Starting my 2026 year in books thread here! In 2025 I read 111 books, mostly in ebook and audiobook format, and mostly from Seattle and King County Public Libraries. Support your public library!

I don’t share this very often, but you guys deserve it.

mrs. gennaro I am sorry to have to tell you this but your husband was killed in a work accident. they made dinosaurs real for fun and he got eaten by one while sitting on the toilet. he wasn’t using it he died abandoning children

So that means that any attempt to neuter a hippo is: A) Exploratory Surgery B) Done under "best guess" conditions C) Where the drugs are *going* to wear off D) On an animal that weighs more than a Ford F150 E) All of which is muscle F) On testicles that are hiding from you G) And it is mad about it

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Colin Firth is my favorite actor, followed by Colin Thecond

gas pump: please see cashier me: i will (clenches fist) IN HELL

My "2025 in books" thread. I read 89 books in 2024. This year I'm generally choosing to read: - Books from the 2025 Tournament of Books Long List - Books that are being read by characters in the books I'm reading I typically read on my phone or Kindle, or on audiobook.

1920s literary insult: He had the habit, when confounded, of worrying his shirt cuffs between his fingertips, puffing out his cheeks, and squeezing forth a low whine before firmly patting his pockets as if to confirm that nothing of value was forthcoming. 2020s: His assplay was hella mid.

"Sources also confirmed you kind of hurt his feelings"

CROW ON MST3K: He makes Ted Danson look like Gavin MacLeod! ME AT 13 YEARS OLD: haha

Benedict’s pahty was fine, but bro, the one with the Cahdinals from Ahgentina? That was a

Did you check your child's popular knapsack? Or behind their jewelry box? Something simple as a baby doll?

Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

gf: *texting* u coming over this way tonight ;) me: [in a hot air ballon] no idea

I shook my rump once. That was enough for me to know that the practice simply isn't for me. I won't be doing it again.

My diet is just rolling a boulder up those stairs every day

Google AI getting hostile with its users.

Thinking about this today.

Bluesky is number 1.

Statler has been crowned PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive 2024.

unlike you i get my news from a reliable source

Excited to announce we've put all the big numbers in the Math Jumbler and it told us to go fuck ourselves

Concerned by this playground promoting the Ptolemaic model.

what the fuck

"It's because it's only the 16th. There's...there's two more weeks in October. I am a doctor."

when trump had the election fraud hotline thing after the election i called probably 100 times but 4 or 5 times i called and put on this old country boy accent and did this long preamble about how i went to the polling place that ended with me telling them i saw a dog standing up like a man voting

Brokeback Mountain should have been called The Constant Pardner

won’t somebody please think of my druthers

The worst part about insomnia is having to eat all those spiders while I'm awake

It belongs in the most important museum in the universe.

i’m high on life and this pill i found by the mailbox

New polling projects a 50-state Moo Deng landslide

This is what they took from you

"Sooth." - soothsayer

Vaxxed????

Now watching MST3K 'Hobgoblins'. Looked up the director and...

Million dollar idea: Jazz bar named Horn Pub

Me and the other peasants were talking about working your lands, would you be down?

The only "ai" that I want to hear about is this little friend to Scrabble players, a three-toed sloth named after its shrill cry.

YOUR MOM: *trying to remember and enunciate the words 'rilo kiley'* riley kiley