At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, an Agatha Christie novel, an alluring rainstorm, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of freshly-baked emotional support scones?

PS if you want to translate my books or invite me - or any other Icelandic author, of which there are MANY - to a literary festival, or to promote a book, the Icelandic government will probably also pay for that!* *although the translation grants only cover parts of the translation cost

Happy May! 🌷

Beltane or Bealtaine was a Celtic/Gaelic festival held on the 1st May to mark the beginning of summer. One of the key parts of the festival (alongside massive bonfires, feasting & making merry with beer 👀) was the exchange of posies to bring good luck. Here's a Beltane posy for you from my garden 🌿

Not Amanda Jones airing ALL our secrets...

A very happy birthday to a very cool gentleman!

Small Joys in Life! The wind in our fur...🍃😻

me: ever heard of quasimodo? hemingway? pavlov? donne? wife: please don’t me: they don’t ring any bells? wife: my mother was right

I missed it, but reposting anyway because this is an important message

Rare video: watch a meteorite hit the Moon in real time 🌕☄️

I don't know who needs to hear this, but one day, you will pull a loose book from a bookshelf and that hidden door will finally open for you.

FCPS ACE is offering ESOL classes this spring for adults to help build English skills through affordable, in-person courses at all levels across the county. Learn more and sign up:

Lady Bart is excited to shop our DRAGON Book Fair this week! #scholastic #libraries #bookfair #beardeddragon

“Banishing even a single book from the public shelves is a matter of great consequence. One which should be treated as seriously as any other attempt to weaken the sacred principles that we celebrate this year as America turns 250.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

If you see this, post a monster (this is Clyde).

This spring I'm launching a brand new Mini Book Of Monsters! Diddy little creatures to put giggles in your tummy and smiles on your face. Get notified of launch here: buff.ly/MbjucyL This is Gareth. He enjoys crochet and making friends. #monster #cutemonster #monsterbook #watercolour #art

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“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

BRB rewriting all the morning announcements in Gen Z slang

14 hours of lecture video PD is not, in fact, best practice.

New USPS rules: Postmarks now show when a ballot is processed, not mailed. 📬 Avoid rejection! Mail 7 days early. If sending on Election Day, get a manual hand-stamp at the counter or use a drop box to ensure your vote counts. ✅🗳️ BlueVoterGuide.org

I just discovered that this bird - the Gloster Canary - exits and it has changed me.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Stand. Scatter love and kindness wild as seed. Stand. Feed one another as needed. Stand. Plant peace where possible. Water it with patience. Stand. Hold God's hand and count down the days until we harvest Justice. Stand. —Copyright 2026 by Nikki Grimes.

This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)

Fairfax eateries join D.C. Winter Restaurant Week 2026, starting Monday

Lady Bartholomew, Destroyer of Worlds recommends a long winter’s nap. #beardeddragon #reptiles #brumation

Elegant orange sunburst lichen (Rusavskia elegans). The lichen is about 1.5cm in diamete. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

Here are my Top 5 Favorite Dog Stories of the Year!

This is encatenation and it is ILLEGAL to move when you are encatenated.

My daughter just walked in and said she's scared because in the trilogy she's reading everyone is happy "and there are two books to go."

In today's English classes, kids often read just snippets of novels — and that's a shame - Chicago Sun-Times by @neilsteinberg.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

it might be the mind control parasites talking, but i'm glad we adopted these cats and can't remember life before

Look at #Audible making a stronger case for #Libby every day. Your #publiclibrary has thousands of great audiobooks available right now for free.

Flu is extremely bad right now. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

Artist's rendering of my living space, apparently

Ach, my heart. It breaks. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

“Authoritarians gain power when citizens stop paying attention. Visit your local library, check out books, and keep reading. If we stay unified and informed, we can ensure reading w/out restriction remains the foundation of our democracy and a fundamental freedom for all.” time.com/7341120/book...

We are failing our kids

For the record, this is still true.

Staff at Alice Deal Middle School made the decision this year to remove all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum. It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."

For some strange reason Dali's is making me crave pizza. #Dali #pizza #Christmas #Christmastree

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm. How it all began.