Yesterday was a decent work day, and today started off ok and then went DEEPLY shitty (in the same flavor of interpersonal shit that it has been for weeks, with a new side of communication failure)

An absolute whirlwind of a day, but I DID manage to get some excellent Wonho tickets!!

We have casual hang out plans with our neighbors tomorrow, and thus begins Operation Convince Them To Play D&D

Victory: today I found both bras and jeans that fit and were not exorbitantly priced! Defeat: was slicing carrots on the mandolin and cut my thumb... with the carrot

Yeah yeah Occtis I get you #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #crspoilers #criticalrolespoilers #art

Friday night plans: delicious dinner with fresh bread, tea, and CRITICAL ROOOOOLL

We're not watching critroll until tomorrow evening and the anticipation is AAAAUUGGHH

AIOLI?!?!?!?!

Oh insomnia I don't miss you. And this new flavor of falling asleep then waking up again and just Being Awake for hours is not fun

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Delightful seats to see some delightful boys tonight

@expensivejimin.bsky.social do you need a Large Friend

Shana tova friends 🍎🍯

Me: ugh why can't I shake this headache?? Even painkillers aren't touching it The ibuprofen sitting on my desk: you mean us?

Final started reading The Tainted Cup and ohhhhhh this world is DELICIOUS

I will be out and about tomorrow, so early Happy 10th Anniversary to the second great love of my fannish life (after my beloved Smallville), Nirvana in Fire! One of the best tv series EVER, with a whole cast of All Time Characters™️. She really is That Girl. youtu.be/vYSZpTICPzs?...

Also, Dropout regular Lou Wilson is directly being affected by the Kimmel firing, as he works on Kimmel as an announcer!

This was quick and easy to do!

Do I know anyone in the SC area who knows someone (or *is* someone) who wants to adopt two cats? I desperately need to find a home for my parents' two cats. I already have three, so I can't take them. They are boarding at their vet while I look, and I have to go home to PA in less than a week.

Support Loyalty! An amazing DC bookstore

Lord I love him

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

I had the AUDACITY to lay on the couch with my head on N's leg. Kitsi stood on the footstool and frowned at me, kept trying to find a spot for himself. He won the battle of wills; I sat up and he curled up happily in His Spot in the middle of the couch

Always repost cheesecake boat

Update: hot garbage feelings have ARRIVED. my bones hurt, my skin-- especially the soles of my feet--is hypersensitive, nerve zaps are bopping around. No brain fog though! I can think clearly about how bad weird I feel!

Covid and flu vax acquired! Ready to feel like hot garbage in 18 hours!

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

Part of @drniftyplum.bsky.social's birthday gift this year was Her Very Own Constitution Save a la Adventuring Academy. Aka: a giant bag of snacks with as little English on the label as I could manage. Tonight we tried KEX, Sakusakupanda, and freeze dried Skittles

Took what might be the best photo I've ever taken of Kitsi and Merlin this weekend (mid play, they're having a blast)

S is a dear friend! If you've got a couple bucks to toss this away, it would be much appreciated.

Laughed so hard at the last 20 minutes of this week's Cloudward Ho that I gave myself a coughing fit and now my lungs hurt

Work has been wrenched for a while, and rather than getting better, has actually gotten worse. Our grant is up for renewal and the doom and gloom has increased significantly after a meeting with our funders, sooooo maybe I'm jobless in January? (a thing which I will not actually know until January)

It does feel very weird, as a child of the ‘90s who was raised on the idea of perpetual progress, to see society slide so far backward so quickly

I adore Loyalty. They are a great part of the DC literary landscape. If you can support them (like by buying online through Bookshop or whatever) you would be doing a good thing.

Long weekend art project! A map for our current dnd campaign featuring bubbles of unstable magic

Normal Dog Things: chillin inside a pant leg

A snoozle boy who had a busy day of playing at the park, playing with a buddy, laying in the sun, playing with his ball, and going on a long walk.

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

LOAF Bread machine attempt number 2, white and semolina flour, very tasty

Time for GIRLS!!! Fromis_9!!!!!!

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Just FYI, if you have had a short story in an anthology in the last decade, and you are searching this tool to see if your story was scraped up as part of the LibGen data by Anthropic, searching your name may not be enough. Search by the name of the editor of the anthology.

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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Today I have done: - laundry - filled, run, emptied, and filled the dishwasher - washed the other dishes - spent an hour at the park with the dog - reorganized the pots - acquired a bread maker - grocery shopped - made bread in the bread maker - made quiche - made a farro/veg/ricotta bake

Have just acquired a bread maker from someone in the building, perhaps it's time for my Bread Era

To me, seeing someone announce art or good news during terrible times isn't like trying to sell balloons at a funeral, it's like getting hugged at that funeral. When maybe you didn't know how much you needed that hug. From anyone. Or everyone. Folks need all the soul fuel they can get.

Shout out to our dentist (who I hope to all things good is NOT reading this) who--despite moving house this weekend and being in the midst of packing--met @drniftyplum.bsky.social at his office at 8:15pm this evening for a bit of emergency crown repair

So i just read* this this post out loud to @itslineto.bsky.social while we're getting ready to sleep and we both laughed so hard we started coughing our lungs out *"Read" is a generous description for attempting to say words while choking on laughter and crying enough to blur out the screen