Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk.
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Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
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Back After This by Linda Holmes: 9780593599259 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating—but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love? From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over.....
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My next book is set in the world of podcasts, dogs, influencers and sketchy dating advice. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720444...
I must say, it’s a lot more tempting to go to bed early when you have a heated mattress pad.
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I must say, it’s a lot more tempting to go to bed early when you have a heated mattress pad.
Every year, I save a little time to cry at this recording. (Just FYI, because of @jessethorn.bsky.social, I got to interview them once, and Amy Ray said I was funny. I WILL CHERISH IT FOREVER, I WAS AT OBERLIN IN 1990.)
There's Still My Joy
YouTube video by Indigo Girls - Topic
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Every year, I save a little time to cry at this recording. (Just FYI, because of @jessethorn.bsky.social, I got to interview them once, and Amy Ray said I was funny. I WILL CHERISH IT FOREVER, I WAS AT OBERLIN IN 1990.)
It is about 7:15. I got up at 5:00 to go to the gym. Too early to go to bed? No, right?
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It is about 7:15. I got up at 5:00 to go to the gym. Too early to go to bed? No, right?
So the beef stew from the slow cooker smelled great all day. Then I couldn’t figure out what I wanted it with, then I remembered you can produce polenta-ish in the microwave in a few minutes. Boy is this what I wanted.
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So the beef stew from the slow cooker smelled great all day. Then I couldn’t figure out what I wanted it with, then I remembered you can produce polenta-ish in the microwave in a few minutes. Boy is this what I wanted.
Pull-ups at the airport. Pull-ups. In whatever you wore to the airport.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Pull-ups at the airport. Pull-ups. In whatever you wore to the airport.
Beef stew in the slow cooker today.
You gotta understand: If I don’t get ahead, I’ll just eat cheese and crackers.
You gotta understand: If I don’t get ahead, I’ll just eat cheese and crackers.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Beef stew in the slow cooker today.
You gotta understand: If I don’t get ahead, I’ll just eat cheese and crackers.
You gotta understand: If I don’t get ahead, I’ll just eat cheese and crackers.
I swear, the dog waits until I come upstairs and get into bed before he starts loudly cleaning himself.
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I swear, the dog waits until I come upstairs and get into bed before he starts loudly cleaning himself.
This is where you see people genuinely treating LLMs as if they know things, rather than that they are, at best, a version of reading a lot of stuff that’s already on the internet. Even if the idea that Carol is Kim weren’t silly, which it is, that would be inside the head of Vince Gilligan.
How about you just watch the tv show like a normal person?
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is where you see people genuinely treating LLMs as if they know things, rather than that they are, at best, a version of reading a lot of stuff that’s already on the internet. Even if the idea that Carol is Kim weren’t silly, which it is, that would be inside the head of Vince Gilligan.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Proud of Team DC.
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): 'Sinners' Dominates with 10 Wins
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): ‘Sinners’ Dominates with 10 Wins
After picking up 13 nominations from the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), Sinners turned 10 of them into wins, including Best Film, Best Director and Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler and Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan. One Battle After Another, which had also earned 13 nominations, took home three wins: Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress for Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor, respectively, and Adapted Screenplay.
awardswatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Proud of Team DC.
Reflections on the chili I made today: I was initially a little uncertain about it, it seemed a little flat. Then I realized I used low-sodium broth and the canned beans were rinsed, and the only salt in the recipe comes from salting the chicken at the very beginning. So: It needs salt.
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Reflections on the chili I made today: I was initially a little uncertain about it, it seemed a little flat. Then I realized I used low-sodium broth and the canned beans were rinsed, and the only salt in the recipe comes from salting the chicken at the very beginning. So: It needs salt.
Update: A very good, and indeed sinus-clearing, chili. (It was supposed to have three cans of white beans; I didn’t have three, so I used one can of white beans and two cans of black beans and it’s great.)
The chicken chili called for four jalapeños, and the ones I used were extremely big. I’m looking forward to potentially blowing my own face off.
December 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Update: A very good, and indeed sinus-clearing, chili. (It was supposed to have three cans of white beans; I didn’t have three, so I used one can of white beans and two cans of black beans and it’s great.)
It’s interesting that this says that if it were okay to deprive people of citizenship based on race or former “condition of servitude,” that would mean it could be denied based on … “nativity”! So, the circumstances of your birth. Which this speaker seems to assume everyone knows would be wrong.
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It’s interesting that this says that if it were okay to deprive people of citizenship based on race or former “condition of servitude,” that would mean it could be denied based on … “nativity”! So, the circumstances of your birth. Which this speaker seems to assume everyone knows would be wrong.
These are both slow-cooking, and when I tell you the house is starting to smell extremely good I am not lying
The chicken chili called for four jalapeños, and the ones I used were extremely big. I’m looking forward to potentially blowing my own face off.
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
These are both slow-cooking, and when I tell you the house is starting to smell extremely good I am not lying
I just used my dictionary to teach myself that a femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second. AKA the amount of time I will read about all the double-z people before closing the page.
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I just used my dictionary to teach myself that a femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second. AKA the amount of time I will read about all the double-z people before closing the page.
Both pork carnitas and chicken chili going in the kitchen for the week. Congratulations, me two days from now.
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Both pork carnitas and chicken chili going in the kitchen for the week. Congratulations, me two days from now.
One thing I have learned from the HEATED RIVALRY discourse is that a lot of non-romance-readers have been extremely misled about how horny romance novels are. This is not a criticism—nobody is familiar with everything! It’s just an observation.
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
One thing I have learned from the HEATED RIVALRY discourse is that a lot of non-romance-readers have been extremely misled about how horny romance novels are. This is not a criticism—nobody is familiar with everything! It’s just an observation.
It’s less weird, but MERRY CHRISTMAS, TED COOPER! over on Hallmark, from the same writer, has some of the same good-natured, non-stuffy charm.
Ok I’ve had rum and now I’m gonna tell you that Hot Frosty is a perfect light Christmas movie.
1.Netflix having its own Xmas movies on TVs is funny.
2.”oh she looks just like a girl I went to school with”: Mean Girls callback
3.The lead guy is actually hot and not creepy
4.The deputy is adorable
1.Netflix having its own Xmas movies on TVs is funny.
2.”oh she looks just like a girl I went to school with”: Mean Girls callback
3.The lead guy is actually hot and not creepy
4.The deputy is adorable
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It’s less weird, but MERRY CHRISTMAS, TED COOPER! over on Hallmark, from the same writer, has some of the same good-natured, non-stuffy charm.
I ordered the new edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Just to HAVE. Recklessly, with my heart. It arrived today.
I have so many words!
I have so many words!
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I ordered the new edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Just to HAVE. Recklessly, with my heart. It arrived today.
I have so many words!
I have so many words!
My coffee subscription arrived today, and when the USPS carrier dropped it off, he said, “What kind of coffee is this? It made my whole truck smell AMAZING.”
(It’s from Trade, a service advertised on many of your favorite YouTube channels.)
(It’s from Trade, a service advertised on many of your favorite YouTube channels.)
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My coffee subscription arrived today, and when the USPS carrier dropped it off, he said, “What kind of coffee is this? It made my whole truck smell AMAZING.”
(It’s from Trade, a service advertised on many of your favorite YouTube channels.)
(It’s from Trade, a service advertised on many of your favorite YouTube channels.)
I think everybody at NPR is glad our Susan Stamberg left us an advance obit for Frank Gehry. A legend on a legend.
Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96
Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I think everybody at NPR is glad our Susan Stamberg left us an advance obit for Frank Gehry. A legend on a legend.
I have got to find something calming to watch. I am not having great ideas. It’s a good thing finding things to watch is not my job or anything.
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I have got to find something calming to watch. I am not having great ideas. It’s a good thing finding things to watch is not my job or anything.
It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.
Not sure this has been fully thought through.
“.. U.S. President Donald Trump's face is painted on a football ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Draw in Washington D.C.”
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Not sure this has been fully thought through.
Looking forward to the vigorous NOPE reaction from the dog when he wakes up and finds out it’s snowing.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Looking forward to the vigorous NOPE reaction from the dog when he wakes up and finds out it’s snowing.