We report: we too were, some moments ago, in the shadow of a cloud. Because it is not much of a windy day, it was minutes before we were in the sunshine again. In the undergrowth, the humidity makes the warm air thicker, and turns it cold at the drop of a hat.

Surgery went well! I was only under for about four hours. ...and I fell asleep writing this so that's a good indication of my general state. (Also feeling sick, but I have only thrown up twice so far.) #NayeHealth

The original GTO was my first-ever J-drama I have SO MANY FEELINGS!!

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

Okay, it's way past any kind of office hours at the hospital, so surely they're not going to cancel for logistical reasons before 10.30 am tomorrow?? Maybe it's happening after all! ...oh god it's happening. Okay. I can do this. #NayeHealth

Okay so a month ago THIS was the time of day when they called and cancelled my surgery the next morning. So as you can imagine, I am doing SO GOOD right now. So great at focusing. So excellent at not being a distracted ball of anxiety. (I lie.) #NayeHealth

Feeling so lucky to have a friend I can exchange all caps messages about One Piece feelings with! The same friend I've been exchanging all caps messages with about One Piece for 22 years now. (Not to mention countless hours of chatting about it IRL, and going to Jump Festa and stuff together!)

We report: the moon again, now only a few days away from revealing itself completely. The swifts are flying in and out of a swarm of midges, and later, we see a bat as well. The evenings feel more and more alive and busy, like we are missing out when we go to sleep.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Dear perimenopause folks: If your ears, like mine, are driving you bonkers here's a tip that might help!

Just a heads up for folks who signed up for the Vidding Workshop: Assignments are slowly going out but there's been a delay, so if you haven't received yours yet, don't stress. We'll move the submission date back to give everyone enough time to work on their fragments and will share more soon.

WAIT I get NEW MURDERBOT as recovery reading next week??? Okay, things are looking up now. (And it comes out on Luffy's birthday! /nerd.)

Can confirm that Space Brothers is absolutely stellar. Definitely something to watch for fans of real-life NASA missions! And I remember really liking Planetes, though it has been a minute since I watched it.

I love this book!!

Heated Rivalry podfic! 🏒 "supercilious & other english mishaps" by @krfabian.bsky.social and @katiekenopsia.bsky.social 🏒 Shane/Ilya, G, 53:24 🏒 made for the @iceouthr.bsky.social charity event 🏒 read by an AMAZING cast of podficcers, edited by me 🏒 archiveofourown.org/works/83812171

I don't have a Facebook account, but Duck Duck Go served me a post from a gardening community when I looked for dahlia info. And somehow this gave me access to the entire community?? Now I feel like the proverbial fly on the wall bc people are fascinating. Excellent advice mixed with AI screenshots!

They made it!

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

It's full of teeth.

Why Was I Invited To An Island Off The Coast of Costa Rica By A Genetics Company? (With apologies to Dan Olson)

I really wish I could just be sedated now and wake up after surgery. Having to do the counting down and waiting around a second time in a month is just... not great. Especially since I now have the added anxiety of what if they cancel AGAIN. #NayeHealth

Nooo not the freezing late April nights...! Some of the poor budding tulips are slumping over. I hope they'll be okay when they warm up.

It wasn't that warm today, but Meenie melted.

An Eridian lullaby #projecthailmary #phm

Ew Moleskine used genAI for their Lord of the Ring collection by mentioning they used it, then entirely removing the claim after some backlash. Incredibly shitty of them for a brand that claims human creativity. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

We report about this sunset: for the first time this spring, the evening wind is not getting our nose to run. Later on, when the sun is long gone, it obviously gets much colder. But at this moment, the breeze is kind, and we cannot help but feel really good about it.

The dahlias are here! Didn't take any pictures of the tubers - or the "before" for our recently flooded basement upgraded to plant nursery with a foldable table from IKEA and a new plant light (for when the roots develop). I'm growing the tubers in clear bags - great tip, @busarewski.bsky.social!

Today's sky is all action!

Look at those beautiful white spring flowe-- Oh. It's hail.

That April sky over the plant nursery!

In case you (somehow haha) missed it, we're relaunching in five short days—next Wednesday, April 29th! 💓 Here's a great summary of what we're hoping to do:

This may be what finally makes me play this game!

I love my sweet colleagues. Several of them have kept track of my healy woes enough to wish me good luck now for my surgery on Thursday, since they know it's safest for me to WFH next week so I avoid catching any bugs going around. They're so good at looking out for me! Very grateful for that.

"An analysis by SolarPower Europe found that harnessing sunlight for energy has saved Europe more than €100 million per day since 1 March, resulting in total savings of more than €3 billion." @euronews.com www.euronews.com/2026/04/24/d...

OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees

AMV contest submissions are open! Head to utahhachicon.com/amv-contest for more details. . #HachiCon #UtahHachiCon #AMVContest

Not a single punch is pulled here

Developers listening to the users over here??? It's an April miracle! I'm so relieved!!

SPRING #NayePhoto

As a person who posts a lot of photos, NEVER ONCE have I thought to myself "I wish only one of these images showed up and that people had to scroll to see the others". Where did this idea come from. What is this even. You want improvement? 3x3 photo grid like on Weibo! More photos! Not... this...

Where does the LMM bullet point format come from?? What data trained it to be all: [emoji] sentence [emoji] sentence [emoji] sentence Instead of just writing a paragraph?? It's gotten to the point where stuff that otherwise seems human-written does the same, and I automatically recoil.

Tried a new bagel from the lunch café and it was horrible. 😭 So greasy! So salty! So little flavor! A waste of money and lunch break. I ate most for sustenance but I have regrets.

IKEA: Look at our beautiful solar powered lanterns! They look like paper but you can have them outdoor! Me: Outdoors where we don't have anywhere to hang them? IKEA: Look at our convenient lantern stands! Me: ... IKEA: And so cheap! Me: ... IKEA: 🏮 Me: It fucken wimdy. IKEA: ... Me: Yeah.

Trying very hard to accept that The Borgias (2011) is fictional, not historical, and mostly succeeding. BUT. A single noblewoman, on her own, alone, rides from Rome (west coast) to Pesaro (east) - roughly 300km on today's roads (no roads in 1495), and arrives (ALONE) without a hair out of place...!

I turned out to be too concussed yesterday to post (don't worry, I'm fine, but what timing ehhhhh?) but I had a book come out! LINGUISTIC SCIFI, MY HEART us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Will get to notifs in a bit, thanks everyone for all the lovely release day boosting :) :) :)

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist. Embarassing.

we all know I have no life, so:

Given how many people ignore that I state outright in my profile that I block non-fandom follows from people I don't know I'm VERY curious about how many of my 933 "followers" are actually people who can see what I post, and how many were just engagement farming. @realfollowers.bsky.social