Sitting on the couch with a beer watching WNBA while my husband washes the dishes and wondering if this is what it feels like to be a man

What if I made a stair runner by latch hooking a custom design roughly 2 feet wide and around 19 feet long in my spare time it would be so cool

I've read this sentence so many times trying to start this chapter over lunch while being interrupted I've-lost-track-of-how-many-times by a kid with a need to immediately share every thought that comes through their head

I need a notes field in libby so that when I read a book I don't care for I can check the notes and see if I found it through random promo or if a trusted recommendation source really missed the mark and maybe needs reevaluation

Stayed up catching up with this, rather enjoying it

I've been seeing so many ttrpg folks down on themselves lately, cutting their accomplishments to "I made something unimportant, I lost money" & I'm here seeing how they brightened even strangers' days, brought people together, made meaning. That's beautiful accomplishment. Worth so many high fives.

Desperately excited because I finally identified the book of Russian fairy tales with the beautiful art that I grew up with but hadn't been able to find despite years of searching. It's titled "Russian Fairy Tales." Like come on. Maybe in 1960 that was unique but 2026 search struggled!

Brushing up a creator's kit that's been sitting in our files & I'm making one significant addition to our 3rd party license: no feeding our games to ai, no using ai to make shit with our work

I'm watching the @montereybayaquarium.org live shark cam and every now & then a PERSON swims through and completely adjusts my perception of scale. A while ago a curious bat ray(?) was right on top of where someone was trying to get something done, like a cat coming to sit on your keyboard.

no really this is such a nice DUKK BÖRG review, in Polygon of all places

fyi, my out loud response to the first bite of this was "yooooooooooooooo"

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Still struck by the parent of a 1 year old in the library who said neither they nor their partner read to the kid because they'd "used up" all their reading out loud on their 4 year old (whom they presumably were also not reading to). in the library they said this! of all places!

my afternoon has been derailed by the phrase "the porch beyond the library." oh! what dreams! to sit reading on a sunny porch, doors open behind you to a library of your own! what a place from which to travel through pages!

here's my school-aged child parenting tip: keep an inventory of sweaters/jackets/whatever you send with or on your child that might come off their person at some point in the day. It makes figuring out what is missing much easier.

remember cyber cafés?

how do I have notifications on the jelly belly website?

Calling my my reps to tell them to condemn genocide and take action to prevent it as I gather up my grocery bags on my way to costco, like a normal weekday

you know, come to think of it, turd bucket is a way better insult than asshole

a few days ago I got my hair cut shorter than it's ever been before and now every time I catch my reflection it's like a jump scare of WHO IS THAT before I realize it's just me

that top hand is gonna be the shiniest hand

every now and then @itsdanphipps.bsky.social sees the inside of my heart so romantically I need to lie down

ok it is WAY easier to explain LGBTQ+ people to my kids than to explain why Charizard isn't a dragon

something with a redheaded widow in a small town out west & an illiterate outlaw/coincidentally her former student willing to stand up against the rich villain who wanted to marry her unwillingly - I've never been able to find the title

the other day the parent of a preschooler & a toddler told me no one reads to their toddler because they "used up all [their] reading on [their] older kid" and I am still not over it.

Love/hate about my neighborhood: there are so many roaming housecats! Well fed with glossy coats & collars, sometimes even bells, roaming predatorially, will stop for pats, beloved by children & adults alike, demolishing small bird & critter populations with skill. Cute! Devastating!

Why I will be arrested in France: Once in a while I enjoy toasting a croissant.

i would love to be able to post more about Current TTRPG Discourse but this is my stance on almost everything

A reasonable portion of my kingdom for the local bakery to sell their biscuit dough frozen so I could have one fresh whenever without going out into the rain or having to order from the set sandwich menu or having to make dough myself

It's one of those mornings where I'd like to lie facedown on the floor and groan but my 40+ year old body would demand I at least put a cushiony mat on the hardwood first but that feels like it defeats the point

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

I've come to realize the importance of my having nibbling cheese around. Often it's hard to get around to making lunch, but if I have some nibbling cheese it's easy to slice a bit on a cutting board. Add some crackers while I'm at it & ok, some fruit, a handful of nuts, & suddenly it's a whole lunch

This thing is as big as my Norton Shakespeare. Possibly heavier.

What old book was it where they decorate their shelf edges with scalloped paper trim? Was it an Anne of Green Gables + Other Canadian Places book? A Little House in Various America book? Does this ring a bell for anyone?

KANSAS FUNDRAISER HERE What Kansas is doing to trans residents right now is vile. We've supported Trans Continental Pipeline but most people cannot get up & go. For them, we're fundraising for lgbtqks.org who are helping deal with day to day impact. So come buy some games, details below!

They're well set up to help people out of Kansas right now, and were overwhelmed with help requests even before this week. Our dollars can help them do good work.

fyi the matchbooks are good matches. They strike easily. They burn long enough to light multiple candles. They shame other random matchbooks in my drawer.

what does it mean when a long libby hold for a recently released novel shows up as a "skip the line" opportunity multiple times a week, for weeks in a row? I've never seen a book with a long hold be more immediately available.

she doesn't even have her mouth open! how is she breathing! sinus lies!

I do judge you if you go into a crowded indoor space to socialize with an obvious illness and no mask How rude.

honestly offensive that neti pots are marketed like this when I only use mine with an achingly red nose, salt water dripping out my mouth because I'm too stuffy for it to go out the intended channel

There is no reason for weapons like these to exist. None.

late last year, I think, there was a great thread breaking down point by point why NYC schools incorporating AI was poorly planned & inappropriate. I'm trying to write to my own school district & would like to borrow some points but can't find it. Does it ring a bell to anyone?

I wanna know about the confetti cannons at the super bowl. They must be ready with both team colors, but does that mean double sets of confetti guns ready to go? Or giant sacks of confetti in each color pairing ready to hook up at the last second? If there's a last second upset are they scrambling?

damn, Bad Bunny, ok giving me feelings during a halftime show, that was great

We got an antenna so we can watch sports & I'm cruising channels trying to figure out what they are when I stumble on a Designing Women marathon, talking about the false conflict between working/stay at home moms (it's all work!) & it's still funny & surprisingly timely even when they bring in a

I will wait YEARS, eagerly, for something written by an author who has caught my attention with their own unique voice. In the meantime there are endless other books with unique voices, ideas, perspectives. Why fill my wait time with slop when I could fill it with gold?

My child has been home sick for two days now and while I love my child more than I can say, I have also been hearing "mama, mama, [monologue or request]" every few seconds for long enough while trying to keep up any semblance of my usual weekday that it feels like I'm going to lose my mind

I finally got out of the house to attend craft night at the community center and I'm the only person here 😭 How do you reinvigorate a club when you were attending to meet people in your city in the first place and have no one to invite?

I went out to do some yardwork (front yard looks much nicer now) wearing boots that fit snugly & go up to my calf. So how did a slug get all the way to my foot, I ask you.