I’m lying on the sofa. the cat is lying on my back

if I’m going to gigs in churches I need to start carrying around some kind of fancy portable cushion because my god those pews hurt after a while

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wtf

Okay i got to two on the #HiddenBooksGame and am now stuck on the laptop. Put in a word, got a “nearly”, but nothing else I can think of is getting me anywhere

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slowly making my way through demos from the recent(ish) steam nextfest and the starsand island demo is… very fun, plays on the steamdeck perfectly. very polished and cute. for people who like farming games and cute 3d graphics, it’s going to be up there i think?

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this Helene Funke painting is up for auction in December. estimate of about 10k-20k euros, which seems very low, but what do I know. she should be better known.

this Helene Funke painting is up for auction in December. estimate of about 10k-20k euros, which seems very low, but what do I know. she should be better known.

the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.

the cat is snoozing on my lap & occasionally sighing 🥹

swimming in her sea of toys

Apparently it's to bring them more in ling with other platforms, whatever that means.

Vinted appear to have changed the way they list women’s sizes this week, it’s a mess - when you search for a particular size it now comes up with a mix of things that largely don’t align

A good reason to keep slogging away at seemingly empty fields. Fresh back from FLO. A quite lovely gilded copper alloy bird 🥰 Dating from the ninth to eleventh centuries. Following searches revealed 2 cut fractions of Aethelred II, 978-1016, roughly from around the same area.

Harmony https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19467

this Helene Funke painting that’s up for auction… personally I would like all of her paintings to be in a gallery or museum so I can see them www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:

posts on instagram now all coming with music attached makes me feel one million years old. didn’t we agree that autoplaying music on websites sucks??? like didn’t we agree this more than fifteen years ago???

it’s also funny bc the whole point of blinkist is that it gives you an AI summary of some stupid fucking productivity book and then you pretend you read the book. which you didn’t

WE ARE SAVED

@regretteruane.bsky.social you’ve got my spending my downtime trawling the internet archive etc for lovely children’s illustrations — one of the best ways of spending time :). barbara swiderska is one I can’t find much about anywhere but the couple of books online are beautiful

the GERD/acid reflux pain isn’t as bad as it was on Thursday night and Friday after I ate something moderately oily on Thursday night but it’s never really gone away since then, it’s always there if i look for it or take a deep breath. have been taking omeprazole morning and night. 😭

In the past hours, Israel has: - killed 2 people in air raids in Gaza City and southern Gaza - killed 1 person in drone attacks on southern Lebanon - continued 3-days of military threats across occupied West Bank - attacked olive harvests & other crops in the occupied West Bank

last night the cat was screaming and throwing her body at the living room door (we don’t usually let her in the bedroom at night) so i waited a while until she’d stopped and went to check that she wasn’t hurt or throwing up. i got played — she came and sat in the bedroom all night lol

Someone had fun with the acronym

New Puffin Post acquisition. What can I say, I am powerless before the incredible art of Jill McDonald. I have a personal Puffin pusher and everything now, one who knows my proclivities, my weaknesses, my unappeasable appetite for 20th century illustration

Contents are as perfectly delightful as you’d imagine. Jill McDonald somehow managing to bring a colourful quality even to her monochromatic illustrations. Very, very tempted to get a tattoo of that spectacularly sublime sickly cat

Last of a recent brilliant bundle of Puffin Post magazines. Part of my pleasure in collecting them is sharing them here & seeing others enjoy them too. Another glorious Jill McDonald illustration & a bright reminder that spring light always returns, as autumn dampens the air & lengthens the shadows

Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

we really need some kind of gorgeous Jill McDonald art/design book. I love her animals. The cat!!!

best/most unwell premise to a new christmas movie out this year is about a single mother who puts on loads of prosthetics to get a job as a hotel santa … so she can get her daughter cheap snowboarding lessons? but she falls for the hotel manager and has to keep her identity a secret???

✨ Alistair Theirin ✨ #dragonage

regurgitation sounds like it should be some kind of interesting party trick where you’re able to have like a whole apple reemerge from your mouth but it turns out that’s not what it is

the cat loves to lie on my tummy, but i love to lie on my side. the STRUGGLE

I watched "No Other Land" with my students last week and afterwards, one commented at how their focus on Gaza these past years had diverted them from thinking enough about the grinding repression in the West Bank.

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

you may not like it, but this is peak computer

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standing in the kitchen at 2am eating crackers and refreshing the internet to see what’s happening with the elections in another continent. having a very normal one

ate something with chili in like a week and a half ago and my stomach has still not recovered. seems to be incredibly sensitive these days to anything with any amount of chili in at all, and anything oily. fun was had by all

i am so incredibly tired

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

This is a nifty tool for learning more about the consistently hateful British media & its regurgitations.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,