NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.

I saw amaryllis on Caye Caulker in Belize! The Latin name for this genus is hippeastrum, and they are native to South and Central America. 🌱

generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg

Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely. www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...

The ti plant or cordyline fruticosa, which I think is native to Hawaii and parts of southeast Asia, is all over Belize! The outer leaves have hot pink stripes on the edges and the inner leaves are often nearly all that color, with some dark purple. 🌱

This is the first season that the local cold weather shelter is opening because of heavy rain and not super cold temps! I hope it continues.

Look what I found in Tikal National Park today in northern Guatemala! Could these be chanterelle? They were growing on logs in the same area. My guide said the common name is piglet ears. 🌱

The last time the Hoosiers beat Ohio State, the friend I'm traveling with was like 2 years old and her younger brother -- a proper grown up who's also with us -- wasn't even born yet!! Fucking wild night!

We're gonna have pineapple mimosas in the morning to celebrate! (again nobody tell my dad)

Nobody tell my dad that I'm watching Ohio State football and not actively rooting for them... 🙈

Okay fungi friends, these frilly white/cream mushrooms were growing on a tree stump at the Belize Botanical Garden. Are they a variety of oyster mushrooms?? I'm not sure. I didn't bring my mushroom books with me on this trip... Also I dunno exactly what species grow down here! 🌱

Today at the San Ignacio market I saw a hot pink poinsettia!! 🤩 It matches my dress. 🌱

Yesterday, on the trail for the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave in Belize, I saw what I think were a bunch of polypores and some white jelly fungus on a tree log! No pictures because it's not allowed on that trail, but I might paint it later. The jelly fungus was really small, like tiny orbs. 🌱

I wonder if we're in another wave of changes to NGB gender policies, given the news from US Rowing and USTA. I'm especially curious if USA Ultimate is gonna make anymore changes...

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

🤦 glad to see my city council is handling the defeat of the levy lift well...

I'm going on my second to last trip of the year and have achieved packing light! One small suitcase and a backpack for 10 days. It helps that I'm going someplace warm... Way less clothing needed lol.

USRowing says what other NGBs are afraid to which is, exclude trans women from the womens category or risk decertification

With the new Texas bathroom ban, it has such an odd enforcement mechanism... If I read it correctly, political subdivisions can be fined if they don't comply. But it's a government bill?? So I guess the idea is it punishes public agencies/institutions by clawing back public funds.

New: chatted with an attorney from @aclutx.bsky.social about SB 8, the Texas bathroom bill, and what it means for Texans, trans and cis alike. The law goes into effect tomorrow, Dec. 4. Here's what it does (and does not) do - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Wow, Let Them must have done some serious campaigning to have not but two nominations in the Best of Goodreads awards.

“Cancellation limbo”: when you’re definitely not cancelled but not as celebrated as you used to be. This is one reason why “cancel culture” discourse is so tiresome: a lot of people are using it to mean “my life was affected in some negative way by my actions” www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

Critics have claimed the recipe requires half a dozen eggs, while others have noted that only six eggs are required

It took two pie crust attempts but the sweet potato pie is done! Focaccia came out great. The apple/pear oatmeal tart is baking now. It's an experimental recipe. Fingers crossed!!

Today I had tacos. Tomorrow I have turkey! Focaccia sponge is resting overnight on the counter. Pie dough is in the fridge. It'll be used in sweet potato pie tomorrow. I've assembled ingredients for an oatmeal apple tart. Maybe in the morning I'll make rolls.

Happy Thanksgiving quadball fam! Good luck to all those cooking the bird today. 🫡

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Avelo is using one of its ICE planes (painted white so it won’t hurt the brand) to fly pro-athlete women. As I reported in @prospect.org, this plane had an emergency landing Nov 13. Migrants regularly soil themselves in their seats bc ICE guards won’t let them get up. prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

🎁🎁 $98,239 🎁🎁 It's a wrap! I am laughing & tearing up. $98K over a weekend directly to kids & young adults in ways of immeasurable, long-term impact. Thank you, sincerely, to those who donated, shared, made it a dang game, pooled resources or just plain made us smile 💙 @onesimplewish.bsky.social

it just strikes me as a bad idea to pick fights with an astronaut.

I want to tear my hair out a little every time this guy writes in my local paper!! He's getting basic principles of finance all wrong. 🤦🤦

Probably the worst Thanksgiving incident was when me or one of my siblings was rough housing with cousin Erich, who had recently been in a terrible motorcycle accident and wasn't 100%, and Erich fell over... smashing his sister's boyfriend's priceless acoustic guitar from Israel.

This reminds me -- I have a wild idea for a @beyondthebig5.bsky.social project that might involve an all ages restaurant like Chili's!

I DO generally dress nicely for flights (because I personally do not like to be in public in my house clothes) and I still want to tell this guy to bite me

I majored in theatre and planned to work as a freelance stage manager in LA. Then the Great Recession hit right after I graduated. I started doing arts admin as my day job with stage management on the side... And now I'm an accountant! (in between all this I ran a sports league)

Look at these lil guys I saw on the trail today! 🌱

I loved the new Frankenstein! It had hot mess moments for sure, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself in the theater.

Excellent episode! I recommend listening to Overinvested's prior episode on Frankenstein before the movie, and coming to this one after.

Ewwwww. Also I read this in my head in the voice of an ASMR artist I found this week who I'm pretty sure uses AI chatbots to generate scripts.

Writer, Sailor, Soldier Spy by Nicholas E. Reynolds Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Nation Within by Tom Coffman The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Engineering Eden by Jordan Fisher Smith

My latest on how the 2026 Seattle budget (final Council vote on Friday) is not setting Katie Wilson up for success, between its accounting tricks, one-time funding, and CM provisos. Also some details about the federal Continuum of Care changes, which I know many of you have been concerned about.

Part of what I do at my local cold weather shelter is guest registration, and I ask people about their employment status. We always have guests with full time jobs! I'm glad this phenomenon is getting more attention, especially as the feds look to change HUD funding priorities.

As usual I made sure to take portraits of the dogs!

It's slime mold and jelly fungus time! This might be witch's butter or Dacrymyces chrysospermus. It's from a park down the street that I took my dog to today. 🌱

I have to raise my eyebrows a bit at folks in my town who voted against the levy who are now pushing back against the idea of (necessary!!) budget cuts. There aren't any secret pools of money to draw from and creating more volunteer opportunities in town won't be a huge cost saver.

Oof, it's a rough week for social services orgs in my area! A week or two ago the food bank announced that their partnership with another church to build a new, bigger facility had fallen apart. Now the hygiene center is closing.