Heather Blatt

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

This good sosige deserves all the pears!

That’s a pretty shade of navy on your needles!

I love your pink elephant!

Just finished knitting this slouchy hat, which for some reason reminds me of a Dutch baby and now I want breakfast @wrenandpurl.bsky.social

Miss you too! Merlin survives by means of his cuteness 😂

A black and white English Springer Spaniel dog holds a blanket lovingly in his mouth

Merlin wishes everyone to know that he really, really loves his blanket

Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.

It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

A cat playing with a catnip toy just pulled from a Christmas stocking

Nico was very happy with his Christmas drugs (he got a catnip pickle embroidered with “I’m a big dill!”)

Merlin has no respect for end-of-semester grading. He demands that I pet him, and smacks me until I comply.

Aw, thank you! That’s such a treat to hear.

Recommendations for Anti-Authoritarian Resistance We Must Adapt, Not Assimilate

Building community in Miami is on my mind today antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/recommenda...

An end-of-semester shelfie of Percy, looking much fresher and more regal than I amidst the grading thicket!

In celebration I went to Ace Hardware and purchased a new usb outlet that I have now installed, and I took Percy with me and he got squeaky tennis balls with which to celebrate his adoptiversary, and everyone is happy except Merlin, who has (temporarily) lost his playmate to a tennis ball obsession.

* this never happens with the first switch, as it invariably instead manages to turn off the wifi and computers that are then unhappy to reboot and subsequently cause difficulties out of spite

You may not understand how this magical device uncomplicates the lives of people who have inadequately labeled circuit breaker panels and thus have to run between rooms every time they flip a switch to see if this time the outlet has turned off,* so let me assure you the intervention is PROFOUND.

Hwæt! There is a MAGIC WAND that detects which switch on your circuit breaker panel operates which wall outlet!! And if you plug in the plug-innable part to the outlet, you can then WAVE THE MAGIC WAND at your circuit breaker panel and it will beep to tell you which switch to throw! !! !!!!

I have been the primary administrator of The Barbellion Prize since it was first awarded in 2020. At first I was able to fulfil my duties, but ongoing events (especially regarding my health) mean that I am struggling to maintain the prize and communicate with others to practically support me. There is no solid plan for The Barbellion Prize to function without me administering or co-ordinating it, and it has become too difficult given my ongoing medical issues — and other events. As such, the prize will be put on an indefinite hiatus until we have concrete support from a sponsor or suitable administration that can keep the prize going. The 2023 Barbellion Prize will unfortunately not be able to be fulfilled due to administrative difficulties and my own poor health. We may be able to continue in 2024 under better circumstances. […] If you have any questions then please feel free to send an email to: TheBarbellionprize@mail.com

This is heartbreaking. One of only two major prizes for disability literature is failing after just 3 years. Please repost, like, etc. Someone must have some ideas/support/money.

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Friends knowledgeable about the raft of issues involved in the use of copyrighted works to train AI models, pls consider uploading your comments. N.B. comments will be publicly available, excepting those with "profanity or other inappropriate language."

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Maybe Merlin’s middle name should be “Comestor,” or maybe he should have an epithet. Merlin the Destroyer. This is the third book he’s tried to eat (I thought it was out of his reach).

Sometimes one may not realize that the consequences of responding to the innocuous question, “Do you like mangoes?” are being gifted with a mango. I have now been mango’d.

Well, time for my first thread here on BlueSky, and I'm pissed off. I've been catching up on the situation with F&SF and Sheree Thomas. I'm slow because I'm not on FB anymore, where apparently the bulk of the convo is happening, and I'm barely on Twitter. Anyway.

Fuzzy close-up of the brown nose of a brown dog, most excellent nose 10/10

This excellent Nose of Percy was sent to me by his daycare. They are also clearly fans of the Nose.