I just finished the ARC. It's terrific.

What we consider fine art opposed to arts and crafts is based on standards set by rich Renaissance patrons. I assure you there are embroiderors with as much genius as Michangelo--rich people just stopped showing off their wealth with elaborate tapestries in favor of marble and stretched canvas.

Attention my fellow unhinged, you know who you are

Helping. 📸 Rwnpv

For the younger people: I cannot emphasize strongly enough that this didn't used to happen. 36-hours-of-dusk-caused-by-fires-half-a-continent-away did not used to be A Thing.

“I’ll pass on the salad and just have those fries. I’m trying to eat healthy.” - instant hall of fame dad joke thanks to cyclospora

i know we all know that domestic violence rates go right up during the football but I’m talking to some other friends- we’re all women living with men partners- and every one of us got a promoted post on meta tonight, from the NHS, with DV hotlines and info

Sepia sky, orange light, dark as a storm coming in. Yuck.

If you happened to miss out on @romancingthevote.com bookmarks, I’ve added a couple of spares from previous auctions to my shop. A couple of rainbow varieties available! ko-fi.com/s/66d003aac2

I JUST HAD AN IDEA FOR A CRAFTER NESTING DOLLS A CHICKEN INSIDE A DUCK INSIDE A TURKEY (With an egg at the very center. Possibly golden. Possibly chocolate.) Internet, you’re welcome. I have given it to you in plenty of time for November.

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

Hollywood has sold us a lie that the past was drab and sepia. I am so tired of seeing movies (and by extension books inspired by them) where the fabric world is a wasteland of dun and gray.

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Good because baby spinach and cilantro are staples of my diet

Happy birthday, Labyrinth (1986) Sarah’s negligent babysitting results in her baby brother being adopted by royalty with her consent. With Seller’s Remorse, Sarah teams with local vigilantes, infiltrates the king’s home & kidnaps the child from her new guardian. Shameful. 2⭐️ #TillysMovieReviews

Well, this applies to more scenarios than one would think.

nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...

For those not on the Readercon mailing list, know this.

everybody knows “curtains for Zoosha” as a foundational getting-old tweet but I believe “peeble streamer on doop” is a concept worthy of wider recognition

Video shows extensive flooding in Uvalde County, Texas, that stranded cars and blocked roads.

I feel like certain folks whining about today's kids need reminders that in the 80s, teens cruised up and the down the same road in cars to shout at each other, threw rocks off train overpasses, free climbed water towers to hang out, routinely threw TP in trees, and hung out in parking lots.

Oh hey, canned Pedigree is being recalled. Check your cans, people.

I blogged about last week’s viral video of the pervert on the Scottish train filming some quiet teenage girls, and why it matters for the debate on young people and smartphones. I didn’t share it anywhere, but it’s top of Hacker News. This happens to me a lot. heatherburns.tech/2026/07/08/t...

I'm with Blue Fox.

Accidentally drank too much cough syrup and spent 45 minutes trying to put my legs in alphabetical order

Amazing! The sky is still that exact same color today!

Do Not Want

Not to go to bat for a fast food conglomerate but they were the first business to blow the whistle on this, pull potential contaminants from their stores and alert people to the potential harm. It is not their fault their supplier gave them an invisible parasite. It's a supply chain problem

Sure picked a good month to remember that fried rice is a thing and always delicious and you can put any old vegetables and protein in there and cook it all at a high temp.

I just looked into this and there are anecdotes pointing to Taylor Farms bagged salads too, which is a very common grocery store brand! They also own Earthbound Farms organic.

All children in Oregon under age 5 can now receive a free book in the mail every month. Expanding access to books at an early age is a wonderful investment in our kids and our state's future.

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

HELLO! Our shop is back open and we also have a new URL to make it easy to shop! You get all the ease of etsy checkout, we get all the ease of etsy shipping, but we don't get the etsy fees! Also all the d20s are back, NOW IS YOUR MOMENT! www.thebrokencircle.store

/ THE SMOKE WILL BE BAD AGAIN WEDNESDAY / 4 BOSTON BUT ESP NY-CITYSTATE & PENNSYLVANIA & SOUTHERN NEW YORK STATE / WEAR A N95 MASK IF U NEED 2O GO OUTSIDE / & MAYBS FIRE UP UR AIR PURIFIER IF U HAVE 1 / & REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

Never getting over how much, when dogs yawn, they look exactly like Sandra Boynton characters.

🚨 BREAKING News: New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

i have questions

Happy Shark Awareness Day! If I had to distill my outreach goals into one post, it’d be for you to learn that: Sharks are awesome! Sharks aren’t a threat to you. Sharks are ecologically important! Sharks are threatened and need your help! We know how to help sharks! Follow for more.

(We're all retired now, but) My sister is also a librarian, but not the same *kind* of librarian. It would be a bit of a struggle to catch up, but I'm sure I could manage. My brothers are both math professors. I would be sunk.

CALL FOR AUTHORS! I am putting together a Bookstore Romance Day virtual panel event focusing on Historical Romance Beyond the Regency. If you are or if you know someone who writes Historical Romance that is *not* set in Regency England, reply or DM if interested in joining us.

I will add as one of those Youth Services Librarians who has a master's in this field and who keeps current on research, parents who talk to their kids about what they read *while also* encouraging them to read widely produce great critical thinkers. Shouldn't be controversial but talk to your kids.

RIP Sam Neill

Dang it, people. Rabbits cannot catch the cyclospora parasite that's circulating. Your bunnies are safe. You don't need to deny them their favorite food. (People feeding their poor bunnies just hay and pellets and no greens seems to be rampant).

lol I first read The Master and Margarita when I was what, 9, because it had a cool cover. My sister's bestie had read Les Miserables about 20 times by the age of 12. Let us not even speak of Flowers in the Attic and Clan of the Cave Bear. Kids can happily read stuff of which they understand 40%.

If we really must take ethnic background into account, well, we could consider what ethnicities the Greeks considered beautiful. Let's ask Herodotus: "The Ethiopians...are the most beautiful of all men" (Histories 3.20)

Among other things Sam Neill gave the funniest interviews

When the Childe was about 3, they were very frustrated with me being in meetings all the time so I let them organize a “meeting” for us. They chose an agenda of a space shuttle mission & I so clearly remember getting to “fuel” & very seriously writing down their recommendation of “20-30 witches.”

This particular celebrity death has left me stunned. This scene - no matter whether Jurassic Park has just been put on for background noise - I will always stop for. It is absolute perfection, especially that moment when Sam staggers and almost faints at the news of a T-Rex. RIP with tears.

Last time I was in a Terry Goodkind discussion, someone mused that it was a weird irony that someone with such a name turned out like that And thus was born Barry Badrude, who's an absolute sweetheart and never harmed anyone