Reposted by Quangle-WangleGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026dressage is stupid why are we letting horses dance we should teach them to do accounting and paperwork so we can be dancing 17569109
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Probably no one else cares, but the opening scene of "Waitress" where Sara Bareilles is singing "flour, sugar, butter" and stirring those ingredients repeatedly in a bowl with a spoon bears no resemblance to the actual making of pie crust. 061
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Handwavily almost every classic book written by a man between 1930 and 1970. Truly a bleak era. 040
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026WTF are multiple paragraphs about this guy's academic achievements doing in the middle of this article? How is this remotely relevant? Creeps and rapists rob women of their personhood, and are then treated to little essays about their "redeeming" qualities. In the media, in courtrooms. No. 110
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Also serious pie baker: raspberry-rhubarb, blueberry-nectarine, key lime made with coconut milk and coconut meringue, and chocolate bourbon pecan. Can't have Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie and apple pie though. Tarte tatin. 021
Reposted by Quangle-WangleJulie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Post a photo you took this summer. No description.📸🤳 (except alt text) 1141
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Writing isn't thought transcription. If you think AI is writing *for* you, it isn't. Writing is a challenge to thought. Putting something into words is a process that enforces reflection and the scrutiny of ideas. Except the self-assessment for your performance review. Have at it, Chat-GPT. 010
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I refuse to blame penguins for anything other than gobbling up sardine populations and shoving each other over edges. (Seriously though ticks on penguins? Sounds fictional.) 000
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Very um specific community college class. I wonder how many people will enroll. I guess it's Portland after all. 240
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The wonders of the ocean perpetually surprise me but I definitely did not know there was a squid out there luring in its victims with sawtoothed Bakewell tarts. 110
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I'm definitely a do not finish person (there are many books, life is short) but the real point to be made is that if you didn't finish a sizeable chunk of the book, don't show up to book club. Unless it's really a wine club. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/b...nytimes.comShould You Be Ashamed to Put Down a Book You Don’t Enjoy? (Gift Article)Is it shameful, or sensible, to put down a book you don’t enjoy? Three little letters, and social media, have turbocharged a longstanding debate. 100
Reposted by Quangle-WanglePassing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 07/08/202630 giant crows take over Portland for LAIKA's 'Wildwood' art trail share.google/GW5c7JgAxicl...share.google30 giant crows take over Portland for LAIKA's 'Wildwood' art trailA flock of giant, artist-designed crows is landing across Portland in celebration of LAIKA's upcoming animated film “Wildwood.”The Wildwood "Follow the Crows" A 072
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Huh, women have been expected to "gravitate" towards books about men's concerns (presumed to be "stuff men do") for at least a century but that's about half the history of the novel. The big male and female novelists of the 19th century wrote about men AND women's novels often outsold men's. 100
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I don't remember this being an issue but for a while my then-five-year-old daughter was inconsolable about the heat death of the universe. I'm not sure how she heard about it. Some sadistic children's book? 100
Reposted by Quangle-WangleAaron Hedge @aaronhedge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The Spokesman is doing incredible reporting on this story. Follow them for critical info. @alexdugganreports.bsky.social www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...spokesman.com'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into cityA wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood. 3244122
Reposted by Quangle-WangleAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/catg... 692236364
Reposted by Quangle-Wangleʤan~ʤɑn~ʤɔn @languagedoodad.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I decided to write the only Odyssey think piece worth readingjhnwnstd.github.ioThe Casting Problem in The Odyssey (2026) – John WinsteadThe Odyssey cannot decide what its characters should look like. 3317
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I keep paperbacks of Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven around so I can hand them out to people. Also Charlotte Yonge novels if I can find them. I think only two have been printed (by Virago) in the last century. And I've bought multiple translations of Kristin Lavransdatter. 152
Reposted by Quangle-WangleCasey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 25/07/2026Pretty sure the answer is EVERYONE in Kenneth Branagh’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 1833769
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026People are also like this about college and grad school. I got sick of reading lit-crit but how would this turn you off fun reading? Do film studies people get sick of all TV and movies? 020
Reposted by Quangle-WangleEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations. 91627510
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Would love to know where the stat about 26-50% of women athletes ceasing to have periods vibes from. 000
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The original headline makes it sound like "the tourist" and "the man" are two different people, leaving one to conclude that the bison yeeted the tourist, who then landed on an unrelated third party who sustained injuries as a result. 120
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I just read that New Yorker tick article and I'm never leaving the house again. 010
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Like. . . navy blue? Wouldn't you have to pour ink into it? That would be pretty bizarre. 000
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Too alarmed by "goop kitchen" to focus on the politics. What do they serve, bowls of mayo? Green slime? 010
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Or as we say in the States, "a dog-involved incident resulted in gunfire." 011
Reposted by Quangle-WangleJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 25/05/2026"I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walked 1000 miles to fall down at your door" sounds so much more romantic than "I would walk from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Kitchener, Ontario for you" 313813
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Weird to look at all the woo-woo stuff and think Middle Ages Europe, not nineteenth-century/early 20th spiritualism, millennarianism, theosophy, 000
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Oh my gosh the opening parts in real-life Portland. I mean the war-torn hellhole that definitely doesn't have beautiful bridges and cherry trees, definitely don't come here. (Don't @ me about the problems, they're obviously significant but LOOK at the beauty.) 000
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026People who enjoy old novels should read The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg, about a Calvinist so assured of his own salvation he becomes a murderer on the strength of it. It's gripping, Gothic, and also utterly savage on this subject. 130
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026If only the Democrats in Congress weren't 80% women I'm sure they wouldn't feel so dishonored oh wait. 010
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Jellyfish viewing therapy. Dark room, walls lined with lit-up tanks of gently pulsating moon jellies (overhead would be nice), soft cushions, your choice of music--Russian choral music maybe, or Debussy's Images for piano--or utter silence. $200 an hour. 010
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This article couldn't be less clear if it tried. What does the scam look like? What does the legit update look like? What should ordinary people do? And that's the *correction* at the very top. 100
Reposted by Quangle-WangleBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/04/2026I'm old-fashioned. I want your business to have a website. Don't gimme an Instagram page and a phone number. I wanna see what services you offer and then make an appointment on a regular degular website! 621599220
Reposted by Quangle-Wangle☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026pretty sure he thinks the pope can be fired 3948
Reposted by Quangle-WangleChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12/04/2026This is wild -- JELLYFISH sleep! The reason is a good reminder why we all need consistent and restful sleep: "sleep arose early in animal evolution to help the first neurons repair themselves" www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgJellyfish sleep a lot like us—and for the same reasonsStudy adds to evidence that sleep likely evolved among ancient animals as a means of repairing neurons 58424
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I'm old enough that my mother would have needed a man's signoff to get credit or a car, but I didn't know about that till I read about it in some popular history much later. I did know that in the early 70s it was fine to refuse to rent to a divorced woman with kids, because that happened to her. 161
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Noting that nursing is no longer a "professional" degree that unlocks access to student loans, apparently. 190
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026And if it weren't, WHO CARES? Presume competence and champion meaningful participation for people of any "intelligence." 50% of people are below average and society should not be set up to punish people who are perceived as less than. The search to disqualify whole groups of people is immoral. 010
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social · 19/03/2026It's surprisingly hard to think of truly frivolous things to do with that much money. All my dumb high-culture commitments probably benefit someone, somewhere. Anyway, build hundreds of libraries and bridges etc with the kind of ornate work people used to do when artisan labor was cheap enough. 2103