TRAINS!

Elga, aka Ellie, turns 37 today! She is the oldest mammal at the aquarium, and is older than the Aquarium itself. Please join us in seal-ebrating 37 years of the ever elegant Ellie. 💙

The Princess Bride by William Goldman Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones Sunshine by Robin McKinley (cheating) The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig Not "best," but the books I have re-read until the pages fell out.

OMG! I love her. Someone please, please, please give her a good & loving home.

Are you a librarian and technologist who understands patron authentication systems?? Have you got half an hour, please, to talk with our crack tech team? Will be most grateful for your help as we prepare to sell ebooks, for keeps, to LIBRARIES. 🎉📚 DM here pls or email maria [at] flaminghydra.com

Yo! Knitting f(r)iends! It looks like there might be two pairs of these left right now. Get 'em before they're gone.

26. Some are beloved favorites, but most I would like the author to come back from the dead so that I could lock them in a small room with the teacher who made me read the book & let them lecture each other about symbolism while I performed my own "Schrödinger's Cat" experiment.

It's OK. It's OK. It's only temporary.

Hey y'all! Donna & I are navigating the $ situation, but the most upsetting part is that because she was secondary on her son's acct, he also lost everything. @courtneymilan.com has been peer pressuring us to drop his venmo & we got him set up with his own account. (venmo is @Chaotic_Pretzel !)

I was half expecting something from my transphobic grandmother for my bday because bday? And instead, nada. I'm trying to raise $75 for groceries. Disabled queer trans artist trying to survive & dealing w/ being medically complicated. TYSM! 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️ #MutualAid paypal.me/rookkilljoy CshApp/Vmo: foxrook

Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Manny, Moe, Jack

hey, y'all, hey we're still on the lookout for a much needed vehicle and need help with the deposit. please share.

The gifts of spring: a sinus headache that has persisted for three days (so far) & a very large (size of a nickel) bug bite on the inside of my right knee.

Greener than ever 😑

Your weather for today: Morning brain fog will become clouds of dread and later a storm of uncertainty. This evening, expect a drizzle of indecision leading into a deluge of ennui.

CHEESE!

#Wrexham is back, so of course it opens with an episode that's making me weep, because this is a show that is only superficially about football.

I have: ✨Finished my Buffy re-watch & the finale still gets me in the feels every time. ✨Started S5 of Angel, which is where it really seems to find its tonal balance, but is sadly the last season, so it doesn't get to play there for long. ✨Started the back half of BSG S4. Watching in small bites

Ah, Fanatic Garden of Debt, my despised homeland.

Only 20 of these little skeleton buddies left!! Each one is lovingly handmade, and once they're gone, that's it! So grab 'em while you can. Every pre-order supports the whole team✨ Also, this month 10% of all sales will be donated to the Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation!

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

If you still have a NYT subscription, please do two things: 1. Read @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org's post below 2. CANCEL THE PAPER TOUT SUITE #AI #theft #plagiarism

🚨 EDSOURCE GUILD IS ON STRIKE! 🚨 Today—Thursday, May 14—EdSource Guild is on a one-day work stoppage due to the unilateral changes to our insurance and the lack of progress on key contract issues. PLEASE DO NOT CROSS OUR PICKET LINE AND VISIT @edsource.org TODAY! actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

If you're still paying for a NYT subscription, be aware that you're subsidizing plagiarism. If you're pissed about LLMs stealing people's work, you should be equally pissed about this.

Gotta say, I'm really starting to like this guy.

For me, the problem with cooking is that, once I'm done, I've spent so much time with the food, I no longer want to eat it.

Potatoes are mostly roasted & the green garlic has been added. Asparagus is ready to go in when the green garlic is close to done. I may not get the baking done today, but I do have the eggs & butter coming to room temp for the banana bread, so maybe.

Broth is simmering away. Oven is preheating for roasting.

Your daily affirmation: Always try your best. And if your best is only 12% today, that's ok. Carry on.

ANd if you want GOOD to replace BAD, deliberately allowing WORSE to take power because you want the electorate to learn a lesson by suffering through WORSE, you're an asshole.

I have a plan for tomorrow, which is supposed to be rainy & cool. ✨ Make a pot of veggie broth to use up some veggies that are past their prime. ✨Roast a pan of potatoes & green garlic & asparagus. ✨ Turn the broth into mushroom soup to use up the abundance of mushrooms I find myself with.

I'm honestly very happy that @peculiarityshop.bsky.social is in their Ring Era because it means that I, who is not a Ring Guy, am not tempted to spend money I don't have, but still get to admire shinies.

And I also need help to get caught up on rent abd vet bills: bsky.app/profile/chel...

It’s Ky Gives Day! Help the Lexington Writer’s Room unlock a generous $1,000 match from the @scalzi.com Family Foundation! www.kygives.org/organization...

Hi everyone, this Colorado family is in desperate need of help. The husband was taken (I believe illegally) in front of community members. ICE told lies about him. He is in detention and his family is suffering. www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

I feel awful about having to ask for help, but we are suing our landlord for refusing to make repairs due to extensive water damage and active leaks in our apt. We have signed a lease & paid deposit on a new place, but need help with moving expenses. Any help or shares are greatly appreciated. xx

Oh, man. My sinuses are telling me very loudly that the weather is changing.

close friends who are aware of my bizarre, fucked-up personal situation have encouraged (bullied) me to create more of a clear-cut fundraising campaign to help with my upcoming move. if you can chip in, great! thank you! but please only do so if you can spare it. 💚 ko-fi.com/interrobangb...

I have now learned that there is more than one Theremin because Piano Neighbor is working on an *opera* called "Lady Theremin." They're travelling to SF this summer to try to secure funding. Everyone should have such a cool neighbor.

There is a big difference between "people who are 'scared' of AI and don't want to learn new things" and "people who have deep moral objections to AI's underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it." It's wild to me that institutions pushing AI adoption don't seem to understand this.

Let's face it, kids: This is basically how I choose half (or more) of the authors for #BookstoreRomanceDay virtual events.

Also, there's a new Season of Tucci in Italy & he's currently eating a lemon salad & lemon pesto (separately). The pesto would be great on pasta with some peas.

Saving this for later because I have an abundance of lemons right now.

Still love Jackie & Aaron, but I'm worried for Jackie. Dot is climbing the ranks of favorites, as is Casper who is not the sort I'd normally root for. I'm becoming convinced that Luke is the new Callum & will need to fuck up quite egregiously—like serving raw poultry—to even risk elimination.

If you happen to have the mutual $10 this week, can you pass it along to Agata?

If you happen to have the mutual $10 this week, can you pass it along to Agata?

Having an elderly cat (she's 19) is a constant game of Are You Deeply Asleep or Are You Dead? I hate this game.

ok, so I talked my landlord into waiving late fees until the end of the week. please help me pay rent as soon as possible plus buy medication and groceries. I am so anxious 😭💔 #MutualAid 💕💸💕

"Under-babied" by whose standard? Because my zero babies are the perfect number of babies for me. (And Big Yuck to the term "under-babied.")

SCIENCE!