If a straight cis man donates to this lovely woman and her partner, and you provide the receipts, I will let you talk to me about your specialist subject for ten minutes. I will listen. Politely. For ten minutes.

Korean fir pinecones and linden flowers from my walk last night

I've got BOOK TOUR NEWS! Yes, my dragon is taking flight. Join me this July for shenanigans in NYC, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington DC, and Baltimore! Where exactly can you see me? I’m glad you asked!

WHOA (what I literally said out loud)

Fellow fats: anybody watching Big Girls Wanted: Escaping Pearadise? Curious to hear other fat people's impressions specifically.

Translation for non-sports people: Moonlight has just beaten La La Land for Best Picture.

IT IS STILL GOING and it’s been over 2 hours. Probably longer.

There is some incessant beeping going on somewhere in my neighborhood and I would like it to please stop now kthxbye

The Washington Post is not a credible publication

Several matches will be held in the southernmost part of my home county (Bergen) in New Jersey, but I anticipate zero local issues at home or while out & about. If I need to take a train from north-central Bergen past the stadium to Hoboken, I can pick a nongame day.

It is going to be a mess.

Apparently in the case of England versus Costa Rica, the issue is Orlando weather delaying the game.... ....that said, I don't think the World Cup is going to impact my routine all that much, other than making it even less likely that I'll get to some Orlando things.

I'm not in Seattle daily, but I am planning to stay away from it on the days of the games, just to avoid the crowds and traffic

I am very curious about this as well. There are some tacoma things happening which are designed to bring people out and I don't know how that is going to make I-5. I have fears.

Basically same as you, but I’ll probably triple check before considering anything that would require me to cross the larger SODO-downtown region.

I expect it to make traffic annoying in and around downtown, but for my day to day stuff, hopefully not too much interference? I'm also pretty far from the stadium here in KC.

Seattle (and other US cities hosting World Cup games) - how disruptive do you think the events are going to be to your daily routines? I am thinking not very much to mine, but I do not need to drive anywhere and I don’t plan on doing anything near the stadium. Very curious how this is going to be.

9yo was talking about how the Wings of Fire series has spread like wildfire through her friend group, that she started reading it b/c Kid 1 was reading it, then Kid 2 saw her reading it, etc etc Were the kids buying it from the bookstore? Of course not; they were checking it out from the library.

Ah, the Author's Guild! They may have cheerfully allowed Anthropic to get off scot-free for stealing my book -- but in their defense, they do some really important work, such as delusionally blaming libraries for the decline in author pay.

Employees want a little enclosed cube to work in and no fucking genAI forced on them.

Finally added color to this drawing from last week’s teen art club. One day I will learn to make colored pencil look even 😤

S2.15 “I See Murder” of Elsbeth and Tracy Ullman is EVERYTHING. God I love her.

This tahini and chocolate chunk cake is delicious. It’s super easy to make too. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7757... #cookieparty

Favorite queer short stories recommendations?

This tahini and chocolate chunk cake is delicious. It’s super easy to make too. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7757... #cookieparty

I have started the show A Thousand Blows (Hulu) and I am totally hooked. Thanks for the rec @skeskali.ca

Identifying the "immigrants" implicitly as non-Jewish Poles is a special form of erasure, since Poland is engaged in its own revisionist rewriting of history. I'll never forget the museum in Katowice whose WWII exhibits omitted any reference to the Holocaust and cast Poles as uniquely victimized.

Westman's Bagels in Seattle, which has non-Jewish owners, is attempting to tell the history of bagels (and capitalize on that history in a visual display that casts Westman's as its culmination) by eliminating Jews from the story. Literally.

does anyone know where/in what form Sybil Lamb's 2008 manifesto "You Best Never Ever Tr*nsition, Tr*nny!" was originally published?

I think my hottest pride take is that if you're having an event at a bookstore and charging for it, it's homophobic to make me buy a ticket through a service that will charge a fee on top of it. Like, you HAVE a website. You can sell a ticket there.

That is odd. Mine does. I wonder if your library hasn't opted to show it.

some deliberate obfuscating. is it to keep books from being targeted by banners? keep them from being read? who knows! not me.

as a hoopla reader, it’s something i noticed happen maybe a couple years ago? i would search all the time by category, just drilling down to find the ones i wanted but it suddenly got a lot harder to do that a while ago…i was also surprised to get that email because it seemed like they’d been doing

So weird that Hoopla, one of my public library streaming services, doesn’t seem to have an LGBTQIA+ category. I saw a banner for Pride and it had a paltry offering and nowhere near what is actually available. Are they purposely trying not to surface queer titles? I should ask my librarians.

My congestion is mostly under control but I have a stupid dry cough and I got desperate so I got some Robitussin. Wow is that stuff DISGUSTING but you know what? whatever is irritating me is mostly numb so I don’t want to cough.

Also this is the queerest thing I have seen in ages. So good. Sob sob.

We watched the video recording of the Tony’s opening with P!ink and I almost cried it was so good. And I’m sure there are things I missed, too. I wish there had been subtitles. Esp for the “leading ladies marmalade” song. youtu.be/5KelfPXHNg0?...

Can you tell I’m working on my @99pi.org backlog? Anyway if you noticed the Canadian musicians in Heated Rivalry, this episode about how their music industry grew and was supported was very interesting 99percentinvisible.org/episode/669-...

We watched the video recording of the Tony’s opening with P!ink and I almost cried it was so good. And I’m sure there are things I missed, too. I wish there had been subtitles. Esp for the “leading ladies marmalade” song. youtu.be/5KelfPXHNg0?...

Fans of @older.bsky.social #infomocracy would probably be interested in learning about this guy who declared himself a citizen of the world in 1948 99percentinvisible.org/episode/665-... I think I am going to apply for one of their passports

3:00 am is a great time to deal with tech debt

Gregorio is a local worker from my community; he was kidnapped Saturday morning. He supports his wife, who is injured from an accident, and his son, who has autism-related needs, but, now they need lawyer money #SoloElPuebloSalvaAlPueblo #ICEout www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...

It is 7:30 p.m. I am gonna make a cup of black tea anyway. Friday I drank like 4 cups of tea and slept just fine* *I mean, as fine as possible for someone with a stupid head cold.

The reason I won't let this go is that MAGA-affiliated media are not worth taking seriously and local groups like City Club should not give them platforms. To them, the chance to needle a progressive mayor endlessly about a xenophobic idiot's insane conspiracy theory is priceless.

Just sent out my latest newsletter. Inspired by a reread of Megan McKinney's The Ground She Walks Upon, I explore my ever-changing relationship with age-gap romance and why using age gaps as a plot point instead of a kink makes all the difference. romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/mind-the-gap

Fans of @older.bsky.social #infomocracy would probably be interested in learning about this guy who declared himself a citizen of the world in 1948 99percentinvisible.org/episode/665-... I think I am going to apply for one of their passports

Flattered to see Someone You Can Build A Nest In was selected for Bookshop's Pride Months Picks! If you need the story of a monster *accidentally* falling for the lady who's hunting her? You can get an extra 15% off using the code PRIDE26. bookshop.org/p/books/some...

It’s a lazy day in the neighborhood.

i was going to discourse and then I remembered. Also I took a decongestant this morning and can barely think. I am retiring back to my sick bed.

The thing that absolutely burns my biscuits about this is that human writers don't "sound like 'AI'". The fucking slopgrift machines sound like us because it STOLE MASSIVE TRANCHES OF OUR WORK. It's blaming the *victims of* the theft for the grift *built on* the theft.