If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

This week I read both Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe (CB Lee) and Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas) and they were both so lovely and sweet and dovetailed together in a way that was not planned when I was looking books up on Libby. Highly recommend both if you want some sweet queer YA.

isn't the whole point of copyright that you are opting out of people stealing your work

Recall alert

Everything is so much right now, and I'm honestly not really sure how parents or children make it through teen years in one piece. But have this picture I had my teen take yesterday as we left the bus depot, which made me giggle.

Happy Square Day!

Back in my day we used headphones to listen to our IPod shuffles on the F train. Now, people sit on trains and in hospital waiting rooms scrolling through TikTok at full blast with no headphones, subjecting everyone to their shitty algorithmic addiction. It’s so rude! We used to be a society!

DC statehood now.

this is going to be a great case at the trial level and the who the fuck knows

It’s really funny that you can amass hundreds of billions of dollars, and still Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.

you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against. tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

Dear universe - my previous post did not mean that I wanted a distraction in the form of my kid's school on lockdown. Thanks no thanks.

I usually avoid socials on 9/11. Not that the barrage of commentary about yesterday's ~everything~ is great fun, but it's kind of a weird relief that it took 15 minutes of scrolling FB and Bluesky to encounter a post of the sort that I try to avoid.

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

TFW you’ve finished all the books that came off hold in Libby and now the next one is 6 weeks out. Requesting recs - currently on a YA mystery binge & would love to continue that groove. Plucky female or NB main character preferred, romance fine but preferably not the main plot.

I need my books to stop ending with cliffhangers/unfinished plots. Especially when billed as a standalone. HMPH.

More train, FTR:

When the dasher forgets to pick up your kid’s milkshake, but the store already put the straw & cookie topper in the bag. 💔

The streets of DC are so overrun with violent criminals that National Guard troops are...checks notes...picking up litter

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

The world may be on fire, but today is Project Kitten: aka taking my friend out to Big Boss’ place so she can pick a kitten (or two!) from their litter that was born in early August. I will report back with pictures as able.

This. First time around I wasn’t happy and was afraid of what he’d try to do, but thought - naively - that our 3 branch system would help keep him in check. Congress failing then and even more so now (and the resulting court failures) has really been the shit show.

Excellent license plates seen while commuting this week: YEA NO OKAYBYE

If we’re friends on the book of face, you may recall posts I made last year about our volunteer pumpkin plant, plumply. We did nothing to encourage a return visit, but we have one, we’re calling it son of pumply. It showed up later than last year, but has grown exponentially faster. 😳

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned attendance at immigration court proceedings into a game of "detention roulette" that violates due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Getting past the myth and seeing their protest more clearly is a reminder that it’s possible to live well with technology—but only if we continually question the ways it shapes our lives.”

JUST IN: A D.C. Circuit panel just cleared the way the Trump administration to block significant foreign assistance funds appropriated by Congress, ruling that only the head of GAO could sue over alleged violations of the Impoundment Control Act. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

If they gut SEPTA my life, and the lives of my family, and the lives of my friends, and the lives of my community will be made so immediately, viscerally worse. I have shed a few tears about this. I have also made some very angry phone calls. I would ask if you're in PA that you do t he same.

Baltimore is currently experiencing its lowest homicide rate in 50 years, and it’s not because they iNVeStEd iN pOLiCe, it’s because they invested in community programs to facilitate conflict resolution, address mental health, address poverty, and give kids fun and meaningful things to do

- Undesirables from seedy underground locations making lots of noise at night (cicadas) - How much an ice cream vendor on the Mall tries to charge you for one chocolate ice cream before you explain you aren’t a tourist - Preferring Rehoboth over Bethany

Sometimes, having an AirTag in your luggage is funny.

Going over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in a ship is pretty freaking cool. We got to spend a while just watching the cars disappear.

We have reached the pinnacle of late stage capitalism together. In honor of this, I shall name him Karl.

I am so honored to have played a small role in making this happen. That role mostly being yelling, ‘you’re doing WHAT??’ and facepalming. Please know, @hunterw.bsky.social that @jeannellewrites.bsky.social is just as excited and happy as you. And it’s terrifying.

I was explaining ‘my hed iz pasted on yay’ to a young coworker today and mentioned when it happened and she was a literal toddler at the time and now I will fade into dust (and go into the west).

“I don’t want my kid to be a shithead as an adult” is basically the single most important goal I have as a parent whatever else they do is fine, as long as they’re decent people

I've said this a few times in recent months to friends: I cannot recommend getting out of online-only, "influencer" spaces enough. Go outside, volunteer somewhere local, or hang out with friends. Humans aren't wired for the constant barrage of information that is social media.

TFW you want to shout far and wide about your kiddo’s great experiences at camp but also don’t want the org/camp/director to get even the tiniest bit of fallout. 😕

TFW you get to meet one of the Fab Five at work and are mostly chill on the outside but inside you’re like

From a librarian who is on a journey through grief… thank you for this grief jam, Cat Burns 💚✨

A post camp pickup story in one picture. (Or, I guess, two stories - the spray is for a canker sore. The rest are for hives. Ooops. 🤪 He goes back Sunday. 😂)

Anybody good at troubleshooting bluetooth? Work computer sound went again (known issue) so I ran out and got a cheap bluetooth speaker b/c I can't take a full day of calls on my headphones. Got it home and it's not showing up in the list of devices to pair. ARGH. I swear I know what I'm doing.

Pretty sure turning it off and shutting it down would stop it. Pretty. Sure.

Of all the things I enjoyed in Japan and couldn’t find here, Kirin Lemon might be the most frustrating. I asked at one import store and they even were asking if it’s new because they hadn’t heard of it (it’s almost 100 years old). Online purveyors offered cases but only for $$$$. A few online shops

I was at a smaller local pride festival today. It was HOT and EARLY, and it felt a bit sparse. A few minutes after thinking this, I was walking behind a pair of people, one of whom said, “I’ve never seen this many queer people in one place.” Just a reminder of how important things like this are.

Sometimes parenting is Home Depot and McDonald’s at 9:30pm because one of the cats knocked over and wrecked the teen’s sculpture that he’s worked on for four days, that’s due (…tomorrow? Thursday? Unclear.) 💔 Our family motto is epoxy and duct tape can fix anything - time to put that to the test.