every day I think about how alan moore definitely didn't intend for me to find nite owl ii so attractive (sad, kinda simpy, ed, can't get it up unless he's wearing his power fantasy cosplay) and yet here I am, kicking my feet and giggling over what a messed up lil guy he is

I love telling people funny stories from my youth. like pls ask me about the time I was absolutely convinced I was being haunted by anastasia romanov or the time I had full-on chuunibyou with my to-this-day best friend (I can text her about it and we still cry laughing about it to this day)

please help my friend @sirivplouff.bsky.social out!! they are a very kind, very smart, very funny person whose presence on this planet literally enriches it, and it would be really appreciated if anyone could help from near or afar 💕

Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title. Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.

it's not barely 10:30 and it feels like 2 am because the sun sets at 4:40 now and I am a bit high so time is irrelevant and has happened forever

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

She'll be the death of me. #art

heero yuy: hey, duo, look at what i made. heero yuy: [holds up a printout of the wing gundam that says, in impact font, 'WE ARE GOING TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH'.] duo maxwell: oh, yeah, i've seen that meme around. heero yuy: what's a meme.

we should reject waymo on the basis of supporting labor in minnesota, where uber and lyft drivers fought to score a statewide minimum wage! and don't forget that lyft contributed $10,000 to all of mpls this year to reelect mayor frey and get a city council allied with him. they are making moves

This kind of story makes me extremely wary. And there’s no way to contact a person at Waymo in this kind of situation. I will never get into a driverless car that I have no control over. I don’t like Uber and Lyft either. I use cabs.

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please help my friend @sirivplouff.bsky.social out!! they are a very kind, very smart, very funny person whose presence on this planet literally enriches it, and it would be really appreciated if anyone could help from near or afar 💕

white usians learn history outside of the us and europe challenge level impossible, apparently. otherwise me explaining the racial history of mexico wouldn't change the way people interpret mexican gothic, and disney adults would understand that jasmine is a mughal princess?

I love the Hattusa Lion Gate. they just look so excited to be here

someday I'm going to write my thoughts on this concept that I had while revisiting redwall at this particular moment in history (I wrote them in my journal but I want to polish it up and put it on display for people) because I had A Lot of Thoughts about Matthias and the Redwall denizens

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something very cute about waking up to hear the sounds of fiancé playing a vidyagame faintly from the study. like how cute and cozy.

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

people who use ai for literally ANYTHING are fucking repulsive just fyi. sorry just weeding out the dogshit here

(me watching hbo rome) the fact that I can't be a priestess as a government job makes me so angry actually

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

astrologers are in the unenviable position of studying a real system that was produced thousands of years ago, cannot actually be demonstrated in satisfying numerical way, requires deep familiarity with history and spirituality *and* sound thinking, and absolutely cannot be explained easily to most

I'm just saying that if I were a bird, I would not have to deal with coworker drama

almost posted something here truly unhinged and then was like wait no this is the wrong place for that. and then opened up tumblr and put it there

rome hbo is so fun to watch but the clear partisanship of the writers to octavianus/augustus and his particular pr machine is the fly in the soup. the depictions of cleopatra vii philopater and marcus antonius are irritatingly bad in a way that makes it clear we the audience should hate them

fiancé at beginning of our relationship: I don't like dogs >:( fiancé a few years into our relationship: I love our herding dog :) and big dogs are pretty cool! fiancé now, 14 yrs after meeting me: I desire a tiny chihuahua. he will ride in my lap and he shall be named el generalissimo

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

‘November at its best—with a sort of delightful menace in the air.’ ~ Anne Bosworth Greene. Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Wellcome Collection.

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Not now, carnivorous death ball

looking forward to taking my huge book and getting a nice cozy cuppa at the tea place after work

me to one of my ghosts: do you ever think about the time we were like, 22 and we made john scalzi's schadenfreude pie together and we could barely split a slice bc it was so rich, and then we went upstairs and watched the royal tenanbaums while lying on the floor. why did you ruin all of that?

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

I like properties where spirits have thrown their ectoplasmic weight around to the point the owners have fled. More so, I adore a property so phantom-plagued no estate agent can find a willing renter. Ghosts that defy the property market are worth studying. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

the problem I have with modern deployment of the term "nonplussed" is that it is so hard to tell if someone is using it correctly or not, absent any more context clues. if you say "their nonplussed relationship with X" and no other context, I cannot tell how to interpret that bc of rampant misuse.

if you see this post egg

sending my future husband iwtv memes while he's watching his grad school class lecture before I tune back into middlemarch the book. waow life can be so lovely

me looking up through my eyelashes at the cloudless sky, lit by the setting sun, my hands clasped together: god, if it is your will that I be the first one to write a southern gothic horror about being tejana, I will take that burden, but really I just want to read someone else do it 🥺

idk I just don't feel right about when people say they stay on threads bc they get better engagement there, when the threads crowd actively supports banning books they don't like and arresting fiction authors for the fiction they write. like man maybe that engagement ain't worth it!

LUNAR RETURN FULL MOON FOR MEEEEE

Triscuit is short for electricity biscuit

top joke from today: I asked matt if the large pot was clean and he said yes, only for me to find something oily in it, so I ran into the office and said, "you lie to miette? you lie like a traitorous dog?! JAIL! JAIL FOR HUSBAND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS" and he giggled so hard he shook

seriously contemplating career advancement just to get myself out of this dysfunctional setup where nobody wants to admit my coworker is developing major memory and cognition issues and so nothing can be done about her massive mistakes that cause her distress

I love how eliot is like, "a quick aside here that you shouldn't necessarily trust everyone's biased judgements that mr. casaubon sucks. anyone could suck under nitpicky neighbors," and you know what, valid! I was probably off-putting to some of my neighbors too

I have seen so many people be loudly and confidently wrong about how the end of daylight savings time works today. we don't lose an hour in fall, we gain an hour, you "fall back" which means you get an extra hour of sleep. am I being punished by the gods on purpose here smh

New awareness campaign

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

aggressively manifesting The Flytrap meeting our new/renewed subs goal sometime this afternoon so that we, the exhausted cofounders, can stop nagging the shit outta y'all, your patience is extremely appreciated

listening to toni braxton while reading middlemarch bc I can