i’m just a girl with a phone and a dream to capture the moon’s beauty. did i succeed? 🥹

You see that flower pattern in the dirt? It's the footprint of a white rhino. I got to participate in a white rhino tracking one morning 😊 📷 #Namibia, April 2026. #Mammals #Rhinoceros #Portraits #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

I'm also tempted to try this recipe later in the summer if I can find lavender. cookingwithparita.com/recipe/black...

For those of you who do not have awesome neighbors from Jordan or Lebanon, toum is a garlic sauce with a similar consistency to sour cream, but there's no cream. It's garlic, lemon juice, and a neutral oil (I'm told canola chilled in the freezer works best). It's delicious. Pure garlic sauce.

This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the glorious garlic sauce, Toum from 'Rumi: Food of Middle Eastern Appearance' by Joseph Abboud! www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

Toum Raider is a genius name, and I might go to the Pasadena Armenian Festival just for this. www.pasadenaarmenianfestival.com/food?utm_sou...

Fantastic example of sunning behaviour. Nothing like some intense UV to get rid of pesky ectoparasites like lice! #birds

I'm off to make some toum and then some cucumber salad to go with dinner tonight. If you have a good toum recipe, share it! (pretty please) Dinner is at 6. If you know the door code, come on over! #AmCooking #Recipe #Request

Me: You do not have that many aunts, little one! How could you forget all their names? Child: Name all the aunties! Me: *gets up to Auntie #10 before I concede that maybe calling every close friend an Auntie does leave us with a lot of aunties*

Guys, the logogram for “home” is 家 or literally a roof with a pig under it. Supposedly pigs have been domesticated in China for around 8000 years, second only to dogs. Telling me I can’t eat pork cuz it’s not digestible to me when 90% of traditional Chinese food involves pig in some form is 😁

And this is why we take writing breaks. Because writing 50+ pages a week and reading several hundred pages leaves the brain with the writing abilities of a moldy lemon. The brain needs recovery time just like the rest of the body does.

My English is not Englishing well today. >.<

Interesting question of the day... Could someone bringing a lawsuit for intellectual property theft against AI include cities with AI data centers or the politicians who advocated for them? Doesn't that make them a co-conspirator at the very least?

Well, I called my sister. And then Youngest promptly kidnapped both her aunt and my phone so I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I should work on embroidery or start chopping veggies for the sauces I'm making for dinner tonight.

Blue flowers for a #BlueMoon, though a Blue Moon doesn’t relate to colour. One definition is the second full moon in a month with two full moons, as occurs on 31 May. Its rarity gave rise to the saying “once in a blue moon”, meaning something that seldom happens. #FolkloreSunday

Delilah is a security expert and sometimes a super villain. When the mayor is murdered Delilah has to get close to Alan Adale to learn if he's the killer, and her only back-up is the ghostly superhero The Spirit Of Chicago. #Romance #Books books2read.com/b/vil...

Read #26 of '26 The Calamities by Chuck Wendig The Calamities, a modern horror-fantasy centered on a cabal of families corrupted by greed and power, is pure-grade, white knuckle Wendig. (1/2)

I'm watching the super enjoyable K-drama "My Royal Nemesis" which has one of my least fave tropes (the ruthless rich heir & the One Girl) which absolutely works because it is also a rom-com, she's coded as a villain, & the two leads are SO GOOD & have great chemistry. Anyone else watching it?

Canadian Affairs: 'The long shadow of long COVID' 'Years after infection, thousands — possibly millions — of Canadians remain unable to return to the lives they once knew' www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/05/29/t...

Casual reminder that @escapepod.org closes for the summer at the end of May! You've got one more day to drop your story in the pneumatic tube and launch it into our portal. Our Democratic Futures submission window, however, will remain open longer. escapepod.org

in case you didn’t know, there’s gonna be a rare blue moon tomorrow!! go out and see it if you can!

Time for 🛏️ #northwalescoastpath

Kyoto University Hospital is running the first human trial of TRG-035, a drug that grew brand-new teeth in mice. Humans grow two sets and stop. The drug aims to give us a third.

"the yips"

Me: “Time for a relaxing few hours reading in the garden.” Local hummingbirds: “Our nestlings have fledged and now it is all out war at all three feeders.”

More #Cdrama recs with happy endings!

Mars receding into darkness, captured yesterday by the Psyche spacecraft #Psyche #Mars 🧪🔭

I convinced my family to try watching this tonight. The first episode had the teens laughing, cringing, and asking all the questions. #LoveInTheClouds #Cdrama

I don't generally mind being mistaken for a guy. It happens all the time when I game because my go-to handle is some form of Eris. People misread it as Eric. No biggy. Assuming someone's a guy just because they're an expert? That's a problem.

I will need to go find this one.

Yes and also the first letters of Apple. they could also have called them eg progs or sofs or tools or utils or execs or literally any other name. I don’t criticise it, it’s clever.

It literally just occurred to me that by calling them “apps” Apple was subliminally but deliberately associating them with its own company name

When it looked like Hilde might not survive high-risk surgery in 2018, we set up a living trust for the house and other property to help avoid probate. (Also updated wills, power of attorney for each other, etc.)

My eyes is twitching. (SME = subject matter expert)

Clone or corpse? If the body on the ground is a clone, Sam is dealing with littering. If it's not, she's finally caught the murder case that can reset her career. But the question Sam needs to be asking isn't What but Who is in the body bag. books2read.com/b/day... #SciFi #Mystery #Books

I talk about this in Be Funny Or Die, but by showing Marion and Indy on the steps at the end of Raiders, Marcia Lucas gave the entire film structure. Without it, the film doesn’t just not have an ending, it doesn’t have a story at all, just a plot.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

I literally just had that thought that the Google AI summary is that fella with the loud voice who says "what you wanna do is..." whether he has the first clue or not. Of course many women spotted that long before me! And of course some men are calling them stupid! [Deep, unhappy sigh]

Joy, in its healthiest form, is recognition. It says, I am here. You are here. We are sharing this minute on the same land, under the same wide sky. Happiness is not the elimination of fear and memory. It's learning to hold them without letting them drive. gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/when-i-dan...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Racoon dog branding making an impact in the bagel #LinguisticLandscape of Korea! Really something interesting going on with the marketing and popularity of bagels in Korea these days . . . .

It has been a long day, but! Good news! I've only terrified one person! (because he joked about spousal abuse and thought it was funny and my look was more than enough to send him running)

Unless there is a lot of money on the table or some other demonic deadline, don’t lose sleep over writing. It’s not healthy. There’s no advantage to stressing yourself out and making yourself miserable while writing a book. Have fun! #LianaEdits #AmWriting #WritingAdvice #Publishing

The Custom Oregon Plate BOOKS was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #BOOKS

Oh wow, now I am super curious about the global durian #LinguisticLandscape!

Someday some one is going to call the police on me when I’m stalking a kingfisher because I look like I’m conducting a heist in an action movie. Hiding behind trees, using my car as a shield like I’m in a gunfight, I must look ridiculous #NemesisBird #birds 🌿

*The GodFeather coos at you* "You come to my balcony on this the day of my daughter's wedding to ask me for a favor..." (And yes, I fully expect you to know plot out a Pigeon Mafia book. #EnablersRUs :P)

Okay so HERE IS MY EXCITING BOOK NEWS (and why I was screaming at midnight!) #writesky #booksky #hallmark #movies #romance #romancelandia www.bryndonovan.com/2026/05/20/b...

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

For my latest piece for @forbes.com, I explore why the Korean film "Hope" became one of the most talked-about movies at #Cannes. 👇 (And yes, I also included a bit about the controversy surrounding that journalist who made those racist remarks at the press conference.) #Hope #filmfestival