So sorry about the outages... we've been without power several times over the last 3 days! Luckily restored for Christmas!

Can anyone tell me the name for a story written in first person but as if speaking to another character?

Nora Roberts has dropped in on The Midnight Society! For an interesting reason... 😂 https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/115645485405083268

Good lord, the admin of my new instance has apparently gone missing now. Is it me? Am I cursed?

So nice to see my community responding to the current state of affairs. There's now a security guard at every store. 🙄

Really enlightening thread happening about instances not using auto-signups: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115503596169964638 It never occurred to me that having to write something could be such a turnoff for people. We turned off auto-signups here and it definitely cut the spam […]

Dear Democratic Party: "Mamdani Phenomenon Galvanizes Electorate" Imagine. Just sit there and imagine what Dems can/could do if you'd met this man even halfway.

Final green beans of the year, most likely. But carrots are coming up! #gardening #foodgardening

Anyone here in touch with Olvia Dade? I thought she might enjoy seeing that she made the nominations for an "author a month" challenge in the romance category.

I read a book in which the author had included their romancelandia.club address and it gave me such a pang... I wonder if I could learn to be the admin myself.

The blurb for K.J. Charles' upcoming book describes her as a "rising genre star." Um... rising steadily from awesome book to awesome book for the past 10+ years.

Dear romancelandia.club members and friends, I'm very sorry to have to announce this server will most likely shut down in April. Our admin just doesn't have the spoons for it anymore. If any #mastoadmin of similar values would like to take over, please contact me! Take some time to figure out […]

I've read this romance.

Jeebus. The Acetiminophen=autism folks are using as "proof" a paper written by my completely credential-free, seriously fucked-up father. Even from the grave he's finding ways to make my life horrible.

Having a rough time. I'm trying to follow the principle of "chop wood, carry water," but that doesn't tell you what to do if someone is burning down your forest and poisoning you stream, and your energy is limited and your hips hurt.

My good friend of many years Tonda Fuller (writing as Isobel Carr/Kalen Hughes ) has cancer and now doctors say about a week to live. Her friends and family members invite visits for those who know her. Let me know if you need details about that. For her friends, I’m sorry for such terrible news.

I'm finding if a romance makes me say "why one earth are the characters acting like that?" the answer is pretty much always, it's fanfiction. #romancebooks @romancebooks

I'm hoping there's enough of us to make an impact.

I had a very nice harvest of compact bush beans. They seem to have stopped now -- any chance they'll flower again for another crop? We have good sun for awhile yet. #gardening #foodgardening

This article is about my very first library! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/growing-up-in-a-library-is-exactly-as-magical-as-you-d-imagine

I have yet to see a "why did you unsubscribe?" screen with the option "because I changed my email and you don't have any damn way to change it in your stupid system."

Feeling blue today, so going to my usual pick me up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOO6qoEcgo&list=RD8WOO6qoEcgo&start_radio=1

I had a crash that took down Firefox, so when I restarted it it was the newest version (an update I'd installed, but hadn't restarted after). I just went looking through the settings pages, which is a habit I've unfortunately had to get into because #Firefox […] [Original post on mindly.social]

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

"#bluesky's #tos contain a "binding arbitration" waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them. This is so pro-enshittificatory, it's like a landing strip for the sole use of Enshittification Airlines, which can land a 747 full of […]

Kurdish Iraq recently passed a new regulation forbidding renting to a trans person. We have a very urgent need to relocate people out of Iraq, and it is a very difficult place to work in. We desperately need financial support at this time. If you can, please give […]

Does anyone have access to reliable information about the updated flu shots available in the U.S. ? Can't trust the CDC website anymore. 🙄 boosts appreciated

The butterflies scorned my nursery zinnias but they're back for the homegrown! #bloomscrolling #gardening

That bittersweet feeling when you pass on a favorite outfit that no longer works for you and it looks fantastic on your kid.

@herhandsmyhands LOL, simulsuspension!

#whatchareading ? I read Love Notes by Lisa Henry, a pleasantly low-key romance that made for a nice palette cleanser. Dyslexic woodworker Ryan and mystery writer Adam meet in Ryan's charming -- but not completely implausible -- small town and just feel really comfortable together right away […]

#libby users: An AI "optional" feature from hell has been foisted upon users. More info in threads. https://www.reddit.com/r/LibbyApp/comments/1n0b97x/where_did_the_middle_button_go_and_how_do_i_get/ https://old.reddit.com/r/LibbyApp/comments/1mr3qxz/hidden_featurefor_inspireme/ #library

#whatchareading ? I skimmed Speechless by Lindsey Lanza... some really interesting themes --- chronic illness, selective mutism, infertility -- but the tone was a bit twee for me.

Are the busses in Barry accessible? I know wheelchair users who use them but they're self propelled and very skilled with their wheelchair. Am I gonna be able to get on/off the bus in my electric one? @wales

My #tbrchallenge book was That Scandalous Summer, perhaps the worst book by an extremely good writer. https://willaful.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/tbr-challenge-that-scandalous-summer-by-meredith-duran/ #romancebooks @romancebooks

#amreading Outlier by Susie Tate, which has an #autistic MC. I have some issues with it, but I did really like this scene: "As Mum bustled us into the cabin, I talked low in her ear, 'You remember that Vicky likes--' 'I know what she likes, love,' Mum said. 'Always easy to please as a child […]

How did I miss this? RADIOACTIVE SHRIMP RECALL Food & Wine: FDA Warns Walmart Shoppers to Avoid Frozen Shrimp Over Radioactive Contamination "...The agency found Cesium-137, a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission, in imported shrimp linked to the big box chain’s Great Value brand... " […]

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i love the times of year when I have fresh produce pretty much every day! #gardening #foodgardening

my mom: "How about I iron your shirt before we go out?" me: "to quote my daughter, you're such a mom!" (In fairness, she did make the shirt.)

#3goodthings 1) My mom came to visit and we watched "Knives Out" and she loved it. She hates most movies! 2) She made me a delicious pot roast. 3) We have a working car again! I hate to drive but being stranded in the burbs is even worse.

My mom is visiting and I went to the health food store to get the foods she likes. The cashier gave me the Senior discount and my first thought was "how did she know I'm shopping for my mom?" I'm recognizably a senior! Yikes!

If like me, you grew up feeling like you intimately knew movies you'd never seen, you might also enjoy The MAD Files, writing on MAD by authorss and cartoonists. (Roz Chast and Art Spiegelman contribute short comics.) I was especially intrigued by the pieces on the few women contributors and the […]

TFW you harvest almost a dozen cucumbers and then realize you're out of seasoned rice vinegar. 😭 #foodgardening

One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman is a heartbreaking, harrowing memoir. Abi Maxwell loves all the family history in her New Hampshire town, until she discovers that her "nice" neighbors have no compunctions about denying the rights and needs of her transgender/autistic child. The […]

In case anybody missed the latest match of actors to avoid: https://deadline.com/2025/08/harry-potter-audiobooks-cast-release-dates-1236475825/

#amreading One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story by Abi Maxwell. I can already tell it is going to absolutely break my heart, but I love how Maxwell never misgenders or deadnames her daughter, even when talking about her birth. @bookstodongroup #bookstodon #nonfiction […]