Instead of 2389547203 sprayed and painted edge editions of the same book, I vote for a loooooot more annotated editions of contemporary classics instead

Biochemistry is amazing. I have a drug (caffeine) addiction that causes withdrawal symptoms yet the drug doesn’t actually prevent me from doing the thing (fall asleep) it is designed to do & in fact too much of it causes me to *immediately* do the thing the drug “prevents.”

Me: *proposes timely trivia team name* @jessisreading.bsky.social : *looks around* You and I are THE ONLY ONES in this room Jess’ husband and our token white dude: *types dutifully*

I don't expect Delta to control the weather, but the audacity of them to say "sorry, we were unable to automatically rebook you" and make me rebook myself and THEN take credit for it and say "we've gone ahead and rebooked you" is infuriating.

I'm sorry but I don't think "hierarchy" or "peripheral" are that difficult and I will never understand why so many native English speakers are incapable of saying them correctly

Putting my bet in now that this will be in most divorce filings in 2027/2028. Any attorneys want to weigh in?

Why are the kids at my gym tryna make us fight

Hey @bookmansaz.bsky.social this is disgusting. Your inconsistent ARC policy has always been annoying but the gall to be calling this an $800 rare book when you know perfectly well they say not for sale on the interior?

funny lil row on netgalley

my toxic trait is that I can both understand & respect that language evolves and prescriptivism can be violent while still being big mad at people who -use "I" as an object pronoun -say "I don't have cable" to talk about network television that comes through your antenna -say "watch" about podcasts

Is it just me or has iOS been autocorrecting past tense to present for you all too? I swear I keep finding things I write quickly that look like I just learned English yesterday and I’m certain I didn’t type them that way

We literally just want more outfits, fewer collectibles, respect for the brand's history, and more acknowledgments of the millennial women that made this brand and contribute to its staying power and every year Mattel and American Girl are like "oh yeah so fuck you in this different specific way"

What in the lazy, 14" Wellie Wisher, offbrand-looking fuck are these and why are they disrespecting us so much? Is anyone high up at Mattel on Threads or Bluesky? I just wanna talk

Can somebody explain the pathological repetition of “BORN AND RAISED IN VIRGINIA” when talking about Ilia? Are we worried ICE is going to kidnap him?

GO BENITOOOOO

crazy how microphones are strong enough to pick up the scraping of ice skates on ice and not the loud boos for fascists; certainly couldn't be any funny business happening with peacock

Absolute fucking fire. You must turn sound on and watch the video; the text describing it is a little confusing without reading the whole thread AND listening to the speaker

Why is tangelo zest so…*gestures* compared to all other zest

The thing about Chappell Roan discourse is that everyone has forgotten Lil Kim

What the ever loving fuck did Apple do to make my phone start making noise at midnight. Every midnight. And why

How do you know if that studio is a Pilates studio or a "Pilates" studio, and why does it matter? bookishfit.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/p...

Health insurance: hello we're a profit-seeking middleman that provides no services/goods. We're too cheap to provide you with a physical card but every1 accepts pdf! Every medical office: hello I use a fax machine from 1993 & I've never heard of a computer hand me a physical card or I shall implode

I just deposited a drop of presnisolone into my EYEBALL and now I can TASTE the eyedrop in my NOSE, but sure, tell me more about intelligent design

Just narrowly missed hitting a coyote with my car in a six-lane divided boulevard, and it’s things like this that make me realize why it was so easy to get people to believe stories about riding a horse to school and tying it up at the hitching post so I could do calculus

Anyone remember that tweet/skeet/post where someone pointed out that things like “Victorian-era Japan” are nonsense and they were going to start saying things like “Tang dynasty-era France” in retaliation? I should have saved it

Cheers to those of my friends who got awards and honors this morning! ALA YMA Day is always a delight and always forces me to add so much to my TBR, especially now that I'm not working as intimately in kidlit and YA anymore (😭).

Just watched videos of Ben Affleck speaking Spanish and damn if I’m not even more sad about much my own has slipped now

Me, a customer: polite message asking for customer service Every company on the planet: Me: profanity-laden message yelling at them for ignoring me & not providing me with service Every company: Wow, you don't have to use such language; we're not going to engage with you if you're not polite ????

I thought it was just my gym's app but I just tried with another app and had the same problem, so does anyone else know why iOS just....stopped adding things to calendar when you tell an app to add things to calendar? It lets you go through all the motions but then the thing never appears on cal!

Remember when we thought Daenerys having a Starbucks was the laziest thing a beloved franchise could do and now apparently we have S5 of Stranger Things written by multiple tabs of chatGPT? Guess I'm glad Netflix keeps kicking me off my mom's account

Have anesthesiologists and researchers ever considered that the reason there are only "nine documented cases [of Foreign Language Syndrome], all male" is because nobody writes about women or people of color in medical research, not because it only happens to white dudes?

I love when my macbook refuses to recognize I've plugged something in but it still yells at me to eject it properly when I unplug it

Lots of talk about how all microwaves have a popcorn button yet all microwave popcorn says DON'T USE THE BUTTON. A lot less talk about how they sell pizza pans yet every frozen pizza says DON'T PUT IT IN A PAN.

I have been waiting my entire life for anybody in real life to say “shrink” the way they do in TV and movies when talking about therapists and I have yet to hear it. Did Hollywood just make it up?

Hello, plesiosaur

17-year-old Hannah, who had never been laid anywhere and certainly not in this town with or without some pointy fucking shoes, is DELIGHTED with this find at the record store today

Not interested in hearing from anyone flat chested enough to wear cotton camisoles or elastic bands they pretend are bras, but Jesus Christ my full bust sports bra decided to spring an underwire leak halfway through body pump and the wire has almost reached my armpit now and it hurts so very much

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

Love when I get to use my kidlit degrees/nostalgia at trivia. Now I’m mad that our VHS of the animated film is probably lost forever to time

My neighbor just told me I have Jennifer Grey vibes, particularly Dirty Dsncing and Ferris Bueller, and I’ve never been more flattered, offended, AND read for filth

Different professional environments have different cultural bases, which is why whenever someone working in them doesn't come from the same cultural background, they will be deemed insubordinate, weird, unprofessional, or unfit. They're not, they're just from a different culture and

Whenever I listen to Selena, I find myself singing the half-Spanish, half-gibberish lyrics I mondegreened as a child, even though I know Spanish and know the lyrics now. Apparently I do the same with Eydie Gorme y los Panchos, because what do you mean it's not "I need you green" on DESPERADAMENTE?

I’m sorry how did I just realize tonight that Chet Baker singing sounds like Caetano Veloso?!

Can a single editor at a trad publisher please explain to me why you let obviously British authors write in British English while setting the story in the US and populating it with purportedly USian characters who speak British English?

nothing, just here to brag about a book panel I have coming up in 2026 that is ENTIRELY BROWN and ENTIRELY QUEER and the panel subject is NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS

yo, Hayley Sharon/Susan/Pollyanna Mills is in TRAP!? I'm dying

You guys, what’s the name of those mints that came in pastel colors, were not individually wrapped, and melted in your mouth instantly? They looked like little marshmallow pillows

I love being a desert rat who will forever be like, “I can’t sleep because my house is being pelted with hail? Right on” and “plans canceled due to rain? Best day ever.”

“If you defund the police, the streets won’t be safe!” The streets and the police:

wild that as a child you're told that being smart means reading books that aren't intended for you and magically intuiting calculus, then you grow up and the real differentiator is understanding how four-way stops work and seeing through tactics like "compliment sandwich" for the insults they are