This is practically a book blurb!

Coming Friday! (Lynn is not kidding about the number of kittens.)

Do you need a little selkie magic and people righting some wrongs in the world? Unknown Depths is out today! celialake.com/book/unknown... Something's wrong in the waters around Orkney in 1949. When Thom asks for help, he gets Rowena, who brings unexpected skills to solving the problem.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: In a library, a small human (4?) is trying to pick a book but she's not sure which one! (Oh no!) Does she want this one... This one? THESE ONES? THOSE ones?! With an exasperated roar, she beseeches the library gods: "WHY are there SO MANY?!" (1)

My next series is spending a lot of time in and around the main library in the magical capital of Albion. I spent a lot of this afternoon mapping it out and figuring out what the staffing numbers are. I somehow seem to have more than sufficient shelving. This is how we know this is a fantasy.

Reasons to own a cloak of moss: - super stylish - all natural - absorbs rain - good camouflage - can blend in with moss goblins, and start a new life in the old forest as a twig witch or world weary hermit

Weird how none of the responses are 'Go into a self destructive anxiety spiral, produce nothing, and eventually get yeeted by someone who has a clue'

THIS. (Check out Joep Schuurkes’s blog post here: smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on...)

I SAW QUAIIILLLLL

Kooko, giant space chickens, appear in Ilona Andrews inkeeper series starting with Book five. Scroll down on the link for an image ilona-andrews.com/innkeeper-ch...

I think this murderous fluff nugget spotted me. Captured this image in a park in south Minneapolis. Great Horned Owlet. #BirdOfTheDay #Woodland #juveniles #eck #wildlife #owl

I had the lighting and the energy to do a proper photo shoot of my cupcakes from last night. Now that I’ve had some distance from the project, I am quite pleased with how they turned out. They are lemon cupcakes with lemon curd filling and vanilla buttercream. I made them for my sister’s birthday.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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Sometimes the Cormorant is black in colour. At other times, brown or with a hint of indigo. If lucky, you will see all of these colours at the same time. Then, there is the structure of the feathers. A cormorant. #UKWildlife #BirdOfTheDay #Feathers #Birds #Photography #ECK #WildlifePhotography

Some advice: Be kind. Collect books, not enemies. Leave the world a better place. Stay on the good side of the old gods and you will forever find peace in the mossy dark places of the world.

how tf do people get shit done when they’re tired???

A man (30s?) is attempting to shoo a very determined sparrow out of his cafe. He says: "Ya haven't paid the rent, Bird." Small Squatter Bird is determined to investigate all crumb-based opportunities under this table. He cares not for rent-based-ridiculousness. (2)

This is the most eldritch dress I have ever seen.

Also Otters!

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later. There was a new sign: "This sleeping willow is full." And a map of other locations to try.

I got a whiteboard at the dollar store the other day and finally put it up I may not end up actually using it but in the meantime it is useful for mocking the cat

Sometimes fashion shows provide cognitive dissonance for me, or lovely art, but the ones I enjoy the most feel character driven, like this one. Book covers and genres popping into my head.

A Northern Pygmy-Owl from this morning. #owls #birds #nature

This looked really cool, until I clicked the 'Robot Reader' link, which is an ai that reads the digital version of the books.. www.booksellers.ca/robot-reader

Those are some lyrics yep

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

It may be time to start over. Only this time we'll be a moss based society, where pinecones are general currency, owls keep the peace, and the dark magic of the old forest gods entertain us through the night.

Be helpful if you can. Be prickly when you have to. Be someone's light in the darkness. Be the reason a forest is considered haunted. But most of all, be kind and stay weird.

I got a very fast reply to my email to Pattison food group. "Pattison Food Group and its retail banners operate separately within the Jim Pattison Group and are not involved in real estate decisions made by Jim Pattison Developments." Corps wrongly thinking they can split the difference i guess

Action for Canadians today: Contact your MP regarding this report regarding ICE wanting to use Hanover warehouse for immigrant processing (Hanover = Jim Pattison Group, aka Save On Foods) www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

#FindsFriday 🏺 #Roman dogs along Hadrian's wall: copper alloy figure of pup lifting a friendly paw, + 2 enamelled copper alloy brooches of hunting dogs. In galleries @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social considering life along farthest frontier of empire. British dogs were highly rated, and very good boys.

Black-crested Coquette at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

everyone else does the thing where you're halfway through a confusing story about the HR department before you realize they're talking about the hockey show.. right? right?

Big news: Canada changed their citizenship rules and now if you've ever had a direct ancestor who was a citizen, you are now automatically a citizen too! www.canada.ca/en/immigrati... I've been sharing this around, and I know a few people who've discovered they're now Canadian citizens!

Relaxation tips: - picture a quiet forest - picture yourself wandering in the gloom - picture a mossy forest horror creeping up behind you - picture yourself becoming best friends with the mossy forest horror, scaring townsfolk together, and sharing tea & laughter

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

The unsolvable conundrum of LLM AI is trying to figure whether its main boosters really can’t see how badly it does the job (tasteless fools) or if they simply believe we can’t (conscienceless grifters) or if they just want to eliminate workers bad enough not to care (rapacious monsters).

Here's #TwoOfAKind for #birdoftheday Papa Bushtit with his son as the family was visiting the suet feeder. #birds #nature

Bluesky! A question: what upcoming (say 2026-2028) aspec releases are there? I've fallen off keeping track of overall releases and I'm trying to get back to that. Right now I know of, like, 14 and about half of them are my friends and myself.

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books #fantasyfaction 1/30

Out for Blood by Laura Laakso At this point in the series, you really need to have read the previous books. The conspiracy continues to infect everything. Yannia has an especially tough time with a medical professional refusing to believe in or treat her EDS. 🪐📚💙 #specfic #sff 📚🌎 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 ♿️♾️📚

Little murder bird. Northern Pygmy-Owl, Washington state #owls #birds #nature #birdoftheday #raptors

oh no i just got the bsky design update why so many icons please no

I really appreciate the notifications I get when I can get a vaccination again. All up to date now with Flu and Covid.

THIS KINGDOM preview is live on KU and other retailers where the US edition is sold! Thrilled to announce the Spanish edition of THIS KINGDOM with @editorialhidra AUGUSTINE novella -BEAST BUSINESS is finished! Release at the end of January, no preorder period🥳 ilona-andrews.com/blog/augusti...

There's no such thing as owning too many books. There is such a thing as owning too much other furniture that blocks the space for more bookshelves, however.