"Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful." - Maggie Smith

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.“ - Emily Dickinson

"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on." -Mary Oliver

This is so beautiful and encapsulates exactly how i feel about so many of my lj friends. I hope you got everything you wanted. Internet friends are so precious.

Who wants to see the dog playing his favorite game?

The dog and i have reached an agreement about the weather.

I LOVE THIS MAN SO MUCH www.instagram.com/reel/DRo72Hg...

Over Thanksgiving break, i knitted two full patterned headbands with two strands of yarn held together, and this is how much i had left of one of the yarns when i had finished the second bind-off. I WIN AT YARN CHICKEN!!!

When you see this, post an image from your gallery describing your mental health

What a delightfully satisfying video! Good job all round!

Was hoping for a quiet day, instead I'm going to be busy until literally end of. Feeling extremely disgruntled about this, esp bc the weather today is glorious (in preparation for the cold storm coming down the next 3 days). Took the dog for a nice leisurely sniff walk, at least. :(

Every year, without fail, come winter my hands start drying out faster than loofah. And every year, once i have complained long enough that none of my various hand creams work, i go back to Neutrogena Norwegian formula. Thee hand cream for winter weather, it's been 20 yrs and it has never failed me.

You will live forever in my heart, Freddie. His life was the first time i heard the term 'bisexual' and even though i didn't know what i was at the time, i still remember feeling warmed from within. His memory is a blessing.

OOF. shots fired.

Nothing I'm doing now is in any way related to my (4) degrees. But i was badly burnt out and needed a job and started doing admin for a legal office, liked the work, then sort of kept accidentally moving upwards until i hit this job that i now love. 🤷🏻 Literally all based on work experience.

Does anyone want to see an angel?

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

Holy shit, this is HUGE. science is awesome! www.popsci.com/health/human...

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Started a new project today - a shawl that's small enough to lug to and fro. I mostly plan to work on it in the office, so i guess it will track how busy my day was. Today's progress: an about medium busy day.

For the knitters out there, and those whose hands and fingertips get super dry in colder weather, i can't recommend Tuft Knitters Hand Balm enough! It has AMAZING scents AND it works incredibly well, to the point that i feel it when i am not using it. www.tuftwoolens.com/product/knit...

Mini desk calendars!! Each month is a bookplate you can cut out and use after the month is done 🧡 we love upcycling ⚔️ personalspacepress.com/shop/2026-mi...

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Fully on board with this!! Also The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler is a great book to read for a riff on this idea.

The world is a trash fire these days but at least i get to stay married. I will take the win. Anyway the adrenaline crash is enough that i do not wish to do any part of my job today.

sounds like many people are canceling travel plans this november due to the government shutdown and decreased flights nationwide as a native american who does not celebrate thanksgiving, i humbly ask that you consider donating your cancelled travel costs to native organizations in your communities

Now THIS is what i want AI to be used for!!!! Enough with the monetization bullshit, get it into science!!! www.popularmechanics.com/science/a692...

This is so exciting!! I am brimming with schadenfreude! The comments include a fantastic interview with Khan that i really enjoyed listening to.

For a number of years, i used to watch V for Vendetta on this day. Then i stopped, c. 2016 (for no reason whatsoever). It felt too real. Too close to home. Too painful. Today for the first time i feel like i can resume that practice. V is a perfect movie and so endlessly quotable. I have missed it!

After all the wonderful happy news from yesterday, i log in today to find out that David Beckham got knighted?? This is amazing. Perfect frivolous little piece of joy, i have missed your like! 😄🤌 Good and fun things can yet happen!

The new Florence + The Machine album is SO THEM and so deeply satisfying, everything i could want for new F+TM music!! 😍🤌🙂‍↕️

I have become an avid Alex Ward girlie, i love him!!!

Cw #clothes #bodyimage spent the last 1.5 hr trying on the majority of my clothes to see if they still fit right. According to @itslineto.bsky.social i am developing some "guns" so a lot of shirts are tight across the shoulders. BUT my 2 fave winter dresses still fit or i would be gutted!

Definitely spent a double-digit number of minutes today looking at these, he is so cute and he gave me life while i slogged in the office!

Started the work from office morning getting half-soaked in a deluge. Good thing i brought an extra shirt and wore my boots! Downside: my pilates butt is making my skirt look extra short. Guess I'll have to try on all my clothes again to make sure i can still wear things i lay out for morning.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

Tfw you have been looking forward to a thing for weeks and you.... Realize you had the wrong date. The thing was yesterday. 😭😭😭😭😭 Hard not to feel like an idiot!!!!!!

I have looked so much like my dad all my life. When i was born the nurses at the hospital apparently took one look at him and said, Ah, you're the dad! Some years ago i cut my hair short, looked in the mirror and saw my dad looking back. It's not a bad thing! It's just v obvious that I'm his kid.

We had a delightful day today! Went to the Turkish festival in DC, ate incredible shawarma and falafel, got a ton of baklava, purchased beautifully crafted silver earrings, a LARGE summer throw for the bed, perused so many pretty things, AND got a Turkish coffee fortune reading! Such a fun event!

@dylanthyme.bsky.social 22 pages into Recipe for Trouble and i am gleefully grinning to myself, ensconced in my spot on the sofa and planning to spend the rest of the afternoon rolling around in this book. Absolutely delightful and everything i could ask for!!!

We have decided Kitsi is a warlock - he has very high charisma, modestly high dexterity, and intelligence of 6. His patron is Ball.

Look at this beautiful CAEK OF YARN!!! A regular-sized pair of scissors in the corner for size comparison. It's yowza by Miss Babs in Hitchhiker Birthday, which is their double-the-size skein line. I'm making a complex cable and lace argyle sweater vest!

Anyone who turns their nose up at ~genre fiction~ (like scifi, specfic, romance, etc.) as being inferior to ~literary fiction~ and thus not worth reading is a boring snob who lacks imagination and i have no time for them.

OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.

#vaccine side effects were surprisingly mild this weekend! Not complaining! Still feel quite tired, though that could also be the dog needing to go out at 5am this morning and fucking up the rest of my sleep cycle. 😐

I already preordered this but this teaser just confirms that it's exactly what i want to read at this point in time! Cackled out loud several times.