How today's going: Last week the Costco I usually go to finally showed the novavax covid booster in stock, so I made an appointment for this morning, figuring I’d have tomorrow for any lingering ick. 1/?

@margaret.bsky.social reading Sofia Samatar's Selkie Stories are for Losers was exactly what today needed. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

We're all dunking on this post, but we really need to ask ourselves if we would do any better in his position. Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this. My GOD

My foccacia is filled with garlic butter and cheese, and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is partly to blame. 😸

History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally. Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.

Unauthorized Bread from Cory Doctorow's Radicalized almost made me cry several times... but it is exactly the hope-read that I needed. arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...

big @lissaharris.bsky.social energy skynet could NEVER

Wisdom. 💚🦉

Timely: @ihatejamesdobson.bsky.social is a delightful listen, if you need a refresher on why James Dobson is the worst, or just enjoy the send up.

I mostly went to Costco today to get naan and food court dinner that wouldn't result in dirty dishes... but these adorable pajamas snuck home with me. (August is *far* too hot for them. But soon...)

I made foccacia as an extended version of pomodoros for myself this afternoon/evening (every 1.5 hours you have to go do a thing with the dough!). Also, honey goat cheese. #3doughs60recipes

This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Sitting on a train that is fully plastered in GLP-1 ads featuring women who look like all the women around me and thinking about how a culture of aspirational thinness is essential to both patriarchy and complacency in the face of fascism. You hate yourself and everyone around you, don’t you?

Edward Magnetic and the 69 Love Fields

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

Fundamentally, this is @mostlybree.kitrocha.com 's fault. (I have other enablers, but...) I made foccacia tonight. (From 3 Doughs, 60 Recipes.)

I am never leaving Tumblr. Literally impossible to get this kind of content anywhere else. 😂

I cried in front of my 12th grade students, and I’m actually glad that I did. 🧵 (1/17)

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Very useful!

Yiiiiikes.

i don’t practice trans sharia i aint got no crystal ball

friendly reminder one time an owl stole a toy horse and people thought witches were flying around town

"May I have your name?" the faerie said. "William," she said with a smile. "Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!" "Thank you," she said. "To win it back, you must- what?" "I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."

Some of yall can't handle two high-agency males going at it and it really shows

I was encattened.

Honey Butter Dinner Rolls from Lacey Osterman's 3 Doughs, 60 Recipes.

"Not queer like a rainbow slapped onto a Wells Fargo debit card, gay as in let's hurl a Molotov cocktail thru the window of the bank at nightfall and kiss while we watch the glass shatter like a supernova." —Ally Ang beestungmag.com/issue21/two-...

Rupert has been home alone Quite Enough, thank you.

Update on my obsession-cheese: this is it, at Trader Joe's, and it is good. (And, you know, doesn't get you down the rabbit hole of ordering boxes of cheese from Wisconsin.) This cheese has become an important pillar of my life.

This is a fantastic read. Evocative and weird.

I hate absolutely everything about CVS pharmacy, and really have no other reasonable options.

MA folks, today is be a great day to call the governor and ask her what the plan is to keep ALL Massachusetts residents safe in the face of kidnappings by masked men who refuse to show warrants. *Everyone* is endangered by this. Contact info here: www.mass.gov/orgs/governo...

read this:

(to the tune of Arabian Nights) 🎶American Pope🎶

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

okay well sure yes headcanon accepted

Young priest! there's no need to feel down there's a Country! That's inside of a town you can Go there! Now ol Frank's underground and you choose a new guy (bom bom bom bom bom) It's fun to vote for a P O P E

"Call me Ishmael. Or don’t. I’ve had like six usernames over the years. Anyway, this whole mess started because I thought shipping meant relationships, not whales. Now I’m on a boat with a captain who’s basically doing a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers thing with revenge. It’s fine. We’re fine."

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

I don't understand the scale of hood cottage cheese's podcast ad buy.

Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man

"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate

A delightfully creepy read from @tkingfisher.com! (I did make good choices last night about whether continuing to read a horror novel into the night at a catholic retreat center in a former monestary. It was much better to face the teeth in the light of day.)

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Academics who received the email asking if they are Jewish should watch this (also everyone should watch this)