Cavycore

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I want to be friends with your guinea pig.

It has come to my attention that to find fellow poets, I need to put more about that in my profile.

But I do want to be friends with your guinea pig.

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

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Taking care of myself includes fighting duels in Elden Ring as “Mrs Dalloway.” She’s bringing the flowers herself 💐

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Artist Duke Riley uses discarded bottles of engine coolant, bleach and Gatorade to bend the rules of an artform that’s become illegal to practice using the customary whalebone. A piece of his recently acquired by the New Bedford Whaling Museum depicts a grim scene of industrial pollution.

Not your grandfather’s scrimshaw: Duke Riley engraves pollution scenes on ocean plasticwww.wbur.org Artist Duke Riley uses discarded bottles of engine coolant, bleach and Gatorade to bend the rules of an artform that’s become illegal to practice using the customary whalebone. A piece of his recently...

Me: Relate a well-documented narrative as to how I've tried to manage my chronic pain. Them: But have you tried yoga? [...or aromatherapy, positive thinking, meditation...] 💐

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Imagine the world if we’d learned from Covid. If we’d… Let long covid disability teach us to abandon the grind for slow living? Embraced WFH and reduced travel to protect the climate? Made public health proactive instead of reactive? Recognized clean air as an urgent human right? We still can.

Mrs. Dalloway playlist, as promised! Still taking recommendations of any genre. It doesn't have to be such an obvious connection. Vibes are fine, although it would be cool if you'd explain the connection when you post just for curiosity's sake. #MrsD 💐 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Dalloway Summeryoutube.com For the group reading of Mrs. Dalloway on Bluesky!

I've fallen in love with this book - I realized it on day 11 - when I read, of all things, the description of Septimus's experience in Regent's Park. I'm not sure what that says about me...but here we are. I also read ahead because of "the battered woman." 💐

I'm making a Mrs. Dalloway playlist, if you'd like to contribute. I've done this with each book we've read on bluesky so far. Any song that directly ties to the book in some way OR gives you that Mrs. D vibe is welcome. All genres welcome! 💐

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ME (emailing Captain Ahab): I hope this email finds you whale

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Dick Briefer, 1945

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Happy hundredth anniversary of this news headline from The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio. (July 9, 1924.)

5,000 Miles, 8 Countries: The Path to the U.S. Through One Family’s Eyes Gift Article. Paywall removed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

5,000 Miles, 8 Countries: The Path to the U.S. Through One Family’s Eyeswww.nytimes.com With three children and a dog, the Aguilar Ortega family trekked through the jungle, hopped freight trains and toured Times Square. Significant challenges still lay ahead.

The Long Read is worth your time. www.theguardian.com/news/article...

‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40swww.theguardian.com The long read: By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her

Once again, capitalism interferes with my reading. Annoying popups but I did like this: www.inc.com/jessica-stil...

Why You Shouldn't Feel Like a Slacker for Reading at Workwww.inc.com Why do useless meetings seem more productive than reading, wonders marketer Seth Godin.

So why does Peter need a word alone with the "handsome" Elizabeth who "can't be more than eighteen." I'm hoping he is being annoying and trying to get info on her mother instead of pursuing the daughter as a love interest. 💐

Speaking of feeling old... I forgot the 💐 in my zeal to post.

It's difficult for me to believe Peter's perception of the world when he constantly refers to Clarissa as "wooden," "cold", and "hard." Can he be thinking of the same woman who took a rapturous stroll in London to buy flowers?

Have we talked about Woolf's use of punctuation yet? I may have missed this in the beginning. She's masterful - the descriptions and her comma usage within create a staccato within the flow of the sentences. I want to look this up but also don't want let lit crit tell me what to think! 💐

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none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time

I've felt overwhelmed by this text since day one. It's humbling to feel "green" and uncertain about my understanding, but I'm realizing that's part of the learning process. I'm so grateful for this supportive community, which has made me feel less self-conscious about my struggles. 💐 (1/2)

This is helpful for me because I never know if I am over- or under-describing.

It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Chicagoans, get away from the downtown events - you know the ones I mean. www.saichicago.org/calendar/nur...

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It's not just one or two people so I'm sharing this again. Please, think of disabled people. It's Disability Awareness Month so time to think about others. There is no need to post a whole string of emojis. It doesn't make your post stand out - it just makes me less likely to read and share it.

I understand the need for emojis to flag MA posts to the appropriate feeds but there are quite a few of you just spamming them. Next time you type a whole line of emojis, read them all out loud, full name, one by one. Now imagine having to use a screen reader and coming across that mess.

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I mean, come ON 🐋

A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal monster, Don;—but that would be too long a story.

I know it isn't GR but check out this cover! 🚀

A Spanish edition of The Crying of Lot 49

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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed. www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

It’s time to break up the Department of Homeland Security | CNNwww.cnn.com David Perry says the bigotry under investigation at the Border Patrol, the overreach at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the terrible conditions in border facilities show an DHS, it’s time to d...

Is it because I study birds and once wanted to be an ornithologist that I am so focused on all the bird imagery and description in here? It also struck me that the narration makes me feel like I am a bird, flitting from mind to mind - bird's eye view and then SWOOP into one character's mind. 💐

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I'm sorry, but this is what I imagined 💐

With apologies to Woolf but I could not help myself. 💐