Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 20hI have whatever kind of autism it is where you study human interaction as though it is a scientific process, and then you just Do that as confidently as you can, and most of the time it will dazzle people sufficiently that they do not probe much deeper 060
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 20hI realise this is unbearable of me, and I am sorry, but: goddamn, I interview well. just met my newest scientist and his lab manager for the first time and if I say so myself I knocked it clean out of the park 160
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 21hmeanwhile Isaac and I refer to canned drinks exclusively as "sippos". "cold sippos" if they are chilled. pants are "pampt", which is my fault. actually I fear most of our little absurdities are my fault 140
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 21hmy parents used to call the layby/emergency pullover area of a motorway a "layabout" because of a malapropism my dad used one time, is the one I remember 160
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 23hfor solo play she has a squeaky mouse toy that looks unnervingly realistic without glasses on, and a jingly mouse toy in trans flag colours (his name is Trans Rights Mouse) 120
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 23hcurrently she is obsessed with a very long ribbon toy, to the point of spurning any other toys we try to use with her! she likes to hide under the bed and swat at it (bed game), and to chase it when it leaves her field of vision (walking game) 120
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 23hRoxy knows that TV Stand Drawer Opening means Frolic Time, extremely reliably 110
Reposted by WaverlyGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/10/2026On this Indigenous People's Day, join me in helping the Sogorea Te Land Trust buy back colonized land and return it to the stewardship of America's native peoples. sogoreate-landtrust.orgsogoreate-landtrust.orgHomepage - The Sogorea Te Land Trust 0132109
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026the fraughtness of the subjects' relationships was cool, the way they wove together was cool, but the petri dish that allowed them to grow in such strange shapes went largely unexamined. anyway this has been movies with waverly 000
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026followed this up with the Lance Oppenheim documentary SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, which takes a very different angle on its weird subject, following four residents closely as their lives get weird and difficult. it was beautifully made but I took less from it than from THE BUBBLE. 110
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I read something, tragically I forget where, that compared SF to Paris — beautiful but occupied cities (current and former) 010
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026one of the things i really value about our building is that it used to be senior living, so we have a lot of retirees, and they are all so passionate about HOA stuff and neighbourhood stuff and improving where they are. the villages makes me so sad to think about, genuinely. 020
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026for your money, for your political insulation and cluelessness, for your ostensible need for more land and water and space to fuel endless development (and the displacement of your neighbours, and the demolition of the very place you wanted to live in) 120
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026i watched the Valerie Blankenbyl documentary THE BUBBLE (about the Villages retirement community in Florida) last night and now i am thinking about the horror of working hard all your life, feeling entitled to respite in retirement, and then being extracted from relentlessly by predatory capitalists 120
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026my cat is under the bed, though to be fair this is her time of day for an under the bed nap session 000
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yeah, I'm sitting in san francisco right now and hearing the blue angels doing whatever the fuck they're doing, loudly enough to shake the pictures on our walls. just deranged 060
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026even Isaac, a known boat/plane enthusiast, conscientiously objects to the fleet week boat tours and air shows, due to their nature and purpose 0230
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026you can fuck a sailor any time! you don’t have to invite the whole fucking military apparatus into town for a family fun recruitment exercise about it 1280
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026god call me a hater but I fucking loathe fleet week. the plane I just heard roaring overhead is the last sound someone heard before they died horribly and I am furious at being asked to get excited for it, sorry 1744
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ability to throw ass competently is a genuinely underrated life skill, and i say this as someone who lacks it utterly 010
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026this animal disports herself by flopping joyously onto my shoes the instant i get home from work 190
Reposted by Waverlys. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/10/2026I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.anildash.comWe are going to kill “unalive” - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 5564203
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i would write a poem about roxy except that roxy herself is a poem 160
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026every time i come back home after an outing, roxy bounds up to the door and starts rubbing her little body against my legs, and call me old-fashioned but i think this is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened on this earth 1110
Reposted by Waverlytoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 193115193132
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(a service i gather some people pay to experience rather than avoid) 010
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026true story, i paid money so i wouldn't have to see anime teens telling me to "gently caress" 180
Reposted by WaverlyIsaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Still so proud to be on this incredible shortlist. The winner will be announced on Ursula's birthday in just a couple of weeks! 0433
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i swear i am trying to talk less politics online but unfortunately i believe overpoweringly that americans don't understand their own immigration policies, and as someone on the sharp end of several, i'm afraid i cannot shut up 050
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i knew a lawsuit of this kind was coming the minute i read that godawful new policy and i am happy to see it get its start 120
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026(that is an endorsement. though make sure your emotional state has its arms and legs safely within the carriage before you read) 240
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i vaguely recaptured this joy when i lost my mind in 2017 and learned how to make a twine game from zero 090
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i took a HTML coding class when i was like 10 years old and made a very janky free website explaining how to make a slipper. this stuff used to be fun, i promise 2415
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026normal and cool how my cortisol spiked the instant i realised the supreme court was doing its thing again! 040
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this one is a sort of found/collage/whatever poem put together from my friend's tumblr where she collects the posts people make on phone number lookup sites whoiscallingme.tumblr.com 040
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026(it is about the cat I cohabited with for a week in a LA airbnb, whose name I never learned, but who was my friend) 110
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026unfortunately i think this is one of my favourite things i've ever written 171
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i wrote a whole collection of poetry, back in 2019, about too-hot days and falling unwisely in love and feeling insane in the digital panopticon. and then i just put it in my back pocket and didn't think about it again? like, sure, it needs some editing, but more pertinently why am i like this 160
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i have no interest in a book that tries to act as a perfect mirror. at least warp the glass a little bit, christ 040
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026this is a really good read on the theme of representation, and i am not just saying that because the author recommends my husband's book. 1100
Reposted by Waverlyviolet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I believe my revolutionary literary theory, "books are play pretend," remains the gold standard in literary analysis. 2638
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026literally just go and scream your woes at the ocean like a normal person, this isn't difficult 1100
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026increasingly i think the appeal of a groundhog-day-style time loop story for me is the idea that it's possible to get out of the loop. can you imagine? 040
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026hey do you ever feel like you are stuck on a kind of cultural wheel of samsara whereby the same conversations keep happening on an endless loop, the same ideas ebbing and flowing in our shared consciousness without any hope of resolution or progress 160