I didn't sleep at all. You will be shocked to learn that I am now tired and grumpy.

Snowdrops are also known as ‘Candlemas Bells’, as they bloom around #Candlemas. This Christian celebration of light echoes the older pagan festival of #Imbolc, and is observed on 2nd February to mark the ritual purification of Mary after the birth of Jesus.

The cold has broken me and I'm in the middle of signing up for Escapade. Let me know if you will be there!

Connor will be on SNL at the end of the month!

Art Deco Kimono. The composition of this kimono features dramatically stylized fans rendered as angular, overlapping diagonal bands in rich purple, rust orange, olive green, cream, and deep black, creating a dynamic visual rhythm that suggests movement and vitality. Taisho (1912-1926), Japan

Festivids is live! We have 128 vids in 85 fandoms! archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Sixteen hours until #festivids goes live, woo!

I'm a member of New York Metro Weather (www.patreon.com/nymw) and Mr Mayor himself showed up in a video yesterday! They don't do daily forecasts but I appreciate their storm forecasts and general coverage, for example showing the range of predictions form diferrent storm models.

I knew the NYPL was doing this but somehow I was still not prepared

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

I just thought everyone should see this

I love every single thing about this.

As reluctant as I am to rec something on substack, this was interesting and afaik not available anywhere else. jenka.substack.com/p/heated-riv...

Everybody shut the fuck up and pay attention to the most important thing happening at this moment.

Chess new Broadway cast album when. ♟️🎭 🎶

the list of topics to be discussed at the Council of Nicaea in 325CE

You love to see it. cybernews.com/security/dev...

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

I turned this off *without* losing my sorted inboxes by doing the following: Gmail > Settings > General > Google Workspace Smart Features, click "Manage Workspace smart feature settings" Toggle off "Smart Features in Google Workspace", "Smart features in other Google products", and hit save

AO3 is back, baby, and I really enjoyed this vid!

If you’re suffering from the AO3 downtime, try vids! New HR vid by sisabet on YouTube.

12:45am EST: Pluto in Aquarius biquintile South Node in Virgo. Release, release, release. The old world is dying and a new one's being born . . . on a more equal basis. 03°Aq21' D 09°Vi21' R

3:24am EST: Moon in Aquarius parallel Mars in Capricorn. If you're up and wide awake, don't force yourself to close your eyes. You have permission to stay up and do something constructive for your people.

People are being wrong on the internet about Chess. Hold me. They think the Broadway book is the original book omg. 😱 Must.Not.Comment.

Old problem fixed but now a new problem. 😱

Wear an N95 mask on public transportation! New op-ed in Science: “PM2.5 in underground subway platforms are typically 2-6 times greater than outdoor levels”; inside NYC train cars, they are 7x higher than the WMO standard. Toronto subway has PM2.5 levels 8-50 times that of concurrent outdoor air.

The new nasal AIBP vaccine from Trinity College Dublin stops whooping cough in lungs and nose, hinting at true transmission blocking immunity. NOTE: This is PRECLINICAL. The study has been published in the Nature Microbiology. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵⬇️

If you don't have a Paramount+ subscription, you can watch the full #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy series premiere on YouTube for a limited time blog.trekcore.com/2026/01/watc...

There is a leak in the basement which has been a 55 hour ordeal and while it's no longer actively leaking I just can't cope anymore and have taken myself out for dinner.

Wowow. My 🏒 team just won 9-0! Go Islanders.

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A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for www.beampaints.com

Just a reminder that you have only until January 8th left (after which #StarTrek leaves Netflix) to watch the unedited, full length 2-hour versions of the #StarTrekTNG' finale "All Good Things" and the #StarTrekDS9 pilot "Emissary". Paramount+ only streams them as two separate episodes including...

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Ignoring the news, going to see The Hockey 🏒🥅

I think this might actually be my favourite "easter egg" thing I've read about Heated Rivalry? There was so much care and attention put into so many "little" choices. www.tumblr.com/coeur-de-coe...

Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

(art by @wardsutton.bsky.social)

🕛 At midnight, new creative works enter the public domain in the US. 🎙️ In the latest Future Knowledge podcast, James Boyle (The Public Domain) explains why the public domain matters & how digital enclosures are quietly fencing it off. 🎧 Listen now ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Happy New Years Eve! A few more photos from this mornings misty start to the day in Glastonbury.

I'm making a playlist for New Year's Eve / Day / seasonally appropriate (winter, snow, change, goals). Do you have any favorites?

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

The very next day, my bus betrays me and I end up warming up by grabbing a coffee at a cafe (w/o a working phone) and randomly read a New Yorker issue from June 2025 ... which defines "chirp."

So, this doesn't really mean anything but as coincidences go it's wild. After I finished watching HR I listened to a hockey podcast that was covering the show, and they used the term "chirp" quite a bit in one episode (which at the time I thought was a general bro or "youth" (younger than me) term.

The goat has fallen #GavleGoat

KIRKUS STAR for THE FARAWAY INN!!! What a fabulous way to finish out 2025! The first trade review for my forthcoming YA cozy fantasy is in, and it's a starred review from Kirkus! Thanks so much, Kirkus Reviews! Now I'm even more excited for what 2026 will bring! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

BREAKING. Enormous news in the hockey romance world... I am thrilled to announce that CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR FIVE, a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. #omgcp 🏒🥧💕

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/