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elle

Silent book club 📚. I love this so much

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I accidentally started a 'Silent Book Club' at my local coffee shop So, here's a funny little story about how | unintentionally created a new social group in my town.A few weeks ago, | was at my favorite coffee shop, deeply engrossed in a novel. An older gentleman approached me and asked what | was reading. We had a brief but lovely chat about books. The next week, | was there again with a different book. The same man showed up, this time with his own book. We nodded at each other, smiled, and went back to our reading. Week three: | arrive to find the man already there. He's brought a friend. They're both reading silently. | join them at their table, and we all read in comfortable silence for an hour.Fast forward to yesterday. | walk into the coffee shop, and there are TWELVE people scattered around, all silently reading books. The barista grins at me and says, "Your club is getting pretty popular!"Apparently, word had spread about the "Silent Book Club" that meets every Wednesday at 4 PM. People just show up, read whatever they want, and occasionally chat during coffee refill breaks.I've accidentally created the most introvert-friendly book club ever, and I'm happy about it.Has anyone else ever started something unintentionally that took on a life of its own?
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David Lohr

@ElleGray
When I was in high school I unknowingly did a thing that landed me in a mental hospital. Five months later on my college campus throngs were doing the same thing I did that took 3 months away from my senior year and summer. Streaking of all things.
#1973 college craze

VeruskaSchafer

@ElleGray Thank you. You brought back fond memories of when I used to find time to read books that brought lightness and enchantment to my soul. It has never been so necessary to reacquire this habit.

elle

when the crushing weight of expectations start to show on you, like physically

Very cute orange cat but in this pose his head and ears appear flat and shmooshed
ccrebolder

@ElleGray I can't focus on the cute kitty because all the books have their spines facing the wall like they did something bad and needed a time out

elle

“women like us fall into two categories: dragons and fools. you must make sure they think of you as a dragon”

Maggie Smith

Young Maggie Smith with her hair up, dressed formally, looking both bemused and serious, somehow
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Christal

@ElleGray
I love and be both. Sometimes the Dragon and sometimes the fools.

Midwest Bob

@ElleGray Great actress with a great history. She will be missed.

elle

when you can't decide if you want flowers or muppets in your garden, plant this dahlia

Gorgeous, huge dahlia with long drooping petals in yellow, orange, red ombre. Looks like Animal's (from tbe muppet's) head, truly
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DB Schwein

@ElleGray

Looks like it's a Flamethrower dahlia
There are a bunch of variations.

Google image search for a Flamethrower dahlia shows a round headed flower with red and yellow dropped petals. Behind it there are parts of other flowers and green leaves.
blterrible

@ElleGray Dahlias aren't usually super prolific plants. They'll only put out one or two really nice flowers and then a few stumpy ones. Those nice ones are amazingly nice though. You get to enjoy it for a few days and then have to wait an entire year for the repeat performance.

elle

anybody can start a podcast. my goal *pulling out a sword* is to stop one

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Advanced Persistent Teapot

@ElleGray this would be an absolutely -classic- example of battling the Hydra.

Emmy - Dial Tone *biiiiip*

@ElleGray while you were busy podcasting, I studied the blade. 😐

For real though, you may have preemptively stopped a few with this (these) toot(s). I know I'm second-guessing starting my podcast where, each week, I pick a phrase and say it in as many different voices as I can think of in that moment. (I was going to start simply, with "what the fuck!?" in a variety of accents, inflections, and famous voices.)

elle

when you're not only in close contact with your inner child but she's also kind of a demon

cute grey and white cat, in the foreground, sits facing the camera. a small black cat is a few feet directly behind her. Because of the placement and perspective, the 2nd cat looks like a tiny black demon perched on the first cat's head
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@BegoniaArizona

@ElleGray please repost this with the hashtag #Caturday so hundreds more people can 💜 it

tizan

@ElleGray Small car ....far cat ?
Reminds me of Father Ted's episode where there is an explanation of small cow and far cow ...

elle

not after the gang sees him being held up like this. absolute humiliation. stupid goddamn humans. this is war

Japan news station post. Man holding a cat under its armpits to lift it up for the camera. Caption reads "This is Futa, the "gang leader"
elle

honestly, it's every day with these two adorable idiots. they are literally, somehow, growling at each other

#caturday

Photo of a squirrel on a stone wall looking toward the camera, with a glint of mischief in her eyes. Seriously. I'm not anthropomorphising. She really is up to no good
Photo of a small short-haired grey and white cat, sitting in the window, glaring at the squirrel
Cat West

@ElleGray Police wear all that body armor, have weapons, have authority/power and yet it’s not enough… their skin is so very, very thin. I too, love The Welsh

Paul Cantrell

@ElleGray
“Warned”

Of what? Oh, please do tell us, Welsh police.

elle

morale in hospitals is currently very low and this is one of the reasons

A vending machine with a sign taped on the front. It reads: Warning: endoscopy equipment is not to be used for stealing food from the vending machine. Management. Then there's a picture of a long, tubular endoscope
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Luke Philipps

@ElleGray
Well, in terms of motivation, it's not such a bad finger exercise to start with.

Dean Johnson

@ElleGray They’ll need to add “Dorito dust” to the standard testing panels for endoscopy tests.

James Gallagher

@ElleGray So that’s why I could smell sour cream & chives at my colonoscopy

elle

am being informed that breakfast is late

#caturday

Small grey and white cat, sitting on my chest and looking demanding
elle

this morning I was out-poetried by a sidewalk that had thoughts on pain, impermanence, resilience and beauty

A grey concrete sidewalk, embedded with tiny pebbles. There's a huge crack running down the center, but it spirals like a strand of DNA and has become filled with purple flowers that have fallen from nearby trees. It looks like a purple stream
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Dave Pease ☑️

@ElleGray I couldn't tell these were flowers in the timeline image and thought instead that Bobby Fingers had buried something here

Tidings of Comfort & Jo

@ElleGray it reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy’s work.
Some examples. But if you don’t know his work and you think this is beautiful you’d love his art and check more out.
he also deals with ideas around impermanence, the ephemeral, fragile, transformation, using nature and time. My most favorite artist.

mossandfog.com/andy-goldsworth

Sjors

@ElleGray I love how the alt txt gives us context on how you perceive the scene/image

elle

my two personalities, aloof international assassin and scruffy chaos kitten, competing for control of my day

Two cats are outside in the cold, looking into the house through a glass window. The cat on the left is pure white, pink ears, yellow eyes, with a fox-like face. Very elegant. Also murderous. The one on the right is grey and fluffy, the size of a small cloud and appears to be somehow falling off a ledge
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@ElleGray i don't know how you did it, but you captured an entire story, about an odd couple, each an outsized character, in a photograph

Akire Bubar

@ElleGray OMG those expressions - WOW. :blobcatupsidedown:​ 😆​

elle

I'll know we're winning when everyone has stopped saying "AI tech is inevitable," like it's an angry God we're powerless to stop, and starts making fun of it. It deserves no diffidence, no respect, no fear. This is the way

A small street vendor selling beverages possibly in Thailand, I'm not sure. Over them is a large sign which reads "ChaiGPT (Genuinely Pure Tea) enhanced with AI (Adrak and Ilaichi)
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Nobody باچیز नास्ति (he/him)

@ElleGray Adrak is not a Thai word though, so isn't Ilaichi, both words from the Indian subcontinent. Writing does look Thai, but it's similar to Telugu or Kannada too.

It's a mystery or maybe in an area with Indian immigrants/expats who will read the English lettering.

Update: looks like Bangalore and Kannada
See images for comparison of lettering.

ahimsa

@ElleGray I've seen this before but it's worth boosting again! 😁

Cotopaxi

@ElleGray Today's AI craze is yesterday's EST trend, but with potty privileges.

elle

Small cat already being VERY annoying this morning*

*effortlessly out-yoga-ing me in spite of the fact I've been doing it for 10 years and she thinks exercise is ridiculous

#caturday

Small cat sound asleep with legs and body somehow contorted into a pretzel shape
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