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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Welp, voted in the primaries today. Feels slightly less futile than other years, but we'll see.

How is it that even the lesser episodes of Bluey are still so good?

...I was unaware that this new movie with Karl Urban and Priyanka Chopra-Jones was coming out today and, more imporantly, IS A PIRATE MOVIE. ??? !!!

I need bsky to stop recommending me books for a bit. Just for a little bit. I beg.

Megs, Jos, Beths, and Amies.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Their Jorts

Wow, I went from 'contentedly enjoying a Dr. Pepper break' to 'teeth-grindingly furious' in twenty seconds. Woof.

I am not mentally prepared for a brand new Monday.

Doing some late night writing and just received a phone call; it was a wrong number, but, like, the voice and sounds on the other end of the line sounded exactly like the sort of call you'd get in the first five minutes of a horror movie. Now my brain is lowkey snowflake-mapping a story to go w/ it.

My uncle is spamming me with old pics, so have me and my parents circa late '89/early '90.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

Re: previous post--one thing I hate about our current situation is that it's turned me into the sort of person who's looking forward to a thing like that happening. But. Welp.

I log on to bsky every morning to see if something good has happened. This isn't the thing I was thinking of, but it's still pretty neat.

Can't. I'm down on the corner, out in the street.

I got a concussion when teeny which my doc thought might have damaged my spatial reasoning bits. My first time out at driver's ed, when we got back the teacher looked at me, grimaced, and said, "Maybe you should go, uh, practice in, uh, empty parking lots? Practice a lot. Just come back, um. Later."

I can't afford to do a full book tour but I can do a PODCAST TOUR and this was the first stop!!

Reading Dresden, and Butters has gone from the cute little polka guy to someone I hope gets run over by a truck in the next chapter.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

One of my high school friends is my current roommate. Another I still speak to regularly. Otherwise, lost touch with them.

Sighs. Okay. On top of roommate getting fired, there's now also a possibility that gf's grants are going to be converted to loans because THANKS DOUG FORD. She is currently studying to be a nurse which is a) stressful, b) sorely needed, so pushing this again!

Got a friend into the Dresden files back in high school; she's still into them and has been bugging me to read the last couple of books released for years. She's going through a really bad time rn & there's a new one out, so I figured, hey, I have the previous two, why not catch up & do a book chat?

I realize the botana platter is fairly widespread, ish, but a lot of places do them wrong, so it's proper South TX botana platters for me.

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NO, SPORTS WEBSITE, I DO NOT WANT AI-POWRED FOOTBALL STATS.

you also need to unmute this for the perfect song / visual combo

Age verification? I remember when people smoked indoors.

I'm so tired and I have so much work left to do 😭

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

I LOVE THIS

I realize that this is not objectively the most interesting game, but it's been so long since I had time to sit and just watch Am football that I'm legit enjoying it.

Still thinking about that AI commercial, the point of which was that, with AI, YOU CAN JUST BUILD THINGS, pero like, you can just build things without AI?!? It is more fun! And you'll learn how to do more things if you figure them out yourself, or take time researching, than using AI!! Gah!!!

Cramming in some more overtime this afternoon so I can take time off to watch the game. One of the few times a year I will full-on take over the shared TV for sports.

You cannot have a democracy when you have billionaires. You cannot have a democracy with an economic system that incentivizes lower pay and ruthless exploitation of everyone involved. Democratize the economy and you will democratize society.

cover AND blurb AND pub date!

Diego Luna & Gael García Bernal cohosting.

Got carded today, and got a look of mild shock and a, "But, girl, you look so young!" which, gender aside, I will absolutely take.

I have French fries and am therefore under strict surveillance.

NAOMI IS DOING IT TOO! Don't make the cat sad, guys. that would be awful.

Really nice new edition of This Is How You Lose the Time War, but I feel like the blurbs are lacking some vital information. Like, okay, I should read this. Should I look up further info about it beforehand? Will it take me a long time to read it? Just how serious are these blurbers??

My ko-fi goal is no longer relevant. I'm going to have to figure some things out. The plumber believes that there was no avoiding it. It's only surprising it hadn't happened yet. He suggested a re-pipe. Imma get more opinions. But please, if you can help, I'll need some. ko-fi.com/karidru

Listen: this little marmot doesn't know shit.

FYI, fellow gluten-free friends!

Looking at early returns from that special election for state senator, and, look, I know it's *early*, and it means shit because god knows what could happen, and TX is still v. red and voter suppressed, but but but. The last time we elected* a Democratic senator was *the year I was born*.

The extended fam is posting in the WhatsApp because it would have been my mom's 67th birthday today, and I just have so many complicated feelings about my parents that it's been five years since they died and it's still difficult to talk about them with people who only saw the good parts, and, just.

Check the Quotes and Replies on this for authors talking about their amazing books! 💙📚

I know I'm trash but also I'm legit excited to start new Bridgerton (fingers crossed I have time tonight).