From an outing yesterday. The lake and sky at the horizon were exactly the same colour, an amazing effect badly captured here. The island in the far distance appeared to be floating in the sky

Share someone who looks stylish in a hat. 🎩

Mumblety years later, and look at me having feelings about this

Very amused that I apparently read this at the same time as KJ Charles. I also loved it. Don’t know why it took me so long to get to Bujold’s fantasy after having done all the Vorkosigan novels a few years ago

I wrote a trilogy of novels published by HarperCollins about a brother and sister caught on opposite sides of the war to unite Viking Age Norway. Today is my birthday and if you are inclined to share this, it would be a lovely present! The first: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-half-d...

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY! You can get it in these places and more: Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

Agree on all counts with the below!

Read my own Running Close to the Wind fanfic and remembered how much I love those horny fail-pirates. Maybe it’s time for a book reread

Feeling pretty shitty atm. Hard stuff is hard, don’t feel like I’m doing very well at being a functioning person with decision-making capabilities or executive function. Mostly just running the anxiety subroutines

my friend @llincathryn.bsky.social’s latest, All Is Bright, is a lovely tender Welsh f/f that lifts & deepens with Advent, and you can in fact read a chapter a day in December, and preorder now www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

Today a coworker told us he’d found a lost 16-week-old kitten near his home, brought it to the vet to be checked & now had it staying with him. We helped him find the places online to post about local found cats. His post was only up a few hours before the owner replied. Smol ginger safely returned!

Getting US political news through people’s reactions to other people’s reactions to something someone said about a thing that happened is very confusing and on some days makes Bluesky unreadable

Having happened to take up painting as a hobby, after painting not at all in the previous decades of my adult life, at the same time as the AI boom hit, I feel this sentiment acutely. My art is def bad, bc I have no skill yet, but the experience of making it with my own hands AI could never give

Very much don’t want to go to work tomorrow. Weekends are too short.

Was at a six hour meeting with a project group (good project, constructive work) and then had intended to work more from home to get a full workday, but decided “fuck it” and took a nap instead. Then did a study of fall trees for my landscape painting course & it didn’t suck. Good choices.

#death Caught myself lying to my Finch app when it asks how I’m doing because it’s Saturday & I did my strength training & had a nice walk with the dogs & now E & I will have coffee & later I will cook a nice meal for us & paint a tree for my pastel course, surely that means I’m feeling good? (1/2)

I ordered a fancy (but surprisingly inexpensive) box for my pastels from the UK a few weeks ago, and having them all neatly arranged and visible has made painting so much easier. Yay for investing in your hobbies?

The Kiruna church move (literally putting a whole church on wheels and driving it across town) is marvellous slow TV. I think they’re done for the day put will start again early tomorrow morning CET. Lots of cool detailed info in English and another live stream here: lkab.com/en/events/th...

Apparently cooking dinner from scratch is too complicated a thing for me right now, I stressed myself out and then got really upset when the dog was annoying. Very tasty dinner, though.

#death Yesterday we cleaned out my mum’s room at the care home, with the help of a good friend and two guys with a van we hired. Today I’ve set up a time with the funeral director for next week to plan the funeral and called government service to order death certificate and proof I’m next of kin.

#death My mum passed away last night. I’m doing okay-ish under the circumstances, but feel unbelievably tired.

Went to visit my mum at the care facility. E was kind enough to come with me (this restricts visit time because we can’t leave the dogs alone for too long, but I needed the moral support). Mum is indeed doing worse, as reported, but she was calm while we were there and happy to see us. Glad we went!

Got a call today from my mum’s living facility that she is doing much worse in her dementia and is aggressive to staff, which she hasn’t been for a long time. Feeling anxious and sad about it.

Feeling really down today. Super sick of my migraine that won’t go away, super sick of not doing anything interesting during my vacation.

@nicasio.bsky.social Happy birthday!!!

I'm living in a hotel, and most of my belongings are in storage. The storage bill's due by midnight tonight, and I don't have enough to cover it. If anyone has even a few dollars to spare, every bit helps. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

Ohhh @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social, I think you need this shot for your mulivid idea

If anyone has even a few dollars to spare, I could really use help covering another week at the hotel and another month on my storage unit. The hotel is due tomorrow and the storage unit is due on Saturday. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

Had planned to visit my mom today (a day trip) but couldn’t sleep last night due to migraine, so decided to postpone till tomorrow. Spent most of the day flat, hoping for migraine meds to do their thing. Now there’s a weather warning for torrential rain tomorrow so I guess I’m not going then either

Migraines can fuck right off

Witness me: even though I procrastinated a lot on calling the vet hospital, for no good reason, I now have a time for Jarvis’s annual post-cancer checkup next week while I’m still on leave. Glad I didn’t procrastinate so long I had to take time off work for it.

This France-Germany quarter final of the women’s Euros was a truly bonkers game of football

I never looked beyond the hilarity of the Newsweek bisexuality cover, but it makes me happy to see this depraved bi couple featured in the article are still out there together living their bisexual life. Ah, the heroes who came before us!

For my friends who also enjoyed this series

So I started rewatching Beyond Evil. Fuck, that close-up at the end of ep 1

I had planned spending all day today (bc massive rain forecast) watching the new Tordyveln flyger i skymningen series, but having started it, I realised it is of course an SVT series and only drops once a week. Foiled! /niche Swedish post

Four week leave starting now! 🎉

I went from having enough to cover another week at the hotel to being close to $200 shy because of an unexpected payment that I had to make. If anyone has even a few dollars to spare, every little bit helps. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

On the culinary upside, I had a mango

Also I am waiting for a phone call that makes me anxious, so I have waiting brain and now it’s almost 9pm

I made a pasta for dinner that I wasn’t happy with and I have a whole second portion I’m supposed to eat tomorrow. This is surprisingly much of a bummer

The dogs and I are standing in a bike shed outside the hospital because a sudden torrential rain started on our walk. We are not amused

It’s too hot in our bedroom and I don’t like it

I did my #exercise even though it’s too many degrees hot outside (because tomorrow will be even hotter) and this week in my program is really hard. So, yay, I did the thing, but also, oof, mistakes were made

#exercise I’m doing an at-home strength training program with dumbbells this summer (with a chill Swedish online exercise person I like), and I’ve ended up having more days between sessions than suggested due to migraines and stuff, but so far I’m doing the thing. Very pleased with this!

Today I achieved the most clerical of work injuries, and also å contender for my entry into the meme “stupidest way you ever hurt yourself”: I stapled myself in my thumb

🎨🌈 Fundraising with my art! All sales of my canvas paintings in my acrylic art Shop will go to Queer Trans Project, a black and trans-led organization supporting the community with resources. ko-fi.com/snowpinecone...

So a while ago I tripped and fell and picked up a new hobby, soft pastel painting, after not painting at all since school. I’m doing an online course, purely for fun, and have been painting a lot of flowers, using different techniques and materials. Thought I’d share some of the results:

Never over the time @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social and I were rooming at VidUKon and I arrived at the hotel and told the concierge “the room is under my friend’s name” and then realised with dawning horror that the concierge expected me to remember her wallet name 😂

Giving this a little one week later boost!