George Wallace

@wallacegeo.bsky.social

I am used to political leaders being substantially younger than I am*, but I don't know yet how I feel about the next Mayor of New York being slightly younger than my youngest child.

* We've a surfeit of political leaders older than I am.

Horned Beef Cache

@glimmerstomp.bsky.social

Polymaths of the ancient world practicing medicine were like

PHYSICK: "Thy complexion bespeaks a surfeit of Melancholy, the influence of Venus. Imbibe ye this concoction of Sulfur, Salt, and Mercury, and abstain ye from all Water"

PATIENT: "That all sounds reasonable and not at all insane, sure"

Sue Burnett

@suzyburn.bsky.social

There appears to be a surfeit of shits online, today. I don’t want to make a bad day worse by being here.