OMG. I had no idea new Canadians could sign up for Canoo and have perks at over 2,000 places including all the parks. Rather than being angry about it, I think it’s so cool they get to affordably celebrate being Canadian. Good for anyone in their first 5 years here.

trip prep status: Do Before Leaving list: 72 items checked off, 19 remaining Pack And Bring list: 33 items checked off, 16 remaining (including 5 items to be worn for travel, not packed) Pretty good, for almost three days in advance!

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

A dollar twenty-five ($1.25) an hour -- in store credit, not cash. Comic shop, 1980.

I know there's a huge new market for Biblical films and TV given the rise in Christian fundamentalism, but I just had a great idea re: casting for I Samuel 18-23 or therebouts-- work with me here

brain: I will book the COVID shot for Thursday morning, so we'll have all day and night to ride out the side effects and can use Friday to prep for our very busy weekend body: *is fine all Thursday; produces fever, exhaustion, and muzzyheadedness on Friday* Sigh. I can prep tonight or Sat morning…

I love seeing rabbits hopping placidly across our back yard. Sometimes Geoff or I will spot one and excitedly yell "BUNNY!" across the house to the other person

I am on a couch at my friends' house eating leftover barbecue for breakfast, and their cats are sitting on my legs staring intently at me and purring like mafiosi "Nice pulled pork you have there. Shame if something were to HAPPEN TO IT"

AO3 is doing it well: archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

My interest in reading or watching Project Hail Mary: plummeting 📉

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

I was making potato pancakes (calling them "latkes" is sort of overstating their form and taste, but I guess they're not *not* latkes), and the spatula MELTED ONTO THE PAN. What the hell.

I am so tired of cold and snow, and so glad that at least the sunlight is bright and strong. I remarked to Geoff the other day that the weather is no longer actively trying to kill me, now it just sort of idly wouldn't care if I died

Dear late teens & twenties men: if we are approaching each other on a sidewalk, I will move to its right edge to make room, but I won't step off it. If you insist on walking three abreast, I will bash shoulders with one of you as we pass and not apologize. That's OK, mostly you won't either.

If you haven't seen HR, don't watch this yet -- but for everyone who has & loved it, this vid is amazing and you should go watch it right now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj0B... (earlier version of this post was deleted to avoid killing my friend's mentions, oops)

This Guardian headline is a little bit on the nose #uspol

just saw a post about a husband who spat dinner furiously into the sink & is sleeping on the couch b/c he's mad his wife served penis-shaped pasta, and remembering when I brought a chocolate penis pop home & Geoff happily wandered around sucking on it. Get you a man not afraid of his own genitals

my 30-minute meeting only lasted 75 minutes, yay

This month's free ebook from U Chicago Press is Jessica Martucci's "Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America"—get it at press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb... (UCP won't spam you). No connection to UCP, haven't read it yet myself, but thought some folks might be interested!

Star Trek, paper zines, 23. No one had even heard of the internet.

I went to this HR event today https://www.kingstongrand.ca/events/kcff-heated-rivalry and it was great! The crowd was so enthusiastic (loon calls amid the applause! a nice scattering of fan t-shirts and The Fleece! also the woman who made The Fleece happen (1/4)

I've read many "why people(/women/gay men) like HR" articles and this is a good one -- and I also appreciate its nod to "Personal Best," one of my favorite movies of all time, including for the way its camera loves & admires & never ever smirks at the sheer physicality of the women athletes' bodies

This is, you should pardon the expression, bloody hilarious www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxpj...

"I'm [2026 Dem candidate for any damn office anywhere in the US of A], and I approve this message."

I'm booking a guided walk and a kayak tour for our upcoming vacation, and I love the company's we-need-to-know-about-you text: clear nonjudgmental descriptions of needed fitness (w/examples: "A good guide is if you are okay walking about 3 miles on a forest or coastal path"), plus (1/3)

who just dropped a bottle of vanilla and caught it midair without spilling any? THIS GIRL (okay, it only had like half a teaspoon left in it but I am still pleased!)

me to partner this morning: “Shall we check the forecast to see how much snowfall the random number generator is predicting now?”

This strong independent woman bought her own copy herself, TYVM

the only problem with this being my new desktop pic is that I don't want to put any windows on top of it and I do in fact have work to do that isn't "stare at this pic" (I mean, I think I do? sounds sus, though)

I already knew this, and yet when I watched the Loon Call podcast I literally punched the air when he said it

New pronoun labeler! If you haven't used this before, it's great, I love knowing the best pronouns to use. 1) Subscribe to the labeler 2) Go to the pinned post 3) Like the post(s) for your pronouns 4) If yours has a slash in it like they/them, scroll wayyyyy down, they're there!

you crafters with your yarn stashes are so weird, I say, hastily drawing a curtain across my 5000+ books, 137-item TBR list, 9 library holds, and 3 book price drop alert services

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

omg I just realized that I've been so gone on Heated Rivalry that I COMPLETELY FORGOT about the Call the Midwife Christmas specials! They've been the high point of my holiday season for years and they went completely out of my head. I didn't think that was possible.

I crossed a Boston street mid-block and was clipped by a car. People gathered round me. Sun was in my eyes as I lay on the pavement so a young man put his sunglasses on me; a young woman sat down next to me, kept my backpack safe in her lap, & held my hand till the ambulance arrived

just came back from a Heated Rivalry marathon at a friend's; watched the whole show, my 1st time for ep 6, her 3rd. I made her hold my hand for much of it. SO GOOD. Can't wait to see it again, and hopefully have my turn showing it to someone!

just finished episode 5 of Heated Rivalry and I spent the entire time going alternately "oh, bunny" and "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", except when I was doing both at once

I am very pleased with this CBC article on managing menstruation in space that is entirely gender-neutral about menstruators! (Not everyone it quotes is, but that's not under CBC's control.) www.cbc.ca/news/science...

who read all six Game Changer books in the past four days? THIS GIRL

winter-hating me, looking out at falling snow: It's pretty, in an "oh, fuck you" sort of way Geoff: Cursier and Ives?

Potato is my love language Air frying is my accent

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Her "One Night in Boukos" is only 99¢! That was the first one of hers I read and it hooked me HARD.

Can confirm, this is a great app/set of apps!

I don't even do Yuletide, but I was thinking the other day about a Yuletide Advent calendar that would just have a bear behind every little door

Two parallel streams: 1) I got a master's in history, volunteered at a history journal to gain more familiarity with the field, and to my shock was immediately asked to heavily edit articles, and 2) I beta-read a lot of fanfic

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

You hang out on Bluesky but the person you thought was hot turns out to live on Xwitter -- problematic homepage gap

I'm doing an old NYT crossword puzzle, and I've just encountered this clue: "Famed orange troublemaker." Five letters. I am extremely tempted to give up on completing the words around it, just so I can fill that one in as it deserves rather than whatever the NYT wanted me to put there...