Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

My last post was reposted by random users (probably bots) and I am reminded of why I don’t post very often. I don’t want random people seeing my posts—I want my *friends and acquaintances* to see my posts. Unfortunately, I can’t find a “private” or “don’t allow reposts” setting. 🫤

Rode out to the airport on a new pathway and saw that neighbours had started a Rock Hound Trail. What a delightful discovery!

Black lady courtroom 👏👏

Woke up with a sore throat and deeper voice. Thinking of jumping into voice acting for the next 12 hours.

Good morning to Tegan🐈, who sniffed my face then immediately turned away and gagged. Thanks.

I'm recording an all-drag ep of The QueerXP tonight, and one of our guests had to drop out. This is a hyper-specific request, but if anyone out there is free at 8pm Eastern for a game of Trans Vampire Cowboys.. AND is a BIPOC drag performer... please shoot me a message!

“…that’s why I took the Imodium before the party…” overheard just now outside a Christmas party at a friend’s house. You’ll never guess the demographic.

I’m so proud of this guy! ❤️

The fog is beautiful, but I think I’m ready to *not* ride my bike to work through Silent Hill.

I’m 30 minutes in and the chaos is delightful.

I was talking with one of my neighbours, Wayne, last night. He was setting up Christmas lights in front of his apt. He uses a timer to turn them off at 11pm but back on from 4:30-7am so people going to work early get to see them. It’s his “gift to his neighbours.” 🥺😭

A few of the 42 community cats who got spayed, chipped, and ear tipped at the clinic this morning. Their chance at a better life starts today!

Hey folks! You know what time it is- because it's One Week Later! Tonight on the stream, hang out with @phillonidier.bsky.social and @mattbartlettvo.bsky.social while they listen to episode 6 and chat with y'all out there! Twitch.tv/appalachia76podcast Starting at 6:30 EST!

I started @naddpod.bsky.social a few months ago. I'm on ep 28, which I would summarize with the following GIF:

Finally migrating my recipes from Evernote to Paprika and remembering why I was so disappointed by the enshittification of Evernote.

It's here! Catch me as the heroic and noble Vampire Deity, Valen, in "The Deity Machine: The Masterpiece". These folks were amazing to work with and I'm so thankful for being involved with this tale in this fantasy world!

“I do not *care* that it is an hour earlier than usual—I want my dinner MEOW.”

My 2026 electoral platform youtube.com/shorts/m67wY...

I’ve been riding my bike to work 3x/week for about a month and I gotta say: I love it. I’m very lucky that 80% of my route goes through protected parkland with wide asphalt pathways. (I only cross 3 signalized intersections in 4.5mi/7km!)

My favourite part of The Mummy, so far

One of my favourite things about having cats is getting to witness “long-suffering baker kneading biscuits”. The thousand-yard stare, slumped shoulders, and loud purr is such a unique combination.

I'm just casually reading The Waffle Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada: www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Waffle/.... It reads like it was published in 2025 instead of 1969.

I’m not sure what possessed me to agree to Thursday night karaoke with coworkers, but I *regret* that decision.* *I just want to curl up in bed.

This GIF represents the best (Parker Posey) and the worst (those microbangs) of Scream 3.

The Essence Of Life - 24x30” acrylic on canvas. Available.

Sara wanted to join me on my ride. It took a lot of willpower not to let her.

1,000% agreed

Happy birthday, @phillonidier.bsky.social! May your day be filled with delights small and big. 🎉

Hell yes. (Do I love this mechanism of responding to MAGA gerrymandering? Not particularly, to be honest. But it is more honest and democratic than what Republicans did in Texas. I *do* love that Democrats actually DID something. And I love that electing a Democrat in my district is now possible.)

Fall time change means getting an extra hour of sleep!* *Offer not valid for pet owners

I am VERY frustrated with coworkers who embrace generative AI as a fun toy. It is not a toy. It is a threat. It threatens learning, creativity, the environment, democracy, and the working and middle classes. It benefits the already-rich and powerful by accelerating the concentration of resources.

I feel ya! My baseball teams: #1 - Colorado Rockies (grew up in Colorado) #2 - Toronto Blue Jays (my Canadian team) #3 - Los Angeles Dodgers (my family is from California)

E-bike's flat was probably a manufacturing defect. It's repaired. Car will be at the dealer for a week, but the upside is that it's (miraculously) covered by warranty and I have a loaner!

It's been a week! Which means tonight at 630 EST, @phillonidier.bsky.social and @mattbartlettvo.bsky.social will be having the One Week Later stream for Episode 5 on the Twitch channel! Join us! Chill! Chat us up! We always give a couple of looks ahead during stream! Twitch.tv/appalachia76podcast

🚨CASTING CALL ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 We are looking for players to join our upcoming Spring 2026 AP lineup! This includes: - 5 One Shots adventures - Daggerheart mini series - Patreon series: Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast (3 episodes) Applications are due Monday October 27th!

Day 1: E-bike is delivered. Huzzah! Day 5: Car won't start. No problem—I have an e-bike! Day 11: E-bike has a flat. Car still won't start. 🤦

OMG the Blue Jays made it to the World Series! ⚾️💙

Hmmm. Today’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage makes me think maybe *it is* a bad idea to allow a shrinking number of companies to own a growing percentage of the market, especially with critical infrastructure. PERHAPS. POSSIBLY.

I’m craving apple cider donuts, and I blame @mattbartlettvo.bsky.social 😤🍩

We really gotta recognize the sound design team at Blizzard. The menu music had no right to go *so hard*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXr...

It feels so much like Thursday, even though I *know* it’s Wednesday. Maybe work is just wearing me out.

I made butter tarts yesterday for Thanksgiving, but I’m guessing Cernunnos did not approve of me trying to use puff pastry shells… (They look ugly as sin but tasted okay.)

Who watches the watchers?

I’m a transit fan through-and-through, but *mercy* the squeaks on the MBTA Green Line are awful.

Went to Salem with @fireflylmh.bsky.social and we went to Goodnight Fatty, a cookie shop that had an apple cider donut cookie that I would mainline into my veins. 😍

Out of office is enabled! Time for vacation 🎉

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This little one is named Quan Yin and I’m fostering her for a week. Someone found her on the road yesterday and brought her to the spay/neuter clinic I volunteer at. She only weighs 372g (less than a pound)!