haha thank you, I have Interests™️😂 managed to get it all out easily enough and position the eyes back in but now I'm in an internal debate over whether to go get some more plaster and do it properly or just fudge it with DAS because I have some and I am lazy 😅

14th July 2026 So—not really an ideal “outfit a day” photo mirror situation going on here…

Just heard about Sam Neil. That's incredibly depressing. The world was a better place with him in it.

CAROLINE: That Elizabeth. The glint of her skin seems sun-touched these days, not like last time I saw her. Her teeth are fine. People say her eyes are pretty, but they seem stern to me, and I’ve looked long and deep into them. DARCY: (Oh no, better lock down Elizabeth before Caroline makes a move)

The Pride and Prejudice read along thread is giving me life!!! I've been trying to figure out how to schedule in a break from higher ed policy reading this month so I can reread P&P and then watch the bbc miniseries for the 6th or 7th time this year (who's counting?).

12th July 2026 Pretty blue dress today—it is WINDY!!!

What the fuck is going on?

I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr

11th July! It’s Newbury Pride today! Amazing day! Lovely to see so many friends! I dressed appropriately!

It’s always satisfying to poke an abscess was with a lancet.

10th July 2026

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

I can’t get enough of Count Binface. As miserable as everything has become, a man with a bin for a head promising to build one affordable house is what I need in my news feed. That he’s made such a joke of Farage is just the cherry on top.

Woo Hoo! Thanks for the heads up. And it was great to spend time with you on the set.

Congrats to the #Murderbot team for their 3 Emmy nominations! Can’t wait for everyone to see what the team is cooking up for season 2! deadline.com/lists/emmy-n...

Woohoo!!!

She GLOWS in the dark!!! She is so definitely a mutant

The Octonauts actually inhabit the same speculative future as Oryx & Crake Just look at Tweak: a green (GREEN) rabbit who makes devices (see image) I’m not even joking—it makes perfect sense and I deeply suspect Atwood had some hand in their genesis (Canadian origins, coincidence? I think it not)

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Dr. Gurathin finally finding the perfect T-shirt for SecUnit…

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

What are these people on 😭 "Restore patriarchy" Bro it never even left

Reminded of this today-2019, what a year… This Is Just To Say I have destroyed the civilizations that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for the patriarchy Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold and absent of structure...

Holiday reading sorted for half the household… Thank you @scalzi.com (we loved Kaiju Preservation Society!) Older child very much judged their choice by its cover—and I mean: it looks right up their street!

Look, it's the new Waterstones Children's Laureate and a pair of troublemakers! The atmosphere in the room was amazing Congratulations to Patrice Lawrence, all hail! I'm really excited to see what she does. Her speech was properly inspiring. Let's see how books can build community.

OH HEY I MADE THIS INSTEAD OF CHECKING REPLIES 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝘅 𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗭𝗘 LET ME PUT THIS IN LANGUAGE THAT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND:

I think it’s too late for the second season.

7th July! New dress!!!! I am delighted!

The distinct thematic/character threads are very distinct Oh tbe whitch books tend to be at their heart re-interpretations of classic tales … Wyrd Sisters is MacBeth/Hamlet, Shakespeare. Maskerade = Phantom Opera, etc … There is character overlap but it’s pretty thin …

6th July 2026 I am sooooo tired! (I was awoken by neighbours, who I do NOT blame at all as it was evidently a VERY exciting football match, when England scored their first goal and then sort of following the ups and downs of the game via cheers and groans)

I feel like it’s the first time in ages that we’ve seen anybody FA and FO with immediate consequences.

I liked “unsocial.” Someone you cross paths with often enough to know that you are likely to find their posts somewhere between annoying and appalling, or perhaps just fractally wrong. But not so bad or in such bad faith that you preemptively block them.

This is a very very weird timeline How in the name of all that’s holy did we end up here? HOW???

Ooh ooh ooh! I do have one particularly unhinged unsocial who thinks I’m “Murderbot”: which is frankly kinda wonderful You can see why this sort of person “doing their own research” can lead to confusion #vaccineswork #murderbot #notactuallyamurderbot

For the purposes of this question I am deciding that Murderbot would go, “Human words, there‘s too many of them, and I don’t care…” Ratthi would probably look all hurt and say, “You’re a person!” Gurathin would shrug and point out he probably meets the definition of an android in some polities…

This is an absolute wonder! It’s awesome, in the original sense of the word—not, as Eddie Izzard would say, like hotdogs I am truly in awe

It’s been said many times before, but there’s nothing quite like trying to look something up for a tetchy bit of world building, finding an incredibly useful, clear, and concise comment that speaks to your problem, and then seeing it was posted by u/jesuschristsbutthole

(As always, you probably know the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith better by one of its earlier incarnations' names: the Inquisition.)

Ooooh! Thank you! 💖💖💖 There is also a very creative and friendly Discord Server, if you would like a link…

PROUD AUNT moment! My niece Ruby (who I watched Treasure Planet with more times than is possibly sensible—great film) makes jewelry as well as other fashion related things… The singer/song writer Beabadoobee saw one of Ruby’s pieces and wanted to wear it tO Dun Dun Dun Taylor Swift’s wedding!!!

3rd July 2026 Met a neighbor when I was out cleaning my windows (to better display the Pride Poster) and he asked which hat I was wearing today So here it is too, in case you wondered

"hwær is the gost?" Let's talk about the ways that a single printer changed the course of the English language, British media & global publishing. Let's talk about 'Wynkyn de Worde'. Wynkyn came to England from Germany with his master William Caxton in 1476 ...

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30th June 2026 Off to the dreaming spires today…

I LOVE Gurathin!!!

This is also why that amazing scene from Sanctuary Moon, where Navbot starts killing crewmembers, works so well. I was watching that, the first time, with my jaw dropped. But if that was the only Sanctuary Moon scene we'd been given, it wouldn't have hit so hard.

There are so many tropes from ancient literature that I wish had survived! In Hattian myths, for instance, you know that someone is Big Mad when they put their left shoe on their right foot and their right shoe on their left foot.

There was a facepainter in town! Well, I couldn’t NOT could I! 🍋🍋🍋

All he did was try to pet a puppy

LOKI WAS ROBBED