Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026everyone knows the most important thing about a military officer is if he has a beard which is why Grant so famously was a worse general than McClellan 1551746
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895463547
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.NPR @npr.org · 08/04/2026The abortion pill mifepristone must undergo a safety review by the FDA, the judge said. Louisiana's case seeking to ban its use through telemedicine will proceed after that review. n.pr/47Rga7Mn.prTelehealth abortion will remain available for now, after a federal judge's rulingThe abortion pill mifepristone must undergo a safety review by the FDA, the judge said. Louisiana's case seeking to ban its use through telemedicine will proceed after that review. 1133290
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 06/04/2026He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. 👀🪖 030
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Matilda came out when I was 8, a Brit relative gave it to me in the classic Quentin Blake hardcover. For the next 2 years it was my favorite book ever. Finally watched the '96 Danny Devito movie. Retro fun and seasoned actors truly earning their keep. But also, Moby Dick! 🐋media.tenor.coma man with tape on his forehead is asking if he is in the familyALT: a man with tape on his forehead is asking if he is in the family 110
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I forgot about the OG disruptor Minderbinder 🪖media.tenor.coma can of nestle milo sits on a table next to a glassALT: a can of nestle milo sits on a table next to a glass 260
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Vera Nabokov sounds really interesting. The whole cliché "unlovable disposable ugly daughter" thing (let alone Aunt Maud and the dead first wife) in Pale Fire was a definite sign of a f*ckboi's genius rassled to market by someone else 🥱🦋 news.cornell.edu/stories/2006...news.cornell.eduVladimir and Vèra Nabokov had 'mystifying' relationship, Schiff says | Cornell ChronicleA Cornell student, arriving at Vladimir Nabokov's house in the 1950s, saw a fire blazing in the backyard. Suddenly the professor's wife ran out of the house and extracted pages of a manuscript from th... 131
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Always glad about seagull literature, but when it's actually a singing cicada? The circle of life. thenabokovian.org/sites/defaul... 🦋thenabokovian.orgAll private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both co-editors. 110
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The seraph with his six flamingo wings, And Flemish hells with porcupines and things? 🦋 110
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 03/04/2026How to locate in blackness, with a gasp, Terra the Fair, an orbicle of jasp. How to keep sane in spiral types of space. ...Again one spirals from the tuber's eye.🥔 🦋 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...nytimes.comAn Adorable Stowaway Is Aboard NASA’s Artemis II Mission to the Moon 000
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"You wouldn't believe it. Yossarian," ... "but this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety." 💯🐰🐣🪖media.tenor.coma man wearing sunglasses and a leopard print scarf says " just ask "ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a leopard print scarf says " just ask " 000
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 01/04/2026Court filing shows that CFPB leadership has filed a RIF plan to reduce agency staff from 1174 to 576. I hate all these monsters so much www.courtlistener.com/docket/69821...courtlistener.comMotion Filed – #01208836172, Att. #1 in National Treasury Employees Union v. Russell Vought (D.C. Cir., 25-5091) – CourtListener.comMOTION [2166449] to modify stay, to remand record, to hold case in abeyance filed by CFPB and Russell T. Vought (Service Date: 03/31/2026 by CM/ECF NDA) Length Certification: 3,486 words. [25-5091] (J... 1278
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 01/04/2026new wye progression of scarabs 🥰🪲, academic foolery, and fellow salad haters! Foreword friends. 🦋media.tenor.coma cartoon of lisa simpson sitting on a couch in front of a picture of a sailboatALT: a cartoon of lisa simpson sitting on a couch in front of a picture of a sailboat 100
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 01/04/2026time to play some twin doubles ping pong with my first time through this '25 group read. #bsbookclub 🦋 000
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Oh so fun. Taylor Mac, Whitman in the Woods 🌿 www.pbs.org/show/taylor-...pbs.orgTaylor Mac: Whitman in the WoodsTaylor Mac, ALL ARTS artist in residence, performs his favorite poems by Walt Whitman. 010
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 24/03/2026O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you, Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.🌿 100
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Now to find the final poem online - it's missing in the non-1855 editions? 🌿 000
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Child came forth, third-month: Walty also a pisces? 🌿 100
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.NPR @npr.org · 21/03/2026A group of New Jersey friends loved the dance club scene, but not the late nights. So they created their own monthly dance event where the party starts in the early evening. n.pr/4swsTFin.prParty vibes plus an early bedtime? This dance club doesn't sacrifice sleepA group of New Jersey friends loved the dance club scene, but not the late nights. So they created their own monthly dance event where the party starts in the early evening. 642644
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Song of the Answerer: weird-singer! it me. 🌿 010
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Faces, funny. Women mainly mothers of many, among lists of animals and careers. Fated. 🌿 000
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Sara Habein @sarahabein.bsky.social · 16/02/2026🌿Wikipedia: "One of the most influential poets in American literature" Whitman: Gotta make sure my list of body parts includes "man-balls." FOR POSTERITY. 🌿 2162
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Towards the end, heaven as an original bodily symmetry and perfection of health, an origin state, with mention of the womb. Simplistic yin/yang balance state. Am I over the optimism? Prob not. But BSBC could use some non-dude months. 🌿 010
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Musically, but also earthy... I kinda hope he returns to fart talk sometime 😁🌿 000
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 14/03/2026All so far are evoking the repetitions of childhood Episcopal liturgy, especially during Lent aka Spring/Almost Easter/Not Dead Yet. 🌿 000
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Andy Karl-Son of Wolfman @andykarlson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Okay, I've exorcised my guilt from bailing on The Preface, and am hopping into Song of Myself before the entire month passes me by. So here's the first of the Lewis C Daniel illustrations from my edition - seems certainly a portrait of Whitman, inspired by the steel engraving of the 1855 edition. 🌿 2161
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 14/03/2026A month late, caught up to day 13 of Walt. SoM, Occupations, Time, Sleepers. 🎑🌿 140
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?" Sir, this is an Arby's 🌿 050
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/01/2026This is so unhinged 14360592059
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I have to say I relate to Stubb's "I am a coward, and I sing to keep my spirits up," but I also must sympathize with Starbuck: "Mr. Stubb, perhaps you should 'pursue' the 'white whale' of 'shutting the fuck up'" 🐳 0212
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Expel the Sedition Caucus @oldsourpuss.bsky.social · 24/01/2026🐋 Way behind but this passage in Chapter 75 reminded me of being inside the Calatrava transit hub. 1131
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 22/01/2026omg @quinnanya.me @kariebookish.bsky.social @documentalope.bsky.social 161
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I've said this elsewhere, but I was completely horrified when I learned that the US government has never kept track of the number of people it's detained/deported who turn out to be citizens. 26515
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 17/01/2026🐋 Piasa bird/ Underwater Panther reference = 🤯 I guess he can keep giving management analysis to harpooneer boat positioning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa 100
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 17/01/2026🐋 Rare menopausal woman side-eye: "Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. " 000
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 17/01/2026🐋 🥩"Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d'ye hear?" Ok Chad-Stubb 🙄 000
Lukewarm mess. @thursdaylady.bsky.social · 17/01/2026🐋 Going all McKinsey consultant here, Herman. "Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary. ...To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil." 000
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Dr. G @coreygoergen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Ishmael’s YouTube channel: “…so that’s how you run your rope through the boat safely. Er, that’s how you do it as safely as possible. No one on a whaleboat could be said to be truly safe. But, if you think about it, is anybody, anywhere, truly safe? Remember to like, review, and subscribe!” 🐋🐋🐋 1141
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Bishop says Climate Collapse not Climate Change @bishopjoey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Unleash the Kraken! #AMonthOfDick 🐋 "It is Guido’s picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model of such a strange creature as that?" Guido's Andromeda here: www.artchive.com/artwork/andr... (Click 'view image in full screen' for best results.)artchive.comAndromeda by Guido Reni – Artchive 061
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.che! @s-che.bsky.social · 10/01/2026🐋day 9 / ch 32-34. you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is this big literary metaphor for death, and you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is just an uwu little man telling you fun whale facts. both of these are reductive. 192
Reposted by Lukewarm mess.Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 12/01/2026Here's a good view of the whale chart by Lt. Maury mentioned in the text of Moby Dick collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commo... 🐋collections.leventhalmap.org 381
