Last night I dreamed that Dan Levy lived in a greenhouse in my backyard and was better at gardening than me. Still feeling a little resentful about it, tbh.

This is quite possibly the silliest and also the most satisfying weird little craft I have picked up in over 25 years of picking up weird little crafts.

MADAME BOVARY. The actual worst.

@kdcaseywrites.bsky.social is that u

This is so cool???

The only TV I was allowed to watch was PBS Nature and the MacNeill-Lehrer Business Hour.

My kid athlete has an injury, which needs surgery. Insurance denied any more PT after 2 months, then told us they were denying surgery because she hadn’t done 3 months of PT. Planning to send them a bill for the athletic scholarship money she’s anticipating for college if this continues.

I’m in this picture!

I’m not really an author anymore but a fun thing about this liminal space I exist in is I get to pack books by people I still hang out with in various online spaces for vacation. (Shout out to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social and @valerievaldes.bsky.social who will be vicariously on the beach with me!)

I don't talk about it a lot but one of my niche interests is celebrity gossip because I'm deeply basic. Anne Hathaway and I are exactly the same age - here's a thoughtful article from my fave gossip columnist about a good interview she gave about aging and work. www.laineygossip.com/anne-hathawa...

It’s my favorite time of year: when I get to go through my own social media to prove where I was and what I was doing for tax purposes.

If you are a person who a) backs into a parking spot at Costco, b) on a weekend, can you just… explain your worldview to me?

We are introducing our children to Star Trek and my daughter has just referred to Jean-Luc Picard as “the cool uncle.”

Getting mad about people being mean to my friends, while cooking vast quantities of food: the Jamaila Brinkley lifestyle

lol shoutout to my fellow only children of narcissists

Twelve years ago right around this time, my husband took the single most unflattering picture of me that has ever been taken. (Turned out okay a couple hours later, though.)

This is not a media tie in I expected to see in the grocery store.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

Watched the new muppet show. My only note is that there should be more of them.

We saw The Great Gatsby musical yesterday and it was great but the hook of the song ‘New Money’ sounds exactly like the Fairly Oddparents theme song and now my brain is doing some VERY strange associations. (Also good luck getting this out of your head if you’ve seen both. Sorry.)

Listen. The greatest moment of television in my personal lexicon is an episode of Barefoot Contessa in which Ina’s friend Susan brings a ‘surprise guest’ - the doorbell rings, Ina opens it, flings her arms in the air, and shrieks “IT’S MEL!!” upon finding Mel Brooks on her doorstep. AS WE ALL WOULD.

This sounds genuinely amazing, no notes

It’s the Patapsco now but growing up it was the Spokane!

My Bluesky strategy: occasionally retweet things, then disappear for a month, the show up to make one (1) post about food and reply to a million posts. Repeat.

I genuinely hope that whatever food scientist came up with Nerds gummy clusters is getting some kind of real reward from it, monetary or career or whatever they want. They deserve it.

This remains one of my favorite things.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Me, finally watching Ahsoka multiple years after everyone else, shrieking “IS THAT @vinnythomas.bsky.social?!” during three crucial seconds to the extreme befuddlement of my significantly less Online spouse and children

Foreigner looks so happy to be in the parade. Good for them!

Hi friends! It’s baking season again, which means I am here to sing the praises of pre-cut parchment paper. YES it is more money but the amount of stress it saves me is unimaginable. It’s SO EASY. If you can swing it I highly recommend it.

I’m just imagining the Mythbusters testing this with ballistics gel and dummies, tbh

I have waited patiently through spooky season. Bring out the meal preparation Gantt charts and the gift shopping spreadsheets, IT’S MY TIME TO SHINE

We had a wee little earthquake here this evening. 2.5, according to USGS. My house shook! Wild stuff for Maryland.

I posted about my recent age-related shoulder impingement diagnosis on Facebook and the over-40 women are coming out of the woodwork in the comments. The things our bodies do to us in return for managing to survive this long are wildly unfair.

Hello! It’s me, your friend with a rare and stupid autoimmune disorder, here to ask your non-dietary tips on reducing chronic inflammation! My connective tissue and various appendages thank you in advance!

My husband took our son fishing this morning and he is not responding to any of my texts which consist solely of quotes from the increasingly obscure Strongbad Goes Fishing episode. Rude.

Yes, OBVIOUSLY if I had known this was coming I would have waited to reread Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail again. But I read it like last week. That’s too soon. You have to save up for it.

The amount of pressure I am feeling right now to identify and download a long enough fic to tide me through the upcoming AO3 20-hour maintenance is unreal. (I only read at bedtime! For like an hour! BUT STILL.) (Yes, recs welcome, esp if they involve Bucky Barnes or Jason Todd)

We need to sell about 500 of these to fully fund the native plant project for 2026. We're at about 90 so far so we're getting there! Tell your animal loving friends about this calendar 😘

There is nothing an older person in the grocery store likes more than seeing a younger person buying parsnips, let me tell you. I’m making brisket tonight and got stopped by MULTIPLE elderly ladies to compare recipes when they saw me pulling out a couple bags of ye olde parsnips.

I MADE this. I am astonished at myself.

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

I have once again begun to chaos bake. Discord gets most of the play by play but please enjoy this glimpse into the mess. These will, hopefully, be tartlets with a mandarin orange filling and lemongrass whipped ganache.

It always feels like a relevant time to share these again. #bsnm whimsystation.com/collections/...

The garden grew so many chili peppers while we were out of town that I have just purchased a dehydrator in self defense. @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is influencing me again.

End-of-summer poolside TBR. Feels like a pretty good way to spend my time.

This is like retiring The Onion’s jersey.

Yesterday I was in traffic brought to a standstill by an enormous flock of geese who decided to permanently inhabit the road. Nobody could get past in three directions until the hero in front of me got out of his car and shouted “GO DO FUCKING GOOSE THINGS” at them.

I ordered this a while ago, promptly forgot about it (a tried and true strategy for successfully backing cool projects), and it just got delivered in time for our summer vacation. Cannot wait to read this by the pool. Thank you @poopraven.bsky.social!