My mom's reaction when I had her smell this: "what is that? It smells AMAZING!" We're trying it tomorrow and I suspect ordering more on Friday ☕️

#USPoli the shoe thing is just bizarre in the first place but the way it would be so easy for an aide to discreetly find out everyone's actual shoe sizes before placing the orders is somehow the part that hurts my brain the most

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Now, of course, you can also dress up your pets! @octopusgallery.bsky.social has created several options! - Small rainbow stripe bandana - $10 - Medium crabby bandana - $10 - Medium rainbow cosmos bandana - $10 (and size large too, see next post) #ofmd #fandommarket

Petition to stop rearranging clock time, but also to make sure we don't cut International Women's Day short again

Ok. So. If you are angry and sad about everything rn (like me), you should seriously come on one of these ⬇️ walking tours. I literally wrote them as a response to this feeling I am feeling rn

Reading Cat Sebastian's latest and I think the first half has opened, like, three cases of fizzy drinks worth of feelings, and taken all three of those cases and shaken them up for maximum chaos when opened

I have failed to keep everyone apprised of the reality that Sasha continues to be an excellent cat!!! We recently celebrated her birthday (she started hanging out in our yard 4 years ago), and she enjoyed the extra Churu and new toys

I've been living in a hotel since mid-2024, and I've finally found an apartment if I can come up with $2500 up front for the deposit + first month's rent. Any help is appreciated, including sharing this post. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

this is how spring is love #SaturdayPoem

Friends this sounds amazing and I suspect some of y'all might want to know about it. And it's in Kobo Plus....

#uspoli 🧵⬆️

A thread of organizations who support trans Kansans, as a resource for those in KS and places to donate/support for those of us elsewhere. Please take a look and help out, if you're able.

I always flip "bury your gays." The queer (and other marginalized) characters always make it to the end. It's the bigots who get the axe along the way. I like to depict marginalized characters as having a survival advantage due to already having navigated a hostile world. #HorrorWritersChat

I so love a serious article where someone shares something they love in a way that makes you care, too, with bonus points for also having fun with the writing (why not compare something to a Greenland shark?)

A friend of a friend was abducted by ICE at a routine immigration check-in. I know we're all stretched so thin but if you can contribute at all to the GoFundMe it will help get Daniela home!

oh this is GORGEOUS whales are so incredible

Remembering Hans Scholl 22 Sep 1918 – 22 Feb 1943 Sophie Scholl 9 May 1921 – 22 Feb 1943 Christoph Probst 6 Nov 1919 – 22 Feb 1943 Stadelheim Prison, Munich, 5PM

with alt text 💖

Jodi McAlister's An Academic Affair is fantastic and has one of the best declarations of love I have read. Like, pause and reread a few times before proceeding with the book good.

oh wow i don't think i have ever had as much fun watching skating as i had watching alysa her joyful presence is very hashtag goals

omg i love that amber was able to spend so long in the leader's seat i hope she was spending that time proud of how well she did today

omg i just discovered that you can view other people's stats on storygraph, and some of the features are GREAT if, frex, you know someone has reliable history recs (i've been very appreciative of the diligent taggers on gr; this is a bonus)

Ooh, this 🧵 really captures exactly how terrible the sequels are; to make something so terrible we don't want to spend the ages upon ages with the Finn Rey and Poe we met in TFA took some violent sandbox destruction

I think I successfully taught myself the tubular cast on and have the start of a hat??? 🤞 looks imperfect but it does seem to have structural integrity, so good enough, maybe? Plus it was fun and relaxing so I declare victory

Today, we honor Native Alaskan civil rights activist, Elizabeth Peratrovich, who was monumental in passing our country’s first Anti-Discrimination Act in 1945. Continuing her fight to protect the right to vote is just one way we can keep her legacy alive. Mural by Crystal Worl.

So far this hat is a lot more challenging than anticipated when I just want a nice soothing project I wish I had local knitting friends I could talk through this with; sometimes typing is an added step on which I don't feel like expending bandwidth

I love the entire thread but this one is my current favorite

Going to read a ton of novelettes and novellas to make sure I hit my 132 books this year (so I have 1200 for my decade of tracking) while also generating some space for fannish pursuits (reading and maybe? creating?) Then next year will be about a few specific long books and que sera sera'ing

Left a (completely benign) zoom meeting today so uncomfortable I immediately looked for the safest possible thing to read/retreat into And realized this isn't something I should push through for ~personal growth, pushing through would actually jeopardize the growth space I'm in now

just placed my first order because I couldn't pass this up Also as a queer Earl Grey woman I just have to try Earl Gay, in case anyone else needs to know such a thing exists

Suddenly reminded of the moment I discovered Elton John, when NBC did a montage to I'm Still Standing because of the unexpected medalists in the 1994 men's skate So so thrilled for Mikhail and ... yeah. Sports are beautiful and terrible.

EXTREMELY ENTHUSIASTICALLY COSIGNING this grassroots Hugo campaign for Elisa Chavez's poetry in general and this one in particular

Third try was the charm for casting on this hat! And then I dropped a stitch on the third row in a way I can't fix 🙃 Going to order a shorter circular to see if life will be easier not on dpns

Necessary palate cleanser #mcolympics

YES YAY C/B!!! now please france do real bad #mcolympics

omg piper and paul were SO GOOD please let them get the silver ahead of france #mcolympics

omg i don't need 100 so am THRILLED to be able to buy a few

Age verification? I partied in 1999.

ooh violins i'm sold

Fully adopting ideas from this book to try to build some community (as part of political stuff, but also just a way to know you're not alone)

This is one of the most gorgeous hopeful things I have read recently, on so many levels

I finished the book this morning and second all of this 💙

I've bought 4 books and checked out a 5th so far this month, just from mutuals recommending them here (almost always from them sharing author promo posts). So thank y'all for sharing things you enjoy 💙

I fully expected Sasha to be inside significantly less this week than usual, after not being allowed outside for so long. She instead seems to have realized 1) it was very yucky outside so we did her a kindness and 2) we're happy to have her inside during the day, too! Progress? 🤞🤞🤞

Thank you, @marywyrd.bsky.social, for the amazing questions and *especially* for the shoutout in memory of @chaoticauthor.online! My latest is a queer Appalachian cosmic horror *haunted house* novel, available everywhere: www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children... #HorrorWritersChat

An old one that can't get traction, for one of Wings's old friends. His little home needs to be modified to accommodate his wheelchair, and he needs to cover medical expenses, too: gofund.me/d53e0ff09

ooh this looks like a perfect february read

Disability!! Is!! Not!! A Moral!! Failing!!!!!!!!! And! Neither! Is! Height!!

Everyone's struggling & the world's on fire so I'm sorry to ask, but I need your help again. If you could donate and/or share my Go Fund Me campaign, it would go a long way to helping me pay for increased costs for my breast cancer treatment. Details in my update. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...