minerva42🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@minerva42.bsky.social
They/them. Keeps a sourdough starter, a cat, and a garden. Linux systems administrator in research computing.
If you have a chance to go see The 4th Witch at the Emerson Paramount Center, I highly recommend it! There are two more shows, at 8 tonight and 2 tomorrow.
There are mirrors and shadow puppets and actors in profile. They invite folks up on stage to see the setup.
artsemerson.org/events/the-4...
There are mirrors and shadow puppets and actors in profile. They invite folks up on stage to see the setup.
artsemerson.org/events/the-4...
The 4th Witch - ArtsEmerson
Manual Cinema returns to Boston with their signature stage-magic to conjure Macbeth from a brand new perspective called the 4th witch.
artsemerson.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you have a chance to go see The 4th Witch at the Emerson Paramount Center, I highly recommend it! There are two more shows, at 8 tonight and 2 tomorrow.
There are mirrors and shadow puppets and actors in profile. They invite folks up on stage to see the setup.
artsemerson.org/events/the-4...
There are mirrors and shadow puppets and actors in profile. They invite folks up on stage to see the setup.
artsemerson.org/events/the-4...
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Only a couple days left on the fundraiser bundle @mkzariel.bsky.social made to raise survival funds for me, could I please get some more eyes on it? It's only at 50% funded.. -Allēna
itch.io/b/3339/fundr...
#mutualaid #helpfolkslive2025 #transcrowdfund #disabledcrowdfund #zines #zinester #Booksky
itch.io/b/3339/fundr...
#mutualaid #helpfolkslive2025 #transcrowdfund #disabledcrowdfund #zines #zinester #Booksky
Fundraiser for Laz Halliwell by mk zariel and 14 others
Fundraiser for Laz Halliwell: 52 items for $0.00
itch.io
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Only a couple days left on the fundraiser bundle @mkzariel.bsky.social made to raise survival funds for me, could I please get some more eyes on it? It's only at 50% funded.. -Allēna
itch.io/b/3339/fundr...
#mutualaid #helpfolkslive2025 #transcrowdfund #disabledcrowdfund #zines #zinester #Booksky
itch.io/b/3339/fundr...
#mutualaid #helpfolkslive2025 #transcrowdfund #disabledcrowdfund #zines #zinester #Booksky
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Happy book day, Max!
I'll be at Porter Square Books with him tonight to celebrate! Come on out!
portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
I'll be at Porter Square Books with him tonight to celebrate! Come on out!
portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Happy book day, Max!
I'll be at Porter Square Books with him tonight to celebrate! Come on out!
portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
I'll be at Porter Square Books with him tonight to celebrate! Come on out!
portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
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GOOD MORNING babes, great fucking day because you can now pre-order some of the best poetry you’re ever gonna read in your life, coming this spring from @andyeyeballs.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...
The World That Is Coming Inside You
The debut poetry collection by Andy Izenson, a T4T love letter to the living cosmos
www.kickstarter.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
GOOD MORNING babes, great fucking day because you can now pre-order some of the best poetry you’re ever gonna read in your life, coming this spring from @andyeyeballs.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...
Hubba Hubba is running a GoFundMe to stay open: gofund.me/0359303f0
Donate to Keep Hubba Hubba Open & Safe; A Boston Tradition Since 1978, organized by MJ Pullins
Hubba Hubba needs your help. We, like most other small business… MJ Pullins needs your support for Keep Hubba Hubba Open & Safe; A Boston Tradition Since 1978
gofund.me
September 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Hubba Hubba is running a GoFundMe to stay open: gofund.me/0359303f0
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TIL!!!
African mollies (Poecilia formosa) are almost all female, and reproduce gynogenetically, which is clonal reproduction that requires sperm from another species to trigger embryogenesis (but does not contribute DNA) to offspring!
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
No males? No problem for all-female fish species | CBC News
An all-female freshwater fish species called the Amazon molly is living proof that sexual reproduction may be vastly overrated, scientists say after analyzing its DNA.
www.cbc.ca
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
TIL!!!
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TWENTY YEARS AGO I posted about how easy it is to get around any sort of flag-burning law/amendment/executive order/whatever, and here we are today, having it have some relevance. Also our current president is a feculent spoon.
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/c...
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/c...
Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment
Visit the post for more.
whatever.scalzi.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
TWENTY YEARS AGO I posted about how easy it is to get around any sort of flag-burning law/amendment/executive order/whatever, and here we are today, having it have some relevance. Also our current president is a feculent spoon.
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/c...
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/c...
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It's my birthday! 🎉Please celebrate by:
-eating something delicious and not feeling guilty about it.
-visiting/supporting your local library
-telling a creator how much you like their work
-reading this story about my hometown which means a lot to me: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
-eating something delicious and not feeling guilty about it.
-visiting/supporting your local library
-telling a creator how much you like their work
-reading this story about my hometown which means a lot to me: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
Written on the Subway Walls
For February, The Sunday Morning Transport brings you stories by Jennifer Hudak, John Chu, Carrie Vaughn, and Marie Brennan.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's my birthday! 🎉Please celebrate by:
-eating something delicious and not feeling guilty about it.
-visiting/supporting your local library
-telling a creator how much you like their work
-reading this story about my hometown which means a lot to me: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
-eating something delicious and not feeling guilty about it.
-visiting/supporting your local library
-telling a creator how much you like their work
-reading this story about my hometown which means a lot to me: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
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If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take:
Man-made famines are crimes against humanity.
If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.
Man-made famines are crimes against humanity.
If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take:
Man-made famines are crimes against humanity.
If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.
Man-made famines are crimes against humanity.
If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.
I'm listening to @aptshadow.bsky.social/Adrian Tchaikovsky'sService Model, read by the author, and having a very fun time of it. It's got many of my favorite things, done quite well, and Adrian's voices and narration are, of course, spot on.
share.libbyapp.com/title/10250315
share.libbyapp.com/title/10250315
Service Model
This program is read by Hugo Award - winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Chil...
share.libbyapp.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm listening to @aptshadow.bsky.social/Adrian Tchaikovsky'sService Model, read by the author, and having a very fun time of it. It's got many of my favorite things, done quite well, and Adrian's voices and narration are, of course, spot on.
share.libbyapp.com/title/10250315
share.libbyapp.com/title/10250315
If you expected Google's URL shortened to work forever, there's news for you. (I think I've used it ever, but hopefully had the good sense to observe what Google usually does with its tools, eventually)
www.theverge.com/news/713125/...
www.theverge.com/news/713125/...
Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
It’s time to change to a new URL shortener.
www.theverge.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If you expected Google's URL shortened to work forever, there's news for you. (I think I've used it ever, but hopefully had the good sense to observe what Google usually does with its tools, eventually)
www.theverge.com/news/713125/...
www.theverge.com/news/713125/...
Finally settling down to read a book (John Scalzi's "Starter Villain") by looking at it, because I don't need to be multi-tasking every moment. And because my libraries don't have the audiobook version, I suppose.
June 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Finally settling down to read a book (John Scalzi's "Starter Villain") by looking at it, because I don't need to be multi-tasking every moment. And because my libraries don't have the audiobook version, I suppose.
OUT will be available July 9
THRILLED to share my first trot into comics with a story called OUT in horror anthology HELLO DARKNESS 12 from @boom-studios.com on JULY 9TH. INCREDIBLE art from @chrisshehanart.bsky.social so moved and blown away. PREORDER FROM YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP BUCKAROOS www.boom-studios.com/archives/hel...
May 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
OUT will be available July 9
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Welp.
Strange piece about two strange men.
Strange piece about two strange men.
FBI whistleblower claims he tried to get to Musk to warn him he was being targeted by Russia
Johnathan Buma, who was arrested in March and is out on bail, claims in new interview that efforts to target Musk were ‘intense’
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Welp.
Strange piece about two strange men.
Strange piece about two strange men.
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DRM-free books have worked great. People who want to support me with a purchase support me. People who do not want to support me with a purchase will not be dissuaded by DRM. DRM is basically security theater for electronic files.
@scalzi.com Just got a Kobo, finding it tough to source DRM-free books. Noticed you offer them—curious how that’s worked out for you economically as an author? I did buy "When the Moon hits your Eye" and am looking forward to reading it.
May 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
DRM-free books have worked great. People who want to support me with a purchase support me. People who do not want to support me with a purchase will not be dissuaded by DRM. DRM is basically security theater for electronic files.
This is the day!
If you've been thinking of reading Dracula Daily, today was the first entry!
draculadaily.substack.com
If you've been thinking of reading Dracula Daily, today was the first entry!
draculadaily.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is the day!
If you've been thinking of reading Dracula Daily, today was the first entry!
draculadaily.substack.com
If you've been thinking of reading Dracula Daily, today was the first entry!
draculadaily.substack.com
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What? It's #FreeComicBookDay?
Head on down to your local comic shop, grab your books, and then come on over to SIDE QUESTED, which is (always) free!
A love triangle with a prince, a princess, and a load-bearing librarian.
#comics #FCBD
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
Head on down to your local comic shop, grab your books, and then come on over to SIDE QUESTED, which is (always) free!
A love triangle with a prince, a princess, and a load-bearing librarian.
#comics #FCBD
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
Read Side Quested | Tapas Web Community
Read Side Quested and more premium Comedy Community series now on Tapas!
tapas.io
May 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What? It's #FreeComicBookDay?
Head on down to your local comic shop, grab your books, and then come on over to SIDE QUESTED, which is (always) free!
A love triangle with a prince, a princess, and a load-bearing librarian.
#comics #FCBD
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
Head on down to your local comic shop, grab your books, and then come on over to SIDE QUESTED, which is (always) free!
A love triangle with a prince, a princess, and a load-bearing librarian.
#comics #FCBD
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
Somerville Open Studios is this weekend! I just helped move a campmate's interactive piece to the Firefly Arts Collective's event space at 15 Properzi Way (87 on the map). www.somervilleopenstudios.org/web/artists/...
May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Somerville Open Studios is this weekend! I just helped move a campmate's interactive piece to the Firefly Arts Collective's event space at 15 Properzi Way (87 on the map). www.somervilleopenstudios.org/web/artists/...
In Swiftkey at the end of a word, I can hit capitalize and instead it puts a space and predicts the next word. I keep writing "kiko" and it predicts the lowercase word, and I tap the up arrow that means Capitalize, and it adds a space, so I then have to press "backspace", "Capitalize".
May 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In Swiftkey at the end of a word, I can hit capitalize and instead it puts a space and predicts the next word. I keep writing "kiko" and it predicts the lowercase word, and I tap the up arrow that means Capitalize, and it adds a space, so I then have to press "backspace", "Capitalize".
The local mockingbirds are warming up and settling in.
May 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The local mockingbirds are warming up and settling in.
I believe Sinners is the only one if these I've seen. I've got some catching up to do.
Following how good Sinners was, my friend group tried to negotiate our top ten vampire movies. It was contentious, but we agreed upon this unranked list:
Abigail
Blade
Blood Red Sky
From Dusk till Dawn
Let the Right One In
Shadow of the Vampire
Sinners
Thirst
Vampire Hunter D
30 Days of Night
Abigail
Blade
Blood Red Sky
From Dusk till Dawn
Let the Right One In
Shadow of the Vampire
Sinners
Thirst
Vampire Hunter D
30 Days of Night
May 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I believe Sinners is the only one if these I've seen. I've got some catching up to do.