Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 🧶 #knitsky

The junior high English teacher that would "correct" my complex sentences to be nonsensical because she couldn't follow them. Other highlights include teaching a unit on WWII and not knowing what the Resistance *was*

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

I have read so much Heated Rivalry fic at this point, and not one story where Rose Landry shows someone where on her hand she's from. Where is the authenticity

I don’t want to reach the most people, I want to reach the best people* * weird sickos (complementary) who understand all my obscure TV references

I absolutely LOVED this book--it's like the gay 19th century detective story you didn't know you needed, and the grammar of magic--and its disastrous interactions with other systems--was fabulous

I haven't seen anyone really terrible. But one time an opening act did an extremely hokey "everyone just needs to love each other and we'll be happy and have world peace" kind of song, which was...you know, fine.... Problem was, they were opening for Hozier, who did Nina Cried Power as like song #3

I’m on Amtrak and the conductor just made the best quiet car announcement I’ve heard yet: “This is the quiet car. If you’re going to feel some kind of way when people shush you, then you should not sit in the quiet car.”

I will take every possible opportunity to regale people with the story of the time the people of Chicago decided that God made their river flow the wrong direction and they were going to fix it

Out of the corner of my eye I thought this was Angel and Buffy 😂😂😂😂

I’M NEVER GONNA STAY OFFLINE

for anyone wondering how dire the current glut of AI-enabled, author-targeted scam emails is, this is what the spam folder for my professional email address looks like:

Various Types of Women

Is that Chekhov’s Gun in your pocket or will you just be pleased to see me later?

I have two packages tomorrow from very nonspecific senders like SHIPPING DEPARTMENT. One of them is definitely an adult product I ordered. Excited to find out what other company feels the need to hide its tracks 😂

.........really wanna make a banana pudding parfait with these now

It's like 60 degrees here and I finally put the new cushions on my outdoor sectional, so I'm hanging out on the patio. I am a known lover of winter but it's also pretty nice to hang out outside & just enjoy my plants and the nice weather.

While there is not an emoji for "absolute horses" yet, using mathematical notation, you can portray an absolute horse: |🐴|

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

I'm'na (I am going to -> I'm gonna -> I'm'na. Not sure if counts as 3 or 4 lol)

JOHN FOGERTY: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain JAMES TAYLOR: okay, you’re not gonna fucking believe this

The ELT is the Extremely Large Telescope, if you're wondering if astronomers have gotten better at naming things (I say with love and understanding)

I was already impressed that the new LED light bulbs were so much brighter than the old ones, and then I realized the old ones were 100W equivalent and the new ones are 75W equivalent 😂 (Old ones 6yo, but I'm an insomniac and they're my bedroom lamps so they get used a LOT 😂)

Both Sides of the Sky - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rT18Rp

hello look who’s here nasaexchange.com/products/ris...

Sword Dance is my most popular book. It's got romance, it's got swords, it's got ridiculous evil philosophers. It's got fish sauce. sextonscottage.com/products/swo...

Bureaucracy. I want a lot more vowels before that first r.

How do you all remember what you earned at your first job!!! 😂

A perfect pudu 🦌

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

I don't remember exactly, but it was basically trying to show a scaling relationship between the masses of black holes & the time scales on which the X-ray emission from them varies. (It wasn't a very good correlation, in the end.)

Fully agree. Also reminds me of this.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

murderbotmaxxing (hiding in media instead of thinking about my feelings)

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Earlier, I was reorganizing the pantry pasta drawer and spilled a box of bucatini. In my head I wrote the post about how, if you have to spill pasta, at least "bucatini in a drawer" is easy cleanup and then I turned and picked up the orrechiette box upside down and spilled it all over the floor

I am never forgetting at the first anime con I ever went to in like 2007, there was someone selling a print of Light and L from Death Note naked and dramatically reaching toward each other across a flower and the artist put a big sticky note on it that said "NOT YAOI - SYMBOLISM"

I lost my glasses cleaner, so I bought a new bottle. Different brand. Then I couldn't find the NEW bottle. In 30 seconds of looking for it, I found the old bottle. And then the new one. There's probably a metaphor in this somewhere

DESI finished its originally planned survey last night!! ..and will keep going :) I made a cake to celebrate. 🌌🔭 @desisurvey.bsky.social

One of my favourites from polar bear guiding is 'Einsteins'. We use it on the radio to let others know where a mom and two cubs are - MC^2 :) It's not really a hobby, but it's to keep guests from getting excited too soon.

Just cut myself with a pair of scissors for the first time ever. That's right, kids! You too can keep having new experiences well into middle age and beyond! 😂 (I'm fine, barely a scratch, misjudged the tips of the scissors by less than a millimeter lol)

The WisCon 48 Panel Interest Survey is open until April 19th! This is how we decide what panels to schedule and who's going to be on them. Log in or create a WisCon Account at the top left corner of wiscon.net and click on Interest Survey.

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

got a much needed long laugh from this

Put together some recs of #HeatedRivalry fics I've been enjoying over on DW: goseaward.dreamwidth.org/151853.html

If you see this, post a concert photo that you took. Harry Styles at the Masonic on the first show of his Live on Tour, uh, tour in 2017. ( @hllangel.bsky.social and I got on line at 9 a.m. to be this close and even so we were like 200th in line...)

Sorry to hear about this. My dishes are from Denby and they're wonderful, no stains or chips after 12+ years (one cracked plate due to a dishwasher mishap, but still usable, you can barely tell). Look better in person than they do in photos, too. Hope the company finds a way to keep going.

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.