lushpedanticism.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Merlin bruh make up your mind

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

There it is. The clam before the storm.

submitted 43 days ago • 690 comments

@maureenstanton.bsky.social on "the evocative power of the smallest grains of storytelling, those tiny sensory details," and how they allow memoir readers to "not only see and hear people and actions, but ... viscerally feel the moods and emotions of the story." brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/t...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.

submitted 69 days ago • 148 comments

This post goes out to all the party people I was staring at for five minutes while I was dissociating in the cafe today. I hope you feel seen now…because you definitely weren’t seen before.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

submitted 72 days ago • 196 comments

Tbh somebody could have sent me classified war plans in a group chat too and they’d be totally safe because I always just wait for everyone to stop texting and go “sounds good 👍 “ without reading any of it because group chats suck.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Enough with the pollen already, trees.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Can we just skip to the part where the bad guys eat each other already?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

submitted 94 days ago • 1179 comments

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

submitted 96 days ago • 1116 comments

THEM: you look tired ME: I am tired THEM: oh right because of the… ME: the horrors yeah THEM: right right, that’s right

submitted 96 days ago • 17 comments

I want my writing to have so damn much atmosphere that things actually burn up in it.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Me thinking of what to post: Okayyyyyy nothing super depressing or existentially terrifying. Nothing that could get me fired. Also make it quirky. And original. Nothing old, either. Bangers only. [Screen turns black and locks]

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Never fails. I come home after teaching night class. Dog is nowhere to be found. I unwind for half an hour. Before going to bed I open the fridge and what ho—the dog appears, like, Oh hey, just came down to check on you, so what, uh, what do you think’s happening up in that cheese drawer there

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

[scrolling] Where’s the dopamine? [scrolling] Where is it? [scrolling aggressively] Where

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

My recent short story "Internal Monologue of a Creative Writing Professor," from Kings River Life Magazine, gets on shoutout on LITTLE BIG CRIME: "Witty, suspenseful, and satisfying."—@roblopresti.bsky.social Blog: lbcrimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/inte... Story: kingsriverlife.com/12/18/intern...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research @curechildcancer.bsky.social oncodaily.com/insight/222760 #Cancer #ChildhoodCancer #CUREChildhoodCancer #Health #OncoDaily #Oncology #PediatricCancerResearch #Medicine

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

submitted 130 days ago • 306 comments

I would love to get a new tattoo but it would defer me from donating platelets for three months again and sadly people need platelets more than I need a new tattoo. Also please donate platelets 🙏 🎗️

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

submitted 132 days ago • 360 comments

Once, when I was throwing up on a boat, someone nudged me and said it was because of crystals in my ear. Later, when I told the story and the words “crystals in my ear” left my mouth I thought, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever said. Anyway damn turns out there really are ear crystals—canaliths.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Know Your Rights— "All people in the U.S., regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The Know Your Rights Red Cards were created to help people assert their rights and defend themselves against constitutional violation" www.redcardorders.com

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

narcs existed then, and narcs exist now

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

Someone teach me how to not doomscroll

submitted 132 days ago • 3 comments

Wow

submitted 132 days ago • 879 comments

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

submitted 132 days ago • 87 comments

#BuckleUp youtube.com/shorts/PVzEc...

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

The people who say “go big or go home” have profoundly underestimated my desire to go home.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Natalie Shapero (from The Adroit Journal)

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

BEING INVITED TO NOTHING: I’m ever so lonely and nobody cares about me at all BEING INVITED TO ONE THING: omg it never ends with these people

submitted 150 days ago • 57 comments

every tech company in 2025

submitted 154 days ago • 75 comments

Hey for real, let’s take care of one another and make some good art this year 🤜 💥 🤛

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

I wish you a year of mischief. I wish you a year of thought. I wish you a year of uncalculated fun. I wish you a year of constructive disobedience. I wish you a year of deliberate choices. May you be halfway to heaven before the Devil knows you’re dead.

submitted 155 days ago • 27 comments

brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/b...

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

New Year’s conundrum: Last year we performed all the superstitious rituals like not buying anything on NYD and having no dirty laundry in the house and eating all those stupid grapes on NYE, and 2024 was still freaking awful. So was all that for nothing…or did it prevent something even worse?

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

I came here to do two things: pray and quote Natalie Imbruglia, and I’m all out of faith

submitted 703 days ago • 15 comments

Teachers, what grade would you have assigned Ralphie’s BB gun essay? I’m not convinced it deserved that C+ (or that fantasy A+).

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know if it's helpful to refer to Elon as "the richest CEO ever to live," but it does put things like "the richest CEO ever to live singlehandedly killed funding for pediatric cancer research" into perspective.

submitted 166 days ago • 8 comments

My favorite movie as a kid was Ghostbusters, which starts out by lampooning academia and ends by vilifying the EPA, which is why I feel like it’s weird that I now work in academia and revere the EPA.

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments