Meli
@mismatched.bsky.social
Tea, transness, weirdness, joy. Subscribe to my jewsletter: https://buttondown.email/meli they/them
It is a good time to look for classes to take!
Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 31m agoOh, another protip: it turns out that lots of community classes and events lightly follow the academic and/or regular calendar, so September and January are often months when 4 week, 6 week, 10 week, or 12 week classes are likely to start! Plus, some orgs have a "free taster" option!
two weeks ago me was REALLY optimistic about the number of links to throw into the jewsletter
just got caught in an eternal "verify you're human" loop--the captcha reloads the page and asks for my checkmark again and again, never showing me the article in question--and if that's not a metaphor for something i don't know what is
Gongfu fish time. Teaware mostly from bitterleaf, golem tea friend from a local friendquaintance and cup is a gift of uncertain provenance. Tea is a raw puerh coin of Sloop from white2tea.
okay. i don't have much work to do today so i am going to: * gaiwan a something * work on jewsletter (when my brain lets me) (which is not right now) (unfortunately)
I think in honor of white2tea selling the big bag of sheng minis again I am going to dig into the one I got last year for today’s gaiwan time
psssst anyone have any recommendations for queer romances with characters dealing with chronic pain, *preferably* historical
Four (4) of my library holds have come up in the past day or two 😭
Where would one buy art supplies online these days if one did not want to buy from a behemoth? I'm doing a more polished version of my map of Berakhot 30B-33A for #TheNeurodivergentTalmud, and it appears that all my drawing inks have dried up.
i was going to take a nap but my brain wouldn't stop, so i got out my computer to do jewsletter work and now i can't concentrate on that either. real complaint hours here at chez meli
@eisforenkidu.bsky.social i got this book from the library and thought of you because baku spl.overdrive.com/media/11893121
Silk Roads
“Packed with history, humor, and delicious food, this travelogue-memoir-cookbook checks every box. Anna's encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject, combined with compelling personal stories and re...
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Grumpy, but I did see a brindle dog on my way home so that’s a blessing on this day
It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
Okay what I *want* to do is take a big overnight train ride to the twin cities for shits and giggles but what I’m *going* to do is figure out something else (shorter…) to plan to get the vacation planning wiggles out. Probably.
The tracker website I’ve used for china mail tracking is increasingly not working and I want to know when my tea will arrive 😠
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
LRT haven’t read Bradbury in over a decade but might return to it today….!
Come on, get messed up again over "There Will Come Soft Rains" today and tomorrow with us. (The story takes place today into tomorrow.) archive.org/details/brad...
Ray Bradbury read by Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy reads two of Ray Bradbury's classic stories from THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.1. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS2. USHER IIThese recordings were originally released on Caedmon Records (TC 1466).
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My body is achey and my brain is tired and my Talmud class is in a different location tonight and I can’t decide whether to transit (1h) or drive (30m plus finding parking). Probably I’ll drive but I don’t like it.
Me: I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve probably made every possible typo in my time, surely there is nothing my fingers could surprise me with at this point Also me: *types “cloacal office” instead of “local office”*
Changed to a fruity black tea for the afternoon and wowwww it’s exactly what I wanted
Having feelings also about how I dodged the late September events Jewish holidays collisions (northwest tea fest) but not the early October one (simchat Torah x octobearfest at the zoo)
Making some GABA oolong, which, not sure I buy the hype but it’s a good tea with lovely caramel notes and it wont hurt to get some stress reduction in here. floatingleaves.com/products/gab...
GABA Oolong 2025
Story GABA oolong is a specially processed tea which is flushed with nitrogen during the what is traditionally an 'oxidization' process. This creates GABA (Gamma Aminobutyric Acid) in the tea leaves, ...
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Ancient little guys of the day! These prehistoric baby bottles in the shape of little creatures were found were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves in Vösendorf (Austria). Actually, a study was conducted on these bottles around 2019 and they found traces of ruminant milk!
my depression brain: im nobody about existing me: that doesn't even make sense. my brain: wehhhhhhhhhh
#ICYMI 🎨 "'Broken' is a relative term": Brokenness is relative to intended function-and who gets to define what that function is? A manifesto on disability & craft, the beauty of the well-used & self-identified. store.wolfproofpress.com/product/broken-is-a-relative-term
