I wish I were at a No Kings event and not at work today, but I'm jealously cheering you all on while I do the important socialist work of helping people access anime porn on library laptops and threatening that drunk guy with a systemwide ban if he harasses my coworker again

Maybe it's just that I'm a tenderized wreck right now but this new George Saunders novella is going to make me cry at the reference desk

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Check in with the Dan & Phil friends in your life apparently they are having A DAY

Firefox WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE THAT

Trying to be a good responsible adult and tackle these annoying tasks on my day off but instead of being surprisingly more easy than I expected, they are actually WORSE and require multiple steps and calling back and extra locations??! This is some BS, I'm going back to writing all day.

In the group chat today my little fandom sib pointed out that "sad wet rat = birdie fandom bait" and I'm so mad, it's almost like they know me after talking to me daily for 6+ years

NEW TANA FRENCH GALLEY YESSSSS clear my schedule for the next 2 days I'm going in

Who in god's green earth has the wherewithal for fandom drama in the year 2025. Can we not just choose our own ways to write about our faves tenderly banging it out and leave each other the fuck alone?

It's 3-paycheck month and I am using my untold wealth to take the cat to the vet but also to buy tickets to see Noah Reid when he comes to NYC in December and also the Danish String Quartet at Carnegie next year. Priorities!

Ok I've been working very hard in the fic mines for a solid month now and I think I deserve a snack and a 6-week nap. I'm very proud of my latest, though.

Recommended Piranesi to a friend which made me need to listen to the audiobook read by Chiwetel Ejiofor again this week, and it's perfection. His voice! So soothing! Piranesi's soul, so pure! If you need me I'll just be crying into my cocoa about the scene near the end where he speaks to the bones.

For some reason my downloaded epub files open in my Books app and not Kindle now, and the font is so polite and bookish it is throwing me off my game something fierce

Reminder to my fellow bisexuals: do not do crimes today. You are briefly visible. Wait til tomorrow when you can no longer be perceived.

Autumn is here ! 🍁🍂 #pokemon

Screaming into a pillow about the fact that this story hasn't finished itself yet and I have to actually do the work if I want to read the ending

That one person in the discord who consistently ruins the entire vibe, o lord grant me strength

Which do I hate less this morning: writing or doing my strength training exercises? I could aim for doing both for 1/2 hour each but what am I, some kind of superhuman entity??

I don't recommend the Dept Q books, though, unless you really like throwing up in your mouth. Maybe Carl becomes less of a gross POS and Assad becomes less of a caricature in later volumes but I'm not sticking around to find out.

The past week and a half of 2 vacations, 1 huge con, and 1 new fandom has been incredible but HIGHLY OVERSTIMULATING and I would like to lie down for the next 4 days instead of going back to work please Here is a small damp birb that @garryowendogpoet.bsky.social and I met yesterday

I might write, but I also have a long to-do list of household chores that might become extremely appealing as soon as I open my laptop. I guess I kind of win either way?

Dept Q! Dept Q?? Not to be too hasty as I’m only 5 episodes in, but wow. You know my weakness for deeply damaged asshole detectives. Dept Q?!

So stressed about the ordeal of moving the kid back to college today that insomnia has struck hard and so I’m going to get to do it all on Extra Hard Mode with three hours sleep under my belt, this is greeaaaat

A rowing club member is urging people to send letters to US Rowing (*) saying that we value the inclusion of trans people in our sport. Mine will include words along the lines of Alice's thread. (*) Rowing friends, if you want a sample letter, let me know and I will share my teammate's.

I need Libby to be searchable by the tag “books that are actually good”

Cause of death: Lupita Nyong’o in a double breasted suit (and also dehydration because damn it was a sweaty day, but WORTH IT)

Got a small unexpected windfall and I have at least fifteen ways I could use it responsibly but instead I am going to take myself to DragonCon for Labor Day

This is really, really, really not my week. RIP Skeeby, 2011-2025. Most cuddly mama’s boy ever. I’m glad he got to go while he was snuggled up in my arms, his favorite place.

Getting smacked in the face by a random violent patron right before closing was not the start to my weekend I was hoping for! Especially when I have to go back to the library tomorrow morning and sit on desk half the day again! I guess there had to be a first time after eleven years on the job :/

I’ve just been prescribed a medication called Gallifrey - side effects presumably include becoming a rabid Whovian?

The 19-year-old is having a crisis of the heart about college and career planning, and one of his top three career choices at the moment is Firefighter/EMT. I never considered this as a possible terrible consequence to getting him hooked on the weewoo show last summer.

I could try writing again, OR, hear me out, I could just daydream a lot for the rest of the summer and get SO MUCH MORE SLEEP

Look, Askars is hot but I can’t sexualize Murderbot because that feels way too disrespectful, so I started a rewatch of Gen Kill and now I’m deep in my differently problematic Marine feelings again and I can’t win. I guess it’s nice to feel something again?

Also today: BEACH

Reading An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States feels right for today.

Dudes at my work: Ranked choice is BULLCRAP, here’s how Cuomo can sTiLL wIN 🤢

If you've never read Persepolis here's your reminder to read Persepolis

The Moomins are up at the central library (full Tove Jansson exhibit opens next weekend) and my inner eight-year-old is on tiptoes with delight

These babies would like you to stay indoors and pet cats today it is TOO HOT to do anything else you will DIE if you don’t stay in and pet them all day #caturday

Frankly I think the most helpful thing I can do on here at this moment is post a list of trans-affirming resources to which people who are able can donate:

@nyphilharmonic.bsky.social in Prospect Park was a smashing good time last night

hey here's something I would love us all to do like RIGHT NOW: find out if your local library is doing any kind of pride programming or display, and if they are, email them to say thank you and why it matters to you. whether or not you're queer. especially if you're in an area where it's fraught

Vacation day at my sister’s: coffee on the porch with a book, went out for BBQ, prepped dinner ingredients and made a mojito, now back on the porch enjoying a big rainstorm. I don’t mind more rain under these specific circumstances, turns out!

Dear East Coast weather, WHY. Disgustedly, Bird

Mine is a bit sad but at least I have left the US several times?? Farthest north: Victoria, Canada Farthest south: Montego Bay, Jamaica Farthest west: Point Reyes, USA Farthest east: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

forget hot girl summer embrace prone piglet summer

Kids are still off finishing their finals so I took myself to see Sinners for Mother’s Day and it was DELICIOUS. Adding to the chorus of everyone else’s recommendations, as long as you don’t mind gore!

Pippi is unmoved by Dr. Robby’s manly tears

I really need a new fandom to strike me down out of the clear blue sky and make a dizzy desperate fool out of me again. While I wait, I guess I will have to settle for a mint julep in the meantime.