If you see this, QTP with a gif of your favorite wild animal 🌿

Tank is doing good. Vet suspects a tooth abscess, gave him meds, took blood, potential dental surgery. Blood work comes back next week and otherwise they said he appears to be in great health.

Sitting at the Vet with Tank 😞 the side of his face is swollen.

NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)

Where are you right now #booksky

Day 47 move more Walk and upper body

I read The Great Gatsby almost 30 years ago. I remember not liking it. I started This Side of Paradise yesterday thinking I would give Fitzgerald another try. Turns out he’s just not an author for me or I’m not in the mood for pretentious unlikable characters. Do I force myself to finish?

Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...

STOP. this is a selfie checkpoint. you must repost with a selfie to proceed. Bluesky is the most I’ve ever posted selfies in my life 🤣

Been behind on books my whole life and seriously started doing some audiobooks since early last year. So I'll be using this post to list the books I've done so far below with a rating out of 5; feel free to comment on my ratings😂 I'll also be taking suggestions so drop some books/audiobooks u like!

Name a film with a lot of water 🌊

Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was born #OTD in 1858. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in #Literature (1909) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination & spiritual perception that characterize her writings." First woman granted a membership of the Swedish Academy, 1914.

Thanks to the wonderful staff in the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections, today my 2nd-year tutorial groups have been thinking about book history and reading practices from the Middle Ages to the 18thC, including this copy of Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (c.1592)

Waiting

The weather is subtly preparing me for my trip to Colorado next week. At least it won’t be an abrupt drop into the chill.

I’ll mash your potatoes 🤷‍♀️😂

I'll also be dipping back into my vampire book critic, Mabel Bloody, trilogy today for some editing. :D Busy day today, unless I see a squirrel, then all bets are off. #writing

Welcome to my life..

Here's another amazing capture of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, courtesy of astronomer Gianluca Masi and the Virtual Telescope Project: www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/19/i...

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde

🧵 This breathtaking composite was obtained with data from Chandra, Hubble, Spitzer, to mark the 22nd anniversary in orbit of Hubble. The pic shows 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula. ➡️ www.nasa.gov/image-articl... Credits: NASA/CXC/PSU/STScI/JPL/L.Townsley et al. 🔭 🧪 #Hubble 1/5

Cold and rainy in Arizona ❤️ perfect for a cozy spot near a fireplace to read. I don’t have a fireplace and I have to work today but a girl can dream.

Day 46 move more Walk and mobility

Just finished this on audio. Very good narration. This was a short chaotic novel of a journey through a crisis of faith. In some ways it reminded me of catcher in the rye if it were southern and more unhinged. #booksky

Puzzle time

Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.

This dating app is serving me oddly specific adds but I will not be pressured to join an app again; however this is funny. New hashtag #bookskydating 🤣

Name a film with a forrest.

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

An ode to books and libraries otherwise some words from Carl Sagan "A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic" #booksky youtu.be/Uc1O_TrXKQU?...

I mean, the sand that makes up Maine beaches eroded out of Appalachian Mountains that were once as high as the Himalayas! 200 million years of weathering gave us the beaches that summer tourists flock to. Change is literally swirling through your toes.

Why was I a little late? Rainbows! Crummy pictures 😅

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

The Undead of Shorespine are mostly harmless. Unless you're a stray waffle, in which case, you have my condolences. 💀🧟‍♀️🧛🏼‍♀️❤️🧇🧇🧇 From an action-comedy novel about a girl, a robot, and the heist crew they call family. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📖

Just picked up an 1858 1st edition set of George Eliot's "Scenes of Clerical Life" in a fine binding for $48. That feels like a deal.

Almost sliced right through my hand 😬 didn’t expect to slice right through the pit of my avocado.

Own books. Dog-ear pages. Put 50 sticky notes in them. Listen to the page turn. Buy a 150-year-old book and read it. Look at the smudges on it, the foxing & toning of the leaves. Imagine who read it - this tangible, physical thing - before you. Who will after you. Physical things rule.

When I say buy a 150-year-old book, not kidding! Here's one a seller has listed from the once-wildly-popular Rollo series. It was printed in 1854, so over 170 years old. Intact, even has a couple nice engravings. The seller is asking $4.50. Perfect gift for the reader friend who has everything!

Here comes the sun, maybe…

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde

If you see this, share a Western vid or GIF 🖤🤠

Klimt is one of my favorites.

Well no one really warned me about rogue chin hairs in middle age but at least I have audio books to make the plucking more enjoyable 🤪😂

Day 45 move more Short walk in the rain and upper body today.

Happy Humpday through an umbrella. Enjoying the rain though the chihuahua is miserable.

If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood!

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.30 (lookback time 3.54 billion years) with coordinates (149.65333, 2.29371). 32 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum

If you see this post a getaway vehicle

The other fascinating thing was the bones level table in the biology classroom because they don’t actually dissect real things anymore 🤯 it wasn’t 3d but this is what it made me think of.