Happy Independent Bookstore Day AND LYS Day to all who celebrate! RIP to your budgets (and mine)

Today is Indie Bookstore Day! Be kind to your booksellers today. Otherwise, may you be cursed with your favorite series being printed in varying trim sizes, and may all of your novels at home be magically updated with a book-to-film movie poster cover, with a sticker you can’t pick off.

Made a little book holder buddy. Good pattern that was generally clear, but that chenille yarn sheds worse than the cat!

Yarn friends: I regret to inform your budget that WEBS is having a big sale: www.yarn.com/collections/...

A reminder my Gothic series of queer people making terrible life choices is available now !

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

A nice meatball sub Or turkey and cranberry

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

If you are in the DC area and you are into crafting, have you checked out Merry Pin? It's probably my fave local business, in part because it's so close to wear I live but also strongly because they sell a variety of art/craft supplies and also alcohol. www.merrypindc.com?srsltid=AfmB...

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

These are SO GOOD. Finished the first and took 2 buses the next day to pick up the second!

Today’s 10 years since Prince passed, and I just wanted to tell one of many personal stories, about why I have this wonderful photo by Afshin Shahidi (a friend, who was also Prince’s personal photographer for years) hanging in our home. It tells a very special story…

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

As you know, Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of our wonderful staff & faculty colleagues are facing sudden job loss without severance. Hampshire staff & faculty have launched an Emergency Relief Fund—if you’re able, please donate or share! www.helphampshireworkers.com

Tuna casserole. I don't like fish and it is just. So fishy.

I can't go so someone I know please go and enjoy the talk and meet Gautam! (unless you've already met him; then you can meet him again)

you: please act normal Ed you need these people to like you people: hello Ed nice to meet you me: the British discoverer of aluminum called it “aluminum” like Americans do now and a couple of editors decided “aluminium” would be better because it matches the cadence of sodium and calcium

I think one of the major reason kids in upper grades are struggling to demonstrate the knowledge and skills we expect them to demonstrate is because teaching soft skills learned at lower grades have been replaced with developmentally inappropriate hard skills previously taught at higher grades.

“Dad, what did the 80s sound like?” #80s #nostalgia #guitar

*slides article across the table* www.elle.com/culture/book...

Wore my ‘Sow What’ t-shirt. minniemoonmart.printify.me/product/2778...

God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth

Art will make your big brain big big bigger

Our subscriptions are currently 20% off, but what do you get if you subscribe? Well, here's a thread of some of or back catalogue. 👇

Come hang out with me for the Marketing & PR Roundtable! It’ll be a fun way to kick off your day, I *swear*. 😄

Sebastian has been scandalizing polite society with his scientific theories of sexual inheritance. But there’s one small problem. They’re not his theories. They’re Violet’s. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Count... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/...

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

Many millennials absorbed the belief that the easiest & cheapest way to do anything is to do it online — including getting something like home insurance.....when in fact it is A BILLION times easier to call up a local agency and have them handle everything

A stoat changing coats. ❄️🌷

Now send JD Vance to run the publicity team for the new Harry Potter series.

This is the Asha from the wonderful song "Brimful of Asha on the 45," a song about immigration and its joys and sorrows

was once New Amsterdam.

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

<clears throat> Any take claiming superiority for any food preference is a bad one. Also, since one can and should eat whatever one prefers regardless of anyone else's taste, such takes are irrelevant.

The latest eruption at Kilauea appears to be starting! We should see large lava fountains soon. Tune in live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

Why bother with "mantasy", just call it Dick Lit and be done

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen, take three minutes and listen to this life-affirming cheese. This song rules and we need it right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-...

reposting with alt so i can share!

The Utah Mammoth have a new Zamboni skin (via Mammoth)

TRY BOOKS!

Hi! I write historical (and some contemporary) romances. Here's a list of my books by series in reading order. www.courtneymilan.co... /jb #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA

I wrote a D&D Crochet book, which is a great excuse to not look at the internet while also making nerdy things (it came out last week, so a tiiiny bit past the pre-order window): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767078...

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep