Civ 6 update: this game is hard. Boy do I suck 🤣🤣🤣 Also, two friendly units should be able to occupy the same hex, damnit! Took me too long to figure out THAT was a problem. Empress Trista is so fired 🤣

My husband has released a boss-level ultimate weapon to get me to alter my doomscrolling habits. Sid Meier’s game Civilization 6, aka That Game That Ate My Freshman Year at university, updated. If you can’t find me, my 9yo is trying to get me off the computer so she can play Roblox. (Korea FTW)

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Oooh, pretty Isis wings! :)

I managed to feed @danielrobichaud.bsky.social and myself 50/50 ish mix of large limas and penne pasta, covered in my lasagna tomato sauce and cheese. It was tasty! (And filling. Oof. Next time I’ll make half.) The child refused to try the beans and dubiously ate a single noodle. Sigh. 🤣

I spent a lot of time trying to get a clear shot of a crescent honeyeater feeding on a banksia flower yesterday - but failed. But I think this shot is nice anyway. Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park, South Australia. #BirdsSeenIn2026

timeline cleanse

I finished the Last Tale of the Flower Bride. The author tried to thread the needle to a happy ending. I am squinting dubiously at it. 🤔 I stand in solidarity with the reviewers on Amazon who said WTF did I just read? Both of these pretty humans were horrible because backstory. The end. Ew.

I’m listening to The Last Tale of the Flower Bride. I wish I had a book group to go to and raaaant about it being So Very Serious and it should be in my wheelhouse (gothic, creepy, obsessed with fairy tales) and ewwwww argh I’m at 65% and will this keep circling nothing or actually do anything? 😡

Thoughts on a #TangSooDo 1st test at almost 50: 1) I was the only nerd in a sea of young folks (age<21) doing knee stretches beforehand. I’m also super glad I did. 😅 2) my 9yo red belt kiddo gave me a list of improvement notes after, including that my stances were not deep enough. ❤️😂

Yay I passed my orange belt test. :) Red belted older student 9yo gave me notes after. 😆

If you go back to the Ian Fleming novels, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, founder of SPECTRE, is the archetype of the modern Private Equity investor—he's Peter Thiel minus the Jesus-flavoured sanctimony and AI-minded batshittery. He just wants to make money! And Hugo Drax (Moonraker) is DEFINITELY Elon Musk.

I had the opposite thing with my own mom: Mom: I liked your last book but you swear so much in it. ME: WHO DO YOU THINK I GOT THAT FROM MOM

Thank you. I do sometimes like saying ‘one swell foop’ to amuse myself (and ideally others). Hope that’s ok.

And yet, the turtle moves.

::melts of cuteness overload::

I love this series! Check it out :D

One of three short-eared owls I managed to find last night while gallivanting around the marshes and fields south of me. Probably the best photo I've managed of this species. #birds 🌿

Have learned that my fellows do not know the tiger poem so here it is for you

New comic is up. Here are my favorite bits. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/cr...

Current listen: The Gilded Wolves, Rosani Chokshi. CANNOT recommend the male audiobook reader. BUT This is an adorable heist of a magic artifact story with a Leverage-like team set in an alternate universe París in the 1890s. Trite in places but excellent worldbuilding and banter. Do recommend.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Un artículo fantástico sobre un candidato demócrata al congreso en Texas que canta en quinceañeras como estrategia de campaña. No es broma. Y es una idea brillante. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/o...

DH told me about this one, and I had to share. :D

this is amazing and now I need an exhaustive list

I'm not even anti AI, I'm just pro quality and if that makes you see me as the adversary, perhaps you should start looking at the work you do

Portion sized (‘’aliquots”) tubes of my qpcr master mix for freezer storage. They’re to assay presence of rhinovirus and enterovirus rna in the sample, usually abbreviated to ENT and HRV. Sleepy brain noticed a feeling in the lid labels.

Make him silvery gray and this is my FluffMonster as a kitten. ❤️

Big news: I just learned that in Saskatchewan a hoodie is a "bunnyhug" and I move that we adopt the term everywhere 🐰

FYI, Mexican-style sour cream makes EXCELLENT sour cream chocolate cake. Do recommend if you can find it. Made this recipe with kiddo requested vanilla buttercream. www.loveandoliveoil.com/2022/02/sour...

Love this shot of Saturn near the solstice. The rings are casting those shadows on the cloud tops.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

@asherelbein.bsky.social some Hellenistic gods also imo map to body concepts. Apollo the Lightbringer deals with eyes to see and ears that hear. Hermes travels from mouth to mouth, or feet. Ares could be a closed fist, while Hephaestus holds tools in his hand. Athena, born from brains, strategy.

More cute kitten mews

Today feels like one of those all too rare clearheaded days where anything seems possible. I wish I could bottle this. Good luck to everyone today! 🍀

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‘Mommy! I met the General!’ :)

My Mom’s favorite tv genre is mystery, and she complained yesterday that current mystery shows have too many guns and explosions. Any show recommendations out there that are longer on story twists and less gunplay? (She’s seen White Collar as well as Aurora Teagarden, loved both.

Since I started working downtown this doesn’t really happen. Much more likely to watch new movies in halves with @danielrobichaud.bsky.social . :D Whale Rider Seven Samurai (in bits) The Shining

Sassy QUEEN. Wattle is strutting her stuff tonight and showcasing her little avocado shaped self. Wet food for the win! Myrtle lost some weight over the last few days so I'll be watching her closely - we stopped tube feeds and went to bottle only, so I expected some wobbliness.

It is truly mysterious how frequently my daughter gets a headache at bathtime. 🤪😆

Probably the fourth-most mad Bluesky ever got at me was when an earlier one of these polls said 2% of Americans name ankylosaurus as their favorite dinosaur and I was like NO WAY is that true and AnkylosaurusSky somehow crawled out of the woodwork and posted some sternly worded skeets at me

Ankylosaurus remains criminally underappreciated

One goose yesterday was on the box making squawk noises at the other geese. It looked like a classroom as I fumbled my camera out. Apparently the sight of a camera caused class to be dismissed.

KITTY! :D

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?" All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

I just think it would be prudent to post this quote from Discworld, no reason for it, really.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

This may not make sense unless you’ve read #TerryPratchett, and for that I apologize. The first #Pratchett book I read was Equal Rites. The main character was a girl who wanted to be a wizard, destined to be one in fact, but was a 9yo GIRL in back country with no wizards to train her.