Tomorrow is Vivian Stephens’ birthday. How will you celebrate? #romancelandia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_...

This is outside my wheelhouse, but surely some seasoned records manager wants to shout Pizza! Pizza! ilitch.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/LC/job/Detro...

In Canada.. ICE is for CURLING 🥌 peacelovecanada.ca/products/ice...

Demi gave us one of the all-time greatest series of September 21st celebratory videos, but also this www.youtube.com/watch?v=64So...

So help me, I’m trying to make a pilaf again. Will I also screw it up again? Stay tuned!

If baking and relaxation are your jams (ha), this is really lovely. youtu.be/jF_0BlNDn1w?...

It’s today! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Tracks.

I can’t help but wonder what Maarja would’ve said in this moment.

For everyone who knows Isobel Carr and may not have heard, per a blog entry by author Carolyn Jewel, Isobel has been battling cancer and her doctors have told her she has very limited time, perhaps a week. Please read the blog post, linked in the quoted post.

It’s literally not that hard!

We were talking the other day about how the loss of RWA meant it was harder to find good cons and good craft talk. Chicago Sprint Fling has great guests and offers a hybrid online program as well! Do recommend for anyone interested in romance!

So they’re using the anti-abortion playbook. Make it complicated, increase doubt, chip away over time instead of facing the consequences of their willful stupidity. Fucking cowards.

These Canadian women are real good at rugby!

Yeah, FAFO, but also crashing our local economy is bad. bgindependentmedia.org/local-farmer...

I was just thinking about the time I went to a repro org's holiday party- not even a protest- and some anti came in screaming and dumped a box of plastic fetuses everywhere before being escorted out. It managed to be hilarious and terrifying all at once. They upped security the year after. (1/2)

This is the crux of it and it’s so fucking weird. Are y’all that committed to email marketing?

The smell of cow shit permeates Lancaster County. Sure you get used to it but it’s still wild to me that people get a whiff and then think “I gotta get me some of that raw milk!”

For no reason thinking of this one today: youtu.be/B2rygAhcgcI?...

For no reason thinking of this one today: youtu.be/B2rygAhcgcI?...

if you're in the market to support some woke antifa media, may i recommend @theflytrapmedia.com, worker-owned feminist coop that just this week published an incredible photo essay on anti-fascist, rural feminist radio in Argentina

People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI? Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.

Waiting for my pupils to dilate at the eye doctor, AMA while I can still read…

I’ve become That Guy who peruses estate auction listings, because sometimes they’re fascinating. This is a great example of people who- fastidiously- never threw anything away. bid.donroseauctions.com/ui/auctions/...

We just did this with kiddo (very shot averse) and it has multiple steps but it worked out great. www.flumist.com

ah, well

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

This is not a drill- it’s shoegaze morning on KEXP! www.kexp.org

There might be more important things in the world, but I was relieved to find out I wasn’t the first person to think the band Sparks is a Mandela effect phenomenon.

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

If you like bats/skypuppies, our local wildlife rehab center is using the proceeds from this for their bats: www.bonfire.com/save-the-bat...

“Not so fast. I want a Winnebago.” Damn, Sneakers is so good.

Many romance authors and readers are revealing themselves as holders of conservative values in the wake of current events. Unsurprising. And the decline of condom use and birth control in recent m/f romances probably isn't a coincidence. romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/baring-it-...

Do you ever stop and think about how 45 years ago romance fan culture narrowly dictated who gets accepted as a romance author based on gender, straightness, whiteness, and personal appearance? And how that fan culture arguably still follows those guidelines? Nah, me neither.

This is bad. They’ve been gunning for Sarbanes-Oxley and the like for a long time, and this is part of that attack. As we sit on top of another bubble, less regulation will be disastrous.

Captions for the Emmys are over the speaker’s faces, which seems… suboptimal?

No. He read a script off a screen. Zero credit. F-. Disingenuous tripe.

Well that was a messy half of rugby. It’s amazing any points got scored!

Never say I’m immune from peer pressure- I’ve started my first focaccia dough! You’ve done it again @mostlybree.kitrocha.com. Pics tomorrow hopefully!

This is for @stegan.bsky.social and any other historical romance librarian who's interested but! I'm watching Bob Barker Price Is Right reruns and this is a shot of the Superromances that were the consolation prizes, circa 1982!

This is perhaps the best time to announce that that internet culture reporter has parted ways with Vox and is now open to freelancing, if anyone would like them to, oh, explain the increasing role memes and shitposts have played in extremist violence, for ex: www.vox.com/culture/2019...

Well at least there’s some good news.

The worst crosswords are the ones where they “cleverly” take away vowels or double letters or whatnot. Goddamit, spelling matters! Thus ends one of my five most minor gripes.

I’m aware that people are never going to be able to accept this, but it remains true. There is a not insignificant number of romance readers and writers who function exactly the same way as conservative fans of other things do.

August and September are also when we’ll see the waves of federal workers who took “the fork” show up in some of these reports. It’s only going to get worse.

The new Superchunk not only has my favorite album title of the year, it’s also (predictably) a great album. “Care Less” is my favorite track so far. www.mergerecords.com/product/song...

Dogs get treats for doing what we ask them, but cats get treats for merely existing. What a racket.

Correct.

"The issue is whether we journalists (not to mention voters, pundits, and everyone else) are attuned to — or alternately, blind to — the fact that men have a gender, too."

Fellas, I know the world is on fire, but don’t forget to occasionally trim those eyebrows.