book lover, friend of cats and owls a face for radio, a voice for mimehttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mkuazepexs2w"And from the flood of the wound a flower sprang, lilylike, more brilliant than the purples of Tyre. Then the god wept... Beauty dies; that is the source of creation." Hyacinth Louise Gluck #BookWormSat02 May 2026 08:47 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkuazepexs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mkjqsorjhc2tNow that 1051 is gone, I can say I hated Reservoir Dogs and wouldn't call it a classic film. For today's: @martian-observer.net @pombalstoat.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1052 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦28 Apr 2026 04:30 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjqsorjhc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mkcohlkngs2y"...what troubles me so dreadfully is the question, what does the spectre mean?...What is it warning against? What is the danger? Where is the danger? Some dreadful calamity will happen." The Signal-Man Charles Dickens #BookWormSat25 Apr 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkcohlkngs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mjr3c7kmh22w"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument April 19, 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson #BookWormSat18 Apr 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjr3c7kmh22whttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mje7ixpirc2lThis word...this wordle... 🤦 Wordle 1,759 3/6 ⬜🟦⬜🟦🟦 ⬜🟦⬜🟧🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 @martian-observer.net @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social It was a headscratcher.13 Apr 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mje7ixpirc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mj7hpbzg2c22"Conradin had been wont to chant his praises; tonight he asked a boon. 'Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.' The thing was not specified. As Sredni Vashtar was a god, he must be supposed to know." Sredni Vashtar Saki (H.H. Munro) #BookWormSat11 Apr 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj7hpbzg2c22https://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3minui47bwk2n"Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain There is not even solitude in the mountains But red sullen faces sneer and snarl From doors of mudcracked houses" The Waste Land T.S. Eliot #BookWormSat04 Apr 2026 08:56 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3minui47bwk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mi4be6d2jk2e"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; ...If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. ...And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks." Sonnet CXXX William Shakespeare #BookWormSat28 Mar 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi4be6d2jk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mi3sjwwsq22i@markhanson62.bsky.social This one's for you. Wordle 1,743 3/6 🟧⬜🟧⬜🟧 🟧⬜🟧🟦🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧28 Mar 2026 04:33 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi3sjwwsq22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mhkq5ung6k2l"On the quietest day there was a murmur in the forest, as though the trees were gently crying themselves to sleep, moaning a muted lullaby which turned the nights into a time of ceaseless whispering." Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac (Gerard Hopkins, tr.) #BookWormSat21 Mar 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhkq5ung6k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mhcs7ji23c2s@martian-observer.art @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1011 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦😌18 Mar 2026 05:51 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhcs7ji23c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mha53tjzks22@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1010 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪17 Mar 2026 04:28 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mha53tjzks22https://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mh5mr2kop22y@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social Watch your step, guys! Connections Puzzle #1009 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦16 Mar 2026 04:30 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh5mr2kop22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mgz4tnb2wk2m"On the sunny lawn it had not touched her, but now, with the fall of night, she was aware of it, as shadow called to shadow and the kingdom of darkness gathered power. Like a great whispering gallery, the whole house listened." The Decoy Algernon Blackwood #BookWormSat14 Mar 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgz4tnb2wk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mglt2pfwzs2e@callie99.bsky.social Have you taken #glucosamine and had vivid dreams? Like sitting in a bathtub full of blood vivid? I stopped taking it after a month because my knees were no better. My dreams are now back to normal.😌09 Mar 2026 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mglt2pfwzs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mghkreaua22n"Master said God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way..." Black Beauty Anna Sewell #BookWormSat07 Mar 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mghkreaua22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mgc45awjvk2z@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #998 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪🤦05 Mar 2026 05:51 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgc45awjvk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mg7ko4f5rk2yFear not, O players! @martian-observer.art @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #997 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪04 Mar 2026 05:33 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg7ko4f5rk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mfvvwkkqlc2z"...if I wanted to study I would leap at my master's library with my eyes closed, then tug out the book to which I was clinging and peruse it, whatever its contents." The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E. T. A. Hoffmann #BookWormSat (mischievous rogues)28 Feb 2026 09:28 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfvvwkkqlc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mfqsttg4kk27Raspberry noises😮‍💨 @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social anybody else Connections Puzzle #991 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦26 Feb 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfqsttg4kk27https://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mfjx6i7cnk2v@callie99.bsky.social Are you in New England? How's the blizzard up there? So far 15 inches here. It's blowing around, so hard to be sure.23 Feb 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjx6i7cnk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mfedpsbj6c2l"In Brueghel's Icarus: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure..." Musée des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden #BookWormSat21 Feb 2026 09:47 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfedpsbj6c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mf4ellgwv22e@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #983 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩18 Feb 2026 05:41 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf4ellgwv22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mesrnp24js2i"Let bygones be bygones: Don't call me false, who owed not to be true; I'd rather answer 'No' to fifty Johns Than answer 'Yes' to you." "No, Thank You, John" Christina Rossetti #BookWormSat for Valentine's Day14 Feb 2026 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mesrnp24js2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mesdkro6sc24@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @lillieg.bsky.social @mrlepus.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #979 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦😲14 Feb 2026 05:56 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mesdkro6sc24https://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mefuvsxk2s2n@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #974 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪09 Feb 2026 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mefuvsxk2s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3meb6jlrv7s27"If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper-- love her, love her, love her!" Great Expectations Charles Dickens #BookWormSat07 Feb 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3meb6jlrv7s27https://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3meao5rmgdc2jHaha! @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @emoneconomist.bsky.social Phrazle 163: 2/6 🟪🟪⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟪 ⬜⬜⬜ 🟪🟨⬜🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle https://solitaired.com/phrazle07 Feb 2026 05:17 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3meao5rmgdc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mdu4lwjfxk2n@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @emoneconomist.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Phrazle 153: 2/6 🟪⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟪⬜⬜🟪 ⬜🟨🟨🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle https://solitaired.com/phrazle02 Feb 2026 05:31 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdu4lwjfxk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ghobubo.bsky.social/post/3mdqeja7xn22eI don't know if anyone does kakuro, but I have to whine. Where does one go after Black Belt Kakuro? Mensa K. is on par with Absolutely Nasty 2, but Absolutely Nasty 3 is 🤯. Is Black Belt Second degree more manageable? Thank you for your patience.31 Jan 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:ivxp4ba3egob5pmhxhlcupo4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdqeja7xn22e