My throat hurts from laughing. You need this thread (and a COAT BATH) in your life.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I can’t ever resist a new neal.fun game. Bow before my dubious achievement!

Yam Seng to @itreachesout.bsky.social and @wandererblue.bsky.social for the bitters (black Manhattan kind of day) #TheExpanse.

Timeline cleanse

I'm in this group! I think this was my favorite panel at Dragon Con this year.

According to Dragon Con, 110 students followed me out of the classroom today to sing in Ghor in the halls. Goosebumps! I hope some of these wonderful beings see this. #Andor #Ghor

T-4 hours to Lang Belta class! Watch me level up my teaching difficulty by wearing Drummer's incredible 25kg exoskeleton. The #DragonCon student crew is always the very best of the best, I'm so happy to be back. See you soon in Marriot M301! #TheExpanse

Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails. This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

⚠️Attention! Attention! May I have your Attention! ⚠️ Watch, The Expanse… please 🥹 One of my all time favorite Sci-fi shows! I finally got my friend hooked on it and I must continue my mission to get others as well 🫶🤭

This is possibly the pettiest rant in the world, but I am UTTERLY TRANSFIXED by the hideousness of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert outfits in the NYT article today and I need to yell about it. Qualifications: I sew and have sung in a lot of choirs. Look at this. What?? is happening? here??

I fundamentally agree with Jules here, but this piece absolutely throws non-binary people to the wolves by identifying our identities as products of this transgender liberalism, rather than recognizing that our identities have been weaponized against us.

Found Admiral Piett's Reddit account. In response to a request for ways to avoid crying in stressful situations:

In light of this, I want to share some resources on trans people in the medieval and early modern period, for anyone who might be interested. There is a thriving field of research into the lives, identities, and experiences of trans people globally before the advent of modern medicine (a 🧵)

Lang Belta class is coming back to Dragon Con! Can’t wait to see one of my very favorite con communities again. (Probably ought not to actually *teach* wearing Drummer’s exoskeleton, though…) Official info on this, plus the debut of another workshop, soon! #TheExpanse

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

This will be on @reactorsff.bsky.social on July 11.

I will be wearing Camina Drummer’s original “exoskeleton” legs (most amazing gift I’ve ever received) for the first time at Dragon Con this year. I fully expect to draw Those Guys out like halitosis-ridden moths to a flame.

I've got a new drug of choice. It's not rhydo, it's Ghor, language of exciting spider fabric, elegant cafes, and throwing rocks at space Nazis! Getting a classic poetry-first start this week with Ghorman's beautiful planetary anthem. #Andor #conlang

Accessibility is a right. Please add alt-text when sharing images, so that blind and low-vision people aren't excluded from the conversation. Some context and copy/paste or a brief description are often enough. Checking the "reminder to add alt-text" box in your accessibility settings helps a lot.

The boat is stuck, and yet I feel nothing.

Ar-Pharazôn the Golden in the HOUSE, y'all.

Had anyone had meaningful success reducing condensation/humidity in their #FloMask during high-intensity use? The foam ring never does much. I really need the protection, but I hate the irritation from longterm dampness (ew) I always get after work (singing) or protesting. @flomask.bsky.social

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! ELATED to see so many familiar "faces" here!

@paterishiya.bsky.social My friend!!! I am so so happy to see you here.

Once they convince us of the necessity of leaving people behind for the sake of expediency, they’ve won. We build our resistance out of bright-line inviolable principles of tolerance, constitutionalism, and decency. No one gets left behind

In case you’re missing it: Dominique Tipper is over on instagram.com/misstipper answering many, many fan questions in honor of the show’s 10th anniversary. Her answers are thoughtful and beautiful, and she’s sharing them along with the sweetest behind-the-scenes photos. #TheExpanse

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house) 1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said 2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book 3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane 4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins 5. Get a library card

January @thestorygraph.com wrap-up. I love the cheery colors and the calendar format, this app is the best. This is the first time I’ve ever logged my reading for a month: One small step toward my life goal of becoming @nwhyte.bsky.social. :P

Eight (!!) years ago right now, I was at my local Alamo Drafthouse, waiting for #TheExpanse Season 2 premiere – my very first fannish gathering! – to start. I was unbelievably excited, but unbearably conspicuous with my rush job Ceres dockworker outfit and fistful of “Remember the Cant” leaflets.

It NEVER fails to make my day, seeing these in the wild. :) #TheExpanse

@skektek.bsky.social Hey, this one of yours, right? I’m trying to find the original artist for someone who 3D printed a coaster from it.

This is definitely the most deli/pizza brothers I’ve ever seen!

This fluffy belly is NOT a trap.

If you need Girl Scout cookies in your life (who doesn’t?), this is your moment! Can’t resist ordering from several of these admirable Scouts, I’m calling it a regional cookie manufacturing taste test.

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. Bay Lights, my belovèd.

It's January 23, & you want to know, don't you? You want to know which historical figure bought eels on this date. Of course you do. It was Cardinal Wolsey! In 1525, his kitchen account books show an expenditure of 16d. for "eels to roast." There you are. Now go enjoy your day! 🗃️🧪

It’s one of those days for listening to MILCK’s version of “Ooh Child” on repeat.

@wandererblue.bsky.social found your favorite! bsky.app/profile/crai...

Hey Bluesky! Let’s rewatch #TheExpanse. This will be my live-skeet thread. Unmarked spoilers ahoy, so go watch the Expanse please. It’s great. It’s the best television show that’s ever been made.

Fun #TheExpanse fact of the day: At least one person “coughs out a laugh” (or very similar phrasing) in every book. Nemesis Games has the most in total, with 6 laugh-coughs (cough-laughs?) out of 22 total coughs. Leviathan Falls has the most by proportion: Only two coughs and one’s a laugh.

Great job, probe friend! 🎉 I feel extra affectionate about the Parker Solar Probe because I worked on its embedded systems as an intern.

Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell — Gandalf, describing the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Eve

Brain-dead after all the performing this week, we started watching The Tudors while already immersed in Wolf Hall*. The Thomas More whiplash is REAL. Can’t wait to compare show:show. *(partner is reading it and having reactions and asking me many questions, truly one of my favorite states of being)