the-shoshanna

Two parallel streams:

1) I got a master's in history, volunteered at a history journal to gain more familiarity with the field, and to my shock was immediately asked to heavily edit articles, and

2) I beta-read a lot of fanfic

A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

I love listening to you yell.

You hang out on Bluesky but the person you thought was hot turns out to live on Xwitter -- problematic homepage gap

I'm doing an old NYT crossword puzzle, and I've just encountered this clue:

"Famed orange troublemaker."

Five letters.

I am extremely tempted to give up on completing the words around it, just so I can fill that one in as it deserves rather than whatever the NYT wanted me to put there...

I've seen it explained as: the kind of people who own these houses are the kind who throw big gala events (see also: parking for 12) so they need way more bathrooms than the people actually living there need. There's a full bathroom here for each bedroom, plus 3 halves for guests

A very old, battered, iron-banded wooden door, only about five feet high, is set into the brick wall of a building, surrounded by modern windows (and doors, though they're out of frame.) It looks like it leads to the dragon pens or something.

I want to know the story of this door.

OMG thank you for reskeeting this! We get it up here too! *dives to set PVR*

The book I'm reading just referred to "the English jet set," which would be fine except that it's discussing the 1830s.

Last night I saw Cheyenne Rouleau's "Fat Joke," a hilarious & absolutely wrenching 90-min monologue on fatphobia and a whole lot of other things. It's online at digitalstage.ca/fat-joke/. (NB content notes! & she also discusses traumatic, near-fatal pregnancy complications.) Highly recommended.

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Four small pumpkins on a porch, with "3", a dot, "1", and "4" carved into them; above and behind them, a fifth pumpkin carved as a jack-o'-lantern holds up a sign reading "pumpkin pie!" and the Greek letter pi

Math nerd Halloween!

+: I made nachos for dinner

-: I have eaten way too many nachos

+: but -- nachos!

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Stet at author's insistence.

To-do list as a text file that I cross things off of, plus online calendar reminders for a few things that must happen at specific times

I browse house floor plans for fun, and the biggest bedroom is now reliably labeled the primary bedroom, not the master!

I sure hope I'm not as mistaken in my belief that I'm a low-maintenance houseguest as my mother is in her belief that she is

Thanks! I'm now sixth in line for it at the library

Huzzah!

I am female and fem-presenting, out to dinner in a Welsh hotel & pub with a 6-ft bearded man. We order a pint of beer and a half-pint of cider. Waiter arrives with two glasses and asks, "Who had the cider?"

I really appreciate that, when they don't assume. 😍🍻

Imminent transatlantic trip:

1. I should read trip prep material on the train to the plane.

2. I should sleep on the plane so I can stay awake all the next day.

3. @ajdemas.bsky.social drops a new book 20 minutes before we leave.

WELL THEN.

Auction off the opportunity to play Tyrion to his Tywin, fund the US national debt forever

Yep!

Does Not Rhyme
-through
-cough
-though
-rough
-bough

Does Rhyme
-pony
-bologna

apple-cheddar muffins or quick bread

apple-potato latkes (tonight's dinner, actually)

red cabbage with mustard and apples

beet and grain salad with pecans and pickled apples (okay, that doesn't use a *lot* of apples but it's delicious)

and of course infinite combinations with pork!

Today I crossed twenty-three items off my to-do list, and added only eight! 🎉

The Harrad Experiment

I frigging love gate-checking bags. Pay $50 to have my bag disappeared into a poorly tracked hell dimension & wait ages at bag claim, hoping? Hump it down a crowded aisle and cram it into a too-shallow bin? How 'bout I don't have to finagle it at all but it's never > 50 yards from me, for free?

I don't understand this phrase "too much sushi" -- they're all perfectly good words and yet put together like that they're nonsensical