If it's going to hit 88F, i don't mind that it isn't also grossly humid. But 25% humidity is just a LITTLE too low. My eyes are slowly desiccating and crumbling down my face.

Silver Spoon (2011 - 2019), Hiromu Arakawa

Sister-in-law has long told her kids that if they want to learn how to cook, they need to come visit spouse. This came up again in a call with his mom, since sister and kids are visiting her. When i teased him later he said, "I REALLY need to tell mom & [sister] i can also TEACH *THEM* TO COOK." 🤣

For all that it’s incredibly funny and silly and sweepingly romantic in parts, Pride and Prejudice is about a wolf in the pasture. I’m gonna be thinking about this forever.

Very nearly at the age where the music of my youth would move from the oldies station to AM radio if either of those were still a thing. Fortunately neither is a thing so we are timeless.

Saw someone refer to Cowboy Bebop as a "proto-Firefly" the other day, and i'm still mad about it.

Spouse and i scrolling back on Bluesky to see if the weird burst of fireworks in our street at 10pm PST was because someone died. 🔎

This week someone asked me, in a hushed, very impressed voice, if i'm a medievalist because i mentioned taking a workshop on iron gall ink. And i'm not, i'm just a nerd who loves print, but (whispers) i kinda wish i were.

Like, I love him coming in all vulnerable and declaring his love, but also I love to see his feelings hurt!? Darcy wounded in the feelings is *working* foR ME!!! WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS HAPPENING???

OH NO One of these orange kittens is the first cat in 22 years who has actually looked like our beloved Edward. 😭

Truly, some savvy book editor needs to negotiate reprint rights for these posts and publish an edition of Pride & Prejudice with @trungles.com's comments as glosses in the margins.

New reaction image in our household just dropped.

I'm trying to sort thru' some notebooks i exported from Evernote last year, and apparently the export stripped important things like "date note was created." C'mon, man, i needed that metadata!

Our cats have discovered the original black cat in our house, and i think they're jealous they don't get to ride on a broom.

Sports are not my fandom, so i only paid attention to World Cup info insofar as knowing when to avoid going near downtown. I failed to consider that this is an *international* sport, and thus i could actually engage in some of my favorite fannishness. Namely — ACCENTS ON THE TRAIN

This world cup is fine, but could use some more Stephen Chow.

*Kill File* is the Jason Statham hacker movie we didn't know we needed

I made these 2 images for me, but i also i very much made them for @dryad.bsky.social.

Last night someone got over our fence into the backyard and took MY bike. Just when i was thinking i was the only person who'd care about a 25-year-old bike that was $10 at Value Village. 😢 Tempted to post signs on our fence saying, "There are no bikes left here! You already stole them all!!"

OH WOW!! We think we just saw a bumblebee QUEEN in the yard?? A bombus was bumbling around the ground, trying to dig in the woodchips, which @errantpedant.bsky.social knows well means they're looking to nest. But not in the middle of a pathway! So i gently shooed it away, THEN THIS HUGE BEE FLEW BY

Me to @errantpedant.bsky.social, known bee aficionado: "Hey, got a bee video for you!!" Spouse: 😃 Spouse: 🤨 Spouse: 🤔 Spouse: 😃 "Okay, the sound effects make it." 🐝💐💤🐝💐💤🐝💐💤

Me, writing a cover letter: "In conclusion, I suck. Thank you for your consideration." Spouse: Maybe don't say you suck?? Me: Wow, how DARE YOU?!?!

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Once upon a time there was light in my life Now there's only love in the dark There's nothing i can do Total eclipse of the Fish

Spouse started the strawberry wine experiment tonight, and the house smells AMAZING

Paper remains the best technology invented. Argue with your grandma not me, lol.

When we moved into this house, there was a miniature Japanese maple in the backyard. If i'd been buying plants for the yard, i wouldn't have chosen it. But it survived the year of renovations. It survived our digging it up. It survived a year in a pot. +

My tool library has a book club! AND they're reading @amalelmohtar.com!! I love when faves collide. 🥰

If @errantpedant.bsky.social doesn't give these cats some of the chicken from tonight's dinner soon, i'm worried they're going to take him down and eat him.

Wow, new cover letter hard mode unlocked. Why is writing a letter to someone i've known for 13 years somehow both easier and WAY FUCKING HARDER???

it's so corny when politicians posture as anti intellectuals bc it makes them seem relatable. you went to harvard law asshole

it’s funny that so many people insult question-asking as engagement bait when really I am just very curious and you guys are a great free research group

Repurposing old time cards for new prints.

Srsly tempted to yell this whenever anyone wants to start shit with me about "Pluto ought to be a planet again!!!"

PLUTO IS A DOG

Belleh ☺️

Need to know if @dryad.bsky.social has seen this.

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@wiredferret.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you. www.tumblr.com/sandmandaddy...

Sharing this for all my upstate New York friends.

I forget the Young Fresh Fellows is a real band until i see that they're playing somewhere.

They voted to have fewer labor protections for their workers and to have them too afraid of la migra to report injuries or wage theft. Modern family farmers are not working class, they are business owners who take advantage of the mythology around them to shield themselves from consequences.

I love you, Minneapolis, lmao

this is just fuckin weird

"Sooooo many parentheticals. I have MISSED you, Murderbot." - my spouse

AGAMEMNON 🤣

Today was a day where getting out of bed was very, very hard. But then i reminded myself that if i got up, i could go check on all my little plant seedlings and maybe even put my sprouted peas into the ground. And, y'know, if that's what it takes.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

Five cups of lilac blossoms. LET'S GO!!

@dryad.bsky.social Hey, in case you need a mug or a bowl with a weird little medieval guy. ko-fi.com/cassieoh/shop