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the day has finally come: my dedicated danmei shelves are full. when the next release drops, I’ll have to decide whether to try and fit a new shelf in here somehow, or if the special editions should be moved to be on top, thus slightly delaying the inevitable

new books, ft. @adapalmer.bsky.social and @tkingfisher.com! 😁

it is also, if we're being real, about the prohibitive cost of attending university in the US. the prospect of losing out on one of the only ways to avoid a lifetime of crippling debt doesn't justify bigotry, but it sure as hell is a thumb on the scale of why people develop crab bucket mentalities

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in just under 2 weeks, pandora’s conquest of the house is complete

Recs: Name Her Holy by @clericofthevoid.bsky.social Our Crimson Cage by @ladzwriting.bsky.social Metal From Heaven by August Clarke Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang The Jasmine Throne by @tashasuri.bsky.social A Strange & Stubborn Endurance by @fozmeadows.bsky.social

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new cat factions are forming in our household! on the one hand, we have the Sleepylump Alliance (juno and cadfael, opposed to doing things) and the Crime Family (pandora and sherlock, the former being tutored by the latter in boisterous criminality)

sherlock snuggling with his adopted daughter

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

I got 10 out of 15, but christ allfuckingmighty

pandora continues to be the world’s softest and most beautiful kitten

one of the many, many reasons I love owning books is that they're the last bastion of physical media that corporations can neither digitally repossess nor render technologically inaccessible due to regionlocking, subscription changes or phasing out the relevant device. you buy a book and it's YOURS

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers! 📚✨

#Booksky The Pride StoryBundle ends on 7/3 so you still have time to get 16 terrific queer books and designate a donation to Rainbow Railroad! Today’s featured title is FINDING ECHOS by @fozmeadows.bsky.social! Like terrific queer fantasy novellas? Let us help! www.storybundle.com/pride

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I will endorse the french refusal to adopt le airconditioner on one condition: that they first lay the blame for their rising temperatures squarely - and rightly! - at the feet of tech and AI oligarchs, and then address the problem at the root via their nation's most famous traditional methods

a bounty of ARCs and freebies acquired at ALA!

It's a bit older, but I loved @diannalgunn.bsky.social's novella Keeper of the Dawn. and I enjoyed @fozmeadows.bsky.social's An Accident of Stars a lot - one of the main characters is aro but not ace, which isn't a variation I've seen a lot of.

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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender with one image.

jesus fucking christ petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible...

aside from classical, I grew up listening to gene pitney and jukebox hits of the 60s from my mother, and from my dad, a range of musicals, british comic songs and vaudeville numbers from the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, which... was fairly unusual even by the standards of other elder millennials 😅

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on my way to chicago for the ALA! 😁

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you’ve tamed your last impala

small creatures commit small crimes

If you like: disaster gays getting your magic from the gods epic worldbuilding you will love this new @fozmeadows.bsky.social book!

OK so GODBURNED is by @fozmeadows.bsky.social and bluesky autofilled the wrong handle for me! I don't want to delete the post but it's by Foz Meadows, not the other person I tagged who very kindly pointed out my mistake 😅

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Man if I were a hanging judge I would simply not announce from the bench that my sentences were based on active viewpoint discrimination.

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the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

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big loaf, small loaf

so most of the first Austin Powers has not aged terribly well but this exchange remains lamentably on point

I’m showing my 13yo Austin Powers and am devastated to report that 2026 is as distant from 1997, when it’s set, as 1997 was from 1967, where Austin is from 😂😩☠️