"Mom, look at this new friend I found! Can he stay for dinner?" Ethiopia, 18th c. #StMary #VirginMary #BabyJesus #angel #africanart

I don't care who y'are, the opening title sequence in 'Sherlock Holmes' (Downey/Law version) is fun as anything. Just sheer delightfulness.

TBH, this stolen wallet thing could've been much worse: - both banks sent alerts immediately after the first charges - both banks made it easy to lock/replace cards - getting new drivers license at DMV took maybe 20 minutes - getting new corporate Orca card took about 45 seconds A+ to all

I've been pretty chill about the whole stolen wallet business, but I'm in that limbo between fraud charges posted and fraud charges reversed, soooo groceries might be more of an intention than a reality this weekend, which is neat.

Heeeey just what I was looking for, an excuse to call out of work... to get all my cards replaced because my wallet was stolen. 🙄 Whoever it was only used my cards to get food, so. I'm not mad. Just annoyed my Charlie's Queer Books gift card was in there.

So yeah I wrote some brutal reviews on Goodreads, but this one of American Gods in 2022 turned out to be... relevant: 'I wasn't expecting a book with a higher number of described breasts than actual female characters.'

God is in the protest of the people... don't miss the divine clinging to the safety of order

OKAY bonus day off work, LET'S DANCE (I'm not going to Do All The Things, that's a silly goal. I'm going to do some of the important things. Yep. Super really am.)

"Cut bangs, text your crush, we're all gonna die." - my next tattoo, via a 2019 @ologies.bsky.social ep on biogerontology (OK not really getting a tattoo, but a kid can dream)

I believe this is what the British would call 'an absolute unit.'

Just spent 15 minutes being increasingly frustrated by trying to find an error popping up a new code.... and the solution ended up being adding one underscore. HARRUMPH. Don't really have a point, just feeling cross about it.

My favorite part of the TRON: Legacy soundtrack is still that you can hear the horn players breathing. So real. 😍

Is it silly? Yes. Has it helped me keep my shit together for an entire year? Also yes. #finch

Wake up babe new meet-cute dropped

I had thought I had one more place to query this book, but then I had happy hour with a dear friend and got all fired up about DAMN THE MAN not bothering with the big 6 And apparently they're walking back their barely-left-of-center content anyway. Fuck 'em.

Also, I can't find my Roomba.

Ironically, my most tangible action has cut me off from hearing about other and current tangible actions.

I seem to be sleeping only in 4 hour intervals through my 40s. It's deeply annoying.

'home' is such an interesting concept here, but anyway the mighty Columbia ❤️ (my current- and home-town is nowhere near the Columbia, but she's the river of my heart)

*reads today's headlines* *taps the sign*

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

...if there are salmon in zootopia would they die after mating or no?

Good morning

My kid made a napkin and a pillow on my sewing machine today and my wish for you is that you experience even a tenth of the joy she felt at making a thing to her own specifications for the first time. ❤️ Go make something badly. It'll still be fun. 🧶🧵

And here we see an artifact once worn by a baby gay in the late 1900s.

If I could scream one thing at everyone today, it would be **Just because they are awful at the institution of government doesn't mean government is an awful institution.** I'm so tired.

Oh, Oregon. 💗

oh i initially came here just now to laugh bitterly about the fact that I'm actually involved in something that made business insider 🙄 yes it's named after a mushroom. no i did not have a say in that. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-whole...

I *wish* this was a scam, but please go look at that guide, because it is most definitely not. The absolute lack of fucks about whether people actually want these products is... well, too much for this character limit, actually. tl;dr it's shitty

Dude, you can't *afford* a tradwife.

Oh you're dating a man? My condolences❤️

OH MY GOD WRITING PEER REVIEWS IS TORTURE

If I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.

Lately, people have been posting their worst books lists, and I wanted to share how you actually should do a "10 worst books of 2025" list: 10. Don't 9. Shit 8. On 7. Books 6. Because 5. It's 4. Extremely 3. Rude 2. And 1. Unnecessary #booksky

is it too early in the morning to already be complaining about SharePoint (the answer is no) (thanks I hate it)

Wearing a 'full face' of makeup (hence the dubious expression) for the first time since June last year and you can still see my freckles. I'm aging like good cheese, if I do say so myself.

When we say circle back in the new year, this is what we mean

Remembering The Honorable Shirley Chisolm who passed away 21 years ago today

Listen, I don't do resolutions, but deadlines are good, so: I resolve to get my god damn book fucking published in 2026. It will probably be done by me myself & I, but whatever. It's a great book and I want it out there.

Happy new queer!!!

My neighbor waited an hour and a half after midnight to set off tremendously violent fireworks. Then he waited a half an hour to turn on music and (I presume) hang out in his hot tub. Bless his heart.

rude

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

(And they lived in Dallas bc my dad was at SMU.)

Well, hell. Look what I just found in my family stuff. (My parents were in their 20s.)

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

Cheers