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I asked Bébé if he wanted to go for a walk because he just kept slamming his “soon” button and looking frantic but what he needed was a cuddle and a nap My smol relatable king

I’m fine I’m fine I’m fine I’m fine I’m fine

Roses are red Stem held between teeth I ordered us takeout but it's

me in any conversation about anything lately:

Gf brought me healing ramen 🥹

I feel like having a chronic illness should make you exempt from regular illnesses but alas

@cnn.com I DON'T WANT TO CROSSTALK ✋

Fresh in my inbox, & I want to shout out @skyekilaen.bsky.social's newsletter. Not just a great list of new queer romance, but a really thoughtful explanation of how she dealt with some authors using AI. Writing (& maintaining!) book recs is a lot of work, and I really appreciate her approach to it.

A few of the stunning illustrations from a 16th-century treatise on comets — known as The Comet Book — created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France). More info and images from the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book

Bébé started flipping out so much on our evening that I picked him up and .05 seconds later a skunk walked right out in front of us My opinion is that if you can see their whiskers you are TOO CLOSE TO A SKUNK 1,000 gold stars for Bébé who absolutely was not overreacting

I asked Bébé if he wanted to go out and the dog that has been bullying me into doing agility training first thing every morning for weeks got on the couch and is sleeping under a blanket I’m enjoying the respite but slightly concerned he was replaced by the fae overnight

In a month where everything is romantic, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends an alternative. Here's 5 excellent backlist books featuring asexual characters!

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Do you ever have an apple that is so good

My little niece finally got a cell phone and she texts me every day it’s so great 🥹 She’s like: Send me dog pictures Here’s my friend I’m eating lunch Math test day Send more dog pictures

Well, it’s been real I guess

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I was gonna ask if the sports started or if it was over yet but good goddamn 😭🥹🥹🥹

I actually DID need 30 Jung Kook smiles in a row this morning, thank you 😌

Unless something is obviously harmful right out of the gate I just don't think there's a percentage in telling people not to do things in this moment. If you see a gap you can slide into, go for it.

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Oh they were rocking out

I got a pair of clippers for Bébé off marketplace and they are BRAND NEW 🎉🎉🎉 Please understand I have to shave parts of the little gremlin every single week so tools really matter! I just got a 90% discount on a super nice thing 🎉

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Tree report: fuckin majestic

Doing art badly is good and sacred

I just saw Alan Cumming speaking eloquently about Heated Rivalry and the need for many more types of queer stories and now I’m imagining a world where he does a masterpiece mystery style intro to some gay show from around the world on PBS. This is the world we could live in

You bet that now that I know there's a year stamped on blue mailboxes that I'll be looking at every single one I walk past.

My tea order arrived! I was down to *one* type of tea before this! Yay small happiness ☕️

beyond thrilled to have an essay out in the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social about the women who profoundly impacted the works of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, and Lev Tolstoy, and the archival evidence they left behind: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...

don’t mind me I’m just “living in the moment” (never having any idea who anybody is and shedding near-term memory like a lizard losing its tail)

Some personal news, as they say. Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them. link.springer.com/journal/44538

I love when I see a picture, and I think, “well who the fuck is that?” and then the alt text tells me who the fuck it is

I got less than four hours of sleep last night, I am not emotionally or physically prepared for seeing the OT7

Academia is so incredibly fucked up and also a lot of the intellectual work that goes on in the academy is incredibly important Part of what makes life in the academy tough is holding and navigating both of these truths at the same time

love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

relevant to many of yalls interests.

Nothing like reworking a perfectly simple mitt for the THIRD FUCKIN TIME

Art Deco Kimono. The composition of this kimono features dramatically stylized fans rendered as angular, overlapping diagonal bands in rich purple, rust orange, olive green, cream, and deep black, creating a dynamic visual rhythm that suggests movement and vitality. Taisho (1912-1926), Japan

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities. standwithminnesota.com/read

book checkpoint Last: Her Lady to Love Current: Witch King (reread) Last added to tbr: The Starseekers

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college - California Ethnic Literature - The Rhetoric of Death and Dying - What Gardens Mean - The History of Computers & Composition - Americanization

A no AI, no pattern mill cross-stitch pattern search engine - designed by Creators & search by inventory! Myself along with a few cross-stitch pattern designers have partnered up to create a free platform for searching patterns! Search for patterns here: clickstitch.app/patterns

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if your library has a Friends of the Library org, it usually doesn't cost much to join (yearly membership is $15 near me) and you can really help make a difference in purchases, in youth programs, in adult services offered etc

Just a little scrabbledy sketch to keep spirits up. I also learned today that a group of chickadees is called a ‘banditry’ and how cute is that?