AriLynn

@arilynn.bsky.social

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Lifelong Democrat. Private investigator & book fanatic. Happily married to @thecuckoo.bsky.social. Sorry, but I don’t reply to DMs unless I know you.

Tuxedo cat licking his lips
The Problem With Early Warnings by Charles Rafferty: People don’t like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they’ll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d’oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won’t use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
Picture of the front cover of the remarkable memoir, It’s Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice.
Screenshot showing how to block an account that has blocked you
Screenshot of one of Amsred’s malicious lists.
Picture of book Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg
Book: Second Hand by Michael Zadoorian
Profile of a troll whose BlueSky handle is @becklo.com (from her suspended website hawking her photography and graphic merch). Becky puts people on stupid and incorrect moderation lists, which is how she got appropriately added to someone’s moderation list for “Turds.”
Picture of page in the book The Savage God by A. Alvarez with 2 quotes: 1). “Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.” ~ Henry James 2). “Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.” ~ Paul Valéry ~ English translation is “God made everything from nothing. But the nothingness pierces through.”
Picture of book titled Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hughes’ Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Book: All Of Us by Raymond Carver
Book: The Little Sleep. Author: Paul Tremblay.
Book: The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers
Book: The Most Boring Book Ever Written by Rudolf Kerkhoven and Danial Pitts.
Book: Valediction by Robert B. Parker
Book: Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe. Author: Fannie Flagg.
Book: Tragedy + Time by Adam Cayton-Holland
Photo of book: No Pressure, No Diamonds by Teri A. Dillion