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they/she. middle-aged white queer w the 'tism and 80 of the HDs. me and yr dad probably like all the same movies. i have approximate knowledge of many things. fix yr hearts or die.
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![JANUARY
1. Saltcrop - Yumei Kitasei
2. Buckeye - Patrick Ryan
3. Game Changer - Rachel Reid [reread]
4. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid [reread]
5. Tough Guy - Rachel Reid
6. Common Goal - Rachel Reid
7. Role Model - Rachel Reid
8. The Long Game - Rachel Reid
9. The Red Scare Murders - Con Lehane
10. When the Angels Left the Old Country - Sacha Lamb
11. I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
12. The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories - Justin C. Key
13. Role Model - Rachel Reid [reread]
14. Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins [reread]
15. Box Hill - Adam Mars-Jones](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yqdkcs2h6feag2bfoir43lj5/bafkreiab6oafhlq3mduvouzfzhmwabt2ki36hn6qxe5rs6zpa3j63my4g4@jpeg)
2026 Reads: January
New-to-Me Faves:
-> Role Model/The Long Game
-> When the Angels Left the Old Country
New-to-Me Faves:
-> Role Model/The Long Game
-> When the Angels Left the Old Country
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It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM
It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
My players all get a vibes playlist and tone references before a new campaign. This is as much an exercise for me as them -- playing in a Hobbit vibe is very different than playing in a Blood Over Bright Haven vibe -- and in the process of making their list I often find something I didn't expect.
February 11, 2026 at 1:28 AM
My players all get a vibes playlist and tone references before a new campaign. This is as much an exercise for me as them -- playing in a Hobbit vibe is very different than playing in a Blood Over Bright Haven vibe -- and in the process of making their list I often find something I didn't expect.
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The largely immigrant workforce at JBS’s flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions.
These meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike anyway. - High Country News
The largely immigrant workforce at JBS’s flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions.
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 9:01 AM
The largely immigrant workforce at JBS’s flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions.
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Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️
February 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
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heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
The tween girl D&D table is talking impenetrable tween slang and I'm just being a witheréd ancient crone over here.
February 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The tween girl D&D table is talking impenetrable tween slang and I'm just being a witheréd ancient crone over here.
I routinely recommend this book to people and struggle with how to pitch it other than "it fuckin rules," and this does it extremely well to a banger song in under 3 minutes, so. Go hence!
Exploration. Discovery. Danger. A Steerswoman goes where she must.
The Steerswoman book series doesn't have a TV show or movies (yet?) so I put this together from other sources! Highly recommend the books - they're a lot of fun!
Details: archiveofourown.org/works/78622921
Happy #Festivids2025!
The Steerswoman book series doesn't have a TV show or movies (yet?) so I put this together from other sources! Highly recommend the books - they're a lot of fun!
Details: archiveofourown.org/works/78622921
Happy #Festivids2025!
February 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I routinely recommend this book to people and struggle with how to pitch it other than "it fuckin rules," and this does it extremely well to a banger song in under 3 minutes, so. Go hence!
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DENVER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. THIS IS FUCKED, WE'RE FUCKED, THE WEATHER GODS THEMSELVES ARE STARING IN DISBELIEF.
YOUR FUCKING WEEKEND:
FRI: 66°/37°
SAT: 66°/36°
SUN: 67°/39°
MON: FUCKING 69 DEGREES WTFFFFFF
YOUR FUCKING WEEKEND:
FRI: 66°/37°
SAT: 66°/36°
SUN: 67°/39°
MON: FUCKING 69 DEGREES WTFFFFFF
February 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
DENVER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. THIS IS FUCKED, WE'RE FUCKED, THE WEATHER GODS THEMSELVES ARE STARING IN DISBELIEF.
YOUR FUCKING WEEKEND:
FRI: 66°/37°
SAT: 66°/36°
SUN: 67°/39°
MON: FUCKING 69 DEGREES WTFFFFFF
YOUR FUCKING WEEKEND:
FRI: 66°/37°
SAT: 66°/36°
SUN: 67°/39°
MON: FUCKING 69 DEGREES WTFFFFFF
My kid's school had a walkout recently, which gave me a chance to remind her and her pals of good etiquette at any protest/demonstration. Stick w your group, make sure someone not there knows where you're going, take care of each other, heads on swivels, hydrate. From her I got a mild tween eyeroll.
February 6, 2026 at 11:16 PM
My kid's school had a walkout recently, which gave me a chance to remind her and her pals of good etiquette at any protest/demonstration. Stick w your group, make sure someone not there knows where you're going, take care of each other, heads on swivels, hydrate. From her I got a mild tween eyeroll.
Tonight no one had to work, so a dinner project: stuffed cabbage (I fucking hate making it because I tear every goddamn leaf badly but spouse loves it), with rice (that I may have fucked up, I mis-measured my water to start; I fixed it but it may still be fucked) and green beans. Fingers crossed.
Dinner tonight, as my spouse is working late and I will have zip time between getting out of work and driving the kid to the place, aims for speed. Oven-roasted salmon and delicata squash + couscous. Relatively fast and the kid will eat almost all of it (nay to squash but she loves couscous, so).
Dinner tonight is the lazybones classic of pasta + jarred sauce w some additions + garlic bread + a bag salad. Vegetarian and easy even if I don't happen to have a jar of sauce handy, I never don't have tomato sauce and oil and garlic and onions and seasoning handy. Plus the kiddo will eat it all.
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Tonight no one had to work, so a dinner project: stuffed cabbage (I fucking hate making it because I tear every goddamn leaf badly but spouse loves it), with rice (that I may have fucked up, I mis-measured my water to start; I fixed it but it may still be fucked) and green beans. Fingers crossed.
Dinner tonight, as my spouse is working late and I will have zip time between getting out of work and driving the kid to the place, aims for speed. Oven-roasted salmon and delicata squash + couscous. Relatively fast and the kid will eat almost all of it (nay to squash but she loves couscous, so).
Dinner tonight is the lazybones classic of pasta + jarred sauce w some additions + garlic bread + a bag salad. Vegetarian and easy even if I don't happen to have a jar of sauce handy, I never don't have tomato sauce and oil and garlic and onions and seasoning handy. Plus the kiddo will eat it all.
February 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Dinner tonight, as my spouse is working late and I will have zip time between getting out of work and driving the kid to the place, aims for speed. Oven-roasted salmon and delicata squash + couscous. Relatively fast and the kid will eat almost all of it (nay to squash but she loves couscous, so).
You can't trick me into trying cryptic crosswords @avcx.bsky.social, I know my limits.
Also I highly recommend them as an NYT alternative for anybody looking for one.
Also I highly recommend them as an NYT alternative for anybody looking for one.
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
You can't trick me into trying cryptic crosswords @avcx.bsky.social, I know my limits.
Also I highly recommend them as an NYT alternative for anybody looking for one.
Also I highly recommend them as an NYT alternative for anybody looking for one.
Dinner tonight is the lazybones classic of pasta + jarred sauce w some additions + garlic bread + a bag salad. Vegetarian and easy even if I don't happen to have a jar of sauce handy, I never don't have tomato sauce and oil and garlic and onions and seasoning handy. Plus the kiddo will eat it all.
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Dinner tonight is the lazybones classic of pasta + jarred sauce w some additions + garlic bread + a bag salad. Vegetarian and easy even if I don't happen to have a jar of sauce handy, I never don't have tomato sauce and oil and garlic and onions and seasoning handy. Plus the kiddo will eat it all.
Sometimes the younger people on my work team react to me in a way that reminds me of the way people often have laughed as though I'm making a joke and it takes me a minute to realize that's what is happening.
Them: "How are you?"
Me: "I remain extant"/"Corporeal at the moment"
Them: laugh at joke!
Them: "How are you?"
Me: "I remain extant"/"Corporeal at the moment"
Them: laugh at joke!
February 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Sometimes the younger people on my work team react to me in a way that reminds me of the way people often have laughed as though I'm making a joke and it takes me a minute to realize that's what is happening.
Them: "How are you?"
Me: "I remain extant"/"Corporeal at the moment"
Them: laugh at joke!
Them: "How are you?"
Me: "I remain extant"/"Corporeal at the moment"
Them: laugh at joke!
2026 Reads: January
New-to-Me Faves:
-> Role Model/The Long Game
-> When the Angels Left the Old Country
New-to-Me Faves:
-> Role Model/The Long Game
-> When the Angels Left the Old Country
February 1, 2026 at 9:02 PM
2026 Reads: January
New-to-Me Faves:
-> Role Model/The Long Game
-> When the Angels Left the Old Country
New-to-Me Faves:
-> Role Model/The Long Game
-> When the Angels Left the Old Country
I've been given cause to, lately, be thinking about gamerunning in a...not abstract. In a (sorry) pedagogical way, almost. I'm running a table of newbie tween girls, finishing up a 4+ year campaign, and also talking to a few people to encourage them to try running a game for the first time.
January 31, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I've been given cause to, lately, be thinking about gamerunning in a...not abstract. In a (sorry) pedagogical way, almost. I'm running a table of newbie tween girls, finishing up a 4+ year campaign, and also talking to a few people to encourage them to try running a game for the first time.
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The world may laugh again,
And I may live to do you kindness
And I may live to do you kindness
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The world may laugh again,
And I may live to do you kindness
And I may live to do you kindness
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catherine o’hara was absolutely god-tier at harmonization, first of all, and then the fact that she performed this number in character, with all those subtle expressions and moments, is just…fuck. a once-in-a-lifetime talent
January 30, 2026 at 6:39 PM
catherine o’hara was absolutely god-tier at harmonization, first of all, and then the fact that she performed this number in character, with all those subtle expressions and moments, is just…fuck. a once-in-a-lifetime talent
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Anyway, you can give $5 tax deductible to PBS for their app and get Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc along with Lupita and Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night and not pollute all of Memphis while you’re watching it.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Anyway, you can give $5 tax deductible to PBS for their app and get Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc along with Lupita and Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night and not pollute all of Memphis while you’re watching it.
A particular thing of my brain is I will get a snippet, a couple of seconds, of a song on loop. For hours. All day. It doesn't even require that it's a song I like or have heard in years. Just my whole fuckin day is that 5 seconds or fewer of a song with which I was not engaging prior to this.
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 PM
A particular thing of my brain is I will get a snippet, a couple of seconds, of a song on loop. For hours. All day. It doesn't even require that it's a song I like or have heard in years. Just my whole fuckin day is that 5 seconds or fewer of a song with which I was not engaging prior to this.
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
January 29, 2026 at 1:30 AM
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
I have less than no interest in the new Game of Thrones show but the guy playing Lyonel Baratheon needs to be in so many more things. Charisma off the charts even just in gif form.
January 29, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I have less than no interest in the new Game of Thrones show but the guy playing Lyonel Baratheon needs to be in so many more things. Charisma off the charts even just in gif form.
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“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day
one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”
January 28, 2026 at 10:38 PM
“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 AM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.