Hemming and hawing about the cold on my deck cost me fifteen minutes. Not too bad I guess. Today’s the first official day of the new routine (car trouble interfered Monday and Tuesday). Creative time is going to be used for low taxing work.

Tested out walking in the treadmill today. A very short test at low speed. No sudden jolts of pain, no serious stiffness. Gonna go again when I get home from work. Gotta remember to stand and stretch at work today too. Ortho appt isn’t until the end of the month but I’m going crazy without a walk.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Yes winter, we know you’re big and strong. We get it.

Whelp Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has me in tears yet again. Also the is the joyously most Black Star Trek and I’m loving that!

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not sure where I received the recommendation to read Fonda Lee, but I’m loving her work! The Exo Duology was fantastic and I want like ten more. Now the green Bone Saga is already got me excited and, as the kids say, locked in

I’m gonna be gross and brag about my kids. I came back from my little winter getaway to a clean house. Dishes done, laundry done. I don’t even care if they had some 80’s era party while I was gone because I have found no evidence of such.

North Star - Polaris - I found my new favorite brush to use on just about everything ;u;

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

Lush #iseemoss #ThickTrunkTuesday

The view out the window. Look Ma, no stress!

So far I have mostly slept while on vacation. Which is wonderful.

#starfleetacadamy has got me crying today. A little too close to home. In a good way.

Lost my wallet and my mind for like two hours. All better now.

There are few moments life that I enjoy more than a nice hot and milky mug of #lapsang #tea on a winter’s day.

Dracula by Bram Stoker. If you’re looking for a faithful, atmospheric version to get lost in, my complete and unabridged reading is now on YouTube. #booksky #horrorsky

#fungus #mushroom I managed to get out for a walk. There’s been so much going on and I haven’t felt like doing a lot of social media lately. I’m okay, but running a constant medium level of stress at the new job. Parenting teenagers is humbling. Love life is swimmingly delightful.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Yes I have a cellphone for work. No I’m not answering it when I am in the bathroom.

Today is much better. I can take more than a single step without pain. Actually resting and serious anti-inflammatory meds are helping a lot. Follow up with my doc later next week.

Hello 2026! Oh I see you’ve brought me a gift! Let’s go to urgent care and unwrap it. Oooh! Just what I never wanted arthritis of the hip and a hip impaction.

Winter girl sketch :)

This lines up with a NY resolution but it isn’t one. I need to get back on the dreadmill. The main motivator is that this new job has a lot of stress and walking is the primary method for helping me sleep. I’ve lost a lot of ground fitness-wise and some exercise will only benefit that. Did 20 min

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Took a semi-day off from work today. Much needed.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

LET US FUCKING GO!!!

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3. The Apologists (novella) in text and audio. In Clarkesworld Magazine 3/4

Almost four weeks on the job. On the one hand it’s nice to be getting things done. On the other hand there is always more to do.

Today feels more like winter with freezing temps and snow flurries. But last weekend autumn was autumning here.

What? I only bought it for the articles, honest.

It’s way too Tuesday for me to be feeling so Friday already

This was my phone wallpaper for a long long time, and I’ve only just found the image. Sadly I don’t know who made it can’t credit them: #dq2 #dragonquest2 #midenhall

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

"What type of Yule/Winter Solstice ritual/magic[k] could I do this year?" Go look in your pantry and your closets and donate non perishables and lightly used Winter clothes to food banks and your local shelters. That's the magic plain & simple.

Such a bridge to cross! #dragonquest #dragonquest2DHD

To echo a post from earlier this year, reaching the princess never felt so good!

Calf cramp. Yay. Me on floor trying to keep the other muscles unclench whilst I jam my fingers into the cramp until it releases. I am always grateful this didn’t happen while I was driving.

Whelp, it’s Monday and week two of the new job. Here’s to hoping I can cobble together access to enough resources to get things moving!

The morning of May 8th, Rosanne Ferreira-De Oliveira, was detained by ICE on Eureka Street in Worcester. It was just supposed to be a normal workday for her as a house cleaner. NEPM's Nirvani Williams speaks with Adam Bass from @masslive.bsky.social about the story https://bit.ly/48GvSnt

Look, even if you don’t see feeding children as good in and of itself (though it totally is), making sure kids aren’t hungry is one of the baseline ways to improve their school experience and help them for life, thereby improving society, the economy, etc. Why wouldn’t we want to do that?

Tip of the Spear! No Kings Washington DC!

just heard a great phrase: the morbidly rich