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Dreamed I was giving a conference presentation on how to figure out where your document has ended up between OneDrive and multiple SharePoints. I do not actually know this.

since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

the law is fickle, and money is powerful, but the good news is that transphobes cannot force you to be nice to them. so don't be

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

the Heinlen box was NOT in the prenuptial disclosures

Photo of a cardboard box crammed full of Heinlein

No jury would convict me

Terrifying. I haven’t actually shelved the nonfiction yet.

1. Everything hurts and I’m dying.

2. My husband’s Heinlein collection is unsettlingly extensive.

3. In ~600 books, our only duplicates are the D&D 5e handbooks. Neither of us has played D&D in a decade.

In the seven months we’ve been in this house all our books have been in boxes in the living room. Schuyler’s were in storage for three years before that. Today our giant Amish-made bookcases finally arrived, and I have unpacked and cataloged and merged almost everything.

named my fists Rosencranz and Guildenstern because I’m never sure which is which

Screenshot reading: In other words, anyone with a secretary knows that what Catullus really wrote was already corrupt by the time it was copied twice, which was about the time of the first Roman invasion of Britain: and the earliest copy that has come down to us was written about 1,500 years after that. Think of all those secretaries! - corruption breeding corruption from papyrus to papyrus, and from the last disintegrating scrolls to the first new-fangled parchment books, with a thousand years of copying-out still to come, running the gauntlet of changing forms of script and spelling, and absence of punctuation - not to mention mildew and rats and fire and flood and Christian disapproval to the brink of extinction as what Catullus really wrote passed from scribe to scribe, this one drunk, that one sleepy, another without scruple, and of those sober, wide-awake and scrupulous, some ignorant of Latin and some, even worse, fancying themselves better Latinists than Catullus - until! - finally and at long last - mangled and tattered like a dog that has found its way home, there falls across the threshold of the Italian Renaissance the sole surviving witness to thirty generations of carelessness and stupidity: the Verona Codex of Catullus; which was almost immediately lost again, but not before being copied with one last opportunity for error. And there you have the foundation of the poems of Catullus as they went to the printer for the first time, in Venice 400 years ago. (Stoppard 1997: 24-5)

Goodbye, Stoppard. Your monologue on the fallibility of the transmission of texts has been scratched into my soul since I first fell in love with The Invention of Love a dozen years ago.

As has the counterpoint: “We catch our breath at the places where the breath was always caught.”

Cranberry Curd Tart - An Easy and Stunning Recipe for the Holidays This cranberry curd tart makes a beautifully festive holiday dessert with a bright cranberry curd filling and easy oat and walnut based crust.

Cranberry curd tart. My sister-in-law picked it, I made it, I ate 60% of it www.runningtothekitchen.com/cranberry-cu...

Or lied about their age to join the military or get married. They could just…do that!

I just found another goddamn bucket of rocks in the garage

Photo of a hand holding a slab of dark-blue gemstone with white swirls, showing lots of metallic inclusions. It looks a little like someone gilded a slab of blue cheese.

Photo of a hand holding a slab of dark-blue gemstone with white swirls, showing lots of metallic inclusions and the raw brown edge of the rock around it.

A couple of pounds of sodalite more than makes up for all the thundereggs that didn’t pan out, but I have no idea where we picked it up. Might be time to label our finds.

Photo of a hand holding a chunk of dark blue gemstone with white and metallic inclusions. The raw brown rock is visible around the edges.

Schuyler was running the polisher so I was bored and cutting into rocks at random. Picked one last unassuming brown chunk and cut into…

Photo of a hand holding a slab of what looks like green marble with red-brown inclusions and a dusting of gold

Photo of a hand holding a rock that has been cut and polished to show dark agate on two faces

We’ve been rockhounding the last couple of years without the tools to actually cut and polish the rocks. We discovered on the last visit to my parents that my dad actually has a full setup, so we brought up our buckets for Thanksgiving and started cutting.

Introduce yourself with five places you’ve seen raccoons and your mental state at the time:

• college lake path (drunk)
• Haight St at 2am (drunk)
• my 3rd-floor apartment kitchen (concussed)
• @schuyler.info’s 4th-floor roof deck (sober?)
• my chicken coop (furious)

I just realize this year’s calendars don’t have boxes ☹️

2026 Entomology Wall Calendar A collection of Butterflies and Moths.

I like Cavallini a lot. www.papersource.com/products/202...

Starting your holiday shopping? Check this thread for independent artists to get amazing things from!

Let's support each other, not billionaires!

My dog is not even that well-behaved but at least I have the situational fucking awareness to avoid making that anyone else’s problem

Oh your dog is taking a giant shit and you don’t notice because you’re in your phone? That’s my dog now, but the shit is yours

Oh your dog likes to rush little dogs for no obvious reason? Again, stop sending your dog in my direction, especially when I’ve moved to get away from you

Oh your dog is a ball thief? Stop throwing your ball in my dog’s direction, especially if I’ve moved to get away from you

Portland dog owners understand how to coexist in a park challenge: impossible

and imagine encountering that when your normal daily interactions are your Secret Service detail, Stephen Miller, journalists, and watching Fox News. Like interpersonal cocaine.

Oh I know, I found her eventually! But not, alas, through a Missing Friends personal ad

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

Adoring husband, attentive father, supportive brother; exquisite fencer, talented dancer; impeccably courteous without taking himself too seriously. Genuinely a wonderful model of a man.

…and one I clearly imprinted on.