Yesterday I was reading sentinent object smut and today the latest encylical of Pope Leo XIV. Do not ever question I do not read widely enough. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Jane Eyre is a pick me girl. I said what I said.

I will dominate you Google Workspace admin. You cannot best me!

On a 180, Forest has lived to see another season in the EPL and Erika's team, the Spurs, have stayed out of relegation for another season as well. And a haha to West Ham for their relegation. (Or as an old friend said, West Spam.)

Thanks to @readingsmut.bsky.social, learned abt sentient object romance which lead me down the path to read not only Cold Sweat (Kool-Aid man has sexy times in a sauna) but also read Laid By the Lint Trap Monster. I have to applaud these writers with the imagination to come up w/...whatever this is.

I wrote about how to tell if a romance is AI over on threads. I'm going to cross post it here. When that dumb NYT article came out about that woman who said she published 200 books a year, and she revealed one of her pen names was Coral Hart..

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When I graduated from college 21 years ago, I was refusing to read genre fiction because I thought it was beneath me. Then I started working at a bookstore and got my ass handed to me by readers and then later when I worked as a librarian. I've stopped caring what people are reading.

Colbert appeared on a local access TV channel in Monroe, MI after his last show on TV this week. He had Jeff Daniels, Jack Black, and Eminem (all MIchiganders) as guests. This is a repeat of the same show he did 11 years ago. It is now viral and Mr. Lisa says it's funny as hell.

I bought one and so should you!

Turns out I will fuck up some veggies if ranch dip is involved.

It’s Memorial Day weekend which means the fudgies (tourists) are here! God bless locals in N. Mich. May your patience be long and cherry harvests plentiful.

Bacon packaging is proof nobody involved has ever actually opened bacon.

Here's the thing: I teach a workshop on getting your books into libraries and bookstores. As a librarian and bookseller, I've got the ins/outs and nuances. Point blank: It is not super easy and can take time. I wish confs would stop advertising this topic as if is one stop shop. It's not.

I will more than likely discuss NORMAL WOMEN as I read it while Mr Lisa has his daily medical procedure (he’s fine). Today’s quote is, “Amazonian leader of this petticoated cavalcade” which I’m like, that’s me!

My psych meds are going to run out in a few months and I need med management locally. This is going to be really fucking pain in the fucking ass. I don't need adjustments or new scripts. Just call in my existing meds and let me be sane. Please and thank you.

LOLOL *breathe* LOLOL When we ere in Cologne several years ago, I got a bottle of Farina 1709 which is the original cologne. At the rate I'm using it, I may be out around the holidays. Checked their site. No US distributor and it would cost £100 to ship a 50 ml £50 product. You've got to be joking.

It’s distressing that proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (mother to Mary Shelley) A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN could be more accurately described as a call to upper class women for equal rights to men. However, she suggested lower class women did not have the same rights.

The more I read NORMAL WOMEN by Phillipa Gregory, the more I want to vacate to Theirland (nod to Charlotte Perkins) and have a no cis males involved. Mr Lisa can come because he is not a fan of the cis males species and identifies as queer.

“Hi. My name is Dave Chappelle and I am a very outspoken transphobe.”

It's sunny and lush outside. Warm, too. Trying to summon the will to do inside work before going outside.

I am not following that rapist but it seems nearly 50 people I follow are. Please check and unfollow. That man does not need any encouragement to be here.

It’s taking me forever to get through Philippa Gregory’s NORMAL WOMEN not because it is slow or terrible BUT it’s a anthropological view of women’s roles since 1066 and I essentially want to say, YES ALL MEN and FUCK THE RICH.

The V of Humans is the V of Pentacles in the Good Omens Tarot. There is A LOT going on in my world and the current priority I have laid out: is it the right hierarchy or do I need to re-think? The short answer: Life is rough. I deserve happiness, safety, and comfort. Keep going.

Poor organization and communication is my kryptonite. I will judge the fuck out of you if you are like this.

If we have a text chain going and you still sign your name after every text, then I have a pretty good guess what generation you are in.

Reminiscing about Saturn (the car company). I had three Saturns over 12 years with the last one being a Saturn ION. I still see the VUE on the road. Shame they went out of business I would have continued to be a loyal customer.

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This is the first time in 16 years we will not be watching Eurovision, a time honored tradition in this household. As long as the EBC allows Israel to participate, they will not be getting our eyeballs. (Tangentially, as I run out of stuff, I'm researching anti-Israel based or backed products.)

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I firmly believe the humanities are super important to us; if not as much or more than STEM. The problem is jobs calling for humanities are thin on the ground and I've been hustling to throw my resume in all the professions I qualify. But the pay is always shit. And the bennies.

I canceled a credit card that was comping us NYT. When I went to cancel NYT, they gave me over 60% off monthly rate so I kept it for the stupid Cooking site. Now I have a great alternative. Today is all about fucking over billionaires canceling NYT and MS.

A cybertrucke whose operatinge system ys Canvas

The only thing keeping me to MS products is OneNote. I got off Evernote because they are SUPER expensive. While I love Zoho products, Notebook isn't great. So, imagine my surprise when I found Joplin which is open source and AMAZING. It's got that OneNote feel sans ickiness.

If anyone is interested in beta testing a Goodreads competitor app, hit me up in the comments. (You must be comfy with using Discord.)

Just took a class on writing BDSM in romance with @ceciliatan.com and it was awesome! I took all the notes and now I'm checking out all the books.

I am being fed lots of Heated Rivalry content on IG because I follow the lead characters official IG. Most of the content is sexualized and produced by women over 40. I cannot deny Hudson and Connor aren’t attractive but they are nearly children and the sexualization is gross as fuck.

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/

Got an email from Gender Justice League thanking me for my regular donations over the last five years, and asking about my motivation. I got to tell them all about how my donation is entirely motivated by spite. Maybe some of you will remember the Library of the Year 2020 debacle?? 📚

Vance will never be president because he has hall monitor energy

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

If the Pope excommunictates Vance, this means all the votives I light in cathederals across Europe have come to mean something. Also, I would possibly go back to church. Possibly. (As long as I can refer to God as She as that is what she is.)

My other socials tend to be fluffy stuff but I purposely curated Bsky with independent (and a lot of non-American) journalists, newsoutlets, and papers. It centers me and I feel more intune with what is happening in the world but I'm not going to lie, a lot of what is posted is angering.

Talking about Donald Trump having dementia just gives a sympathetic excuse for inexcusable preexisting conditions. Donald has *always* been a mean, self-centered, incoherent fool who says stupid and ignorant things.

There's nothing an archivist likes more than getting to help with the weirdest, most specific questions. We had someone email about the height of kerbs in Milton Keynes and guess what?? We've got documents about that!!

This is also a self-soothing tale that thin people tell themselves: that theirs are the only bodies that are worthy of desire, and that fat bodies are impossible to want. But that's demonstrably false.

Looking for hair product company whose parent company doesn't have ties to Israel, is eco conscious, and cruelty free. And even more specifically for 2b/c hair. Basically, a unicorn.

Me, looking at footage from Budapest: