Toil and Trouble
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PNW dog & cat mom weirdo, reader, pinko, crone she/they StoryGraph: alix_with_an_i “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality” - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
The only AI I have any interest in are the ones written by Becky Chambers.
THANK YOU SEATTLE THANK YOU THIRD PLACE BOOKS LOVE IS REAL. now headed to minneapolis for an evening of chaos and proving love tonight. LETS TROT
Hello, sharks. Today I am asking for the arc of the moral universe to bend quicker
Great day tidepooling yesterday at Richmond Beach [species best guesses with help from iNaturalist]
Highly recommend this summer, pride month, neurodivergent, queer, found family, road trip, comedy, tearjerker. Rom-com with depth and heart. I laughed, I ugly-cried, I cringed at the painfully relatable bits. 🥰 Brilliantly narrated by @natalienaudus.bsky.social and @jercarparvo.bsky.social
Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun Narrated by Natalie Naudus Audiobook on Libro.fm
USA TODAY Bestseller Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance Stonewall Book Award Honoree A Publishers Weekly, BookRiot, and Elle Best Romance of the Year The author of the “sexy, ins...
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I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR
- When in doubt, just round the number down. - If you want to get away with this bluff, you’d better come up with a damn good story. - Tread carefully. Traps are everywhere.
Are You Playing Dungeons & Dragons or Doing Your Taxes?
“The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.”
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Just finished the absolutely magnificent and heartbreaking No Friend to This House by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social Could not recommend this highly enough (especially the audiobook, narrated to perfection by the author).
Sharing this for a friend who isn’t on Bluesky: Check out The Wayward Souls of Avalon - A Cozy Queer Sci-Fi Novel by Dragon Bone Publishing
The Wayward Souls of Avalon - A Cozy Queer Sci-Fi Novel
Book one in a Cozy, Sci-Fi Duology following two men as they're caught up in the end of Earth, a trip to Mars, and a budding romance.
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Two of the kindest, most talented folks you’ll ever meet, right here. 🩷 🖤 @chucktingle.bsky.social and @sgj.bsky.social
Stunning. Speechless. Going to be thinking about this one for a long time. Heavy, epic, and at times - hilarious? Historical fiction at its absolute best. (and I get to see him at a book talk at our local bookstore on Monday!)
6. if i was a really talented cis man like Joss Whedon or Neil Gaiman or Marlon Brando or Roman Polanski or Woody Allen i would simply not be a sex pest/criminal, abusing my position of authority and instead just make cool stuff that ruled and i feel like that would be enough for me? 🤷♀️
Whilst we are discussing the president’s physical capacity and stamina for a demanding and arduous job, let’s keep this right here at the forefront of the conversation:
Favorite nonfiction, short stories, and poetry of January
Favorite books of January (fiction, novel/novella length)
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
For Burns Night, and for these times: Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an’ a’ that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, an’ a’ that. Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, The Man’s the gowd for a’ that. …
Just finished I Was A Teenage Slasher SGJ “kills” it once again. Ugh, I am demolished 😭
YOU CAN'T REUSE BRIGHTON AND BRIGHTON Miserable! Infuriating! Frankly I'M GLAD THIS AUTHOR IS DEAD. Thank you for playing this limerick game with me. I will post another because this is very fun.
I love being terrible at chess. I love having no idea how to do a proper checkmate. I love sacrificing all of my pawns fewer than ten moves in. People devote their entire lives to it and I’m just like “wheeeeee horsies”
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.