@minerva42.bsky.social
They/them. Keeps a sourdough starter, a cat, and a garden. Linux systems administrator in research computing.
It's my birthday! 🎉Please celebrate by:
-eating something delicious and not feeling guilty about it.
-visiting/supporting your local library
-telling a creator how much you like their work
-reading this story about my hometown which means a lot to me: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take:
Man-made famines are crimes against humanity.
If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.
Thanks for the recommendation!
26.07.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He also reads "And Put Away Childish Things". I suppose at some point I'll listen to one of his books that isn't read by him, but I love listening to authors read their own work. All the cadence and emphasis just the way they meant it to be.
25.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm listening to @aptshadow.bsky.social/Adrian Tchaikovsky'sService Model, read by the author, and having a very fun time of it. It's got many of my favorite things, done quite well, and Adrian's voices and narration are, of course, spot on.
share.libbyapp.com/title/10250315
If you expected Google's URL shortened to work forever, there's news for you. (I think I've used it ever, but hopefully had the good sense to observe what Google usually does with its tools, eventually)
www.theverge.com/news/713125/...
In the foreground, a Kobo Libra Colour, showing the cover of John Scalzi's "Starter Villain", on a plastic white Adirondack chair. In the background, a dock, with another chair and a towel, and a small lake/ pond of water beyond that.
The sky is blue, and the lake. There are clouds, wispy. And green, in many kinds of trees, nearby, and on the far shore. Fishing line hangs from some of the nearest trees, though I don't know if it's visible in the picture. The leaves of the beech tree, top right, are succumbing to beech leaf disease.
A patterned towel on a dock on a pond. A plastic Adirondack chair holds a sunhat, tie-dyed cotton shoulder bag, a bottle of sunscreen, and an ebook reader in a light purple case.
Finally settling down to read a book (John Scalzi's "Starter Villain") by looking at it, because I don't need to be multi-tasking every moment. And because my libraries don't have the audiobook version, I suppose.
21.06.2025 18:34 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0OUT will be available July 9
31.05.2025 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Added the audiobook to my library holds!
28.05.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have that same Coleman table! (it's the best)
16.05.2025 20:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0DRM-free books have worked great. People who want to support me with a purchase support me. People who do not want to support me with a purchase will not be dissuaded by DRM. DRM is basically security theater for electronic files.
04.05.2025 00:22 — 👍 1679 🔁 148 💬 38 📌 3
A phone screen capture of an email showing the first entry from Dracula Daily, which sends out an email with the contents of the letters which make up Bram Stoker's Dracula
This is the day!
If you've been thinking of reading Dracula Daily, today was the first entry!
draculadaily.substack.com
What? It's #FreeComicBookDay?
Head on down to your local comic shop, grab your books, and then come on over to SIDE QUESTED, which is (always) free!
A love triangle with a prince, a princess, and a load-bearing librarian.
#comics #FCBD
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
Spinny disc sprang a leak and had to be drained so it's less of an experience this weekend. Hopefully to be sorted for Firefly.
03.05.2025 17:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A transparent, spinning table filled with water, blue dye, and mica powder, creating fluid patterns when it is turned.
Somerville Open Studios is this weekend! I just helped move a campmate's interactive piece to the Firefly Arts Collective's event space at 15 Properzi Way (87 on the map). www.somervilleopenstudios.org/web/artists/...
03.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In Swiftkey at the end of a word, I can hit capitalize and instead it puts a space and predicts the next word. I keep writing "kiko" and it predicts the lowercase word, and I tap the up arrow that means Capitalize, and it adds a space, so I then have to press "backspace", "Capitalize".
02.05.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The local mockingbirds are warming up and settling in.
02.05.2025 21:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I believe Sinners is the only one if these I've seen. I've got some catching up to do.
02.05.2025 04:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Holy heck, Obsidian lets you migrate from Apple notes.
help.obsidian.md/import/apple...
My girlfriend's mom is in dire need of a new mattress - her current one is so busted that she falls off it constantly, and my GF has her own health issues that make constantly picking her mom up difficult. The goal is manageable - please help keep Sandy safe!
16.04.2025 14:31 — 👍 12 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 3
Bookmark this Fairbanks Alaska livestream. Sunset is at 9:30 PM their local time and we may have aurora action tonight: www.youtube.com/watc...
16.04.2025 03:24 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1It's got 5 days left! One of the add-ons is a name sticker I can use to put the author's correct name (Sen) on my older copy of her previous book, The Tomorrow Girl.
11.04.2025 04:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of the book "The Tomorrow Girl and Other Stories" by Sen, featuring cyborg inventor Kim Ross
If you want more Dresden Codak in your life, its creator Sen is running a Kickstarter for print (and PDF) versions of "The City of Giants", Volume 1 of the ongoing graphic novel Dark Science, featuring the adventures of madcap cyborg inventor Kim Ross.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...
Because you cannot actually see this trailer for the TV show based on @marthawells' MURDERBOT too many times, and I was at the vet with the cats when it dropped.
(They're all fine, just rabies jabs and annuals.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEio...
