Why does screen legend Dick Van Dyke support the fight for equality? It's simple: "Hate eats up your insides." Happy 100th birthday to #NOH8 supporter #DickVanDyke #NOH8Day #DVD100

I returned 7 books to the library and came back with 7 books. Will I read them all? Nope. Will I read some of them? Maybe. Is the likeliest outcome that I will page through them and just enjoy having them here with me for a couple of weeks? Probably. 🤷‍♀️

Needed to do a little bit of gift shopping, took the new dress coat out for a spin downtown. 😊 It’s pretty much like wearing a fancy blanket, and I love it. 😁 Also, check out the sky over the lake! We’re gonna get more snow yet, I’m sure.

I'm lucky that I can just hunker down and stay home.

I'm trying to think of what would actually surprise people, because I feel like most of what I love is on-brand for me... Maybe "She Said"? That's rather different from most of my favorites.

This is why I stay OFF OF THE INTERSTATE when it's snowing. #winterweather #puremichigan

#Christmas has arrived! 😊 (Look, I lugged this tree up from the basement and assembled it and then strung it with lights all on my own. I am feeling accomplished. 😁)

I know that one should never feed the trolls. I know that. I know that they feed on your anger (which is so fucked up. seriously, what the fuck?). I just... I can't stand seeing people being bullied. Trolls are bullies. I hate them so much.

Could I talk about Sherlock & Co forever? Yes — yes, I could. 😂 Please enjoy!

Paul Thomas Miller organized a wonderful project, and I needed to write about it. He got a handful of Sherlockians to create a brand-new list of essential books (and periodicals) for a #Sherlockian library! #SherlockHolmes astudyinimagination.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/a...

What's very funny to me is that by the time Part 2 posts, Sherlock & Co will be done with The Hound. But hey, I've got the Watsonian Weekly for digging into that! 😁 watsonianweekly.libsyn.com

This was so much fun. Please go listen, and maybe drop us a review? Or a Patreon subscription? 😉

I appreciate @timmiller.bsky.social’s righteous anger and disgust at this moral insanity, because yes, we should be disgusted and we should be angry, and we’re not crazy for feeling those emotions.

I made this for a college assignment, 12 years ago. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was still recent, and the last episode of Sherlock was "The Reichenbach Fall," so I went all out on a "Final Problem" theme. I always did want to make a magazine. 😂 #SherlockHolmes #Sherlockians

So, in the space of 24 hours, I: • Got my 2nd invite to the BSI Dinner • Found out that my car battery and front driver axle needed replacing. Repairs to the tune of $1K+. • Landed a 2nd freelance gig. That's a rollercoaster! Also within that time, we experienced a small but mighty Blue Wave.

Heading to bed shortly, but a quick update: With 98 of our 222 races called, we've got 72 wins.

Thank God, and thank you to the millions of voters who turned out to give us hope. 💙

When you said that having joy is an act of resistance, it really stuck with me. I think about that a lot now. ❤️‍🩹🙏🏼

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

LOL.

If true, NYC will be eligible for the Dept of Transportation funds earmarked for districts with high birth rates! #winning

I couldn’t love this image anymore. A mayor elect on a subway surrounded by a diverse group of people with a huge smile on his face. A tribute to a candidate who genuinely loves his city. So excited for you, NYC!!

I’m just saying that *if* somebody had wanted to put a curse on Dick Cheney, “On the day you die, may a Muslim immigrant Democratic Socialist become mayor of New York City” would be a pretty good one.

Thinking of this: "I've heard it said that hope is the consequence of action more than its cause... Instead of waiting around for hope, we actually have an obligation — a responsibility — to build hope, and that hope is the result of what we do in this moment." - Pete Buttigieg

💙💙💙💙

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Not doing anything right now? While you sip your coffee, you can watch the livestream of the 46th Annual Saturday with Sherlock Holmes at the Pratt Central Library, Baltimore www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0h...

46th Annual Saturday with Sherlock Holmes livestream happening right now! #SherlockHolmes #Sherlockians www.youtube.com/live/fp0hkVV...

Now listening... 😊 open.spotify.com/album/2JEkDx...

This one made me giggle.

I stg, "younger woman in present day meets older woman with secrets, the story goes back in time to WWII, and the modern girl finds things out/helps resolve things" is such a weirdly persistent subgenre of WWII fiction. Every so often, a new one turns up on Amazon.

It was great to talk to Nick from @blackeyedtheatre.bsky.social about his latest Sherlockian production. A must-see for anyone in the UK. Links to tour dates in the show notes bit.ly/DOD068sn.

Job-hunting and having to screen for scammers is a constant game of whack-a-mole. Absolutely exhausting.

You know how the conventional wisdom is to be careful about what you say in your social media accounts when you're job-hunting? Well... only my bluesky account here is public, and... what someone would get from it is that I'm liberal and depressive, and they were going to find that out anyway, lol.

The days are darker now, so I needed (emotionally) a little more light in my workspace. (The window directly faces my neighbor's house, lol, and I'm also not right in front of it like I have been right in front of windows for the past few years.)

I beat Giovanni in three tries! The first time I had to go up against him, I think it took me MONTHS. I guess I know better what I'm doing now? #PokemonGo

So I do, in fact, have a couple of things that I'm doing that are helping me stay sane right now. (Shocker if you're paying attention to my personal tweets, I know. 😅) 1. I'm rereading #TheHoundoftheBaskervilles for the first time in... AGES. 2. I'm watching #TheWestWing for the first time.

Well, today has been and is continuing to be a real fucking day. And the worst of it is that the biggest part of what's making it such a fucking day is not getting better, it's getting worse. I recently mentioned to a couple of people that I'm feeling passively suicidal again. This is why.

Kitchen window view # 1

I hate generative AI as much as the next reasonably intelligent creative person, but while it's making pro-AI people dumber, there's a way in which it's making anti-AI people dumber, too. Because now, any writing that sounds wrong to you, or any writing that you dislike, can be dismissed as AI.

I really hope that everybody stretching hard to claim that Taylor Swift is a Nazi is putting that much effort into fighting real Nazis. But it sounds way too much like keyboard warrior BS for me to have much hope that they're getting out there and making a difference in real life.

Finally, we can share this!

#NYC #NoKings 👑

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

Chicago's "No Kings" rally and march has ended after thousands filled downtown. “The power resides in ‘We the people,’” one volunteer said. Read the full recap: https://to.wttw.com/3WIsqkP

I'm almost done with my podcast segment on @ihearofsherlock.com, and tonight I felt the need to write about that. #SherlockHolmes #Sherlockians astudyinimagination.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/a...

Daaaayuuuuuumn! There ain't enough ice to put out THAT burn.

There are lots of bits of the Showgirl album that keep running through my head, but "every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter" is REALLY stuck in there. I've never related to any other lyric so hard in my life. #TaylorSwift #EldestDaughter #TheLifeofaShowgirl #TLOAS