Twitter roundup: Look for joy and find it in absurdist tweets

Have fun! There's only one sports tweet in this roundup and I consider that to be a blessing for you.

These are some tweets that I’ve liked this week and I hope you like them too!

At some point in the future these posts will be for paid subscribers only, but I’m breaking my own rules for a while. You deserve it.

Let’s start with a well-loved motif, r e l a t i o n s h i p s. This tweet is extremely relevant to the recent heatwave and I won’t comment further.

mark @TheCatWhisprer

DATING: can’t wait to see you again MARRIAGE: part of your knee was on my side of the bed again last night

Listen, Avril Lavigne was my first concert, and yes I wore a loose tie over t-shirts in middle school. Anyways, there’s an Avril song that doesn’t exist on every major lyrics website. They’re there, I checked.

Sarah Z @marysuewriter

one of my favourite little online mysteries is that virtually every lyric website has (incoherent and misspelled) lyrics for an avril lavigne song called "dolphins". this song doesn't exist and has never existed, but its words are on almost every lyric site

The sports jokes have to go somewhere, I’m only human.

🥴 @LeBronMaclean

when zoomer Leaf fans meet someone from the 90s Leafs

SOUND ON

Gators Daily 🐊 @GatorsDaily

don't mind me just floatin by

FRIENDS doesn’t hold up but part of me is happy that Courteney Cox and Jen Aniston are still friends, and even more of me is happy that one of them is the worst pool player…maybe ever.

Jess McGuire @jessmcguire

Courteney Cox’s video montage of Jennifer Aniston being bad at pool needs to be nominated for an Oscar

[just vibing, letting the joy of extraterrestrial photos wash over me] [Also go follow Joalda for the most excellent space content - she’s an expert in her field!]

Joalda Morancy @solarrsystem

I think my favorite thing about the planet Mars is how much variability there is on the surface, like some of this looks like works of art!!

I recently listened to an Melittology (BEES) episode on Ologies and then this appeared. Call it fate. Save the bees!

Rob N Roll @thegallowboob

This beekeeper hero got a call to remove a colony of bees from a backyard compost bin and she SAVED THEM ALL 🐝

Ugh, it gets me every time. Sound on!

he’s got beef but im a vegetarian @anatawaminikui

I pee my pants every time this resurfaces

And this thread has some GALAXY BRAIN stuff going on:

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz

What's something that you technically understand, but still seems a bit like magic? I'll start: pulleys.

The story of Black excellence and and the racial divide in craft food:

Samin Nosrat @CiaoSamin

THIS is the jam story we all need to read.

nytimes.comFor Black Jam Makers, the Power Is in PreservingAs the conversation turns to racial issues in the craft food movement, canning quality fruit is often the easy part.

Thanks to Shea Serrano, a real one who stands 6’3”, for putting this on my timeline. To quote him, “my chest”

I love rocks @EsaIndigena

So...imma go cry

And in terms of audible laughs this week, these ones take it.

🐓 @stinkyrink

It's gotta feel insanely good to be a cow and let out a huge moo

Nico de Benito @nicodebenito

I’m a FISH I’m a STURGEON I’m a CARP I’m a TURBOT I’m a SALMON I’m a HAKE I live inside a LAKE

Anna Hughes @AnnaGHughes

Many people have been using quarantine as a time to perfect their bread or coffee making skills, but I personally have taken this as an opportunity to make increasingly unsettling eggs

Hope this brightened your day! I spend too much time on Twitter!

Your friend, Nat