How do they rise up?

An invitation to everyone (including NFL trophy makers) to tune into the Scripps National Spelling Bee next week! May 27 + 28 🐝

Next week is the Scripps National Spelling Bee! It's one of my favorite times of year and my absolute favorite sports event. I usually make something Bee-related the week of the event and tried to finish before the champion(s) were determined. Here's a thread of things I've made in the past.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE just dropped: "The Making of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Twelfth Edition" www.merriam-webster.com/word-matters...

THE REVIEWS ARE IN:

Jojo Rabbit was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

Recent activity on my band account reminds me that I'm not sure I've mentioned my song consisting of three linguistics example sentences on this account, the one followed by a lot of linguists. 😅 Please enjoy "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo."

Copy, Moon Joy. 🤩

Get someone who has helped care for you a lovely, high quality gift that helps mothers and babies in Sierra Leone survive at Good.store What an amazing and caring version of Mother's Day!! Do it with a discount site wide: NTUBERCULO82790 @thegooddotstore.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/9vghI...

The thing about being a Nerdfighter is sometimes you're in a meeting with someone from another company and they say "Hold on, I have to sneeze" and you have to stop yourself from saying, "Sneezing isn't normal, I never sneeze."

@korystamper.bsky.social's new book True Color is so good! If you're interested in colors, lexicography, etymology, etc. then, seriously, check out this book. (And if you haven't read her first book Word By Word yet, read that, too!)

Tonight... return to the most EPIC season in Dimension 20 history! Dragon Master Katie Marovitch is back for D20: On a Bus S2 - along with her people: Aabria Iyengar, Jasmine Bhullar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, & Mark Mercer Premieres 7PM ET/ 4 PM PT only on @dropout.tv 🧝‍♀️🔵🎩🪖🧶🚌

Interview with a man who stitches the names and numbers on local sports jerseys (a job I had never thought about, but in hindsight obviously had to exist).

This is today! 3 PM Eastern, noon Pacific, 7 UTC (that is, the usual time in most of the U.S., but an hour earlier than usual in Europe, due to Daylight Time shenanigans).

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

I'm considering buying soldering supplies for jewelry and I'm not sure if I need to be talked into or out of it. (It's more expensive than I thought and I don't have a non-wooden table to work on. But also if I learned how to do it properly, it could make my jewelry better.)

Bluesky now supports Bandcamp embedding! In celebration, here's one of the scary unrelatable things Gavin Newsom wants to get rid of.

Well, the years start comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' and they don't stop comin' a

I can't be the only person who was annoyed by this prompt because Drew Carey didn't create Whose Line is it Anyway?, right? He wasn't even the original host.

2025 was unrelenting and awful and, thankfully, is over today. To mark the end of my contractual work with this year, I requested an exit interview with HR. Here it is in full. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Happy Striking 12 Day!

My niece asked me to make her a unicorn and rainbow necklace so I made her this:

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The Tom Holland rule doesn't apply, but you might enjoy my latest cover anyway. 😊

This might be the best piece of merch I've ever made. Very limited supply so grab em while they're hot.

This Black Friday, I am pleased to say that you can join my Patreon for half price and still get all the same rewards! (It's pay-what-you-want and there are no rewards other than a feeling of wellbeing, but the above is technically true!) Support a trans indie musician!

Are you looking for a gift for the holidays? I make jewelry, keychains, etc. Everything is custom and handmade. Awristeddevelopment.com

Hi! My name is Stevonnie, and I make and perform music as Sunday Comes Afterwards. My next YouTube livestream will be Sunday at 3 PM Eastern, but I'm also on Bandcamp and other places. sunday.band has my links. (Some songs w/trans themes: The Pronouns Song, Brinks Truck, Plausible Deniability)

Are you looking for a gift for the holidays? I make jewelry, keychains, etc. Everything is custom and handmade. Awristeddevelopment.com

NEW HALLOWEEN SONG! I started writing this circa 2016, but I couldn't release a song about being in the closet without outing myself. 😅 I've finally gotten enough distance to be able to finish it without interposing my current perspective. Both versions of me hope you like it. 😊

This is the second in a series of mask-required concerts with air purifiers and everything, and the first one sold out, so you might want to get your tickets sooner rather than later. 😊 I'm very excited about this. 😁

The concert will be taking place at Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 7 PM on Thursday, August 21, 2025. If you can't make it in person, no worries, there will also be a livestream!

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY A Covid-conscious concert from Positive Deviance, featuring a bunch of singer-songwriters, including... [checks notes] ...me! Thanks to the pandemic, this will be my first full set in front of actual people, rather than a webcam. 😅 www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/abr...

I do expect to be present at the second concert in the series? Rumor has it that that one's gonna feature some folk singer/songwriters. I just hope it doesn't conflict with the night this August that I, a folk singer/songwriter, am supposed to be playing a concert in New York. ...oh, wait. Huh.

Friend, are you a covid-cautious person in the New York City area who misses live music? Allow me to acquaint you with Positive Deviance, which aims to make safer events we all can enjoy!

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.

“What’s to-day, my fine fellow?” said Scrooge. “To-day!” replied the boy. “Why, Livestream Day.” “It’s Livestream Day!” said Scrooge to himself. “I haven’t missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night.” “And Aubrey Turner's Birthday,” added the boy. “What a delightful boy!” said Scrooge.

I don't have anything to announce at the moment, but also if you're in the NYC area, you might want to mark your calendar to keep the evening of August 21 clear. No reason!

After seeing the end of the episode, I (and many others it seems) found the GoFundMe for Ed (the man who shaved Erika's head). It has now surpassed its goal when it was a few thousand dollars short before the episode aired. Well done, gang. www.gofundme.com/f/memorial-a...

I want an entire season of this now! This is Never Stop Blowing Up energy but even better.

Boooo Paramount made me take these off Et$y but they can still be yours!!!! Who wants a Lower Decker on their head? (I'm beyond broke at the moment so an order would help me out enormously 🙏) #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #crochet #cosplay

Great time to remind everyone that if you find a shop on Etsy that you like, google the name of it to see if they have their own website and buy direct from them! Not only will they get more of the money but they may have more things to offer since they're not paying listing fees on their own site.

I closed my shop on Etsy two years ago because they made it so hard for a small store like mine to make any sales. And they've only gotten worse. Etsy sucks.

Got my film from last week developed. High five once again to @edidin.bsky.social and @mxs510.bsky.social for flying the trans flag at Stonewall! Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 35mm f2, Kodak Gold 200. #BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter

Headed back to Stonewall Nat’l monument; I’ll be there with my flag from around 10:15-3:15. Come join me?

I'll be joining Jay around noon.

I'll be back at Stonewall with my flag tomorrow from about 10:30-3:15 if you want to join me!

It's Pride Month, so if there's a stream with two nonbinary musicians performing, you have to watch it. I don't make the rules! (That's a week from today! Sunday, June 22, 2025. Click the link and then the bell to be reminded!)