ah! i almost missed black cat day! here's our perfect licorice jellybean, Garrus. he's the first cat i've ever had who gets so excited for attention that he does an "electric tail" shake and it's just sensational
helen nooroni
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teaching, writing, reading, playing (she/they)
i had a dream that they invented a whole new kind of depression just to diagnose me specifically!
extremely stoked to get my hands on a working cartridge for the urbz: sims in the city for GBA, one of the greatest games i ever played. the cartridge came with two long-played save slots named "Gabby" and "Abbey" and i feel spiritually blessed by whatever teen girl last touched this
i love receiving and sending professional messages on linkedin
pregnantly craving food from cities in which i no longer live 😭
today I feel so grateful for translators, who spend incredible amounts of time and effort to bring books to more people, and whose work makes it possible for books like these to end up in my local library
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
how you sleep when you had two dinners and don't know what an economy is
i'm thinking about how last year started and ended for me with koji suzuki
I want to apologize for having called generative AI users sloppers many times this year... It was wrong of me and I feel bad for the misnomer. I meant to call them "fucko demon sloppers." So sorry.
it's fall which means it's time for *pumpkin spice* back pain
i LOVE this from my old bookstore. i really appreciate books recommended in groups or pairs to help make connections timbrebooks.com/happenings/t...
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empirical evidence indicates that wearing a black shirt will cause my orange cat to want to snuggle, and wearing a white shirt will cause my black cat to want to snuggle
"Technically speaking, you can look at any human life as the sum of a complex collection of chemical reactions, in much the same way as you can look at any beautiful painting as a simple collection of pigments, which is to say, you can miss the point of anything." Jared K. Anderson
Happy to report that not only is @tadethompson.bsky.social included at my local library, but this copy is looking quite well-loved
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The diarrhea will continue until morale improves
there's a lot of talk about the Bible in the classroom but savvy voice are asking if the real question is "should John Darnielle's 'Universal Harvester,' a meditation on grief and place, be taught in classrooms?" the answer is yes. every classroom should have at least thirty copies
having a bit of a fixation reading about death, dying, and the aftermath lately. grateful that i caught these three phenomenal books back-to-back all at just the right time for me.
