Brenda
@mytruantpen.com
I just talk about my life, and offer respite from well deserved anger.
This time of year I deeply regret that there was no overlap between me desperately wanting the things in the Signals and Wireless gift catalogs, those fine publications showing up in the mail, and being able to afford them. #npr
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This time of year I deeply regret that there was no overlap between me desperately wanting the things in the Signals and Wireless gift catalogs, those fine publications showing up in the mail, and being able to afford them. #npr
Honestly, I'm sort of proud of myself for the kind of slop FB targets me with. It's usually about kindness, dignity and caring about others. It's also AI slop targeted at my dopamine receptors, but I'm glad that's what makes them fire.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Honestly, I'm sort of proud of myself for the kind of slop FB targets me with. It's usually about kindness, dignity and caring about others. It's also AI slop targeted at my dopamine receptors, but I'm glad that's what makes them fire.
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. I've got a brand new Christmas fountain pen, a hand selected ink, matching sealing wax pellets and a new wax heater, 150 custom designed cards, and just about a month to get them all in the mail with addresses and notes all done by hand. It's #cardseason
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. I've got a brand new Christmas fountain pen, a hand selected ink, matching sealing wax pellets and a new wax heater, 150 custom designed cards, and just about a month to get them all in the mail with addresses and notes all done by hand. It's #cardseason
Hello? Department of Bad Decisions? I'd like to place an order.... Do these two look like as much mischief to you as they do to me? www.petfinder.com/cat/cardamom...
Adopt Cardamom & Butternut on Petfinder
Cardamom & Butternut is an adoptable Cat - Domestic Short Hair searching for a forever family near Waltham, MA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hello? Department of Bad Decisions? I'd like to place an order.... Do these two look like as much mischief to you as they do to me? www.petfinder.com/cat/cardamom...
I pulled out the old Stampin' Up stamps for some Thanksgiving postcards. These stamps hit differently now than they did in 2002 (although I didn't use most of them then either). #Thanksgiving #stamps #watercolors
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I pulled out the old Stampin' Up stamps for some Thanksgiving postcards. These stamps hit differently now than they did in 2002 (although I didn't use most of them then either). #Thanksgiving #stamps #watercolors
I'm a technology professional with a quarter century of experience. Currently my gaming laptop, which u haven't touched in 3 years, thinks my Microsoft account is a child's. Also a family admin. My Nvidia driver download keeps silently failing. And I guess I have to update to Windows 11.
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I'm a technology professional with a quarter century of experience. Currently my gaming laptop, which u haven't touched in 3 years, thinks my Microsoft account is a child's. Also a family admin. My Nvidia driver download keeps silently failing. And I guess I have to update to Windows 11.
Book 61: I needed a mental and emotional rest and this book was beautiful, eloquent and had a truth to it. Just what I needed. app.thestorygraph.com/books/726593... #bookaweek
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Book 61: I needed a mental and emotional rest and this book was beautiful, eloquent and had a truth to it. Just what I needed. app.thestorygraph.com/books/726593... #bookaweek
Dear Bluesky, I really like epistolary novels like Daddy Longlegs, Anne of the Island or This Is How You Lose the Time War. Do you have any recommendations?
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Dear Bluesky, I really like epistolary novels like Daddy Longlegs, Anne of the Island or This Is How You Lose the Time War. Do you have any recommendations?
TIL opium can prevent cholera!! #whitehousecookbook #1924
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
TIL opium can prevent cholera!! #whitehousecookbook #1924
A woman with a too-small fridge approves of refrigerator temperatures outside the night before her big party. #mocksgiving
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A woman with a too-small fridge approves of refrigerator temperatures outside the night before her big party. #mocksgiving
Book 60: digital book in front of the fire. I deeply love Bujold. The last few years of her writing feel like someone tidying the worlds of her creation and indulging in favorites before her next adventure. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/22f5d3...
Testimony of Mute Things by Lois McMaster Bujold
This one is a prequel, falling between "Penric's Fox" and "Masquerade in Lodi" during Pen's Marte...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Book 60: digital book in front of the fire. I deeply love Bujold. The last few years of her writing feel like someone tidying the worlds of her creation and indulging in favorites before her next adventure. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/22f5d3...
I have read all of these (including Black Dogs) and own as many as possible in physical form. I do think Jackalope Wives stands out from the crowd and would love a copy of the Orcs book. My son loves Orcus and really wants a map.
And that's it for Ursula Vernon/ @tkingfisher.com's currently published books of fiction! I believe there are at least two new books (Wolf Worm and Daggerbound) scheduled to come out next year (plus the Nine Goblins reprint, and maybe the next Paladin book)
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I have read all of these (including Black Dogs) and own as many as possible in physical form. I do think Jackalope Wives stands out from the crowd and would love a copy of the Orcs book. My son loves Orcus and really wants a map.
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Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books
Book 59: the idea of living in a little house in the desert with a dog and a garden that could keep you is enough to go on. How is @tkingfisher.com releasing half a dozen books this year, all with distinct plots and characters? #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/f3211e...
Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
In an isolated desert town, a young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, ma...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Book 59: the idea of living in a little house in the desert with a dog and a garden that could keep you is enough to go on. How is @tkingfisher.com releasing half a dozen books this year, all with distinct plots and characters? #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/f3211e...
I'm quite pleased with how these paintings came out - much better than my usual "right which end of the brush goes in the water" sets. The Yeats poem is one my husband and I memorized together as newlyweds. It hits differently after 25 years. #watercolor #autumn #poetry #yeats
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm quite pleased with how these paintings came out - much better than my usual "right which end of the brush goes in the water" sets. The Yeats poem is one my husband and I memorized together as newlyweds. It hits differently after 25 years. #watercolor #autumn #poetry #yeats
Book 58: my husband nearly sprained his eyes rolling them at this book, but it was a clever, fun read so nyah nyah to him. This working mom wishes she was getting to study cantrips instead of brain rot to talk to her kid. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/0af853... @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Book 58: my husband nearly sprained his eyes rolling them at this book, but it was a clever, fun read so nyah nyah to him. This working mom wishes she was getting to study cantrips instead of brain rot to talk to her kid. #bookaweek app.thestorygraph.com/books/0af853... @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social
I'm reading through the Peanuts comics of the 70s right now, and Peppermint Patty really suffers with the requirement to conform. Way ahead of it's time.
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I'm reading through the Peanuts comics of the 70s right now, and Peppermint Patty really suffers with the requirement to conform. Way ahead of it's time.
Sometimes when I read an online forum, I really wonder what assumptions of reality drive the questions I see. Like... how do you THINK the world works so that your question makes any kind of sense at all? What would a valid answer even LOOK like?
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Sometimes when I read an online forum, I really wonder what assumptions of reality drive the questions I see. Like... how do you THINK the world works so that your question makes any kind of sense at all? What would a valid answer even LOOK like?
Book 57: after my sojourn in the Sahara, my mother sent me a book she taught to her sixth graders for many years. Sixth grade me would have loved it. 47 year old me enjoyed it, and could see it in a way that I couldn't in my youth. #bookaweek #sahara
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Book 57: after my sojourn in the Sahara, my mother sent me a book she taught to her sixth graders for many years. Sixth grade me would have loved it. 47 year old me enjoyed it, and could see it in a way that I couldn't in my youth. #bookaweek #sahara
Every time you cancel a subscription, be sure to put that money back towards the news in some way. @npr.org and the @economist.com are two organizations still fighting the good fight of journalism.
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Every time you cancel a subscription, be sure to put that money back towards the news in some way. @npr.org and the @economist.com are two organizations still fighting the good fight of journalism.
Lost in the noise - a medical research lab was bombed this weekend: Harvard Medical School explosion investigation continues – NBC Boston share.google/XplYUDMrR6w2...
'Kind of shocked that someone would blow up a lab': Harvard students react to explosion in campus building
Investigators are still searching for two suspects following an explosion at Harvard Medical School early Saturday that appeared to be intentional.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Lost in the noise - a medical research lab was bombed this weekend: Harvard Medical School explosion investigation continues – NBC Boston share.google/XplYUDMrR6w2...
Dear Internet,
If my 17 year old son wakes up at noon, consumes approx 5000 calories, and goes to bed voluntarily at 7:30 when he could be playing Overwatch, what are the odds he wakes up 2 inches taller?
- A concerned mother because he's already tall
#teenagers #growthspurt
If my 17 year old son wakes up at noon, consumes approx 5000 calories, and goes to bed voluntarily at 7:30 when he could be playing Overwatch, what are the odds he wakes up 2 inches taller?
- A concerned mother because he's already tall
#teenagers #growthspurt
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Dear Internet,
If my 17 year old son wakes up at noon, consumes approx 5000 calories, and goes to bed voluntarily at 7:30 when he could be playing Overwatch, what are the odds he wakes up 2 inches taller?
- A concerned mother because he's already tall
#teenagers #growthspurt
If my 17 year old son wakes up at noon, consumes approx 5000 calories, and goes to bed voluntarily at 7:30 when he could be playing Overwatch, what are the odds he wakes up 2 inches taller?
- A concerned mother because he's already tall
#teenagers #growthspurt
Book 56: I am not easily spooked. I like to read horror novels in desolate log cabins by myself as the snow falls. This might be the creepiest, scariest book I've ever read. app.thestorygraph.com/books/66c63b... #bookaweek #horror #covid19 #stopasianhate
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
In this explosive horror novel, a woman is haunted by inner trauma, hungry ghosts, and a serial k...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Book 56: I am not easily spooked. I like to read horror novels in desolate log cabins by myself as the snow falls. This might be the creepiest, scariest book I've ever read. app.thestorygraph.com/books/66c63b... #bookaweek #horror #covid19 #stopasianhate
Me: buys every kind of sparkly, glow in the dark, sheen, color changing watercolor paint on the market.
Also me: mostly just uses indigo.
#watercolors #buyingandpaintingaredifferenthobbies
Also me: mostly just uses indigo.
#watercolors #buyingandpaintingaredifferenthobbies
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Me: buys every kind of sparkly, glow in the dark, sheen, color changing watercolor paint on the market.
Also me: mostly just uses indigo.
#watercolors #buyingandpaintingaredifferenthobbies
Also me: mostly just uses indigo.
#watercolors #buyingandpaintingaredifferenthobbies
I haven't uploaded my art in a hot minute, like since this summer, in part because I haven't been doing a ton of painting. With no nice weather and no baseball, it's time to get back into practice. I call this set "Yeah, it looks better with ink outlines" #watercolor
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I haven't uploaded my art in a hot minute, like since this summer, in part because I haven't been doing a ton of painting. With no nice weather and no baseball, it's time to get back into practice. I call this set "Yeah, it looks better with ink outlines" #watercolor