Aimee

(but seriously: correlation vs causation, etc.)

Long-term use of melatonin supplements to support sleep may have negative health effects Research Highlights: A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin for at least a year found they were more likely to be diagnosed with heart ...

welp, i'm doomed: newsroom.heart.org/news/long-te...

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

I'm firmly on the side of autism in this war on autism.

Trump administration to link Tylenol use to risk of autism The president is expected to say that acetaminophen, the most commonly used pain reliever during pregnancy, should only be used for high fevers.

jfc this is fucking ridiculous: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

it me

Month 13 of not working: got paid $250 for doing an interview take-home assignment, immediately spent it all at lego.com.

Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories AI storytime.

This dystopia we're in just keeps getting dumber.

www.theverge.com/news/719184/...

Quote from El Dorado Drive mentioning the band Slowdive

I'm here for the surprise shoegaze shoutout in the new Megan Abbott novel.

Screenshot of a New York Times guest opinion headline, dated August 3, 2025. The headline reads "When Everyone Has Airport Lounge Access, Nobody Does."

Fascists are setting the U.S. on metaphorical fire and there is a literal genocide happening in Gaza. But it's okay, brave New York Times contributors are taking on the truly important issues of today!

The Black Rider - Wikipedia

The best thing about The Black Rider is how Wilson got William S. Burroughs (who famously shot and killed his own wife kinda-accidentally) to collaborate with him and Waits on a show about a man who shoots and kills the woman he loves. And oh yeah it's a musical. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bla...

YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - "Flash Pan Hunter"

End of July update: news of Robert Wilson's death has inspired me to listen to songs from Tom Waits' The Black Rider on repeat all day. youtu.be/t0h7qFRvBMI?...

Nothing to see here, just Google AI straight up lying to me about a Robert Creeley poem. And giving me a totally different wrong answer every time I reload the page.

Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

Google Cloud, Spotify down for tens of thousands of users, Downdetector shows Alphabet's Google Cloud and music streaming platform Spotify were down for tens of thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Nothing makes me miss being at Google more than public-facing outages. The SRE urge to know what's going on behind the scenes of a major incident will never die.

www.reuters.com/business/goo...

Sibling cats sleeping peacefully together on a fleece blanket

I mean, just look at how easy these cats were.

Cat status report: New Cat wants to be exploring outside her safe room all the time. Big Cat desperately wants to herd her back into the safe room. I'm remembering the days when all I had was a pair of bonded littermate cats and life was easy.

Oh hey it's my birthday, which means it's also:

* six years since I had my last drink
* nine years since my first day working at Google
* twelve years and one day since my last day working in a library

What is time even, etc. etc.

The problem is that I want a short androgynous haircut, but I also want to be able to go without cutting my hair for a year or longer (hence the "I've given up on life" ponytail I've been wearing for the better part of the 2020s).

Status update: six days before my 46th birthday, doing image searches for soft butch haircuts.

Lucy and Jack: October 2023 vs May 2025

A large black cat sprawls on the floor by a closed door

But she's done well with other cats, which is good because resident cat #2 is eager to meet her.

A small gray tabby cat looks at the camera with suspicion.

My streak is broken. Brought this girl home today. Two previous adopters returned her for being too skittish.

But I also had a lot of fun there, and I had some really excellent co-workers at the theology library. Twenty years, what the fuck. What is time even.

I only stayed in Atlanta for two and a half years, and it was a weird time. I had all kinds of feelings about suddenly being done with school, owning a house, and working in a theology library as a decidedly non-religious person. Plus it's hard to be happy in a place when your spouse is miserable.

Close up of the label on a two liter bottle of diet Cherry Coke

20 years ago today, I arrived in Atlanta the day before starting my first post library school job at Emory.

I went to a grocery store and was very excited to find diet Cherry Coke in 2 liter bottles. Took a photo in the kitchenette of the Extended Stay America in Decatur to celebrate.

Autism: Myth Vs. Fact According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 31 U.S. children is diagnosed with ASD, also known as autism spectrum disorder. The Onion dispels the common myths surrounding autism. MYTH: Autism i...

"MYTH: Some people with autism may never work.

FACT: That’s awesome, good for them."

theonion.com/autism-myth-...

President fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as White House continues purge of perceived Trump opponents President fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as White House continues purge of perceived Trump opponents.

Fuck this shit
www.yahoo.com/news/preside...

A Georgian Restaurant’s Mother of All Dumplings Laliko, in the West Village, finds memorable ways to bring the Eastern European country’s cuisine to the world.

I very much want to experience this giant dumpling filled with six baby dumplings: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

It goes so well with both orange fur and black fur!