Truly evergreen.

This Is Just To Say I have noticed the poems that were in the substack and that you are all posting to painshare Forgive me my book of poetry is good and three bucks* www.kithbooks.com/digital/p/ch... *if you can't swing that look at the link @kithbooks.bsky.social has a plan for that

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm a fused glass artist specializing in jewelry. This winter I'm branching into wreaths that make great decorations for walls, windows & Christmas trees. I sell at nora.jewelry. I'm donating 10% of this weekend's sales to Distribute Aid's harm reduction toolkit program.

Having hopefully muted all the relevant names from last night's cognitohazard, I'm going to assume any mysterious comments that make it through the filter are about lacrosse, or possibly curling.

“After I put on my bathing suit, you must not look at me until I get into the water.” “Why not?” asked Frog. “Because I look funny in my bathing suit. That is why,” said Toad.

Steam: {game} on your wishlist is on sale! Me: apparently for $10 more than it was last week? I guess that's still technically a "sale." I love this time of year.

I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.

Apparently I have had too much wine this evening. In my defense, I had to explain port forwarding to an IT contractor today.

This is a great thread about an amazing teacher. (I'm a generation earlier, so my only similar story is about a teacher who was a Vietnam vet and started class with "Here's the most important lesson about the history of American government: $50 for an A, $30 for a B, cash on the barrelhead.")

Hoo boy, got forwarded a wedding planning email (gig life) and requesting the Game of Thrones theme for your wedding is... a choice. (I'm sure this is intended as an in-joke for the couple and their friends - just hope none of their older relatives were fans!)

Ooh, missed that we'd been on Parterre Box a few weeks ago. Always nice to see a production I was in get a thoughtful review!

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Molly's dogs eating fries belong on everyone's timeline.

“(…) jargon infused with technology industry hype, such as shown in Table 1, does not meaningfully explain. (…) We strive to remain critical of the vocabulary the technology industry coopts and deploys, and to remain respectful of scientific terminology.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 8/🧵

I'm not a single issue voter (I've voted for a lot of people I disagree with over the years because the alternative was worse) but if you can't say this and mean it, I don't want you in office. (Looking at you, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social)

Just heard the mother of my childhood best friend passed away. She was my home away from home when home was unbearable, always had a kind word when I desperately needed one, and fed me when I was hungry. (And when I wasn't, just to make sure.) May her memory be a blessing.

I've spent most of my life in the American Southwest. I don't *believe* in Coyote, but I'm careful not to swear out loud at him on days when it's clear he's laughing at me.

adobe deleted their post so this one's for posterity

Right, that's enough social media, it's my day off and I have housework to do, dogs to walk, and crafting games to play.

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

YES, PLEASE (also, damn, I have a new follow on TikTok)

I... have questions probably better left unanswered.

I saw a car covered in memorial graffiti for a certain controversial figure today, and I have to say it was very thoughtful of them to let me know I should give their vehicle a wide berth.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Okay, there's some gorgeous stuff in this drop and I can't buy ALL of it...

I love troubleshooting. "OMG the server is offline, you need to get over here and fix it!!" Hm, Cloudflare outage?? DNS? Client Access Services? Failed update? One trip later: orrrr someone unplugged the plug in the server room that says "DO NOT TOUCH", that'll do it. Ah, clients.

Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.

Well, it looks like the microwave fried its own circuitry last night. That explains why it kept resetting recently... (probably also related to that breaker tripping a couple of times in the last month)

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost. Server refused the connection: Port 22 no route to host.

I'm sorry, you think I'm feeding my TAX FORMS (with ALL MY PERSONAL DATA) into the garbage generator/theft machine/spyware??! *rising insane laughter*

Well, I'm out of two meds and I just stepped in a puddle of dog pee in the hallway. Today is off to a good start.

-feeling a ton of imposter syndrome -look up recordings of the aria I'm working on -find several with 1M+ views by incredibly famous artists -they're all... kind of mediocre? -okay, maybe I can do this

I don't want to hear any more about the sex lives of writers, thank you.

Scarleteen is the kind of resource I wish I'd had as a teenager! I'll be contributing to their fundraising drive.

I discovered to my delight the other day that I had missed Duchess Goldblatt's migration to these shores and need no longer pine over her absence in my weekly meditations.

All these attempts to frame it as “oooh, scary foreigners are bringing foreign diseases!” No, you miserable little bookend, pushing the screwworms south was an incredible feat of international cooperation, and the minute it broke up, the screwworms were always coming home again.

Two corporations I won't be doing business with this year for the price of one!

Time to mute "Nuzzi". (All of these excerpts read like my middle school diaries would if I had never heard of the concepts of editors or embarrassment.)

Hm - at 16 I was in a very "classical is the only real music" phase, (which I fortunately got over fairly quickly) and the only album I remember buying that year was a recording of the Verdi Requiem with Jessye Norman. (It was amazing, but then everything she did was amazing.)

Just finished reading @sjgochenour.bsky.social's A Bloomy Head (queer regency romance/murder mystery with cheesemaking) and now I have a bunch of bookmarks and *feelings*. (It's amazing, go read it)

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

It occurs to me now that the discipline of history was not born out of reverence for the past, but rather out of somebody watching the people in charge make the most insane decisions and just being like “if I don’t write this down nobody’s ever gonna believe any of it happened”

I'd love to ascribe altruistic motives to myself for masking in public places, but honestly I sing for a big chunk of my income and it costs me a lot of money to get sick.

I want to grow my hair out again but it's annoying the crap out of me, the eternal lament.

Met a Pit/Husky mix today – super cute, with the Husky heterochromia – but his owner was paying close attention to him to keep him from jumping on top of a table full of food and I didn't want to distract her.

Anyway. More science fiction should have young kids learning advanced social sciences and humanities as a marker of futuristic-ness.

Read up the thread from here if you want insight on Trust and Safety for social media sites. Rah has more experience with it than I ever want to have.

Sex ed should be mandatory and all students regardless of gender should study periods, childbirth, PCOS, and endometriosis.