Since we're talking about Hurley (if you haven't read, what the hell is wrong with you?), there is NOTHING out there like her Bel Dame Apocrypha series. My favorite book series by a mile.

It's a kinder, gentler Godzilla.

OH MY FUCK YES

Also, I regret even waking up this morning, since now apparently we're bullying Japan and ending all trade with Spain???

I'm just saying that if the entire internet had been speculating about my death for weeks on end, I'd sure as hell get in front of a camera to say, "hey, nope! Still here! Just feeling like shit!" There is no doubt in my mind that McConnell is AT LEAST incapacitated.

I've got J's car for the day and poking around while waiting in the Dunks drive thru, I found an SD card slot??? With a card in it????

Between the talk about Platner ("how could we know??" "He was sorry for the Nazi tattoo!") and Taylor Swift's wedding, I'm really regretting not bringing my headphones to work today.

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

After weeks of bemoaning the fact that ugh no books are interesting lately, there's a new Chuck Tingle (which proves love is real), new Daniel Mason (he wrote North Woods, which I adored) and You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White is in paperback. Go forth and READ

Anyway, today's book haul:

I got all the way into work to notice that, as I'm unpacking my shit, I left my tea somewhere. It was on the roof of my car. I had to slog back out there in 95% humidity for the caffeine hit and now my underboobs are sweaty.

Limp crone.

oh he's DEAD dead

No one is owed a Senate campaign, for fuck's sake.

All of these are great (I've used mugwort) but also don't overlook regulardegular incense for smoke cleansing!

Anyway! Didn't log on to argue about Platner! I hope only for the worst to befall him! If you're still supporting him, eat shit!

I'm reading Daniel Kraus' latest, and one of the blurbs on the back is all "the redefinition of body horror" and I'm like, "pffft. I've read Kameron Hurley and Andrew Joseph White and Gretchen Felker-Martin, fucking bring it." ... ... ... ... there's eyeball stuff on page 12.

Anyway, it's the start of our very own heat wave, so my kid and I are heading up to the lake. Adios, be good in my menchies!

The patriarchal world is tearing itself to bits in order to cling to fictions it can no longer reasonably maintain.

Well, the fucking terfs found me. No, "gender tests" are *not* going to be cheek swabs when looking at little girls' genitals is infinitely less expensive.

I feel like we're not talking about how "gender tests" for participation in girls sports IS SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS

My answer every time: Demon Knight.

On this auspicious Girl Dinner night, let me give you an unasked for piece of advice (which will have a quarter of the world mad at me): Make your hummus with pinto beans and lentils instead of chickpeas and thank me later.

Somehow two things are true: No one at work is at all excited about the 250th anniversary AND YET the one anarchist here is tasked with trying to market our books about the US. UGH

Today's book haul:

Anyway, I'm the only person here and it's pretty refreshing.

for about 15 glorious seconds, I thought my laptop wasn't able to turn on. AND THEN I'D BE FREE Yeah, you actually have to depress the button to get it to work.

Polaroid is in for a penny with anti-AI advertising and let me tell you why I love this. This is a company with cultural capital. Years of nostalgia and goodwill. They know AI is an existential threat—not only to their business, but to the idea of photography as a whole.

Both Resident Evil 1 & 2 can be beaten under 3.

this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

Our county fair is FAR better attended.

Kind of thought we had bigger problems wrt living in a fascist state, but these spineless cucks would rather try to prevent my kid from watching TikTok.

I would humbly make the argument that Fitzwilliam Darcy wasn't intentionally standoffish and rude; old boy just had the autism.

All plot summaries are unecessary. Everyone should just sit in a dark room and imagine a movie.

Okay, car is repaired, errands are run. I'm done with responsible adult shit until I have to take my kid to the orthodontist this afternoon.

*I'm* not thinking about Christmas presents in late June, *you're* thinking about Christmas presents in late June.

One of my most deeply held woo-woo beliefs is that people drive worse during the full moon.

Give me the strength not to get involved in sex scene discourse when I REALLY need to get off my butt and into the shower.

Irina Ratushinskaya didn’t scratch her poems into a bar of soap with a matchstick, memorize them and wash away her forbidden work as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp for you to tell me AI is "inevitable"

Once again, I'm utterly baffled by the people claiming that a raw, unedited photo of a *cake* is AI. Please, slice some fresh fruit and get back to me.

Fun story: Constantino will likely be my Congressman. So that's fun.

I said from the fucking jump that this war was two things: 1) a market wide pump-n-dump and 2) fresh meat for the evangelicals

The "who fucking cares, ship it" part of generative AI is just as fundamental as the part where it openly violates consent at every single stage. It's necessary to do one, in order to do the other.

You've Glitched your last Mob.

Ah look it's Friday late afternoon and the markets have closed.

I wonder if all of the negative reviews for Supergirl are, at their core, because male reviewers don't want a movie about women's trauma and fears. 🤔

Famously, no old men are really into model railroads.

Napoleon Bonaparte made his servants break in his shoes before he wore them. His entire wardrobe was two different outfits repeated. When he arrived at St Helena he had a meltdown about the house smelling like paint. His stare was so unnerving other heads of state believed it was magical.

But ALSO I hate that we have to learn this shit either via word-of-mouth or finding out the hard way. Heat related illnesses ARE avoidable, but we have to know when we're more susceptible and it should be the provider's job to fucking tell us. SSRIs should come with a free bottle of sunscreen.

SSRIS and iirc estrogen HRT patches. Drink extra water, use sunscreen, and stay in AC as much as possible in the hottest weather.