happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

My kids are on spring break, and I've just finished all three novellas in the Chaotic Orbits series by Beth Revis. They're fun, fast sci-fi space/heist stories that went perfectly with the trickling in of Artemis II news. I got the hardcovers from the library; I love the small size! #books

Took me a while to track it down but for all the camera nerds asking the same question I did - high res version complete with EXIF data is here: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... It was taken with a Nikon D5 with 14-24mm f2.8 lens, 1/4 sec at f4, ISO 51200

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

I am one of the people who helped edit the last three books in the series, and I agree with this. JKR has shown that she enjoys her cruelty, and no matter how much I loved the books back then, I can't watch this.

In her newsletter this morning, @janefriedman.com reported that the per-book payout in the Anthropic book settlement will likely be $3,700 per book. The deadline to file your claim is March 30, and you can check if your name is in the database here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup 🧵

New blog entry! All the news—good, bad, and TBD—in the MCU (Meg Cabot Universe): megcabot.com/2026/03/the-...

PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want).

I've got a handful of bags remaining of the Honduras Yojoa washed Geisha coffee we dropped Friday... and, as an experiment, I'm going to FLASH SALE them right here, right now at a big discount -- $16 If you've ever wanted to try our beans, have at it! www.yesplz.coffee/product/yojo...

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." Quiet Strength (2000) ~Rosa Parks born #OTD in 1913 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Pa... #civilrights

I was just recently thinking about That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis and talking to my husband about what I remembered of the severed head part. I might be due for a re-read as it's probably been over 20 years. #ThatHideousStrength #CSLewis #SpaceTrilogy

I was sliding toward a book slump, but now Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz is working for me. Thank you, cozy fantasy. #Books #CozyFantasy #EmilyKrempholtz

NEW from @rns.org: A full gallery of photos documenting religious responses to ICE in Minneapolis —> religionnews.com/2026/01/26/p...

I've never been prouder of the people of Minnesota.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

In case you needed to see something NOT terrible tonight, we millennials will get to relive Cool Runnings as grown-ups!

For Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, I wanted to share some links to reading material. I Have A Dream Speech full text and audio Letter from a Birmingham Jail full text A Time to Break Silence - I read this speech for the first time last year, and have been thinking about it ever since. #MLK #MLKDay

Someone commission me to make them a Bearnoit Blanc.

I watched Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery with my husband and teen daughter, and it was fantastic. Our daughter hadn't seen the other Knives Out movies, but it was no problem because of their standalone nature. #WakeUpDeadMan #KnivesOut

all the other germanic languages in my replies being like yeah we're still using this 😙🎶 english, we could bring overmorrow back, it used to exist and it could come back! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overmor...

Good news! Covers don’t count against Whamageddon, so hearing it performed at a middle school choir concert is safe. #Whamageddon #LastChristmas

PSA: Your child's advent calendar might have the numbers 6 and 7 on it. They might even be next to each other. Proceed with caution.

My gift giving guide? Give to the poor, the outcast, and the hungry. Give presents to your friends and family with thoughtfulness and love. Maybe even make them. Give yourself to the possibility of "peace on earth" and "goodwill toward all."

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

I strongly dislike reality TV, but I enjoy sci-fi and dystopian novels with reality TV themes. Perhaps it's because reality TV is already dystopian in nature.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This is my annual gentle suggestion to please stop teaching kids made-up stories about Thanksgiving and share actual (fascinating!) history instead. In case you need ideas... bookshop.org/p/books/hist...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

This game was amazing. It was like really walking around the Titanic! I'm pretty sure I still have the ISOs from my original CD-ROMs of this game.

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Was reminded today that one can no longer say, "I did at least six or seven total rewrites on this book" at a school visit. Tomorrow I'll tell the kids I did somewhere between five and eight revisions. 🤪

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Some of my favorite TLDs are going up in price at every registrar on October 6. This includes domain extensions like .coffee and .pink and .cafe! If you have a domain name with one of these TLDs, you can renew now for multiple years to get the lower price. #DomainNames porkbun.com/blog/domain-...

I recommend The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67979

Today is one of my favorite days in North Amherst, when someone has to slowly walk around my friends’ yard, carefully collecting all the baby snapping turtles so the crows don’t eat them.

I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK

wicked but capybaras

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

I met Louis Sachar at a signing for his first adult book, The Magician of Tiger Castle. Louis Sachar is also the author of Holes. It was a delight to meet him, and hear him discuss his new book. blog.shannonkay.com/2025/08-07-L... #LouisSachar

Me: Today has been the birthday of the World Wide Web. 34 years old today! Kid: The world is 34 years old?! #WorldWideWeb

Find unique words interserted amongst the common terms. www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

My favorite classic literature has a floweriness of prose that I adore.

My LitJoyCrate edition of The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold by Ally Carter arrived today, and I'm beside myself with excitement. It's so cute. She looks amazing next to her sister book. #AllyCarter

Happy HTML Day! In honor of #HTMLDay I've got a new URL and printable cheat sheet for Make Your Own Website. make.yourownwebsite.org yourownwebsite.org#printables #HTMLDay2025 #HTML #SmallWeb #MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWebsite #WebWeaving #IndieWeb

I was delighted to meet Sarah Beth Durst and Sangu Mandanna at The Ripped Bodice bookstore in LA last night. I look forward to enjoying their newest books, The Enchanted Greenhouse and A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping blog.shannonkay.com/2025/07-24-S... #Books #SarahBethDurst #SanguMandanna

Update: My 8-year-old son has reached the credits on Donkey Kong Bananza, and is now in the post game. #Nintendo

New emoji for Unicode 17! I'm excited about the ballet dancer, as a ballet mom. #Emoji

The family is now playing Donkey Kong Bananza. #Nintendo