Found out that I can't knit while taking prescribed pain killers. But now that I'm just taking Advil, all I've been doing is knitting and playing video games.

We're seriously on here seriously arguing whether or not Lupita Nyong'o is the most beautiful woman alive? Get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here!

Synchronicity in my timeline.

I need a clever post-hysterectomy display name to use later this week.

Hey, Harry Potter fans! What's up? You still defending Joanne still or are all y'all gonna grow up and join the rest of us in condemning her?

Your favorite Turtle tells WAY more about your personality than <eyeroll> Hogwarts house.

I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo needles I hate bamboo

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

One asshole, "Now I know where not to shop." One of our regular customers, "It's not as if you've ever read a book."

We don't have the same ICE presence here in upstate NY as elsewhere BUT one of our local school districts is trying to locate a pair of siblings that were taken by ICE less than a week ago. Think about that. A *school district* is doing more for these kids than any other government agency.

I'm 44. Which one of you is it?

god fuck dammit

I keep seeing techbros (lately Musk, but others as well) talk about putting data centers in space and I feel like I'm losing my goddamned mind. The logistics of data transfer aside (you know, kind of the whole point), but space is a *vacuum* which is famously good at *insulation*

Milk chocolate. It's often way too sweet and cloying, and usually fails to include anything to balance out the sweetness.

I just keep coming back to how so many of these elites labeled transness and queerness as "perversions" while they're out here raping little girls.

Zero cures for any disease? Randy motherfucker I BEAT CANCER with a lot of medical treatments and some truly wonderful doctors and nurses. I didn't beat cancer with green juice and whatever homeopathic garbage you're selling.

I'm thinking about reinstalling the Bsky app on my phone during at least the early part of my recovery because I will likely be bored bored bored. Good idea? Bad idea?

I hate that I understand every word of this headline.

We were a huge inspiration for the Nazi regime. This isn't news or a particularly unknown historical tidbit. All of these pundits have degrees from prestigious schools and here I am, a fucking college dropout, able to point out how ridiculously wrong they are. Makes me so fucking angry.

Also, like. I'm having surgery in 3 days. I thought the lead up to my medical leave wouldn't be too difficult, but joke's on me! I have to prepare to deal with trolls and fascists.

We're making fliers to post up and my boss asked me to put a shareable post on Facebook-- which I hadn't initially done to try to limit the tide of trolls. Well. I wasn't doing anything else with my Saturday, anyway. Might as well monitor the store's page. I get paid by the hour, let's go.

Pretty sure this is a Tom Waits song.

I don't know if you all care, but I always list what I'm currently reading on the bio section of my profile page. I'm also over on StoryGraph if you want to add me there (feel free to DM for my username!)

FREE LUIGI

Intrusive thoughts about Canadian fictional characters : at one point Wolverine and Anne of green gables were alive at the same time

I feel like I should have something to say about a famous journalist being arrested for <shrugs, I guess> but I'm just kind of terrified.

Holy shit, my statement is being published with no revisions. Fuck ICE. Fuck fascists. Support your community.

1 for some godawful reason I am working at 10:45 at night 2 who the thought it was a good idea to pay me money to write words

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

"Maybe house cleaning" is an entire mood. Not any sort of priority.

I got a really lovely surgery care package from @esteleth.bsky.social, in which she included 6 skeins of yarn. "Audley," I said to myself. "That's half a blanket!" So now I'm making a blanket for myself, I guess.

You know what I'm doing today? Knitting, drinking a million cups of tea, and hanging out with my dog. Hustle culture is just a coverup for having no personality.

"Why do Americans die so young?" There's a lot of factors, but I mean, paying more for less healthcare seems to be a big reason!

There's a lot of intersecting factors, but I think the BIG one is that people in the US aren't guaranteed healthcare, so influencers et al take advantage of people's very reasonable anxieties and sell us on keeping ourselves "healthy" when they KNOW they can't promise that.

There's something tickling the back of my mind about the "clean eating"/minimally processed food influencers and how the cheapest foods are shelf stable foods and how much damage they've done to how we think about how eating cheaply is eating "badly".

Werner Herzog ought to slap the shit out of these clowns.

I was born in the year of the rooster 😭

Anyway, one of the things I was asked to do for work this week is to pull together a statement about ICE and the murders in MN and how we stand with the protesters and etc. The problem is that my bosses are all milquetoast liberals afraid of offending anyone and I don't play well with both sides.

"You're just not someone who handles pain very well." Asshole, I have been in constant pain since October and the fact that I haven't murdered anyone is testament to how well I do actually handle pain.

Today's book haul: I'm under the impression that this is political intrigue with smooching.

BUT whaT WILL THE DAY DRINKERS IN PAOLA, KANSAS THHink??

Here I am: I've got a scented candle lit, a hot cup of tea, and I'm watching Dimension 20 while blissfully working on the second purple blanket. My mother-in-law: "You're STILL working on that??" Well, I *had* been pretty happy with the progress so far. 😭

Guys, for the love of EVERRYTHIng, don't recommend Gaiman to me. Come on now.

Of COURSE I'm rolling my eyes at Jared Leto as Skeletor but have you considered: There's no way on the good green Earth that it isn't just pandering to the nostalgia of 50 year old white men. There's no way it was ever going to be *good*

Cherry tax.

ANYWAY

Okay, I've mentioned medical leave a couple of times, so here's what's happening: On February 3, I'm having a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy. In normal people words, I'm having my cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries removed.

I have said it before and I'll keep saying it: We need to celebrate "bad" art. Not art that is deliberately bad (necessarily), but art that is made by people who don't have the training, practice, or skills of a professional. Art made for art's sake, for the enjoyment of making.

It's a low pain day and I only had a minimal amount of work to do, so fuck it: banana bread.