let's try an evening #mutualaid boost today! my friend is homeless and needs donations to stay in a motel through the end of the month. thanks to kind souls, we're at $717/$1600, which is about enough for them to stay sheltered through Friday. please share so my friend can stay sheltered!

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

I made a gofundme to help my friend stay housed for the next couple of weeks. I would really appreciate if you could donate and/or share the link: gofund.me/61fa9aca4

Mowed my front lawn before the storms start this week—no longer the only neighbor with a totally overgrown yard. Adulting?

Currently reading: Butler’s classic scifi novel, the 3rd Joseph Spector mystery (part of a series reread), next week’s @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social selection about stargazing and light pollution, & Project Hail Mary since I’ll be seeing the movie this weekend.

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

Things I love about my home state definitely includes our libraries—nice to hear positive new on this: ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/13/o...

Frog and Toad folk horror?

Looking forward to seeing my surrogate parents today—Pat & Steve adopted me when their son moved to New Mexico.

Legend & Muppet Treasure Island & Clue

Pretty sure this one is sitting on my bookshelf (acquired used at some point in the later 90’s/early aughts).

Spending a pleasant afternoon in 1998 watching Series 1 of Grand Designs while doing laundry. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

is it folk horror or did you get scared by a circle of trees

147 more days until college football

Doing the most tedious crap ever at work today. Groan. But also maybe accepting an invitation for a weeklong beach getaway with some friends?

My independent college football & honest local/state politics streams have been crossed!

we’re talking about space on the sky app and that feels right

Home just in time! Excited to watch the Artemis 2 launch!

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

🏳️‍⚧️ This is true everyday, but happy TDOV to my wonderful trans friends. 🏳️‍⚧️

Of course those fuckers released this on the Trans Day of Visibility

Pass it on. And don't watch the new Harry Potter HBO series. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

This is a most excellent thread, filled with so many books. #TransRightsReadathon

I too have some thoughts on the Shy Girl mess (free to read) www.patreon.com/posts/mia-cu...

Today in air quality things to find concerning: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Had a few minutes of absolute delight reviewing all of Maggie’s pigeon paintings for the first time, today.

That is between me and my shadow.

Read this with a bit of a tear in my eye. It’s been a great privilege to read about these dogs, their adventures, and the great love Blair has for her dogs.

Heavy sigh.

Going to start #TransRightsReadathon a couple hours early, since I cannot stay up until midnight on a weekday. Planning to enjoy my paperback copy of shola von reinhold’s novel LOTE as non-screen before-bed reading for the next week or so.

I think there were 5 school field trips to the National Museum of the USAF? Learned about the Wright Bros., the early US Space program, and all of the planes from various wars.

(Real thing) is the true horror in (horror story). Yes. Welcome to the genre. Enjoy your stay.

🏳️‍⚧️ Looking forward to participating in the #TransRightsReadathon again this year! I will be donating 20$ for each book finished to my local queer youth center. Not too late to join in—details below! 🏳️‍⚧️

I contain multitudes?

I mean, church was always about the less-concrete life values stuff & on some level, I’d always understood God/Jesus as a myth. I mean, we weren’t really ritualistically consuming the son of God at mass on Sunday, were we? And then my baby sister came out.

Y’all, I might be the cool aunt (or at least a cool aunt he spoke to shortly before bedtime)!

every time i hear someone say "gritty" to mean "edgy, dark" i just replace "gritty" with

Direct link worked for me—it was a fun episode, too.

What did you want to be when you grew up (in chronological order)? 1. Astronaut 2. Writer 3. Radio Astronomer 4. Bioinformatics Engineer 5. Employed/Self-Sustaining & Less Depressed 6. The Cool Aunt

Name 5 authors you’ve read 3 short stories by (stories have to be published within the last 10 years). Amber Sparks Ananda Lima Premee Mohamed Cassandra Khaw Sam J Miller

It was never about fairness in high school sports, it was always about destroying trans people’s lives

Intimidating younger sisters, cool friends, a lot of books.

Love living in a state where vaccine rates have fallen sufficiently that the disease that almost killed my mother as a kid is still a problem.

Wine was maybe a mistake for the Dinosaur origami night: “We’re getting pretty close to the reverse fold.”

There is an inch-ish of snow on the ground & it is cold, but not so cold that I’m risking frostbitten ears if I forget a hat. This is the correct level of winter for mid-Ohio.

Currently reading: a rather entertaining classic murder mystery in which the guy everyone hates gets murdered, a volume of haunted house stories, next week’s @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social read, and the prequel to the rather creepy The Silent Companions.

Bi-romantic mostly ace cis-woman, which I don’t want to try to type without my very near-sighted vision.