Working at slightly long last to annotate all my photos from my visit to American Samoa. Lol, #goals for getting that done this weekend.

The Supreme Court:

The toenail moon shines over Club Raven. I can gush over one thing or another....

I had zero interest in watching Wonder Man until I heard both the Black Girl Nerds coverage and Talk from Superheroes episode on the show. And, OMG! Thank you both - Wonder Man was such a fantastic watch 😍 bsky.app/profile/blac...

I tried watching a superb owl for the first time in decades and, OMG, it was soooooooooo booooooring (I'm 1000% unexcited by both the game and the commercials). I'm home now and bringing joy to my life re-watching #StarfleetAcademy episodes. 🖖

Spoilers galore! I thought it was also quite awesome to have Cirroc on screen again, too 😍🖖

Oooooo! Inspired by that other person who posted when the new #StarfleetAcademy episode posted last week, I checked just now, and episode 5 is up on Paramount+! Whew! And not a moment too soon since it seems spoilers may be every where. 🖖

Nonetheless, it needs to be said and I appreciate all that you say in clear, understandable and yet unflinching language.

The latest episode of #StarFleetAcademy was sooo good. My heart overflows with what we broadly learned of the Klingon story & more narrowly of Jay-Den's journey. After listening to the SyFy Sistas podcast, I realize I must learn the correct pronunciation the humans actors' names. They deserve it!

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154... #SaveNCAR

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Alllll these books need my attention. And yet, which shall win?

I chortled with glee for much different reasons during this week's episode of #StarfleetAcademy But overall, it feels like it's settling into itself more and I'm really enjoying it 😍🖖🌱

I enjoyed the first two eps of #StarfleetAcademy with some caveats. On the good side, I think I might have actually laughed out loud several times and I already love some of these peeps! But I do wish we would get more than 10 eps so we could let some of the moments breathe a bit.

You know that thing where if you read a word too many times, it loses all sense? By the third paragraph of this piece the word "oil" ceased to have any meaning in my mind, only getting worse the more paragraphs I read. And now I need to rush off to a dictionary to see whence this strange word arose.

And another

Good was sadly not the first person shot at or killed by ICE this year. Posting a few that @cliffmay.bsky.social and I reported for @mcsweeneys.net earlier this year that did not receive the same level of attention. Full list: www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest... #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

I'm a Samoan master carver 🦇🪲🪶

I cannot fathom having so many coconuts that you routinely sell them with a hole and a straw popped in as a beverage. Yet, here we are...

Happy to be doing my second summer solstice for 2026! Though only being 14 degrees south of the equator doesn't make it feel incredibly solstice-y 😄☀️

I do love to shop at bookstores when I travel but American Samoa has been particularly challenging on that front. I was so desperate I even asked a bartender (response? panicked look and vagueness 😄). Fortunately, I'm one of those librarians who visits public libraries when I travel 1/2

Soa'a bananas! It's not just the peel that orange, so is the banana inside (soooo much beta carotene). Thar be flavor!

Saw the sun in American Samoa today and my heart was so, so happy.

Sunset over the Pacific.

Ugh, my life. I might need to get a light box if this continues much longer.

Powerful video that paired very well with my latest read! Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-7S... Latest read: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... (I'm still gonna read and watch what I do, even if I have to give stink-eye to those that appropriate these things for their supremacist undertakings)

I love to see Josh performing in the Pacific. Based solely on my upcoming travels, I'd be extra, extra happy if he'd drop by some South Pacific locations such as American Samoa.

Mmmm! Finally something substantive to pin my hopes on - I'm definitely looking forward to January 15th so I can start enjoying myself some new Star Trek! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMsF...

Does this fall foliage make my architecture look less brutal?

Binged through the first season of Alien: Earth. Some of the things were pretty middling/annoying but now I've rediscovered my love of Timothy Olyphant and I want to bring this little cutie pie home (I don't even like Funko Pops!).

Amused to try Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest on my account (sign up not required, just type your username in the search box!). I 🖤 that they even do the alt text for you! anisota.net/harvest

Pondering the level of frustration that inspired the creation of this FAQ 🤣😅

I just finished watching The Resident and, much like Detective Cupp, I must stare at people with incomprehension when they say they fear birds. It's a lifestyle choice, I guess?

Do I need to get a light box for the one year in these global warming times that the tule fog is back to sucking the life out of me?

Nooooo! I'm so over the tule fog 😭

Flash of inspiration! I've been fully cognizant of the worst aspects of the New York Times for a long time, but have been unable to unsubscribe since I feel there's no less worse source for all the news I want... Hmmmm!

Not doing a family Thanksgiving this year, nonetheless I re-watched this Leslie Jones Daily Show piece to inspire me wherever I end up for the holiday 😁😆🦃🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kyR...

I know some anti-nukes film was shot in a place I'm from (Amazing Grace and Chuck??) but it's that terrible fishing film (A River Runs Through It) that my hometown is best known for (I refuse to acknowledge that Horse Whisperer or Yellowstone shit). www.imdb.com/title/tt0105...

I'm rewatching the 1983 tv miniseries V! I have Millennial friends who profess to have zero understanding of popular culture items released before they were born. Sucks to be them that they can't even begin to imagine the shared cultural experience of a tv miniseries.

It was a very Star Trek weekend for me! Just ask me how I feel about seeing Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan on an (olde timey) big screen or how I feel about seeing a 94-year-old guy (Bill) starting a Q&A session at 11:00 PM!! LOL, I don't think you will so take this photo instead.

I recorded a short video op-ed to help cut through the noise surrounding the ongoing COP30 climate conference. In short: now is not the time to scale back our efforts to address climate change--quite the opposite, as the intensifying consequences have never been clearer.

Perhaps my favorite photo so far in Readymades.

I'm sure you didn't mean to, but this episode of your podcast reminded why I hate quit Enterprise back in the day. OH? Am I the only one who hears George W Bush every single time Trip (TTTIII???) opens his mouth? Meh. And the alt sexualities? Banish the thought for any non-heteronormative rep in ST.

The landlady finally sent a minion to deal with the chirping fire alarm (which amazingly hadn't completely destroyed my nerves 7 days in) but now I need to block out the sport whistle being blown next door (basketball? volleyball? ugh, this is why I hate sports) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uclf...

Nerd happenings today. 🤓🧝‍♀️

My brain doesn't do math (it's a real basis for why I selected librarianship as a profession), so when my eyes glance across this, my entire being is in a world of pain... And yet... and yet... Hahahahahaha!

For this reason, the Gates memo presupposes a false dichotomy regarding climate outcomes: The choice we are faced with is not between "good for us" & "the end of the world," but instead how much harm we are willing to tolerate, and endure, in the years to come. [8/n]

Not gonna lie, at every level it's been quite hard to fend off the sycophantic adoption of AI at my institution. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

Last year I didn't finish the McSweeney's Advent Calendar until this year (I really pushed to make it a real Christmas in July type thing but never posted about it). So this year I think I'll start early and hope I'm not bored with Christmas before December whatever.

In the middle of watching Weapons I get all the alerts of a missing 12 year old child in my neighborhood 😱. I'm not yet sure how the movie ends but I'm extremely relieved here in real life that I got all the subsequent messages that the child was found.