Finished stitching my 2025 book tracker! Been very satisfying to catch up on at least one craft project. It's helping me find little sparks of joy in the world right now. Pattern by thestircrazycrafter & purchased on Etsy. Genres & representative colors chosen by me. #books #reading #crossstitch

I started reading this Christmas gift. Twenty pages in I am completely charmed.

This whole thread.

This series is such a good read!

Here is the official certificate of election for Adelita Grijalva D-AZ. She was elected on September 23 and still has not been sworn in by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

The Executive is laying taxes without the consent of Congress. The Executive is spending money without the consent of Congress. Other than that, everything is totes normal.

Finally made it through the months-long hold for Oathbound this week and my goodness.The amount of stress I have had for these characters! Bree and Nick and Sel and the community Bree has built for herself - just perfect.

Aww, Libby, why? If i actually have to remember to unsuspend a hold I'll probably never remember to read the book.

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

What a sweet face! 😍 Mr M is deathly allergic or I’d be getting a new friend!! Someone give this precious a home. <3

Spotted at Dragon Con! #SaveWOT

I love how absurd this convention is. Warms my nerd heart.

I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically! This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.

Jinu shrine already has a start as of Wednesday night/Thursday morning at Dragon Con. Spotted by my husband in, I think, the Marriott. Or maybe the habitrail tubes connecting Marriott & Hyatt.

It's red panda day! A friend saw the feral fairies and asked if I could make a red panda. I immediately saw it in my mind, so it had to happen. #bsnm 🧶 The red pandas have joined the other feral fairies in Whimsy Station! whimsystation.com/collections/...

Today's small joy: caterpillars chowing down on milkweed in my garden. 🤞 Fingers crossed that they survive!

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

There's really nothing quite like finishing a novel and then just sitting there to absorb the emotional wringing out you just went through. In the best way possible!

Also on my TBR is autobuy authors Kit Rocha's Consort of Fire and Queen of Dreams! Queer, polyamorous fantasy for only $1.99 each!Yes please! CoF: amzn.to/46D0PIe QoD: amzn.to/3U3L31v

I gave into the curiosity and watched KPop Demon Hunters with Mr JayStarNaz. So silly! So fun! So catchy! I'm going to be humming some of these songs for a week.

#RECALL: Curtis International recalls about 634,000 Frigidaire-brand minifridges. The minifridges’ internal electrical components can short circuit and ignite the surrounding plastic housing. Get refund. CONTACT: 888-727-0198 or www.recallrtr.com/minifridge. Full notice: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025...

out of pure rage for the obliteration of science funding i made a sticker cuts are disproportionately impacting EC scientists & women~particularly Black women and women of color 25% of proceeds will go to @standupforscience.bsky.social to keep fighting! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎 plz share widely tinyurl.com/5n7kjbwt

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

It is both cool and eerie to hear the coyotes & babies singing the song of their people and having it echo across the neighborhood. Hope the neighbors use it as a reminder to keep their cats and small dogs inside!

FIRST: "The Epstein list is on my desk waiting for review." NEXT: "The Epstein list doesn't even exist." NOW: "Oh, wait, the Epstein list DOES exist after all, but it was written by Biden, Obama, and Hillary, so if the name 'Donald Trump' appears on it, you know it's a hoax."

Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover... "Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com is a new #Murderbot story free to read at Reactor now! reactormag.com/rapport-mart...

I really have to go do mundane life things like grocery shopping after having an emotional rollercoaster and bawling because of Murderbot episode 10. Pfft.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? Welp.

Little buddy is living his best cat life. Maybe in my next life cycle I can be this spoiled and relaxed.

So glad that my health ins provider has such terrible UX in this email that my eyes actually hurt from the lack of color contrast. Ugh. I'd share a screenshot here but I don't want the rest of you to suffer too.

One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat.

I love this! Well, the science fair part. Not the "lost critical knowledge" part.

No “President” has a right to strip citizenship and deport people who challenge his policies. That’s fascism, not America.

Thanks to Tar Valon or Bust, a couple weeks ago I found a used copy of Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave to read along. Fast forward a couple weeks and I'm visiting Dad, who lives in Grandma's old house. I'm helping him clean it out. Guess what I found on the bookshelf? So now I have 2 copies.

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

This topic is outside of my normal interest, but it is quite fascinating and interesting reading. I'm so glad it came across my social media feed. So here I am on a Saturday afternoon reading an academic article about fashion and economics.

So interesting!

We got two weekends specials! The Ki Khanga combo and the Heretic series by Sarah Macklin are both on sale. And as an added bonus, The Heretic Series is now available as an ebook bundle. It's a Sword and Soul cornucopia! www.mvmediaatl.com

this could mean so many things but feels right welakai? welakai. #SaveWOT

Kudos to the person or people who invented audiobooks. Listening to somebody tell me a story is the only way I'm going to do the thing I don't want to do (putting away laundry) right now.

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode, no SW, ST, or LOTR)

And now that I've finished Asunder, I really, really want to know what happens next. Need that sequel!

Reposting because I'm always working to broaden my reading horizons.

This, SO MUCH this.

I'm reading Asunder right now and it's SUCH an engaging story. I'm perpetually freaked out on behalf of the characters.

It's never too early to talk to your parents/kids/vulnerable-loved-ones about AI slop

Open full thread and scroll, if you dare 🐈‍⬛

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I really love river oats. Sea oats. Whatever you call them. The seeds are so lovely and the drooping angle is so graceful.