@paularead
Perpetual newbie. PhD Creative Writing / Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol @bristol_writing @the-independent.com @undark.org @LitroMagazine @huffpost.com @panoramajournal.bsky.social paulareadwrites.com
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Right? The idgaf version of Paul Newman.
Paul Newman with a goatee, holding beer bottles and wearing an orange T-shirt that says Get Really Stoned, Drink Wet Cement.
I'll see your young Harrison with an older Paul Newman, also in shorty shorts.
Aw, the 70s. Bless.
I never would have thought that the Mission Accomplished moment could be outdone for hubris and insult.
Clearly, I have been very naive.
The barrel always has another bottom.
Oh, i was kidding. They look ridiculous.
No wait, they look fetch. ;)
But gosh, don't they look cool?!
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
A Marine veteran and firefighter injured while protesting war at the Capitol is a stark reminder that dissent often meets force before it meets dialogue. Democracies prove their strength not by silencing protest, but by protecting the right to challenge power without fear.
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2026)
How I arrived on Bluesky
It me these days, every day.
The absolute mindnumbing idiocy of humanities professors admitting to the public that their work can be done by an LLM, at a time when facists and neolibs are happily defunding us and declaring our work useless… it‘s not that you‘re just bad at your job you‘re handing them everything they need.
Working class white folks haven't voted for democrats since 1964.
I wonder what could've happened in 1964 that made working class whites folks abandon the party.
It's a mystery.
Museum sign showing a roaring sabretooth cat. A small child is included for size comparison, and looks like he's about to boop it.
DO NOT BOOP THE KITTY
aka when you Doge'd all the competency out of your system
And they spent months and years spinning those lies before they embarked on that particular illegal war.
This has all been done like a lazy afterthought.
The problem for white people is that sometimes, the white person who we are keeping our low-key colonizing racism a secret from is...
...ourselves.
And that's a big problem.
Tell you what, considering the absolute lawn-desert wasteland this garden was when we moved in a few years ago, and after planting for pollinators and insects...seeing a ladybug noodling around like it lived here all winter made me so happy.
What five items would you place in a time capsule?
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened, carefully, with precautions, in the year 3026.
A bright red ladybug on moss, with some scattered brown pine needles and last year's leaves because a messy garden is a healthy garden
First ladybug of the season
Dawn just about to break under blue skies, over the Dents du Midi peaks of the Alps, with trees in the foreground
Yesterday's dawn over the Dents du Midi, Alps.
How is anyone still surprised by this? It’s the Trump way: all deals and relationships must be grossly unequal. Anything else indicates money left on the table.
Much surprise. So shock.
Is it just me or does this sound pretty delightful?
They're public officials elected to represent constituents and act in public.
Who cares what they worry about privately?! Weep on your own time, fellas. Do your jobs or go away.
Who cares what they think privately?
They are elected officials tasked with doing public work. Idgaf about what they murmur to themselves in the toilet stall.
