to ensure others' lives are different. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I hear/see things sometimes and my face is impassive but on the inside my guts twist as if someone knifed them and hard because that's where I internalize the tough stuff. This is one of those times. 110
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026if you're going to have or take care of a kid you have got to, got to take care of your own shit so the kid doesn't have to deal with it. the kid didn't ask for that. handle it. be responsible. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026as a child I was very nearly silent. I laughed almost noiselessly. I cried the same way. I learned early to mute myself and make myself smaller. this was virtuous, even rewarded. a thought, a memory that makes my heart heavy now. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026a child is crying in the hallway. a sound that breaks my heart. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026related, someone down the hallway is whistling incessantly. 011
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I really don't care how good someone is at whistling. If I hear them doing it, what I am thinking is that they are up to no good. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026you can tell the moon is waxing because the humans are all off their faces 110
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026paraphrased a Frozen song for a kid today: "let it go, let it go, you stubbed your toe, let it go." she thought it was hilarious. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I never talk about anything that hurts me deeply. They never put that in the Little Golden Books about adulthood but it's like the number one thing 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can only do so much deep breathing before I lose it, people 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026when fishermen can't go to sea they mend nets. I'm mending nets.static.klipy.comPingu Wakes Up to His Alarm ClockAlt: Pingu Wakes Up to His Alarm Clock (and promptly ignores it) 010
Reposted by TwigsDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Converse knew *exactly* what they were doing. Now we know who they are. 2623278
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I have the door open to the office I am in today. Kids have been swarming in at random intervals squealing joyfully: "you're here! Is it my day?" before their teachers pull them back sternly into their lines. there is a pleasantness to all of this. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026one of the biggest red flags for me is when an adult comes at me screaming "the kid lied, it's all lies." 111
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There is also something really, really great about walking into a place and being waved at by people who are genuinely happy to see you. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I mean for several days I am always moving and my phone rings a lot and a specific group of persons seem to rely on me heavily to solve problems (I can't always) but at the end of the day, I generally have a sense of...usefulness and that counts for something. More than I thought it would. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the strange thing is there is a part of me that enjoys all this and that makes me wonder. about me. lol. but at least I am never bored? idk 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I literally just finished my paperwork my work is insane 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Driving home music youtu.be/IhDKHo2wapM?...youtu.beRingo Starr - PhotographYouTube video by richbuskin 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Drove to work in the sunrise listening to this. Top tier. youtu.be/2i46s52JAUE?...youtu.beAl Stewart - Year Of The Cat (HD)YouTube video by Heroes Of The 80s 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026vibestatic.klipy.comHeadbanging Kara Zor-elALT: Headbanging Kara Zor-el 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026when you grew up in a dysfunctional family there will inevitably be family members who are palpably uncomfortable if you grow beyond their locus of control and claim your own agency and truth. these people will discredit you, directly or indirectly. take it as confirmation you are coming correct 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I dreamed I wrote an essay and gave a presentation and the professor (who for some reason was also my boss) graded me at 88% with a handwritten note as to why it was only a B. I shrugged, accepted and did not read the note because the grade didn't matter to me. I knew it was "good enough". 110
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026on the upside, I bought myself a backlit keyboard for my tablet. and a Reese's cup for me. it's the little things ✨️ 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026another 12-hour day in the books. I tell myself I might be doing good *somewhere* but really, who knows 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026static.klipy.comTired Hamster Takes a NapALT: Tired Hamster Takes a Nap 010
Reposted by TwigsTwigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026defender of children until the day I god damn die. 011
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026static.klipy.comScarlet Johansson in Lost In TranslationALT: Scarlet Johansson in Lost In Translation 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026sometimes things happen and they remind me that I am not home. the feeling of mute aloneness is a sharp grief i sit with quietly for the rest of the day. 011
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I dislike holidays because they are disingenuous. Show me a holiday that is actually representative of its intent. It's all performative. 110
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026art is a voice. when the art is silenced, a terrible stillness follows. 010
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?...youtu.beGall--Peters ProjectionYouTube video by UsefulClips 010
Reposted by TwigsMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026One for the West Wing fans.theguardian.comUN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scaleTogo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland 44529111
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026a memory stored somewhere in the dark and shadowy recesses of my brain. a penmanship teacher strikes my hand and forearm repeatedly for holding the pencil "the wrong way", instilling a contrary urge to run counter to prescribed instructions for the rest of my life 220
Twigs @flighterman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I must be getting old. it's so heartening to witness something these days that isn't horrible. 010