Killian

@greenmtgirl

writer * indexer * auntie * library worker * human-shaped cat * phd in hebrew bible * gender/queer * vermonter in nh * union member * she/they

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Killian@greenmtgirl· 26d

We are very similar!

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jul 12

You: "I swear so much but autocorrect keeps changing my f-bombs to 'duck.'" Me: Types an "F," autocorrect suggests "Fuck" apropos of nothing. We are not the same.

Screenshot of texts reading "Leaving the coop now!" and "here now!"

There's an F in the typing bubble, with autocorrect, below, showing "F," "For," and "Fuck" as options.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jul 3

So if you want to argue, argue with Mr. Hughes. America will be. Happy Interdependence Day.

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jul 2

The book has a home. (Also that's my very own book cart. She's so beautiful. 🥹)

Huge book, several inches wide and over two feet tall, upright on a marigold-colored book cart in front of roller racks of elephant-size books.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jun 28

Pip sends his love.

Close-up of my orange shorthair, Pip, lying upside-down and squinting happily. He has a little pink mushroom slice of a nose.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jun 19

From the article:

He thought about a painting that had haunted him ever since he was a young professor at Dartmouth, where the library featured a mural by the Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco. It showed a group of academics rendered as skeletons in their graduation robes, clutching books, their backs turned to a burning world, as one of them delivered a baby skeleton holding a new diploma. “A lot of academia is content just twiddling around on esoteric problems and coddling each other from the truth,” Farid said. He had spent his career trying not to be that skeleton. He believed it was his responsibility to turn and face the fire.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jun 19

Finally remembered to take a picture of the image he describes haunting him.

Part of Orozco's fresco showing a skeleton with white hair being delivered of an infant skeleton wearing a mortarboard. The doctor or midwife is also a skeleton and is wearing black academic robes and a mortarboard. Behind them are an array of skeletons in academic and other dress, with what appear to be flames around them. In the foreground are glass specimen domes containing tiny skeletons in mortarboards, similar to the one being born.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jun 2

In "Trending." Of course I read this as "Nigel Fart."

Killian@greenmtgirl· May 25

I just got to handle the boots, sidearm, and photo album of a Union officer. I'm sort of blasé about the First Folio, but this gave me chills. Happy Memorial Day to everyone who gave their life in the fight for liberation.

Photo of a very old revolver on grey paper. The revolver has a brown wooden grip with a screw in it.

Photo of a young man - presumably the soldier - in a silly moustache and long coat standing next to a chair.

Photo of very worn black boots with a low heel.

Reproduction of a famous painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence at the back of a book.

Killian@greenmtgirl· May 20

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap

Screenshot of a scene from Bob's Burgers: The Tatas, Linda and Gail's high school band, on stage at their high school talent show.

Killian@greenmtgirl· May 17

Despite a sprained knee and a case of bronchitis, we went out for a very slow walk yesterday. It was so good to see the wild oats and new leaves, but also this baby painted turt (which we moved off the road).

Photo of dirt road with an itty-bitty little dark-grey turtle on it. One of the stones in the road is as big as its shell.

Picture of same turtle, this time with my fat pink finger next to it to demonstrate just how itty-bitty it is.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Apr 28

This completely charmed me.

The Tuesday poem.

A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

— “A Noiseless, Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Apr 21

Black-and-white photo of Sibelius, seated in a carved wooden chair with one hand against his heart, under his jacket lapel. He's wearing a thick woolen suit and frowning seriously. He has a long handlebar moustache and very unkempt dark hair.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Apr 19

At least it’ll melt fast.

yard with a laundry line and part of a raised bed and trampoline with a dusting of snow over it all.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Apr 15

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Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

The vice president, who is Catholic, took issue with Pope Leo XIV’s statement that disciples of Christ are “never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

Killian@greenmtgirl· Apr 6

Why is my bag so heavy? Why is my bag clinking?? Oh, right. #EasterVigil

A Tibetan Buddhist meditation bell on a desk surface. The bell is brass with a leather loop handle and a black tassel hanging from the clapper.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Apr 5

Happy birthday to another Harrower of Hell. #HorizonZeroDawn #HolySaturday

Aloy, a light-skinned redhaired woman, from Horizon Zero Dawn as seen from a fish-eye camera. She looks anxious, and is wearing blue face paint and leather clothes.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Apr 4

"The Place Where We Are Right"
From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.
The place where we are right
Is hard and trampled
Like a yard.
But doubts and loves
Dig up the world
Like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
Where the ruined
House once stood.
-- Yehuda Amichai (translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell)

Killian@greenmtgirl· Mar 17

The church building is the oldest Episcopal church building in continual use, and was built in the 1770s. It's the most Puritan Episcopal church I've ever been in, that's for sure. (Aside from this stained glass window.) 2/

Close-up of Jesus' lamp, which resembles a wireless radio from the early 20th century. The holes in the lantern resemble crescent and gibbous moons, but there are also some stars of David.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Mar 14

Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.

-Octavia E. Butler

Killian@greenmtgirl· Feb 27

From Britannica:

"the common name given to a group of reptiles,"

Killian@greenmtgirl· Feb 24

Movie marquee of Bread and Tulips (Italian: Pane e Tulipani"). An older couple in fancy clothes - the woman with flowers in her hair - embrace in a dance pose, smiling widely. Their noses almost touch.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jan 26

Hello from northern New England.

Two people well-insulated against the cold, their outerwear covered by snow. The shorter person (on the left) is wearing glasses which are slightly fogged. They are both smiling.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jan 18

This bishop is one reason I feel I need to go back to church. www.npr.org/2026/01/18/n...

Hirschfeld said he does feel compassion for those [ICE] agents.

"It's definitely our Christian responsibility to extend love even to our enemies," he said, and to love all God's children, even those who may be "swept up in a maelstrom of hatred and fear and power that is not godly."

Hirschfeld added, "I pray for everyone's conversion of heart."

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jan 10

Seen on Tumblr

Screenshot of a Tumblr post by infectiouspiss reading: "when god closes a door you reach your little paws under it and go mrrwwaaaooow mmreeaaow"

Killian@greenmtgirl· Jan 9

presented without comment

an upside-down mug in an office dish drying rack which reads "ever since i was a small child i knew i wanted to be indoors on the computer."

Killian@greenmtgirl· Dec 29

Graph of confidence (y axis) and expertise (x axis) showing "you are here" high on confidence, low on expertise.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Dec 29

Switching from "In the Garden of Beasts" (our return trip audiobook) to the news is so uncomfortable, because the Germans' (and international community's) wishful thinking is so like our own. And also because of headlines like this.

Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem

Killian@greenmtgirl· Dec 7

We tracked a moose for about half a mile on our walk today.

Color photo of a large even-toed ungulate print in pretty shallow snow, next to my leg and boot for comparison. The moose's foot is as big as the front 3/4 of my booted foot.

Killian@greenmtgirl· Nov 20